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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Hillage_Fish_Rising.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Steve_Hillage_Fish_Rising.jpg

lol at all the argumentative nitpicking upthread from somebody calling themselves "no opinion"

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41662fb5TYL.jpg

http://img14.shop-pro.jp/PA01076/467/product/39520755.jpg?20120204195037

Pilot's second album, can't look at this without imagining the designers spending all of five minutes coming up with that title/cover image, and then sloping off to the pub for the rest of the day

oops

http://img14.shop-pro.jp/PA01076/467/product/39520755.jpg?20120204195037

though it doesn't feature an actual pilot, so I guess it's more 'yawnsomely unimaginative/uninspired' than 'yawnsomely literal'

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QjlWxeXKL._SY300__PJautoripBadge,BottomRight,4,-40_OU11__.jpg

ok the "autorip" kinda kills it

I think a lot of those are illustrating a visual pun on the title so not Yawnsomely Literal. Might have been thought of as quite imaginative at the time but got dulled by familiarity in the interval years.
Not like somebody's come along and generically botched something up as a bad advertising company might. Seems to be some thought put into what has been illustrated and how.
Also seems that a couple at least may have had the image in mind before naming.

http://i.imgur.com/yJ6hOYd.jpg

The font on that Pilot album! Is it made of Legos?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/YouCanTuneaPianoButYouCantTunaFish.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Donna+Summer+-+Greatest+Hits+-+On+The+Radio+-+Volumes+1+%26+2+-+DOUBLE+LP-522997.jpg

She's ON the radio! GEDDIT?

Dan Fogelberg - High Country Snows
http://www.danfogelberg.com/albums/highcountrysnows.jpg

Reflections a goldmine for yawnsome literality:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/405/MI0002405005.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/69734360/Reflections.png
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hYBelu-kL.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EJ01VZT6L.jpg
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/p/peter_nero-reflections.jpg
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4750/cover_61221882009.jpg
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1540/cover_4953181822005.jpg
http://www.redtelephone66.com/albumart/reflections.jpg
http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2011-03/1300980426_46fff9f4189ba838d97cf812169f6fee.jpg
http://images4.mtv.com/shared/media/images/amg_covers/200/drl500/l513/l51366w3bwm.jpg?width=300&height=300&enlarge=false&matte=true&matteColor=black&quality=0.85

just a taste... and that doesn't include any of the covers where the artist is looking winsomely inward, reflecting on his/her deepness.

epic post

http://www.thelettermen.com/images/reflections1970.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0001/588/MI0001588877.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://enigmaticalchemy.com/sandrareflections.jpg
http://www.dejkamusic.com/images/album/large/steve_lacy/reflections.jpg
http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/e/v/evelynthomas117443.jpg
(Evelyn Thomas and Terry Knight refractions, actually)

keep em coming, just an entire thread of these would be amazing

Haha, thanks, so tired of reflections. Will leave follow-through to others w/more stamina. Subgenre also not represented: Image of the band but the writing is reflected.

In other news:

Ramona the Pest - Little Knives
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/680/MI0001680765.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Baretreescd.jpg
Yawnsomely literal, but a great cover nonetheless.

Mithotyn - Gathered Around the Oaken Table
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Mithotyn-Gathered_Around_The_Oaken_Table-Original.jpg

Mott - Shouting and Pointing
http://www.hunter-mott.com/discography/sleeves/shouting_and_pointing.jpg

Wire - Pink Flag
http://unpopular.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c365453ef011570135fcd970b-800wi
Another great cover despite.

lolllll at "reflections" ad infinitum

Speedwagon is more "I've Got My Own Album To Do" thread, I think (though hilarious).

James Taylor - Flag
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Un8fOzozL.jpg

http://assets-s3.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/f6781f50812ff2a98ff933ed2b193601ec785225.jpeg

Like, seriously guys:
Hoodoo Gurus - Gorilla Biscuit
https://lh3.ggpht.com/_Ak0ucr3ZL4A/Sz-C9Zn6u8I/AAAAAAAACKY/eWDmkzbXLL8/s400/folder.jpeg

Yawnsomely literal single:
Fabulous Four - Sitting on a Fence
http://mobile.collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/250533008749.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/47-1.jpg

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ic8OpSuCY2c/UPLGSOqBbcI/AAAAAAAAF4U/8dy-HBwbYvs/s1600/Dolphy03.jpg

Roger really didn't have so many facets, huh?

This is awesome

http://991.com/NewGallery/Ozark-Mountain-Daredevil-The-Car-Over-The-382165.jpg

Roger really didn't have so many facets, huh?

― Doctor Casino, Monday, February 24, 2014 12:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolling

the four corners are basically all the same emotion, and the bottom middle isn't really an emotion, it's just "looking away from camera"

http://www.antitheticrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/smashing-pumpkins-siamese-dream.jpg

Ha, I'd never considered that before.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mto72fjR1rsj69go1_r1_500.png

Painfully bad:

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/118/cover_36261617102008.jpg

aaaaahaa

Was about to post Siamese Dream! Instead I'll go with:

http://s2.vagalume.com/pearl-jam/discografia/yield-W320.jpg

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/009/188/0000918839_500.jpg

awesome

some people call it a career arc, but I like to think of it as a...

http://i.imgur.com/zbjzx4Q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dy9NFpI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8EFuxfr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sry7bQ5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kRemcUA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ic5ic7J.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TSyKVSN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/33qNSeu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2lof8PM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cACXmih.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ubczQfB.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7zgG8jd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/jfgJcTv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MSyl5MK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gfoW9lL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/oaNBQoC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZCRAONG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1jilE2c.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Lr3kliX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bZUZCkv.jpg

Well done! Rupert Holmes ftw, looks like a pretty full life he's lived in that circle. We started at the Itsukushima Shrine, baby, and look where we've ended up.

ha. scrolling through i thought for half a second that it was a band called full circle with all kinds of inexplicable album titles.

That band would have ruled! Like, each time they're trying to make up a really generic name for a different style of artist that might put out an album called "Full Circle."

a lot of those albums can be summed up as "this is my first album in 20 years!" or "this is gonna be last album ever!" or "this is the album where I reflect upon my long and fruitful career." Rupert Holmes must have been an extraordinary human being in order to have gone full circle at age 34, just 2 years after his big hit.

oh yeah, I forgot

http://i.imgur.com/LBcmZs2.jpg

(band name and album title)