WORST album Cover EVER!!!

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Wrong cut and paste there I meant
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IAG8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Well if you like Saved thats fair enough but defend this one

http://orad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dylan/img/shotlove_l.jpg

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

whoever suggested the miles albums is brutally insane

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

new System Of A Down:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000BPCCZA.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure if this is a defence for the Bob Dylan album but...

http://www.tresorberlin.com/images/large/tresor_202_beatty_shot_of_love.jpg

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

That BSS cover isn't so much bad as yawnsomely generic.

I quite liked the Pitchfork feature today on this topic :)

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't compare to the worst ones here, but the new My Morning Jacket cover is really bad:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/tubesocks/z.jpg

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/images/galleries/gallery%20j/spaceescapade.jpg

do you have any idea how much i would pay for this album?!

like, five bucks at least.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.visi.com/fall/discog/pics/ayamw%20big.jpg

http://www.visi.com/fall/discog/pics/levitate%20big.jpg

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

When I think bad album covers, I think Return to Forever:

http://www.lamediatheque.be/med/cov/maxi/U/C/8111.jpg
ihttp://www.online-redefined.com/boogie/return.jpg
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/R/retf.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

For some reason Levitate looks horrible to me while You Are Missing Winner has the opposite effect. The former almost looks like it should be a mid-90's grunge-metal album.

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Why are so many choosing fantasy-esque covers? I like that stuff!

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Charlie Daniels Band's "Saddle Tramp" is so bad it's good.
If you stare at it long enough you can see the face of God.

― Zach S, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

aerosmith get a grip - a pierced cow udder ?
the cd rocks.
disagree oasis - be here now
agree: millie jackson is tasteless.

― retrogurl, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

http://users.pandora.be/kveldulv/ragnarok/images/blackdoorH.jpg
Or does black metal not count, because of 'too easy'?

― Martijn ter Haar (wmterhaar), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg400/g489/g48972jl30e.jpg
Anyone seen the hardback coffee table verion of this? Truly one of the most insipid objects you could possibly imagine. Erlewine gave this three stars.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Limp Bizkit
Cranberries

OTM

Michael Jackson:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/65/Metal_machine_music.jpg/200px-

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kempa.com/blog/images/mmm.gif

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh, hell no! You did not just put the "Avant Hard" cover on this list!

― angelo flores (flores), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

OMG!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000053W5Y.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Schumann reimagined as a drag disco diva?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/minis/ole-626.jpg

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

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

hahahaha

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

I think that Chester Beatty cover is great! Also, I suspect it's parodying nineties rave/handbag/happy hardcore compilations with similar motifs.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

The Pitchfork article on worst album covers led me to this band called Nantucke. Here are all their album covers in chronological order:

http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/images/sleeve1.jpg
http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/images/sleeve4.jpg
http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/images/sleeve3.jpg
http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/images/sleeve2.jpg
http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/images/sleeve6.jpg
http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/images/sleeve7.jpg
http://www.2112online.com/nantucket/images/sleeve5.jpg

I can imagine the band holding a meeting after the second LP was released...

"Hmm, it looks like the album didn't sell quite as much as the first one, even with the sublime idea of a cover we had."

"Maybe the public just wasn't ready for it..."

"Hey, I know! Why don't we make the jeans-wearing crab in the first LP our mascot? Kinda like Iron Maiden has that troll thing."

"My god, that's brilliant! They'll love it!"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

I have an unabiding fury directed at this cover, mostly because of the soused hippie in the middle.

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/6d/49/814d224128a0272d788c7010.L.jpg

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d810/d81039ib4gm.jpg

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

those nantucket abum covers are fucking awesome, people here have no taste *shakes head*

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 September 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/images/common-ff-cover.jpg

― and what, Thursday, 14 June 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

that HEAVEN 17 (up there in 2002) cover is really something.

― pisces, Thursday, 14 June 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

That Chameleons cover up top reminds me of this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/UnbornChild200.jpg

― Brent, Thursday, 14 June 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

ewwwww!

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 14 June 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

two things: the ege bamyasi album cover is awesome and it's a lobster not a crab on the nantucket album, come on people

― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 14 June 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

the covers on this thread are 90% awesome

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 14 June 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s100069.jpg

― gman, Thursday, 14 June 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/dubstrong/front-4.jpg

― Sparkle Motion, Sunday, 4 May 2008 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

lock thread

― stephen, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

lock detroit

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 5 May 2008 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

Covers that IMO shouldn't be here (some of them I even like):
Daydream Nation
Magnetic Fields
Blind Faith
Van Halen
Prince
New Order
Lovage
Can
Roxy Music
Fates Warning

― daavid, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://melodicrockfan.com/covers/7f0bf670.jpeg

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

the covers on this thread are 90% awesome

-- moonship journey to baja, Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:38 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

― s1ocki, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Uh, this one's pretty bad...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/sites/default/files/guiborattoTMBA525.jpg

― ilxor, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:28 (seventeen years ago)