Album Covers featuring Yawnsomely Literal Cover Art in regards to said album's title.

some great covers today. that BLT looks good

But the windmill isn't in a valley, it's on a hill. Why would you put a windmill in a valley? The album should be called Hill of the Windmill.

Or "Valley From Which You Can See the Windmill". Imagine if it was called Whirlpool of the Meerkats or Ocean of the Spiders. It wouldn't make sense. I'm sure there are whirlpools from which you can see meerkats but that doesn't narrow things down enough.

Otherwise every place on Earth would be called Location From Which You Can See the Moon, except for caves.

I think the windmill rules over the valley with its metallic sails of doom, is the idea. Ocean of the Spiders would've been better for sure.

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/507/MI0001507434.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - 'The Car Over The Lake Album'

p sure it's upthread but it's v good

I figured, it's getting hard to keep track

Toefat - Toefat

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw9t5A4XgAANkWy.jpg:large

That Toe Fat cover used to freak me out in the record store when I was a kid. And they had a second album, what the hell is that stuff?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1139/1387337035_68be94e9a8_b.jpg

It's mostly the leavings from a roast chicken I think? I've looked at that second LP a few times but I had never even noticed the characters from the first LP (even the lamb!) before.

I think these Toe Fat records are too weird to be fully yawnsome. And the toes themselves are maybe not fat enough to be literal?

(Always a strange kind of pleasure to see them though)

Both designed by Hipgnosis.

Not literal though are they?

kind of amazing how small they made the people in that second, equally disgusting one. they are very easily missed subtleties!

yeah I agree the first one isn't strictly literal, but it seemed to good/weird not to share

https://img.discogs.com/BkpaWcxq-TpVin_LxFQobA6i7tw=/fit-in/600x591/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2617200-1326637906.jpeg.jpg

Ronnie Paisley's Band, "Smoking Mirror"

https://img.discogs.com/TEFKfcEMDJlYHPz1nmmbkhCRXy0=/fit-in/280x281/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2757899-1351346521-7473.jpeg.jpg

https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=zIeiqKL5aUtNMTmhSi8IqB_TZlp6n_cq-Emr2zx15tU=&f=6

Pile - Green and Gray

I did not know until today that this album existed. REO Speedwagon - The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/REO_-_The_Earth_A_Small_Man_album_cover.jpg

The Earth, a Huge Man, His Huge Dog, and a Huge Chicken more like.

O V Wright: A Nickel, A Nail and The Ace of Spades (tremendous record BTW)

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/957/MI0002957297.jpg

Ugh (but agree about this being a great record)

https://i.imgur.com/lx2J4Ji.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kRyQ4j9OL._SX355_.jpg

there should be a thread for depressingly bad covers of jazz albums.

Saw this at the record store the other day:

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/455/MI0003455453.jpg
(Charles Earland - Earland's Jam)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Contrastsgarner.jpg

DB Band - Stranger In The Alps
(this is a Supergrass offshoot btw)

https://img.discogs.com/DHryQdBFLDSd0UXvNg_O5RAdYw0=/fit-in/551x551/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3139282-1317583008.png.jpg

This thread started before my children were born. They're teenagers now. Odd, that.

Argent - In Deep. A Hipgnosis cover apparently.

https://img.discogs.com/Sh-RbZVRyWWrZLiUxka-WYZuDP4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7262297-1443098696-2414.jpeg.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Holding_Back_The_River.jpg

wet wet wet - holding back the river

LOL, shocker

This one isn't yawnsome, in fact I kind of like it...

https://img.discogs.com/KZUfJkxp0l1Q-Lae_rwr0vkGxnQ=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1386976-1215255157.jpeg.jpg

Sucks when you're trying to hold back the river and you got an itch on your nose... hate that

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Sb2BqrgeL._SY355_.jpg

This is the front cover of Rufus's Seal In Red:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71xm4y%2Bl-ML._SX355_.jpg

and this is what the back of it looks like:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81n4sxybdqL._SX355_.jpg

No pinnipeds were harmed in the making of this album cover.

Genulol at that. Magnificent.

totally got the giggles when i saw that in the record shop tbh

Two Guns - Balls Out
https://www.discogs.com/Two-Guns-Balls-Out/master/635584

Just spotted in the wild

I almost feared to click on that link tbh.

It’s really the back cover that clinches it

They could’ve thrown an apostrophe in there I suppose

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2969476577_16.jpg

A Tuba to Cuba

If it sells well, they're going to take a guitar to Qatar

https://img.discogs.com/OU3nyACh38JZ3PXfl-4h-YwYL44=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1131497-1537042584-4720.jpeg.jpg

that's just sad

https://img.discogs.com/X-c5Nxky74tKF8ZsxmUdKvxgVfs=/fit-in/600x589/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8197527-1456962625-8746.jpeg.jpg

I think the horrible animal mutilation makes that one a bit more than just yawnsomely literal.

Also, to be pedantic, Snakefinger is the name of the artist not the album.

it's a great record tho

And that Grosswendy is astounding