While observing the untitled 1977 Peter Gabriel’s album, refered to as “car”, remembering of Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, refered to as “the Beano”, I wondered what would be the “refered to as”- name of many albums which already have a name, if we would use (ideally) one word.
We could play a game, someone rename an album with its description without telling which one it is and the rest tries to find the original name.
My turn: the album I would refer to as “Wedjat”
your guess…
Or your turn, use your imagination…
Eye In The Sky?
And my go is: Gitanes
yess!
I will not search on Gainsbourg’s side…
nooo!
Nothing to do with Gainsbourg.
JJ Cale? Shades?
This must be the right one.
Yep, Shades.
I got blocked in my thoughts as it was his fave cigarettes…
Not ‘Vision Thing’ then?
Vision thing fits also, which shows how two different groups could get similar covers. I wonder how many times the eye of Horus appears on an lp-cover (see also: binoculars).
Zebra Crossing
Oh, hang on, one word only?
OK
Tramp
Abbey Road for the first
Aqualung for the second?
Bingo
I thought the tramp was a voice between Aqualung and Led Zeppelin 4.
May be a bit too easy but here goes…
‘Shine’
Hot Buttered Soul?
Close shave!
@craig42blue, which one ?
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1084465-Close-Shave
Roses
PC & L
You’re too good (or I’m too predictable)
Not the first time I’ve heard that, heart-face.
Who or what is PC&L?
Power, Corruption & Lies, by New Order. I’ve only just started reading this thread, bit that was the one I was looking for Done already!
Cone!
Blur’s last one?
1st Kraftwerk album?
My go; Cow
Atom Heart Mother?
Atom Heart Mother is the correct answer!
First two Kraftwerk albums.
Who said Devo? Back to primary school maths class, feller!
Level four maths leads people to believe an energy dôme is an un precise cône.
We’re a long way from home…
I argued with my math teacher as I found the shell integration (rotationsvolym) a nice way to draw Devo’s Energy Domes but a very unprecise and primitive way to measure or to draw a volume. Me and the school, well,,,
Cone = Devo?
Dumb waiters by the corgis ?
Here´s a crazy one:
The White Album.
Loving Awareness.
So I guess I’ve been outsmartarsed.
How about
The Black Album?
Smell The Glove?
Kong!
Bonzo’s Gorilla?
Grrrrr!
Don’t come here with your obscure Jamaican albums from the 60s!
Is someone Upset?
Super!
Ape!
My turn again.
Queue.
8:30, Weather Report
Queue, in the pony tail sense.
Damn! Was so sure I’d got it!
@PaulVincent , Rumours by Fleeetwood Mac. I didn’t notice the balls at first.
Here’s a couple:
Uffington
Boxer
English Settlement.
Yup!
Boxer, an album by the pogues : peace and love
…and yup!
one more for the road!
langhorne Slim – The way we move
Boxer: Mr Love Pants
I like your style… but no.
Southpaw Grammar?
No, but good answer!
Could be Ivor Cutler “Jammy Smears”. Or certain versions of Miles Davis “A Tribute to Jack Johnson”
Okra
Ege Bamyasi?
Can it. That’s the fella.
Sepia
John Cale – Paris 1919
Not what I had in mind.
In through the out door (pre golden shower)
The Band’s second album?
That’s what I intended. Even the hipster beards are sepia toned, decades before the hipster had been invented.
Raccoon
Jj cale act naturally?
Yep.
Bulge
Sticky Fingers?
Sure
In french I would have said “gros paquet” or “poutre apparente” , but that’s two words and that’s french.
The Poutre Apparent toured supporting Amen Corner in ’69. Mojo saw the PA… “Outstanding” he said.
Oh, I didn’t know that one. This quizz leads to many directions…
One more to discover…
http://poutreapparente.free.fr/news.htm
Goat
Pet Sounds?
Righto
Scythe
Yeti.
Good answer
A Broken Frame?
No it is a sickle then.
The Marxman album?
(There’s a name you don’t often hear)
Sickle and hammer it is then.
Monolith
(with wee stains)
Ooooooo?
Who’s Next
Who Indeed
Unused album title – the expected 1979 follow-up to Who Are You,
Other planned future titles:
Who Cares
Who’s Crying Now
Who Dunnit
Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip
Cat
Tapestry.
Yus
Chimpanzee
The first Supernaturals album?
Is the right answer
Really? I thought it was another Danny Baker reference.
I thought the way they dealt with his absence last Saturday morning with the elephant sounds was in his spirit and a good way for him to leave.
Could be Talking Heads : Naked
true
Splashings.
Rubycon?
Oh come on.
As it were.
Is there also half a lemon?
Finally!
One band could have a couple:
1. Desk
2. Snakeskin
Oddly, if Sparks followed the theory, the album sometimes known simply as Kimono, would more likely be known as Kimonos.
Alice Cooper?
Yep.
Rocking horse
Music In a Doll’s House?
Nope.
Love then.
I sent you the answer, you don’t need to check the message if you want to search more..
The rocking horse is not rocking though…
https://www.discogs.com/Rare-Earth-Ma/release/5967551
Hey, don’t come a knockin’ if the horse is rockin’
Howdy!
Yes that describes an album.
Hello. Status Quo
Nope! Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline it is…
Oh! Very good.
Candles
How many – four?
Daydream Nation held up against a mirror
Burn?
Rage against the machine eponymous album?
or
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: the Motion Picture Soundtrack
LOL. I was replying to @Lesterthenightfly – the ‘candles’ question –
the Deep Purple album
“Burn” is the correct answer.
Sorry about the late reply,I’ve been offline for a couple of days!
No need. It was fun just to stumble on the right answer while browsing through my albums.
Bikinis
Roxy Music?
No
Bikinies only.
One of those Robert Palmer albums
Right
Double Fun is it? DIdn’t google.
Yesss
I googled in my past teenager’s dirty mind’s memory.
Prism
I was coming here to write that. We really are two like minds!
DSotM, I imagine.
Howsabout: Whitestar
(Bet no one gets that)
Black star?
Nope. I’m gonna give the answer cos I reckon no one will get it. Neil Young ‘Hawks & Doves’.
Naked man
Going For The One?
Yes!
Manspread
St Dominic’s Previn
Could be, also, but I thought about something without a guitar.
Mozz Maladjusted.
Newspaper
Jethro Tull
Yes St Cleves Chronicle
… or the Four Seasons.
Black
Prince bootleg?
Works as well as any other alternatives.
Which could be … ?
Back in Black
or Spinal Tap
(How much more black can it be?)
Helicopter
Abba – Arrival
Correct
Do you realise, Wheaty and Rigid, that if you visit the ABBA museum in Stockholm, you can sit in the ACTUAL HELICOPTER USED ON THE COVER OF “ARRIVAL”, and have your picture taken in it. It’s extremely exciting. Worth the (rather steep) admission price alone!
Oh, I never passed the museum’s shop, no one would follow me because of the price (I wouldn’t follow myself either).
“Helicopter” could also be applied to the 1970 self-titled debut from close-harmony popsters Arrival (later to morph/expand into funksters Kokomo), pictured on their cover disembarking from a big red and white helicopter with “Arrival” emblazoned down the side of it.
I wonder where Abba got the idea for their title and cover, 6 years later?
Talent borrows, genius steals.
Jelly
Eponymous?
The Last Record Album?
Another point for the Moose.. .
What? Bloody hell! This kind of success is all that I dream!
Bedford
Van the man?
That is a van, but not this one.
@craig42blue
https://www.discogs.com/Terje-Rypdal-Odyssey/release/1607715
One Step Beyond?
….I’ll get me pork-pie hat
One step beyond? I would call it Daisy-chain!
Hasselblad.
Peace in our time. Elvis costello and the attractions?
This Year’s Model
It is!
Like 120 comments and I still haven’t a clue what’s going on. Is it something to do with, hold on can’t quite recall the term, ah got it, “LP” covers? Last “LP” I bought, how quaint, was , hold on, almost there, nah can’t remember. Carry on chaps, I’m off to count the bee-eaters, bloody hundreds of the wee beauties this year
Name one lp-cover with one word as people did with 1977 nameless Peter Gabriel’s album (people called it “car”).
Or refer to the OP like a fuckin’ grown-up.
Who is Peter Gabriel?
A bald man with a white soûl patch.
erm …. the Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man?
Just a lawnmower.
Amongst my “friends” I am known as Mr Obscure Music. If this thread was a quiz I would be known as “He knows fuck all, he does”. I honestly haven’t looked at a record cover closely since John Wesley Harding came out and The Beatles were hiding in the trees above Bob’s head. I’m off to Edinburgh now, Scran & Scallie tonight – Steak Pie and IPA. There may be violence
2 related, Babby coming and Babby with teeth.
What is a babby?
Shhh… It’s “ethnic”
Much of brum is, it’s true, but babby’s are all sorts of ethnics. Another album: Dog’s f***ing.
Aberfeldy?
Another hasn’t actually got pictures of starving children
Wai-ting…..
Babby with teeth..Chumbawamba Tubthumper?
We have a winnah!!!!!!
“Smug”
Roy Harper’s Come Out Fighting, Genghis Smith for the first.
Anarchy!
What about me, @retropath2?
Sorry. But so far away from the posting as to make it seem a random comment. That I missed. What you see is what you get. SWIDT
Oooh! I’ve got one!
A Moon Shaped Pool.
Oh…
Burnt plastic film.
You got it in reverse.
Sorry. I was being a little too arch. I was implying (and this is a long-held niggle) that A Moon Shaped Pool was an extraordinarily literal description of the image adorning the album cover. Like Stanley Donwood showed ver Head the potential cover images and someone said “that looks like a moon shaped pool!’ and Thom said “yeah, that’ll do”
To wit:
I know, fellers! “Four Guys on a Zebra Crossing”!
Got it! Underwater Baby reaching out for Money on a Hook!
That kind of thing
Big lorry
An Aerosmith’s album?
Toy lorry
Fried?
Indeed.
Big Lorry = Def Leppard
Correct!
Parents outside house
Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
Yes
Is this part of the quizz or a call for help? Have you left a scratch on the coffee table?
Sort of…
Who are you telling to ‘sort of’?
Cross eyed puppet
Head Like a Rock
Fuck Me. I should give up now!
Haunted by that cover. Cracking album though but.
Standing under the Westway
David Bowie, ziggy stardust and them spiders from mars?
This Is The Modern World
That’s the one
Censor bars
I think at this point I should mention the OP which states we should ideally be using one word. Everyone is getting a bit slack on that score by now. Tsk.
OK, here’s one from me:
Woodcut print by Anna Hournisher, numbered copy 1 of 25, showing artist’s face in black & white.
I wrote: “ideally one word”. But you are right, the rules were forgotten a bit.
Sneaking Sally Through the Alley…
@Moose the Mooche , I choosed the plural for a reason, but you have a good visual memory.
That was AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Sock…
We talked about that one before. It is folk music, british?
Legend Henry Cow ( I always call him “haricot”)
I didn’t give you enough detail, really….could be Leg End, Unrest or In Praise of Learning, depending on the colour of the sock….
That’s the thing with the description, the first or last image to catch your attention, not only the whole thing.
Binoculars.
Stormwatch ?
The description fits also. I thought about Équinoxe by Jean Michel Jarre.
@John Walters , Toto – Mindfields also
1) Smoking a chalice.
2) Zippo.
3) Venetian blind.
1) is Peter Tosh
2) is Catch A Fire
1) is close but no bifter.
2) is correct.
1) is this album
https://www.discogs.com/U-Roy-Dread-In-A-Babylon/release/607803
3) Unorthodox Behaviour?
Correct
Zip
Sticky Fingers?
Spot on.
Mötley Crüe?
Planecrash
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Close
Licensed to Ill. And Sparks (forgotten the title)
Every year it gets a bit more difficult to remember things
To be fair, that album doesn’t have the title on the front. Or even the spine. Unhelpful.
Indiscreet.
– running hotter than a boiling kettle
(let’s pretend I din’t just look up some lyrics to find a snappy answer)
Yo Leroy!
Pulsar
Unknown Pleasures
Spot on. When I first made the connection, I did wonder what Jocelyn Burnell would make of her discovery ending up on an album cover (and on oven gloves).
Wedding
Duran Duran – The Wedding Album
(too literal?)
Well that works, but it wasn’t what I was thinking of – something in ‘another category’ altogether.
Sparks, Angst in my Pants….
Different Class?
As I meant to say – you have such a thirst for knowledge – yes!
Well, I certainly have a thirst. *burrrp* Excuse me.
One for Moose (or Doc):
Sunset
Is it “Deluxe” by Harmonia?
Curse you early birds…
You have such a thirst for knowledge – yes!
That should have been a reply to your class answer above – sadly I cannot pulp it.
More tea, vicar?
Not the one I was thinking of.
Assuming that Stage Fright is a bit beyond your ken, is it The Luxury Gap?
Good call, but also not the one I was thinking of.
A clue: you like this one. So do I.
Sextet then.
….well?
Acrobats
Strange Days
Yep !
Ourobouros.
Erm, it’s not “Ouroboros” by Ray LaMontagne, is it?
It has a vague shape of Ourobouros, but that’s not the first thing that comes to my mind when I see it.
More about the Ourobouros: (a lot that I didn’t Know! )
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
Circle and the Square?
@salwarpe, no, as the snake sits as a spiral.
The answer for Ourobouros is
Vulture Culture by The Alan Parsons project.
It is a crossing between a snake and a vulture, but à représentation of an Ourobouros nevertheless.
A snake that bites his tail.
Banana
Deep Sea Skiving?
Oh, very good.
When I had a quick look through some of my albums yesterday I was amazed at the number with bananas on the cover!
Is the one you’re thinking of Frank Sidebottom’s A,B,C & D?
Velvet Underground
Ponces
I realise the field is pretty wide here
Oh go on then, it’s this.
https://www.discogs.com/Metro-Metro/release/2586971
Metro reviving the seventies in the manner of Suede while it was still the seventies.
That was far from easy. But original nevertheless.
Great album, if not tainted by association with Bowie’s lowest skullduggery, as a musician anyway…
https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/criminal-world/
Peloton
Tour de France Soundtracks
You got yourself a maillot jaune!
Great, does that mean I can spend Saturday afternoon setting cars on fire?
Oh, I think that you mistook that honor to the yellow jacket’s “gilets jaunes”, this has only to do with Tour de France…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_classification_in_the_Tour_de_France#Scandal_in_yellow
You overestimate my ignorance. Not easily done.
Who’s this Jilly Jones woman everyone keeps talking about?
she glows in the dark…
Prince wrote a song for her:
1. Dress
2. Orchid
3. Mermaid
4. Weimeraners
3 is Siren, is it not?
Yep.
Erm … is No.4 “Hounds of Love”?
Yep.
1. could be Never for Ever, though I also thought of Permanent Waves
Unlucky on this occasion, Mr/Ms Cat.
It’s not Kevin “Bloody” Rowland is it?
Would that it were, Moose, would that it were…
Sorry, but the AW equivalent of Godwin’s Law dictates that once a thread reaches a certain length (steady!) it must at some point include at least a reference, if not an appearance of, that unconscionable sleeve.
2. Kings Of Leon.
Sorry Tiggs, but no.
Release by Pet Shop Boys (if that’s an orchid…)
It could be, but isn’t.
Arse.
I was going to suggest this- Is it either a. The pros and cons of hitchhiking -or- b. any of the first three Phil Collins albums?
About 400 70s funk albums come to mind.
Let’s narrow it to (of course)
Arse (male)
Both Sides of the Moon?
Splendidly correct.
Lily
Tangerine Dream?
No – if we were playing animal, vegetable, mineral – I would suggest a different category.
Swans, in fact
Cyprine
I’ve no idea, but in French, that word has a very juicy meaning – something to make Moose purr, I shouldn’t wonder.
Cyprine first,
Bricks efter censorship.
@salwarpe , there you have it:
https://www.discogs.com/Moms-Apple-Pie-Moms-Apple-Pie/release/1377046
Fire hydrant
Signals – Rush
Well played! And only 8 minutes…
Bubblegum.
Lovedrive
Well done.
Swag
Might that be Bandwagonesque?
Very good sir!
I have avoided this thread, but is there a reason why quiz is spelt incorrectly?
Iss amusingg!
And who is Peter Gabriel?
Some dude sleeping in a car. Like Bobby Chariot, but less toothy.
Syrups
Flying toasters
That’s 2 separate covers btw.
Maybe the first one was too cryptic. Maybe no one gives a toss. Anyway, I mean syrups as in syrup of figs or wigs. Yes it’s wigs. A cover featuring WIGS. Some afterworders might know.
The second is easy if you have ever seen the record in question. A live album recorded somewhere that sounds cold but isn’t.
Second is Jefferson Airplane 30 secs over Winterland.
Some Girls for 1
Got it. Both times.
Moon Sausages!
Crosby Stills & Nash. Live it up.
Yup
Kudzu
REM. Murmur.
Buick
My first though was Sir Thomas of Dolby’s third album. But too obvious, perhaps. A Buick put me in mind of a Telly Savalas solo album. Which led me to those French funksters Kojak, and their album Crime in the City. I’m miles off here, aren’t I?
I’m afraid so. But I’m impressed with your workings. Keep going…
Chris Spedding?
Nope
A little clue to help (or hinder)…
Both band name and album title are edible. Nice on a barbecue, I’d say.
Oh yeah. It’s Burgers by Hot Tuna.
Correct!
Airstream
Ry Cooder?
Quick n correct
Sema⁴
Help!
OK, it’s by a popular sixties band from Liverpool. You must know it.
I think we need help….
The cover actually reads NUVJ
Squaddie
Meat Is Murder?
is the answer on the card.
And PB gets the triple-hamper… presumably with a lovely fat tin of surströmming.
Not Röda Ulven, choose a better brand!
I’ll need to put me safety goggles on first.
I usually open it in the bushes on the top of the hill.
No protections needed.
Toe-tag.
Would that be one of those rapper fellows?
That’s not the one I was thinking of, but good answer.
Babybird?
Yes. Sorry, I’ve been asleep.
Moccasins.
The closest is Mink de ville, Italian shoes
Am I right @Moose the Mooche ?
Nope.
Washboard.
The Best Of Arthur Atkinson
How queer!
Moby Grape. For shame.
Gas-mask.
(This thread is starting to look like the last round of a really low-rent version of The Generation Game)
Wilf “Gasmask” Grimshaw Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein
Never Say Die?
No. Nor is it Never Say Das.
Der!!!
Is it Goodbye Jumbo, then?
Yes!
A cover that also features Lenin and 2-Live Crew.
Gas mask replica?
Serpentrider
Whitesnake – Love Hunter
What’s wrong with being sexist?
Truck
Pump?
It fits, but would actually be TruckS.
This one is a single truck on an album by a hard of hearing feline
Oh.
Just noticed this one is already here under a similar (but different) description
Pump it is (to save my embarrassing repetition)
I wouldn’t DEFer to those who’ve already posted. It’s a long thread to schLEPP through, ARDuously…
Sticky Fingers has thrust its groin in our face twice so far
Sandpit
Motörhead – ace of spades.
Is that the answer @salwarpe ?
You win some you lose some…
In this case, you win, Pizon!
Damp clavicle
In The Court of the Kingson Crim?
No. 4 years too early.
Aladdin Sane
You’ve cracked it!
Pink dress blue car
Heart of Saturday Night? Haven’t looked.
No
Scrabble tiles big head
Bang!
Correct
..really? I just thought we were playing “Name your favourite Frankie Goes To Hollywood compilation”. What are the odds?
Katydid.
Dithrhythmia?
Steely Dan.
Yup.
Cowboy.
Hanky Panky by The the
No. Earlier than that.
Summat by Elvis?
Flaming Star?
Not Elvis, not Flaming Star.
Land of Dreams?
10CC – Original Soundtrack
You win first prize of one night in Paris. . .
or one night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster.
It’s a funny old game is chess
Only if you have a nosebleed
Toilet
Brasilian psychédélic group , lady’s wc or something like that.
Beggars Banquet
Millie Jackson?
Venezuela, close enough
https://www.discogs.com/Ladies-WC-Ladies-WC/release/2506527
I thought that might be a suggested answer. No, nor any of the others. It’s on its own, on some grass, if that helps.
Metallica did something also…
The Wolfgang Press – Bird Wood Cage
Bras d’honneur.
She sports a headscarf, no? I can’t quite retrieve the band name – not in my collection.
@thecheshirecat , I would have said:
Joe Cocker – Mad dogs & Englishmen
Two from the same artist:
Winklepickers
Spiv
Joe Jackson
I’m your man and …..err
Look Sharp.
Correct , fellas
I’m The Man – just to be pedantic
Ray gun.
Foo Fighters?
Yes, that was an easy one, I guess, but I wanted to make a point.
Caricatures.
The back cover of Faces A Nod Is As Good As A Wink
I thought about Aerosmith’s Draw the line. Those you described were animation puppets. I will still check out this album as all the others that were named. This is refreshing!
Two Who albums – A Quick One and By Numbers.
The Yardbirds Roger The Engineer.
One of The Move’s albums.
Either of Schoolly-D’s first two albums (rivalling The Move for worst sleeves of all time)
Mornington Crescent I believe
You’re in spoon.
Words and Music by St Etienne?
Oh good! 400 posts means I can pass on the Quatro Hamper I received after one of my Depeche Mode threads went nuts. Inside is a tiny leather catsuit and a bass guitar with a really long strap. God knows why.
I didn’t expect that from a single post. I guess that our visual memories of record covers is a wider subject than my questionings about blues from the origins. I enjoyed everything of this as it brought me back to what I liked in The Word.
Peephole.
Led Zep III or Some Girls? nah, Thort not.
Some Girls is right! Well done! Oh, you mean his. Mine was syrups (way up there ^ somewhere) or (ladies) wigs to be clearer. You have no idea what I’m on about do you?
What about Flying toasters then?
The cover of the 2001 soundtrack album has always put me in mind of a toaster, but I suspect that’s not what you mean.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-2001-A-Space-Odyssey-Music-From-The-Motion-Picture-Sound-Track/master/88539
I thought about “Safe as Milk” from Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, but there are so many others…
It is Jefferson Airplane Live at Winterland. They had a song on it called I think Have You Seen The Saucers, if that helps.
Well, if Jefferson airplane’s record cover would show a group of blokes Slightly deformed through a fish-eye, then you would be right.
1. Innocence
2. Experience
The albums are connected.
Boy and War?
Not was I was thinking about but, on reflection, possibly better. Half a point.
Red and Blue albums?
Spot on
I’ve got another one….
Durbar
Surprised nobody has attempted this yet. I quick Google as to what Durbar is will probably pretty much give you the cover of one of the finest albums of the late 70’s.
Is that in India?
Possibly but (more importantly) also a registered trade mark of Tata steel.
Which is indian as Jamsetji.
No, it’s not Jam Setting Sons!
Okay l get it, those anti-glide métal steps.
You must be nearly there now. The original pressings even had the cover embossed.
Talking Heads – Fear of music
I finally found it @johnw
Spot on.
I knew Jamsetji Tata by name but didn’t know he held the patent for this. From talking head to india’s greatest industrial…
Clowns
Is it U2 again?
Incredibly close. In astronomical units.
Butthole surfers?
Locust Abortion Technicians
Yay! But docked 0.05 points for an unnecessary plural at the end there.
Well, I guess it wasn’t my favourite spot for surf.
I’ve been trying to come up with a one-word title for one of my favourite albums and album covers, but the only option I’ve got is the rather cryptic “Imposters”
Clue – This was the original cover – now changed to some mediocre head shot for some reason.
Second clue – mid-to-late ’80s American troubadour.
Well, I come from the land where the word “troubadour” comes from, I should know.
Some names such as Don McLean
Bruce Springsteen
But I still don’t get it…
Well, Pizon, last week was busy and difficult – tiredness got to me. The one word clue I should have used was ‘Dummies’
OK, I made a right dog’s dinner of this one.
The album I was thinking of was John Hiatt’s ‘Bring The Family’ – original cover art.
JVC RC-M90
Boom Box or ghetto Blaster,
two solutions I am supposed to use my memory not other’s.
@Moose the Mooche, one by the Beastie Boys… Solig Gold hits
Nope. Close though.
Lj cool could be the second.
Assuming you mean LL Cool J, correct. Jeremy Paxman wouldn’t take your answer but I will.
No, I don’t deserve that. If I could remove my anwer I would.
Mud (not them)
not the naked girls in mud ?
Indeedy
The Slits – Cut
The Slits Cut
Is it The Clits by Sooty?
do British do “contrepèteries” also?
Only just spotted this comment – what a fantastic word! I’ve always enjoyed messing with spoonerisms (it’s what drew me as a youngster to a pub called “The Boar’s Head”). The only thing I didn’t like was the rather ugly word “spoonerism” (sorry, Mr Spooner), but contrepeteries sounds much classier!
Cave (in Staffs, not from Australia)
A cave in the Midlands. Could this be something from Black Sabbath?
Alas no. The band concerned must have travelled south a couple of counties for the cover shoot.
“A Storm in Heaven” by the Verve?
Wigan’s Chosen Four on a day trip to Thor’s Cave in the Manifold Valley. Well done.
Nagel’s
The artist.
Saturn
Ah, know this one. Ah, no I don’t.
How long since we had a Thousand Thread? I think you lot should go for it so I can say ” Didn’t understand a word, scored zero points, do I get a prize?”
I would go for being “unbored”, then many are winers.
My explication, at the beginning was probably not very clear.
Somebody says “prism” and somebody responds “Dark Side of the Moon”.
What’s not to understand, Count Drunkula?
and “bulge” for “sticky fingers” was a tough one.
The Idea is to name the record as it had no name and use the first thing that stick-out and / or come up in your mind when describing it. Like people did with “The Beano”.
You are in an alternate reality where albums never get names so, you have to find one, a simple one because you have a big collection, so one word will be enough…
Give it a try @Lodestone of Wrongness , I haven’t had so much fun since the french football team got turista during some VM of some kind (football probably).
Despite my protestations I have understood the raison d’être of the thread from the beginning but as I may have mentioned a few hundred comments above I haven’t looked at an LP cover since the early seventies. I absolutely accept everyone else is having great fun but jingsaroonie
Is jingsaroonie an exclamation word as I would say macarel?
A word coined in Slim Gaillard’s guest appearance in The Broons.
D’allesandro @Didley de Farquar
Inspiral Carpets?
@Black Celebration the god, not the planet.
Trisomie 21 Chapter IV Le Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi et le presque rien,
The famous Goya painting showing Saturnus eating his children. This has been used several times on many lp covers if I remember well. I fail to understand how the olympian gods survived the ordeal until Zeus reversed the process…
There you have it @Black Celebration and @Moose the Mooche .
Steel Guitar
Lap or National?
National (1937 Style O, I believe)
It’s Brothers in Arms then.
too obvious?
never too obvious for this game.
Nudie Ladies!
Electric Ladyland…
Or is that too obvious?
Spot on
Mirror
I thought about Pink Floyd, but the purest could be
Look at yourself by Uriah Heep
There are many others I guess…
Ver Heep it is
Spaghetti in Tomato Sauce
Isn’t that the G’n’R punk covers LP?
That it be
1) Flying pigs
2) Sheep
Note: plural
1) 2 copies of Pink Floyd’s Animals
2) 2 copies of Paul McCartney’s Ram
Second one is Chill Out by the KLF.
Correct.
Pink Fairies at 1
Kings of Oblivion.
Correct also.
Silhouettes.
Two Against Nature
Makes sense and I am partial to Steely Dan, so I could nearly give the point but I meant silhouette in the artistic sense of the terme, there is an afro american artist who do it again, like some hundred years ago.
“Two Against Nature” is Shadows rather than Silhouettes.
Good point.
Arto Lindsay Salt
Illustration by Kara Walker.
The perfect example of a silhouette.
The Beat’s debut?
Is it ‘Songs to Learn & Sing’?
Self-immolation.
(Too easy.)
Rage against the machine.
Yes it is the only example, unless there is a record with Jan Palak doing the irréparable to himself. This story is even more touching as the Czech was only a student and he died much later in great pain.
Right first time. As that poor monk suppressed the urge to scream from the excruciating pain of burning alive, it would have been some comfort for him to have known that 50 years later in England some fat bloke would use the image of his death in a quiz question on an obscure music blog.
“Well, that makes it all worthwhile”
Well, let’s add some history to it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach
Ugly Men/Driving Seat
@Uncle Mick The Dead Kennedys – Frankenchrist ?
White Shorts.
Sol invictus – faith no more
@hubert rawlinson another one :
The Royal Teens – Original Short Shorts & Others
Sorry it was that Afterword favourite. Lionel Blair Aerobic Dancing.
Oh, how could I missed that?
https://www.discogs.com/Lionel-Blair-Aerobic-Dancing/release/1025637
Polaroids.
More Songs about Buildings & Food.
Correct.
Javelinists.
Flesh and Blood.
Worryingly, our minds are currently in synch.
Two Betty Davis albums.
Prepartum
Well, it could be Fatherhood by Babybird. But prepartum suggests an image of a foetus to me, so l’ll plump for The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
Good thinking. But, not the answer I had in mind.