think there's a faces best-of, maybe released after the 70s but recalling its syntactic constructions, good little boys ... when they're asleep
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
This may be the best/worst:
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/071/0000007135_350.jpg
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse
1971, so this may be the template
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
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'
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 10 October 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Daniel Giraffe, Sunday, 22 January 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
xp Oh I get it... "Which one's Willie." Which means no one in the band was named Willie. Quite a hoot/hollar combo.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 January 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 22 January 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
greg kihn to thread, surely
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
(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)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.
but that is cool
― akm, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kansas/album-point-of-know-return.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qMlKL6v2DKE/TPV-wiPyfGI/AAAAAAAAA7M/8ewBGXN8Ow8/James%20Brown%20(1979)%20-%20Take%20A%20Look%20At%20Those%20Cakes.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, i just got "Night In The Ruts" http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gfI3E63GIS4/TTzdFlqnb8I/AAAAAAAAAd0/hO6gMyE6Gb8/s1600/Grand+Funk+Railroad+All+the+Girls+in+the+World+Beware+%2521.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thewho.info/images/75RARH-PST-RD.jpg
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://991.com/newGallery/Deep-Purple-Who-Do-We-Think-W-419996.jpg
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://oblada.com/storage/RS136_June1973.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1252641317684
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Ride a Rock Horse
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
ride a rock pony amirite
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.
― emil.y, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N-2QLcuZbTI/SYChMNUvpLI/AAAAAAAAAQs/C9NbKYKFQY0/s400/front.jpg
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
aerosmith tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Hard-Nutz.jpg
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Daltrey ftw.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/THFxbWf4FKI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/JPDrEkzYU5g/s1600/cover.jpg
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
always thought "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is Spreading" was the worst but that may be like 1968
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Sunday, 22 January 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
Jo Jo Gunne- So...Where's the Show?Pilot- From the Album of the Same NameDeep Purple- Come Taste the BandMichael Stanley Band- You Break It...You Bought It!Sly & the Family Stone- Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm BackKevin Ayers- Yes We Have No Mananas, So Get Your Mananas TodayThe Animals- Before We Were So Rudely InterruptedRabbit- A Croak and Grunt in the NightRick Derringer- If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot YouSpooky Tooth- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your JawRamatam- In April Came the Dawning of the Red SunsBlack Oak Arkansas- If an Angel Came to See You, Would You Make Her Feel at Home?
― President Keyes, Monday, 23 January 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's from the 80's, but I always thought that You're Gettin' Even While I'm Gettin' Odd by the Wolf-less edition of The J. Geils Band was a dumb title.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
Many years ago somebody was trying to think of what artist had made that record and asked me but I didn't know. His attitude was that he had stumped me but my attitude was "why should I know who recorded an album with a stupid title like that?" So thanking you for clearing that up, Elvis T.
― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
you're welcome
also, ELP Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure these are where Blink 182 got the inspiration for a couple of their album names because they fit right in.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
1969, but
Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark
― Andy K, Monday, 23 January 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
The Animals- Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
In a similar vein of album titles that trot out a familiar (hackneyed) phrase, try
Bloody Tourists - 10cc Individually and Collectively - Steeleye SpanIndelibly Stamped - Supertramp
and so on...
Like Tom above I love puns MORE than the next man but... my all-time lame-pun album title (admittedly 80s) has to be Bankstatement by Tony Banks.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AafG7mBnL._SS400_.jpg
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fbuYL1Y4VSc/Sij6nmlLFQI/AAAAAAAAJGA/Ytosn7NUSIU/s320/Gilgamesh.jpg
^ Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Regatta de Blanc by the Police counts here as well.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
Robert Wyatt is probably the champion at this - Matching Mole, End of an Ear etc and *especially* Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
So bad, and yet so good..
http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk/client_files/default/man.jpg
Man, "Do You Like It Here, Are You Settling In?"
... what did these bands think they were achieving with these titles?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
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
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 April 2024 04:35 (six days ago) link
the hubris of it
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Thursday, 18 April 2024 08:13 (six days ago) link
I didn't like them very much when I heard them, and now I like them even less
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 18 April 2024 08:33 (six days ago) link
which hunter is that a reference to?
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:18 (six days ago) link
cos that would be weird if it was "if the beatles had read hunter davies' book about the beatles"
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:20 (six days ago) link
That's what I always thought it referred to!
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:44 (six days ago) link
If the beatles had read the biography of the beatles and then decided to form a band called the beatles
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:59 (six days ago) link
Probably wouldn't have sounded much like the wonderstuff but could've made a good borges story
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 18 April 2024 10:00 (six days ago) link
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
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 18 April 2024 10:26 (six days ago) link
“If the Beatles had read Hunter Biden’s laptop”
― President of the Canadian Council of Bassoonists (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 18 April 2024 12:29 (six days ago) link
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".
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:20 (six days ago) link
they would look like the Wonder Stuff? Like with long hair and baggy clothes? Just imagine.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:27 (six days ago) link
spotted in the wild at Cow Records in San Diego
https://i.postimg.cc/FKh2k337/PXL-20240407-203924701.jpg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:47 (six days ago) link