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

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

not sure if “yawnsomely” is the most appropriate adjective here:

https://queermusicheritage.com/OCT2012/mckuenLP1.jpg
Rod McKuen - Slide… Easy In…

(his 1978 criscodisco album)

Well some guy slides easy in, lookin' a bit like Rod McKuen
He moves just like Crisco Disco, breath a hundred-percent listerine

I've always felt the first two Wire albums had brazenly literal covers. The first is simply a flagpole with a Pink Flag, and the second a table with Chairs Missing.

I find both covers charmingly artful and humourous rather than yawnsome, however. I actually laughed out loud the last time I pulled out Chairs Missing.

https://images.roughtrade.com/product/images/files/000/247/141/hero/ValerieJune_UnderCover_FINAL-1656368048.jpg?1656486636

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Switch-album.jpg

INXS - Switch

I fell asleep just imagining what that cover would look like before I clicked to show image.

When I woke up, yep.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81+HX3iHzjL.jpg

(Forgive me if this^ one has already been done)

i'd argue this cover is AWESOMELY literal: https://i.imgur.com/OGDR6AR.jpg

the album name is "ただいま" (tadaima) which is what one might say when they've arrived home and walked in the door

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81B0jSP3pGL._SY355_.jpg

Jim Glaser: The Man In The Mirror

Pallas - The Wedge

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

Wesley Gonzalez, Wax Limousine

https://www.normanrecords.com/artwork/large/201/189201-wesley-gonzalez-wax-limousine.jpg

https://i.discogs.com/MH2KEWl-OWOpJjBHxw59EJ1OOPSGj9Yh1LDZMpFdVus/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0NTIw/OTQtMTI4NDgyOTMx/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

Davy Graham - Hat. Although it's a great hat so awesomely literal I guess.

https://www.folkradio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Davy-Graham-Hat.jpg

Bobby Beausoleil – Running With The White Wolf

https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/48a767129d91bd460a0ca9ed14797197/5975586

https://i.discogs.com/-ACoUUpNl-hZbNmw66jlHMM9JCngwYBeMZ_fqROMSHY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:576/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMjA5/MzI0LTE1MTE5MDI4/NjItOTU2My5qcGVn.jpeg