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

i had no idea that was a horseback riding term. I'm such a city boy.

actually i didn't even notice that was a horse; i thought it was somebody spreadeagled on the floor

It was Poco's logo so it might still have nothing to do with horseriding. But Richie Furay was born again so I can't see him participating in anything untoward.

Richie was out of the band by the time they adopted the horse logo though (although occasionally rejoining)

the horse logo was designed by Phil Hartman incidentally - his brother was Poco's manager

xp re TCONB:

i'm guessing it's a reference to the moldy prank call:

is your fridge running?
yes.
well you better go catch it!

do you have prince albert in a can?

that kinda shit.

I just noticed that the syrup on that Head East cover looks kind of like Texas (panhandle toward the viewer). I wonder if that was intentional.

Oh man, I used to own that Richard Torrance album! "Rio de Janeiro Blue" is a smooth slice of yacht rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO7BRWH_zYs

lol that cover photo looks straight out of the original Joy of Sex

he looks like he is practiced in the Wiseau method

Thought the cover was sort of a nod to Buckingham Nicks

https://img.discogs.com/fdm1i6xaejrwzYl_lu3QA2UaJr0=/fit-in/600x611/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6089661-1421276243-1054.jpeg.jpg

Razmataz - Everybody eats when they come to my house (Soap Records, 1982)

From 1978, the amusing named Trumpetmachine with the painfully titled, "For Flying Out Proud".

https://vinyl-west.de/catalog/46263/george-gruntz-trumpetmachine---for-flying-out-proud.jpg

Huh, had not heard of Trumpetmachine before. Woody Shaw, Kenny Wheeler and Jon Faddis. Sounds like it might have been a less successful coattail rider of the Supersax concept?

No doubt. I find Faddis tedious for various reasons I won't elaborate on right this second.

I have seen the son of Mike Zwerin, who was on Birth of The Cool, I think, play bass a few times. Seems like a pretty nice guy. He is unusual in a jazz context in that, not only does he play electric bass, but he plays it slung real low, a la Paul Simonon or Kris(t) Novoselic, say.

https://img.discogs.com/P1Pw11o2crtLZ8mtspaonsX_nNw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2050528-1260915362.jpeg.jpg

That's actually the early '80s but it belongs in 1978.

dying

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Loggins-Messina - Sittin' In

(surely posted upthread)

Loggins looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets on that LP

Anyways, tuneyards keepin' the faith...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51g%2BcG3HIOL.jpg

I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life

Hmmmmm, I can't really see a Wet Willie or a Man or a Roger Miller going for that title tbh.

“Creepin’ into your private life” maybe

I can almost picture the cover.

‘Al Green Explores Your Mind’ veers in that direction.

https://img.discogs.com/3mqtZ14UtEcCy2wuHEtBXmyzG5c=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10113027-1491837528-9440.jpeg.jpg

Arlen Roth - Hot Pickups (1980)

Martin & Finley, "Dazzle 'Em With Footwork", 1974 (on Motown bizarrely!)

https://img.discogs.com/AtcBfGWRUytgQ8tJXs3Kdu9wedI=/fit-in/480x480/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4296288-1361024952-2706.jpeg.jpg

i love this one

https://img.discogs.com/486N5Zi8JTPL1coIen7GwG4Phv8=/fit-in/580x585/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5233504-1388293916-2303.jpeg.jpg

Bob Force and Al d'Ossche - When the Moon Fell on California

HERE'S A TRAIN!

Poll:
Do you ever think it like "I've Got Me Own Album to Do"?

i do

no but that is very funny

https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/a/e0d6d999a02ff4858533ed02ea0d904d/4109009.jpg

Margo Buchanan - I Should've Done This Years Ago (her 2005 debut solo album after having worked mainly as a backing singer since the 70s, appropriately)

https://imgflip.com/i/25k1hv

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https://i.imgflip.com/25k1hv.jpg

:)

xpost or something

lol kitty Ron Wood

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1608/cover_14072312017_r.jpg
Vangelis- Can You Hear The Dogs Barking?

sick rig vangelis

Arlen Roth - Hot Pickups (1980)

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:43 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Definitely one of the most boring sub-categories of this type of album cover is anything that directly references the fact that you are playing an instrument. It's like "there is absolutely nothing transcendent about this record, it's just a demonstration of me playing"

they get even sadder with distance. i'm assuming that at some point arlen roth had some kind of reputation, maybe praised amongst guitar folk, written about in magazines, so an album that's just "hey here he is playing guitar" might be like "shit yeaaaah I gotta get that." those days are now long gone, i fear.

Oh man, this is really sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGXrDFyRlfE
Priceless footage of Danny Gatton tribute concert. Arlen Roth and his late daughter, Gillian, performing Suzie Q mixed with Day Tripper. Gillie had just turned 12. Arlen lost Gillian and her mother in a car accident in 1998, when Gillian was just 14.

Downer, man :((((

yeah, sorry to sad up the thread, but I felt bad for making fun of Arlen Roth after I read that. Plus he seems to play really nicely.

Alan Kelly, "Greatest Hits, Volume XI". He hasn't had any hits, DOYOUSEE?

https://img.discogs.com/N2aAleEgitYmCJ3BHGUs_INj2-M=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10368602-1496155007-4328.jpeg.jpg

that cover image tho

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5116Pty96KL._SY355_.jpg

Paul Barrere: On My Own Two Feet

(the sticker explaining who he is a nice touch)

The Guess Who - Guess Who's Back.
A minor classic in the 'back-related puns' sub-genre of Horrible 70s Album Titles.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61nYIF%2B8%2BRL._SY355_.jpg

did we ever have...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CZEWOFC4L.jpg

Cliff Richard - I'm Nearly Famous

Cliff's had a few album titles that I would class as borderline Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do.