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
Oh man, this one ticks every conceivable box:
http://s45.radikal.ru/i107/0903/58/41c66ddaa717.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, that looks like a still from Going Straight or something.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
Norman Stanley Fletcher meets Hipgnosis
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
One title I always thought was bad, was:
"The quality of mercy is not strnen" The Mekons.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
.. until I saw one:
http://www.fotopocket.nl/fpimages/2011/09/07/cc34ad441f3b3bbbad47e25c9f94bcd8/1543858.jpg
Stupid:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Rockin%27_with_Curly_Leads.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
Crap:
http://storage.canalblog.com/93/83/443665/33139026.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
It's not the seventies. It's not an album. But:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/b612f46ca2bd6c180fe58a2070478b5b/430896.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i0WHJgYLbMA/SPsCEzxlWXI/AAAAAAAACC8/O33BKWQsY94/s400/The+Status+Quo+-+1978+-+If+You+Can%27t+Stand+The+Heat.jpg
^ top quality punnage from the Quo
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://jamesmeredith.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/0001022326_350.jpg
^ Gene Vincent - I'm Back And I'm Proud
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
I like the Camel cover, as it's title is the punchline of a joke.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get what the puns are in the last two examples?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
Status Quo and Gene Vincent, that is.
Gene Vincent: terrible pun on I'm Black And I'm Proud (Gene Vincent is white btw)
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
Not all of these are puns, Tuomas, most of them aren't
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, okay. Stupid me! What about the Status Quo title? Were they putting down some rival band called "The Heat"?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
"If You Can't Stand This Heat" try Throbbing Gristle instead
Hard to come up with a more boring album title than this:
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/j/john_mayall-new_year_new_band_new_company.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
What's with all the people on the left? Are they his new company?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
And does "new band" refer to the shining wristband he wears?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
Status Quo: it's the lame visual gag and of course the other half of the title phrase would be ...Get Out Of The Kitchen, so it's a picture of a stove. Which is really crap and humdrum and not very dangerous at all, which pretty much sums up Status Quo imo.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, okay, I didn't pay attention to the image, I though the pun was in the title.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
not very dangerous at all*
*if used in the correct manner
And the hob looks a bit like a turntable, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, a bit
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's supposed to look like a record (well, it is a spiral)
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
xxp let's just say that you wouldn't want to put your hand on Status Quo and then turn them on...
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
And is it mounted on the top of a speaker cabinet?
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
In partial defence of the Quo cover:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/Spiralscratch.jpg/220px-Spiralscratch.jpg
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
That's a pretty stupid place to put a stove!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
It's so they could boil a kettle with the sheer heat of their boogie-rock
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
It's to stop people putting beers on top of the amps.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
a good 90 percent of the covers and titles on this thread are great
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
clearly the kitchen was that of Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon you rubes
― Touched By Angel Rangel (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
I would love to hear Quo covering Lou Reed's 'Banging On My Drum'.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVBNl9k2b0
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
Too simple for Quo
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
Prob'ly a thread to be had out of covers like the Quo one and this:
http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/sm/smallas117221037114840.jpg
... if it hadn't been done already
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
The design meeting for that Small Faces cover must have been something:
Designer 1: "So the cover's gonna be a record on a turntable, but the pickup's an engine."Designer 2: "Eh, it's missing something."Designer 3: "What if the needle was gouging a tear in the record?"Designer 2: "Hmm... Good, but it needs to be edgier."Designer 1: "How about this, there's blood coming out of the tear!"Designer 2: "Excellent! Now let's go and do some more cocaine!"
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah - 70s albums with terrible visual puns featuring pictures of records xp
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
e.g.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kTlh6ewNL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
That's so lazy. In fact, 'records are your best buy' would have been a better title and image.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
Came out in 1978 btw, so bonus points for the double pun, albeit two useless ones.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
How about at least two layers of wrong?
http://991.com/gallery_180x180/10cc-Are-You-Normal--p-186369-991.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
That's 10cc's "Look Hear"
1) Crap pun2) album is not called "are you normal"
etc.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
3) it's a 10cc album
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.free-covers.org/covers/25057.jpg
String Driven Thing, "Keep Yer 'And On It"
... cover's nice but the title...
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yuck.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago) link