Misleading Album Covers

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