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

omg WHAT, why would anybody choose THAT elton john title to... wow. the tracklisting for that is also pure gold btw.

that's dude's a comedian though, with other albums called Flat Dogs and Shaky Pudden, and Foo Foo Shufflewick & Her Exotic Banana

ehhh still counts imho, a great many people who had their own album to do were hoping to get a chuckle out of us. just a bit of fun from those low-stakes, shaggy cut-ups and their easy-going rockin'.

btw re: the Stanky Brown Group brought up slightly upthread:

https://img.discogs.com/2ehC98xyvMLMrjZp_K3Koknpneg=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2615226-1484583974-4817.jpeg.jpg

If The Lights Don't Get You the Helots Will (1977)

Oh and:

https://img.discogs.com/q_Zzi4Ndud1xYprH8ehKnzvxy94=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3480436-1411662532-4376.jpeg.jpg

Our Pleasure to Serve You (1976)

("Misery Loves The Stanky Brown Group" would have also been good tbh. I just can't imagine being at one of these jokers' concerts and being like, shit yeah, I gotta get in the merch line and take me home a copy of that!)

Turns out the Oxfam online store is a trove of this stuff. Another "comedy" album

RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY -- BILLY CONNOLLY

http://media.oxfam.org.uk/images/products/HighStDonated/Zoom/hd_100767468_01.jpg?v=1

album covers from the 70s done in a claustrophobic style

Previously displayed upthread, I spotted I Didn't Know They Still Made Records Like This in the wild:
https://img.discogs.com/Ffz07bv3yKb7KGp1i1EdUUw_Pq0=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6349009-1424112499-7145.jpeg.jpg

Confused that there was no artist listed on the spine, I realized is was a label sampler from Warners. Looking it up on Discogs, the whole Warners Lost Leaders series from 1969 to 1980 has a pulse on album naming through the decade. The Big Ball from 1970, with Tull and Family and a whole bunch of GTOs captures the nudge-wink bluster. Troublemakers with Gang of Four and PiL and Devo captures 1980 right down the the hazard stripes on the cover. Supergroup in 1976, Collectus Interruptus in 78, before the dinosaurs are truly under siege from New Wave.

https://www.discogs.com/label/41348-Loss-Leaders

I suppose 1975 is peak Got My Own Album to Do aesthetic.

Excellent.

Extra points for The Whole Burbank Catalog riffing on The Whole Earth Catalog.

Got My Own Album to Do aesthetic tracks tightly with the rise and fall of embroidered denim.

Well done bendy! Yeah I remember it being hard to look that one up... oddly, I also saw it out in the wild again recently, tho it could have been the same copy as I saw the first time...

Looking more at Lost Leaders, and derailing a bit, 1979s Al La Carte really reaches for Roxy Music, but only lands Robert Palmer on the tracklist

https://img.discogs.com/4RfTgHjoziONkVSc81r7gq_5_mI=/fit-in/590x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1854371-1358714900-2780.jpeg.jpg

Though it does confuse al la carte and hors d'oeuvre, in a yawnsomly literal way.

Re: Roxy, I guess Atlantic (sister to Warners & the band's US label at the time) releases were off limits for those sets, and their first two albums (released here on Reprise and Warners, respectively) were too old to merit excerpting.

is that the L.A. hard rock band A La Carte?

Nope, just another Warners sampler.

Since we have an oven chips thread on the go, let's kill two birds with one stone ...

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/images/largerec/themanwhoputtheengine_fe065.jpg

... somewhat in the vein of Mike Harding but the guy wrote "January Man", which is one of the greatest songs ever written.

lite jazz virtuoso/Steely Dan sideman Larry Carlton has a few:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Larry_Carlton_Strikes_Twice.jpg

(on solid ground)

http://musicmp3spb.org/images/l/larry_carlton/fon_solid_g45d2906a9227963b400a92.jpg

(below some of the worst album art ever)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513%2Bbm03cyL.jpg

Wow...this is a weird one and as a fan of the thread, I don't seeing this one before.

Black Oak Arkansas - I'd Rather Be Sailing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZA5BN-3f-k

i think i need to find a copy of this!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/I%27d_Rather_Suck_My_Thumb.jpg

Excellent, I'm looking for a copy too.

Does this fit?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Bollingsuiteforflutejazzpianotrio.jpg/220px-Bollingsuiteforflutejazzpianotrio.jpg

Not a horrible title, really, except that the cover art transmutes it into a lame dad pun.

A friend of my Dad had that record, and the cover freaked me out as a seven year old. I knew it was implying something, but I couldn't quite figure it out. Recently found it for a quarter.

his flute suite was a sequel to his toot suite btw

http://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/Alb.31445600/500x500.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51w9rPnx8XL.jpg

Syl & Jimmy Johnson: Two Johnsons Are Better Than One!

can't remember if we've already had Judge Dread, but in case we haven't

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/537/MI0001537173.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Dreadmania: It's All In The Mind

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/488/MI0002488554.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Working Class 'Ero

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/115/MI0002115982.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Bedtime Stories

yikes, don't think i've ever heard of him, looks dodgy as hell. is he some sort of roy chubby brown type deal?

he did smutty comedy ska/reggae tracks. I like 'Big Six':https://youtu.be/K5w8zV9Uoos

fuck me that's a tough listen

great find for this thread though

Leigh Stirling ‎– In The Wings

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7cxS3LrTv0s/hqdefault.jpg

I'm not sure if this should count or not, the title itself is pretty unremarkable but I feel like there's some kind of terrible pun I'm missing? otherwise, why is there a picture of him standing on a jetty rather than anything in any way related to the phrase 'in the wings'?

Materializing. Is he dead or something?

that was a posthumous realease after he was killed in a failed birdman attempt off the end of bognor pier - sadly he didn't have it 'in the wings' that day.

good god

https://img.discogs.com/IToxu_GewamUbGXJe2dLMzNR4RQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2259232-1272859446.jpeg.jpg

just looked this up on discogs and it seems to be one of the first albums that Daniel Lanois was credited on (as engineer). idk if he appears on the cover.

the tracklist for the second Crackers album ("Hard On You") is perfect

A1 Hard On You 3:20
A2 Double Trouble 3:02
A3 The Tit Man 2:35
A4 Visions 3:55
A5 Rock 'N Roll Tonite 2:22
B1 The Shove 4:11
B2 Snort 4:13
B3 Life Is Just A Stage 3:34
B4 Arts Of The Sailor (Pirate Song) 2:58
B5 Little Johnny 5:06

Crackers3 years ago
This album cover was our managers idea, he sent it to print before we even got to see it, oh well, BRANDED. Thanks for the kind words guys, you can contact Crackers at regdenis✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧ We'd love to hear from you! Those were Glory Daze for sure eh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAL8GmGkbPw

"Our manager also titled all the songs, especially 'The Tit Man'"

Are those 57s? I usually prefer to mic butts with a high quality large diaphragm condenser or a spaced pair of small diaphragm condensers in an X/Y pattern

Nahhh, ya gotta use the Neumann binarual system.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images500x500/Neumann_KU_100_KU_100_Dummy_Head_146368.jpg

Haha I've seen pictures of that setup it's unreal, recording in front of a crash test dummy with 2 mics sticking out of its ears

http://i.imgur.com/q9MfZ7Q.png
this cover confuses me - how does 24 parrots work as a pun?

we must've had these guys already surely, but just in case...

http://allabouttherock.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MEAL_TICKET_THREETIMESADAY-547348-300x298.jpg

Meal Ticket - Three Times A Day

btw britishers of a certain age will be more familiar with the singer of that band from his television gig:

http://www.jedisparadise.com/2/index_htm_files/15295.jpg

https://image.ibb.co/hacPpv/gibbons.jpg

Steve Gibbons Band - Maintaining Radio Silence

Henry Gross, "Plug Me Into Something"

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/457/MI0002457546.jpg

Henry Gross, "Show Me to the Stage"

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/508/MI0001508088.jpg

Henry Gross, "What's In a Name?"

http://www.onehitwanderer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WHATS-IN-A-NAME.jpg

And Henry is carrying on the good work, this seems to be his latest album,

http://www.henrygross.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/OneHitWanderer.jpg