Album Covers featuring Yawnsomely Literal Cover Art in regards to said album's title.

http://exclaim.ca/images/fieldy.jpg

El Gato: The Human Glacier by Gucci Mane:

https://sslf.ulximg.com/image/355x355/cover/1513870756_157503c21bb3d7ab0610108e5383b674.jpg

Barry Crompton, "Don't Look Down"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-HrV2AlG38/VVPLJgvNUHI/AAAAAAAAqOY/F0qRcOdMTL4/s1600/BarryCrompton1983.jpeg

oh my god tom i'm slowly losing it over "Here's a Train"

LOL.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTb_6FlXcAETcB5.jpg:large

operation boogie grass

Sweet.

Jay and the Americans - Sands of Time
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Sands_of_Time_%28Jay_and_the_Americans_album%29.jpeg

Also from the "Here's a Train" guy, here's "Please Smile Again":
https://img.discogs.com/fjNNYUa5fowu2_d8ACtbJl_IJio=/fit-in/305x320/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2692009-1296767710.jpeg.jpg

and "Happy Blue Piano"
https://img.discogs.com/c5kkl5_oxrPXfOeD7GDAChZHXMU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7815817-1449367273-2778.jpeg.jpg

"Here's a Train"... this thread is complete

one of my favorite threads

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/TheFlamingLips-YoshimiBattlesThePinkRobots.jpg

And was this done yet?

https://img.discogs.com/9w3oMXXYFP_ZNHFqRNSCIXLgO0M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2363401-1303260935.jpeg.jpg

Do singles count?

https://streamd.hitparade.ch/cdimages/toto-africa_s_1.jpg

think probably this has been posted but i'm not seeing it and it's just so good. saw it in the wild the other day:

https://img.discogs.com/z4lssUxpbLIqo7TrfGDQc8JgnPg=/fit-in/537x544/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2831313-1303004317.jpeg.jpg

So many aspects of 60s titles carry the seeds of the thread genre - the jazz albums punning on the artists' name thread really opens out that territory. It's really hard to articulate what feels different about the lame and terrible jokes or proclamations of casual-ness from the later period. Maybe the sense that the artist came up with the title themselves and feel it represents their DGAF Good-Times Young Dude Swag, versus the studio titles cooked up by the advertising boys down the hall.

haha oh wait that was me thinking i was in the Horrible 70s thread, n/m

looking at the "horrible" thread i now see that you and i had an exchange that sort of touched on what you're getting at in that post. perhaps these questions will never be resolved.

haha oh wait that was me thinking i was in the Horrible 70s thread, n/m

An easy mistake to make.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/wtf-bad-album-covers-dolly-parton-bubbling-over.jpg

Dolly Parton - Bubbling Over

Seriously?!

http://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/p-tork-single-front.jpg

Peter Tork - Peter's Back!

lol

Popular joke

https://www.joesalbums.com/images/product/nina-simone-back-record-lp.jpeg

Ian Thomas, "Add Water"

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/6/67/Ian_Thomas_-_Add_Water.jpg

... bugger, bigger:

https://img.discogs.com/BDm1n2-iUZq1LRrNqRg2WrXuJ-g=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5651847-1435355042-6949.jpeg.jpg

https://s.s-bol.com/imgbase0/imagebase3/extralarge/FC/4/6/6/2/9200000050962664.jpg

That's actually a nice cover.

Agreed, but also very literal.

https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/300x0/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.genius.com%2F4c7065848378e144d191ac6cf493ef87.1000x947x1.jpg

surely this has been posted?

i think it appeared in the got my own album to do thread.

haha yeah, i saw that in the wild a while ago and ran straight to Horrible 70s

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Made_in_Cork.jpg

What was that "Here's a Train" one?

What do you mean, what was it?

Has anyone done the Millie Jackson one yet?

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/worst-album-covers/worst-album-covers-millie-jackson.jpg

sorry for that...

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/worst-album-covers/worst-album-covers-millie-jackson.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61byM-kytcL._SX355_.jpg

This one's kind of cool tbh. Houston Person, "Suspicions"

https://img.discogs.com/Tzk63PJij1lweCbf8UAIrco_p-o=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1136748-1198273581.jpeg.jpg

Bob Bailey, "I'm Walkin'"

https://img.discogs.com/osLhkSUp2tj190ynH1vbDqNj4fc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6583868-1435487423-6112.jpeg.jpg

Gene Dunlap, "Party in Me"...

https://img.cdandlp.com/2015/10/imgL/117730537.jpg

lol that is just perfect

my roommate got a copy on vinyl in the mail last week, and we both were very impressed

Lou Donaldson - Hot Dog

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

Maybe not peak Blue Note graphic design.

hall & oates

whole oats
http://www.hallandoates.de/Covers_Albums/1972%20Whole%20Oats.jpg
abandoned luncheonette
https://img.discogs.com/9PBEYQ-VkQ-9Q7SwJ0BucZmKbkI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5231927-1413829278-1241.jpeg.jpg
bigger than both of us
https://img.discogs.com/VnoP93_L4htI0oAgBxc1Wypm1DY=/fit-in/585x585/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1202865-1200426385.jpeg.jpg
war babies
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/865/MI0001865311.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Is the product placement on Bigger Than Both Of Us significant or something? Seems to be consciously conspicuous in a way that doesn't seem accidental. but Ritz crackers as a lifestyle choice?

Yeah that's weird, can't recall seeing anything like that on an LP cover (except "The Who Sell Out").

are those ritz crackers on the war babies cover? maybe they just like Ritz

A Millennial band should do an album called "Cola War Babies," with a cover depicting (similarly arranged) 1980s ephemera...

(With ideas like this, it's amazing I need to work for a living!)

Doug Stevenson, "Steel On My Mind"

https://img.discogs.com/mYF7sB9SXQKge7KXnwQFt4yNj2s=/fit-in/512x538/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7582072-1444503608-9494.jpeg.jpg