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

the very best thing about Last Mango In Paris is the sunglass-modified sunburn that Buffett has acquired on his Parisian vacation.

that tie's been through some times

Greg "Fingers" Taylor - harmonica
I remember somebody I knew was going on tour playing bass in this guy’s band and it was supposedly kind of a big deal. Come to think of it there was another person from that place and time who lived in the same apartment complex and recorded with Sonny Fortune. /Idontknowwheretopostetc

Okay, found an article about that band:
https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19910720-1991-07-20-9107220087-story.html

The Beach House on the Moon picture looks like he's off to drain the lizard.

The song "Last Mango in Paris" literally ends with him reading the words of the chorus off a bathroom wall.

Seems like he was trying to write a Warren Zevon song or something:

I had a third world girl in Buzios
With a pistol in each hand
She always kept me covered
As we moved from land to land

I had a damn good run on Wall Street
With my high fashion model wife
I woke up dry beneath the African sky
Just me and my Swiss Army knife

I ate the last mango in Paris
Took the last plane out of Saigon
Took the first fast boat to China
And Jimmy there's still so much to be done

yeah, scans as a jolly rewrite of "lawyers, guns and money" specifically.

I had a college housemate who loved, somewhat looked like, and seemed to model his persona on Jimmy Buffet. I couldn't help but like the guy.

Lol

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41S3CAQ06JL.jpg

Joe Ely ‎– Musta Notta Gotta Lotta

feel like we must've had this before but i couldn't spot it...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vBeh6YmYL._SS500.jpg

Cactus ‎– 'Ot 'N' Sweaty

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R7MfQqqYObk/TXoN_hTqTMI/AAAAAAAAATs/EnO0XSExEJ4/s400/LeDi-1-f.jpg

Legs Diamond - A Diamond Is A Hard Rock

i can confirm that i recall being grossed out by the cactus cover once before. ugh.

Ott'n'Sweaty

Saw this one in the wild the other day, can't remember if it's already been posted:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/814nXLm0l4L._SX355_.jpg
"I Didn't Know They Still Made Records Like This" - of course it's a Warners Loss Leader for the win.

I posted that one once - I remember struggling to find images of it after seeing it in the bin.

I’d never heard of the Loss Leaders series... great mail-order copy here (now I see where labels like Matador got some of their schtick): https://www.discogs.com/label/41348-Loss-Leaders

This cover art concept is great (if you get the reference); and the track list looks terrific: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Whole-Burbank-Catalog/master/321050

What’s the final song?!

Warner was cool, man

Also found on some were humorous, bizarre interstitial audio material—clips from old records and movies, short skits, found sound, etc.--and most albums featured clever, humorous cover art and liner notes. Most of the 1970s albums were compiled and annotated by Barry Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento.

I don't get the reference on that Whole Burbank Catalog but the tracklist is kind of amazing

https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/larger.jpg

Ahh not familiar

Yeah, it was a staple of (post-)hippie culture; my dad had a bunch of editions on his shelf when I was growing up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9N0g_PJ1kU/T-xNazntTxI/AAAAAAAACcI/xyFRYWe0Sqo/s400/Album+cover+Johnny+Carroll.jpg

Johnny Carroll ‎– Do You Want To Touch Me

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71B8WdN2jsL._SL1280_.jpg

Maxwell Plumm ‎– We Can Work It Out

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71kGHLHYkiL._SY355_.jpg

Detective - It Takes One To Know One

xpost I assume that's named for a cover of the Beatles song, which I admit is a pretty lame way to title your album. Looking them up, they apparently have one named.... "A Taste of Plumm."

I kind of doubt that they can work it out tbh, just based on the photo

Bevis Frond keepin' the dream alive...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0014336001_10.jpg

We're Your Friends, Man

is that Johnny Carroll a private press? it's pretty great (as far as this thread goes obv)

not exactly a private press but on a tiny independent that only had about twenty releases. there was a follow up to that album, perhaps inevitably called 'Touch Me Again'...

https://i.ibb.co/XXX0Q9t/touchmeagain.jpg

Irish? Or Scottish?

brummie of unknown ancestory, assume it's mostly straight simian tbh

Orang O'Tan

now sold as a twofer "Touch Me Again/I'll Fuckin Kill Ya"

b/w Jeannie Sealy's "Don't Touch Me"

this is the rear of the first sylvester album (yes, that sylvester). does it mean what i think it means?

https://i.ibb.co/sv7HLZL/IMG-E1471.jpg

idgi(?)

(just putting that here because you would be the people to ask - i don't think it's horrible btw)

s.o.m.f. = sat on my face?

haha, is that a known abbreviation(?) what's that a photo/depiction of, anyway?

idgi either

amyl nitrate i guess

oh shit, that's not the first sylvester apparently. first one has versions of southern man and a whiter shade of pale on it, kind of want to hear that now

This is from Joshua Gamson’s Sylvester biography. Fwiw, he places it in the context of the growing acrimony between Sylvester and his band:

“Sylvester does not appear on the back of the Bazaar album cover. Instead, there are pictures of the band members, and beneath them their own cryptic inside joke: “Why is the Hot Band smiling? Because they have S.O.M.F.” (“S.O.M.F.” was Hot Band code for Sit on my Face.) On the front is a photo of Sylvester, with long flowing hair, turquoise Indian jewelry, and light makeup. He is not smiling.”

(I tried and failed to upload a photo of the book page with the quote)

ah thanks bc! so somf in the sense that they've taken advantage of sylvester perhaps? but then the amyl makes no sense

It does if “sit on my face” is in the context of eating ass though

https://img.discogs.com/h7DT3bhBax5pVeONJFBvIDf4daA=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3282069-1509105025-4066.jpeg.jpg

has this one been done yet?

i don't think so!

Picked up this Loss Leader yesterday...

http://vinylbeat.com/images/gallery/PromoWBcomps/Pro-591---Deep-Ear.jpg

Deep Ear

You really don't want to see the rest of the cover.