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

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.

https://imgur.com/a/N8cSKBU

As though it were a Movie - Peter Starstedt

(imgur link not working?)

https://i.discogs.com/J5ojFlbE51ygL-VSJa5vIaFZrWBbD2v7LQ3Whvwyr7Q/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:586/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM3Njg2/MzQtMTU4NDc5Mjc5/MS00MzUxLmpwZWc.jpeg

(i love staged-photo covers like this.)

Thanks! Poor mobile connection, spotted in the wild

I think the photo is what pushes this one over into a prime throwback update.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/No_Hard_Feelings_-_The_Beaches.png

Beaches: No Hard Feelings

only missing a reaching hand

Steve Miller's most recent album, from 2011, is vintage 1970s Hipgnosis, and has a pun that doesn't quite work written down:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61KjFxCRMnL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

I keep thinking that in the actual 1970s the Beaches album would have been called No Hard Fillings and the dirty pillows would have had gaping mouths, or something. Gaping mouths with gnashing teeth.

The Bloodhound Gang had a "No Hard Feelings" cover with a limp hot dog on it.

And obviously a "No Hard Fillings" album cover would have a miniature band member using a guitar as a jackhammer on a giant tooth

Amazing how shitty late period Hipgnosis sleeves were, that one's even worse then the Mars Volta records. Sleazy was sorely missed!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51F4IOCpNtL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Lou Rawls: When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All

Sadly, it's a play on the Budweiser jingle that he sang: "When you say Bud, you've said it all."

missed opportunity to pun on Rawls with “all” tho

Triple LP: All Rawls is Divided into Three Parts

New one dropped--

Sombr- I Barely Know Her

https://assets.exclaim.ca/dr2uqw6xy/image/upload/c_limit,w_890/f_auto/q_auto/lola_young_i_m_only_fucking_myself_album_art_9a6385ecf3?_a=BAVAfVIB0

Lola Young: I'm Only F**king Myself

god damn

Clout - Six of the Best

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RaLkfIEyQv8/hq720.jpg

Lola Young might be the new Queen of this genre.

Her debut:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkYf-z6Ak-mp-Gqtoo9iNuHcj2OfwaYTfWsFbOHthV4YHfqH23aacsy9gt&s=10

My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely

2nd LP:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPYHUdt5whLBe-x1Ja5NwlOgtE2ObhU_NCjTG14dfgI3VpeUeHfDPyH0rU&s=10

This Wasn't Meant For You Anyway

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/e494d7028293dbec7992d5e1978fc29d/8830837/pete-carr-not-a-word-on-it-Cover-Art.jpg

Pete Carr- Not a Word On It

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/92a48775167ff41246c3d67cd9459ca4/1285370/fireballet-two-too-Cover-Art.jpg

Fireballet- Two, Too

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3812022786_16.jpg

Geologist: Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?

Points off for not having a related cover photo.

jesus, why would you not have a cover with a group of camels with headlights?

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6451554c1311b409df30c5cb/1d4c4956-cd8f-488c-92fe-df782cb9e18f/smile.jpg?format=1000w

Jon Gailmore – Going to Die with a Smile on my Face if it Kills Me

he's also got a album Passing Through, but it really needs to be "Just Passing Though" to nail the vibe.

* Going to Die with a Smile if it Kills Me

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/cea9987617ed3b8c8e42fc7191e8242a/3818077/string-driven-thing-please-mind-your-head-Cover-Art.jpg

String Driven Thing- Please Mind Your Head

Followed by... Keep Yer 'And On It

https://i.discogs.com/99tx5jg9Fp_yx7WmNJKaCnp6r0-a6BFVnOC381tE7DQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2OTky/OTktMTM5OTIyNzc3/Ny0yMjczLmpwZWc.jpeg

(which may have been posted before?)

definitely, but more than deserves multiple recognitions. yeccccch.

wow