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

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.

always thought "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is Spreading" was the worst but that may be like 1968

Jo Jo Gunne- So...Where's the Show?
Pilot- From the Album of the Same Name
Deep Purple- Come Taste the Band
Michael Stanley Band- You Break It...You Bought It!
Sly & the Family Stone- Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back
Kevin Ayers- Yes We Have No Mananas, So Get Your Mananas Today
The Animals- Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
Rabbit- A Croak and Grunt in the Night
Rick Derringer- If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot You
Spooky Tooth- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw
Ramatam- In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns
Black Oak Arkansas- If an Angel Came to See You, Would You Make Her Feel at Home?

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.

Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

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.

you're welcome

also, ELP Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends

Pretty sure these are where Blink 182 got the inspiration for a couple of their album names because they fit right in.

1969, but

Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark

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 Span
Indelibly 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.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AafG7mBnL._SS400_.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fbuYL1Y4VSc/Sij6nmlLFQI/AAAAAAAAJGA/Ytosn7NUSIU/s320/Gilgamesh.jpg

^ Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

I guess Regatta de Blanc by the Police counts here as well.

Robert Wyatt is probably the champion at this - Matching Mole, End of an Ear etc and *especially* Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

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?

Oh man, this one ticks every conceivable box:

http://s45.radikal.ru/i107/0903/58/41c66ddaa717.jpg

Haha, that looks like a still from Going Straight or something.

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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