Smuggest album cover?

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Best thread ever.

Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

So everyone looking straight into the camera earnestly or half smiling, especially from above, appears to be smug. Did I get this straight?

jot eff pe, Saturday, 11 January 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is it too late to go "oh no!!! FITE!!! oh no!!!" now?

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

It wasn't even a proper fight! Hmmm was basically dissing himself with Alex standing next to him nodding politely.

jot eff pe, Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is Ned Raggett's "Neducated" out on a limited edition 24-bit mastered gold audiophile ultradisk yet?

Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 11 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like the Alanis one

dave q, Saturday, 11 January 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like the Pink one. What's she doing looking so smug -- she's been marked down!

Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 11 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've had numerous people tell me we look like some uber-smug-ass bastiches on our album cover...

http://www.creativesoulrecords.com/greentheory/gt.gif

nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 12 January 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not that you can see our faces with the pic being so small, howevah.

D'oh!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 12 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robbie wins, hands down.

Kate! We agree! I was scrolling down and got to Robbie and these precise four words popped into my head, and then ther you were, saying *these exact four words*!

Well call the fucking cops, this can't be right.

Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmm... 'poof'?!
I last heard that in infants school.

How old are you?!

russ t, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OBJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OAJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Mercury looks inherently smack-able in each of these. Both great records, tho'.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NKKY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...
some of these are good. but the robbie one, i mean, look at it! no one is going to beat that! i know its on purpose, but its still real. its a fucking great cover

gareth (gareth), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

but the album should have been called "fuck all y'all"

gareth (gareth), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robbie Williams must be disqualified because his smug is only on loan from Sean Connery. Come on, it's pomo smug, smug in quotation marks, third hand James Bond. 'Ah, Miss Pussyfeather, I've been expecting you!' He can't even make up his own album title, let alone a truly original, personal, non-ironic facial expression.

Which means... I WIN I WIN!

Momus (Momus), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

but thats the best smug of all momus. its not even his own smug, and hes even smug about that!

gareth (gareth), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeh but we want the best REAL smug

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...
http://prezentacia.ukrbiz.net/kidrock.jpg

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

ok then:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d658/d65891jq8sk.jpg

AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh easily, the smuggest and arguably BEST album cover ever...

http://www.ashra.com/covers/1761ne3.jpg

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

W.O.W.

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

(some might argue it's the best album ever, period.. but anyway)

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002GW7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

More smug Christian rock album covers, please. People who just KNOW they've reserved a seat in heaven.

brian pals (briania), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004TCLJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Marvin after making love to the whole of new york, looks justifiably smug...

http://www.marcogiunco.com/dischi/000546.jpg

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...
http://blog.nojijizm.jp/64ffe3db.jpg

everything (everything), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Can somebody who knows how to post pics please post the cover of Emerson Lake & Palmer's Love Beach. Classic.

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

most of these don't seem smug at all to me.

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Rod and Robbie and JT look like the only smug ones here, most of the rest look glaikit but that's not the same thing.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

nice abs!

http://www.ferhiga.com/progre/portadas/elp-lbeach.jpg

hank (hank s), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

attn ILX: get one working smugometer

Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out (sixteen sergeants, Friday, 12 January 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://991.com/newgallery/Herbie-Hancock-Secrets-364141.jpg

I wish I could find a picture of the back cover, where Herbie stands with his upper body nude and his hands on his chest, with the same expression on his face.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 13 January 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Most of these aren't smug at all, Bob Welch one is good tho.

Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link

ctrl + f "Bee Gees" = 0 matches?

sbahnhof, Sunday, 20 January 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link

revive posts are good but a lot of ppl didn't understand smug in the 2000s apparently

call all destroyer, Sunday, 20 January 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link

Yeah, most musicians don't fall into the trap of looking really smug on an album cover, it's nagl (e.g. self-satisfied and with a cheesy grin). Usually they pick a photo that's 'serious' or just smiling slightly - a music photographer could give plenty of actual insights into that!

sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 February 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link

Anyway,

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/562/MI0001562253.jpg

Cliff Richard – 40th Anniversary Complete Volume Five 1983–98: The Smug Years

sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 February 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link

"It's Hard to Be Humble" is a joke one, as is the song

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mYKWch_MNY0/hqdefault.jpg

sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 February 2019 07:00 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

No albums in his day but nevertheless...

http://operetta-research-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/71XqaXy2d8L.jpg

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link

... more amused than smug tbf.

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link


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