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

still looking pretty cool tbh, dig that title design

While we're on the rocks, seems like this has to already be here somewhere, but didn't find it:

https://www.discogs.com/Deep-Purple-Deep-Purple-In-Rock/master/1439#images/7097910

Deep Purple - In Rock

oops https://img.discogs.com/fO6FEybVIJxqX31bpi3tSYPYpD0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1849291-1340887670-6848.jpeg.jpg

https://e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net/images/cover/0874665ef50a151c6d1b6d0566b3ce41/500x500.jpg

Rusty Wier • Black Hat Saloon

That's kind of amazing faux Hipgnosis work

I have a feeling this is sardonically the other way round, as in the image came first and they literally named the album after it.

Motorpsycho - Still Life With Eggplant

https://www.discogs.com/release/4469750-Still-Life-With-Eggplant/images

I love that, aside from the band logo, Kim Hiorthøy did the layout as one of his Rune Grammofon covers. Same typeface and all.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Mz4uB5eML._SL1050_.jpg

Album covers featuring literally yawnsome cover art

In memory of Tawny Kitaen:

https://sleazeroxx.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2018-08-23-at-12.19.58-AM-e1534998039712.png

(…though I guess they’re technically mice)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81dYq65Y20L._AC_SL1417_.jpg

Addie Harper & the Wick Trio, "On the Road By the River"

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jvsAAOSw8xxchWgJ/s-l1600.jpg

lol, going beyond yawnsomely literal to the level of "google image search results for said album's title"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Love_bomb_album_cover.jpg

The Tubes - Love Bomb

This one cracks me up whenever I see it... someone decided at the last minute that the cover needed some yawnsome literal-ness.

https://img.discogs.com/OO8CB-49rpIHLnhVJbTgulb9TXQ=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-242463-1555774616-6361.jpeg.jpg

René & Angela ‎– Wall To Wall

they knew that you haven't really made it until you're in this thread

it also positions itself quite awesomely literally as a follow-up to MJ’s Off the Wall...

https://media.s-bol.com/k2xPMDGL7Z4N/550x554.jpg

...which is a prime example of the thread premise itself (and may or may not have been posted here before)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Worlds_in_Collision_%28album%29.jpg

Pere Ubu - Worlds in Collision

Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2BG3i1DcuL._AC_SX355_.jpg

That Pere Ubu cover might be the worst cover I've ever seen

I originally posted this in the metal thread. Defacement, s/t:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502519686_10.jpg

Literally yawnsome (sort of)

Michael Henderson - Slingshot
https://img.discogs.com/2SHNGY3DIM6qdG--SFP6VS9_sZo=/fit-in/600x591/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-546162-1550431823-6592.jpeg.jpg

Because THE MAN wouldn't let it be called Banana Hammock.

before my eyes focused, i read the towel and the dangling jacket sleeves as being his arms... like he was some Aphex Twin monster man or something

XP - I actually think "Slingshot" is just subtle enough to tip it from yawnsome to hilarious.

What could be holstered around his thigh?

...a slingshot, perhaps?

Diving knife?

Yep, it's a diving knife. You can see it clearly on the back cover.

https://img.discogs.com/lyCGkfdHNnDvkLt6dk6h65odJ7I=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5092900-1504286245-2511.jpeg.jpg

Bonnie Raitt – Home Plate

wtf kind of slide is that?!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/DancerandtheMoon.jpg

Blackmore's Night - Dancer and the Moon

Paul McCartney, 'Pipes Of Peace'
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/PaulMcCartneyalbum_-_Pipesofpeace.jpg

so close to actually making the peace sign out of woodwinds. ideal would be peace sign made out of plumbing, with macca in coveralls, gripping a wrench to tighten up the last leaky pipe.

I'm fixing a hole...in this drainpipe!

hahaha

http://www.website.com/image.jpeg

mick moloney strings attached

https://img.discogs.com/nODC9JLi4nRtfDpsA_PaOtGeltY=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5440056-1509891705-1668.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/bfJl7T162WIk4HN06UTBf6tt6Rc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1399361-1527702103-6787.jpeg.jpg
Wishbone Ash - There's the Rub

I would opine that is playing on two meanings of the phrase, or illustrating a different meaning than Shakespeare intended. Great album in any event.

For our American friends. Bowlers in cricket will routinely keep one side of the cricket ball shiny by rubbing it on their trousers - it helps the bowler to swing the ball through the air - hence the red mark on this fellow's trousrs.

Thanks for that – I was assuming it was something scandalously dirty, good to know it's cricket.

Apparently Wishbone Ash had a penchant for literal cover art / visual puns.

Their self-titled debut
https://img.discogs.com/qp7LLcV7Szm674gBXX6EMcL19Fg=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1689482-1237135711.jpeg.jpg

"Live Dates"
https://img.discogs.com/QBF9AWP_DeXGTcJfs5nHRIFDqMc=/fit-in/600x612/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14651473-1629802726-5495.jpeg.jpg

"Locked In"
https://img.discogs.com/iSzN5gmFufYYnR22I9HU0zRfNqc=/fit-in/567x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1515738-1332861855.jpeg.jpg

Don’t forget Argus (“a watchful guardian”):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Wishbone_Ash_-_Argus.jpg

I didn't know what an argus was until now, so to me that's not "yawnsomely" literal.

Well, it’s literal cover art (per preceding post)

(all these Wishbone covers have a certain non-yawnsome degree of creativity to my eyes)

That's because they're mostly hipgnosis covers. Agree that they're a cut above the usual fare in this thread.

Had genuinely never spotted the 'dates' pun before

A non-global-sport-specific semipun playing on a quote from a famous play... There's the Rub doesn't belong anywhere near this thread.

The self-titled I'd allow.

Hipgnosis covers are generally vile and horrendous.

Apologies if this has been mentioned upthread (I couldn't find it) but force it/faucet:

https://img.discogs.com/UuLMNK913NlBciJKnMJnO-CJXxU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-12143606-1529173933-2984.jpeg.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/BelaFleck_Drive.jpg