WORST album Cover EVER!!!

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Sooo, Sooooo, Soooooo crap a cover:

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

i love the new order covers. so minimal. i have no idea what the music sounds like, but the design is nice

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

This is either the best or the worst cover ever:

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Wow...that is bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yes, and I'm an idiot for not buying it when it originally came out. It was released by the notoriously incompetent ripoffs of Lethal Records (ie, extremely hard to find in the first place), and the reissues all have new artwork (my, why could that be?). And unsurprisingly, nobody sells his copy.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

Big Black, 'Headache.' I am not gonna go find & post, it is far more repulsive than R Trux. Of course Albini would have to win this one.

I also am a fan of the Smog, but the back photo w/the children's choir is far more weird. Kitty, no !

― daria g, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

You all do get the "joke" behind the Smog cover, right? Kitty in lightening = Cat Power.

Anyway, many of these album covers are pretty terrific in my book -- the Radiohead, SY, Magnetic Fields, and John & Yoko especially.

I posted Kowanko's reworking of Self-Portrait on the Cover Connections VIII thread. That's one of the most garish in my collection.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

I really like the New Order cover. In fact, there's a poster of it on my wall...

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

Is this really so terrible?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think they're talking about the limited edition cover that came in a bag.. I don't really care to see that one.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Cheese? Cheese?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

This is either the best or the worst cover ever:
I think I saw that on a sign some biblethumper carried in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

"tarkus" by elp.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 06:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

wilson picket = dancing elf?

― ddd, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

fuck

― ddd, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

You all do get the "joke" behind the Smog cover, right? Kitty in lightening = Cat Power.

He's a regular Neil Hamburger.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 20:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

This is pretty indefensible. It's not even particularly well done.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 December 2002 05:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

....the thinking man's Guy Mann Dude, clearly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 December 2002 05:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

That one always makes me laugh...

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

Someone who knows how to post pictures please put up that Miles Davis 80s album where he's holding the toy machinegun. PLEASE!

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

You have the right to hear me play Cyndi Lauper...

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

Thanks Joe

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 21 December 2002 05:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oh my, oh my, how in God's sakes did I let myself forget this one:

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 21 December 2002 07:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 21 December 2002 07:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Alan N (Alan N), Saturday, 21 December 2002 08:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

― Winslow (winslow), Saturday, 21 December 2002 09:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

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

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