Album Covers that beg the Question: What the Hell were You THINKING?

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Here, Kansas lead singer and....apparently....gun nut Steve Walsh displays both his love for firearms and jogging shorts. What the FUCK?

Others?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

What's he doing over on the left, in the kneepads?

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f729/f72912hxdrb.jpg

(though I suppose the band pretty much explains the cover)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What's he doing over on the left, in the kneepads?

Not sure. Either he's doing some gymnastics or -- worryingly -- he's assuming "the ready position," if ya smell what I'm cookin'.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e240/e240886ef61.jpg

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.antenna.nl/~dinyar/td/248ha47a.jpg

Very determinedly untwee -- which may have been the whole point.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Plush. great album, but the sleeve is pretty darn stupid, if a little charming.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d313/d3136073ju6.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KFJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I mistakenly posted this cover first on the "coolest band ever" thread....and while that argument could indeed be made, I'm quite sure Bill Ward's disquietingly form-fitting tights and Ozzy's Kimono/platform soles ensemble render them disqualified for placement.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000AF94.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The never shoulda taken it off.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

And another from our boys.....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001ELN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

A nicely designed cover to be sure, but there's a fatal flaw. Not sure if you can make it out, but the final panel displays the dogged photographer/critic boldly declaring "I STILL SAY THEY STINK!"

Why arm your detractors so?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

That second Steve Walsh cover looks like something from Francis Bacon's Southwestern phase.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

and the first one looks like those paintings in the royal tenenbaums.

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Walsh is a creepy dude.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001F9T.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

What exactly gave dear Julian the notion that this was a good idea?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

COME BACK STEVE WALSH, ALL IS FORGIVEN!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002R0SE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the most shocking thing about this excessive display of band unity is that Rush didn't think of it first.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f588/f58892dwslv.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Just in case you didn't think the indian/cop/leather guy/cowboy outfits were silly enough....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000HXFB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"maybe they'll buy our collection of Highlander-oriented material if we put overmuscular blue cartoons of us wearing suits without shirts on the cover. You know those sci-fi fans."

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c861/c86178e05u1.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

first off, there's no number on the thing, TOTALLY confusing the diehard Chicago fan. Not to mention something funny is going on in the back there.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c546/c54681g83y7.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005YWRD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Which target demographic was in mind when this masterpiece was dreamed up?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, the funny thing about the Village People 'Renaissance' cover is that they're all going 'Wow, look what happened to you, how fabulous!' - and yet, it isn't fabulous at all.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Those Bill Ward pajamas always cracked me up.

I always thought this cover was so aesthetically unpleasing:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f532/f53299uy58r.jpg

because it says "Def Leppard" twice; once on the left in the form of a logo and again on the right in a conventional font. Like "duh, our fans might be too stupid to read the logo so we better print it again."

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris De Burgh Album Covers S/D

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/d/Covers/john_dav.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe Steve Walsh is doing some Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf800/f880/f88040ig9ta.jpg

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Still mystified by this one...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f182/f182747607k.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Walsh used to perform LIVE in those jogging shorts (cf. Kansas video for "People of the South Wind")

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 29 May 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, I _love_ that Julian Cope cover! Surely I am not alone...?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I love it too....but you must admit, it's pretty fucked up. I know, I know, that's the idea, but it wasn't exactly an open invitation to the uninitiated to come check him out. It's still better than that Kevin Rowland cover, tho'.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the Kate Bush cover. And I swear I've seen a different (just as bad) version of the Village People one where the background is pink, and the poses are different. And I think that, especially in its shiny foil-paper original, the Hall and Oates one is kinda cool in a glam, pop-arty way.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sean, have you seen the cover to "The Kick Inside"? She appears to be farting little demons from under her dress. And the back cover is even crazier - she's flying through the air looking like a bat.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooops, I mean "Never Forever". By Kate Bush, of course.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The alternate Renaissance cover:

http://franklarosa.com/ThumbnailServlet?image=/vinyl/BigImg/vp.jpg&width=350&smooth=1

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the Who one is kind of "kids these days...!" innit?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pure.cc/~hine/rock-2/scorpions-drive.jpg

― Roman (Roman), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~kerokero/pict/nomi-v1.gif

― Roman (Roman), Thursday, 29 May 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

My God.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, I _love_ that Julian Cope cover! Surely I am not alone...?

some editions of the vinyl release came with a 24" x 36" poster of it! also one of the videos from that album has him crawling around a bit in his fabulous turtle guise... i think "me singing" or "laughing boy."

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f652/f65277h3au9.jpg

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

that cover is before.

this one is after:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e772/e77290tlfau.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet fancy moses.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Picture of runny shit = thread killer. Who knew?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

not Millie, apparently

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 29 May 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that Royal Trux cover really does take the fuckin' cake. Kudos to JBR for digging out the original Rennaissance. I distinctly remember stumbling across that album when it came out and thinking aloud: "What in fuckin' blazes?!?!?!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Roy Harper owns this thread:

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Each and every one of the breathtakingly hideous Dean prog rock portraits - Yes and the like.

Also, every single one of the Cranberries album covers are just appalling.

Love Kate Bush as I do, most of her album covers are pretty ropey, too, especially the big-hair-horror that is The Dreaming.

― russ t, Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a blown up photocopy of this on my desk... 11 x 8.5 really does it better justice, but still worth posting:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f368/f36801ig9ta.jpg

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Did they want to make people ashamed to buy the album??!

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cdshakedown.com/1994_pictures/primalscream.jpg
Oops, I was referring to this CD. I don't think I have the fucking nerve to take this confederate flag up to the check-out counter.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

...haven't a clue what the flag is or represents, but the cover is great.

― russ t, Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

>>"Each and every one of the breathtakingly hideous Dean prog rock portraits - Yes and the like."

Uhh uh . Those are nice. Especially Yes' DRAMA, where he was starting to move into a more streamlined use of form, a la Nagel (dig the panthers on the cover). I could live in a Dean landscape. And sometimes I do!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't a clue what the flag is or represents

Russ, if you see the upcoming "Run, Ronnie Run", the Mr. Show flick which is gunna get released on DVD, all will be explained.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d595/d5959021v78.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

no, no.... Roger Dean epitomises everything I hate about graphic art - hideous nonsensical, puffed up pretentious twaddle.... and it's SO dated. The Yes sleeves should all be recalled and ritually burned. Each one of them.

Cheers Kingfish.... is the flag a negative thing, then?

― russ t, Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh, yeah, it's the Confederate flag, so unless you live in the southern US, it's a negative thing. If you live in the South, it's a heritage thing and has absolutely NOTHING to do with racist rednecks. < /sarcasm>

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

albert ayler: live in greenwich village on impulse. the two disc reissue has ayler as a puppet.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i have that herbie mann LP!

(ladies, it's a gatefold.)

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's a metaphor for the fact that he was a puppet of the free jazz Illuminati.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That person in the middle of the bed on the SPRCSS or whatever album - Nick swore that wasn't a girl. Then we heard female vox on one track and he's like "Woah! It's it amazing how he makes himself sound like a girl??" ha ha

I've never understood the Sleater-Kinny All hands on the bad one cover. What the hell is going on there?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

''Maybe it's a metaphor for the fact that he was a puppet of the free jazz Illuminati.''

heh, and what does that mean?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Yes sleeves should all be recalled and ritually burned. Each one of them.
I gots a spare gas can and a box of matches, someone has to bring hotdogs or marshmallows....lets all make a day of it.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but as ridiculous as the Yes sleeves are/were, they appropriate to their milieu/genre/target demographic. They're not sleeves that those responsible look back on and say "SWEET FUCKIN' CHRIST, WHAT THE FUCK WAS I SMOKING WHEN I OKAY'D THAT EYESORE?!?!?!" Thus, their inclusion to this thread is in error. That is all

― "the Management" (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Word, Mr. Manager.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't worry, Julio, like 75% of the things I write, it's meaningless.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001ESL.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg and http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002GXG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I wish I could find a pic of Mitchell's "Dog Eat Dog", which features a truly hideous painting of the artist as a dog woman.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I sooooo agreee with ya on that Rush cover. Way to alienate 90% of your audience (i.e.acne-speckeled metalhead mooks) in one fell swoop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

holy shit, I think that joni mitchell could substitute in for a new Beck release.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

''Don't worry, Julio, like 75% of the things I write, it's meaningless.''

hehe b-but that's not what i meant!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d804/d80493j719t.jpg

The cover's so brown. Such an ugly brown! It's probabaly the dingiest cover of the Eighties.

(Incidently, this was the first rock record I ever bought.)

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 May 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The cover of All Hands on the Bad One is some kind of backwater church revival, presumably Pentecostal.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 30 May 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The confederate flag pic is actually a crop of a pretty famous photo by William Eggleston. What band decided to make it their cover art?

― el maury, Friday, 30 May 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Primal Scream

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 30 May 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Joni Mitchell's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter cover is cool! It's meant to be kinda nonsensical, as the back and inner sleeves addtionally prove. The black dude in the hat is her, obv. Dog Eat Dog's cover is Joni surrounded by dogs with her arms raised; dog woman? I think the Yes covers are sometimes cool, but some of them are kind of sloppily executed. I especially like Relayer and Drama

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 30 May 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f233/f23305oon0b.jpg

No?

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 30 May 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dog Eat Dog's cover is Joni surrounded by dogs with her arms raised; dog woman?"

My bad, I was thinking of another cover that was dog themed and had a painting. This wasn't it.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 30 May 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Indulge me for a second and scroll way back to the top of the page where the first Steve Walsh cover.....is that supposed to be a bird on the right hand side of Steve Walsh's face (his left hand side)? And what's it doing? Eating out of his ear? This cover haunts me with its abject bizarreness.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

don't do drugs, kids.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

That Steve Walsh cover reminds me of Pen&Pixel, if they did covers for CMC International that is.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow...that Indonesian Popular Music CD was released by Smithsonian Folkways!! (still laughing, minutes later after seeing it)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 30 May 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The guy on the cover of the Indonesian Popular Music CD sounds nothing at all like the picture would make you imagine, sadly

― dave q, Friday, 30 May 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Someday I will find a picture of Buddy Miles' Booger Bear and give you all nightmares.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I got one name for y'all:

Kenny Fucking Loggins

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000029FW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000273U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025RO.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000259D.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025H2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000029BV.01._PE8_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― turkey (turkey), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Herbie Hancock has a lot of these...

http://www.jazzversand.de/Modern/Hancock/486571b.jpg

My eyes! Those colours!

http://www.jazzversand.de/Modern/Hancock/471235b.jpg

Is that Buddha with some soap bubbles?

http://www.jazzversand.de/Modern/Hancock/486572b.jpg

Digital image manipulation has come a long way since the eighties...

http://www.jazzversand.de/Modern/Hancock/471240b.jpg

What are you doing to that poor flamingo?!?

http://www.jazzversand.de/Modern/Hancock/486570b.jpg

Admit it, Herbie! You'll never look cool.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

re: Kenny Loggins Covers
How very counter-intuitive. You'd think Loggins would do lots of creepily Springsteenesque-wannabe looking covers, but no...he's a granola munching new age space cadet at heart (if his album covers are to be believed); None of them are particularly ugly...just odd.
Now, the cover for "Vox Humana"...THATS ugh-lee!

#1 - What...is he aiming to be the next Andreas Wollenweider?
#2 - There's something slightly high-art paedo about that one.
#3 - Aiming for that lucrative "Frank Buck - Bring 'em Back Alive" tv show soundtrack demographic. Or to impress the people who make hair mousse. One or the other.
#4 - "Dooooodddde...I'm sooooooo sttttooooooonnnnneeeeed..." (Actually, it's kinda pretty in a "just saw the video for Orinoco Flow and want an album cover that looks just like it" kinda way.
#5 - Jesus uses the patented super-saiyan Kameha-meha Blast Wave Attack!
#6 - "Charles Manson...the New Age Years"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Now, the cover for "Vox Humana"...THATS ugh-lee!
and here's proof...
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d809/d80949txys4.jpg

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. I'm still reeling from Mr.Hands!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"And now, my young padawan... to complete your training, and become a Jedi master... you must first grab my magic ball!"

"Master - NOOOOOO!!!!" *becomes Darth Vader*

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025H2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Sam J. (samjeff), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this must be the worst album cover ever. It's not even funny or weird, just plain BAD.

http://www.nic.fi/~jsantala/nightwish/ocean.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 10 July 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

joe cocker is the undisputed master at this sorta thing ... take a look fer yerselves ... ALL HAIL JOE COCKER ALBUM/CD COVERS!!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 10 July 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d848/d84839q75re.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 10 July 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

That Nightwish cover is actually kinda cool.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Nightwish have the best album covers! They're just all-around perfect. Especially the picture on the front of their website where one of the guys is trying to look all tough in a doo-rag...

― adam (adam), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000348M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 10 July 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

those herbie hancock ones are great!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e697/e69782f6sv4.jpg

I like to pretend this one didn't happen.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000C9ZLD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― wtf?, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the color choice that really does that one in.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

An obvious one:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f110/f11074q3334.jpg

A lot of people wondered what they were thinking - and and lot of people still do....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

played a gig with Cheap Trick once in the 80's and Steve Walsh was the *hidden* keyboard player. He wore Reeboks, tube sox, and running shorts. He had a rainbow mohawk. He stood and dance all night behind a speaker stack in a club that only held about 200 people. Everyone could see him, but he was never acknowlaged. It was sad and hilarious at the same time. When the band was done, he acted as a roadie. Neilson kind of shut me up when I was making jokes ala "Carry on my Wayward son" but then he started snickering too.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That Strokes one is a (non-commissioned) painting from some artist, innit? Not that that makes it good. I really hate the fact it's a bit lopsided, I scanned it in three times before I realised it wasn't my fault.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.io.com/~dork/records/pages/DrugsDave.html

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Yes and I thank You! Don't know IF I'm in the right place or not, but here goes! I am looking for a company called PEN & PIXEL GRAPHICS INCORPORATED - 2400 Central Parkway - Suite M - Houston, Texas.

Do I have the right Album Cover People? Please email me back as I am interested in doing a CD Album cover for my music. Will await your reply. Thank you!

― Gerald L. Withers, Friday, 26 March 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg000/g054/g05479gvo26.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

remember, there are some things Pen & Pixel won't illustrate, like the destruction of your competitors ride, or a van driving in or out of a "coochie"

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f244/f24409qhctt.jpg

(I mean, "The Fury"... yeah, furious that Philip Michael Thomas was out getting coffee during the photo shoot)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d639/d6394295nky.jpg

(Yes, it's "+Live+", the band. welcome to the Wheel Of Vomit)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(ok, my commentary is sub Jay Leno now.. ack, must stop)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d662/d6627642asr.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c011/c01153113xe.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

the Scorpions "virgin killer" (or whatever it's called) has a very very dodgy sleeve

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002EPLU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"yes, I want to be on the cover, dressed like a tango dancer!"

― fernando, Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bizarrerecords.com/pics/recpics4/swamprat.jpg

"let me get this straight : you want to be RIDING...a RAT?"
(this from http://www.bizarrerecords.com)

― fernando, Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago)

But the fact that it's called "Rat On!" is really what makes it.

I wish I could find an image of the album "Black Dick For President" by the band . . . "Black Dick For President"

― hurting, Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago)

http://king-diamond.coven.vmh.net/pics/large/xmas.jpg

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago)

you could fill up this entire thread w/ unfortunate gary numan album covers from 1981 until 1994 (besides the afore-depicted dance and the fury). and the funniest thing about that dance cover is how numan STILL LOOKS LIKE AN ANDROID, even though he was trying to shake the android-vibe musically.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002HOM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago)

http://gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote5/bl8%20025.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Michael Nesmith - 'From the Photon Wine to the Radio Engine' or some nonsense like that. It was one of my dad's records that I've never listened to.

Isn't he the guy from the Monkees?

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago)

that king diamond cover is genius

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago)

"Virgin Killer" - The Scorpions.

Just Google it - I don't even wanna post it!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)

― mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago)

"Just Google it - I don't even wanna post it! "

My god! Why did you even have to tell me about that one! I feel scarred for life, like I watched one of those beheading videos.

― Josh Saltzman (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Was Misogyny considered cool in the 70s?

http://moogie.info/music/cd/Foreigner-Headgames.jpg

― Josh Saltzman (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago)

"Just Google it - I don't even wanna post it! "

My god! Why did you even have to tell me about that one! I feel scarred for life, like I watched one of those beheading videos.

Sorry! No, seriously, it's pretty grim. Apparently even the band thought it was too over the top and released an alternate cover that just had a typical group photo.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago)

yea that was grim.

Christ that was worse than the Blind Faith cover

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago)

It's weird how in the Stoned Age they describe the hot girl as "like the babe on the Virgin Killers album".

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago)

Between this and the WTF Album Covers thread:

Does anyone else notice that there's the mysterious period in the 1970s when all these respectable jazz artists seem to have completely lost their shit?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000046X0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000046YL.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009XFS8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002I3M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Ah yes. Also any of the previously posted Herbie Hancock covers.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000027EC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Uh, nice pajamas, Dex.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005MLW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

This one crosses over from mere "What were you thinking?" into the realm of "WTF???"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002AE9.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

There I go, losing my shit already.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:30 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e531/e53112fz627.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Garish art is awesome. This thread is easy. Just google liberace or satan or whatever. Here's the first thing that comes up for Polka. http://graphics.ink19.com/issues/august2002/polka.jpeg

― trashmaster (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/a/b/abrutalchristmas.jpg http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/s/w/swallows2.jpg http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/h/u/humbug.jpg

These are still nowhere near as good as that King Diamond cover.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago)

some of the covers on this thread are fucking awesome

Sasha, get yourself some Michael Nesmith & The First National Band records - you'll never think of him as 'that guy from the Monkees" ever again.

You MAY think of him as the guy whose mother invented White Out, but that's another story. Anyway, he's great. Fuck the rest of those losers (except the fat one - was that Mickey Dolenz? I like him for some reason).

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago)

"Alex, the funny thing about the Village People 'Renaissance' cover is that they're all going 'Wow, look what happened to you, how fabulous!' - and yet, it isn't fabulous at all.
-- colin s barrow (colinsbarro...), May 29th, 2003."

I've got to stop reading this at work.

So Michael Nesmith WAS a Monkee? Is that rekkid I mentioned any good? I've never had the innis to listen to it.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005YWRD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Which target demographic was in mind when this masterpiece was dreamed up?

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), May 29th, 2003.

the gay japanese demographic?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:55 (twenty years ago)

oh no, guys, you look coool. trust me.

http://math.scu.edu/~dostrov/split2.JPG

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 30 September 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago)

That Lonnie Liston Smith cover is AWESOME.
But:

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago)

http://ring.cdandlp.com/funkeur/photo_grande/5934936.jpg

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that is a quality ass, but OH GOD AMBULATORY DOWN-SYNDROME ET COUSIN OF ROLLING STONES LOGO WITH UGLY SOCKS, STOP IT

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:47 (twenty years ago)

I worked at a music store... The first things guys would see when they passed this album were the tits. Then they'd see Richard D. James' face and yell out, "WTF?!"

― Jenny J., Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Lets try this again...

― Jenny J., Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

― Jenny J., Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

> AMBULATORY DOWN-SYNDROME ET COUSIN OF ROLLING STONES LOGO WITH UGLY SOCKS, STOP IT

Also the cousin to the title character in the '80s video game Jawbreaker, no?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Revive! In honor of these two blonde...ahem "beauties."

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006284JQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00064AEJW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I saw the Britney cd at Wal-mart yesterday, and the picture doesn't truly due it justice, for the background is really silver foil stock w/embossed doilies!

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.schenkt.nl/pics%20div/zing%20je%20moerstaalcopy.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago)

this might make me give up on the rev once and for all

http://www.mercuryrev.net/discography/discs/disc_migration.jpg

― jb, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if the Stefani cover was done by Nick Knight. Either way, it's a bad parody of his work (combined with Me Company).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hardrock.com.pl/main2/service/dokken/tooth.jpg

and in case you haven't already seen this classic...

http://flakmag.com/web/images/julie16bday300.jpg

You can tell Julie knows the end is near, after the four hour car ride in the back on John's trunk.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago)

She's had a hard sixteen years. Twice, at least.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Ba-Dump-BUMP!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 11 November 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Britney is looking small-tittied lately.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 11 November 2004 02:26 (twenty years ago)

It's been established that we are quite sure that is not really her body, rox.
Either that or she had to have her fake booby bags out.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago)

http://franklarosa.com/ThumbnailServlet?image=/vinyl/BigImg/vp.jpg&width=350&smooth=1

is it me or does the guy on the right look almost a bit like one of the mifits with his makeup and devilock?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago)

except for the glammy red lipstick

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago)

and the yellow eyeshadow, and the wee little braid.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cypherzero.com/vampira/images/vampfits.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Danzig is like 3 feet tall, you know.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago)

thats the misfits (circa Walk Among Us) posing with vampira of "plan 9 from outer space" fame. she was apparently moved that they wrote a song about her and posed for the picture.

x-post

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago)

http://noppo.info/media/1/20031005-e53389ddswo.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah danzig's like the same height as Ronnie James Dio, about 5'1".

whats up with all these satanic metal midgets?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.music01.com/artists/perkov/Funky.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/covers/B/00/000/27K/B0000027KK.l.gif

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago)

The "Apple Juice" cover just made me roffle.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago)

What's he doing over on the left, in the kneepads?

Not sure. Either he's doing some gymnastics or -- worryingly -- he's assuming "the ready position," if ya smell what I'm cookin'.

Isn't there also something coming out of his mouth? That thin white line there. Or is he drinking something?

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 11 November 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

http://servercc.oakton.edu/~larry/miles/images/covers/columbia/waterbabies.jpeg

I posted this one on another thread. Why is Arnold from Different Strokes scowling at those kids? WTF?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

http://kasey.carolina.net/debbie/sound/kookoo.jpg

― choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.invisible-face.com/pics/collins_sessions/session_j_martyn_boy.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000XCH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― BrianB (BrianB), Thursday, 11 November 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006I0S6C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 24 December 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago)

What the fuck?? This is like some kind of Sudanese lost-boy nightmare where the sky turns black and the Earth turns cold and hungry bears and creepy plasticized antelope come out to devour you!

― nabiscothingy (nory), Friday, 24 December 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah, the whole thing is creepy as hell, but the plague of staring rudolphs really make it intense.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 24 December 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago)

also, i'm going to start a band called Plague of Staring Rudolphs.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 24 December 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I wonder who did that cover?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 24 December 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago)

That "FUNKY" lettering is totally rad. But I think they left out a blue dot on the bottom left part of the U. :(

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 24 December 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)

This might very well own the thread:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000516UX.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 24 December 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000FDMG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005J7GF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Lingbert, Friday, 24 December 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Looks to me like Joan Baez was thinking "not much of a budget for this shoot".

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 24 December 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago)

[img]http://www.fabricemorvan.com/images/rofab.jpg[/img]
*shudder*

― Marriz, Friday, 24 December 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago)

They look tough, yet fabulous.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 24 December 2004 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Half of these would be saved by the title: "You Know I've Done Drugs, Right? (And This Sounds Cool On Drugs)"... which, by the way, is exactly what they were thinking.

― Metal Braces, Friday, 24 December 2004 07:26 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.soulfreak-jp.com/img/cd/cd009_otisredding.jpg

You just know that this one had to originate in some non-North American nation. (Japan?)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 25 December 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)

They must've had him confused with Marvin Gaye (and the Redskins with the Browns)

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Saturday, 25 December 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, at least there's a HOCKEY team actually called the Blues. (Not that Otis had any pro-hockey ambitions, to my knowledge. And anyways, he was dead before the team barely existed, even.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 25 December 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bizarrerecords.com/pics/recpics/danceparty.jpg

http://www.bizarrerecords.com/pics/recpics4/teenage3.jpg

― Leelee, Sunday, 26 December 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago)

What's not to understand? They're teenagers. Dancing. At a party.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Sunday, 26 December 2004 06:02 (twenty years ago)

I know what they are doing, I just think they are horrible album covers.

― Leelee, Sunday, 26 December 2004 07:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/gerhard.jpg

― Leelee, Sunday, 26 December 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mainstreetmusic.com/msmusic/images/items/44450.gif

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Sunday, 26 December 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/tino.jpg

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/superman.jpg

― Hot Pants, Sunday, 26 December 2004 08:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/tino.jpg

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/superman.jpg

― Hot Pants, Sunday, 26 December 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/byrdtribute/frontiers.gif

― contribute, Sunday, 26 December 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago)

http://fabienm.club.fr/timmons/dd.jpg

― contribute, Sunday, 26 December 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/2786/divine2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/byrdtribute/lem.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/byrdtribute/nightwishwishcover.gif
http://www.geocities.com/byrdtribute/dlreatem.gif
i

― contribute, Sunday, 26 December 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago)

WTF is a Skagarack?
http://www.geocities.com/rfmd2k/skagarack2b.jpg

― contribute, Sunday, 26 December 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago)

I think it's at least clear what the hell Journey was *thinking* with that one.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 26 December 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

stare at it for five minutes, then get back to me.

― contribute, Sunday, 26 December 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)

It's a 2001 homage, from what I can tell.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Sunday, 26 December 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait sorry, I meant to say "what Danger Danger was thinking" not "what Journey was thinking"

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 27 December 2004 04:49 (twenty years ago)

the danger (danger) of bestiality?

― contribute, Monday, 27 December 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rockdoc.dk/albumcovers/10009fr.jpg

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Monday, 27 December 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago)

That Tino cover always cracks me up, I guess "Por primera vez" is meant to imply that it's his first album or something, but I bet most folks think of something else he's doing "for the first time"...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 December 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/images/galleries/gallery%20l/mature.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 December 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 December 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 December 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Wow Tuomas, I'm speechless.

You don't have a copy of Black Dick for President, do you?

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas is arguably cheating, being that he cribbed them all from this website...

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know there were rules to this thread... ;) Anyway, you should all check that site, it has tons of more cool record covers.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/images/galleries/gallery%20a/whatsnext.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008J4P5.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I'm not sure just what it is that I'm trying to say here.

― Pleasant/Plains, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Sex is always the elephant in the room?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Or is it the other way around?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 03:55 (twenty years ago)

The guy who designed this cover spent a little too much time on the kid's ass.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh...hmm.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/byrdtribute/nightwishwishcover.gif

I repeat: the guy who designed this cover spent a little too much time on the kid's ass.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000075YL.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif
http://www.lamette.it/lamette/fototeca/punk/0017.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago)

Look how comparatively unbuff and hirsute Henry was back then. Ah, the 80's....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ozzyhead.com/albums/paranoid.jpg

http://www.lukeski.com/worstcoverever.jpg
That one was intended to be horrible, though.

http://www.miba.auc.dk/~gryn/mothernorth/bands/tuluspureblack.jpg

ihttp://www.diezi.com/boneym/farian/mv.jpg

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos4/bigjake.jpg

http://www.miqel.com/records/clp_geraldine2.jpg
This one is just plain scary.

― Hot Pants, Thursday, 30 December 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago)

elvis costellos spike might have influened princes - batman charcter called "genesis"
spike is a gr8 lp

― vero, Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

uhhhhh.....yeh these r pretty bad album covers.

i think the desingers and directors are m-e-n-t-a-l-l-y-...
c-h-a-l-l-e-n-g-e-d?

anyways it is cool how you collected these and its the most...uhhhh, whats the word? *thinks hard*

OH YEH! unique thread of covers ive EVER seen!

― alana morrison!!, Sunday, 4 December 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

Which target demographic was in mind when this masterpiece was dreamed up?

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), May 29th, 2003.
blind,gay and tone-deaf ?

― retrogurl, Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

I like to pretend this one didn't happen.

-- ben welsh (benwels...), July 11th, 2003.
when i saw prince playing gemini in batman i thought of spike.
is the album good .i like "veronica".was there another single ?

― retrogurl, Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.darkness.de/images/product_images/popup_images/Exodus%20-%20Bonded.jpg

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

I want that lumberjack album so bad.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

i still say that king diamond cover is the greatest

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Sabotage, posted above, has an even better/ worse back cover, in which you can see Bill Ward's stripy boxer shorts through his inappropriately tight trousers!
ihttp://www.gnarf.org/~klaatu/urc/Black_Sabbath_-_Sabotage-back.jpg

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

The new Pen & Pixel covers are 10x better than the older ones.

― Steven Riddick, Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

i do have to agree, they use to all look the same, they also have better diamond effects, some very nice text effects and less of a cluttered look than earlier. referenced penandpixel.com

― byron b, Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

"Guys, we don't need to hire a designer. I can do the cover myself."

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/dre000/e028/e028860q2hf.jpg

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/def.jpg

I used to own this album back in the nineties, I wonder what happened to it.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 August 2007 06:39 (eighteen years ago)

v pretty.

― W4LTER, Thursday, 16 August 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

That's fucking great!!

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/29/1375/1024/Skyband.jpg

I got a lot of mileage out of this on my old blog. Pictured above are the guy who co-wrote "Genie in a Bottle," the guy who wrote "Baby Come Back" and another guy.

It is a surprisingly good album.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, every time I try to do this I screw up!

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/29/1375/1024/Skyband.jpg

― dlp9001, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

What are they, Incas?

― Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord.

Its a pity the showandtellmusic ones arent there now. I loved that site. "Mr Bat Sings" was some fucked up John Wayne Gacey nightmare.

― Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

I know it's a classic, maybe it's been discussed before, maybe there is a story behind it - I did search - but listened to this on vinyl for the first time last night, and really... wtf?

http://img.tesco.com/pi/entertainment/CD/LF/234169_CD_L_F.jpg

― ledge, Friday, 17 August 2007 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Steve Walsh, eat ya heart out:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nompf4ZgL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago)

Of course, for context, we'll need the original masterwork:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61EEWEY5V3L._SS500_.jpg

― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago)

Holy crap: ILX thread exists for FIVE YEARS without anyone ever being a pedant about the phrase "beg the question!"

― nabisco, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b276/oliver8bit/DiscosyLicor.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b276/oliver8bit/LaCandelosa.jpg

Found those at a thrift store recently.

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

I think its pretty obvious what the artists in question were thinking with those sleeves

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d130/mywow/NirvanaNevermind.jpg

I remember buying this CD and feeling really embarrassed when I brought it to the checkout counter. Its got a baby's penis on the cover!

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

Ya should've bought it at Wal-Mart, then!

― Z S, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

"America's moral authority"

― Z S, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2905259611_1a49f19373.jpg

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

"Cosmo's Factory" takes the win for highest Awesomeness-of-band-to-terribleness-of-cover ratio.

― staggerlee, Thursday, 2 October 2008 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

the steve walsh sleeve is kind of awesome imo

― Brosef Stalin (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 October 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

Ladies and gentlemen, Jasper Williams.

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 2 October 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.the-scorpions.de/english/discography/images/fly_to_the_rainbow.jpg

What in hell is this??

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 3 October 2008 08:00 (sixteen years ago)

Scorpions kinda own this thread.

― Cunga, Friday, 3 October 2008 08:08 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/nuge.jpg

― Pheeel, Friday, 3 October 2008 08:48 (sixteen years ago)

Forget best TG album what's their worst cover?
http://www.connollyco.com/discography/tangerine_dream/goblins.jpg

― Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:06 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, screw it, I meant TD not TG, although I'm surprised no-one has posted their Third Annual Report up.

― Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago)

They wouldn't dare...

― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://rob.elotw.org/webdav/controversy.jpg
http://rob.elotw.org/webdav/lovesexy.jpg
http://rob.elotw.org/webdav/newsoul.jpg

'nuff said.

― rjberry, Friday, 3 October 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

oh, and this:

http://rob.elotw.org/webdav/prince.jpg

― rjberry, Friday, 3 October 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

You know, that one "Your pokemons, show them to me"

I always fancied getting that on a fridge magnet.

Do you think Prince has enough of a sense of humour to allow me to make one fridge magnet with his likeness on it?

No, me neither.

― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 14:07 (sixteen years ago)

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa250/the100band/jimmyh.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 3 October 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago)

Are there any album covers featuring shirtless men that don't seem bizarre now? Chest hair is, like, the one thing from the seventies that's never been revived.

― bendy, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago)

Pure in words, pure in thought:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2907751622_59ed419ba4_o.jpg

― bendy, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

we've gone hairless...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Meshuggah_-_obZen.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

http://991.com/newGallery/Elkie-Brooks-Shooting-Star-230132.jpg
great album, by the way, but the fighter jets seem tangentially related at best.

― andrew m., Friday, 3 October 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, does not look like two album covers previous:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/ElkRMB.jpg

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

That "Richard & Willie" cover upthread covers just about every base in offending just about as many people as possible!

― snoball, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

Are there any album covers featuring shirtless men that don't seem bizarre now? Chest hair is, like, the one thing from the seventies that's never been revived.

This one is kinda classy:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2745287320_6e5b19559c_o.jpg

― the goose that got the cream (I am using your worlds), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

I like the way the Elkie Brooks album seems to be called "Shooting Tar Shooting Star." Should be the next Har Mar Superstar album title.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

mod mark thread nsfw thx

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

And we've been so restrained up to now...

― Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

Are there any album covers featuring shirtless men that don't seem bizarre now? Chest hair is, like, the one thing from the seventies that's never been revived.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Isaac_Hayes,_Hot_Buttered_Soul_Album_Cover.jpg

OK, so it's not hairy and it's not central to the image but it's there.

― Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

And the back of Joy come to that...
http://www.flwrpt.com/blog/isaac2.jpg
I think the chain makes it though.

― Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, that Scorpions "Fly To The Rainbow" one is truly baffling.

― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago)

Chest hair never been revived, huh?

http://i31.tinypic.com/fnfgpz.jpg

^^ 2008

― ian, Friday, 3 October 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

charles grodin?!

― andrew m., Friday, 3 October 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

I love how Gepy seems annoyed by too many naked women.

― Tetragram for Holding Back (libcrypt), Friday, 3 October 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago)

Or one particular one.

― Tetragram for Holding Back (libcrypt), Friday, 3 October 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

which one is the other gepy?

― andrew m., Friday, 3 October 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.planetmellotron.com/images/romanticwarriors-battlefieldfull.jpg

― Matt #2, Friday, 3 October 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

Scorpions kinda own this thread.

Yes, but they are also responsible for one of the best:

http://hardrockhideout.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/scorpionsblackout.jpg

― Pillbox, Friday, 3 October 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

OMG! What album is that Grodin gorilla dude from????

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 3 October 2008 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

Freddie Mercury's real name was Jimmy Hotz??

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 3 October 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago)

KJB: That is Jared of the band "Fabulous Diamonds."

― ian, Friday, 3 October 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

Thanx Ian. It's an amaaaazing cover! I might actually buy the vinyl.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 3 October 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

It's a good record!

― ian, Saturday, 4 October 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago)

Are there any album covers featuring shirtless men that don't seem bizarre now?

To answer myself: Raw Power. But yeah, like Isaac Hayes, Ig is free of the man-pelt.

― bendy, Saturday, 4 October 2008 11:37 (sixteen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/o138979.jpg

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 6 October 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago)

(OK, so it's not particularly "WTF?" - it just made me smile, and I wanted to share it.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 6 October 2008 05:02 (sixteen years ago)

What's so weird about the "Controversy" cover?

― Tuomas, Monday, 6 October 2008 06:41 (sixteen years ago)

Why Roger Daltrey, why?

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/89864.jpg

Ride a Rock Horse?

― Nate Carson, Monday, 6 October 2008 08:30 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

http://i43.tinypic.com/2pyupoo.jpg

― abanana, Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

and your argument is invalid, too

― abanana, Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

xpost looks like James Franco

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, 21 May 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

good god it does too

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 May 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e4/14/55d1828fd7a0a56dc7c81110.L.jpg

― Brio, Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3Yk__DQGqWI/Rhg71saC9UI/AAAAAAAAB4I/O_W_fwuTVls/s400/violence%26force.jpg

― Brio, Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

Has everyone here discovered the LPCover Lover blog? Another 5 threads could be filled from there, though most are too obscure for the canon.

― Derelict, Friday, 22 May 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

this is always my go-to choice for these threads:

http://www.oldtimejazz4u.de/Webimg/AHVA197505.jpg

― henry s, Friday, 22 May 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

That's not really too far off from Let it Bleed, which so freaked me out as a kid I didn't want to buy it, even though I really wanted "Gimme Shelter". A lot of Stones covers are WTF objectively, but softened by familiarity.

― bendy, Friday, 22 May 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

lol at that Neil Diamond cover. It's like he's making love to the air or something.

― "some dumb fucking indie reason that you refuse to admit" (Bimble), Friday, 22 May 2009 19:41 (sixteen years ago)

imaginary phantom self donging

― your porno name is rodd tundgren (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 22 May 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

Phantom mammoth dong syndrome.

― staggerlee, Saturday, 23 May 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/z/zzthaibeatagogovol3gr_101b.jpg

― meisenfek, Sunday, 14 June 2009 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://991.com/NewGallery/Flora-Purim-Everyday-Everynig-524694.jpg
"Ooh, Freddie's here"

― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 19:26 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7jGF8pFTQH8/Sw-5HnUp1FI/AAAAAAAAC6k/Oj8H21fBLVU/s1600/Front-1.jpg

Has there ever been an album cover that managed to do a visual pun on the album name without looking goofy?

― Tuomas, Monday, 26 March 2012 13:52 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.timba.com/artists/reve/images/d-99.jpg

― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 March 2014 17:02 (eleven years ago)

^^^ that's a good one, because not only is the cover not good technically, I also can't even figure out what the intent was.

― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:22 (eleven years ago)

http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/les%20goupes/V/Van%20Der%20Graaf%20Generator/Reflection%20Van%20der%20Graaf%20Generator/Reflection%20Van%20der%20Graaf%20Generator.jpg

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:42 (eleven years ago)

xp guessing that's nora in front of her casa.

― sleepingsignal, Monday, 31 March 2014 20:47 (eleven years ago)

it looks dark in there

― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:48 (eleven years ago)

I think it's one of the most awkward record covers I have ever seen, on many different levels

― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:48 (eleven years ago)

The first song here “Changüí en la Casa de Nora” is how the changüí was traditionally played before Elio Revé, Sr. migrated to Havana in 1955. Nora was born in the same place as Revé, Sr. and maintains her home there where the jam sessions still take place. After hours of musicians playing and the country dance probably going all night until close to dawn, she is known to serve up her famous soup and seafood. The chorus, always sung rapidly in childish voices, says “Let’s go to Nora’s house to eat ajiaco”.

― sleepingsignal, Monday, 31 March 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)

That Van Der Graaf Generator cover looks like the artist got confused about the American and British meanings of "fanny."

― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Monday, 31 March 2014 22:30 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

Uncomfortably rapey, Eric Carmen. Gross.

http://i.imgur.com/5SY7Q2g.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:38 (ten years ago)

yikes

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:43 (ten years ago)

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/49692/1acfde93.jpg

thought this would be here for sure.

― akm, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:05 (ten years ago)

"yes a mosquito is nose raping a baby why not listen to our not very good new album"

― akm, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)

alex in nyc was very proto-buzzfeed listicle in his old picture threads

― slam dunk, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:10 (ten years ago)

I like the original Steve Walsh cover! It's got this weird '80s kitsch that that hits me right in the childish sweet spot.

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:17 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

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

― lispectah deck (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:17 (six years ago)

man, reading the first posts in the thread is a trip. i could tell at a glance that styx album cover was a storm thorgerson joint. also fuck you i like the cover to "more you becomes you".

since we're reviving this i would like to note that while the new sunwatchers album "illegal moves" is great, the cover art is, er, not.

― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:05 (six years ago)

wow omg @ sunwatchers ...

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:31 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://cdn2.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/cobham_bill_liveontou_101b.jpg

― enochroot, Thursday, 21 March 2019 22:54 (six years ago)

https://d27t0qkxhe4r68.cloudfront.net/t_900/5015959465225.jpg?1550167115

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 22 March 2019 00:07 (six years ago)

Straight nightmare fuel

― enochroot, Friday, 22 March 2019 00:39 (six years ago)

one year passes...

https://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/alb.214187/500x500.jpg

Can't tell if this is supposed to be kinda sweet or offensive?

― Tuomas, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:30 (four years ago)

eleven months pass...

https://img.discogs.com/0NLcQej-4kzz9StlD3FtqTYH-fs=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2149871-1296101414.jpeg.jpg

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 13:44 (three years ago)

thought this revive was about this

album cover // pre-save : https://t.co/MDAeut3QY4 pic.twitter.com/96PbZGJA83
— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) January 4, 2022

― nashwan, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:26 (three years ago)

one year passes...

michael urbaniak - ecstasy (1978)

https://imgur.com/a/wOLtZDU

idgi

― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:06 (two years ago)

https://i.imgur.io/N1QRKOf_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

hope that one works.

― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:08 (two years ago)

ps- fuck you imgur. nothing you do makes sense and your "share"/"copy url" button has officially lost the plot. thanks for the absolute betrayal.

― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:10 (two years ago)

Alex in NYC must have used a rock-solid image host back in 2003… all his pics at the top of the thread still load.

― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:14 (two years ago)

Amazon links seem to last forever

― brimstead, Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:15 (two years ago)

yeah, that's 20 years going strong! impressive💪🏻

anyway, back the regular program: can anyone explain this one to me? like is it implying that our friend mike will pleasure the ladies as he bows his instrument? ARE THE STRINGS THE CLITORIS IN THIS ANALOGY? jfc or is it saying his playing is seductive? i've often joked that i would "lay down and spread my legs for a vibraphone solo" but IT WAS JUST A JOKE I'M SORRY.

anyway, obviously a masterwork of a cover. i don't even want to listen to the album. there's no way it can live up to the artwork.

― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:25 (two years ago)

The font used for his name reminds me of this:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61azmcuN4mL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:46 (two years ago)

one year passes...

discuss

https://i.discogs.com/YGL5PMdERIA8yifxHJablNeX_hWo_Mf04pJEhcAS9PQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ0MzIw/NzctMTUzNzI5NjA5/OC00NzE4LmpwZWc.jpeg

― sleeve, Friday, 3 January 2025 23:20 (eight months ago)

I mean... it's Hawkwind. When this cover was conceived, everyone involved was higher than you or anyone you know has ever been in your/their life.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 4 January 2025 03:20 (seven months ago)

Lizards with human arms shitting piles of leaves into the antigravity hawkwind, what's not to get?

― BrianB, Saturday, 4 January 2025 04:27 (seven months ago)

Maybe it was like the first Kreator album and they just showed them a bunch of different paintings and had them choose

― brimstead, Saturday, 4 January 2025 16:24 (seven months ago)

I like it, it's creepy. Leaf-lizards comin' to get ya.

― gjoon1, Saturday, 4 January 2025 16:31 (seven months ago)

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