No, they hated it.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007KIFLO.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpghttp://www.coldcrushrecords.com/images_layout/cover-cc009.jpghttp://www.asthmatickitty.com/image/covers/bunky_motorcycle.jpg
― Will M. (Will M.), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― zeus, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
...he's spot on with Junkyard as well, which I always found somewhat bizarre.
What's wrong with you people?? Junkyard is the greatest album cover of all time!!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
You hurt me, Barry!
― Organized Crime (Leee), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 16 April 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ludo (Ludo), Saturday, 16 April 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I can't believe someone thinks New Order's "Technique" has a bad cover. It's in my top 10 covers of all time. I think only "Power Corruption and Lies" is better.
― daavid, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:46 (sixteen years ago) link
The cover for Paranoid gets a raw deal. I know the guy's supposed to be a "War Pig" (which was the original album title iirc), but he actually does look paranoid, don't you think?
― latebloomer, Friday, 15 February 2008 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
If by "paranoid" you mean indefensibly silly, then yes.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
The "Paranoid" single cover is even funnier:
http://www.fannins-collectables.com/images/b_listing/black_sabbath/paranoid/bss101_fc-fs.jpg
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Can anyone tell why the cop in the album cover is wielding a sword? I don't think cops had swords in the seventies.
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I like most of these covers! But as I said in the other thread, it's personal opinion. It's not like these artists were like" Yeah! Let's make a terrible album cover that everyone will bash!" I don't see that happening.
― our work is never over, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
How about Black Sabbath "Born Again"? That's the worst cover of all time. The album overcame that and a botched production job to come out pretty goddamn good.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The Paranoid single cover's brilliant!
― chap, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.doctornerve.org/nerve/pictures/skin.jpg http://www.voivod.net/discography/88/88.gif http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000630CA.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Øystein, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/2985.jpg
― asthmatic american, Monday, 1 September 2008 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome revive
― antexit, Monday, 1 September 2008 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I pulled this out earlier today:
http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-08-02/OrbitalWinsidesIfront.jpg
The biggest negative points have to go to covers that in addition to being ugly also give you a wrong idea of what the album sounds like. I mean, would you buy this romper-room-looking bullshit if you didn't already know that it's fantastically amazing?
― kenan, Monday, 1 September 2008 10:47 (fifteen years ago) link
"Pee Wee's Medical Kit"
― kenan, Monday, 1 September 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
great thread idea, i knew it had been done already. i think the following album is great though i am not 100% sure as i had already given up on them at that time. they were just releasing too much stuff in the first half of the nineties, i couldn't keep pace. bonus points for rubbish title. they also excelled at giving their albums ridiculous names. here comes stereolab:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fVJDafiu-HM/SNE1IrOH3ZI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/6e3rz2As2v0/s400/StereolabEmperorTomatoKetchup.jpg
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, I agree the Sabs have their fair share of poor covers.
This is not Thin White Rope's finest album, but still classic in my book. And one of the worst covers ever:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n-thK6Pq5M4/ShFpyvTIbNI/AAAAAAAABzI/BIVY50KMU-U/s320/rubysea.jpg
― Duke, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://image.hotdog.hu/_data/members0/972/235972/images/454016.jpg
This is one of my favourite albums of this decade, but even in the category of cheapo rap covers it looks pretty cheap.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2342058651_2f751c9e1f.jpg
You could fill this thread with examples of digital art on early 90s album covers.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i059.radikal.ru/0908/b0/c545a45c3ee1.jpg
http://img3.nnm.ru/3/3/d/3/6/33d36f811b96b7c26d98bcb5981a7eb7_full.jpg
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Though the back cover of that Black Dog album is even worse than the front:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/blackdog-1.jpg
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Some paranoid people are indefensibly silly.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 2 November 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dominorecordco.com/images/artists/townes_van_zandt/1024_540/tvz_ourmother.jpg
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 2 November 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img6.xooimage.com/files/2/2/e/the-rolling-stone...aftermath-b1a4c7.jpg
― Dave Depper (Davey D), Monday, 2 November 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000272N.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpghttp://www.tonyrogers.com/humor/images/brian_peppers1.jpg
― like moses, the townfolk like the red sea (stevie), Monday, 2 November 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Hold on what's wrong with that Townes Van Zandt cover?
― The people of Ork are marching upon us (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AJcpmbP_Sow/R0xUNj7voPI/AAAAAAAAAek/XxmXg2GOEFA/s320/folder.jpg
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok, if they were a disco band this is actually fine, but they actually sound like the Bee Gees pre-disco, except for one glam rock track.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I just really hate the colors. And that border. And the yellow text.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 06:59 (fourteen years ago) link
That Stereolab cover is fantastic and the title is directly lifted from a weird Japanese film from the 70s
D- thread revive :(
― War On The Terrances (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
the title is directly lifted from a weird Japanese film from the 70s
I think it is a question of taste what you think about the cover. I find it ugly. The colours are dirty and don't go well together, the font they use for Stereolab is laughable. The spiral, the sun and the sun rays look cheap. In a universe of bad taste that cover would surely be a classic though.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
no wai - I love how wonky the spiral is, it's like own-brand novelty potato crisps. It's just always been totally visually arresting for me, very... warming and not bearing a lot of comparison with other album art I can think of. (Any OG copies on CD are going to be fucking trashed now tho cos it came in the flimsiest card sleeve ever)
― War On The Terrances (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ime most great albums have great cover art, here's one of the exceptions:
https://i.imgur.com/Qz6s2zR.jpg
― niels, Saturday, 2 December 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
I know they hated it but I always thought the Royal Scam cover fit the music perfectly, dirty streets and pollution and bums. and big snakes on top of skyscrapers
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
I love this album & think it's a modern classic but goddamn I hate the cover. Looks so 2004, ott Garden State twee, the font sucks, the drawing is shitty, the kids are ugly, the color palette is all wrong, and it just looks really amateurish, like a CD-R you'd find on a subway platform.
http://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/field/image/girlpool_-_before_the_world_was_big_sm_2.jpg
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Niels you’re crazy. That’s a fantastic cover!
― calstars, Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
Well said, it's great, perfect for the album.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
gonna go with this
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/YMO_-_BGM_album_cover.jpg
― frogbs, Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
also, both Skylarking covers
― frogbs, Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
the BGM cover always makes me do a double-take and spend a little bit trying to figure out if it really is just just a toothbrush getting washed off at a sink. i like it!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
the royal scam, bgm and skylarking (both versions) are all wonderful album covers, and all fit perfectly with the respective albums!
― soref, Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
I also like this unofficial alternate cover to skylarking by Saša Markoviæ Mikrob:
http://chalkhills.org/images/fanart/Mikrob-xtc1.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 2 December 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link