WORST album Cover EVER!!!

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― 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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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

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― 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)

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

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― original bgm, Saturday, 21 December 2002 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JI6J.01.LZZZZZZZ

― Winslow (winslow), Saturday, 21 December 2002 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

see: ELP vs. El-p

― Winslow (winslow), Saturday, 21 December 2002 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Winslow - that is so classic. Can't believe I forgot that one.

In a way, it sort of brings them full circle back to "Tarkus", no?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 21 December 2002 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.forcedexposure.com/product_images/RP10.JPEG

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 21 December 2002 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

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I love Zappa, but reviewing his covers...yikes.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 21 December 2002 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I can't even begin to tell you how much I despise that Brutal Truth cover.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 21 December 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I just remembered this one, which is far too common in the used bins:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc700/c728/c72816ulv13.jpg

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 22 December 2002 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 22 December 2002 04:44 (twenty-three years ago)

actually - i just went through my whole cd collection and realised they were all stupid in their own ways.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 22 December 2002 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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I wanna be yer Detective man!

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 December 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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Or perhaps you prefer the more classic look?

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 December 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Gotta love the lens flare on the sunglasses.

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 23 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't Mayhem once take a photo of their singer's corpse when he shot himself in the head, and use THAT as an album cover? Someone put that one up, I'd like to see that.

― Callum (Callum), Monday, 23 December 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, that's Michael Des Barres!!! (later of Chequered Past, the touring incarnation of the Power Station and....er..Scum of the Earth on "WKRP in Cincinatti!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 December 2002 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

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― maura (maura), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

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― maura (maura), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Mayhem: http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f230/f230903ksnt.jpg

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Listening to this album today.....and it's great, but really...what an absolute shit cover.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004S5C7.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I still say it's that fucking NOFX album, which I saw today, inexplicably on prominent display in the Tower on 66th--I mean, why? Why are they displaying like 30 copies of a NOFX album from almost 10 years ago? Am I missing something? Is there a NOFX revival going on? If there is, I'm glad I'm missing it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Man i love this thread!
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― rexJr., Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey! whats "Loveless" doing there?! I love that cover!

― rexJr., Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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― rexJr., Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Funnily enough I literally just sold an Unrest CD not but one hour ago at Academy records. Not that disc, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

and
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f339/f33936h3au9.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! This thread had me giggling!

There are some artists so charismatic they can actually make you question every tenet in your personal code of 'design sound practise'. And others who fight that battle bravely, and lose.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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