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

xpost really is a great title

Eddie Murphy loved that band!

I loved that song on the Ghostbusters soundtrack as a kid

https://i.imgur.com/IaUyJCv.jpg

Raul de Souza - Don't Ask My Neighbors

I love pretty much everything about that cover: his exuberant pose, the album title of course, the fact that he's playing on the rooftop and therefore isn't actually bothering his neighbors, the bluebird standing on his logo...

Seems like he should be playing a “Souza-phone,” tho(?) 😛

Bus Boys opened for Eddie Murphy a lot.

(xp) It's a nice one.

they opened for him on Delirious, he also got them in 48 Hours, must've been good buds

Just remembered this one from my youth
https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/382491972902_/EX-EX-Roaring-Jelly-Golden-Grates-1976-Free-Reed-LP.jpg

I'd bet the Bus Boys probably have at least 1 good Rick James story.

xp
That's a great one too, but maybe better for the bad puns thread.

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Powder Blues: Thirsty Ears

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(Not That) Robert Johnson: Close Personal Friend

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Bill Labounty: Rain In My Life

Bill! Is that last years hard boiled Easter egg that was never found in your pocket?

Nope, just glad to see you!

^^Countdown to somebody finding a private press folk or cabaret album with that as a title.

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(Not That) Robert Johnson: Close Personal Friend

Hmm. “I’ll Be Waiting.” Doesn’t sound like either of those songs, only commonality is the word “love” in the lyrics, but it does have some bubblegummy background vocals singing “papa-pom-mow-mow”!

“Waiting for a taste of your love” is so Tap, so Brian Johnson

I came across the chorus of “ let me put my love into you” earlier today and damn, dude doesn’t pull any punches.

(He needs the vag really badly )

Maybe they are in fact singing "mama-ooh-meow-meow"

Most if not all of that album appears to be on YouTube. Seems to fall between two stools, as is commented upon in Allmusic review- flashy guitar pyrotechnician forced into a New Wave straitjacket and strait-tie- but sounds pretty good.

One of the tunes definitely sounds Buddy Holly influenced.

Guy did sessions at Stax, auditioned to replace Mick Taylor in The Stones and toured with Entwistle in Ox.
http://analogue-blog.blogspot.com/2013/04/robert-johnson-on-tour-1979-infinity.html

Keith was probably taking the piss when he extended the offer to jam with “Robert Johnson”

Hey jimmy cliff , let me tell you this story

He shreds, on this album at least, in a manner somewhat reminiscent of upthread Kevin Ayers right hand man Ollie Halsall.

Robert Johnson and Moon Martin: same person?

I'm sure Bobby J. had heard quite a bit about him going down to the crossroads on a daily/hourly basis.

"Don't know who's going to rip off who."

Robert Johnson and Moon Martin: same person?

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Mick Fleetwood's Zoo: I'm Not Me

Oh man I looooooved "I'll Be Waiting" when it came out, and had completely forgotten about it in the intervening years. It reminds me of "Do Anything You Wanna Do" by Eddie and the Hot Rods. Both songs make me immediately want to do the pogo.

I need to rebuy that Robert Johnson LP posthaste, I don't have it anymore.

I'm Not Me is spot on: a solo-album-for-the-sake-of-it; horrible nothing title, horrible half-arsed cover.

Guy did sessions at Stax, auditioned to replace Mick Taylor in The Stones and toured with Entwistle in Ox.
http://analogue-blog.blogspot.com/2013/04/robert-johnson-on-tour-1979-infinity.html

― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, November 30, 2019 10:23 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Entwistle fired him after a US tour because Johnson kept doing Townshend stage moves during Ox shows.

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Don Fardon - "I've Paid My Dues"

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91A06oNiMpL._SS500_.jpg

The Beat Daddys - No, We Ain't From Clarksdale

Wow, that's one ugly album cover! It doesn't look like it's from the '70s tho, based on the design?

1992 iirc but in their hearts it's always 1973

^^Having seen them twice at festival things, I can assure you that's true. Also: Their lead singer is ten feet tall & a yard wide.

RIP Roy Loney

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Roy Loney & The Longshots: Drunkard In The Think Tank

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Mick Moloney - Strings Attached

Another idea for one:

Album title is "Punching In"

Lead singer or artist is punching a hole in the wall next to one of those old factory timeclocks.

... any excuse to re-post this old favourite of mine.

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Lee Ann Womack: There's More Where That Came From

I think country LP titles work on a whole different economy to the core of this thread.

They're (almost) always named after a song on the album.

Lee Ann Womack They're (Almost) Always Named After A Song On The Album