Smuggest album cover?

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I realize it's a very fine line between "smug" and "utterly ridiculous" -- and I *ADORE* both this album and its cover, but ya gotta admit....it's pretty farkin' smug:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001EL7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd600/d684/d684372y5s3.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hard to pick just one by this artist...
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c917/c91744l4fc5.jpg

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Isn't Phil wearing a mock-earnest expression rather than a smug one? And isn't Nelly wearing a mock-Hard expression rather than a smug one?

I need unadulterated self-satisfaction here!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

"unadulterated self-satisfaction", eh? How 'bout dis?

http://www.canoe.com/AlbumCoversB/brooks_g_chrisgaines_160.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is probably real tiny, but it's the smuggest album cover I can think of...

http://www.luxnet.at/sonic-youth/bmp/rec-268.jpg

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 10 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d127/d1275294n0b.jpg
C'mon, you just can't get more conceited than that. (Hell, I coulda picked ANY of his albums, but this one is the first one I found.)

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

God, I hate this fucker.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d757/d75711b75d7.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c993/c993013l2hj.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c011/c01132fg068.jpg

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

He doesn't look smug in any of those photos.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robbie wins, hands down.

― kate, Friday, 10 January 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

hmmm... how would you characterize them then? He may not look smug but he's feeling smug.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not many of these pics actually strike me as particularly smug -- even if I find the artists smug (hello, Alicia Keys).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

He may not look smug but he's feeling smug.

a) What's the difference?
b) How do you know what he's feeling?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

a) there is none.
b) I have esp.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I agree with Jody-- we're looking for something on the order of

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d823/d82325o478c.jpg

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre100/e134/e134682wo3n.jpg

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm learning in researching this vital topic, that there is a thin line between smug and goofy.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

that Buster Poindexter cover is like the best thing ever!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Robbie is ahead in terms of pure smugitude, but Lenny gets points for probably not being aware of just how smug he appears.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

I read "smug" as overly self-satisfied and brimming with an oversupply of not necessarily justified self-confidence.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Like so.....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000067O2U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not to be outdone by....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000031XCS.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

Pretty much any album featuring the "upwards from the crotch" shot falls under the "smug" banner, I feel (see Nelly).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

And as dead cool as these gents are, they look like some awfully smug motherfuckers (`specially Dave Alexander in the back):

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005IU1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robbie Williams seems to be looking ultra-smug on purpose, which is cheating.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2001/img/001201_clinton_cover.jpg

― KFC (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robbie Williams seems to be looking ultra-smug on purpose, which is cheating.

Exactly, ditto the Poindexter example. But I guess we're not allowed to guess at intentions.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.demon.com/momus/darrylred.gif

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UBF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

that is to say,

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UBF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

lazy.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004RHZU.01._PE21_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000066NW0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001AMF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Either of these two:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d573/d57313gmg32.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre100/e163/e16316voek6.jpg

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f194/f1942812u80.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f613/f61364wfiaq.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c477/c47768wul5t.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love this album......but......

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f331/f33140o0dkv.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Part of their joke is their over-the-top smugness, obviously but...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e354/e354483h3dn.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That Paul Weller album looks like a mannequin or a robot. Creepy.
also...
Subthread: The Upper Crust, Classical or Dud?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f307/f30712z6234.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay...now that guy in the middle with tinted aviator *IS* definitely a mannequin.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 11 January 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

You losers have way too much time on your hands. Especially that Alex in NYC. Get a life for gods sake.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Flattery will get you nowhere.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thank god.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Some truely sad individuals in this world

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

As I said on the Iggy/Corrs thread, how do you expect anyone to take you seriously if you lack the courage to put down an e-mail address?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/images/justified.jpg

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry, Ned. It had to be done. :)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

As someone replied in the Iggy/Corrs thread freaks like you will continually send loads of shitless, brainless crap into their clean inbox.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, I don't have the time to waste on shit like that. I'd just respect you a bit more for having the moxy to stand by your bile. But, fair enough.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

How old are you anyway? You're probably only ten trying to pick up another sad and lonely loser.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Look, if you're not even giving a proper name nor e-mail address, why should I bother divulging anything? All you need to know is available via the search mechanism. Get a life.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Skipping 38 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/v/veloso_caet_caetanove_103b.jpg

― Ivan G (Ivan), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:55 (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...

https://img.discogs.com/c6FNsz56wPLM7lRn1XutZj7zjbg=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7561525-1444084589-3027.jpeg.jpg

― enochroot, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/c6FNsz56wPLM7lRn1XutZj7zjbg=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7561525-1444084589-3027.jpeg.jpg

― enochroot, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link

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

André Rieu always brings the smug:

https://img.discogs.com/uYJC6FBbcQughusbnp5U8_VgUtE=/fit-in/600x529/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-12116936-1528642921-2124.mpo.jpg

There's a few hundred more of these

https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/y2004/m10/d08/h13/s06.abxnpzgq.jpg/268x0w.jpg https://img.discogs.com/e79FjglID5rfaguaY1ap1B_bb2s=/fit-in/250x250/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8551729-1463902865-2655.jpeg.jpg https://img.discogs.com/gGXb8leUFcgK7c951Pp5KcZpmmM=/fit-in/290x290/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11474198-1516978591-5569.jpeg.jpg

― sbahnhof, Sunday, 20 January 2019 02:27 (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 (four years ago) link

... more amused than smug tbf.

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

i'm amazed that so many img links from 16 years ago still work itt

― andrew m., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/645/MI0000645873.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

https://i.imgur.com/j3zhGlH.jpg

― soref, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link

When I was younger I thought that Sting and Annie Lennox always looked smug, middle class, middle aged. so I googled their album covers for this thread. but in every picture they both look so unsure, vulnerable... and young. damn.

― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/jJkSsUhNoOvdrzLvI_dVx9uGpgo=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1326435-1352488740-5488.jpeg.jpg

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link

That’s actually one of the better pics I’ve seen of Billy Joel...

― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link

I don't think he looks smug he looks cute

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

https://img.discogs.com/MR1kyCJ01eytMxHYGCCd26Cm5Nc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1837691-1462544823-6703.jpeg.jpg

― enochroot, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/MR1kyCJ01eytMxHYGCCd26Cm5Nc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1837691-1462544823-6703.jpeg.jpg

― enochroot, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link

Buns on the Balcony

― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

Bono had several names: first, he was "Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang", then just "Huyseman", followed by "Houseman", "Bon Murray", "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street", and finally just "Bono". "Bono Vox" is an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to "good voice".

With Bono covers, I had to make a kind of Champions-League system to get it down to 50

note: some qualified via the "Ridiculous" path

https://img.discogs.com/BhF4EIC6wZAKGBNt4QNu_EtT1OM=/fit-in/598x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1498786-1277492132.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/0EQmf9kwXDGIM6UTDTh_ULTIOrU=/fit-in/600x608/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1503398-1486665201-9241.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/soR3biQdHCfKObw1yW0eX7lmxLY=/fit-in/600x609/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1388881-1433417060-9205.jpeg.jpg

― sbahnhof, Friday, 10 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/m75Ht_5JyhK7spezGU_zMyX9GKs=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-27731-1433423468-5389.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/8nh5mOK4HKzK9edcUynbj_eZlkE=/fit-in/600x526/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-194940-1402923990-4834.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/YCQyPr7RDx2WBOnFdrHg_SdkkC4=/fit-in/600x841/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14173970-1569244632-5928.jpeg.jpg

― sbahnhof, Friday, 10 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/-pqGB4tZq4VrUvA0COZJyRAaT1s=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-439834-1229986617.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/reMFUvC5GcLlnm2IvUXLlvFKVKQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3665037-1433429519-7247.jpeg.jpg