Don't do it, Johnny!

You have so much to live for!

See, Johnny? People like you!

Extreme cheesecakosity

Ooo, nice cover, Burt! Oh, wait a minute...it says The Happy Hammond in the upper left corner. Huh? Wait, bottom left says Ena Baga. Hmm... Let's check the back.

First of all, wow, Blogger sure messed up the quality of my pic. :p Anyway, no clues here. OH WAIT, what's that tiny, tiny pic near the middle?

Is that Ena Baga? I guess so. Good job using a microscopic, blurry pic, Pickwick! :p (not that I'm complaining about the cover, but blimey, I don't think I've seen a more unfair version of the ol' 'sex sells' principle!)

Ventures and nipples...

...should not mix! >:-(

So bad, they called them The New Ventures. Couldn't even show the model's whole face! Haha. Fortunately, they went back to the GOOD ol' Ventures in short order. The worst part of it is that it doesn't even sound like them. It just sounds like any tired old disco junk with a wee bit of guitar here and there. Could've been anyone! HWARF!

More nipplage on the back. :p

Aaaaanyway, despite it being a horrible album, I'm still a big fan of The Ventures and was happy to find this pile. Heh. Many respectable groups had a disco album and they're allowed a mistake here and there as well.

I'd post a video, but...nah.

Pass the "Dutchie"

*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*

 Nah, I'm kidding. "Pass the Dutchie" is innocent, though still an odd cover/homage choice for a group of kids, considering the subject matter of the original. 

 They're (well, two of them, anyway) still active, so maybe the Youth part isn't quite as accurate nowadays. ;) More info on them here.

And here's the video for their MEGA, seriously catchy hit...

The [Christian] Music Machine

And it's in the middle of nowhere, apparently. Nice colorful cover with some slightly strange-looking kids, especially in the eye department.

 Hey, it's a gatefold album! I love those. So nice to have basically a full-sized book rather than a tiny CD booklet, especially when it's full of art.

Back cover, featuring uneven lighting and focus! :p

10-4, Good Buddy!

 Or should that be Good Daddy? I get the feeling it's supposed to be the son on CB (real or toy) to his father, in one of those trucks. Hmm... At any rate, a nice, cute, vibrant image. :)

Boy howdy!

Pucker up!

Almost looks like a kiddie album, but no, it's a real-deal brass band, with the trombones and the tubas and the hey hey it hurts me.

Simple back cover, but I dig it.

Ooo, lookit Side One, Track One! (if you like that kind of thing) I need to listen to this sometime. ;) And now I look at the back cover and think 'hmm, kinda Terry Gilliam-esque!'

By the way, this post put me over the 50,000 pageviews mark! Big thanks to Retrospace for that. ;)