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

REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish or whatever the fuck that one is called
Eddie Harris - That Is Why You're Overweight

those are both pretty bitchin'. try harder.

Joe Walsh to thread.

Elvin Bishop: Hometown Boy Makes Good!

the Harris title makes sense in context with the album art, the woman's hand holding a bon-bon or truffle or whatever

but why single out the 70's? i mean there aren't many worse album titles than say 'Dongs of Sevotion' or 'Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle'

oh man prog rock totally wins this thread

Yes - Tormato
Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

Caravan also wins for 'For Girls Who Go Plump in the Night'!

ha ha, yes!

Blind Dog at St. Dunstans was a pretty dreadful album title too

OK, time to defend prog rock :

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other is a quote from artist John Minton - "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other", which isn't very quirky at all.

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

Caravan - yes awful, although I quite like the Blind Dog At St Dunstans title.

Ha yeah Joe Walsh's 'But Seriously Folks' was what immediately sprung to mind when I saw the thread title (xposts). Also:

Lowell George - Thanks, I'll Eat it Here

haha i was JUST about to post the Lowell George title

Frampton - I'm In You

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

It's a compilation, isn't it?

Not the 70s but it's hard to beat that run of three albums from Phil Collins: "Hello, I Must Be Going!", "No Jacket Required", "...But Seriously" ... which rips off Joe Walsh too!

Oh, that Phil Collins and his waging war on restaurants that don't let him in!

Think I'd refuse to pay the bill in any restaurant that let Phil Collins in

I love puns MORE than the next man but...

http://covers1.img-themusic-world.info/000/22/22311.jpg

Hate "Crisis? What Crisis?" by Supertramp

Good lord, I never realized "Whale Meat" was a pun, I just thought it was a stupid album title.

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other is a quote from artist John Minton - "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other", which isn't very quirky at all.

We're All Awash in a Sea of Blood would have been a way better album title

Kansas were on a roll, as Leftoverture is some painful titling, and then came Point of Know Return.

It is obviously a great album, but I have always hated the title 'Hall of the Mountain Grill'

Budgie - if I were brittania I'd waive the rules

The Lowell George one is especially bad because it was also what he wanted the first Little Feat album to be called. Amazing that he held onto it for SO LONG.

Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the decidedly non-technical content.

http://991.com/newGallery/Wet-Willie-Which-Ones-Willie-500502.jpg

Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.

Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Bootsy? Player of the Year
This Boot is Made for Fonk-N

This might be the third time in the last month I've posted this:

http://www.hollywoodmemorabilia.com/files/cache/peter-frampton-autographed-signed-im-in-you-album_596c784f83f85bbc064e0b6afdd291be.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/JethroTull-albums-toooldtorocknroll.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Aerosmith_-_Night_In_The_Ruts.JPG

Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday

I'd think Budgie's "If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules" kind of fits here.

Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns - Say Blow By Blow Backwards
even Joe Walsh gets a headache thinking bout that one

Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)

Makes it worse.

think there's a faces best-of, maybe released after the 70s but recalling its syntactic constructions, good little boys ... when they're asleep

This may be the best/worst:

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/071/0000007135_350.jpg

Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse

1971, so this may be the template

Ringo Starr - Ringo's Rotogravure

OK this isn't verbose but it's one of those albums I used to stare at as a record-store clerk, thinking 'what a dumb title'

see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album

Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?

IMO "Too Old To Rock'n'Roll, Too Young To Die" is a great title. Sums up pretty well the thoughts of the first generation who grew up with rock music, and how they dealt with not being teenagers anymore.

Man - Do You Like It here Now, Are you Settling In? and (although I kinda like this one) 2 Oz. of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle.

I've been thinking (for no particular reason) about lame 70s album titles recently and just found this thread.

For sheer crassness, I can't help thinking of "Fanx Ta Ra" by Sad Cafe:

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/119/906cd4ae57f246a291f42b96c13fafd1/l.jpg

xp Oh I get it... "Which one's Willie." Which means no one in the band was named Willie. Quite a hoot/hollar combo.

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

This definitely exists and is not a bootleg. It's a compilation but at least the title can't be blamed on the band, the liner notes say the label came up with it. Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.

greg kihn to thread, surely

(i realize it's hardly in the true caravan spirit, but 1978's "next of kihn" would have been a prime offender even if he hadn't gone back to the well a dozen times)

Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

Saw this one the other day

https://i.discogs.com/laMDOUr9pFh5Fz50W02VdNLXI7fbUEfMlKvRgAxEuj0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:574/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNTQ2/NzMtMTY2ODc2ODk2/Mi0xNjYxLmpwZWc.jpeg

Completely disgusting foods our parents ate and a song titled "Jailbait"? Sign me up!

https://i.discogs.com/iFbTGD3QFO7NRpeipLrCJ8lrm8Yam4ua4f2Pfan6xYQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:574/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNTQ2/NzMtMTY2ODc2ODk3/Ni03OTE0LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/e553fa141feb34e2c11b75479e80cdea/1885552/ray-barretto-rican_struction-Cover-Art.jpg

Ah, that's fantastic

wow

Awesomely literal too!

(Also the name of a gay porn put out by Latino Fan Club, but Barretto got there first.)

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273b56615e5e11f1a3bbab2ded5

Geoff Muldaur Is Having a Wonderful Time

The Roulettes – Stakes And Chips. Featuring Russ Ballard, later of Argent and writer of All Night Long, God Gave Rock'n'Roll to You, You Can Do Magic and many more of your faves!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51U+2u-D+HL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

https://antonesrecordshop.com/cdn/shop/products/13166796-0601474664ac89bd386a064ac89bd386a2168902905364ac89bd386a5_300x300.jpg?v=1689029191

Bobby Patterson: I'd Rather Eat Soup

love the latest additions

was thinking earlier, why hasnt anyone released a compilation of 12" singles and called it 'things were a foot'?

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/9832db58e61b4b8930391da8025e8985/1949358/bob-brozman-hello-central-give-me-dr-jazz-Cover-Art.jpg

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/6d5d36ed0fbd568b4ea38d47aef2fef2/1283994/the-mighty-flyers-from-the-start-to-the-finnish-Cover-Art.jpg

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/9e77c01ba5653b9b3060adbad16f89b9/1469552/roy-rogers-chops-not-chaps-Cover-Art.jpg

blues guys sure do know how to play a horrible title

do we have a thread for album covers with "hilarious" warning messages?

i don't think so, but that's a GREAT idea

last few, for searching purposes:

Rob Brozman - "Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz"
Mighty Flyers - From the Start to the Finnish
Roy Rogers - Chops Not Chaps

do we have a thread for album covers with "hilarious" warning messages?

The roy rogers should come with a trigger warning surely?

https://media.tenor.com/uRENbx5Ekw8AAAAM/brian-baumgartner-badumtss.gif

https://i.discogs.com/2L6NxAk_AfymWZbIJ2Ga8coUOO0q-mJr4IzxBss5Dvo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0Mjg1/MzAtMTU4MzQwMTkz/OC02NDY5LmpwZWc.jpeg

no thanks Kenny

The Jags, "No Tie Like a Present"

https://uk.rarevinyl.com/cdn/shop/files/the-jags-no-tie-like-a-present-uk-vinyl-lp-album-record-ilps9655-445545.jpg

(... you've got to wonder what's going in the heads of some these artists).

is that a pun on 'no time like the present'?

shocking if so

What else could it be?

they must've been very high

If you're going to use that title, you are obligated to be pictured opening a box with a tie in it. Way to drop the ball, the Jags!

maybe the title was their way of dropping a not-so-subtle hint to their loved ones about what they wanted for Christmas

I see a Hipgnosis cover of a smiling conservative dad with an open box in his lap reveling a tie, in a room dripping with identical ties, draped like Dali clocks.

Johnny Handle, "She's a Big Lass, She's a Bonny Lass"

https://i.discogs.com/_p_zCHk8tEWuPoDxX4XClk9ErwwcR9lQm1cbZwHFDFM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:582/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2ODUz/NjctMTM5OTg4NzIy/Ny0zNjAzLmpwZWc.jpeg

oh who is that you're talking about? oh you're pointing to her I see

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273c614263615fa118da266bc5d

Matt Berry: Heard Noises

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/5a479ae93d53f6d5cfec061a5c827f87/7798891/michael-katon-and-the-helltown-blues-band-blue-tooth-blues-i-cut-my-teeth-on-Cover-Art.jpg

holy loooool

now that's the stuff

Isabelle Olivier, "My Foolish Harp" & "Don't Worry, Be HaRpy"

https://i.discogs.com/0U8jb6I7gD-1Y1AKBYjVP-Ya-qdRtt3QC34jeMwvGzQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:453/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0OTg4/NjMyLTE1ODUxNjA4/NDgtMjI4OS5qcGVn.jpeg https://i.discogs.com/A2lko5Q1lMdwbhGI18HIfEQ3FsoZ1NV9RtlmduX99LU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:529/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk4MDQ0/MTEtMTQ4NjU3Nzc0/Ny0zMjIyLmpwZWc.jpeg

Second one is the comfort I needed in these troubled times, wow

We must've had Redd Foxx, right?

I mentioned the Redd Foxx one in the “successful triple entendre” thread recently

i first became aware of the italian band the dining rooms about 20 years ago through their association with the schema record label. i checked out their then-current release Experiments in Ambient Soul and didn't think much about it in any capacity. here's the cover. meh:
https://i.imgur.com/zT98hqH.jpeg

like i said, noteworthy for nothing really.

if only i had paid attention for a bit longer, i'd have been in for a parade of goodies. no longer am i ignorant! neither, good friends, are you now.

a couple years later, they dropped the pretentiousness completely... or did they?
https://i.imgur.com/UojzuTX.jpeg
BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR YOUR PERSONAL MOVIES (2007)

xpost: yawnsomely literal #onethread

a few more snoozey years, and then furiously back in 2015 with Do Hipsters Love Sun (Ra)?. and yes btw! it _does_ feature the track "instrumental hip hop is back."
https://i.imgur.com/0RqXntN.jpeg

alright, fair enough. what else you got?

these are from the past few years. i can't believe that an actual human with anything resembling a soul had anything whatsoever to do with their creation:
https://i.imgur.com/DAlUpfg.jpeg
Art is a Cat (2020)

https://i.imgur.com/dnakPYo.jpeg
Turn to See Me (2022)

and then, from last year, Songs to Make Love To of course:
https://i.imgur.com/fC9Iyds.jpeg

right. horrible.

bottom middle art cat is best art cat btw

Those records look like Inspirobot backgrounds

A bit basic but...

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/fe582b8fa3865f4a6c0f159b5edadcb0/1561276/johnny-guitar-watson-what-the-hell-is-this-Cover-Art.jpg

I have that record. I haven't listened in a while, but the cover might be better than the record.

That record really should have been called "Out of Gas".

I've long meant to go deep into his discography. I remember visiting Pearl Jam's compound in Seattle years ago, and one of the bathrooms there was decorated with amazing Johnny Guitar Watson sleeves.

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_123a4239-b0df-401e-affb-3fcf309f5124?wid=300&hei=300&fmt=pjpeg

Haim: I Quit

It certainly sucks.