ITT pitch your concepts for horrible '70s album titles/covers in the style of I've Got My Own Album To Do

Martin Handy - Keep One Handy

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

Oh god. Definitely the follow-up.

Hit the Pavement

Malkmus, Spiral Stairs, and crew are lying on the road, having been severely beat up. Possibly by their clones

Bill Callahan returns to the Smog moniker with "They Oughta Do Something About The Smog" -- cover is Bill coughing in a polluted urban streetscape

The Doors "Those Swinging Doors" etc

IMHO The Doors definitely missed a trick by not by having more opening/closing puns in the titles of their six LPs.

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.

"A Byrd in the Hand is worth Two in the Bush!"

Folk duo Flaherty and Burke stand shrugging in front of a sign saying Tree Fellers Wanted

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

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, May 28, 2020 7:05 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahaha ok yes

Tiny Gets Waxed

front cover: Tiny Tim is stretched out on a chaise longue in the middle of an old-timey recording studio; only the upper half of his body is visible. the horn of a wax cylinder phonograph is positioned a few inches from his face, and a sound engineer is standing by to oversee the recording process. Tiny is presumably singing into the horn, though you'd swear by his gaping mouth and furrowed brow that he was yelping in pain.

the scene continues onto the back cover, where we see that Tiny is naked from the waist down. his dick is exactly as big as you'd expect it to be. a beautician is peeling a strip of orange-pube-encrusted wax off of Tiny's pasty crotch.

(the record itself is a collection of bawdy ballads dating back to the 1890s and 1900s. it's one of the rarest and least sought-after LPs in existence)

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, June 1, 2020 4:11 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Needles slammed up into the red on the VU meters and the cartoon smoke from the cover of Loaded coming off the machine.

Metallica The Black Album Revisited (2032)

An old man's hand (wrinkled, liver spots etc) opens a black leather photo album with various sepia-tinted pictures of the Metallica members, each dressed in black.

Six month's later, Chad Kroger's "Look at this Photograph" is also released, featuring old chad kroger holding an infinite recurision of the younger chad kroger meme

Max Boyce - Boyce Keep Swinging

Welsh language close harmony David Bowie covers album, on the front is Max as Ziggy on a swing in a playground, on the back cover is a parody of the Heroes picture with a giant leek between his hands.

It feels like a wasted opportunity that when The Sweet were reduced to a trio in 1979, they never managed to release an album called Three Piece Sweet

Album cover would've been three jigsaw puzzle pieces, with candies on them.

Derrick New - Out With the Old...

Cover is a very elderly man walking through a door marked “OUT” and the artist walking through one marked “IN”

James Archibald - Self Driving Car

cover is a selfie of the artist driving a car

Had an idea for an updated version of this concept. Record is called “Guitarists HATE Him”

Aging UK DJ puts out record called "Bangers 'n' Mashups" - cover is bangers and mash plated on a vinyl record

actually that one would be perfect for DJ Food

https://i.imgur.com/uMfLH0S.jpg

well done

Winner

Robin Zander solo record - '...with this one weird trick'

lol @ Robert Culp

an extra horrible one came to me tonight -- the cover is a paycheck resting on a scale that is going down a playground slide, and the title is "Pay on a Sliding Scale"

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.

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Clearly Brian Setzer needs to take advantage of this cultural moment and release an album called "Hard Setzer"

https://i.imgur.com/3skK8ee.jpg

still waiting on Robert Culp's sophomore LP... Mea Culpa

and his collab record with his buddy, Two Guys One Culp

One Culp and It's Gone

supergroup concept

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Hahaha

lol

https://i.imgur.com/j0RYMTL.jpg

sorry

can you repost your Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe thing, man alive? the fb link seems to be expired

This thread is causing me fits of uncontrollable laughter.

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

Here you go
https://i.ibb.co/Qcg8kpd/dch.jpg

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

what about an album of David Crosby covers played on xylophones etc entitled 'If I Could Only Marimba My Name'

irl lol

Timpani High (About 3am)

hahaha

Cover shot is Crosby wandering through the desert, a soft mallet in either hand.

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

xp: gatefold is a fake £1 note with the artist's face in place of the queen's head.

(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 (eight hours ago) link

lol yes

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)

Bluesmen Walter Washington & Walter Trout sit under a bridge, looking forlorn.

Title: "Bridge Over Troubled Walters"

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