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

"Keep On Lovin' You" is Richrath's defense of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution.

lol

This thread needs to be its own coffee table book.

I think xhucx wrote a big thing on Starcastle, Kansas, and some other "cornfield prog"

Found it, really great

http://www.wonderingsound.com/spotlight/prog-on-the-prairie-midwestern-bands-roll-over-beethoven/

This thread needs to be its own coffee table book.

titled 'why punk happened'

lol

"Prog on the Prairie" - good stuff in there, though there's some tics that bug me (particularly the gendering of the early/good stuff vs. "housewife hits"). I also wonder about continuing to insist on this "prairie" quality - Topeka's not New York, no, but it was more populous in 1970 than, say, contemporary Columbus, and people talked about Times New Viking without pretending it was some big riddle that people west of New York play something other than country-fried boogie ramblings.

OTOH he did lead me to this one from Head East:

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/87570.jpg

I love this thread but I'm not convinced I even get about half these covers.

titled 'why punk happened'

I wonder how many of these acts made an attempt to 'go new wave'

http://www.elbarriodiscstore.com/wp-content/uploads/001115.jpg

The Jaggerz - We Went To Different Schools Together

http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/OCEAN_LP-COV.jpg

Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand

http://helium.lunarpages.com/~funky4/pictures/ironleg/biffrose_pic.jpg

Biff Rose - The Thorn In Mrs Rose's Side

http://record.ticro.com/record/jacket/T00000653.jpg

Trade Martin - Let Me Touch You

Here's a terrible cover gag i actually really like:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bT46ySKAL._SY300_.jpg

NRBQ - At Yankee Stadium

(rear sleeve has a picture taken through binoculars of them sitting in the back row)

Also today I have 'The Pushbike Song' by the Mixtures stuck in my head and i totally blame this thread

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/65673052/Dont+Call+Us+Well+Call+You.jpg

Bah, my images won't post. There's also a Guru Guru album, "Don't Call Us We Call You", but that earns an exemption from this thread because of cute mangled use of English.

cover connection with the sassafras one you posted yesterday there

Skyhooks had a good run of these titles:

Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (1975)
Straight in a Gay Gay World (1976)
Guilty Until Proven Insane (1978)
Hot for the Orient (1980)

http://eil.com/images/main/Bill-Bruford-Feels-Good-To-Me-488760.jpg
Bill Bruford - Feels Good To Me

Wait...what's happening there?

He's engaging in a pleasurable sensation

Man, I would love to find out if there was some particular album marketing guru with a pamphlet or a trade show stump speech that drove these albums, getting record execs fired up for the vast sales potential lurking in blah photos of their blah-looking musicians alongside dopey titles.

Brand X on a roll:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Roll#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X_Morrocan_Roll.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_They_Hurt%3F#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X-Do_They_Hurt.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_There_Anything_About%3F#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X_-_Is_There_Anything_About.jpg

Oh ffs, seriously?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/45725977/Morrocan+Roll.jpg

http://covers1.img-themusic-world.info/000/18/18307.jpg

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/660/cover_57052982010.JPG

morrocan roll is good but will never beat this effort from foghat:

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/cover/d80/27007_foghat_foghat_rock_n_roll.jpg

I think the Brand X covers are by Hipgnosis, which is kind of at the other end of the spectrum of these kind of covers to the super half-arsed stuff like that Foghat album

do ppl prefer stupid, crass puns with incredibly half-arsed covers or stupid, crass puns with super elaborate expensive looking covers?

more like crass buns amirite

that Foghat cover made me realise that Cosi Fan Tutti-Frutti by Squeeze is sort of one of these, but about 10 yrs too late:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Cosi_fan_tutti_frutti_album.jpg

lol at that REO Speedwagon story. Seems like they had their own Mike Love until they wished him into the cornfield

Brian Wilson keepin' the tradition alive...

haha i once made a joke around "pier pressure" as an album title and none of my friends got it

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/83809459/Different+Moods+Of+Me.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4144CP9FKQL.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4144CP9FKQL.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hLAW4d7rwDo/UXjVWKTxrMI/AAAAAAAAFKE/2bJjb1LJB3Q/s1600/Stretch-76-f.jpg

"How Late'll Ya Play'til" is soooooo good.

http://www.planetperplex.com/img/gold_wrong.jpg

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/h/henry_gross-plug_me_into_something.jpg

"An amp's okay, I guess."

also just for 2x gross factor:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/508/MI0001508088.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Really "needs" the gatefold. Also: there are like, twelve Stampeders LPs.

http://akaguymarks.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/7/2/5272003/9380692_orig.jpg

would buy that one for sure, any album that promises the artist "goes bananas" in any fashion is already on the right track.

Wonderfully over-literal.

http://www.secondhandlps.de/pix_rb_soul/robinson_smokey_pocketful.jpg

This is probably more in line with the thread(except released in 1988)

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/Nuge%20-%20If%20You%20Can

GUH

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Badfingeralbums-ass.jpg

You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It is an album by British pop group Hotlegs.

The album was released in 1976 after Hotlegs, a three-piece band from Stockport, near Manchester, had added a fourth member, Graham Gouldman, changed its name and achieved international chart success as 10cc.

The album was a revised version of Hotlegs' debut album, Thinks: School Stinks, which had included the band's hit single "Neanderthal Man".