Smuggest album cover?

ctrl + f "Bee Gees" = 0 matches?

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

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

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!

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

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

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

No albums in his day but nevertheless...

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

... more amused than smug tbf.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't think he looks smug he looks cute

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

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

Buns on the Balcony

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

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

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

https://img.discogs.com/0B2R50bELY-iNN_ZpuXZrwqmAu8=/fit-in/600x520/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-826940-1543335027-2642.jpeg.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nIngtwM4L._SX355_.jpg

This one from above looks like 80s era Mel Gibson thinking about something embarrassing he did in the past.

https://www.discogs.com/Huey-Lewis-And-The-News-Sports/master/115328

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510G84rDbtL.jpg

https://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/futurama/a/a7/HueyLewis.jpg?width=960