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re: Neil Young, uh no. After the Gold Rush, Tonight's the Night, Time Fades Away, American Stars and Bars (designed by Dean Stockwell!) are all great.

Landing on Water is awful tho.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

classic albums with classic covers disturbingly replaced on the cd could fill the thread but this one's always annoyed me the most

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

urrgh yeah that's a travesty. the original flag/daisy design is soooooo classic.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

In the 90's especially, there were a ton of hack-job Photoshop renderings that made their way onto album covers. An example:
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/c0/53/85429-resized200.JPG

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Jessie SO OTM regarding Let Love In. Henry's Dream was pretty crap too.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

At the risk of being misunderstood, I'm talking SOLELY about their cover art. Both those Cave albums are utterly classic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't mind let love in so much but god the henry's dream art was awful.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This classic album used to have a classic cover, until it was replaced by this rather pointless photo:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002P5U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

the lame nude chix cover was conceived by some suit. hendrix hated it, for good reason. that's not great (the only hendrix cover i luv is axis), but at least he looks like he's on fire and it fills the frame which works well with the album.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

o god some the "psychedelic" hendrix photos that were on the covers of the cd reissues briefly during the nineties were awful and deserve a namecheck here. thankfully you could flip the book around and get the original covers.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh come on the Are You Experienced? album cover is damn near perfect.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

but the axis cover is perfect

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not that crazy about shot from beneath a person, i think the 'give it away' video traumatized me.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone ever realized that De La's album cover has them making a PEACE SIGN with the typography & their heads???? LOL. Brilliance.

u guys really are contributing sum quite unterrible covers, by the way, (including the De La, the Soft Cell & the Peter Gabriel,--the first & last being easily be argued as sum the BEST ever) & also throwing out quite a few NOT-VERY-CLASSIC MUSIC SELECTIONS as well...

but personally, gigantic co-sign on the Brian Wilson SMiLE cover, same with the original intended cover as well. complete lazy non-happy-effect-giving, non thought out, non-anything C-R-A-P. what the hell happened??
http://wsucr.no-ip.org/smile.jpg

& though I fully disagree bout the very iconic & fully greatly-designed Day-Glow Hippy Peace Sign cover, I always though De La's second album: cover hindered me ever really accepting the album
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/d/delasoul~~~_delasouli_101b.jpg
just never actually wanted that shoddy cover in my collection. Never bought the record. Buhloone Mindstate was arguably worse, but with the much improved cover (Best De La cover award??) then I think it's impacted me much further listening & appreciating it.

Also, the second Pharcyde album cover is very mediocre, but especially the back cover. just sh*tty looking... bad photoshopped(?) gritty bitmapped purple lighting, & just bad general type & layout & everything. Especially compared ta the magnifincence of the first LP cover.


And not that anybody here'll likely know what I'm talking bout--Sticky Fingaz Black Trash Autobiography cover with him alternately in the fake braids & in the spiked-leather-jacket, running away from the cop car, with the sh*tty "red glare lights" just always looked real reallll disgustingly chunky bad turrible ta me. Never quite felt right leaving it on the display shelf though it's arguably a should-be-classic.

― Cavebaby Jesus, Friday, 15 April 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

this one PWNS this thread:

http://www.musicmatic.de/Z/Zappa__7a.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Eisbar so OTM that I have to go donate my innards to science.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

gary numan's ghost is definitely not a classic, but it's NOT awful.

the cover, though -- yikes!

http://www.songlyricscollection.com/lyrics/g/gary-numan/exhibition-tour-1987-ghost/exhibition-tour-1987-ghost.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Late to thread as always but I really like Anton Corbin's cover on Henry's Dream. I'll give you Let Love In though, Nick is much better served in a suit.

I always had a problem with this cover. It takes a nanosecond for something like that to automatically look dated:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000272N.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg


― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, but ned's gonna hate me now!

http://www.wishville.co.uk/chameleons/images/sotb0001.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i put most nick cave album covers in the AWFUL category on principle, for that AWFUL mullet he used to sport.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favorite albums of all time.....but the cover is laughable....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KHH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The guy on the front of Paranoid reminds me of my 6-year-old self playing Star Wars in my back yard with a glow-in-the-dark lightsaber.

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man. That cover is BRILLIANT. He's p a r a n o i d !

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

No, actually, they're War Pigs (the original title of the record). Geddit? Pink? Weapons? War Pigs? Geddit?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d862/d86291nkvl6.jpg

a great great album, but the covers always bugged me

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004TUFG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― - (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, he looks like a geek. you can't wrap about not gamblin with sneaks when you look like a geek. love the album though.

― - (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

rap*

― - (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Paranoid's cover really is a classic WTF. It makes you wonder if Black Sabbath was just as surprised when they saw it. Did they complain to their manager? Was it the band's idea? If so, were they having a good laugh? Were they so fucked up they though it wasn't hysterical? Did they think they're album would be so huge, the cover wouldn't matter? Or that the cover would attract so much attention because it is so fucked up?

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://homepages.tesco.net/~beautiful.day/images/ellipse.jpg

(I don't think Bardo Pond have ever had a good album cover)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing about Paranoid is that for a record that was so heavy and dark and angry and scary and...er..paranoid, it suffered from a sleeve that looked cheap and silly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000240JU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

all their cover art is pretty damn bad now that I think about it.

― jason., Friday, 15 April 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, I agree 100%. When I first saw it, it was the stupidest cover I had ever seen at that time. I laughed and chalked it up to "back when things were lame and stupid" (back then I thought the 80s were the best decade ever and was way into Metallica).

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024R8.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Ricky Ben-Udi (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked their first two album covers, but this is just bland
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003BGM.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jason., Friday, 15 April 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Paranoid's cover is a letdown, yes. As are the aforementioned brilliant Nick Cave album covers.

It gives me great satisfaction though to see Ride's Going Blank Again here, though, because even though I don't think it's a "classic" album, the cover will always be much, much worse than its aural contents, and I think someone really did need to point out just how bad that cover is.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Also...

they fired original sleeve designer Mike Coles.

Which means they will burn in hell I hope.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000691TH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It's not so much that it's a visually bad cover....it's got an interesting design (cribbed from French film poster, i want to say....), but it just has zero to do with (a) the album, (b) the band. Sometimes -- as with the example of Junkyard -- that can be compelling. Not in this case.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Paranoid's cover really is a classic WTF. It makes you wonder if Black Sabbath was just as surprised when they saw it. Did they complain to their manager? Was it the band's idea? If so, were they having a good laugh?

No, they hated it.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe not classics, but i liek these albums but want to vomit on their covers.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007KIFLO.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.coldcrushrecords.com/images_layout/cover-cc009.jpg
http://www.asthmatickitty.com/image/covers/bunky_motorcycle.jpg

― Will M. (Will M.), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot to mention from earlier in this thread that Junkyard is indeed an awful record sleeve. Sometimes I'd come across that flipping through my records and think "are you serious?" The sleeve didn't exactly make me want to play the record, though I know there are some mighty good tracks on it.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

If I could paste a picture here, it would be "Argybargy" from Squeeze.

― zeus, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.metalages.com/store/images/cov-judaspriest-painkillerr.jpg

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot to mention from earlier in this thread that Junkyard is indeed an awful record sleeve.

...he's spot on with Junkyard as well, which I always found somewhat bizarre.

What's wrong with you people?? Junkyard is the greatest album cover of all time!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it's cheesy! and it looks like something that some sorta sub-molly hatchet type band should use, not the birthday party!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(I don't think Bardo Pond have ever had a good album cover)

You hurt me, Barry!

― Organized Crime (Leee), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that Bardo Pond comment was backwards. I really like that cover illustration but god, what a boring band.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 16 April 2005 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://media.bestprices.com/content/music/10/526112.jpg

― Ludo (Ludo), Saturday, 16 April 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

I can't believe someone thinks New Order's "Technique" has a bad cover. It's in my top 10 covers of all time. I think only "Power Corruption and Lies" is better.

― daavid, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

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