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

It's to stop people putting beers on top of the amps.

a good 90 percent of the covers and titles on this thread are great

clearly the kitchen was that of Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon you rubes

I would love to hear Quo covering Lou Reed's 'Banging On My Drum'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVBNl9k2b0

Too simple for Quo

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

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!"

Oh yeah - 70s albums with terrible visual puns featuring pictures of records xp

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.

Came out in 1978 btw, so bonus points for the double pun, albeit two useless ones.

How about at least two layers of wrong?

http://991.com/gallery_180x180/10cc-Are-You-Normal--p-186369-991.jpg

That's 10cc's "Look Hear"

1) Crap pun
2) album is not called "are you normal"

etc.

3) it's a 10cc album

http://www.free-covers.org/covers/25057.jpg

String Driven Thing, "Keep Yer 'And On It"

... cover's nice but the title...

Oh yuck.

Yeah, I've only just realised what it's implying, doh!

Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of

I love these album titles because like - - is the idea to convey that the band are just a bunch of cut-ups, some regular goofy guys who might do well as sitcom guest stars even while they make you boogie? So put 'em on and give 'em a spin! Or something? And yet somehow all it conveys to me when flipping through the dollar bin is "well, this looks boring and inessential as hell, I can safely skip that one."

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there's also something slightly reactionary but post-60s about it, it's like "We don't really have a revolutionary bone in our bodies, but we have this vague sense that we're supposed to act like nothing matters anymore"

Also "we're getting a little old for this, but still trying to have fun!"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Sj4IRGej8SY/S076IiuImcI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/9zJ9QHqOECM/s400/caravan-cunning-stunts-1975.jpg

How the heck was Cunning Stunts not mentioned in this thread? Unless it was.

Caravan were still doing really shit album titles in the 21st century btw, they have not lost it yet:

Ether Way (1998)
Surprise Supplies (1999)
A Night's Tale (2003)
The Unauthorized Breakfast Item (2003)

there's also something slightly reactionary but post-60s about it, it's like "We don't really have a revolutionary bone in our bodies, but we have this vague sense that we're supposed to act like nothing matters anymore"

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, June 28, 2013 11:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, definitely, it's very "No concept album to be found here, y'all! Just tryin' to provide some plain 'n' simple entertainment!" This doesn't apply to the prog versions of course.

Also it seems like record companies saved their laziest graphic designers and worst cardboard for records with these titles, they just always look so shabby and awful. Exceptions abound - that "Cunning Stunts" cover isn't bad aside from the title.

Cunning Stunts was obviously a Hipgnosis job

ha, I was thinking that but am not so up on my jacket designers that I was gonna stick my neck out and say it.

i feel like something about the perspective is off in the mirrors, especially the left one

ha i didn't know Cows stole that album title

gimme most of the album titles itt over pretentious nowadayz shit like Marni Stern or Fiona Apple's infamous "When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You Know That You're Right"

I like album titles where you go "Is that...a real word?" but you don't tell anyone and you're too embarrassed to actually look it up.

there's a thread idea

ha i didn't know Cows stole that album title

― von LMO argonaut (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 28, 2013 8:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh Caravan probably stole it off of someone's embarrassing uncle which I think is the genesis (npi) of the joke

I love these album titles because like - - is the idea to convey that the band are just a bunch of cut-ups, some regular goofy guys who might do well as sitcom guest stars even while they make you boogie? So put 'em on and give 'em a spin!

totally OTM like "Hey pal, we're just doing a bit of rock n rollin over here nbd"

I've got to repost the Bernie Marsden solo album from upthread because the image is missing, it is sooooo perfect, cover and everything

http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~hamaki/BernieMarsden_AndAboutTimeToo-AvexAVCB66044.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/45650793/The+Smoker+You+Drink+The+Player+You+Get+155008.jpg

80s, not 70s...still...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jXcIdC0TPic/Sqg2uxeEYFI/AAAAAAAAEOI/ye680qjynUk/s400/Joe+Walsh+-+Got+Any+Gum+%281987%29.jpg

Kudos to Joe, he kept it real all the way into the 90s:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/86875177/Look+What+I+Did++The+Joe+Walsh+Anthology.jpg

http://blog-imgs-45.fc2.com/s/t/u/stupidnoiz/trower_bltf.jpg

They could've got Ian Gillan to sing on it and called it LGBT.

And then replaced Jack Bruce with Country Joe McDonald and titled it McDLT.

Or get AR Kane in to do gauzy sonic background shit, call it BLART

BLARKT innit

or perhaps M/A/R/R/S/B/L/A/R/K/T

don't shoot the piano player

Not 70s, but Dave Mason "Some Assembly Required"

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-3269428-1323203326.jpeg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/No_Heavy_Petting_album.jpg

Not even sure this is a pun -- the monkey is not a "heavy pet"? I don't know why they're wired together. Baffling.

This whole thread is a pretty good nostalgia tour of mid-'80s remainder bins at mall record stores, btw.

Speaking of UFO ... didn't realize this was a pun until being reminded of the British pronunciation of faucet.

http://mimg.ugo.com/201104/6/5/0/187056/cuts/ufo-force-it_480_poster.jpg

The "no heavy petting" was what the sign at the swimming pool would say, but what relevance the monkey has, dunno..