Those are some big spark plugs...
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 January 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Those are some exceptional outfits they have there. Digging the blend of too long and too short pants.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Sunday, 18 January 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
well done soref, that's a great run there. "It's Better Than Working!" is so chummily dickish.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 January 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link
Worth pointing out for the non-Brits, the guy on the far left on the last cover wrote Can't Get You Out Of My Head for Kylie.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Sunday, 18 January 2015 12:25 (nine years ago) link
It's better than working is right up there with there goes the neighborhood by joe Walsh as an ideal of this type of album
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 18 January 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
i hate mud so much, even looking at them is making me angry
― #Research (stevie), Sunday, 18 January 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Slayed.jpg
Slade - Slayed?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Man there were some ugly motherfuckers in bands in the 70s
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 January 2015 04:34 (nine years ago) link
Thank God for MTV.
― schwantz, Monday, 19 January 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
I remember as a kid Dave Hill's hair genuinely angered me. Love Slade to death, though.
― #Research (stevie), Monday, 19 January 2015 09:27 (nine years ago) link
http://991.com/newgallery/The-Guess-Who-Road-Food-329595.jpg
The Guess Who: Road Food (not a live album btw)
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 January 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
Makes it sound like they didn't think much of the material they recorded for that one
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 19 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Boy, does that make you not want to hear the music. Imagine: the sonic equivalent of stained brown paper and forgotten takeout coffee going moldy in a dingy van!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 19 January 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
not to mention the inevitable bowel cramps in a gas station bathroom later that evenimg
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Hence "One Way Road To Hell."
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 06:18 (nine years ago) link
http://lossless-galaxy.ru/uploads/posts/2010-09/1284076089_beggars-opera-get-your-dog-off-me-1973.jpg
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:24 (nine years ago) link
I love that track, it's on https://worthopedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumbnails/360/1211/10/360_e337fa510a1cd5eeb2151df676466eb3.jpg along with Kraftwerk's "Ruckzeug", a bit of comedy basically.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
REO Speedwagon - Live: You Get What You Play For
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 23 January 2015 06:32 (nine years ago) link
This album's only two months old, but it fits in so seamlessly I had to include it anyway...
http://tommygirard.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/cover.jpg?w=423&h=423
Lifejackets - Let's Get This Out Of Our System And Move On
― fan boy three (Lee626), Friday, 23 January 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
lol
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 January 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
wow that's literally telling you not to bother with it
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61-vx54z8KL.jpg
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 January 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
"...from a great height"
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Friday, 23 January 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
lol @ stevie
― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Friday, 23 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/Ace-Time-For-Another-334304.jpg
Ace - Time For Another
http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/82610808b9524029de5218326862f1fb/3814970.jpg
People! - There Are People And There Are People
http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/295x295/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_236192_3_1_3_5_8_6_6_10_1_33619.jpg
The Flying Machine - Down To Earth With The Flying Machine
http://record.ticro.com/record/jacket/M00001405.jpg
Motherlode - Tapped Out
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Apollo_100_Master_Pieces_front_cover_Australia.jpg
Apollo 100 - Master Pieces
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/Greg-Kihn-Next-Of-Kihn-417011.jpg
Greg Kihn - Next of Kihn
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/731/MI0000731072.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
Gary Farr - Addressed to the Censors of Love
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fAhjgKY7l60/UDDnkODQBKI/AAAAAAAABE0/qzj2SSlNyXc/s1600/512SdlZPEiL._SS500_.jpg
Elvin Bishop - Hog Heaven ("On the front, Elvin is feeding his hog Budweiser and on the back, there are red hearts floating into the air symbolizing the hog to be rather high.")
http://www.music-on-click.com/open2b/var/catalog/images/8115/0-38eedcfe-400.jpg
David Matthews with Whirlwind - Shoogie Wanna Boogie
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
and, a tribute to Asleep at the Wheel, with their smash hits:
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/a/asleepatthewheel-wheelinanddealin.jpg
Wheelin' and Dealin'
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/sh0yA5eN8Ns/0.jpg
...Framed...
http://eil.com/images/main/Asleep-At-The-Wheel-The-Wheel-461323.jpg
...and The Wheel. They also had albums called both Collision Course and Comin' Right At Ya, and would in later decades release Western Standard Time, The Wheel Keeps on Rollin', Merry Texas Christmas, Y'All (and belated followup Santa Loves to Boogie), Ride With Bob, Remembers the Alamo, Willie and the Wheel (with Willie Nelson), and, I swear to God, Reinventing the Wheel.
The Christmas albums also remind me that I learned today that Donnie "Ah! Leah" Iris would, in 2010, release his first Christmas album, Ah! Leluiah!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
You missed Asleep At The Wheel's live album, Served Live
http://cdn.discogs.com/gWZabOvZPdUN6OHnwkCC2oqE2tI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1783844-1303148489.jpeg.jpg
Which apparently two of my cousins (both teens at the time) attended the recording concerts for (free admission announced over the radio). I think it was there that they discovered one of the members of the band lived across the street from them.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
Posted this on another thread but far too terrible not to share here as well:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wnanGCAtL.jpg
Rubettes - Wear It's 'At
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
(someone might have done that already, apologies if so)
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Anybody here ever notice how Fall Out Boy song titles sound like candidates for this thread?
1. Sugar, We're Goin Down2. Dance, Dance3. A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"4. Thnks fr th Mmrs5. I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off 6. The Carpal Tunnel of Love7. The Take Over, The Breaks Over8. This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race9. I Don't Care10. America's Suitehearts11. Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519LY0Gf3zL.jpg
Suzi Quatro - Aggro-Phobia
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
This is just idiotic...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y63SDKIeL.jpg
Pilot – From The Album Of The Same Name
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/657/MI0000657360.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
Paper Lace – ...And Other Bits Of Material
― soref, Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
― soref, Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
amazing how the well never runs dry
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
can't believe slsk is letting me down
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
childish to be amused by this but
Kenny (3)Profile: Glam-rock band from Enfield, England, mid 1970s; initially named "Chuff."
― soref, Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
omg killer posts everybody. lollllll "Wear It's 'At"
I've never ventured past Suzi's first couple records, that cover is sadly not as off-putting as they would later get....
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/b/buzzy_linhart-pussycats_can_go_far.jpg
Buzzy Linhart - Pussycats Can Go Far
― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 February 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
horrifying
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 February 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
amazing how the well never runs dry― mookieproof, Sunday, February 1, 2015 6:20 PM (1 hour ago)
― mookieproof, Sunday, February 1, 2015 6:20 PM (1 hour ago)
― Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 February 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
in fact i can think of any number of "well's run dry"-based titles that could plausibly adorn one of these albums
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 February 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
1980, but
http://eil.com/images/main/B-A-Robertson-Initial-Success-358659.jpg
B. A. Robertson - Initial Success
― soref, Monday, 2 February 2015 07:16 (nine years ago) link
later released an album called 'R&BA'
― soref, Monday, 2 February 2015 07:18 (nine years ago) link
Re: Greg Kign, he sure did his best to keep this tradition alive throughout the 80s. Observe:
1978 Next of Kihn1981 Rockihnroll (as Greg Kihn Band)1982 Kihntinued (as Greg Kihn Band)1983 Kihnspiracy (as Greg Kihn Band)1984 Kihntagious (as Greg Kihn Band)1985 Citizen Kihn1989 Kihnsolidation: The Best of Greg Kihn1992 Kihn of Hearts
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 February 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
Buzzy Linhart is gonna haunt my dreams
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 2 February 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Wear It Is Hat????? This one's making me Irrationally Angry.
― andrew m., Monday, 2 February 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
"Initial Success" might be the most 1980 cover I've ever seen in my life. The lighting, the font, everything. Guy could have easily stepped in as a fill-in for the mannequin on Today's Special, or Slim Goodbody for that matter.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
[img]http://cdn.discogs.com/RK35USK5pikttbg8m2NcWWi6vSU=/fit-in/466x466/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-1899462-1251045831.jpeg.jpg[/i]
B. A. Robertson did have a 70s pre-fame album called 'Wringing Applause' which is maybe more in keeping with this thread
― soref, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link