Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do

great stuff, DC

aw man c'mon! i'll allow that some of those, like "Thank Christ For The Bomb," might just be plain old titles or even cool titles maybe, but really - - - "Scratching The Surface," "Hogwash," all the live "Hog" gags, and "Razor's Edge" with a guitar being dragged across a razor??

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/577/MI0001577180.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Junior Wells: On Tap

This might have been up already. From 1979, Sea Level, "Long Walk On A Short Pier"

https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/s/sealevel~~~_longwalko_101b.jpg

*Bonneville, "Here and Dare" (1978)

https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/l/e57dd82bf3688aebf3c77968b399910c/2291427.jpg

(*can you imagine thinking this would make a good album title?)

And let's not forget that the band Sea Level was formed by ex-Allman Brothers keyboardist C. ('Chuck') Leavell.

Nothing wrong with the album title but check the cover, complete with phallic guitar case...

http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/bparrish.jpg

Feel like this must have been posted before but 2000 messages is a lot to check.

https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/b205f714bd1e155d0f3c19f307ca7227/1581142.jpg

David Snell, "Harp Transplant". Nice work by the design department too...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rOpmBvx6UQQ/UA_S4q6rtpI/AAAAAAAADp8/gVav29YThlE/s1600/ds+1.JPG

nice one, I bet Joanna Newsom is bummed she didn't get to that one first

this is a 70s Island Records sampler:

https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41dNoykFo6L._SR600%2C315_PIWhiteStrip%2CBottomLeft%2C0%2C35_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Don't know if this belongs here, but it's quite something:

https://img.discogs.com/iDxj_J5G-Xu3Itm8PDVbIwGjmfo=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-503920-1428684494-1639.jpeg.jpg

whatever they were going for there it pisses me off

not even going to look up the covers for Birth Control's many other awful titles, including Operation, Rebirth, Backdoor Possibilities, Rock On Brain, Believe In The Pill, and Knock Knock!! Who's There?.

"Believe in the Pill" has a foetus in a dustbin, from memory.

Absolutely everything about that band was terrible.

Never heard of these guys, they definitely have some wacky looking records. Their record "Count on Dracula" cover looks like it could have been the prequel to Sabbaths "Born Again".

That's horrifying wow

Holy shit I just looked up their other covers

Unreal

Does Dan Auerbach's new "Waiting on a Song" count?

If the album cover is Dan sitting at bus stop made of musical notes

Infinite Content needs a dishonorable mention in here just for being a lazy as fuck album title

ok so that album is called Everything Now which is even lazier

http://i.imgur.com/UTsaEKW.jpg?1

The joke here is that her middle finger's raised a little bit, right? Like when kids hold up three fingers and say "read between the lines."

Kursaal Flyers, "Chocs Away!" (1975)

http://skullrecords.de/images/product_images/original_images/kursaal_flyers-chocs_away-lp.jpg

CAPTAIN PARALYTIC AND THE BROWN ALE COWBOYS - MIKE HARDING

http://media.oxfam.org.uk/images/products/HighStDonated/Zoom/hd_100794803_01.jpg?v=1

omg WHAT, why would anybody choose THAT elton john title to... wow. the tracklisting for that is also pure gold btw.

that's dude's a comedian though, with other albums called Flat Dogs and Shaky Pudden, and Foo Foo Shufflewick & Her Exotic Banana

ehhh still counts imho, a great many people who had their own album to do were hoping to get a chuckle out of us. just a bit of fun from those low-stakes, shaggy cut-ups and their easy-going rockin'.

btw re: the Stanky Brown Group brought up slightly upthread:

https://img.discogs.com/2ehC98xyvMLMrjZp_K3Koknpneg=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2615226-1484583974-4817.jpeg.jpg

If The Lights Don't Get You the Helots Will (1977)

Oh and:

https://img.discogs.com/q_Zzi4Ndud1xYprH8ehKnzvxy94=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3480436-1411662532-4376.jpeg.jpg

Our Pleasure to Serve You (1976)

("Misery Loves The Stanky Brown Group" would have also been good tbh. I just can't imagine being at one of these jokers' concerts and being like, shit yeah, I gotta get in the merch line and take me home a copy of that!)

Turns out the Oxfam online store is a trove of this stuff. Another "comedy" album

RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY -- BILLY CONNOLLY

http://media.oxfam.org.uk/images/products/HighStDonated/Zoom/hd_100767468_01.jpg?v=1

album covers from the 70s done in a claustrophobic style

Previously displayed upthread, I spotted I Didn't Know They Still Made Records Like This in the wild:
https://img.discogs.com/Ffz07bv3yKb7KGp1i1EdUUw_Pq0=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6349009-1424112499-7145.jpeg.jpg

Confused that there was no artist listed on the spine, I realized is was a label sampler from Warners. Looking it up on Discogs, the whole Warners Lost Leaders series from 1969 to 1980 has a pulse on album naming through the decade. The Big Ball from 1970, with Tull and Family and a whole bunch of GTOs captures the nudge-wink bluster. Troublemakers with Gang of Four and PiL and Devo captures 1980 right down the the hazard stripes on the cover. Supergroup in 1976, Collectus Interruptus in 78, before the dinosaurs are truly under siege from New Wave.

https://www.discogs.com/label/41348-Loss-Leaders

I suppose 1975 is peak Got My Own Album to Do aesthetic.

Excellent.

Extra points for The Whole Burbank Catalog riffing on The Whole Earth Catalog.

Got My Own Album to Do aesthetic tracks tightly with the rise and fall of embroidered denim.

Well done bendy! Yeah I remember it being hard to look that one up... oddly, I also saw it out in the wild again recently, tho it could have been the same copy as I saw the first time...

Looking more at Lost Leaders, and derailing a bit, 1979s Al La Carte really reaches for Roxy Music, but only lands Robert Palmer on the tracklist

https://img.discogs.com/4RfTgHjoziONkVSc81r7gq_5_mI=/fit-in/590x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1854371-1358714900-2780.jpeg.jpg

Though it does confuse al la carte and hors d'oeuvre, in a yawnsomly literal way.

Re: Roxy, I guess Atlantic (sister to Warners & the band's US label at the time) releases were off limits for those sets, and their first two albums (released here on Reprise and Warners, respectively) were too old to merit excerpting.

is that the L.A. hard rock band A La Carte?

Nope, just another Warners sampler.

Since we have an oven chips thread on the go, let's kill two birds with one stone ...

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/images/largerec/themanwhoputtheengine_fe065.jpg

... somewhat in the vein of Mike Harding but the guy wrote "January Man", which is one of the greatest songs ever written.

lite jazz virtuoso/Steely Dan sideman Larry Carlton has a few:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Larry_Carlton_Strikes_Twice.jpg

(on solid ground)

http://musicmp3spb.org/images/l/larry_carlton/fon_solid_g45d2906a9227963b400a92.jpg

(below some of the worst album art ever)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513%2Bbm03cyL.jpg

Wow...this is a weird one and as a fan of the thread, I don't seeing this one before.

Black Oak Arkansas - I'd Rather Be Sailing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZA5BN-3f-k

i think i need to find a copy of this!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/I%27d_Rather_Suck_My_Thumb.jpg

Excellent, I'm looking for a copy too.

Does this fit?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Bollingsuiteforflutejazzpianotrio.jpg/220px-Bollingsuiteforflutejazzpianotrio.jpg

Not a horrible title, really, except that the cover art transmutes it into a lame dad pun.

A friend of my Dad had that record, and the cover freaked me out as a seven year old. I knew it was implying something, but I couldn't quite figure it out. Recently found it for a quarter.