Album Covers featuring Yawnsomely Literal Cover Art in regards to said album's title.

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― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.rollingstones.cwc.net/81.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Err...but Mark, that album's called Sucking in the 70's. I don't see in sucking go on.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i see a lot of sucking going on with regard to that record

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c578/c57845x1b6e.jpg
Believe it or not, the name of this album is "The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken"

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lp-cd.de/1/14120_01.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

billy joel looks so cool in that! I wonder if he went to see The Dictators back in the day, or something... maybe The Hassle even opened for them!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

on his foot there, do you think that's wear-and-tear on the album cover or is it salt-stains on his zippered ankle boots? salt stains on rock boots are awesome.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

billy definitely could have hung out with these dudes:
http://thedictators.com/pix2000/prayos.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy is looking so WILLIAMSBURG HIPSTER in that PIC...those jeans alone would probably go for $125 now days.

OTM re: Salt Stained Rock Boots, AWESOME!

very punk.

― ddb, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Do my eyes deceive me...or is that a LITTLE bit of SIDEPIPE there too?

who knew.

― ddb, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c419/c419431833f.jpg

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy looks cool, but his reflection is the campest way to have a chest-burster kill you ever.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.unitedmanchester.com/music/photos/ThinLizzy-jailbreak.jpg

― ddb, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Good lord! That Foghat cover is absolutely brilliant.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

also rick springfield's australian
Yeah but I bet the genius execs who came up with/approved the cover were not.

― no opinion, Friday, 30 January 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004W510.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 January 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

There's probably 100 better examples of this one, but this was all I could find...
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f684/f68455dz5c6.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e632/e63202j6mny.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c338/c33854qn9sy.jpg

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It depends, OleM, are you talking about this?:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c019/c0197023990.jpg

..or this?:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e249/e24927z3kre.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Believe it or not, the name of this album is "The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken"
-- BrianB"

But the cover has a cock, not a chicken.
Ahhhhhh...

― Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm... I was thining of 'hen'...

*slaps forehead*

― Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mindcrime.biz/holy.jpg

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the title of the above?

― no opinion, Friday, 30 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be Holy Diver.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://tonica.no.sapo.pt/sparks.gif

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.punkbands.com/lyrics/bands/doa/albums/letswrec.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god....I haven't seen that cover in about fifteen years. Getting misty!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I ever made it through the whole thing.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The title track and "General Strike" are okay, if I remember correctly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd900/d925/d92594b7sn5.jpg

The Colour and the Shape

I see the Colour, I see the Shape, but nothing else.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

[img]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d326/d326019tc21.jpg[/img]

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Umm, shit, how do I post pictures on this board?

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

You have to use the greater-than/less-than brackets. Like this:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d326/d326019tc21.jpg

The end result would look like:

img src=

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

In other words, use the "view source" function because I'm too lucid to figure out anything tonight.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/R/rush_movingf.jpg

And there's the other picture where they're making a moving picture about these people moving pictures. It's so...meta.

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

...and here it is!

http://www.mothermetal.com/Images/movingpictures1.jpg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c491/c49189f7v56.jpg

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Then there's f'ing Roll The Bones

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IRM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I just realized what building that cover was shot in front of in Toronto.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000ADKY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 31 January 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

and the winner is...
http://www.soundchaser.com.br/reviews/M/Mike%20Oldfield%20%20-%20Tubular%20Bells.gif

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.imagewiz.net/images/sataylor/2262.jpg

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

My teacher has that one.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Quibble with the Frampton. The yawnsomely literal title for this picture would be something like "Frampton Stares" or "Mouth Agape, With Guitar." It doesn't show him "coming alive," not literally.

― no opinion, Sunday, 1 February 2004 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

heh

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024JV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Well, maybe if the album was called Crouching manfully next to a Panther maybe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

There's probably 100 better examples of this one, but this was all I could find

yeah, on same theme I picked up a second hand copy of Big Jim Sullivan's LP "Big Jim's Back" yesterday. Guess what the cover pic is of?

― zebedee (zebedee), Sunday, 1 February 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Repurposed from the metal sales figures thread:

http://www.mothermetal.com/images/firehouse.jpg

Props to these guys for pulling this off on a self-titled album!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 1 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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Yessss. Most of these are more "amusingly literal" but that one, that is truly yawnsomely literal.

― emil.y, Friday, 23 January 2026 15:14 (four months ago)

Can't decide whether I like Mary O'Hara's collar or the Thames' debris better.

― punchy wunchy wikipedia woo (bendy), Friday, 23 January 2026 21:23 (four months ago)

Rejected album title: Collar my World

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 January 2026 21:26 (four months ago)

So don't be afraid to let them show

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 January 2026 21:28 (four months ago)

two weeks pass...

Tom McConville, "Tommy on the Bridge"

https://i.discogs.com/YjF2_hD5oTZf6aQ02UolSxWfVtrp1YB95_GI4ujXjWY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUxMzU4/MjktMTM4NTQ3MTA4/MS04MDQxLmpwZWc.jpeg

― The Olde, Old, Very Olde Man. (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 February 2026 12:39 (four months ago)

Yawnsome? This is riveting!

(sorry)

― clamage, Sunday, 8 February 2026 20:50 (three months ago)

Saw this album cover and thought of this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beside_Myself_(DJ_Haram_album)#/media/File:Beside_Myself_(DJ_Haram_album).jpg
DJ Haram - Beside Myself

and then thought, surely it didn't take until 2025 for someone to come up with this brilliant idea and sure enough:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Beside_Myself2.jpg
Ray Stevens - Beside Myself

― silverfish, Thursday, 12 February 2026 18:53 (three months ago)

first image was supposed to be

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Beside_Myself_%28DJ_Haram_album%29.jpg

― silverfish, Thursday, 12 February 2026 18:54 (three months ago)

Pretty sure if you went to Discogs and typed in "beside myself" you could depress yourself in a hurry.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 12 February 2026 20:26 (three months ago)

I'm seeing a "Depress Yourself" cover, with pictures of the band's faces on the keys of a computer keyboard.

― Who's going to stop 200 balloons? Nobody! (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:01 (three months ago)

From the same great mind that brought you Beside Myself:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bcPhYJ4jL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Ray Stevens – #1 With A Bullet

His other albums include Have A Little Talk With Myself, Turn Your Radio On, There Is Something On Your Mind and Be Your Own Best Friend, none of them featuring yawnsomely literal album covers. Which seems a missed opportunity.

― you're doing that thing again (Matt #2), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:29 (three months ago)

Oh, he's got some more literal ones.

― Who's going to stop 200 balloons? Nobody! (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:34 (three months ago)

Missing a foam finger for extra literalness there.

― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:37 (three months ago)

He spent the whole budget on the oversized novelty bullet.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:44 (three months ago)

lol, nice work Matt #2 - missed opportunities indeed.

― Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 February 2026 11:44 (three months ago)

one month passes...

Jimmy Grierson, "A Series of Long Jumps"

https://i.discogs.com/Jtsf70k8BIc5-p_wTtkwDdnx5K47I_0kUtuIMyoNhdw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2MjI0/OTgtMTY5OTYxNDUw/MC0xNDk4LmpwZWc.jpeg

― Schlub 7 (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2026 14:52 (two months ago)

Jimmy Grierson hopping towards you across an empty field is an unsettling image

― jmm, Saturday, 21 March 2026 15:02 (two months ago)

two weeks pass...

Coco Montoya, "Writing on the Wall"

https://i.discogs.com/jQyTJFfon_MFiGPjtVK3pMnaFem5ADkG99CBfoW2HhM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:537/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4MTk2/NjQxLTE2OTQxMDE2/OTktNjY2MC5qcGVn.jpeg

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2026 19:52 (two months ago)

I saw this and thought it was sufficiently strange.

https://mostlymusicstore.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/57_8b322dd2-04b3-417f-86d3-a94a0532133e.png?v=1761403429&width=1920

Bryan Adams - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

― earlnash, Monday, 13 April 2026 13:43 (one month ago)

https://i.discogs.com/GsvlpEM09DjJFnKWinGXyP2MZvzFA9UbTGlWDAod2aI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcwMzY1/Ny0xNjIwODMyMzAx/LTg5MjAuanBlZw.jpeg

Kleeer – Taste The Music

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Friday, 17 April 2026 17:08 (one month ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/39e1c950bc609cfaf56018b014019674/2363005/the-flirtations-love-makes-the-world-go-round-Cover-Art.jpg

The Flirtations - Love Makes the World Go Round

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Friday, 17 April 2026 17:20 (one month ago)

three weeks pass...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81b3W4tmw1L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

David Bromberg Band – Bandit In A Bathing Suit

― change a word make a third (Matt #2), Monday, 11 May 2026 17:26 (three weeks ago)

"Kleeer – Taste The Music"

I learn from the internet that they were originally The Jam Band, but they changed their name in 1977 to avoid confusion with The Jam. Or at least that's what Discogs.com says. It doesn't pass the smell test, and Wikipedia has a different chronology. They're a pretty obscure band. But this is Ilxor, where the obscure is commonplace. It's not called Mission: Difficult.

I have to say that Kleeer immediately makes me think of Blakes Seven. It's a bad guy name. Comissioner Kleeer. Sector Chief Kleeer. Of the planet Sinofar. Series three, episode five. He probably dies a nasty death. Or alternatively the episode ends with him pulling off a latex facemask, and - surprise - it's Servalan!

"Jimmy Grierson, "A Series of Long Jumps""

I respect that cover. Because it actually has a series of long jumps. Not just one long jump. It has a series of them. Some of the yawnsomely literal album covers up the thread aren't completely literal and I disrespect them. Ray Stevens isn't holding a bullet. He's holding an artillery shell. And Mary O'Hara is not at the Royal Festival Hall. She's not at the Royal Albert Hall. She's clearly some distance away. The correct title should be Mary O'Hara Standing On the Hungerford Bridge, Overlooking the Royal Festival Hall.

But in Jimmy Grierson's case there actually is a series of long jumps. And they are long. It's hard to judge the scale, but each bound appears to be at least twice his height, so we're talking 10-12 feet. That's nowhere near Olympic standard, but it's still a long jump. I would have trouble jumping that far horizontally once, let along several times.

It's a good example of why Peter Saville is not necessarily the answer. Given the same brief, he would probably have delivered a black and white image of a Grecian bust with some fancy typography. Also Firefox has stopped checking my spelling. I can't tell if Firefox is broken or if this is an Ilxor thing. Is it a subtle way of winnowing out AI. Should I add some, or add more spelling errors, or take some away.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 11 May 2026 18:25 (three weeks ago)

They're a pretty obscure band.

They're pretty celebrated in funk and soul circles, and well-sampled.

― an uncharacteristically irritated Mr. Rogers (stevie), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 07:24 (three weeks ago)

OTM

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 08:35 (three weeks ago)

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