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

REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish or whatever the fuck that one is called
Eddie Harris - That Is Why You're Overweight

those are both pretty bitchin'. try harder.

Joe Walsh to thread.

Elvin Bishop: Hometown Boy Makes Good!

the Harris title makes sense in context with the album art, the woman's hand holding a bon-bon or truffle or whatever

but why single out the 70's? i mean there aren't many worse album titles than say 'Dongs of Sevotion' or 'Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle'

oh man prog rock totally wins this thread

Yes - Tormato
Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

Caravan also wins for 'For Girls Who Go Plump in the Night'!

ha ha, yes!

Blind Dog at St. Dunstans was a pretty dreadful album title too

OK, time to defend prog rock :

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other is a quote from artist John Minton - "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other", which isn't very quirky at all.

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

Caravan - yes awful, although I quite like the Blind Dog At St Dunstans title.

Ha yeah Joe Walsh's 'But Seriously Folks' was what immediately sprung to mind when I saw the thread title (xposts). Also:

Lowell George - Thanks, I'll Eat it Here

haha i was JUST about to post the Lowell George title

Frampton - I'm In You

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

It's a compilation, isn't it?

Not the 70s but it's hard to beat that run of three albums from Phil Collins: "Hello, I Must Be Going!", "No Jacket Required", "...But Seriously" ... which rips off Joe Walsh too!

Oh, that Phil Collins and his waging war on restaurants that don't let him in!

Think I'd refuse to pay the bill in any restaurant that let Phil Collins in

I love puns MORE than the next man but...

http://covers1.img-themusic-world.info/000/22/22311.jpg

Hate "Crisis? What Crisis?" by Supertramp

Good lord, I never realized "Whale Meat" was a pun, I just thought it was a stupid album title.

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other is a quote from artist John Minton - "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other", which isn't very quirky at all.

We're All Awash in a Sea of Blood would have been a way better album title

Kansas were on a roll, as Leftoverture is some painful titling, and then came Point of Know Return.

It is obviously a great album, but I have always hated the title 'Hall of the Mountain Grill'

Budgie - if I were brittania I'd waive the rules

The Lowell George one is especially bad because it was also what he wanted the first Little Feat album to be called. Amazing that he held onto it for SO LONG.

Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the decidedly non-technical content.

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Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.

Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Bootsy? Player of the Year
This Boot is Made for Fonk-N

This might be the third time in the last month I've posted this:

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Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday

I'd think Budgie's "If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules" kind of fits here.

Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns - Say Blow By Blow Backwards
even Joe Walsh gets a headache thinking bout that one

Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)

Makes it worse.

think there's a faces best-of, maybe released after the 70s but recalling its syntactic constructions, good little boys ... when they're asleep

This may be the best/worst:

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Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse

1971, so this may be the template

Ringo Starr - Ringo's Rotogravure

OK this isn't verbose but it's one of those albums I used to stare at as a record-store clerk, thinking 'what a dumb title'

see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album

Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?

IMO "Too Old To Rock'n'Roll, Too Young To Die" is a great title. Sums up pretty well the thoughts of the first generation who grew up with rock music, and how they dealt with not being teenagers anymore.

Man - Do You Like It here Now, Are you Settling In? and (although I kinda like this one) 2 Oz. of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle.

I've been thinking (for no particular reason) about lame 70s album titles recently and just found this thread.

For sheer crassness, I can't help thinking of "Fanx Ta Ra" by Sad Cafe:

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xp Oh I get it... "Which one's Willie." Which means no one in the band was named Willie. Quite a hoot/hollar combo.

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

This definitely exists and is not a bootleg. It's a compilation but at least the title can't be blamed on the band, the liner notes say the label came up with it. Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.

greg kihn to thread, surely

(i realize it's hardly in the true caravan spirit, but 1978's "next of kihn" would have been a prime offender even if he hadn't gone back to the well a dozen times)

Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

those are good!

Great titles, not so sure about the barnets

Not 70s and not an album but The (English) Beat and The (Paul Collins) Beat's joint 2012 tour "Two Beats Hearting as One" should be mentioned

Nellie McKay: Hey Guys, Watch This

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Stefano Secchi - Da Ya Think I'm Secchi

lol

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Nellie McKay - Hey Guys, Watch This

nice, I love new albums that adhere to the classic formula

speaking of keeping '70s formulas alive...

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Katie Von Schleicher- A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night

XP Feels like if McKay were a more prolific, an album every year type of artist, she would have a ton of these.

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Partner – A Man-Size Job Requires A Man-Size Meal

this is actually for the awesomely-named 70s organ album thread:

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Steve Lowdell - Getting Seventymental Over You

Not sure who that shops thinks they're going to sell that to tbh, some mad pricing there

(i passed on it btw and instead bought the sabbath cd behind it for my son, super hard to find sabbath cds for cheap here normally, but that was four quid)

^ oh it was vol 4!

A true original. pic.twitter.com/KnvujRMTxa

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the new society band - shoves it in your ear!

First read that as "The New Society Bald" and thought that was a really good band name

I first thought "bard," also a good name.

New Kings of Leon:

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did this ever make it in here?

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Roger Chapman - Mango Crazy

Or this?

https://i.ibb.co/GxzpX5z/20240126-134419.jpg
Brakes - For Why You Kicka My Donkey?

I'm sure I'd have remembered that one.

wtf does it even mean?

Who cares, it's genius.

But that’s a zebra, sir

Nearest I can get to a meaning for the title is via #DailyAfricanProverbs:

https://simonjavanokelo.com/2022/11/28/if-a-donkey-kicks-you-and-you-kick-back-you-are-both-donkeys-african-proverbs-afiapodcast/

Thread proves it can still deliver!

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Dr. John - Hollywood Be Thy Name

Oh I quite like that actually

Nice contemporary incarnation of the phenomenon:

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Joyner Lucas: Not Now, I'm Busy

niiice

the "george duke is mid" discourse upthread sucks. justice for dukey treats

did we not include this one yet or is it just posted as an image upthread? it's one of my favorite albums titles tbh. Lalo Schifrin ftw.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/There%27s_a_Whole_Lalo_Schifrin_Goin%27_On.jpg

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did we not include this one yet or is it just posted as an image upthread? it's one of my favorite albums titles tbh. Lalo Schifrin ftw.

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Girl In Red: I'm Doing It Again Baby!

That cover reminds me of the album with the worst album title of all

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https://thewonderstuff.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Beatles-Hunter.jpg

the hubris of it

I didn't like them very much when I heard them, and now I like them even less

which hunter is that a reference to?

cos that would be weird if it was "if the beatles had read hunter davies' book about the beatles"

That's what I always thought it referred to!

If the beatles had read the biography of the beatles and then decided to form a band called the beatles

Probably wouldn't have sounded much like the wonderstuff but could've made a good borges story

As he faced his assassin in the doorway of his residence on the Upper West Side, John Lennon remembered the time his father took him to see the Wonderstuff

“If the Beatles had read Hunter Biden’s laptop”

The title referred to a quote (that) “if the writer Hunter S. Thompson had been a presiding influence over The Beatles, then they might have looked and sounded like The Wonder Stuff".

they would look like the Wonder Stuff? Like with long hair and baggy clothes? Just imagine.

spotted in the wild at Cow Records in San Diego

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