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...

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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.

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

hell yeah

It's probably not a bad record if you like that sort of country pickin' stuff (which I do)

Um, the sample I just heard on Spotify was decidedly not country pickin’

??? That's definitely what it is.

sounds like country picking to me, also holy shit he can rip it up, this is a great record

Yeah Maphis is kind of an underappreciated/forgotten picker compared to Roy Clark and Jerry Reed and the like

Ok I figured out why I was confused. I actually tried Spotify’s sample feature (right next to the plus song/add to my library feature) which I’d never used before and … it chooses the title track’s wah-wah freak out section one minute in which appears to be the one bit of that album that isn’t really country pickin’.

so is this supposed to be like an old gangster movie or abbott & costello movie "why, you, i oughta.." or is it something else? it could be shropshire slang that i don't know.

sorry, not 70s. Y U I Orta is the title. an album i've never listened to!

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The former. Why is the question though.

... sorry, Y.

its a bad and confusing album title.

Phrase is associated with the Three Stooges i think?

Right, but I think Scott and Tom are wondering why they named the record that. Sounds more like a Slade album name.

Oh yeah totally.

Just found this:

YUI Orta was probably one of the first albums with a title that was a play on words, like Van Halen’s OU812. Whose clever idea was that?

Mick kept on saying that to Carola, the girl he was with at the time. And we had no title for that record whatsoever, so I just said, “Well, we’ll call it that then.” But no one could figure it out. I realized then that we’d done the wrong thing, but it was too late. I wouldn’t have minded, but I’d never heard [of the expression] either. He just kept on doing it with this girl he was with, “Why You I Orta.” I said, “What’s that?” He said, “It’s the Three Stooges.” Some albums just don’t have titles, and it becomes a major problem at the last minute. I guess that’s why that got stuck on there.

i think even slade would have gone "yeah, i dunno....."

Probable alternate titles:

Hunter-Ronson
Ronson-Hunter
Play It Like Ya Got It
'Ere's Some Songs For Ya

before they went down the pub and came up with the eventual pick, as it seemed like a good idea when they were pissed and no-one could be bothered to go back and change it.

haha xpost, I was almost right

i feel like the three stooges weren't the only people to use that but maybe they did invent it. they said it a lot anyway. feels like every gangster in every 40s comedy said it. along with "saaaay, what's the gag?" when someone attempted some sort of trickery.
anyway i probably first heard it during a looney tunes cartoon.

is that how they pronounce "oughta" where mick ronson was from? "orta". he was from Hull. i just looked it up. because that's the other thing that makes it even more confusing.

actually there are totally people here who would do that too. the people who pronounce "water" as "worter".

Let's not start trying to explain a Hull accent.

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i feel like the three stooges weren't the only people to use that but maybe they did invent it. they said it a lot anyway. feels like every gangster in every 40s comedy said it. along with "saaaay, what's the gag?" when someone attempted some sort of trickery.
anyway i probably first heard it during a looney tunes cartoon.

― scott seward, Saturday, August 17, 2024 5:06 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

in every old movie ever

both of these tropes show up in the first few posts there!

is that how they pronounce "oughta" where mick ronson was from? "orta". he was from Hull. i just looked it up. because that's the other thing that makes it even more confusing.

actually there are totally people here who would do that too. the people who pronounce "water" as "worter".

― scott seward, Saturday, August 17, 2024 2:10 PM

Is this equivalent to the UFO "Force It" album title (faucet, get it?). Are UFO from Hull? I didn't get that one until I saw it in the "things you were really old ..." thread.

No one says faucet in the UK.

Tap?

Spinal Faucet

'Ere's Some Songs For Ya

Lols at this.

Saw this one the other day

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

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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.)

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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!

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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'?

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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?

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