― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:14 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gazuga (gazuga), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:37 (10 years ago) Permalink
― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alan N (Alan N), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:42 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:47 (10 years ago) Permalink
― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Marshall Stax (Marshall Stax), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:50 (10 years ago) Permalink
It's been 25 years, fer chrissakes! Bring back the flames!
― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:53 (10 years ago) Permalink
As for MBV, the former was from a video and the latter merely shows that you can do wonders with overexposure! Please note the homage given to it in Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo wakes up in Rivendell. It's true I tell you! *wibbles away*
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:53 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Aaron A., Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:34 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:39 (10 years ago) Permalink
also the Stephen Malkmus album and then the inevitable Albarn debut!
― Aaron A., Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:43 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:46 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:57 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alan N (Alan N), Sunday, 15 December 2002 02:05 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 15 December 2002 02:10 (10 years ago) Permalink
too horrible for words, esp. the cap.
― piscesboy, Sunday, 15 December 2002 02:37 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 15 December 2002 04:07 (10 years ago) Permalink
― B, Sunday, 15 December 2002 04:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Sunday, 15 December 2002 04:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 December 2002 04:16 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Poppy (poppy), Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:51 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:58 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 December 2002 07:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 15 December 2002 07:01 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 December 2002 07:03 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 December 2002 07:05 (10 years ago) Permalink
I really only put a KJ one in there to piss off Alex so he'd call me a cretin.
― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 December 2002 07:06 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Marshall Stax (Marshall Stax), Sunday, 15 December 2002 09:34 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:08 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 15 December 2002 11:16 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Curt (cgould), Sunday, 15 December 2002 14:34 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 December 2002 15:09 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 15 December 2002 15:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
― dyson (dyson), Sunday, 15 December 2002 17:58 (10 years ago) Permalink
I love the King Crimson one, as jarring as it is. I also love..er...LOVELESS. I think it's the perfect visual accompaniment to the album (it looks like it sounds).
Tom Millar must be smitten repeatedly with a mallet, once again, for citing the Joke (not least a cover I happen to love...is Jaz laughing, crying, having a spazz out? Why aren't the boys behind him reacting?)
Black Sabbath's PARANOID's cover is so bad that it's wonderful.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:05 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:02 (10 years ago) Permalink
― JFP, Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:22 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:24 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:27 (10 years ago) Permalink
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 16 December 2002 00:52 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:09 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
In this case, both the album and the cover were dire.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
just looking at the old images: nothing wrong with Sonic Old People using Richter's candles for Daydream Nation other than perhaps a light charge of pretension...
and that Geto boys hospital shot is priceless.
― zoom, Saturday, 23 January 2010 12:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah the geto boys album cover is the best thing ever
― antexit, Saturday, 23 January 2010 14:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 23 January 2010 15:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Evan, Saturday, 23 January 2010 16:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
^ "We're so rich, we can afford a dude to photoshop us into a computer-generated scene of wealthy grandeur. TAKE THAT, FIDDY!"
― Did you say you were going to mangle the light? (staggerlee), Saturday, 23 January 2010 17:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
take that, Fiddy; take it to the LIMIT.
― zoom, Saturday, 23 January 2010 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
― bwoling fro suop (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Like the cover for New Order's Technique gone horribly, horribly wrong.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Grace? Really?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
For me, nothing is beneath this...
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ridiculous, cheap and offensive on so many levels. Pretty sure the music would be terrible too:
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Sunday, 10 October 2010 07:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
This one is pretty horrible, but it was the one it replaced which deserves the title of the worst ever:
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 10 October 2010 11:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
and what said concentration camp were one of the south's greatest groups in This is the thread where you can talk about Mystikal
― zvookster, Sunday, 10 October 2010 18:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
"For those of you about to nap, we salute you!"
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Sunday, 10 October 2010 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wish I could retroactively sb the person who nominated Daydream Nation
― groovy-otter.gif (corey), Sunday, 10 October 2010 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ this is pretty tasteless yes?
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Sunday, 11 September 2011 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.chartattack.com/files/inline-images/BannedCovers/03.jpg
RIP
― life should have a slow-moving fan (Lee626), Sunday, 11 September 2011 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
― life should have a slow-moving fan (Lee626), Sunday, 11 September 2011 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
No butcher cover yet?
― life should have a slow-moving fan (Lee626), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Basie cover looks like a cheap gray-market knockoff of this classic (with the no-less-offensive cover):
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
― jer.fairall, Monday, 12 September 2011 05:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
HAT.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's a great album cover, by the way.
I do kind of like his mad expression and the concentric way his 'tache droops with the same degree of curvature as his HAT is drooping, but overall, um...
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
He looks like a Conehead
― life should have a slow-moving fan (Lee626), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
He looks like he is having a spiritual moment, which he probably is because he is DAVY GRAHAM.
― some lady (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Surely the original sleeve to The Scorpions' "Virgin Killer" album is the worst sleeve of all time? It's so questionable that even wikipedia had a lot of hassle over it a couple of years ago.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
*Google Images it*
Gah!
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Which is to say, thanks for not posting it here (though i realize now that the replacement cover is upthread).
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
― one word username (snoball), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxp:Yeah, I would never post anything like that here, and I wouldn't expect anyone else to either. VERY questionable. It's one of those things that I find it very uncomfortable knowing it EXISTS, even.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm fairly certain it has been posted here and yeah, it's completely awful.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
There should really be a separate WORST Death Metal/Goregrind album Cover EVER!!! thread. Because that Exhumed is the tip of the iceberg and most of them are very NSFW.
― Cal Poxy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 08:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think there should be different categories for covers that are aesthetically awful, and covers with questionable content. I think aesthetically speaking the original "Virgin Killer" cover conveys its concept very well, it's just that the concept itself is terrible.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 08:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
So "Lovedrive" would go in the aesthetically awful category immediately, then! The Scorpions are a remarkable example, actually... didn't they have something like three albums covers in a row which generated some kind of controversy?
― Turrican, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, are their royalty checks really not enough to hire a legit graphic designer? That kinda looks like this:
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― cwkiii, Friday, 13 July 2012 00:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
"I can imagine the band holding a meeting after the second LP was released...
"Hmm, it looks like the album didn't sell quite as much as the first one, even with the sublime idea of a cover we had."
"Maybe the public just wasn't ready for it..."
"Hey, I know! Why don't we make the jeans-wearing crab in the first LP our mascot? Kinda like Iron Maiden has that troll thing."
"My god, that's brilliant! They'll love it!"
actually i understand there's a backstory to that. i can't verify the truth of this at all, but it's the stuff of north carolina legend. apparently some time in the 70's, nantucket, along with 4 or 5 other bands around the country, were given some sort of "development contract" with a label, and some middling amount of money. all the other bands obligingly spent their wad of cash on a good demo, maybe some radio promotion for their demosingle on local radio stations and whatnot, etc etc while nantucket took the ENTIRE WAD and bought.... a single billboard, on a major highway running into some large nc town (winston salem? charlotte?) showing the giant lobster, and the words "coming april 14th 1975" or something. and, booked the local giant stadium for april 14th.
the record executives were like, "you're idiots and we're dropping you" but the cryptic, mysterious billboard got people in the area so riled up the arena actually sold out, the band quintupled their money and now had 20,000 new fans who thought of them as both arena level superstars and hometown heros with a clever streak, and someone else promptly signed them.
i figure it was some shmaltzy record exec who was like "enough with the lobster already!" on the second album but after sales disappointed the band was all "fuck you, we're keeping the lobster"
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 13 July 2012 06:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
sorry, for reference:
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 13 July 2012 06:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
the post to which i refer, and all 7 album covers
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 13 July 2012 06:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 August 2012 11:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
Lovesexy is the worst album cover of all time.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 5 August 2012 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
mr. snrub is the worst challopian of all time
― defriend the undefriendable (how's life), Sunday, 5 August 2012 16:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:13 (3 months ago) Permalink