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

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.

http://991.com/newGallery/Wet-Willie-Which-Ones-Willie-500502.jpg

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:

http://www.hollywoodmemorabilia.com/files/cache/peter-frampton-autographed-signed-im-in-you-album_596c784f83f85bbc064e0b6afdd291be.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/JethroTull-albums-toooldtorocknroll.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Aerosmith_-_Night_In_The_Ruts.JPG

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:

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/071/0000007135_350.jpg

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:

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/119/906cd4ae57f246a291f42b96c13fafd1/l.jpg

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

Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.

but that is cool

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kansas/album-point-of-know-return.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qMlKL6v2DKE/TPV-wiPyfGI/AAAAAAAAA7M/8ewBGXN8Ow8/James%20Brown%20(1979)%20-%20Take%20A%20Look%20At%20Those%20Cakes.jpg

oh man, i just got "Night In The Ruts" http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gfI3E63GIS4/TTzdFlqnb8I/AAAAAAAAAd0/hO6gMyE6Gb8/s1600/Grand+Funk+Railroad+All+the+Girls+in+the+World+Beware+%2521.jpg

http://www.thewho.info/images/75RARH-PST-RD.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Deep-Purple-Who-Do-We-Think-W-419996.jpg

http://oblada.com/storage/RS136_June1973.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1252641317684

lol @ Ride a Rock Horse

ride a rock pony amirite

Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.

What's to get about A Night In The Ruts? Am I missing a bad pun? Is it supposed to sound like "right in the nuts?" Because, even for a pun, that's a stretch. Why the hell would you want to call an album that??

And that James Brown cover is awesome.

That Sad Cafe reminds me of this candidate:

http://img03.shop-pro.jp/PA01005/593/product/24884146.jpg?20101121173947

and then there's this collage I found when searching for that cover:

http://img4.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/95/0b/h18h22/folder/1034626/img_1034626_29204540_0?1302445536

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N-2QLcuZbTI/SYChMNUvpLI/AAAAAAAAAQs/C9NbKYKFQY0/s400/front.jpg

What's to get about A Night In The Ruts? Am I missing a bad pun? Is it supposed to sound like "right in the nuts?" Because, even for a pun, that's a stretch. Why the hell would you want to call an album that??

aerosmith tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Hard-Nutz.jpg

Setting bad puns aside, something really galls me about BTO's "Best of BTO (So Far)" - the title's at the top of the cover and the parenthetical's at the bottom, as if to have a nice long pause to really set up this highlarious bit of comic self-aggrandization...

Daltrey ftw.

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=foot+loose+and+fancy+free+rod+stewart&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1280&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=1rdIiZAVLJYjvM:&imgrefurl=http://www.amazon.com/Foot-Loose-Fancy-Free-Stewart/dp/B00004Y6O2&docid=SSEfMXYB3kX_VM&imgurl=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wu8bFi6mL._SL500_AA300_.jpg&w=300&h=300&ei=jYEcT6vdHoXb0QHjzrDoCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=321&vpy=137&dur=215&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=105&ty=102&sig=115859656210803399850&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=137&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/THFxbWf4FKI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/JPDrEkzYU5g/s1600/cover.jpg

"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.

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!

https://i.discogs.com/B4tymtUd_h-xCwe6CwlwFKezvbTuRtp9gP3y6theZDI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3MzEy/MzItMTMwMDE1NDEz/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

Dr. John - Hollywood Be Thy Name

Oh I quite like that actually

Nice contemporary incarnation of the phenomenon:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1380711331_10.jpg

https://cdn.season-of-mist.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/J/o/Joyner-Lucas-Not-Now-I-m-Busy-CD-134933-1-1686129116.jpg

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

https://i.discogs.com/u8eyBmOS6Sz4OYP5vdJZYv2wmJMhMSOFQW8a2taHfkc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU5MTY5/NDMtMTQwNjI2NjMw/NC00NzYzLmpwZWc.jpeg

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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https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_2d4cd346-fdf0-4e6d-98f8-1ab421914d99?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg

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

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

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

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

https://i.postimg.cc/FKh2k337/PXL-20240407-203924701.jpg