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

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"On the Bales"

Jim's Winds

Anyone remember the one season mid-70s US television show On the Rocks?

Would shop at Jim's Winds for sure
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wailing souls cover reminds me when my wife and i were looking to get some hay bales for a halloween party. her country-fried coworker says "you don't want hay you want straw-hay. hay-hay's got chopped up snakes and shit in there." i think of this at least a few times a year.

the lesson: ask for straw hay, people.

I'm very anxious about getting The Surfers double bass back to shore without salt water damage.

My computer might explode if I open all messages but was it this thread that had a big exploration of "Many Moods Of..." albums?

^ Albums covers that depict the artists hanging out with their clones?

Cool thread.

Wilbury Jam, the complete works:

...A Good Spread (1980):
https://i.imgur.com/fSV7MoJ.jpg

...A Second Helping (1990):
https://i.imgur.com/JEKbPWo.jpg

A Silver Spoonful (2002):
https://i.imgur.com/tgirrpu.jpg

... also on the 'Horrible Album Titles Like...' thread!

broad crossover appeal

unreg, yes, thank you!

http://www.rockofages.uk.com/stock/60753.jpg
Status Quo - Blue for You

Rush, "Moving Pictures"

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Rush-Moving-Pictures-Album-Cover-web-optimised-820.jpg

That one has always felt super corny to me because of the triple pun.

Gentle Giant - Free Hand
https://img.discogs.com/GVpcIOIYBgq82l-VlB1j7iNbygM=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-367166-1387108842-2106.jpeg.jpg

At the last minute, the art director got worried this wasn't obvious enough, so added some Bound Hands for contrast.

Has been posted before tbh.

John Mayall, "Looking Back"

https://img.discogs.com/ZqeAVaCWjvBO3Mrj9ho1_PB9UBY=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8650272-1472158772-3150.jpeg.jpg

The High Level Ranters, "Four in a Bar" (which I'm assuming is a musical pun, which makes it even better)

https://img.discogs.com/yHugEgrnlQpPD2HsPcnhitnLqf4=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2960386-1309261187.jpeg.jpg

... those two covers go nicely together.

I've never contributed anything here but this might be the most consistently satisfying thread I know of. Bless you all.

This one's probably a bit subtle for this thread but I like it...

Widowmaker, "Too Late to Cry"

https://img.discogs.com/kZXliSvEGXYkQeJ0ENlw_XIWu_E=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3670190-1481569447-4547.jpeg.jpg

... the cat has spilled the milk, DO YOU SEE?

Wild Turkey ‎– You & Me In The Jungle

https://img.discogs.com/FKDqXEJtNfTG8KLZJSPsqO-ZX1U=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8644357-1465796994-1821.jpeg.jpg

*gulp*

Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Reaching for the World

https://img.discogs.com/Z_R9ms5G6JkyFnUeuc4AaS5RRi0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-327763-1172921636.jpeg.jpg

bahahaha

yawnsomely literal and also forced and nonsensical

https://i.imgur.com/F1g1r6a.png

“does what it says on the package”

that's a really nice cover tho

i do love it. great record too tbh.

Humble Pie, Go for the Throat

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Humble_Pie_Go_for_the_throat_album_cover.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Image_Knock_On_Wood_cover.jpg

Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd.

https://ecsmedia.pl/c/down-to-earth-b-iext55324715.jpg

Down to Earth - Eddie Floyd

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Beggar_On_A_Beach_Of_Gold.jpg

Mike & the Mechanics: <i>Beggar on a Beach of Gold</i>

Oh my.

The well just never goes dry.

Chris Rea, "God's Great Banana Skin"
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/God%27s_Great_Banana_Skin.jpg

Has this ever been posted here?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg

It just hit me that this "iconic" album title and cover is actually horribly unimaginative, literally named after the fucking recording studio and the cover is just them walking on a road. It's not far off from calling a song "Untitled Original." Still one of my favorite records of all time.

In 1970, the studio was renamed from EMI in honour of the group's 1969 album Abbey Road.

could have counted if they had dressed up as monks

Is "God's great banana skin" some known expression/metaphor that I'm just not familiar with, or did Rea come up with it himself? What does it even mean?

Ah, it's explained at the Wiki page for the title song:

Rea was inspired to write the song after he noticed his daughter was tempted to laugh at "somebody who'd been giving her a hard time". Rea told John Pidgeon in 1992: "I told her 'don't laugh when people go down even if they've been awful to you because you're tempting God to throw you a banana skin'. It's half moral and half superstition. Anybody who's done me a disservice in life, and I see them go down, you get tempted to laugh. I don't know whether it's superstition or not, or I daren't laugh just in case God throws me a banana skin as well."

xp ok whatever named after the road the studio is on, still extremely uninspired

it had no weighted meaning to anyone else before they named the album that though!

That banana skin just doesn't seem that great imho.

Shel Silverstein - "Crouchin' On The Outside"

https://i.imgur.com/CQID7kV.jpg