WORST album Cover EVER!!!

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see: ELP vs. El-p

― Winslow (winslow), Saturday, 21 December 2002 09:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

Winslow - that is so classic. Can't believe I forgot that one.

In a way, it sort of brings them full circle back to "Tarkus", no?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 21 December 2002 11:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 21 December 2002 11:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

I love Zappa, but reviewing his covers...yikes.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 21 December 2002 12:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oh, I can't even begin to tell you how much I despise that Brutal Truth cover.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 21 December 2002 23:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oh, I just remembered this one, which is far too common in the used bins:

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 22 December 2002 01:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 22 December 2002 04:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

actually - i just went through my whole cd collection and realised they were all stupid in their own ways.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 22 December 2002 04:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

I wanna be yer Detective man!

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 December 2002 13:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

Or perhaps you prefer the more classic look?

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 December 2002 13:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Gotta love the lens flare on the sunglasses.

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 23 December 2002 16:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

Didn't Mayhem once take a photo of their singer's corpse when he shot himself in the head, and use THAT as an album cover? Someone put that one up, I'd like to see that.

― Callum (Callum), Monday, 23 December 2002 18:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

Wow, that's Michael Des Barres!!! (later of Chequered Past, the touring incarnation of the Power Station and....er..Scum of the Earth on "WKRP in Cincinatti!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 December 2002 20:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

― maura (maura), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

― maura (maura), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Mayhem:

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 00:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Listening to this album today.....and it's great, but really...what an absolute shit cover.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

I still say it's that fucking NOFX album, which I saw today, inexplicably on prominent display in the Tower on 66th--I mean, why? Why are they displaying like 30 copies of a NOFX album from almost 10 years ago? Am I missing something? Is there a NOFX revival going on? If there is, I'm glad I'm missing it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

Man i love this thread!

― rexJr., Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

Hey! whats "Loveless" doing there?! I love that cover!

― rexJr., Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

― rexJr., Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

Funnily enough I literally just sold an Unrest CD not but one hour ago at Academy records. Not that disc, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

and

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! This thread had me giggling!

There are some artists so charismatic they can actually make you question every tenet in your personal code of 'design sound practise'. And others who fight that battle bravely, and lose.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

and what's Daydream Nation doing there??? that's one of my favorite Richter paintings! And it works incredibly well as a cover for that album. One of the songs is even called 'Candle' duh.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

Here's two from Rush:

and

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think the Farewell to Kings cover is kinda nice, actually....but yes Hemispheres the flatly indefensible.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

(for the Stretch cover)

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

(for the Stretch cover)

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:48 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Oh GOD! You're so BEEEG and STRONG!"

(I kid you not, actual lyrics from said album.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

i'm sorry ally; heavy petting zoo is brilliant, didn't you get the memo?

― dyson (dyson), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:48 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Andreu (andrew), Sunday, 4 May 2003 01:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Andreu (andrew), Sunday, 4 May 2003 01:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

― J. Weiss (jweiss), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 05:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 07:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

I present to you, the new Iron Maiden cover!

Absolutely amazing...

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 07:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Good bloody lord, is that that actual cover? What's happened to Derek Riggs' signature paintings? That looks like a half-assed still from "Eyes Wide Shut"!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

Here's your cover connection for you, Alex!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

This cover makes me want to destroy the earth and every living creature on it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

whomever thinks that MBV couldn't afford a good photographer for their record covers must also think they screwed up and accidentally mixed the vocals too low.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:15 (9 years ago) Permalink