WORST album Cover EVER!!!

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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)

I think they're talking about the limited edition cover that came in a bag.. I don't really care to see that one.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheese? Cheese?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RTSV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

This is either the best or the worst cover ever:
I think I saw that on a sign some biblethumper carried in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"tarkus" by elp.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=www.delafont.com/music_acts/Music_Images/w-pickett-album-exciting.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.delafont.com/music_acts/Wilson-Pickett.htm&h=130&w=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522wilson%2Bpicket%2522%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8
wilson picket = dancing elf?

― ddd, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

― ddd, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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

He's a regular Neil Hamburger.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c477/c477506xemj.jpg

This is pretty indefensible. It's not even particularly well done.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 December 2002 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c443/c44388e654b.jpg

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 December 2002 05:20 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002R8A.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

That one always makes me laugh...

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone who knows how to post pictures please put up that Miles Davis 80s album where he's holding the toy machinegun. PLEASE!

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002642.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

You have the right to hear me play Cyndi Lauper...

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d058/d05850k3341.jpg

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks Joe

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 21 December 2002 05:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my, oh my, how in God's sakes did I let myself forget this one:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf000/f031/f03177zg6bm.jpg

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 21 December 2002 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e334/e334647r0ap.jpg

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 21 December 2002 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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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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