gulliver smith one confirms thread is undergoing a real renaissance imho
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 March 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
^^
― niels, Friday, 17 March 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
i know everyone says this like once a month, but it really is amazing how the examples never end
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 March 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
I anticipate this thread lasting a 12 years, just like the 70s did
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 17 March 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
wkiw atlee yeager
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 March 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I think that goes past horrible and back around to kinda awesome, mostly courtesy of his sideburns
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 18 March 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/10296800_1069246026460616_1082881123_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTE0OTE4NDY2NzUyMzU3NzM1Ng%3D%3D.2
Galapagos Duck – Right On Cue
― soref, Sunday, 19 March 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
galapagos duck wtf names their band that?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
really rolls off the tongue
― Moodles, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
xpost
Teenage Daniel Stern and his corny friends apparently
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
Hoodoo Rhythm Devils, "All Kidding Aside"
http://www.vinylhistory.com/rock/hoodo_rhythm_devils_all_kidding_c.jpg
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
I feel like that is kind of a lazy one for this thread, like the actual cover should be the band pushing a group of children to one side of the frame or some such thing.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Friday, 24 March 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
'hoodoo rhythm devils' is like the tgi fridays of band names
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 March 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
Yes, let's have this one too then, Hoodoo Rhythm Devils, "The Barbecue Of Deville"
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81H4hVG6oGL._SX425_.jpg
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
that's the stuff
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
it's been said before but that Ron Wood album is p awesome, great basement tapes kinda vibe w/ the swagger of... well, a lot of guys w/ a lot of swagger
― niels, Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
he had his own album to do...and he did it
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
now that's what I call a review
― niels, Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
Conway sad.
https://bschooled.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/conwaytwitty2.jpg%3Fw%3D660
― earlnash, Monday, 3 April 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
He's already loved you in his mind
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 April 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
http://covers.discorder.com/fullsize/front/5013929453449.jpg
Chris Spedding - The Only Lick I Know
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 8 April 2017 06:34 (seven years ago) link
excellent
― niels, Saturday, 8 April 2017 07:11 (seven years ago) link
I've looked at that Hoodoo Rhythm Devils many times in used bins, never realized it was titled The Barbecue of Deville. Ouch.
― Dan Peterson, Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:20 (seven years ago) link
Came across this one, 'The Great Fatsby' by Leslie West this weekend.
http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/5-13-14-1/41239.jpg
Back cover shot is pretty 'pub band'.
― earlnash, Monday, 10 April 2017 01:17 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51koPZ7sN-L.jpg
― earlnash, Monday, 10 April 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link
Tracklist is particularly on-the-nose for this kind of band.
Maybe posted before, but:
http://www.futuroprimitivo.cl/6185-thickbox_default/focus-hamburger-concerto-1974-180-grs.jpg
Focus - Hamburger Concerto (1974)
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 April 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
i feel as if the fugs were ahead of their time with this one
http://https%3A//images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Wz0HV+9QL.jpg
― budo jeru, Monday, 10 April 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/It_Crawled_into_My_Hand_Honest.jpg
― budo jeru, Monday, 10 April 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
I came upon their record In And Out Of Focus (also known as Focus Plays Focus) but could tell if it fit on this thread or on the punning album titles thread. Was disappointed that the photo wasn't making more use of being in and out of focus.
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/113/MI0002113121.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 08:24 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that's right on the border with 60s-style lame puns that feel like they were picked by the label.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:19 (seven years ago) link
(Billy Thorpe & the) Aztecs, "More Arse Than Class" (1974)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hpvJfQxkov8/Uj3AENQa-dI/AAAAAAAAB5c/JymEXYc5sp0/s1600/Thorpie+MATC.jpg
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
... got Poxy Fuled when I tried to post the image I originally wanted to for this album
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
if poco had released an album with really bad cover art called "one size fits all" would it be on this thread? what about a bread record called "here come the warm jets" or a 10cc record called "never mind the bollocks"?
is it more or less implied that these album covers don't contain discs with "serious" music? or really what i mean is, we kind of pretend that it's lame, indulgent, coked out buffoonery for the sake of making the joke work, this kind of faux-bro rockist lens that we collectively pretend to wear? is that what makes them funny? because they are really funny, the good ones anyway (by which i may also mean bad, i'm not sure).
i kind of feel like this thread might be the equivalent of laughing disparagingly at "the room" and then everybody goes back to watching "dog star man" and "battleship potemkin" in reverent silence.
i love this thread.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/aUoe3IGSOE1czhNIEUnImgyijBk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3007268-1413049209-1290.jpeg.jpg
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Naw, I've always found all these aspects interesting! It's sort of like recognizing that "The Beatles" is kind of a godawful band name that would be cited as an example of 60s square doofery if it was the name behind some sub-tier knockoff British Invasion band that peaked at #18 with a passable but uninspired song instructing you on how to dance The Beatle.
It's an overall package - title, art, band's image generally, and the music on the disc of course. A lot of times, these titles are actively trying to shape the artist's image as someone who doesn't make "serious" music, and the album's image as a collection of some songs they thought you might enjoy, nothing more. I mean, the Ronnie Woods one for which the thread is named basically comes out and says "I guess I have to make one of these things."
There's also a range of reactions here I think - like, I dig that Wood record cause I just like the sound and the playing and a couple of the songs have reasonable hooks. So it's more of an affectionate eye-roll at the dopey title - to an extent, I'm in on precisely the joke Wood is trying to make, and to an extent I'm also kinda laughing at him and at myself for thinking this was a reasonable thing to spend one's time doing. But some of the grosser ones, with the sex jokes and the really hacky puns and the really lazy/ugly/sexist/whatever cover art, I'm pretty much just laughing at the artist and the label derisively, in a way that maybe risks me ending up snobbishly missing out on some great music that I would perhaps like. I feel pretty confident that Jo Jo Gunne have nothing to offer me though, they seem like real shitheads.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
A perennial in 'worst covers ever' lists...
http://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/worst-album-covers-svetlana_465_465_int.jpg
Svetlana Gruebanotgonnaworkhereanymore: My Lips Are For Blowing
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
oof
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
i laugh lovingly at the room fwiw
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/my_lips_are_for_blowing
"For the record (pun intended), there is no such album. Nor is Svetlana Gruebbersolvik a real person.
The mock cover was created and posted back in September 2010 by "Estancia de la Ding Dong" who runs the Twisted Vintage blog. You can find a more specific confession that the cover is fake posted here on Twisted Vintage."
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
i have to wonder what else, if anything, "Estancia de la Ding Dong" does to pass the time
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
I feel pretty confident that Jo Jo Gunne have nothing to offer me though, they seem like real shitheads.
Doctor, you never encountered "Run Run Run" in your thread of listening to classic rock for the first time? (Although I don't know if it still gets played on classic rock radio, maybe it's forgotten.) It's not a bad little slide-guitar rocker, and it's less than three minutes long so it won't take up too much of your time.
― Dan Peterson, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
No! But if fact checking cuz deems it fit for the list I would consider it! Their mean-spirited and misogynistic album art will be something of a lead weight around the song's neck, though.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
That Jo Jo Gunne song is pretty fun
Jack Douglas the famous 70s producer did a great long interview on our local sports talk station & his first job as "assistant engineer" was changing Leslie West's puke bucket as he detoxed off smack. He would sit in chair, shred a hot solo, then puke, repeat
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
what station was that!
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
LOL @ Galapagos Duck WTF
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 00:19 (seven years ago) link
i like how the literalized album cover is a running theme here. pairing a visual pun with a bad album title really gives it that cheap, lazy quality.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
Jo Jo Gunne would have a better rep if they called it quits after their first album, which had good music and inoffensive cover art. Instead they went on to make forgettable music with really bad album covers. I just learned that Jumpin' the Gunne, the one with an obese naked woman jumping over the band lying in bed attempting to reach a baby pig, has an inner gatefold with, as wiki puts it, 'the same woman with the album credits written on her in black marker as she cavorts with a piglet'.
Like the band's name, i've always thought that Rubber Soul is a horrible pun that gets a pass because it's attached to great music
― Lee626, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
These albums titles are nothing like the Room, which was presented as painfully serious but was really unintentionally silly
If "The Room" had been titled "OH HAI THERE!" and turned out to be awesome, then it would be like these records.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link
"I've Got My Own Movie To Do" surely.
― nickn, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
come on, if you think that none of these bands wanted to be perceived as artists who made good music, that's just goofy. i agree with dr. casino's post that a lot of these titles / covers were meant to convey "hey, this isn't serious music! any old joe can get down and boogie with us." but surely part of the fun is that a lot of these titles were intended precisely to be "artistic statements," and the degree to which they fall short is in large part a gauge of how funny and silly they seem now. clapton's "there's one in every crowd" comes to mind. and like, if you were to ask lowell george (which you can't) about "thanks i'll eat it here," i seriously doubt he'd say "yeah, that was some dumb shit i did in the '70s because music is about having fun, not about art."
also, wiki description of cover art:
The album was released just before the death of Lowell George in 1979 and has cover art by Neon Park (a feature of almost all Little Feat albums) containing several pop-/cult references including a picnic scene, mirroring Édouard Manet's "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe", which shows Bob Dylan, Fidel Castro and Marlene Dietrich as Der Blaue Engel with an open copy of Howl beside them.
i mean, references to manet, dylan, castro, and fucking josef von sternberg don't exactly scream "i have no pretentions! this is just good time music you guys"
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 April 2017 03:27 (seven years ago) link