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It was some time during the Spring semester of 1998 that we hit upon the idea of recording a new album. We certainly had plenty of songs in our canon to consider, since our repertoire had pretty much doubled since the release of "That Album!" I recall one or two rehearsals where we sat around brainstorming ideas for the title of the forthcoming album. I think "Disgruntled Postal Workers" came up (the original name of Those Guys!) as well as "Random Acts Of A Cappella," which was very nearly the title of our first album (I believe it was Damon Tribble's idea). Someone joked about calling it "This Album!", so that you could own both "This Album!" and "That Album!" by Those Guys!, but we thought that perhaps that was beating a dead horse. (A similar suggestion of "That Other Album!" was also quickly shot down.) Teron Cohen suggested "From Here To Yucaipa And Back," which would have featured a map of the appropriate area on the cover. There was actually a long list of very funny titles that were aborted, and I really wish I could find it. The funniest of which was another Teron suggestion, "I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up," and various incarnations of this such as "We've Fallen And We Can't Get Up," "We've Fallen And I Can't Get Up" and the bizarre "I've Fallen And We Can't Get Up."
I can't remember who came up with the "Colton Avenue"/"Abbey Road" idea, but I know that with that idea came the addendum that we could parody The Beatles' "Abbey Road" cover. Not exactly an original idea, but interesting nonetheless.
Left: the oft-imitated cover of The Beatles' "Abbey Road," 1969.
Right: Those Guys!' "Colton Avenue," 2000.