Misleading Album Covers

What were they thinking?!! A psychedelic olde-worlde folk-rock album and they stick a tin of I Can I Can't on the front! The cover on Gorky5 was pretty rubbish but this takes the fucking biscuit. It looks like a fucking Pepsi Max advert aimed at Brat-Punkers. I thought their other covers (Barafundle especially) represented the music perfectly. Gorky's are oaken and knotted, not shiny and aluminium! Plus the title "How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart" is a. uncatchy b. rubbish and c. is too melancholy for that kind of cover.

So...you're saying this isn't the new Puffy Ami Yumi record?

I remember my step-father looking at this cover after I'd been playing it on the living room stereo, and he commented that it looked like something he'd like (guessing it was Medieval Madrigals or something). It just doesn't speak to the album's content at all. I mean, yes, there is a guy getting punched in the face ala "Mean Street", but it looks like a Breugel painting....not the sort've thing that would normally grace a hard rock/heavy metal sleeve.

http://www.rossoalice.it/alice/musicstore/image/47/47484.jpg

http://www.darkanddeadly.as.ro/Swans/Albums/whitelight.jpg

http://www.southern.com/southern/band/KILLD/pics/07943L.jpg

http://swans.pair.com/IMG_PRODUCTS/loveoflife.jpg

. ..which is kinda more of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get sorta thing.

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1643837-02A-BIG.jpg

If you knew nothing about Drexciya or Tresor Records, you'd probably imagine this to be a metal album.

It looks rather gauzy and ethereal to me.

Re: ACDC from upthread: ALL of their alternate album covers are fucking weird.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Acdchighvoltageeur.JPG

When I bought this record in 1994 my techno-obsessed buddies were salivating. What would it sound like? Black Dog? Plastikman? Robert Armani?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxFRR73luyo/TZffj5roicI/AAAAAAAAFLw/TB_DhmXApzQ/s1600/Stereolab%2B-%2BTransient%2BRandom-Noise%2BBursts%2BWith%2BAnnouncements%2B-.jpg

Yeah, 2xpost was going to say I'd imagine a slightly harder Cocteau Twins there,.

Whereas that one says "I sound like Neu boogie" to me.

Really? That totally looks like a DJ mix.

Oh I suppose..

Then again, if it was it'd be from above the record, not below.

I wouldn't have thought that Stereolab album to be a techno record or a DJ mix back in 1994. Few techno and mix albums looked that artsy and minimal in 1994, they looked more like this:

http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/d/dave-angel/17757-dave-angel-trance-lunar-paradise.jpg
http://img12.nnm.ru/8/4/4/9/8/84498df9886249384978846a6efbdd35_full.jpg

Yeah, I didn't get into techno until 97 or so, so I missed all that crap.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Soundgarden_Telephantasm_cover.jpg
http://bsides.myx.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/311-Universal-Pulse.jpg

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Nick-Drake-Pink-Moon.jpg

This album of strange orchestral swellings, daliesque exclamations and surreal dialogue and lyrics oh hang on....

What's the album with the goat?

If you are referring to the Bighorn Sheep, that's the new 311 album.

Okay, I've never heard of 311, what do they sound like?

mmm, Maroon 5 / nickelback style soft rock.

Except with more reggae and rap/funk metal influences. They've usually been linked in my mind with being closer to Sublime than the bands mentioned, but I might wrong with that.

I'm basing it on the one track I heard, "Amber".

They have always been down, down

http://www.kindamuzik.net/gfx/gomez-cvr-0711.jpg

i wouldn't expect rootsy rock/britpop from this one. (more like the new SCOOTER or some other nineties dance compilation)

Nah, if it was Scooter it would need some colours, the black & white is too stark.

http://www.musictastershop.com/files/images/287.jpg

I used to see this album in bargain bin of the local record store, and I thought it was heavy metal... I haven't actually listened to it, but apparently it's rap?

Then again, metal style imagery isn't that uncommon in rap music, like Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, DMX, etc.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/41-1.jpg

Obviously an '80s new-wave band, kinda like AC/DC

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=throbbing+gristle+20+jazz+funk+greats&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=GShsMWruFocIcM:&imgrefurl=http://amputeearms.blogspot.com/2009/02/throbbing-gristle-20-jazz-funk-great.html&docid=f16MKkEA3WduEM&w=300&h=300&ei=SctHTu-IBcHB8QOrg9SUBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=901&vpy=76&dur=23&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=109&ty=102&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=135&start=0&ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0&biw=1440&bih=732

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=throbbing+gristle+20+jazz+funk+greats&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=GShsMWruFocIcM:&imgrefurl=http://amputeearms.blogspot.com/2009/02/throbbing-gristle-20-jazz-funk-great.html&docid=f16MKkEA3WduEM&w=300&h=300&ei=SctHTu-IBcHB8QOrg9SUBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=901&vpy=76&dur=23&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=109&ty=102&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=135&start=0&ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0&biw=1440&bih=732

html failure, sorry, but i think you know the one i mean

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ngk_5UhX4HA/ThLyMcgQY2I/AAAAAAAADFU/KRYM33RlTQE/s1600/bongo+date.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_osaKxjJ33dE/S9iaLjzA1aI/AAAAAAAAAhg/jNshYDQFH_s/s400/579787%5B1%5D.jpg

^ Only has 49 of the first 50 singles.

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/f/fahey_john~_letgo~~~~_101b.jpg

imo this is the saddest record cover in the world

This cover is one of my all-time faves! Give yourself three guesses as to the genre before reading the small print....

http://musicology.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/10/wgso81763c.jpg

I suspect that it's impossible to read this album title without seeing the whole cover
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/word.jpg

Looks like "storms" - what's the album?

Correct!. I was wrong. It is Nanci Griffith's 'Storms'.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/51Q3OLTVuTL.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71op39EbQQL._SL1268_.jpg

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1752648874_10.jpg

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-WwmD0_perbo%2FU-gsMc4BeQI%2FAAAAAAAAORI%2FrJ1LOJtQCv0%2Fs1600%2FFront%2BCover%2BOBI%2Bcopy.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Blue Cheer - Oh! Pleasant Hope (1971). Saw a NM copy of this in new arrivals at a store and until my eyes picked out the band name, figured it was some also-ran indie psychedelic band of the 2000s, somewhere in the space between AnCo and Of Montreal. It's tough to find a JPG that really conveys this, since if it yellows at all, suddenly the quiltiness registers and it belongs in the 70s again.

Initially read that as "Pleasant Mode," which is probably what it would be called if it were a 2000s release as you describe

Allan Clarke - Legendary Heroes. Solo album by the guy from The Hollies, rather than the epic power metal the artwork suggests.

https://img.discogs.com/oLsFQAGFNDNZT8yZ3hbDIOuFJRM=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1793447-1268165417.jpeg.jpg