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

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

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/244618429_10221010191466880_7599069972375287013_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=POgq6tJA9O4AX9jfB-b&tn=trgXPOBaEZV0ORCK&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=d6b41b59414dac99b01609767b99d94b&oe=61640EE0

Fable - Get The "L" Out Of Here

wtf?

A Canadian trio I saw mentioned in a fb prog rock group. "Fabe" doesn't mean anything as far as I know, so there's no extra joke.

such a weird way to pose that hand

With titles like this I always imagine joke-deflating stage banter at the gig as a band member explains the name of the new album.

That one is a belter. Is the hand supposed to resemble a black angel or is that just me?

I thought it was a falcon (or some bird of prey) at first, swooping down and grabbing the L.

https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/247147025_4582466975150691_9057203037831022900_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=hBOqyXcjbD4AX_G3OY3&_nc_ht=scontent-den4-1.xx&oh=cac6c4fbed598b796ce1b29051aa555e&oe=6197B0C7

Man, that title could be a great dirty pun, in the right hands

It already is ("What's better than roses on your piano ...")

Franquito looks like he's in on the joke

Ah, ok, lol

Fake?

I believe so.

franquito is real, if you believe

https://img.discogs.com/cHCYkSUooAZmrLiD38QpKeFTyWE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3597264-1336776773-6869.jpeg.jpg

https://images2.imgbox.com/41/69/qNU2hciu_o.png
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles ‎– A Pocket Full Of Miracles

https://images2.imgbox.com/e1/17/lAj8ed53_o.png
Trevor Dandy – Don't Cry Little Tree

Literally a literal tree, at least.

Literally little, rather.

wtf

That Miracles cover is A+

Woody & Jeremy - Gravy in my Coffee
https://img.discogs.com/tfdNsLb1jtlKyc6l4cjMsYhIQKw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-20309884-1632183427-8131.jpeg.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/411XWBZZTTL.jpg

To be fair, that one is kind of unavoidable: if you name your album "Circles", and there's nothing circular on the cover, then somebody in the art department was trying to get cute.

https://i.discogs.com/O7jO19p0YJvfUDA2hvLvk163TO4GKwpo-KC_hYUegs4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:398/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxODI1/My0xMTkzMjE3NDk1/LmpwZWc.jpeg

Circles is even better than that picture portrays. The vinyl had a die-cut cover around the largest photo of William and it was also a circle, of course.

(Album is decent, btw. Very Bitches Brew and Hendrix-inspired fusion.)

Fleet Foxes Shore is also another one where it's like, "Yeah, what else could possibly go on the cover?"

^
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000518574897-blw1pa-t500x500.jpg

I stand corrected.

And obviously the correct version of that cover art going forward, I've just decided. Thank you.

Foundars 15 - Fire Woman
https://i.discogs.com/GCdgymNGcZM2r-86gViGlLSsJYdmDQkwoXFeIe4jfg0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwOTE4/MzE0LTE1MDY1MTE4/OTAtODUyMC5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/2LmaZ9X.png

Moon Ray - Tornado Shout

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Eddie-Floyd-Down-To-Earth-album-cover-web-optimised-820.jpg

Eddie Floyd - Down To Earth

Tangentially related: this old hype sticker.
https://i.imgur.com/ATZ2ztA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/V8kHoEW.png
Dr. John City Lights

lol, that rules

hey, it's a howlin wolf moaning in the moonlight

https://i.imgur.com/2XJ9QIX.jpg

are these all the versions of you, Anitta, or do you have more?

https://www.frontview-magazine.be/sites/default/files/news/174007-anitta-brengt-nieuw-album-versions-of-me-uit-1355737.jpg

I realize this one is a mock up, but I LOLed

https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2012/10/AlbumKateBush011012-2.jpg

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/754/MI0001754911.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Jonah Jones: I Dig Chicks!

Wow.

Haha! Everyone’s having fun with that one, it looks like.

Anitta cover is a bit creepy

https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/e15e472e0f4f187ea10db82f00d531f6/1759628

Ambrosia: Road Island

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273c548d3b2a5ba7d24d3ae3d82
Bisa Kdei • Break Through

https://i.discogs.com/rJB-CoUkQ06R8jVbYrqEI4wzVwFoxHcytdNIhRcKhSY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwOTQw/OTQtMTI2MzY1NTE5/NC5qcGVn.jpeg

https://img.discogs.com/6IUjRtIJd6AxeWJaWSP9YYwK2UA=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1672902-1235988304.jpeg.jpg

ha, thought it said “The Book” at first. could have ..almost.. worked

https://i.discogs.com/h0YSS0Y1q96HH8SSCqAGe44uSEjbSYDP8DmoqYIb5-0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0Nzk5/OTY5LTE1ODE4NDM0/NDktNDY1OS5qcGVn.jpeg

One of the other threads prompted me to look through Hipgnosis' portfolio, which was about 1% greatness and 99% terrible puns. I was slightly surprised that Herman Rarebell's Nip in the Bud wasn't a cutting-edge 1970s photo collage of e.g. a Japanese woman curled up inside a flower. Or a cartoon of a Japanese man emerging from the mouth of Bud Flanagan. I don't know.

But for every record that subverted my expectations there were e.g.:
https://i.discogs.com/jmwFe8CMWGMTebwwg6Zyl025k8_rmMQcSs1TMUzDgnk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4MTk4/ODMtMTM1MzcwMjU0/Ni01ODI4LmpwZWc.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/HYyu7Aq6s54H_wEbN0HIO0C0kHZztznhl10nYBba12M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:484/w:493/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NzMz/NTYtMTI5MTEzNjI3/OC5qcGVn.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/TA1FtI02uBHilzt6hJyWtMGtzyiNbLu9VFKR1WR9iQw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2Mjc3/MDktMTQxODMxNTQ3/Ni0zNTk2LmpwZWc.jpeg

And also Big Jim's Back by Big Jim Sullivan - it's a photo of his back. But that seemed too obvious. It must have been posted already.

Scrolling through all those records I am again struck by how utterly, totally, inconceivably alien the likes of Third World War, Toe Fat, Ancient Grease, the Edgar Broughton Band etc are to my Depeche Mode-trained ears. It's as if the British music industry decided in 1970 that Humble Pie and Spooky Tooth were the future, so they signed up loads of scuzzy British blues-rock bands that sounded like Slade - but slower and without the catchy melodies - and then realised a year later that it was a bad idea and dropped them all.

Meanwhile the public rejected them, they were erased from the collective public memory by pub rock, and they never ever had a revival anywhere on Earth ever.

would that Winkies album possibly be a Christopherson photo

also moving in between my laptop camera and my Third World War, Toe Fat, and Edgar Broughton albums just in case