Classic Album, FUCKING TERRIBLE Cover Art

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??
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& 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
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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.

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the cover, though -- yikes!

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I always had a problem with this cover. It takes a nanosecond for something like that to automatically look dated:
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http://www.wishville.co.uk/chameleons/images/sotb0001.jpg

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a great great album, but the covers always bugged me

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

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

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I was about to post Giant Steps.

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.

they fired original sleeve designer Mike Coles.

Which means they will burn in hell I hope.

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.

No, they hated it.

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http://www.asthmatickitty.com/image/covers/bunky_motorcycle.jpg

...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!!

You hurt me, Barry!

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.

The cover for Paranoid gets a raw deal. I know the guy's supposed to be a "War Pig" (which was the original album title iirc), but he actually does look paranoid, don't you think?

If by "paranoid" you mean indefensibly silly, then yes.

The "Paranoid" single cover is even funnier:

http://www.fannins-collectables.com/images/b_listing/black_sabbath/paranoid/bss101_fc-fs.jpg

Can anyone tell why the cop in the album cover is wielding a sword? I don't think cops had swords in the seventies.

I like most of these covers! But as I said in the other thread, it's personal opinion. It's not like these artists were like" Yeah! Let's make a terrible album cover that everyone will bash!"
I don't see that happening.

How about Black Sabbath "Born Again"? That's the worst cover of all time. The album overcame that and a botched production job to come out pretty goddamn good.

The Paranoid single cover's brilliant!

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