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

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Do singles count?

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

Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link

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

budo jeru, Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link

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.

Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 January 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link

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

Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 January 2018 05:11 (six years ago) link

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.

budo jeru, Saturday, 27 January 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link

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

An easy mistake to make.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link

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

Dolly Parton - Bubbling Over

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 28 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link

Seriously?!

Tuomas, Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link

lol

niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link

Popular joke

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

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Ian Thomas, "Add Water"

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

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link

That's actually a nice cover.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link

Agreed, but also very literal.

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link

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

new noise, Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link

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

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link

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

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link

What do you mean, what was it?

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link

Gene Dunlap, "Party in Me"...

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

davey, Sunday, 18 March 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link

lol that is just perfect

new noise, Sunday, 18 March 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link

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

davey, Sunday, 18 March 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link

Lou Donaldson - Hot Dog

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

Maybe not peak Blue Note graphic design.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 22 March 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link

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?

Stevolende, Monday, 2 April 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link

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

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link

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

they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link

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!)

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 2 April 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link

lol

flappy bird, Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link

I'm sure a whole 'On My Mind' subthread is possible.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link

Don't know about 'yawnsomely' literal, exactly, but yeesh.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 6 April 2018 08:59 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Mentioned on the Buffalo Springfield thread - Yellow Hand, by Yellow Hand.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41zZVeAfdcL._SY355_.jpg

Does anybody remember laughter? *audience screams* (Matt #2), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link

I'm finding the Evenflo product placement on the War Babies cover to be a bit distracting.

Ex Slacker, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:16 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

omg that rules!

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 24 May 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link

Would like to see a follow up called Bow Me a Throne

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link

that is a great one

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 25 May 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link

Fuck

flappy bird, Friday, 25 May 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link


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