sic's current display name makes me imagine one of these. Elton's Musk - jazz saxophonist Elton Dean playing smooth sax riffs on an electric car assembly line with a gaggle of sexy female auto technicians squabbling to get a whiff of his manly odour.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
This had to make the other thread, even though it is not from the 70s. It's got the similar vibe you discuss.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGJDWmCU6yw/TyLnWVPZlMI/AAAAAAAABA0/7h88FOLz8z0/s1600/Al+Di+Meola+-+Kiss+My+Axe.jpg
― earlnash, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
Amazingly I don't think it had been posted on the thread, I thought of it from your description. That look on Al D's face always cracked me up.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
"Allegedly Sexy" would be a good Rod Stewart album title (cover art could have a courtroom scene with a hot female witness pointing a finger at Rod)― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, November 16, 2005― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, May 11, 2020 5:44 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Whoa, origin story
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
"I Rest My Case" - by Nick Lowe-style roots rocker. Cover has the artist lying in a king sized bed next to a guitar case. If he was British he could be dressed in a lawyer's wig etc.
― everything, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
can I be in this thread for insisting that The Who's last album should've been called Who Gives a Fuck?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
lol
I'm disappointed that the lead singer of Herman's Hermits has only ever released one solo album, and it isn't titled Noone Loves You or Noone Cares
― stop trying to make fetch the bolt cutters happen (unregistered), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Noone Does It Better! (A cover's album)
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
okay I have racked my brain for HOURS on this and the best I can come up with is a Mario Kart themed Ween album called I'm-a Goona Ween
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
Man Alive's third release is called "A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Man Alive"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
http://fwiw.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/09/Insta-Post_housing_4.jpg
The Dan Boonins Band - Rockin Hard or Hardly Rockin?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
actual lols
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Horses For Courses (each guy is photographed doing a different activity at a different race track)
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 06:07 (three years ago) link
I'm imagining this one with each band member eating a different course of a meal, one on a starter, one on a main, one on a dessert, one eating cheese and biscuits with a cigar, this should all take place with the backdrop of different race courses, of course.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 09:46 (three years ago) link
oh and neil should be in the centre of the picture, shrugging at their antics
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 10:17 (three years ago) link
the first track should be a cover version of Crazy Horses by The Osmonds, the LP should also contain covers of "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" and "Wild Horses" to close.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
Artist: The Loose (Bay Area folk-rock quintet)circumstances: After two albums, the band has fired, and replaced, its rhythm guitarist/co-lead singer and its bassist.Title of the third album: Loose Change!
― SlimAndSlam, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
(This also works for pub-rockers The Spare.)
― SlimAndSlam, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
yes, but we need the band somehow represented as coins jangling around in a pocket too
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
Band members' faces on the coins ought to do it! Possibly being slammed down onto the counter of a record store by either a) some denim-clad rocker type, or b) a fishnets-and-miniskirt model type. Record store clerk is handing them a Loose/Spare Change LP with his mouth hanging open - maybe a vest-and-moustache type with stogie protruding from the corner of said mouth.
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link
I like it. There could also be a poster for the 9-11 conspiracy film Loose Change displayed prominently in the shop.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, May 12, 2020 1:07 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
How about a band called Horse, and the record is "A Horse Off Course" with the band on horseback wandering off the racetrack.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
Roni Size - Size Isn't Everything.Front: Cartoon-style illustration. A (more) miniature Roni is standing in the palm of a giant, leering record exec-type as the city spreads out beneath them. What the exec can't see is that Roni's holding a syringe (almost as tall as he is), and is about to plunge it into his palm.Back: Exec is sprawled out over a row of buildings with birdies tweeting around his head. Roni's standing atop his voluminous belly, arm-in-arm with a couple of fashion models, with a voice bubble coming out of his mouth saying the album title.
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Justin Thyme's 1971 semi-self-titled debut, "(Got Here) Justin Thyme", is a lost underground classic of the country-rock genre. The cover shows Thyme in cowboy attire in the doorway of a saloon, arms resting on the doors swung inward, pit-stained and still dusty from the trail, ready to draw the guitar off his back like a six-gun.
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
Robert Zimmerman - Who's Bob Dylan? (1972), is a bizarre one-off soft-rock album recorded at a low point of Dylan's career when he had tired of using his famous pseudonym. Cover here.
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
lol. that would also work equally well for a different artist also named Robert Zimmerman
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
also lolling @ "Size Isn't Everything"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/414xa8.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/42kiwa.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
https://imgflip.com/i/42knok
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 23 May 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgflip.com/42knok.jpg
Recorded almost 10 years after nearly dying in London, Jimi Hendrix' "Experiences . . . I've Had a Few" is an attempt at a back to basics record in the vein of Let It Be, but like that record, betrays a lack of inspiration.
― some vast airy pantaloon is required (PBKR), Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
“I’ve Had a Few”, you say?Here, these are your materials - wouldn’t know how to do it myself:https://static.ticketbar.eu/amsterdam/classificaties/combi-tickets/rondvaartenheinekenexperience/rondvaartenheinekenexperience_grid-1515498095.jpghttps://thisgirlabroad.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_2742.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1(there’s your font)https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/XUlTeiFJCS1eyIfCBdsI4rHBFmcBe_o5nguc95gdl8VEePtNZ244748H2lKAsQQgoY3LZQhLbmKUCBm7Ypsbgpgnmghttps://www.multiple-box.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/artikelbild-161.jpeghttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/50/6c/e9506cd936288804a91cf7e66ac26d5a.jpghttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/37/92/773792b3395528026055c6fdb6c2d40a.jpgOptional: work something in with “let it beer” or “let it... burp”, or even “burple haze”, you get the drift.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:02 (three years ago) link
Martin Handy - Keep One Handy
I can't decide if the cover should be said Martin waving a handkerchief coquettishly, or a cartoon giant hand proffering a hanky with Martin in it, or Martin's face printed on a condom.
― emil.y, Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
That's what gatefold sleeves are for, you can have them all!
― while the city bleeps (Matt #2), Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive)
there was a band called horse, this is their album
https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=OWgzkLTHbkA
it's pretty good
i am also reminded of diana marcovitz's 1974 singer-songwriter record "a horse of a different feather"
https://www.discogs.com/Diana-Marcovitz-Horse-Of-A-Different-Feather/release/4165951
15 for sale from $3.26!
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
i do have a friend whose last name is handy. his first name is not "martin" though because he's american. he's never released an album with a pun-based title that i'm aware of, though.
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Martin's face printed on a condom
Shades of...
https://img.discogs.com/NfW6H3hg7_F-V7O30CVznHfA_Bo=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2581883-1363315105-3321.jpeg.jpg
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
Now I'm envisioning a bass-feature record called "Back to Bassics" where the artist has actually never released anything other than stream of basic bass-feature records.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Sadly the only record of that title on Discogs seems to be some minimal techno thing.
― while the city bleeps (Matt #2), Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
i'd honestly prefer the title "comes in handy" and the cover art is just the artist fucking his clone with a strap-on, that way it can be on two threads
― budo jeru, Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
Oh god. Definitely the follow-up.
― emil.y, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Hit the Pavement
Malkmus, Spiral Stairs, and crew are lying on the road, having been severely beat up. Possibly by their clones
― Vinnie, Monday, 25 May 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
Bill Callahan returns to the Smog moniker with "They Oughta Do Something About The Smog" -- cover is Bill coughing in a polluted urban streetscape
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 May 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
The Doors "Those Swinging Doors" etc
― Mark G, Monday, 25 May 2020 08:11 (three years ago) link
IMHO The Doors definitely missed a trick by not by having more opening/closing puns in the titles of their six LPs.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 28 May 2020 07:06 (three years ago) link
The first post-Morrison album should've been: "One Door Closes...Another One Opens!" With a cover pic of Manzarek et al walking out of a funeral chapel arm-in-arm and laughing. Back cover: an urn.
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 May 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
"A Byrd in the Hand is worth Two in the Bush!"
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 28 May 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
Folk duo Flaherty and Burke stand shrugging in front of a sign saying Tree Fellers Wanted
― fetter, Thursday, 28 May 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Clearly there needs to be an album titled "Hot Takes" where the cover involves a studio reel-to-reel machine in some way.
I am sort of torn between having the reel-to-reel in flames vs having the artist doing that gesture where you put your finger on something and pretend it's really hot and make a cheeky face
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
Status Quo/Spinal Tap rockers Rusty Spanner - Kicked in the Crotchet. The Hipgnosis cover involves semi nude possibly underaged model fighting back against medallion-clad Peter Grant resembling sleazy attacker wearing musical note spangled trousers. Too hot to stock on American shelves so replaced with typographical cover in a blackletter typefece. Band is too minor for label to bother renaming it to wordplay Americans would find meaningful, leaving heshers to ponder if it has something to do with yarn.
― Citole Country (bendy), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
https://scontent-lcy1-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/934849_10152808096340571_1583611673_n.jpg
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
Clearly Brian Setzer needs to take advantage of this cultural moment and release an album called "Hard Setzer"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3skK8ee.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 3 February 2022 02:46 (two years ago) link
still waiting on Robert Culp's sophomore LP... Mea Culpa
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 3 February 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
and his collab record with his buddy, Two Guys One Culp
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 3 February 2022 03:05 (two years ago) link
One Culp and It's Gone
― fetter, Thursday, 3 February 2022 08:44 (two years ago) link
supergroup concept
https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/p526x296/273376936_10165975995735304_2650424967268006406_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=IdOZYISqnJYAX_Ccggj&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AT-OQLzV31PCf_FhGmC3tgcvIAgqOf6ElgBPVNa_ykiZjg&oe=6203CD20
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:34 (two years ago) link
Hahaha
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 February 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 6 February 2022 04:42 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/j0RYMTL.jpg
sorry
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
can you repost your Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe thing, man alive? the fb link seems to be expired
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
This thread is causing me fits of uncontrollable laughter.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mskEIWq.png
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
Here you gohttps://i.ibb.co/Qcg8kpd/dch.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 20 February 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
although totally just a result of laziness and not thought out in advance, I like that Dewey Redman is red.
One Love is really getting me on revisiting
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 3 March 2022 04:11 (two years ago) link
what about an album of David Crosby covers played on xylophones etc entitled 'If I Could Only Marimba My Name'
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
irl lol
Timpani High (About 3am)
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
hahaha
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
Cover shot is Crosby wandering through the desert, a soft mallet in either hand.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
Earl Klugh Trio - Klughless
Cover is just the other two members of the trio. So are the tracks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 21 May 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, March 29, 2022 12:47 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
I missed this the first time around. Underrated.
― PBKR, Saturday, 21 May 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/6t1k19.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 11 September 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
A covers record, obv
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 11 September 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
brilliant
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 September 2022 03:48 (one year ago) link
Ages ago I imagined a parallel universe John McLaughlin stooping not quite to 'McLaughin' (not even possible in parallel worlds) but rather to 'Aughlin a Laugh'.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 12 September 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
McLivlin, McLaughlin, McLovlin
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
Band is called E.V.O.O.
Album is “Extra Virgin Killer” - bottle of olive oil on black background.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
A Flair for the Dramatic
The cover is a hot alt model who is wearing a fake beard and mustache, to resemble William Shakespeare. But rather than Elizabethan garb, she's in a TGI Fridays-style waitress uniform with lots of buttons (a la Jennifer Aniston in Office Space).
― peace, man, Friday, 16 September 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Lester and Jack Eyvil - The Lester of Two Eyvils
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
The Ombudsmen - Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
He should make a record called Losing Bonamassa. Cover is him getting calcium pills from a doctor.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, February 20, 2015 3:51 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
The Doors - Don't Let Us Hit You in the Ass
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 04:47 (one year ago) link
Lol. Aging Jim Morrison would have been a goldmine for these I bet.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
The spoken-word album that discusses and evaluates a certain Louvin Brothers record, by the singer of "Kiss From A Rose."
Ratin' Is Seal
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
I’m pleased to announce my forthcoming acoustic flatpicking record “Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Strings”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 3 March 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
A Robert Plant album with the title Industry Plant in block red letters across the top. In the center of the frame is a huge fern, with a mic stand & guitar propped in front it. The fern is surrounded by several figures, all costumed in exaggerated style, and whose sight-lines lead to where the fern's "eyes" would be: (a) to the left, a sleazy label type (portrayed by Plant himself), chomping on a cigar and thrusting out a contract & pen; (b) to the right, a "dealer" with a huge baggie of white powder in one hand and an oversized spoon in the other; and (c) crouching lower in the frame, a "groupie" type, gazing up lovingly.
― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 22:03 (eight months ago) link
Was just thinking that a truly abysmal name for a record would be “Countdown to Poundtown”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 02:31 (three months ago) link
(The front cover) The artist (with an expectant expression and prominent wristwatch) being led by the hand by a hot lady…(on the back cover) to an animal shelter with cute pets in cages; artist looks chagrined.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 03:53 (three months ago) link
Cover photo: inside of a mud hut. Pith helmet-clad artist is sitting opposite an African woman dressed in traditional wedding garb. Scattered around him are various communication devices - semaphore flags, pad and pencil, Morse code machine. In his hand is a loudhailer. His companion is giving him a bemused, uncomprehending look.
Album title: My Wife Doesn't Understand Me
― you have already voted in this dolt and cannot vote again (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 11:44 (three months ago) link
xp: gatefold is a fake £1 note with the artist's face in place of the queen's head.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 11:57 (three months ago) link
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 03:53 (eight hours ago) link
lol yes
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 12:50 (three months ago) link
Julian Clary makes early 90s album of duets, cover art of him climbing out of a giant trifle bowl, titled The Poof Is In The Pudding (produced by Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs)
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 14:14 (three months ago) link
Bluesmen Walter Washington & Walter Trout sit under a bridge, looking forlorn.
Title: "Bridge Over Troubled Walters"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 January 2024 17:04 (two months ago) link
Moe Bandy - This Is Actually My https://i.imgur.com/0Q4F3R6.jpeg Rodeo!!! (1976)
the cover art would look something like this, but with a trio of cowboys standing around laughing at an indignant Bandy
https://i.imgur.com/N5vDcgJ.jpeg
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Monday, 4 March 2024 23:19 (three weeks ago) link