― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KHH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)
a great great album, but the covers always bugged me
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― - (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― - (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― - (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)
(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)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ricky Ben-Udi (smile), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― jason., Friday, 15 April 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)
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I was about to post Giant Steps.
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
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)
No, they hated it.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007KIFLO.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpghttp://www.coldcrushrecords.com/images_layout/cover-cc009.jpghttp://www.asthmatickitty.com/image/covers/bunky_motorcycle.jpg
― Will M. (Will M.), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― zeus, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)
...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)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)
You hurt me, Barry!
― Organized Crime (Leee), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 16 April 2005 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ludo (Ludo), Saturday, 16 April 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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?
― latebloomer, Friday, 15 February 2008 07:25 (eighteen years ago)
If by "paranoid" you mean indefensibly silly, then yes.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:46 (eighteen years ago)
The "Paranoid" single cover is even funnier:
http://www.fannins-collectables.com/images/b_listing/black_sabbath/paranoid/bss101_fc-fs.jpg
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:18 (eighteen years ago)
Can anyone tell why the cop in the album cover is wielding a sword? I don't think cops had swords in the seventies.
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:23 (eighteen years ago)
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.
― our work is never over, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:45 (eighteen years ago)
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.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:59 (eighteen years ago)
The Paranoid single cover's brilliant!
― chap, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:02 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.doctornerve.org/nerve/pictures/skin.jpg http://www.voivod.net/discography/88/88.gif http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000630CA.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Øystein, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:23 (eighteen years ago)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/2985.jpg
― asthmatic american, Monday, 1 September 2008 04:25 (seventeen years ago)
awesome revive
― antexit, Monday, 1 September 2008 05:46 (seventeen years ago)
I pulled this out earlier today:
http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-08-02/OrbitalWinsidesIfront.jpg
The biggest negative points have to go to covers that in addition to being ugly also give you a wrong idea of what the album sounds like. I mean, would you buy this romper-room-looking bullshit if you didn't already know that it's fantastically amazing?
― kenan, Monday, 1 September 2008 10:47 (seventeen years ago)
"Pee Wee's Medical Kit"
― kenan, Monday, 1 September 2008 10:48 (seventeen years ago)
great thread idea, i knew it had been done already. i think the following album is great though i am not 100% sure as i had already given up on them at that time. they were just releasing too much stuff in the first half of the nineties, i couldn't keep pace. bonus points for rubbish title. they also excelled at giving their albums ridiculous names. here comes stereolab:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fVJDafiu-HM/SNE1IrOH3ZI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/6e3rz2As2v0/s400/StereolabEmperorTomatoKetchup.jpg
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)
Yep, I agree the Sabs have their fair share of poor covers.
This is not Thin White Rope's finest album, but still classic in my book. And one of the worst covers ever:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n-thK6Pq5M4/ShFpyvTIbNI/AAAAAAAABzI/BIVY50KMU-U/s320/rubysea.jpg
― Duke, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:39 (sixteen years ago)
http://image.hotdog.hu/_data/members0/972/235972/images/454016.jpg
This is one of my favourite albums of this decade, but even in the category of cheapo rap covers it looks pretty cheap.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2342058651_2f751c9e1f.jpg
You could fill this thread with examples of digital art on early 90s album covers.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)
http://i059.radikal.ru/0908/b0/c545a45c3ee1.jpg
http://img3.nnm.ru/3/3/d/3/6/33d36f811b96b7c26d98bcb5981a7eb7_full.jpg
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)
Though the back cover of that Black Dog album is even worse than the front:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/blackdog-1.jpg
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)
Some paranoid people are indefensibly silly.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 2 November 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)