WORST album Cover EVER!!!

I love the King Crimson one, as jarring as it is. I also love..er...LOVELESS. I think it's the perfect visual accompaniment to the album (it looks like it sounds).

Tom Millar must be smitten repeatedly with a mallet, once again, for citing the Joke (not least a cover I happen to love...is Jaz laughing, crying, having a spazz out? Why aren't the boys behind him reacting?)

Black Sabbath's PARANOID's cover is so bad that it's wonderful.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugly ugly ugly...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JLC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ashra.com/covers/1751in1.jpg

― JFP, Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e961/e961663h3u3.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d650/d650610u3fs.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d534/d534213x18i.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c575/c57556x3535.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Always found this vaguely tasteless...but maybe that's intentional?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c355/c35533ae73u.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

man, some of these are among my favourite sleeves ever! (RTX, MBV, Mag Fields..)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 16 December 2002 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001IRB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

When the above album came out (NOFX), I was writing for a crappy music mag called THE NEW REVIEW OF RECORDS (don't look for it, it's long gone), but I was sent a copy of this album and a promo poster......which is an alternate version of the cover in which the famer was 69'ing with the sheep. It was rough, lemme tell ya.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

farmer, not famer

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c308/c308112oo19.jpg

In this case, both the album and the cover were dire.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f575/f57500jx0vo.jpg

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

http://members.cox.net/tylero1/ripperr.jpg

Icy Hot Stuntaz about 10 years early. No Joke.

Sonic Force "Do It Like This/Give Some Pump 12"" 1992, Rip'n Records.

― tylero, Monday, 16 December 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Way to pose in front of the ugliest Mustang model ever, fellas! 100% PURE BLOOD AMERICAN YeeeEEEE!!

― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 16 December 2002 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c012/c012192a95r.jpg
What I want to know is how did this photo of Ricardo Montalban after a 3 week moonshine bender end up on the front a Cure album?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 16 December 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I know it's MEANT to be crap, but still...

http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc161.jpg

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 16 December 2002 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Always thought this was pretty grim...

http://www.earacherecords.org/images/cd_covers/mosh006a.jpg

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 16 December 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually kinda like that Smog cover....`cos it's so "what the fuck?" inspiring.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/hated1984/everysong

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 16 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops. http://www.geocities.com/hated1984/everysong

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 16 December 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Fun Stuff;
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f166/f16662gwqe4.jpg

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f614/f61458f9n0i.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned and Marshall Stax: "good photographer" for Isn't Anything cover = Joe Dilworth, doesn't it? (I.e., one-time Stereolabber deemed "strange and lovely" in Saint Etienne's "Mario's Cafe.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

― , Monday, 16 December 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007O9N.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― yay!, Monday, 16 December 2002 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Never been a fan of:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f533/f53381gjtm0.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

.. But that Yes/ Big Generator I think is the worst ever...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I luv the Britney and Mariah covers. The best thing about the Mariah one is the back:

http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/MariahCarey/images_rainbow/hm_photo_02.jpg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

That picture should also be included on the ALBUM COVERS WITH ROBOTS ON'EM thread.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Sooo, Sooooo, Soooooo crap a cover:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e982/e98219ls8he.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i love the new order covers. so minimal. i have no idea what the music sounds like, but the design is nice

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

This is either the best or the worst cover ever:
http://www.belphegor.at/belphegor_thelastsupperuncensored.jpg

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow...that is bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, and I'm an idiot for not buying it when it originally came out. It was released by the notoriously incompetent ripoffs of Lethal Records (ie, extremely hard to find in the first place), and the reissues all have new artwork (my, why could that be?). And unsurprisingly, nobody sells his copy.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre400/e489/e48936f7ncd.jpg

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d342/d34290lsw7w.jpg

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Black, 'Headache.' I am not gonna go find & post, it is far more repulsive than R Trux. Of course Albini would have to win this one.

I also am a fan of the Smog, but the back photo w/the children's choir is far more weird. Kitty, no !

― daria g, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

You all do get the "joke" behind the Smog cover, right? Kitty in lightening = Cat Power.

Anyway, many of these album covers are pretty terrific in my book -- the Radiohead, SY, Magnetic Fields, and John & Yoko especially.

I posted Kowanko's reworking of Self-Portrait on the Cover Connections VIII thread. That's one of the most garish in my collection.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like the New Order cover. In fact, there's a poster of it on my wall...

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this really so terrible?
http://www.dementlieu.com/~obik/bigblack/discog/images/headache21.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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THere are some odd choices in the rest of this thread, the one that comes to mind is Ege Bamyasi. Thunk it was a really great use of found art myself.

I'm assuming that that was just a can of a widely available product that had been photographed and stuck on the cover. Since i thought I''d heard something along the lines of one of the band members coming across such a can with their band name which I think means 'Life'or 'ánima' or something to that effect in Turkish. & that was why there was a firm making healthy food products for presumably the predominantly turkish market of which that was an example.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 14:13 (eleven years ago)

I think Nantucket are my favourite band that I've never heard.

― a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 18:34 (eleven years ago)

One I dont really understand is the INXS 'X' cover - its now the 90s, you're at your post-Kick commercial zenith, toured stadiums, and are proper adults and everything..

Why the fuck would you put out a cover like that?

(And I like the singles)

― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 23:22 (eleven years ago)

ten months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/qcVBnqE.jpg

― Karl Malone, Saturday, 6 June 2015 00:11 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, that's remarkably lol

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 6 June 2015 00:13 (eleven years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/4-7-15-2/48474.jpg

― seb mooczag (NickB), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:20 (ten years ago)

who the fuck are stoney & meatloaf btw?

― seb mooczag (NickB), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:21 (ten years ago)

shit it is *that* meat loaf isn't it? ps any good?

― seb mooczag (NickB), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:25 (ten years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Murphy_%28singer%29

And Meatloaf is Meatloaf, dude.

― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:26 (ten years ago)

met in the detroit production of 'hair' apparently, and listening to the music it does sound like it's born out of the theatre. wonder who mr loaf felt about being visually represented by a rissole

― seb mooczag (NickB), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:39 (ten years ago)

is it common knowledge that Meat Loaf was signed to Motown? because I had no idea.

― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:53 (ten years ago)

it was on a motown subsidiary - rare earth records (same label as 70s era r. dean taylor & toe fat)

― seb mooczag (NickB), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:59 (ten years ago)

ah, well that makes it slightly less strange. I know Motown diversified a lot in the '70s.

― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:04 (ten years ago)

it's not ever the original cover for the record... this is a reissue.

― new noise, Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:10 (ten years ago)

*even

― new noise, Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:11 (ten years ago)

that fucking meal looks like a reissue iykwim

― seb mooczag (NickB), Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:15 (ten years ago)

just scanning through this, def some weird picks. A Farewell to Kings? Daydream Nation? really?

― akm, Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:27 (ten years ago)

the worst cover in recent memory is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs one for mosquito. Have they done anything since?

― akm, Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:27 (ten years ago)

wonder who mr loaf felt about being visually represented by a rissole

He'd be like "what's a rissole, man?" Because he's AMERICAN.

― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 December 2015 01:09 (ten years ago)

Earholes, eyeholes & pissholes iirc

― seb mooczag (NickB), Sunday, 20 December 2015 01:35 (ten years ago)

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