worst packaging ever?

Long Slim Cardboard (Similiar to the long boxes but flat)...I have now place to put it...so it ends up in my LP's...I find it every 8 months or so...then I forget to listen to it.

2. Some early Wimp Factor 14 CD that came in a 5" x 8" manila folder with screen printing on it -- where the heck am I going to file that?

3. And, any CDs that come with no info on the spine or spines so thin it's impossible to print anything on them; they might as well be invisible on the shelves.

but the absolute worst? the Technoise/Hyware 2CD on i. a stickered cardboard box (like something you'd use to ship an order of 4-7 CDs containing a pair of unsleeved discs and some cheap B&W cards sandwiched between large styrofoam blocks. what's the point? makes Aluminum Tunes seem practical.

Records that sabotage other records - C/D?
yes, yes, and Vini Reilly to thread....

Mine has the same crack (although my cdplayer bravely ignores it :). Was the first one everybody bought right? After that all those cd's went into a plastic or paper cover and then into the bloody tin.

Most of those double-cd's that open outwards, I dunno what it is but those holders never actually hold the cd. I hate that.

I love digipacks though.

Never can make up my mind if the package of Faze Action's first album is cool or irritating (you know LP style inner sleeve). Also see Endtroducing right?

My hubby got a noise CD that was packaged between two sheets of steel. He regretted this when we had our next fight, ouch

Really? I didn't mind that one (esp. compared to those Chain Reaction tins). That cd still works perfectly.

Any single-record vinyl release with a doublefold jacket, especially when there's just a crummy photo inside and nothing useful like lyrics -- did another tree have to die just to satiate your vanity?

Also, the original vinyl of Sticky Fingers could get honors in both "Worst Packaging Ever" and "Best Packaging Ever".

I'm finally going to get one of these soon for my mp3 discs. I only just got around to cataloging the damn things so I knew what exactly I had (unsurprisingly, it was quite a lot).

Worst - David Sylvian's Everything and Nothing comp. Four-panel digipak: disc 1, bonus disc 3 in very snug slide-in slipcase, artwork, disc 2. Getting bonus CD out means folding pack back on itself or digging around in slip panel with fingernails. Yes, it's ripped.

Second most ambitiously worst packaging ever was a (drum roll) Flaming Lips single... again. This time, the "This Here Giraffe" part 2 CD-single.. the CD was cut into a star-shape.. so only top loading CD players can (maybe) play it. What makes it more frustrating is that the B-sides are one of the rare B-sides for the Lips that are GOOD! (Peel session versions of "Hit To Death" era songs)

My Spectrum gel-pack is still nice and gooey. Slayer put out a nice blood-gel pack once.

Now that I've finally got at the disc I feel more like playing Hüsker Dü than I do Múm.

prolapse - backsaturday
what's wrong with this? i mean, sure, the spine's on the top instead of on the side, but it fits in your rack just fine and my CD's never fallen out or anything.

Yeah but you can't see what it is! Which is annoying. And even if you put the unlabelled side out it's a bit oversize. It fits in my current shelving but not in my last set.

(I have the US Jetset pressing, I don't know what the Lissy's one is like.)

I hate anything where the size is based on the LP...

These are great, if you also play LPs, as they make for great category dividers - Mosaic sets are like this, my original Nick Drake box is like this, so is one of Ella's. Actually i prefer the LP-size to the long-box, which make it clumsier to stack a bunch of them together.

I don't have the Talking Heads box, but it sure looks unwieldy.

My vote:
The boxset "The Man from Impanema" for Antonio Carlos Jobim is a three disc set, contains 60 pages with each disc nestled within a different section, is too tall AND wide to fit on any standard shelf, and to top it all off, it's friggin' spiral-bound. This package won the Grammy for best packaging in 1997 --ack-- yet another reason to disregard any conclusions those idiots come to.

quickly checked the thread and realise no-one has mentioned the brilliant, but short life span of the Sudden Sway package - Space Mate.
The contents are well known and rather extravagent, but how on earth anyone could have a prime copy of the box it all came in is beyond me. way to flimsy - just getting it home made the fragger fall apart.

Regarding sleeves: Does the new Prince album contain any info on the contents anywhere at all?

I mean, nothing wrong about the hologram cover. It's great and brilliant, as opposed to the primitive hologram on the original "Diamonds And Pearls". But I would have preferred a sleeve giving someindication on what's inside.

what hologram cover ?
the freebie MOS version was just a skinny cardboard cover with no detail on it at all.

Re: Prolapse - Backsaturday, I think I have the UK version and that's the same. My shelves are too big for normal CDs so things like that fit OK.

The boxset "The Man from Impanema" for Antonio Carlos Jobim is a three disc set, contains 60 pages with each disc nestled within a different section, is too tall AND wide to fit on any standard shelf, and to top it all off, it's friggin' spiral-bound.

It's lovely - I bought it for my wife in '99 or so. We just keep it on display, propped up on top of the shelves with the boxsets. It's still in good nick.