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

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Excellent nonetheless.

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Monday, 17 February 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link

(Should explain to out American viewers that bog is a lovely expression for a toilet)

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Monday, 17 February 2020 09:46 (four years ago) link

Here's what they sound like, what a bunch of prog-trotters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGRq1ScOpr8&feature=emb_title

the british empire's coming back, back back! (j/k) (Matt #2), Monday, 17 February 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link

(Originally posted years ago but the image is fritzed.)

https://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/alb.118624068/500x500.jpg

Why is there an apostrophe in "earn'ed"?

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link

It's unearned

justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link

Maybe it was supposed to be "earn'd", but someone made a goof?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link

It's a quote from Shakespeare, Kenny Lynch was one of the leading Shakespearean actors of this generation.

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 07:33 (four years ago) link

There is, of course, a link to this classic thread, Ooh, I could vote in an ILM poll.

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 07:35 (four years ago) link

love how dumpy and unspectacular the luxurious surroundings are in that photo. it looks like it's about ready to snow out.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link

and who's that with the K-Man? Looks like Gareth Hunt from here.

fetter, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link

The famous (pre-Jeremy) rhyming slang? For sure!

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link

I was at the goodwill this weekend and saw a record called "I've Got My Act Together And I'm Taking It On The Road".

I couldn't find it on discogs, but when I searched for it I got this:

https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=I%27ve+got+my+act+together&type=all

justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link

all roads lead back to

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link

A stage show?

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link

... / musical?

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link

Musical. I had never heard of it either.

A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link

The play was parodied by Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara on Second City Television as "I'm Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, and No Guy's Gonna Tell Me it Ain't" in 1981.[5]

A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link

that's the one. I didn't know what it was, but the title was too good

justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link

xps according to discogs the spelling on the original release was "earne'd".

visiting, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link

Featuring Cliff Williams, later of AC/DC.

the british empire's coming back, back back! (j/k) (Matt #2), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link

...and Laurie Wisefield, later of Wishbone Ash

Lee626, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 09:38 (four years ago) link

https://d1e9ycqe323hkh.cloudfront.net/items/382991607426.jpg

Arc - ...At This

ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link

wtf three of them are dressed as footballers while one is dressed for cricket??? crazy!!!

Neil S, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link

those were some zany times! some future blockheads in that band btw

ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link

Sweet.

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/wJzL4M7/grandtheft.jpg

Grand Theft - Have You Seen This Band?

ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/BNGMTyC/webb.jpg

The Reg Webb Band - I Ain't Signing Nothin'

ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link

(anyone recognise any of the band members without looking it up?)

ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link

Nick Kershaw second from right

Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link

Nik, rather.

Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link

Bingo!

ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link

great ones, NickB.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link

The Saw Doctors - If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back

https://e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net/images/cover/a7cc616c1e85a15ae203a813a5ff971d/500x500.jpg

the british empire's coming back, back back! (j/k) (Matt #2), Thursday, 20 February 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link

Don't worry guys, that doesn't look like Rock and Roll.

nickn, Thursday, 20 February 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link

thread is delivering today

justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link

disappointed to report that apparently no one has used that title in combination with an album cover depicting the artist lounging on a sandwich

Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link

Coulda been titled paradise.

nickn, Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link

Roxanne's pun isn't crap enough?

empire of the shunned (Matt #2), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link

"crap" lol

empire of the shunned (Matt #2), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

oh god that saw doctors album prompts painful memories...

Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link

Eddie Harris has several of these. The infamous "That Is Why You're Overweight", has already been mentioned here, but here are all the covers of his seven consecutive albums from 1974 to 1979:

https://cdn2.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/harris_eddi_ineedsome_101b.jpg
https://img07.shop-pro.jp/PA01258/995/product/108576536.jpg
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/518/MI0003518024.jpg
https://storage.canalblog.com/64/53/500408/64415661.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hyXZU5C.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Ko2CFRY.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/I85Cu4Y.jpg

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 07:59 (four years ago) link


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