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

“does what it says on the package”

that's a really nice cover tho

i do love it. great record too tbh.

Humble Pie, Go for the Throat

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Humble_Pie_Go_for_the_throat_album_cover.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Image_Knock_On_Wood_cover.jpg

Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd.

https://ecsmedia.pl/c/down-to-earth-b-iext55324715.jpg

Down to Earth - Eddie Floyd

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Beggar_On_A_Beach_Of_Gold.jpg

Mike & the Mechanics: <i>Beggar on a Beach of Gold</i>

Oh my.

The well just never goes dry.

Chris Rea, "God's Great Banana Skin"
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/God%27s_Great_Banana_Skin.jpg

Has this ever been posted here?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg

It just hit me that this "iconic" album title and cover is actually horribly unimaginative, literally named after the fucking recording studio and the cover is just them walking on a road. It's not far off from calling a song "Untitled Original." Still one of my favorite records of all time.

In 1970, the studio was renamed from EMI in honour of the group's 1969 album Abbey Road.

could have counted if they had dressed up as monks

Is "God's great banana skin" some known expression/metaphor that I'm just not familiar with, or did Rea come up with it himself? What does it even mean?

Ah, it's explained at the Wiki page for the title song:

Rea was inspired to write the song after he noticed his daughter was tempted to laugh at "somebody who'd been giving her a hard time". Rea told John Pidgeon in 1992: "I told her 'don't laugh when people go down even if they've been awful to you because you're tempting God to throw you a banana skin'. It's half moral and half superstition. Anybody who's done me a disservice in life, and I see them go down, you get tempted to laugh. I don't know whether it's superstition or not, or I daren't laugh just in case God throws me a banana skin as well."

xp ok whatever named after the road the studio is on, still extremely uninspired

it had no weighted meaning to anyone else before they named the album that though!

That banana skin just doesn't seem that great imho.

Shel Silverstein - "Crouchin' On The Outside"

https://i.imgur.com/CQID7kV.jpg

Bizarre.

killer cover imo

yeah that's extremely weird and striking, and I'm also confused about what the title means - is that an idiom or a play on an idiom?

he looks feral

all-time cover. terrified me as a kid.

in my cover-connections fantasy, i like to imagine that black sabbaths paranoid is his hallucinating POV and this is the reverse shot, as you calmly approach.

"Shel? Shel? Why dont you come inside and have some water bud, OK? Nice and easy"
"grmfmrmrmSWORD?!"

lmao definitely looks like he's in the midst of a trip that's starting to go bad

Okay, it turns out I know nothing about Shel Silverstein, I thought he wrote a couple of books for kids and that was about it. What an interesting dude.

(I say this not just from the cover posted here, it spurred me on to read more about him)

I think everyone at some point has that same realization, extremely interesting dude

I love that song he wrote "Big Four Poster Bed"

Silverstein is the best and that's as good a picture of him as i've ever seen
and yeah "hey did you know BOY NAMED SUE etc etc" but how about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuQTN7Xo4w

very thankful the youtube clip of that song does not feature yawnsomely literal cover art

friggin hapsburg chin there!

black flags damaged belongs here imo, honestly a pretty LOL cover

https://img.discogs.com/H5Q74sYOX_k0J_7qPCYMeSf0e3k=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6842321-1427766011-5427.jpeg.jpg

Ferlin Husky ‎– Sittin' On A Rainbow

good one, love "the world on a string" to go with it

first track is "I've Got The World On A String"!!

Looks like this excellently monikered dude has some others:

https://img.discogs.com/RvUIbxwomB4pmtWbrPZrn1XYW6U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6625053-1475120554-6305.jpeg.jpg

(God, do I wish his self-titled LP depicted him rubbing the belly of a big husky dog)

lol I read that as "Feelin Husky"

Frottin' Husky.

Good work from Ferlin there.

in today's edition of Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgS1_-oWkzY

also, was immediately reminded of Feargal Sharkey (yeah, yeah), but Mr Husky actually predates him by quite a lot.

Thanks to Kenny Everett I am familiar with this classic track by Ferlin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-kykDYQw0

NV knew where it was at.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:51 (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://img.discogs.com/_UEzfnBDRzsZOTrctODuLR43lxw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1153716-1581377233-1938.jpeg.jpg

Up Pops Ramsey Lewis

i don't think this ever showed up here, surprisingly

https://img.discogs.com/oQGy5QUc-KFBfZgVixHQwFRPf30=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-915034-1333909319.jpeg.jpg

Can - Opener

1981 seems decidedly late to the party for yawnsomely literal album covers, but there you have it.
https://img.discogs.com/qE3cWACkDDqtCPgFi2fBVcz03Zw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-465716-1289888832.jpeg.jpg
Bob James - Hands Down

Yawnsome literalness can strike at any time in any era.