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

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Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.netmusicitalia.it/recensioni/img/williams.jpg

stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i may have confused this thread with the Album Covers featuring Twats actually

stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000006TRV.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

vahid (vahid), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

wait i take that back

vahid (vahid), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000072DK.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d840/d84094t06hp.jpg

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

on the left 'Keep on Pushing'

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000013BQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

rw, Friday, 30 January 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FCG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


You can't seem'em in a pic this small, but NRBQ themselves are sitting in the seats.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024MZ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That Impressions record is the dorkiest album cover I've seen in a long long time.

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's terrific!

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't seem'em in a pic this small, but NRBQ themselves are sitting in the seats.
This makes it not so literal, doesn't it? Since the record is of them performing, not attending?

The Springfield says something about American notions of "working class"!

no opinion, Friday, 30 January 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's a studio record. The cover depicts them literally at Yankee Stadium. It's a joke, geddit?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Where approximately are they seated?

jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Springfield says something about American notions of "working class"!

well, the dog could be a waiter...

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Upper decks somewhere, if I remember correctly. "Green Light" is on this record (easily their most enjoyable track).

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025BI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FU3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a joke, geddit?
I do now! Guess it worked...

no opinion, Friday, 30 January 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

also rick springfield's australian

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 30 January 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.weezer.com/info/tunes/weezercover.jpg

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 January 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/MrHCIHF/RecCovrs/oof.gif

Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rollingstones.cwc.net/81.jpg

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Err...but Mark, that album's called Sucking in the 70's. I don't see in sucking go on.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i see a lot of sucking going on with regard to that record

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c578/c57845x1b6e.jpg
Believe it or not, the name of this album is "The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken"

BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lp-cd.de/1/14120_01.jpg

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

billy joel looks so cool in that! I wonder if he went to see The Dictators back in the day, or something... maybe The Hassle even opened for them!

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

on his foot there, do you think that's wear-and-tear on the album cover or is it salt-stains on his zippered ankle boots? salt stains on rock boots are awesome.

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

billy definitely could have hung out with these dudes:
http://thedictators.com/pix2000/prayos.jpg

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy is looking so WILLIAMSBURG HIPSTER in that PIC...those jeans alone would probably go for $125 now days.


OTM re: Salt Stained Rock Boots, AWESOME!


very punk.

ddb, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Do my eyes deceive me...or is that a LITTLE bit of SIDEPIPE there too?

who knew.

ddb, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c419/c419431833f.jpg

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy looks cool, but his reflection is the campest way to have a chest-burster kill you ever.

Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.unitedmanchester.com/music/photos/ThinLizzy-jailbreak.jpg

ddb, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord! That Foghat cover is absolutely brilliant.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

also rick springfield's australian
Yeah but I bet the genius execs who came up with/approved the cover were not.

no opinion, Friday, 30 January 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004W510.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 January 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

There's probably 100 better examples of this one, but this was all I could find...
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f684/f68455dz5c6.jpg

dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e632/e63202j6mny.jpg

dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c338/c33854qn9sy.jpg

Joseph McCombs, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It depends, OleM, are you talking about this?:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c019/c0197023990.jpg

..or this?:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e249/e24927z3kre.jpg

donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Believe it or not, the name of this album is "The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken"
-- BrianB"

But the cover has a cock, not a chicken.
Ahhhhhh...

Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm... I was thining of 'hen'...

*slaps forehead*

Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mindcrime.biz/holy.jpg

udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the title of the above?

no opinion, Friday, 30 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be Holy Diver.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://tonica.no.sapo.pt/sparks.gif

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.punkbands.com/lyrics/bands/doa/albums/letswrec.jpg

may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my god....I haven't seen that cover in about fifteen years. Getting misty!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I ever made it through the whole thing.

may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The title track and "General Strike" are okay, if I remember correctly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd900/d925/d92594b7sn5.jpg

The Colour and the Shape

I see the Colour, I see the Shape, but nothing else.

Aja (aja), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

[img]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d326/d326019tc21.jpg[/img]

Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Umm, shit, how do I post pictures on this board?

Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 31 January 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

You have to use the greater-than/less-than brackets. Like this:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d326/d326019tc21.jpg

The end result would look like:


img src=

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

In other words, use the "view source" function because I'm too lucid to figure out anything tonight.

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/R/rush_movingf.jpg

And there's the other picture where they're making a moving picture about these people moving pictures. It's so...meta.

weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

...and here it is!

http://www.mothermetal.com/Images/movingpictures1.jpg

weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c491/c49189f7v56.jpg

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh. Then there's f'ing Roll The Bones

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IRM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized what building that cover was shot in front of in Toronto.

may pang (maypang), Saturday, 31 January 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000ADKY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 31 January 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

and the winner is...
http://www.soundchaser.com.br/reviews/M/Mike%20Oldfield%20%20-%20Tubular%20Bells.gif

Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imagewiz.net/images/sataylor/2262.jpg

Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My teacher has that one.

Aja (aja), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Quibble with the Frampton. The yawnsomely literal title for this picture would be something like "Frampton Stares" or "Mouth Agape, With Guitar." It doesn't show him "coming alive," not literally.

no opinion, Sunday, 1 February 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

heh

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024JV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


Well, maybe if the album was called Crouching manfully next to a Panther maybe.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

There's probably 100 better examples of this one, but this was all I could find

yeah, on same theme I picked up a second hand copy of Big Jim Sullivan's LP "Big Jim's Back" yesterday. Guess what the cover pic is of?

zebedee (zebedee), Sunday, 1 February 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Repurposed from the metal sales figures thread:

http://www.mothermetal.com/images/firehouse.jpg

Props to these guys for pulling this off on a self-titled album!

Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 1 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I am tempted to start an "album covers featuring animals wearing dookie rope gold chains" thread

nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002II0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Wall? check. Fly? check.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000008COG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JSZ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IPZ0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Frampton looks like he's cumming to me!

Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

not that I don't love this album, though it would have been more apropos (and more hilarious!) if it had been named Super Gaye.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d835/d83514d3a2j.jpg

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f781/f78173l2x0r.jpg

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f492/f49240eq0c9.jpg

Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NZH9.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Quibble with Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" - he is patently OUTSIDE the house. Has there ever been a proverbial - as opposed to legal - prohibition specifying that "people shouldn't throw stones AT glass houses"? I think not.

Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-606.jpg

Aja (aja), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://spinaltapfan.com/images/brainh1.jpg

ihhtp://spinaltapfan.com/images/intrav2.jpg

ihhtp://spinaltapfan.com/images/sharksandw2.jpg

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Herbie Mann: Stone Flute. Great album. Everyone sounds stoned.

Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)


Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://spinaltapfan.com/images/brainh.jpg

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, fuck it.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DQWC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

You can be sure this isn't a photo of the first time Coltrane was going to play live at the village vanguard. Alice and Rashied look like some tourist couple who've stumbled into some sidewalk wax museum.

Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(in case you can't read it, the album is named She's Strange)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f550/f55077feyik.jpg

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmmm....the only thing left about the Village Vanguard is that sign. Otherwise, it's a Duane Reade drug store today.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna ask whether it finally closed down.

jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 February 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks to Dr Annabel for finally getting that Thomas Leer and Robert Rental LP cover onto an ILM album covers thread, which i'd been trying to do for ages ;)

zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000035E7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002GYG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~denisg/music/aqua/heroes.jpg

Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FRX.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

JoB (JoB), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha. Surpised no one thought of that one sooner.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ondarock.it/pietremiliari/inrock.jpg
Can't believe that no-one has etc.

Myonga Von Bontee, Monday, 2 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Right ...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d108/d10892b99cw.jpg

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Reminder from a terrible pedant: it is possible to be trite and unimaginative without being literal.

"Bleach" features no bleach, "Cartoon Heroes" features no cartoon heroes (at least none I recognize),

Also, the "Water Babies" cover is actually an ironic twist on the Victorian concept; "Danse Macabre" is similar, a hipster reinvention of the graphic tradition. "Moving Pictures" is not "yawnsomely literal" because it employs a pun. Ditto "Rocks"--ok, it might not be Shakespeare, but it is sure trying harder than "The Raven."

Looks like AC/DC are the champions here!

no opinion, Monday, 2 February 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Flick of the switch may be the winner because it looks like some high school kid drew it in study hall.

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Bleach" features no bleach
Well, the photo is reversed, or, in a sense, bleached. Good enough for ya?

"Cartoon Heroes" features no cartoon heroes (at least none I recognize)
If you are saying that Aqua aren't cartoon heroes, you haven't watched music videos for the past eight years.

Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000054OWH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh-oh, I'm forced to turn the pedantry up a notch!

"Bleach" features no bleach
Well, the photo is reversed, or, in a sense, bleached. Good enough for ya?

Note "in a sense"--i.e. not literal. Figurative. I would say that it doesn't even work very well, since the usual figurative sense of "bleach" is to whiten/make pale/washed out. But this image is simply a negative, with blacks as well as whites.

"Cartoon Heroes" features no cartoon heroes (at least none I recognize)
If you are saying that Aqua aren't cartoon heroes, you haven't watched music videos for the past eight years.

Evidently not enough of them, since I have no idea what you're talking about (and have never heard of Aqua till this thread). But I'm guessing they're actually a band. Either you're joking (i.e. it's not literal) or they are only cartoon heroes in a certain sense, or to a certain viewership, in which case "yawnsomely literal" is not going to cover it.

I also heartily object to the Betty Davis above--where is the literalness there...

no opinion, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Evidently not enough of them, since I have no idea what you're talking about (and have never heard of Aqua till this thread).

Well, that explains a lot. How old are you? Are you telling me that you don't remember 'Barbie Girl'? Or 'Dr. Jones'??? Or The lawsuit against them from Mattel Inc.? The girl sings in a squeaky voice and the guy growls along. Cartoon Heroes if there ever were any.

Re. the 'Bleach' thing: The photo is clearly a tiresome and obvious pun on the title. That's yawningly literal enough for me.


Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024W3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, let's just say I'm old enough to know when to stop arguing when someone prefers to define "literal" in a way that encompasses "figurative." (which is to say over 30--the Aqua business sounds interesting, just missed it somehow!)

no opinion, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Aqua are in a league of their own. You should check them out, for the entertainment value alone.

Re. the literal thing - are you then saying that the Tom Waits cover doesn't apply either, because the people sitting in the diner are not actual hawks as in the bird?

Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

And the AC/DC cover should be dispersed with, too, as it is not the video, but the TV blowing up. Come On!

Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

And the Billy Joel one is out, too, as it is called 'Glass Houses', when there is only one glass house in sight.

Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

on the same note:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f712/f71268cf3zd.jpg

no opinion, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Since you insist,

You're right, at a certain point the figurative comes into play in all of language, nothing is purely literal. But I still see significant differences here.

Waits: "nighthawk" commonly means night owl, the album depicts people in a diner, presumably late at night. The idea is, teh title is "Nighthawks at the diner," let's show some nighthawks at a diner.

Joel: He wants to call the album Glass Houses, the suits say, great! Let's show you ready to throw a stone at, see, an actual glass house! Because that's the saying, you know! So we make the symbolism literal! Cool!

AC/DC: the phrase "Blow up your video" makes no sense at all, but the image is of a TV, with Angus Young on it, who could conceivably be in a vide being shown on that TV, and the TV is blowing up. It is a very lame attempt at a literal depiction of a silly idea.

In each case there is a phrase that is depicted visually in concrete terms.

Aqua: the thing is, they don't look like they're in a cartoon in that picture! I haven't seen the printed album, maybe it's different, but in the jpeg it looks like a photograph of the band. THey could have had them dressed as Superman, Power Rangers, whatever. So to see them as "cartoon heroes" I guess you're saying you need to rely on things you've seen in the past, subtexts, in which case we're clearly beyond the literal.

Nirvana: You're right, the image attempts to make a visual pun on the name. They don't say, "ok, bleach, let's show some bleach"--instead they think, how can we make a visual analog for "bleaching"? Let's use a negative image of the band performing live. YOu find this obvious--I don't since it inverts shades rather than erasing (bleaching) them--but literal it ain't.

no opinion, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Who knew this thread would become such a parsing pedant's paradise?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Perfectly peculiar, perhaps.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

possibly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

*perturbed*

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rrm.co.jp/gb/image/cd/abeey%20road.jpg

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Booker T & the MGs - McClemore Avenue (cover connections to thread!)

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/9f/bb/84842-resized200.JPG

nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Who knew this thread would become such a parsing pedant's paradise?

spot on!

Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC, Blow Up Your Own Video
[T}he phrase "Blow up your video" makes no sense at all, but the image is of a TV...

No, see. Angus did in fact blow up his video. Once his video blew up, well, that's when the TV went too. The above poster's comments are akin to saying that Timothy McViegh didn't blow up the Murrah Federal Building. Why, all he did was blow up a Ryder truck!

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c515/c5157168522.jpg

BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, I'm just responding right now, trying to be less geeky...
No, see. Angus did in fact blow up his video. Once his video blew up, well, that's when the TV went too.
Yeah, ok, it makes sense in a cartoon-logic way: the music video is happening inside the TV. But:
The above poster's comments are akin to saying that Timothy McViegh didn't blow up the Murrah Federal Building.
Not so, if you are returning to the real world where that event happened. The Ryder truck was a physical object that was located next to the Federal Building. The video being blown up on the album cover is a transmission. Again, it does makes a certain fantasy sense.

But what's really interesting is what some of these covers say about what the bands and/or record companies think of their audience! Esp. since album covers are often this moment of sophistication (since, when, the late 60s? early 70s?), semiotic complexity, whatever, where the relationship between word and image is a game or puzzle... and then there's AC/DC's "Flick of the switch"! (or the one above, a great example!)

no opinion, Thursday, 5 February 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

or the one above, a great example
No, Burlap, 'cause that is only a piece of pie up there in the sky on that cover! :-)

Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 5 February 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

...not just any old piece of pie though, it's rock pie!

BrianB (BrianB), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Burlap, 'cause that is only a piece of pie up there in the sky on that cover! :-)
I can go all day with this nonsense...
It says "pie", not "a pie"

no opinion, Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Letyourhairdown.jpg

fit and working again, Thursday, 18 April 2013 19:02 (twelve years ago)

six months pass...

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

fit and working again, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 05:11 (eleven years ago)

which Billy Joel cover is everyone talking about upthread? i can't see the picture my end and now i really want to.

piscesx, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 05:39 (eleven years ago)

i'm guessing glass houses. he has two literal covers:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Billy_Joel_-_Glass_Houses.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Billy_Joel_-_Turnstiles.jpg

fit and working again, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 06:42 (eleven years ago)

actually he has a load of these.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Billy_Joel_-_Songs_in_the_Attic.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Billy_Joel_-_River_of_Dreams.jpg

fit and working again, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 06:47 (eleven years ago)

The River of Dreams cover was painted by Christie Brinkley!

Walter Galt, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 08:25 (eleven years ago)

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/t/the_mekons-the_quality_of_mercy_is_not_strnen.jpg

Mark G, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago)

I know, but there isn't a thread called "Album titles that make no sense unless you see the sleeve picture"

Mark G, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 08:28 (eleven years ago)

four weeks pass...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Hillage_Fish_Rising.jpg

fit and working again, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Steve_Hillage_Fish_Rising.jpg

fit and working again, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago)

lol at all the argumentative nitpicking upthread from somebody calling themselves "no opinion"

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41662fb5TYL.jpg

fit and working again, Sunday, 23 February 2014 22:42 (eleven years ago)

http://img14.shop-pro.jp/PA01076/467/product/39520755.jpg?20120204195037

Pilot's second album, can't look at this without imagining the designers spending all of five minutes coming up with that title/cover image, and then sloping off to the pub for the rest of the day

soref, Sunday, 23 February 2014 23:09 (eleven years ago)

oops

http://img14.shop-pro.jp/PA01076/467/product/39520755.jpg?20120204195037

soref, Sunday, 23 February 2014 23:10 (eleven years ago)

though it doesn't feature an actual pilot, so I guess it's more 'yawnsomely unimaginative/uninspired' than 'yawnsomely literal'

soref, Sunday, 23 February 2014 23:12 (eleven years ago)

ok the "autorip" kinda kills it

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 24 February 2014 05:02 (eleven years ago)

I think a lot of those are illustrating a visual pun on the title so not Yawnsomely Literal. Might have been thought of as quite imaginative at the time but got dulled by familiarity in the interval years.
Not like somebody's come along and generically botched something up as a bad advertising company might. Seems to be some thought put into what has been illustrated and how.
Also seems that a couple at least may have had the image in mind before naming.

Stevolende, Monday, 24 February 2014 10:45 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/yJ6hOYd.jpg

hhoffman, Monday, 24 February 2014 10:49 (eleven years ago)

The font on that Pilot album! Is it made of Legos?

burbbhrbhbbhbburbbbryan ferry (Dan Peterson), Monday, 24 February 2014 12:38 (eleven years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/YouCanTuneaPianoButYouCantTunaFish.jpg

clouds, Monday, 24 February 2014 12:42 (eleven years ago)

http://eil.com/images/main/Donna+Summer+-+Greatest+Hits+-+On+The+Radio+-+Volumes+1+%26+2+-+DOUBLE+LP-522997.jpg

night boat to mega therion (NickB), Monday, 24 February 2014 12:45 (eleven years ago)

She's ON the radio! GEDDIT?

Dan Fogelberg - High Country Snows
http://www.danfogelberg.com/albums/highcountrysnows.jpg

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:47 (eleven years ago)

epic post

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:06 (eleven years ago)

keep em coming, just an entire thread of these would be amazing

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:09 (eleven years ago)

Haha, thanks, so tired of reflections. Will leave follow-through to others w/more stamina. Subgenre also not represented: Image of the band but the writing is reflected.

In other news:

Ramona the Pest - Little Knives
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/680/MI0001680765.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:11 (eleven years ago)

Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Baretreescd.jpg
Yawnsomely literal, but a great cover nonetheless.

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:13 (eleven years ago)

Mithotyn - Gathered Around the Oaken Table
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Mithotyn-Gathered_Around_The_Oaken_Table-Original.jpg

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:14 (eleven years ago)

Mott - Shouting and Pointing
http://www.hunter-mott.com/discography/sleeves/shouting_and_pointing.jpg

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:16 (eleven years ago)

Wire - Pink Flag
http://unpopular.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c365453ef011570135fcd970b-800wi
Another great cover despite.

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:18 (eleven years ago)

lolllll at "reflections" ad infinitum

Speedwagon is more "I've Got My Own Album To Do" thread, I think (though hilarious).

Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 February 2014 16:20 (eleven years ago)

James Taylor - Flag
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Un8fOzozL.jpg

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:20 (eleven years ago)

http://assets-s3.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/f6781f50812ff2a98ff933ed2b193601ec785225.jpeg

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:23 (eleven years ago)

Like, seriously guys:
Hoodoo Gurus - Gorilla Biscuit
https://lh3.ggpht.com/_Ak0ucr3ZL4A/Sz-C9Zn6u8I/AAAAAAAACKY/eWDmkzbXLL8/s400/folder.jpeg

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:25 (eleven years ago)

Yawnsomely literal single:
Fabulous Four - Sitting on a Fence
http://mobile.collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/250533008749.jpg

is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:28 (eleven years ago)

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/47-1.jpg

Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:29 (eleven years ago)

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ic8OpSuCY2c/UPLGSOqBbcI/AAAAAAAAF4U/8dy-HBwbYvs/s1600/Dolphy03.jpg

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:44 (eleven years ago)

Roger really didn't have so many facets, huh?

Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 February 2014 17:37 (eleven years ago)

This is awesome

http://991.com/NewGallery/Ozark-Mountain-Daredevil-The-Car-Over-The-382165.jpg

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:02 (eleven years ago)

Roger really didn't have so many facets, huh?

― Doctor Casino, Monday, February 24, 2014 12:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolling

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:37 (eleven years ago)

the four corners are basically all the same emotion, and the bottom middle isn't really an emotion, it's just "looking away from camera"

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:38 (eleven years ago)

http://www.antitheticrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/smashing-pumpkins-siamese-dream.jpg

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 08:22 (eleven years ago)

Ha, I'd never considered that before.

the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 09:12 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mto72fjR1rsj69go1_r1_500.png

fit and working again, Friday, 18 April 2014 02:19 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Painfully bad:

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/118/cover_36261617102008.jpg

A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 10:28 (eleven years ago)

aaaaahaa

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 13:05 (eleven years ago)

Was about to post Siamese Dream! Instead I'll go with:

http://s2.vagalume.com/pearl-jam/discografia/yield-W320.jpg

LimbsKing, Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:53 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/009/188/0000918839_500.jpg

Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:34 (eleven years ago)

awesome

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:09 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Well done! Rupert Holmes ftw, looks like a pretty full life he's lived in that circle. We started at the Itsukushima Shrine, baby, and look where we've ended up.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 August 2014 01:15 (ten years ago)

ha. scrolling through i thought for half a second that it was a band called full circle with all kinds of inexplicable album titles.

Merdeyeux, Monday, 11 August 2014 01:19 (ten years ago)

That band would have ruled! Like, each time they're trying to make up a really generic name for a different style of artist that might put out an album called "Full Circle."

Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 August 2014 01:34 (ten years ago)

a lot of those albums can be summed up as "this is my first album in 20 years!" or "this is gonna be last album ever!" or "this is the album where I reflect upon my long and fruitful career." Rupert Holmes must have been an extraordinary human being in order to have gone full circle at age 34, just 2 years after his big hit.

unregistered, Monday, 11 August 2014 01:49 (ten years ago)

oh yeah, I forgot

http://i.imgur.com/LBcmZs2.jpg

(band name and album title)

unregistered, Monday, 11 August 2014 01:52 (ten years ago)

Full Oi'rcle

Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 August 2014 01:57 (ten years ago)

Leon Thomas managed to avoid using the circle motif, despite the album title:

http://underdesign.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/front6.jpg

Though funnily enough, he used it in an earlier album with a different title:

http://www.icrates.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Leon-Thomas-Spirits.jpg

Tuomas, Monday, 11 August 2014 07:53 (ten years ago)

http://stereocontrol.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/moon_antarctica.jpg

really happy they switched back to the original cover for at least the vinyl reissue. the one with the purple top and the ice hands shaking in the sky is amazing

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 11 August 2014 08:44 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

http://lolymusic.com/uploads/posts/2014-10/1413642998_0934194875df.jpg

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 October 2014 14:55 (ten years ago)

the "full circle" album covers are killing it upthread

I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 26 October 2014 18:33 (ten years ago)

ahaha i had forgotten those... I was all ready to type "Rupert Holmes ftw" but discovered I already had, yikes. staggerlee's "reflections" series is also wonderful.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 26 October 2014 19:04 (ten years ago)

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Holger_Czukay%2C_Jah_Wobble%2C_Jaki_Liebezeit_-_Full_Circle.jpeg

... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Monday, 27 October 2014 10:54 (ten years ago)

note to self: do not title an album, should i ever make one, "full circle"

I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 27 October 2014 17:33 (ten years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YxQetI0qL.jpg

Gouty_Ted, Saturday, 8 November 2014 12:21 (ten years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8VcDplmfQ4c/T8W85lMvwpI/AAAAAAAABNs/R5cRtGKiLKo/s1600/John+Lee+Hooker+-+The+Cream.jpg

the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Saturday, 8 November 2014 14:23 (ten years ago)

That'd be funnier if it was an album called "John Lee Hooker" by a band called The Cream.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 10:32 (ten years ago)

some people call it a career arc, but I like to think of it as a...
lol

fgtbaoutit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 22:15 (ten years ago)

I feel like the cover of Udo Lindenberg's 1971 album "Lindenberg" qualifies here, at least to German speakers.

rushomancy, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:25 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

new brian wilson album ftw

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/460_Width/1501/news-15-01-brian-wilson.jpg

J. Sam, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:24 (ten years ago)

alternate cover art: an elderly Brian Wilson is sitting on the beach with a margarita in hand, being fanned by two beautiful beach babes. nearby, five young men in green-and-white striped swim trunks are running down the pier, just about to jump in the water. the chubby one (representing a young Brian Wilson) is waving at the older Brian to join them, but the older Brian dismisses him with a smug grin and a flick of the wrist. No Pier Pressure.

i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Monday, 2 February 2015 19:00 (ten years ago)

(I really like the actual cover photo, though)

i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Monday, 2 February 2015 19:01 (ten years ago)

God, he couldn't have just called it "Pier Pressure"?

how's life, Monday, 2 February 2015 19:37 (ten years ago)

No.

example (crüt), Monday, 2 February 2015 19:39 (ten years ago)

brb starting a band called Partial Circle

walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 2 February 2015 19:43 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/images/covers/bobby-shew-outstanding-in-his-field-20130808103520.jpg

...can't argue with that

no lime tangier, Saturday, 28 February 2015 11:53 (ten years ago)

Bobby Shew, Alan Titchmarsh impersonator.

0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Saturday, 28 February 2015 13:32 (ten years ago)

(from the cover of his new album 'Fork Off')
http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/240768_1.jpg

0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Saturday, 28 February 2015 13:33 (ten years ago)

Back in 1984...
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00421/810359_a_421336b.jpg

0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Saturday, 28 February 2015 13:34 (ten years ago)

'Go Fork Yourself'
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p01gzyfq.jpg

0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Saturday, 28 February 2015 13:35 (ten years ago)

Feel like I'm just going to end up posting this on every album cover thread.

http://www.secondhandlps.de/pix_rb_soul/robinson_smokey_pocketful.jpg

Pheeel, Saturday, 28 February 2015 16:08 (ten years ago)

http://i34.servimg.com/u/f34/11/44/89/15/nina_s12.jpg

mike t-diva, Saturday, 28 February 2015 16:15 (ten years ago)

HA!

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 February 2015 17:25 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/5013929044128.jpg

Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2015 16:21 (ten years ago)

Img link upthread is broken so I'm reposting this one, it's a nice one!

http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/039/Music/69/1f/eb/mzi.frzvpkpv.600x600-75.jpg

Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2015 16:27 (ten years ago)

awesome

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:21 (ten years ago)

four months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/0LeirJT.jpg

scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Friday, 28 August 2015 01:02 (nine years ago)

I'm glad they put the "POISON - BE CAREFUL" label there, otherwise you might think Thomas is merely showing his women in bottles collection to you.

Tuomas, Friday, 28 August 2015 10:54 (nine years ago)

I imagine you could pretty seamlessly merge this thread and the terrible 70s album names one.

EDB, Friday, 28 August 2015 14:26 (nine years ago)

hmmph

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/258/MI0000258883.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

best beloved george benson (The Reverend), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 21:24 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

this just came up on forgotify, though I guess the addition of the monkey keeps it from being altogether Yawnsomely Literal

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CVVaWSesL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 21:47 (nine years ago)

the cover kind of makes it look like Ed is the monkey and that the album is a collaboration between him and a real white guy with a guitar

soref, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 21:49 (nine years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/CloudNineCover.jpg

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:01 (nine years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Millie_Jackson_-_Back_to_the_S%2A%2At%21.jpg

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:04 (nine years ago)

https://everyrecordtellsastory.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/aerosmith-rocks.jpg?w=700&h=698

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:09 (nine years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xFs5iPwDL._SY300_.jpg

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:11 (nine years ago)

https://metalodyssey.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/guns-n-roses-the-spaghetti-incident-x-large-album-pic.jpg

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:13 (nine years ago)

better not to put spaghetti on your cover and be thought yawnsomely literal, than to put spaghetti on your cover and remove all doubt.

wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:17 (nine years ago)

I see spaghetti, but where's the incident?

EDB, Thursday, 17 September 2015 01:51 (nine years ago)

it involves the really shitty off-brand sauce used to coat the pasta

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 17 September 2015 01:52 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V_EfVLdVT_U/U4mSYqYp0nI/AAAAAAABBDw/KRQ7FNhb5Hk/s1600/825.jpg

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/2/6/826.jpg

Accept: Balls to the Wall & Metal Heart

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 8 October 2015 09:49 (nine years ago)

http://s0.limitedrun.com/images/1121327/deftones-white-pony-2000-2lp.jpg

Siegbran, Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:11 (nine years ago)

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/interpolbrightlights.png

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:14 (nine years ago)

http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/images/covers/kenny-burrell-both-feet-on-the-ground-20131006054513.jpg

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 October 2015 15:48 (nine years ago)

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/418/MI0002418527.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Daniel O'Donnell - Daniel In Blue Jeans

strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 19:51 (nine years ago)

moar like daniel in mom jeans

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 02:46 (nine years ago)

http://static.awkwardfamilyphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2015/03/enhanced-1877-1402519617-5/118503733.jpg

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 18 October 2015 15:31 (nine years ago)

lol that is pretty great if you fail to assume he's addressing The Lord.

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 October 2015 03:58 (nine years ago)

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1105/cover_4820122292009.jpg

Procol Harum - Exotic Birds and Fruit

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 22 October 2015 15:01 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/9Y05wPK.jpg

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Sunday, 20 December 2015 18:09 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

http://cf-images.emusic.com/music/images/album/113/771/11377174/600x600.jpg

remove butt (abanana), Saturday, 27 February 2016 17:32 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

dunno why this one disappeared upthread

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.regrettablemusic.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F02%2Flukebaldwintatooonmychest1.jpg&f=1

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 22:37 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

http://pxhst.co/avaxhome/45/30/003d3045_medium.jpg

Ace Frehley - 12 Picks

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 13 May 2016 07:09 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

I couldn't figure out which yawnsomely literal thread to put this one in

http://www.weedfarm.com/images/otherimages/CV13225.jpg

great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 29 August 2016 05:53 (eight years ago)

ah shit meant for the puns on the artist's name thread too- triple crown winner

great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 29 August 2016 05:54 (eight years ago)

it's also been posted to the Horrible '70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do thread. - quad crown winner!

Lee626, Monday, 29 August 2016 08:20 (eight years ago)

aw hell, I thought i found a winner when I saw it over the weekend

great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:22 (eight years ago)

did we already catch this one?

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F3%2F38%2FThat_Is_Why_You%2527re_Overweight.jpg&f=1

Οὖτις, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:32 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

Therapy, "Bringing the House Down"

http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/therapy-bringing-the-house-down-ab.jpg

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:00 (eight years ago)

Not the Therapy I expected.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:02 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

Orchester Helmuth Brandenburg, "Here's A Train"

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nCEJXJfcDFY/WPMzqEdWsxI/AAAAAAAAa1Q/pZnV6UhG7F4soXwwuubz9w3HqnhgFLfNACLcB/s1600/front.jpg

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:02 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

Images are breaking so hope this hasn't been posted before, Helix's No Rest for the Wicked

http://i.imgur.com/EFKZVXg.jpg

Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 July 2017 07:40 (seven years ago)

Blammo!

bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 14 July 2017 15:53 (seven years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TSp71HfeL.jpg

Dan Worsley, Friday, 28 July 2017 09:23 (seven years ago)

That's almost a different category – irritatingly non-literal album art. No punches there.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 28 July 2017 12:35 (seven years ago)

Wow did someone approve that? What are the band called even?

in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 29 July 2017 08:47 (seven years ago)

Venom, I think

niels, Saturday, 29 July 2017 09:08 (seven years ago)

there seems to be an alternative font version
http://musicmp3spb.org/images/v/venom/fcast_in_st8b21d8c059bde13d004615.jpg

niels, Saturday, 29 July 2017 09:09 (seven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/89e1lvn.png

niels, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:47 (seven years ago)

oops that was supposed to be
http://i.imgur.com/W7FzbLw.png
perhaps a spotify only cover... still kinda weird

niels, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:49 (seven years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000226724612-14rshd-t500x500.jpg

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Sunday, 27 August 2017 02:05 (seven years ago)

playing guitar for the dancers

new noise, Sunday, 27 August 2017 03:24 (seven years ago)

I can't believe he didn't work a clock in there somewhere

mirostones, Monday, 28 August 2017 00:28 (seven years ago)

Bobby Blue Bland

http://i.imgur.com/Hf1gFMd.jpg?1

Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 23:42 (seven years ago)

haha

niels, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 06:24 (seven years ago)

Saw this one in a thrift shop over the weekend:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Bette_Of_Roses.jpg

"Celebration" encourages the listener to celebrate good times. (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 14:07 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Mose Allison - Mose In Your Ear
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/618DhFPNUcL._SS500.jpg

enochroot, Saturday, 7 October 2017 13:34 (seven years ago)

One from Pickwick’s literal sleeve department #vinyl #charityshops #motown pic.twitter.com/tiPfOxm3By

— Simon Galloway (@simongmusic73) October 11, 2017

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:13 (seven years ago)

http://exclaim.ca/images/fieldy.jpg

Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:36 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

El Gato: The Human Glacier by Gucci Mane:

https://sslf.ulximg.com/image/355x355/cover/1513870756_157503c21bb3d7ab0610108e5383b674.jpg

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 23 December 2017 12:23 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Barry Crompton, "Don't Look Down"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-HrV2AlG38/VVPLJgvNUHI/AAAAAAAAqOY/F0qRcOdMTL4/s1600/BarryCrompton1983.jpeg

Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:17 (seven years ago)

oh my god tom i'm slowly losing it over "Here's a Train"

flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:48 (seven years ago)

LOL.

Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:51 (seven years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTb_6FlXcAETcB5.jpg:large

operation boogie grass

global tetrahedron, Saturday, 13 January 2018 18:53 (seven years ago)

Sweet.

Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 January 2018 19:02 (seven years ago)

Jay and the Americans - Sands of Time
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Sands_of_Time_%28Jay_and_the_Americans_album%29.jpeg

bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:49 (seven years ago)

"Here's a Train"... this thread is complete

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 05:51 (seven years ago)

one of my favorite threads

adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 15:46 (seven years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/TheFlamingLips-YoshimiBattlesThePinkRobots.jpg

Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:23 (seven years ago)

Do singles count?

https://streamd.hitparade.ch/cdimages/toto-africa_s_1.jpg

Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:42 (seven years ago)

think probably this has been posted but i'm not seeing it and it's just so good. saw it in the wild the other day:

https://img.discogs.com/z4lssUxpbLIqo7TrfGDQc8JgnPg=/fit-in/537x544/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2831313-1303004317.jpeg.jpg

budo jeru, Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:54 (seven years ago)

So many aspects of 60s titles carry the seeds of the thread genre - the jazz albums punning on the artists' name thread really opens out that territory. It's really hard to articulate what feels different about the lame and terrible jokes or proclamations of casual-ness from the later period. Maybe the sense that the artist came up with the title themselves and feel it represents their DGAF Good-Times Young Dude Swag, versus the studio titles cooked up by the advertising boys down the hall.

Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 January 2018 05:09 (seven years ago)

haha oh wait that was me thinking i was in the Horrible 70s thread, n/m

Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 January 2018 05:11 (seven years ago)

looking at the "horrible" thread i now see that you and i had an exchange that sort of touched on what you're getting at in that post. perhaps these questions will never be resolved.

budo jeru, Saturday, 27 January 2018 05:31 (seven years ago)

haha oh wait that was me thinking i was in the Horrible 70s thread, n/m

An easy mistake to make.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 10:49 (seven years ago)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/wtf-bad-album-covers-dolly-parton-bubbling-over.jpg

Dolly Parton - Bubbling Over

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 28 January 2018 20:10 (seven years ago)

Seriously?!

Tuomas, Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:14 (seven years ago)

http://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/p-tork-single-front.jpg

Peter Tork - Peter's Back!

Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:36 (seven years ago)

lol

niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:44 (seven years ago)

Popular joke

https://www.joesalbums.com/images/product/nina-simone-back-record-lp.jpeg

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:56 (seven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ian Thomas, "Add Water"

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/6/67/Ian_Thomas_-_Add_Water.jpg

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:37 (seven years ago)

https://s.s-bol.com/imgbase0/imagebase3/extralarge/FC/4/6/6/2/9200000050962664.jpg

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 1 March 2018 11:51 (seven years ago)

That's actually a nice cover.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:57 (seven years ago)

Agreed, but also very literal.

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:12 (seven years ago)

https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/300x0/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.genius.com%2F4c7065848378e144d191ac6cf493ef87.1000x947x1.jpg

surely this has been posted?

global tetrahedron, Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:25 (seven years ago)

i think it appeared in the got my own album to do thread.

new noise, Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:35 (seven years ago)

haha yeah, i saw that in the wild a while ago and ran straight to Horrible 70s

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:25 (seven years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Made_in_Cork.jpg

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 04:40 (seven years ago)

What was that "Here's a Train" one?

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:23 (seven years ago)

What do you mean, what was it?

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:56 (seven years ago)

Has anyone done the Millie Jackson one yet?

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/worst-album-covers/worst-album-covers-millie-jackson.jpg

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:39 (seven years ago)

sorry for that...

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/worst-album-covers/worst-album-covers-millie-jackson.jpg

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:40 (seven years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61byM-kytcL._SX355_.jpg

enochroot, Thursday, 8 March 2018 03:05 (seven years ago)

This one's kind of cool tbh. Houston Person, "Suspicions"

https://img.discogs.com/Tzk63PJij1lweCbf8UAIrco_p-o=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1136748-1198273581.jpeg.jpg

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 19:20 (seven years ago)

Gene Dunlap, "Party in Me"...

https://img.cdandlp.com/2015/10/imgL/117730537.jpg

davey, Sunday, 18 March 2018 21:51 (seven years ago)

lol that is just perfect

new noise, Sunday, 18 March 2018 22:23 (seven years ago)

my roommate got a copy on vinyl in the mail last week, and we both were very impressed

davey, Sunday, 18 March 2018 22:45 (seven years ago)

Lou Donaldson - Hot Dog

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JWKLtiKpL.jpg

Maybe not peak Blue Note graphic design.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 22 March 2018 13:48 (seven years ago)

Is the product placement on Bigger Than Both Of Us significant or something? Seems to be consciously conspicuous in a way that doesn't seem accidental. but Ritz crackers as a lifestyle choice?

Stevolende, Monday, 2 April 2018 22:08 (seven years ago)

Yeah that's weird, can't recall seeing anything like that on an LP cover (except "The Who Sell Out").

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:16 (seven years ago)

are those ritz crackers on the war babies cover? maybe they just like Ritz

they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:42 (seven years ago)

A Millennial band should do an album called "Cola War Babies," with a cover depicting (similarly arranged) 1980s ephemera...

(With ideas like this, it's amazing I need to work for a living!)

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 2 April 2018 23:09 (seven years ago)

lol

flappy bird, Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:10 (seven years ago)

I'm sure a whole 'On My Mind' subthread is possible.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:13 (seven years ago)

We had this?

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/290/MI0000290774.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 6 April 2018 08:58 (seven years ago)

Don't know about 'yawnsomely' literal, exactly, but yeesh.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 6 April 2018 08:59 (seven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Mentioned on the Buffalo Springfield thread - Yellow Hand, by Yellow Hand.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41zZVeAfdcL._SY355_.jpg

Does anybody remember laughter? *audience screams* (Matt #2), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:27 (seven years ago)

I'm finding the Evenflo product placement on the War Babies cover to be a bit distracting.

Ex Slacker, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:16 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

omg that rules!

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 24 May 2018 22:31 (seven years ago)

Would like to see a follow up called Bow Me a Throne

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:50 (seven years ago)

that is a great one

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 25 May 2018 03:17 (seven years ago)

Fuck

flappy bird, Friday, 25 May 2018 05:08 (seven years ago)

wow. his face on the back.

in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:33 (seven years ago)

Holy shit listening to Rob Galbraith's first album Nashville Dirt... this is great! Funky, folky, soulful country stuff.

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 8 June 2018 08:37 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ted Taylor, "Keepin' My Head Above Water".

https://img.discogs.com/y64lP121fzXeM8LYQ4L96qHW3lI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2326743-1281468534.jpeg.jpg

Those are bills and final demands floating in the water DO YOU SEE, though I think they put a fish in there in case you weren't sure it was water.

womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Monday, 25 June 2018 18:01 (seven years ago)

Chris Ducey - Duce of Hearts

https://pmcdn.priceminister.com/photo/Chris-Ducey-Duce-Of-Hearts-33-Tours-1094890587_ML.jpg

even in your onion (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 June 2018 18:22 (seven years ago)

I posted this in some other album cover thread but it should be here too. But it's not yawn-inducing. It's brilliant and magnificent and we should all bask in its splendor.

http://www.kesteloo.net/image/cache/data/LPs-4/omdam64549-1000x1000.jpg

kornrulez6969, Monday, 25 June 2018 18:37 (seven years ago)

Ozark Mountain Daredevils, The Car Over the Lake Album

kornrulez6969, Monday, 25 June 2018 18:38 (seven years ago)

I have never seen this album cover before and seriously WTF

https://img.discogs.com/pQH9Xyhz-plGqxlkWpEY3YudU-w=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1431998-1221024602.jpeg.jpg

Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 July 2018 16:09 (six years ago)

That one is hardly "yawnsomely literal", wow.

Tuomas, Monday, 9 July 2018 06:20 (six years ago)

lol well it's definitely overly literal, I agree it isn't exactly yawnsome as much as it is disturbing

Οὖτις, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:29 (six years ago)

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/371794558167_/TIM-BOGERT-VANILLA-FUDGE-Progressions.jpg

Tim Bogert: Progressions

Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 05:07 (six years ago)

Y'know, I've glanced at that Child is Father to the Man cover many times and somehow never realized there are mini-mes on their knees! Shows you how much attention I ever paid to BS&T I guess...

Get aboard the flappy bird, departing gate 19 (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:31 (six years ago)

That cover is the best thing they ever did.

Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:34 (six years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XoZYllkSL.jpg

found thru the vinyl scams thread

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 12 July 2018 12:22 (six years ago)

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/433/MI0004433254.jpg

ArchCarrier, Saturday, 21 July 2018 07:29 (six years ago)

two very good ones

flappy bird, Sunday, 22 July 2018 08:00 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

I just got this from a neighbor
https://flic.kr/p/2a7PYD7

Οὖτις, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:15 (six years ago)

I just got this from a neighbor
https://flic.kr/p/2a7PYD7

Οὖτις, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:15 (six years ago)

that is wonderful

stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:39 (six years ago)

It really commits to the concept

Οὖτις, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:50 (six years ago)

spotted in the wild

https://i.imgur.com/CiUVp7D.png

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:36 (six years ago)

points off for neither rock nor sock being visible

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:38 (six years ago)

yeah what's that doctor doing, take of the boot jeez

niels, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:06 (six years ago)

$6.90 looks pricey for that LP(?)

stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:24 (six years ago)

that cover raises a lot of questions

flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:52 (six years ago)

jfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_hsC0xUhUU

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:27 (six years ago)

this almost sounds like music recorded specifically for children, like it's about losing a tooth or something

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:28 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshuababcock/44053163232/

was staring at this the other day and thinking it would really be perfect if the flute was playing a saxophone, for maximum "I JUST HAD SEX IN THE EARLY 80s" cliche-ness

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:18 (six years ago)

er
//c1.staticflickr.com/2/1877/44053163232_2255f5b8fa.jpg

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:20 (six years ago)

I mean I guess it *is* smoking but still

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:20 (six years ago)

the piano looks dejected; like it's recoiling in shame after a bad encounter

stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:28 (six years ago)

"don't touch me"

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:31 (six years ago)

Already been posted but still excellent. Maybe was on the other thread.

flappy bird, Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:24 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

lol wtf

Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 00:04 (six years ago)

discovered that via his playing on a wolfgang dauner record!

no lime tangier, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 00:25 (six years ago)

I didn't even notice the tits on the guitar too, awesome.

Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 00:26 (six years ago)

And the tailpiece makes a crotch and defines the thighs. Stay classy, Pierre!

nickn, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 00:34 (six years ago)

Taking a Dump in My Guitar amirite

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:05 (six years ago)

Boy, I used to have a lot of free time for this stuff.

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 15:30 (six years ago)

What are you up to these days, Alex?

growing up in publix (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 15:43 (six years ago)

I don't find this one yawnsome at all, but I wasn't sure where else to put it, and I recently learned of its existence (Herb Ellis gave Larson guitar lessons in exchange for drawing this cover)

https://www.joesalbums.com/images/product/ellis-mitchell-doggin-around-record-lp.jpeg

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 8 October 2018 15:33 (six years ago)

That's actually pretty cool and I want a t-shirt for The Stuffed Cat

DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 October 2018 22:00 (six years ago)

fuck yes

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 8 October 2018 22:51 (six years ago)

If I ever release a solo record I may title it "Live at the Stuffed Cat"

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 8 October 2018 22:52 (six years ago)

one month passes...

I looked at this like "That's a Gary Larson cover, isn't it?" and then I saw the signature at the bottom.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 9 November 2018 10:58 (six years ago)

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/343/cover_2423161142016_r.jpg

ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 November 2018 00:19 (six years ago)

Incredible. Where tf do these keep coming from?

flappy bird, Saturday, 10 November 2018 02:46 (six years ago)

the 70s my friend, the decade that is now in its 5th decade

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 10 November 2018 02:52 (six years ago)

swear I've been hearing "that's so 70s" as a positive descriptor a lot more in the past 1-2 years

flappy bird, Saturday, 10 November 2018 03:18 (six years ago)

everything is folding over on us

flappy bird, Saturday, 10 November 2018 03:18 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/pauldoyle/AOOFC%20BLOG%20ALBUM%20PHOTOS%202/JackBruceBillLordanRobinTrower-BLT-1981.jpg

Jack Bruce/ Bill Lordan/ Robin Trower, "B.L.T."

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 00:58 (six years ago)

Dave Peabody & Colin Earl - Frets & Keys. Ex Mungo Jerry guys play the pub rock. Looks dull.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41YL8LD0U%2BL._SX355_.jpg

GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 01:39 (six years ago)

LOL that is so lame.

Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 01:41 (six years ago)

Circa - Valley Of The Windmill, featuring Billy Sherwood of shit era Yes fame.

http://melodicrock.com/sites/default/files/field/image/circa-valleyofthewindmill.jpg

GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 01:42 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/wA0J9OB.jpg
gene simmons, asshole (2004)

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 01:51 (six years ago)

“my popularity among women is indicated by this album cover in which i paid 11 to pose”

calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 02:55 (six years ago)

some great covers today. that BLT looks good

flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 03:22 (six years ago)

But the windmill isn't in a valley, it's on a hill. Why would you put a windmill in a valley? The album should be called Hill of the Windmill.

Or "Valley From Which You Can See the Windmill". Imagine if it was called Whirlpool of the Meerkats or Ocean of the Spiders. It wouldn't make sense. I'm sure there are whirlpools from which you can see meerkats but that doesn't narrow things down enough.

Otherwise every place on Earth would be called Location From Which You Can See the Moon, except for caves.

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 19:44 (six years ago)

I think the windmill rules over the valley with its metallic sails of doom, is the idea. Ocean of the Spiders would've been better for sure.

GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 21:07 (six years ago)

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/507/MI0001507434.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - 'The Car Over The Lake Album'

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:44 (six years ago)

p sure it's upthread but it's v good

niels, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:58 (six years ago)

I figured, it's getting hard to keep track

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:00 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Toefat - Toefat

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw9t5A4XgAANkWy.jpg:large

Neil S, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:08 (six years ago)

That Toe Fat cover used to freak me out in the record store when I was a kid. And they had a second album, what the hell is that stuff?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1139/1387337035_68be94e9a8_b.jpg

composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:18 (six years ago)

It's mostly the leavings from a roast chicken I think? I've looked at that second LP a few times but I had never even noticed the characters from the first LP (even the lamb!) before.

I think these Toe Fat records are too weird to be fully yawnsome. And the toes themselves are maybe not fat enough to be literal?

Tim, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:26 (six years ago)

(Always a strange kind of pleasure to see them though)

Tim, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:32 (six years ago)

Both designed by Hipgnosis.

composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:35 (six years ago)

Not literal though are they?

Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:42 (six years ago)

kind of amazing how small they made the people in that second, equally disgusting one. they are very easily missed subtleties!

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:41 (six years ago)

yeah I agree the first one isn't strictly literal, but it seemed to good/weird not to share

Neil S, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:46 (six years ago)

two months pass...
two weeks pass...

Ronnie Paisley's Band, "Smoking Mirror"

https://img.discogs.com/TEFKfcEMDJlYHPz1nmmbkhCRXy0=/fit-in/280x281/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2757899-1351346521-7473.jpeg.jpg

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 11:18 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=zIeiqKL5aUtNMTmhSi8IqB_TZlp6n_cq-Emr2zx15tU=&f=6

Pile - Green and Gray

ArchCarrier, Monday, 6 May 2019 06:42 (six years ago)

one month passes...

I did not know until today that this album existed. REO Speedwagon - The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/REO_-_The_Earth_A_Small_Man_album_cover.jpg

confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 15:21 (six years ago)

The Earth, a Huge Man, His Huge Dog, and a Huge Chicken more like.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:34 (six years ago)

O V Wright: A Nickel, A Nail and The Ace of Spades (tremendous record BTW)

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/957/MI0002957297.jpg

Tim, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 09:37 (six years ago)

Ugh (but agree about this being a great record)

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 12:32 (six years ago)

one month passes...

https://i.imgur.com/lx2J4Ji.jpg

hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Thursday, 18 July 2019 01:32 (five years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kRyQ4j9OL._SX355_.jpg

there should be a thread for depressingly bad covers of jazz albums.

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:05 (five years ago)

Saw this at the record store the other day:

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/455/MI0003455453.jpg
(Charles Earland - Earland's Jam)

Tuomas, Saturday, 20 July 2019 19:47 (five years ago)

two months pass...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Contrastsgarner.jpg

Dan Worsley, Friday, 20 September 2019 21:11 (five years ago)

DB Band - Stranger In The Alps
(this is a Supergrass offshoot btw)

https://img.discogs.com/DHryQdBFLDSd0UXvNg_O5RAdYw0=/fit-in/551x551/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3139282-1317583008.png.jpg

funnel spider ESA (Matt #2), Sunday, 22 September 2019 11:30 (five years ago)

This thread started before my children were born. They're teenagers now. Odd, that.

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:42 (five years ago)

four weeks pass...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Holding_Back_The_River.jpg

wet wet wet - holding back the river

visiting, Thursday, 31 October 2019 14:06 (five years ago)

LOL, shocker

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:08 (five years ago)

This one isn't yawnsome, in fact I kind of like it...

https://img.discogs.com/KZUfJkxp0l1Q-Lae_rwr0vkGxnQ=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1386976-1215255157.jpeg.jpg

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:11 (five years ago)

Sucks when you're trying to hold back the river and you got an itch on your nose... hate that

Evan, Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:51 (five years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Sb2BqrgeL._SY355_.jpg

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:25 (five years ago)

This is the front cover of Rufus's Seal In Red:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71xm4y%2Bl-ML._SX355_.jpg

Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:09 (five years ago)

and this is what the back of it looks like:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81n4sxybdqL._SX355_.jpg

Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:10 (five years ago)

No pinnipeds were harmed in the making of this album cover.

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:14 (five years ago)

Genulol at that. Magnificent.

Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:15 (five years ago)

totally got the giggles when i saw that in the record shop tbh

Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:27 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

Two Guns - Balls Out
https://www.discogs.com/Two-Guns-Balls-Out/master/635584

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 23:41 (five years ago)

Just spotted in the wild

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 23:41 (five years ago)

I almost feared to click on that link tbh.

'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 23:44 (five years ago)

It’s really the back cover that clinches it

They could’ve thrown an apostrophe in there I suppose

Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 November 2019 00:20 (five years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2969476577_16.jpg

A Tuba to Cuba

If it sells well, they're going to take a guitar to Qatar

sbahnhof, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:55 (five years ago)

that's just sad

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:09 (five years ago)

I think the horrible animal mutilation makes that one a bit more than just yawnsomely literal.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 10:53 (five years ago)

Also, to be pedantic, Snakefinger is the name of the artist not the album.

Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 12:17 (five years ago)

it's a great record tho

"Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:45 (five years ago)

And that Grosswendy is astounding

"Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:45 (five years ago)

-wendt

"Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:46 (five years ago)

High Fido-elity.

nickn, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 17:38 (five years ago)

Johnny Lytle, "Fast Hands"

https://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/3-11-16-6/682749.jpg

Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 18:23 (five years ago)

The Big Ball

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/323995923942_/Collectors-Warner-Reprise-Loss-Leader-2-LP-Sampler.jpg

A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:10 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ha ha, love it

Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:47 (five years ago)

Whoa, Goose Creek Symphony almost simultaneously on two different threads and from two different posters.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:49 (five years ago)

tbh one led to the other

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:50 (five years ago)

Seemed to good to be true.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:51 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

Spotify just threw this at me

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71bfzR--nOL._SX355_.jpg

Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, and Albert King: Jammed Together

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 January 2020 08:07 (five years ago)

I have flipped past Rufus' Seal in Red in the bins countless times, yet never looked at the back cover. That one's amazing. (xpost to 2 months ago)

A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:46 (five years ago)

Man that Cropper/Staples/King album is pretty cool. Never heard of it before.

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 23 January 2020 19:24 (five years ago)

https://img.discogs.com/L1-b1AlEocU0FUGhD_5RcqhXGwo=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2338452-1277994046.jpeg.jpg

Irma Thomas - In Between Tears

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 24 January 2020 07:17 (five years ago)

Ouch.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Friday, 24 January 2020 07:32 (five years ago)

Such a great record though.

Tim, Friday, 24 January 2020 11:42 (five years ago)

There should be a thread for "I have a friend that draws" album covers

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 24 January 2020 14:04 (five years ago)

I'd like to make one called "The Heat Is On" and it's just a finger pointing to a thermostat that clearly has an switch in the "on" position

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 24 January 2020 14:41 (five years ago)

Or maybe even better, not a real thermostat, just a very crude, old-looking switch labeled "HEAT" with "ON" and "OFF labels for the positions.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 24 January 2020 14:42 (five years ago)

Dragon - Fallen Angel

https://img.discogs.com/j9u_B19LlvLFgFi4L5gx_hBJEKk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2041143-1260305011.jpeg.jpg

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:07 (five years ago)

Okay, that one is kind of freaking me out with its yawnsome literalness.

TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:45 (five years ago)

NOT impressed with that guy's leaning technique

nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:06 (five years ago)

at least they didn't call it "Hands in my Pants"

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:48 (five years ago)

I can't help but assume they had one photo of the guy and then just decided what to call the album based on the photo

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:49 (five years ago)

https://img.discogs.com/N3IZx2Mbksr-rIrQhtKjTDyguTQ=/fit-in/421x421/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3627558-1337958130-1022.jpeg.jpg
several yawnsome layers of literal here: Jim Horn, 'Jim's Horns'

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 06:09 (five years ago)

i kinda love the images

Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:04 (five years ago)

that bob lenox is what it's all about baby

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:08 (five years ago)

Jim Horn image is very meme

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:28 (five years ago)

lol

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:35 (five years ago)

a lot of the "on the rocks" albums—and there are a lot—are pretty bad but not nec yawnsomely literal.

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:35 (five years ago)

i would like them to be standing on surfboards on top of those rocks please

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:37 (five years ago)

the cover for wailing souls' on the rocks has me confused, however.
https://img.discogs.com/foYSWABLprWb85l-qK0BsdHsfEw=/fit-in/600x588/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-602316-1209022645.jpeg.jpg

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:38 (five years ago)

uh, fellas, that's hay

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:39 (five years ago)

Bit late here, but: a flute is not a horn, Jim.

emil.y, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:39 (five years ago)

how bout we change it to wailing souls hit the hay? no?

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:39 (five years ago)

Jim's Horns and also Jim's Flute

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:40 (five years ago)

\o/

emil.y, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:42 (five years ago)

"On the Bales"

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:43 (five years ago)

Jim's Winds

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:44 (five years ago)

Anyone remember the one season mid-70s US television show On the Rocks?

TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:45 (five years ago)

Would shop at Jim's Winds for sure
xpost

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:45 (five years ago)

wailing souls cover reminds me when my wife and i were looking to get some hay bales for a halloween party. her country-fried coworker says "you don't want hay you want straw-hay. hay-hay's got chopped up snakes and shit in there." i think of this at least a few times a year.

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:48 (five years ago)

the lesson: ask for straw hay, people.

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:48 (five years ago)

I'm very anxious about getting The Surfers double bass back to shore without salt water damage.

file of unknown origin (bendy), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:50 (five years ago)

My computer might explode if I open all messages but was it this thread that had a big exploration of "Many Moods Of..." albums?

emil.y, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:52 (five years ago)

^ Albums covers that depict the artists hanging out with their clones?

nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Thursday, 30 January 2020 07:59 (five years ago)

Cool thread.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 08:00 (five years ago)

Wilbury Jam, the complete works:

...A Good Spread (1980):
https://i.imgur.com/fSV7MoJ.jpg

...A Second Helping (1990):
https://i.imgur.com/JEKbPWo.jpg

A Silver Spoonful (2002):
https://i.imgur.com/tgirrpu.jpg

nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Thursday, 30 January 2020 08:09 (five years ago)

... also on the 'Horrible Album Titles Like...' thread!

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 08:10 (five years ago)

broad crossover appeal

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 30 January 2020 18:07 (five years ago)

unreg, yes, thank you!

emil.y, Thursday, 30 January 2020 18:27 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.rockofages.uk.com/stock/60753.jpg
Status Quo - Blue for You

closed beta (NotEnough), Monday, 17 February 2020 10:49 (five years ago)

Rush, "Moving Pictures"

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Rush-Moving-Pictures-Album-Cover-web-optimised-820.jpg

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 February 2020 23:25 (five years ago)

That one has always felt super corny to me because of the triple pun.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 07:39 (five years ago)

Gentle Giant - Free Hand
https://img.discogs.com/GVpcIOIYBgq82l-VlB1j7iNbygM=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-367166-1387108842-2106.jpeg.jpg

At the last minute, the art director got worried this wasn't obvious enough, so added some Bound Hands for contrast.

enochroot, Friday, 6 March 2020 02:23 (five years ago)

Has been posted before tbh.

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 6 March 2020 07:45 (five years ago)

one month passes...

The High Level Ranters, "Four in a Bar" (which I'm assuming is a musical pun, which makes it even better)

https://img.discogs.com/yHugEgrnlQpPD2HsPcnhitnLqf4=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2960386-1309261187.jpeg.jpg

The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 May 2020 11:15 (five years ago)

... those two covers go nicely together.

The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 May 2020 11:27 (five years ago)

I've never contributed anything here but this might be the most consistently satisfying thread I know of. Bless you all.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 3 May 2020 12:58 (five years ago)

This one's probably a bit subtle for this thread but I like it...

Widowmaker, "Too Late to Cry"

https://img.discogs.com/kZXliSvEGXYkQeJ0ENlw_XIWu_E=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3670190-1481569447-4547.jpeg.jpg

... the cat has spilled the milk, DO YOU SEE?

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:07 (five years ago)

Wild Turkey ‎– You & Me In The Jungle

https://img.discogs.com/FKDqXEJtNfTG8KLZJSPsqO-ZX1U=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8644357-1465796994-1821.jpeg.jpg

all things must pasteurize (Matt #2), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:29 (five years ago)

*gulp*

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 07:56 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Reaching for the World

https://img.discogs.com/Z_R9ms5G6JkyFnUeuc4AaS5RRi0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-327763-1172921636.jpeg.jpg

visiting, Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:50 (five years ago)

bahahaha

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:53 (five years ago)

yawnsomely literal and also forced and nonsensical

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:53 (five years ago)

two months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/F1g1r6a.png

With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:20 (four years ago)

“does what it says on the package”

justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:28 (four years ago)

that's a really nice cover tho

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:28 (four years ago)

i do love it. great record too tbh.

With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 August 2020 03:12 (four years ago)

Humble Pie, Go for the Throat

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

Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Friday, 14 August 2020 22:20 (four years ago)

one month passes...

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

Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd.

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:49 (four years ago)

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

Down to Earth - Eddie Floyd

visiting, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:57 (four years ago)

one month passes...

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>

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 21 November 2020 22:44 (four years ago)

Oh my.

Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:19 (four years ago)

The well just never goes dry.

enochroot, Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:54 (four years ago)

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

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 28 November 2020 18:14 (four years ago)

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.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:11 (four years ago)

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

visiting, Monday, 30 November 2020 06:32 (four years ago)

could have counted if they had dressed up as monks

Running up that hill but fleeting (a deal with Gop) (breastcrawl), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:58 (four years ago)

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?

Tuomas, Monday, 30 November 2020 07:54 (four years ago)

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."

Tuomas, Monday, 30 November 2020 07:56 (four years ago)

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

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 06:30 (four years ago)

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

huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 08:51 (four years ago)

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

nashwan, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:21 (four years ago)

Shel Silverstein - "Crouchin' On The Outside"

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

huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:29 (four years ago)

Bizarre.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 11:35 (four years ago)

killer cover imo

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 13:20 (four years ago)

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?

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:57 (four years ago)

he looks feral

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:17 (four years ago)

all-time cover. terrified me as a kid.

turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:24 (four years ago)

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?!"

turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:29 (four years ago)

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

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:00 (four years ago)

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.

emil.y, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:56 (four years ago)

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

emil.y, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:57 (four years ago)

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

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:59 (four years ago)

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

meditate in my direction (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:14 (four years ago)

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

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:33 (four years ago)

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

turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:41 (four years ago)

friggin hapsburg chin there!

brimstead, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:02 (four years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 16:29 (four years ago)

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

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 04:19 (four years ago)

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

visiting, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:04 (four years ago)

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

Qui-Gon's Noble End (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:10 (four years ago)

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

Qui-Gon's Noble End (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:11 (four years ago)

lol I read that as "Feelin Husky"

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:12 (four years ago)

Frottin' Husky.

nickn, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 06:32 (four years ago)

Good work from Ferlin there.

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:00 (four years ago)

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

obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:24 (four years ago)

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

obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:25 (four years ago)

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

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

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:53 (four years ago)

NV knew where it was at.

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

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 13:21 (four years ago)

one month passes...

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

visiting, Saturday, 13 February 2021 19:49 (four years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

enochroot, Monday, 8 March 2021 00:39 (four years ago)

Yawnsome literalness can strike at any time in any era.

Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Monday, 8 March 2021 09:55 (four years ago)

That's a cool cover - I'd contend literal but not yawnsome. Is the album any good?

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:08 (four years ago)

Just 40 minutes of Teddy vocally berating his tuned percussion.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:28 (four years ago)

really love that cover

G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:41 (four years ago)

that is awesome!

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:56 (four years ago)

beautiful cover. looks like that heavy, glossy kind of cardboard sleeve, too.

honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:40 (four years ago)

would buy for 4.98 3.98

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:45 (four years ago)

Jimmy Cleveland - Map of Jimmy Cleveland

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0411/02/jimmy-cleveland-map-mint-orig-1959_1_4ffdcafb8f22a433fa06b7131998b0ac.jpg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:10 (four years ago)

https://d1e9ycqe323hkh.cloudfront.net/items/400701802819.jpg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:11 (four years ago)

love that teddy charles cover. Also, teddy charles is really good.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:54 (four years ago)

1981 seems decidedly late to the party for yawnsomely literal album covers, but there you have it.

It's 2021 and Zara Larsson Poster Girl wants the party to carry on.

https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0005/339/0005339223.jpg

punning display, Sunday, 21 March 2021 15:58 (four years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

skip, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:51 (four years ago)

This thread is an embarrassment of riches

enochroot, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:12 (four years ago)

wow "Lipseye"

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 8 April 2021 00:10 (four years ago)

hoping thats pronounced "Lie-Psi"

G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 April 2021 05:51 (four years ago)

now do Lipseye Buck-in’-Ham

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 8 April 2021 06:00 (four years ago)

I don't understand why they didn't call their record "Reaching for Gulls." I do respect the pixelated font though

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 8 April 2021 15:05 (four years ago)

Nice.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 12 April 2021 08:53 (four years ago)

Enticing.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 12 April 2021 13:43 (four years ago)

Nailed it!

nickn, Monday, 12 April 2021 16:47 (four years ago)

also a very viable title

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 April 2021 17:00 (four years ago)

Hopefully not a duplicate of, like, an unlabelled dead link from 2004. (Whatnauts - On the Rocks)

https://img.discogs.com/2dg2s__1WYtMGc7asKF4_3Kn7HM=/fit-in/586x573/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1910855-1336028273.jpeg.jpg

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 03:05 (four years ago)

Doubly yawnsomely literal.

Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 09:07 (four years ago)

still looking pretty cool tbh, dig that title design

Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 11:55 (four years ago)

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

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:57 (four years ago)

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

Rusty Wier • Black Hat Saloon

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 25 April 2021 22:09 (four years ago)

That's kind of amazing faux Hipgnosis work

Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 02:27 (four years ago)

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

Legitimate Interest (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 09:05 (four years ago)

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

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 11:11 (four years ago)

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

Album covers featuring literally yawnsome cover art

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 16:24 (four years ago)

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

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Saturday, 8 May 2021 15:51 (four years ago)

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

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

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2021 10:10 (four years ago)

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

Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 May 2021 16:08 (four years ago)

one month passes...

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

The Tubes - Love Bomb

visiting, Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:59 (four years ago)

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

visiting, Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:07 (four years ago)

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

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 25 June 2021 15:55 (four years ago)

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)

ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 June 2021 16:13 (four years ago)

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

Pere Ubu - Worlds in Collision

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 13:49 (three years ago)

Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece

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

SPaDs (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:01 (three years ago)

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

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:47 (three years ago)

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

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

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:01 (three years ago)

Literally yawnsome (sort of)

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:57 (three years ago)

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

“Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 July 2021 00:26 (three years ago)

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

I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 July 2021 01:53 (three years ago)

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

enochroot, Monday, 19 July 2021 02:16 (three years ago)

What could be holstered around his thigh?

...a slingshot, perhaps?

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 19 July 2021 07:58 (three years ago)

Diving knife?

peace, man, Monday, 19 July 2021 10:52 (three years ago)

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

enochroot, Monday, 19 July 2021 11:41 (three years ago)

wtf kind of slide is that?!

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 02:10 (three years ago)

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

Blackmore's Night - Dancer and the Moon

visiting, Monday, 2 August 2021 05:33 (three years ago)

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

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 8 August 2021 15:39 (three years ago)

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 honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 August 2021 15:48 (three years ago)

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

“Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:27 (three years ago)

hahaha

I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:28 (three years ago)

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

mick moloney strings attached

no lime tangier, Monday, 9 August 2021 01:23 (three years ago)

four weeks pass...

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 have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:37 (three years ago)

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.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:52 (three years ago)

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.

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 22:16 (three years ago)

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

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 22:26 (three years ago)

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

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

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Thursday, 9 September 2021 01:48 (three years ago)

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

nickn, Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:26 (three years ago)

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

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:27 (three years ago)

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

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:28 (three years ago)

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

enochroot, Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:46 (three years ago)

Had genuinely never spotted the 'dates' pun before

john landis as man being smashed into window (uncredited) (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 September 2021 21:10 (three years ago)

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.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 9 September 2021 22:27 (three years ago)

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

giraffe, Friday, 10 September 2021 09:28 (three years ago)

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

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 13 September 2021 03:27 (three years ago)

"Force It" doesn't work very well in the U.S., where in most inflections "force it" and "faucet" don't sound at all alike

Lee626, Monday, 13 September 2021 04:03 (three years ago)

yes, that one took me a really long time to understand

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 13 September 2021 05:13 (three years ago)

"Force It" doesn't work very well in the U.S., where in most inflections "force it" and "faucet" don't sound at all alike

It doesn't work in the UK either where no-one uses the word faucet.

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 07:18 (three years ago)

Hold on, how do Americans pronounce faucet? Fowse-it? Or force-ay?

john landis as man being smashed into window (uncredited) (Matt #2), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:35 (three years ago)

I imagine the point is Force It and Faucet don't sound the same... unless you're from Boston.

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:48 (three years ago)

Not sure what accent they would sound the same in, tbh. The vowel sounds are different, for a start.

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:56 (three years ago)

Maybe they sound the same in a posh Cambridge accent like the Hipgnosis chaps had.

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:57 (three years ago)

'British pronunciation' at the top here sounds a) like i would say it and ii) exactly like 'force it':

https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+faucet&oq=pronounce+faucet

ledge, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:14 (three years ago)

LOL British pronunciation

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 09:25 (three years ago)

Hold on, how do Americans pronounce faucet? Fowse-it? Or force-ay?

I'm in the UK and have also always assumed it's pronounced force it (well, force ett but still very similar)

groovypanda, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:42 (three years ago)

fossit

aegis philbin (crüt), Monday, 13 September 2021 09:57 (three years ago)

I'm in the UK and I pronounce the r in force and pronounce the vowels differently in both words.

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 10:05 (three years ago)

crut otm.

peace, man, Monday, 13 September 2021 11:59 (three years ago)

Maybe the pun doesn't work well in the UK either. Maybe they FORCED IT

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 13 September 2021 12:26 (three years ago)

Lenny MacDowell, "Magic Flute" (not yawnsome per se, actually kinda funny)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61FtMQVNhKS._AC_SL1420_.jpg

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:26 (three years ago)

https://img.discogs.com/iky8Vc_hGvFQ6raJYQo1Wu5w6zM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2553043-1290119026.jpeg.jpg

Sonny Rollins: The Solo Album

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:29 (three years ago)

lol

I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 September 2021 22:29 (three years ago)

https://img.discogs.com/0lfF5e5xfWPWKLdMlo7gRza2KiI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2493052-1287038615.jpeg.jpg

Tom T. Hall: We All Got Together And...

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 September 2021 22:52 (three years ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/7bbf4b6cb5edbeb0d33c341d0916654c/6284383/snowblind-snowblind-Cover-Art.jpg

Snowblind by, er, Snowblind

it's gonna take a spiracle (Matt #2), Saturday, 18 September 2021 23:40 (three years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Barbra_Streisand_%E2%80%93_ButterFly.jpg

Barbra Streisand: Butterfly

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 September 2021 18:34 (three years ago)

I didn't know Barbra Streisand went though a phase where she decided she was so famous she could just go by "Barbra" and people would know it was her, even without a pic.

Lee626, Monday, 27 September 2021 19:53 (three years ago)

Just listened to her Bob Marley cover on that record. Steel drum accents for the Caribbean feeling!

Citole Country (bendy), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 18:23 (three years ago)

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

Alba, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 16:58 (three years ago)

wtf?

Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 October 2021 06:58 (three years ago)

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.

nickn, Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:54 (three years ago)

such a weird way to pose that hand

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:59 (three years ago)

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.

Citole Country (bendy), Thursday, 7 October 2021 19:03 (three years ago)

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

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 October 2021 10:17 (three years ago)

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

nickn, Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:24 (three years ago)

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

juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 22 October 2021 23:45 (three years ago)

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

nickn, Saturday, 23 October 2021 00:30 (three years ago)

Franquito looks like he's in on the joke

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 23 October 2021 00:49 (three years ago)

Ah, ok, lol

juristic person (morrisp), Saturday, 23 October 2021 00:58 (three years ago)

Fake?

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 23 October 2021 05:28 (three years ago)

I believe so.

nickn, Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:25 (three years ago)

franquito is real, if you believe

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:20 (three years ago)

four weeks pass...

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

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 22 November 2021 10:53 (three years ago)

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

Literally a literal tree, at least.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 22 November 2021 11:03 (three years ago)

Literally little, rather.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 22 November 2021 11:04 (three years ago)

wtf

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 22 November 2021 12:23 (three years ago)

That Miracles cover is A+

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 01:32 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...
two months pass...

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

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 3 March 2022 03:32 (three years ago)

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

enochroot, Thursday, 3 March 2022 03:42 (three years ago)

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?"

Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 03:48 (three years ago)

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

Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Thursday, 3 March 2022 03:56 (three years ago)

I stand corrected.

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

Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 04:05 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...
two weeks pass...

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

Moon Ray - Tornado Shout

skip, Sunday, 3 April 2022 00:41 (three years ago)

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

enochroot, Sunday, 3 April 2022 01:15 (three years ago)

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

Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 4 April 2022 01:06 (three years ago)

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

made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 8 April 2022 16:02 (three years ago)

lol, that rules

Doctor Casino, Friday, 8 April 2022 16:11 (three years ago)

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

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

bendy, Friday, 8 April 2022 16:35 (three years ago)

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

middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 15 April 2022 21:18 (three years ago)

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

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

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 15 April 2022 21:42 (three years ago)

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

Jonah Jones: I Dig Chicks!

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 April 2022 20:57 (three years ago)

Wow.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 April 2022 03:07 (three years ago)

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

Josefa, Sunday, 17 April 2022 03:30 (three years ago)

Anitta cover is a bit creepy

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 17 April 2022 03:32 (three years ago)

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

Ambrosia: Road Island

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 23:04 (three years ago)

two months pass...

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

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 25 June 2022 17:28 (three years ago)

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

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:17 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 20:57 (two years ago)

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.

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:05 (two years ago)

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

made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:25 (two years ago)

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)

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:26 (two years ago)

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

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:39 (two years ago)

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.

The Ghost Club, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:53 (two years ago)

one month passes...

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

INXS - Switch

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 19 September 2022 04:35 (two years ago)

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

When I woke up, yep.

an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 19 September 2022 13:05 (two years ago)

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

giraffe, Monday, 19 September 2022 13:37 (two years ago)

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

giraffe, Monday, 19 September 2022 13:37 (two years ago)

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

diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:00 (two years ago)

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

Jim Glaser: The Man In The Mirror

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 September 2022 19:06 (two years ago)

Pallas - The Wedge

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

I've seen things you people wouldn't belieeeeeeve!!! (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 September 2022 21:38 (two years ago)

Wesley Gonzalez, Wax Limousine

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

ledge, Monday, 26 September 2022 14:40 (two years ago)

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

pick the mouse that can reach all the cheese in the maze (Matt #2), Saturday, 8 October 2022 20:27 (two years ago)

Bobby Beausoleil – Running With The White Wolf

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

pick the mouse that can reach all the cheese in the maze (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 22:26 (two years ago)

that one’s fun

Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:17 (two years ago)

Willis Jackson - Nothing Butt

Not exactly yawnsome, but(t)...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Nothing_Butt.jpg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:07 (two years ago)

one month passes...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Cedar%21_%28Cedar_Walton_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:39 (two years ago)

I don't know what this show is, but I saw this promo image and it made me think of this thread:

https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/fetch/w_2000,h_2000,c_fit/https%3A%2F%2Famazonadviser.com%2Ffiles%2Fimage-exchange%2F2017%2F07%2Fie_94698.jpeg

Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:52 (two years ago)

A few nice additions from Exclaim!'s 25 Worst Album Covers of 2022:

Vettor - Obstacle
https://exclaim.ca/images/vettor-obstacle.jpg

Jerry Paper - Free Time
https://exclaim.ca/images/jerry-paper-free-time-art.jpg

enochroot, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:19 (two years ago)

Those are both amazing

Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:19 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Paul Chambers - Go

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Go_%28Paul_Chambers_album%29.jpg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:59 (two years ago)

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/63b8bf62198393ca23dbcca4/1:1/w_600/Belle-And-Sebastian-Late-Developers.jpg

Belle & Sebastian: Late Developers

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:44 (two years ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/aa837f88b264f07c335e9caad9283380/6565772/don-henley-the-boys-of-summer-Cover-Art.jpg

The Boys of Summer 1998 reissue

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 19 January 2023 04:00 (two years ago)

I can never quite get use to this embedding lark

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/aa837f88b264f07c335e9caad9283380/6565772/don-henley-the-boys-of-summer-Cover-Art.jpg

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 19 January 2023 04:00 (two years ago)

Robert Fleischman, "World In Your Eyes"

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27305088ea6f587d62c54c940b2

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 21:41 (two years ago)

Yolk - Solar (Yolk is the band name not the album title, but I like the image)

https://metalrock.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Yolk-Solar-2017.jpg

nickn, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:10 (two years ago)

https://shirleygnome.bandcamp.com/album/ho-down

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:06 (two years ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Over_The_Top.jpg

ringworm, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 10:53 (two years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Over_The_Top.jpg

ringworm, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 10:55 (two years ago)

Orlando Johnson & Trance, "Turn the Music On"

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273df2fb696958bc88527ac1ef7

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 3 February 2023 10:46 (two years ago)

I'm of the opinion that punning album titles like the Cozy Powell one don't really count as yawnsomely literal. Since the Stranglers one that kicked the thread off seems to have disappeared, however, I think it needs a nudge:

https://i.discogs.com/HI-aRgs7ktYINQjbdFQjSW1TVnRqvV1is8-t1dlSVzA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5MzE5/MzQtMTQ3MDA2NTc3/NC04MTY1LmpwZWc.jpeg

a mix between aphex twin and nirvana with the swagger of count basie (Matt #2), Friday, 3 February 2023 10:59 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Not sure if this is quite the right thread for this but it is a fine Twitter thread

Show me your favourite bad graphic design by boomer bands in the 90s… pic.twitter.com/NL4NUeVma7

— Bobby Lee (@BobbyLeeBoogie) February 21, 2023

his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 08:31 (two years ago)

A+ cover

into the crypt of ray reardon (Matt #2), Saturday, 25 February 2023 20:48 (two years ago)

(is there anyone who has played on such a wide range of music as this guy?)

visiting, Saturday, 25 February 2023 20:52 (two years ago)

https://cdn.albumoftheyear.org/album/598519-the-girl-is-crying-in-her-latte_1600.jpg

Sparks - The Girl is Crying in Her Latte

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:50 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://i.discogs.com/UE9c3ubeb7OXvRcg16gHJyBgTUyFZQRyw1PHaLNMS7U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:497/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3NjU3/MDUtMTMwMDA0MzEz/OC5qcGVn.jpeg

David Ruffing: My Whole World Ended

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 March 2023 20:15 (two years ago)

https://new.openimp.com/tid/f8ad655d6b5308aafa754f27b3a053cea10de56f/fvhpcpk/foyignntpm/30266409540054.jpeg

Tommy Watt - Watts Cooking (sic)

Tommy Watt notable for a) bad album covers and b) being Ben Watt's dad (him off Everything but the Girl).

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 24 March 2023 22:14 (two years ago)

Watt Where You Thinking

at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 March 2023 22:32 (two years ago)

Couple of classics of this genre discovered in the wild yesterday:

The Rubettes - Wear It's 'At

https://i.imgur.com/QX0B5Bk.jpg

Fats Domino - Fats On Fire

https://i.imgur.com/VYoEC3k.png

"Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:22 (two years ago)

more like Fighting Fire With Fats

at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:28 (two years ago)

True, but also the word "Fats" is literally on fire!

"Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:29 (two years ago)

oh, you’re right! a crucial detail I hadn’t noticed

at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:15 (two years ago)

loving Wear It's 'At

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:32 (two years ago)

more like Fighting Fire With Fats

this sounds like a disastrous idea tbh

dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Friday, 31 March 2023 10:01 (two years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2946819062_10.jpg
Yaeji with a Hammer

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:00 (two years ago)

four weeks pass...

sure this one's been in here before but I only just saw it the first time
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Waterbed_%28album%29.jpg

dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:00 (two years ago)

Nice.

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:11 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Chris Gantry, "Motor Mouth"

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737431336a5f15ef48793a03a3

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:44 (two years ago)

one month passes...

I recently (re?)discovered, via MTV Classic, that the video for Erasure's "Respect" is an amusing longform exploration of this concept (as relates to the song's lyrics):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34icYC8zA0

Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:50 (one year ago)

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/64af09acc789a3a5fc5f50b2/1:1/w_320,c_limit/Cory%20Hanson-%20Western%20Cum.png

hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:53 (one year ago)

disgusting

your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 18:02 (one year ago)

great EP but the cover fits here - how many times has this been done by now?

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273441f1e6077c84dc2d8d382de

your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 18:07 (one year ago)

returning to this one, obstacle by vettor.

https://exclaim.ca/images/vettor-obstacle.jpg

wouldn't steps make something accessible? an obstacle would be like a rabid hyena guarding the bottom step. not yawnsomelly literal imo.

andrew m., Wednesday, 19 July 2023 18:29 (one year ago)

for a person with mobility issues or a wheelchair user the steps would certainly be an obstacle, I guess. anyway, carry on!

andrew m., Wednesday, 19 July 2023 18:32 (one year ago)

Maybe the band are actually facing towards the camera, and they are the obstacle to you getting up the stairs.

enochroot, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 18:53 (one year ago)

for a person with mobility issues or a wheelchair user the steps would certainly be an obstacle, I guess. anyway, carry on!

Ditto Daleks.

John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 19:17 (one year ago)

I recently (re?)discovered, via MTV Classic, that the video for Erasure's "Respect" is an amusing longform exploration of this concept (as relates to the song's lyrics)

this is incredible!

a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 20:59 (one year ago)

a-ha put an easter egg for Norwegians in the video for the single "Hunting High and Low": a couple of times at the word "high" in the chorus, the video shows a shark, which in Norwegian is "hai", pronounced just the same.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 21:30 (one year ago)

That's great!

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 21:33 (one year ago)

...do Norwegian stoners wear shark tshirts and stuff?

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 21:34 (one year ago)

Haha I believe not.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 20 July 2023 13:33 (one year ago)

Fats Domino - Sleeping on the Job

https://i.discogs.com/48GcFPGbEAaWntwB4cA860uNYgVZc-Zo9TY5uA1NeX4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:589/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMjcw/MTItMTM2Mjg5Njg5/Ny0xMDIwLmpwZWc.jpeg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:58 (one year ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+JoSpVL6L.jpg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 15:01 (one year ago)

I was hoping for something similar for I’m Walking or Walking To New Orleans, but no.

the poignant simplicity of Here Stands Fats Domino more than makes up for it tho:
https://media.s-bol.com/g5y7v61QVG1j/550x550.jpg

apparently this variation also exists:
https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=gZzssbWd2077MQglSR2_Bg4Q1ghY8VaPylnm7PwcKNY=&f=4

see also (not too far) upthread for Fats On Fire.

slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 17:40 (one year ago)

Gunther Andernach, the sleeve designer, is also a washboard player

serving aunt (stevie), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 21:49 (one year ago)

Boyd Tinsley - True Reflections

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71-nJINcvML._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 21:35 (one year ago)

Suzi Quatro and KT Tunstall have released an album called “Face to Face”. You’ll never guess what it looks like. https://tinnitist.com/2023/08/11/albums-of-the-week-suzi-quatro-kt-tunstall-face-to-face/

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 19 August 2023 10:24 (one year ago)

one month passes...

Dee Dee Warwick, "Turning Around"

https://www.discogs.com/master/348376-Dee-Dee-Warwick-Turning-Around/image/SW1hZ2U6MjAwNzE0MTk=

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 October 2023 22:58 (one year ago)

one month passes...

Frankie Valli, "Lady Put the Light Out"

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71PVRuGykDL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:24 (one year ago)

So much chest hair the medallion does not, cannot lay flat.

bendy, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:29 (one year ago)

Twist: that’s Frankie’s hand

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:40 (one year ago)

He's giving Gene Simmons

This field is required (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:18 (one year ago)

When Frankie’s in town.

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:24 (one year ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/a8df2dde1bd86db165de803bfddef7a9/3291526/lunasa-redwood-Cover-Art.jpg

you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:38 (one year ago)

So much chest hair the medallion does not, cannot lay flat.

Nice of the lady to let Frankie borrow her lipstick too.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:51 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...
one month passes...

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/6e/bf/af/6ebfaf1e-3f84-c5bc-b64b-2a22a18f4941/00602557639742.rgb.jpg/1200x1200bb.jpg

you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 05:29 (one year ago)

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkCcbdhbxcFmBUCW8t8r5eD5cv3VRHcYNbSw&usqp=CAU

Marlana Shaw (RIP): Out of Different Bags

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 06:21 (one year ago)

She’s not out of them, looks to me like she’s got plenty of bags. I suppose she could be out of some… different bags. Different different bags.

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 14:05 (one year ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Donovan-Lady_of_the_Stars.jpg

Donovan - Lady of the Stars

Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 28 January 2024 06:54 (one year ago)

^
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I hate it when I start seeing Trump everywhere

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 3 February 2024 07:27 (one year ago)

wondered what was going on with the pattern on her dress there... it's a skull, like this Victorian postcards

koogs, Saturday, 17 February 2024 13:52 (one year ago)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/8e/5c/458e5c3b6ee4a24074c6dc22fd20ca03.jpg

Peter Bardens - Write My Name In The Dust

nickn, Sunday, 25 February 2024 18:35 (one year ago)

Although he doesn't have his name written in the dust, so maybe it doesn't belong here.

nickn, Sunday, 25 February 2024 18:37 (one year ago)

Wonder if there was a conversation about whether the artist and title should be switched, and it got nixed bc someone thought that would be too yawnsomely literal

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 25 February 2024 18:42 (one year ago)

Head, Heart & Hands, s/t

https://i.discogs.com/3wxBVUkm0iwf0ylJyd1POc5NRXAYejMnBmPKGqmlnU8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0MDU2/MzktMTU1OTgyODg1/OC05NDM3LmpwZWc.jpeg

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:13 (one year ago)

Mick Jackson, "Step Inside My Rainbow"

https://i.discogs.com/up3r5G6d_OVVDkUCUjzLD5jLXIA_tI0abjdjxhmUTO8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:580/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5OTg4/MjQtMTU1MzQxNTAz/NS01OTQ1LmpwZWc.jpeg

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:24 (one year ago)

Steve Hackett – The Circus And The Nightwhale

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91yHhoSFIzL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

doleful lundgren (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:23 (one year ago)

that's something else right there.

andrew m., Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:24 (one year ago)

literal for sure, yawnsome idk, that rules!

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 March 2024 11:22 (one year ago)

one month passes...

I finally got a copy of Fire Of Unknown Origin, and I never before noticed how literal the cover art is (though, it's the opposite of yawnsome, to be fair).

https://i.discogs.com/ZDmm-2xCdeS4Paef2BskjDHNa-uNqE1tN4mVLBrmTI4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzMDMx/Ni0xNTQ0MzY0NDUz/LTczMjYuanBlZw.jpeg

Also, I now see where Ghost got all their best ideas (they even kinda stole the band logo?)

enochroot, Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:08 (one year ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Fire_Of_Unknown_origin.jpg

enochroot, Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:09 (one year ago)

Human Pesticide – Mutilated in a Bathtub (NSFW)

ArchCarrier, Friday, 19 April 2024 08:30 (one year ago)

Martial Solal - Electrode

https://i.imgur.com/0GxJyQD.jpg

hogarth brooks (unregistered), Saturday, 27 April 2024 01:16 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-wDYoEScexQ5N-0-t500x500.jpg

giraffe, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:14 (one year ago)

(My 9-year old spotted this and said, wearily, 'that's just a bunch of *signs*')

giraffe, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:16 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2261196095_65

Torres: What An Enormous Room

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 May 2024 20:19 (one year ago)

^ should be a live album for a horrible 70s record!

Bertold Brak (bendy), Friday, 31 May 2024 15:57 (one year ago)

one month passes...

yawnsomely literal album titles
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41d7-mGzvjL._UX250_FMwebp_QL85_.jpg

master of the pan (abanana), Monday, 29 July 2024 17:06 (ten months ago)

three weeks pass...

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/6ee07b0f35d722e5cf33ec08ac4600f5/5482090/the-herb-ellis-trio-herb-mix-Cover-Art.jpg

Surprised I never posted this, it was one of a handful of jazz LPs my parents owned when I was little and I used to stare at it a lot for some reason.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 August 2024 18:02 (ten months ago)

Since he died recently I though I'd repost this one, a favourite yawnsomely literal album cover of mine.

https://i.discogs.com/dWmNHc3Fsb9I_IcjWH2sw5jbdaRb34sNDTJln-qMvOg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg2NTAy/NzItMTQ3MjE1ODc3/Mi0zMTUwLmpwZWc.jpeg

Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Monday, 19 August 2024 19:19 (ten months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/n3Dtxtaxi_0bkPsjr1y8kJQsY1kYDzi9es720pZzbPE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:569/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNTM0/OTctMTMyOTM5MDI3/MC5qcGVn.jpeg

pickin' around the cookstove (who are indeed) pickin' around the cookstove

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 20 August 2024 09:46 (ten months ago)

be careful with that axe John Henry

Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Monday, 26 August 2024 19:57 (ten months ago)

Thought the Mayall one said “Looking Hack”

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 8 September 2024 00:30 (nine months ago)

i only just recently looked at the cover of Rush's Moving Pictures closely enough to realize how corny it is, might have actually damaged my opinion of the album

some dude, Sunday, 8 September 2024 00:57 (nine months ago)

two months pass...

https://www.bluenote.com/files/2019/03/JimmySmith_BackAtTheChickenShack-500x500.jpg

Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 16 November 2024 20:55 (seven months ago)

Compared to prime Blue Note graphic design, really illustrates the adage that black and white photographs people and color photographs clothes.

Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Monday, 18 November 2024 16:25 (seven months ago)

jimmy smith wore arguably the same shirt for another cover

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Jimmy-Smith-Midnight-Special-album-cover-web-optimised-740.jpg

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 18 November 2024 19:11 (seven months ago)

Same photo shoot probably (that looks like the same outfit exactly).

enochroot, Monday, 18 November 2024 20:37 (seven months ago)

pink floyd - "cow"

this train don't carry no wankers (doo rag), Monday, 18 November 2024 20:54 (seven months ago)

pink floyd - "man on fire shaking hands with man not on fire"

this train don't carry no wankers (doo rag), Monday, 18 November 2024 20:55 (seven months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxes_(Goo_Goo_Dolls_album)#/media/File:Goo_Goo_Dolls_Boxes.jpg

her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2024 05:47 (seven months ago)

https://i.ibb.co/CwqCxm6/Goo-Goo-Dolls-Boxes.jpg

her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2024 05:48 (seven months ago)

https://fantasyrecordings.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ValerieJune_UnderCover_FINAL-small-1024x1024.jpg

Valerie June - Under Cover

To her credit, 'Pushin' Against a Stone' album cover resisted the yawnsome.

punning display, Sunday, 24 November 2024 15:07 (seven months ago)

excellent addition to the thread

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 6 December 2024 18:28 (six months ago)

one month passes...

Love that one.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2025 16:56 (five months ago)

fantastic posts today!

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 January 2025 17:42 (five months ago)

The Tex Williams and Cliffie Stones ones are A+.

ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 January 2025 18:31 (five months ago)

took me a second to get "Bell(e)s Are Ringing"

everything in this thread is top tier since revive but "The Party's on Me" is A++++++

budo jeru, Thursday, 9 January 2025 20:58 (five months ago)

I'm enjoying the image of the office gofer assigned to call around to local zoos and private menageries in search of a yak available no later than tomorrow morning for a photo shoot.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 January 2025 21:05 (five months ago)

Chubby's Back is brilliant. Simple but effective!

Griff Sheridan, Saturday, 11 January 2025 12:25 (five months ago)

Not uncommon though, I'm sure I've seen at least two other "So-and-so's Back" LP covers use the same idea.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 January 2025 12:41 (five months ago)

Big Jim Sullivan, of course,

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qTtBtmKLL._AC_.jpg

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 January 2025 12:42 (five months ago)

And let's not forget the Flannery O'Connor story "Parker's Back" - which, thinking about it, would have made a good Charlie Parker album cover.

it's been almost a decade and I am still enraged about this (Matt #2), Saturday, 11 January 2025 12:45 (five months ago)

There must be some kind of album out there called A Hard Man is Good to Find.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 January 2025 13:01 (five months ago)

Or maybe just a lot of novelty gift mugs, greeting cards etc.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 January 2025 13:02 (five months ago)

(oops - that's more of a "Horrible 70s Album Titles" idea)

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 January 2025 13:58 (five months ago)

Chris Norman, "Man With the Wooden Flute"

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/64AAAOSwmO5efnBK/s-l960.webp

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 January 2025 10:41 (five months ago)

Jellyfish, 'Spilt Milk'
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2735559f02ba8d29c83b385c52a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH5XnbHbEks

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 12 January 2025 11:19 (five months ago)

two weeks pass...

OK that one is phenomenal

Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Tuesday, 28 January 2025 22:11 (five months ago)

It's just struck me that the Big Jim's Back t-shirt has been painted onto his torso. Bonus points.

Griff Sheridan, Wednesday, 29 January 2025 23:48 (four months ago)

also

Design, Photography By – Hipgnosis

visiting, Thursday, 30 January 2025 00:02 (four months ago)

Yawnsomely literal typography

https://i.discogs.com/4vMTcXS998VFXs4ulnejHteitSgzPXzov4mnzTzgBNs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMwMzc0/NzctMTUxNzE2OTM4/NS02ODU1LmpwZWc.jpeg

Eddy Mitchell – Perspective 66

visiting, Thursday, 6 February 2025 21:16 (four months ago)

Do we know for sure that's her tub, though?

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Thursday, 6 February 2025 21:43 (four months ago)

It seems p hippo-appropriate.

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Thursday, 6 February 2025 21:43 (four months ago)

There’s a Murray in me frame

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 February 2025 21:48 (four months ago)

I like that Eddy Mitchell album cover.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2025 21:53 (four months ago)

Claude "Eddy Mitchell" Moine still with us at 82! Unlike the blue building on that cover, which a perusal of Google Maps tells me is now a dull-looking residential block.

like watching brian eno dancing (Matt #2), Thursday, 6 February 2025 23:05 (four months ago)

Dave Cartwright & Friends, "In the Middle of the Road"

https://i.discogs.com/EeRsGIbxhoQEMg1-r0eh6WJhH7YkAyk4qIWLR5pIsw4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExODcw/NTMwLTE1MjM4MjM2/OTMtNzAxNS5qcGVn.jpeg

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 February 2025 11:22 (four months ago)

i posted this ten years ago and again six years ago but both are deleted now so let's post it again.

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils: The Car Over the Lake album. (Not yawnsome at all, it's spectacularly literal)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Car_Over_the_Lake_Album#/media/File:TheCarOverTheLakeAlbum.jpg

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 8 February 2025 15:54 (four months ago)

Let's try that again...

https://images.app.goo.gl/7LU5zYgnQ3esoQ8E6

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 8 February 2025 16:06 (four months ago)

Oh ffs, how do you post images now? pic doesn't work.

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 8 February 2025 16:07 (four months ago)

ihttps://images.app.goo.gl/7LU5zYgnQ3esoQ8E6

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 8 February 2025 16:11 (four months ago)

https://solstarecords.com/cdn/shop/products/R-9799231-1486494574-4112_jpeg_540x.jpg

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 February 2025 16:31 (four months ago)

Thank you! How do you post pics now? The directions listed below didn't work for me, obv.

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 8 February 2025 16:34 (four months ago)

Well I got the image directly from the website rather than using the Google search image. Just to make sure.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 February 2025 17:15 (four months ago)

xp It looks like you were linking to sites hosting the image, not the image itself. Some sites can be tricky with image links... When posting images I always double check by pasting my link into a new tab to check that I'm getting the image only.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 8 February 2025 17:22 (four months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/ii5FPIJ.jpeg

gary burton - new vibe man in town

MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Saturday, 8 February 2025 18:12 (four months ago)

This thread needs to be a book a la The Worst Album Covers Ever.

cryptosicko, Saturday, 8 February 2025 18:26 (four months ago)

Bonus pun

https://i.discogs.com/BFywFPsrAL8vJjRWwJe9QIrQn8-TTo-v2PnsixuSTfk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzOTU2/OTEtMTYzMTk4NDE4/MC05OTU1LmpwZWc.jpeg

Jim Nesbitt – Truck Drivin' Cat With Nine Wives

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 8 February 2025 18:40 (four months ago)

Missing an actual, yawnsomely literal cat but yes.

cryptosicko, Saturday, 8 February 2025 18:51 (four months ago)

Lol i considered that but decided it was too good a cover to pass up.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 8 February 2025 18:58 (four months ago)

Don't sleep on Jim Nesbitt's follow-up Runnin' Bare

https://i.discogs.com/HDcxxV1oRMi32CWcfZURFNS3YQVIn9unB1r-T2xiBh0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExODc0/MzYzLTE1MjM4OTcz/MTMtODI1Mi5qcGVn.jpeg

like watching brian eno dancing (Matt #2), Saturday, 8 February 2025 19:14 (four months ago)

Missing an actual, yawnsomely literal bear, but yes.

nickn, Sunday, 9 February 2025 08:48 (four months ago)

missing actual rocks instead of ice cubes

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 February 2025 20:15 (four months ago)

I like this one

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 20 February 2025 21:27 (four months ago)

there are 10 lives on that cover

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Friday, 21 February 2025 15:41 (four months ago)

Makes you think!

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 February 2025 21:15 (four months ago)

A recent one: Mamalarky - Hex Key

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2025/02/Mamalarky-Hex-Key-1739981430.jpg

ArchCarrier, Saturday, 22 February 2025 15:04 (four months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/d_INm5-5YUJJr5EPiVdl7MbMJISs2QH1kAtqUWrH8Pk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0Njc5/NjAwLTE1Nzk0NzQ2/NjktMTA2My5qcGVn.jpeg

Ace Cannon – Ace Cannon And His Alto Sax In The Spotlight

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 22 February 2025 17:49 (four months ago)

(There are lots of similar "In the Spotlight" styled album covers out there but I like the full title of this one.)

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 22 February 2025 18:16 (four months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/tCRIBt8.jpg

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 23 February 2025 20:08 (four months ago)

Great cover!

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 February 2025 20:14 (four months ago)

Fats Domino - Sleeping on the Job

just came here to post this!

budo jeru, Thursday, 6 March 2025 03:03 (three months ago)

Arms and more arms (xpost obv)

Mark G, Thursday, 6 March 2025 04:05 (three months ago)

Yes, but where's Jimmy Gilmer?

cryptosicko, Thursday, 6 March 2025 12:30 (three months ago)

Five Hand Reel, "A Bunch of Fives"

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsEv15ch8VvrAdsub5dSryV5k0mTTWHdKZWacMx4TjdQhzdqxMKNkjhsvX6EdEdQRozlmjMXslZMMIkkvS1uvzzxoebTEyiORfuaGKhdiGefIorartx2_jcbgytxl-tC8a_h9U548x4xS/s1600/front.jpg

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 March 2025 16:08 (three months ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/The_Roaring_Silence.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 March 2025 16:42 (three months ago)

five hand reel invented dall e

adam t (dat), Thursday, 13 March 2025 18:46 (three months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/ARfs0bEuLFUDdLuN_R4dpNIMVQvsOFCPj3cb4I0cg3k/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyMTAz/OTEtMTM4Mjg2ODA0/Ny04MTgwLmpwZWc.jpeg

The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

The regular 'Zipper' cover was banned in Spain, thus this cover was used instead.

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 14 March 2025 16:44 (three months ago)

🖼


God that’s disturbing

Slayer University (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 14 March 2025 17:16 (three months ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/05667c2c7cf88895098cf057c057b6e0/12841787/the-donuts-phl-the-donuts-sing-Cover-Art.png

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Friday, 14 March 2025 17:31 (three months ago)

Lol amazing

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 14 March 2025 17:33 (three months ago)

I want to hear what those donuts have to say

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 14 March 2025 23:19 (three months ago)

ACAB

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Friday, 14 March 2025 23:23 (three months ago)

That offaxis O in "DONUTS" is a total visual "fingernails on chalkboard" hazard for me. I'm getting super-annoyed and pissed off by it just in the few seconds I'm writing this!

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 March 2025 00:05 (three months ago)

Here I sit Bruken Harted

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 March 2025 01:42 (three months ago)

Excellent.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 March 2025 21:27 (three months ago)

Along with he "Weren't born a man" lp

Mark G, Sunday, 16 March 2025 22:11 (three months ago)

her

Mark G, Sunday, 16 March 2025 22:11 (three months ago)

Geoff Whitehorn – Big In Gravesend

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Lt+mj+UTL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

the patron saint of epilepsy and beekeepers (Matt #2), Sunday, 16 March 2025 22:34 (three months ago)

Let's see if this works.

Al Stewart: 24 Carrots

https://www.allmusic.com/album/24-carrots-mw0000624485

kornrulez6969, Monday, 17 March 2025 21:24 (three months ago)

Oh come on! Can somebody help me out by posting Al Stewart's 24 Carrots?

kornrulez6969, Monday, 17 March 2025 21:24 (three months ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/80-24-carrots.jpg

the patron saint of epilepsy and beekeepers (Matt #2), Monday, 17 March 2025 21:41 (three months ago)

thank you

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 19 March 2025 04:41 (three months ago)

Nice

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 March 2025 23:09 (three months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/N_lH8vVk1KZClqKhRY0HG4y1BR32kDgT4-TQ1SK0Q1c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:573/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5ODA5/NjQtMTI1NjQ5MTI4/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

Helmuth Brandenburg Orchestra- Here's a Train

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 16:04 (three months ago)

That's the threadwinner, surely?

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 16:13 (three months ago)

It won it a few years ago.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 16:17 (three months ago)

Seven years ago in fact!

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 16:19 (three months ago)

It's on a schedule.

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 16:20 (three months ago)

I've always imagined the title might have some connection with "Take the A Train", so the title was actually "Here's A Train". In fact though, it's named after the first track, which is called "I'm a Train". I'm more interested in the track "Pong Doubles" though.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 16:23 (three months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09qHnr1DMwA

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 16:26 (three months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/MxkvXUr.jpeg

johnny houston - makin bacon

Constance Mischievous (Austin), Friday, 28 March 2025 22:05 (three months ago)

xpost: why is buck so sad?

Constance Mischievous (Austin), Friday, 28 March 2025 22:06 (three months ago)

That’s literally a way to score points in Pass the Pigs.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 29 March 2025 15:25 (two months ago)

These last 2 covers are making me wonder what people did before photoshop. Did someone have to cut out Buck Owens' photo with scissors?

enochroot, Saturday, 29 March 2025 15:46 (two months ago)

x-acto knife, probably

Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 29 March 2025 15:55 (two months ago)

Hahahaha

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 April 2025 23:03 (two months ago)

PLEASE TURN THE CHEESE DRUM UP IN ALL FUTURE MIXES THANKS

Constance Mischievous (Austin), Saturday, 5 April 2025 23:38 (two months ago)

Is “Drum Feast” some kind of pun I am missing?

Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 6 April 2025 01:16 (two months ago)

As in "a feast of drumming" I guess. Is that broccoli sitting on the snare?

death of a northener (Matt #2), Sunday, 6 April 2025 01:24 (two months ago)

Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo – Moon Gas


All six of these words, arranged this way, are pure delight.

uptight subreddit mod™ (morrisp), Sunday, 6 April 2025 07:32 (two months ago)

All good stuff.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 April 2025 16:58 (two months ago)

thank god Dick Hyman never released a self-titled album with this type of cover!

ozempic tentacles (unregistered), Sunday, 6 April 2025 18:44 (two months ago)

omg love that

uptight subreddit mod™ (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 April 2025 15:25 (two months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/7V8ZVcQn11ztdPh4gdWfwguXlg9EaR2fZ8d5VN0weaY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxNjYw/NjYtMTI2NzcyNjI1/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

cliff richard - green light. a few of the recent ones aren't nearly yawnsome enough, hopefully this redresses the balance.

constant gravy (ledge), Tuesday, 8 April 2025 15:28 (two months ago)

Nearly all of his albums from the 70s and 80s are a fit for this thread (although not all yawnsome)

Now You See Me...Now You Don't

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Now_You_See_Me_Now_You_Dont_Cliff_Richard_album_cover.jpg/220px-Now_You_See_Me_Now_You_Dont_Cliff_Richard_album_cover.jpg

groovypanda, Thursday, 10 April 2025 09:38 (two months ago)

Small Corners

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Cliff_Richard_-_Small_Corners_cover.jpg

groovypanda, Thursday, 10 April 2025 09:38 (two months ago)

I'm No Hero

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/I%27m_No_hero.jpg

groovypanda, Thursday, 10 April 2025 09:39 (two months ago)

Every Face Tells A Story

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27350e13226fb9517d3a22f33a6

groovypanda, Thursday, 10 April 2025 09:41 (two months ago)

who was buying all these cliff richard albums??

my mum. my mum was buying all these cliff richard albums.

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Thursday, 10 April 2025 09:52 (two months ago)

Apologies if this has been posted before but I don't think it has. Yet another example of this old thread standby, Hank Crawford with "Hank Crawford's Back",

https://i.discogs.com/TgeqAQk2i89QyoYBF1btoCpO5aDJRcSQq93ZKtPwe_8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzMzYy/NC0xMzc5MDAyNzkz/LTI4NjMuanBlZw.jpeg

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 11 April 2025 11:21 (two months ago)

Add that to:

Big Jim Sullivan, "Big Jim's Back"
Peter Tork, "Peter's Back"
Chubby Jackson's Big Band, "Chubby's Back!"

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 11 April 2025 11:24 (two months ago)

Randle Chowning Band, "Hearts on Fire"

https://i.discogs.com/iUusqS8hKIQUvZlb3KVHZAZmuw5jMHw0pgQATH5qPek/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:569/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExOTU1/NTQzLTE1MjU0Mjk2/NzctODkyNS5qcGVn.jpeg

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 11 April 2025 11:28 (two months ago)

Black Oak Arkansas - High on the Hog. Whatever the opposite of yawnsomely is, this is it.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91YeXVy+nxL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

prog is the sound of the suburbs (Matt #2), Friday, 11 April 2025 13:10 (two months ago)

omg that's astonishing

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Monday, 14 April 2025 10:18 (two months ago)

Just last night I saw an episode of The Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club which featured Roger Whittaker (and his 'eye-catching' backing band, Saffron), which was followed by an episode of Budgie which featured Roger Whittaker's version (complete with whistling) of Two Little Boys. Now this. What's going on here?

Nuts, whole hazelnuts (Tom D.), Monday, 14 April 2025 10:32 (two months ago)

I don't think anything else of his will beat the In Orbit cover, but I get the feeling Whittaker may be a serial offender:

https://i.discogs.com/6qW3DM0bQQth6eqlHjEkUBE2MQpJ4LQmfSszAcB7RrI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:577/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5Nzgw/NjItMTM1MTE5Mjc3/Ny02MTUwLmpwZWc.jpeg

Zelda Zonk, Monday, 14 April 2025 11:18 (two months ago)

i got so mad the first time i took a second to actually look at the covers of some of Rush's albums

some dude, Tuesday, 15 April 2025 04:28 (two months ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Little_Green_Apples_%28album%29.jpg

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Friday, 25 April 2025 09:06 (two months ago)

Victor Feldman, "Plays Everything In Sight"

https://i.discogs.com/KG2R2doaZewP4KD-63yRECfCjJ9AlbuuPWA_UW9-ePM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:589/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyMDQy/OTAtMTQxNTYyNDI5/OC03MDkzLmpwZWc.jpeg

Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Friday, 25 April 2025 11:41 (two months ago)

... a fairly early (1967) example of one musician playing all the instruments on an album I thought except he'd recorded an earlier example in 1955.

Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Friday, 25 April 2025 11:46 (two months ago)

https://uk.rarevinyl.com/cdn/shop/products/phineas-newborn-jr-newborn-piano-uk-2-lp-vinyl-record-double-vjd561-470918.jpg

Crossing over with some other album cover/title threads.

lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 12:48 (one month ago)

https://i.discogs.com/aP7GtRkSdfDedLwkfktMGWuKnoM6eOdp2rSPtqseb3M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2ODIz/MzMtMTQxOTc2MDE4/OC01NjcxLmpwZWc.jpeg

Electric Sandwich 'Electric Sandwich' (1972)

Knife fight at the Optimists Club (atonar), Sunday, 4 May 2025 15:17 (one month ago)

awesome

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2025 15:31 (one month ago)

actually these last few are all killing me

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2025 15:31 (one month ago)

I’m guessing the Electric Sandwich album doesn’t really live up to its cover.

Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 4 May 2025 16:31 (one month ago)

That is a crazy sandwich even taking out the electric parts.

jmm, Sunday, 4 May 2025 16:38 (one month ago)

It’s somehow satisfying when I find some obscure thing to post on this and the “horrible” titles thread and see that someone else already posted it several years back, like the good work is being done here, this thread is seriously definitive if not for dead link inevitability

brimstead, Sunday, 4 May 2025 22:08 (one month ago)

The “horrible” album titles thread, i mean

brimstead, Sunday, 4 May 2025 22:09 (one month ago)

Jutta Hipp Quintet – Cool Dogs & Two Oranges

https://i.imgur.com/12mINON.jpeg

this is basically Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water for jazzheads

ozempic tentacles (unregistered), Monday, 5 May 2025 01:13 (one month ago)

oh man that is also cursed

five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Monday, 5 May 2025 01:27 (one month ago)

Ugh

Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 5 May 2025 09:28 (one month ago)

BTW how do Limp Bizkit know urine tastes like hot dogs?

Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 5 May 2025 10:08 (one month ago)

Don't think we've had this one
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/813K1WAJqgL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

JifMoose, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:14 (one month ago)

Lol, chapeau.

In the Townes Van Zandt cover I'm also really bothered by (i) what on earth is Townes driving? and (ii) the alignment of that font - eugh!

JifMoose, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:39 (one month ago)

It looks like NYC subway typeface

Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 5 May 2025 19:42 (one month ago)

It's Helvetica, but like each letter was (imperfectly) pasted in by hand(?)

hypothetical rogue notary (morrisp), Monday, 5 May 2025 19:45 (one month ago)

https://ippc2.orst.edu/coopl/t3_40.jpg

visiting, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:46 (one month ago)

seems to have liked driving around in funky cars
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/49/a9/cf/49a9cfe7a34d0f8929e74be966024c6b.jpg

visiting, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:49 (one month ago)

(ah possibly the same car, different paint job)

visiting, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:50 (one month ago)

> each letter was (imperfectly) pasted in by hand

Letraset era? Though it looks like that particular reissue is well into the Adobe era.

Primrose Cash Po (bendy), Monday, 5 May 2025 19:51 (one month ago)

here’s another pic of Townes Van Zandt with thar car:

https://ippc2.orst.edu/coopl/t3_40.jpg

brimstead, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 02:06 (one month ago)

cool that he got a matching shirt

brimstead, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 02:06 (one month ago)

lol shit sorry visiting

brimstead, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 02:07 (one month ago)

In the Townes Van Zandt cover I'm also really bothered by (i) what on earth is Townes driving? and (ii) the alignment of that font - eugh!

also the crime of flipping an image for composition reasons but which results something clearly wrong (right-hand drive, inverted text on side of car).

visiting, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 02:29 (one month ago)

car is a '78 or '79 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala, album cover is a mirror image

Lee626, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 05:46 (one month ago)

(thus the image matches the album title)

Lee626, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 05:47 (one month ago)

true, though an earlier edition of the album did not have the mirror image.

visiting, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 06:27 (one month ago)

Amazing stuff. I didn't notice the image flip at all initially as right-hand drive didn't register as unusual!
Arguably the Townes cover isn't so yawnsome (I really like his funky car) ... but yeah, a meta-level of literal there..

JifMoose, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 12:53 (one month ago)

Although I do find it obscurely infuriating that the words "Rear View Mirror" are mirrored in both the X and Y axis.

JifMoose, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 12:56 (one month ago)

Alexis Korner & Snape – The Accidental Band. Is this even yawnsomely literal? The fist has punched through the tin can, creating an accidental wristband? I will admit to being baffled.

https://i.discogs.com/DIYPIgk3t7XFI7x6gUyf1ZzQ1cdoNQLTDpI0ZfXO2uc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0Nzgx/NDUtMTI2MzY0Njcw/NS5qcGVn.jpeg

tangerine bream (Matt #2), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:09 (one month ago)

I hate it when that happens.

enochroot, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:56 (one month ago)

Is that last peanut really worth it?

nickn, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 18:09 (one month ago)

Sn is the symbol for tin, fyi

zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 May 2025 11:43 (one month ago)

Alternate title doesn't help much.

https://www.discrepancy-records.com.au/assets/full/WZ-1621754650.jpg

jmm, Wednesday, 7 May 2025 11:58 (one month ago)

if we could briefly bring it back to TVZ's "rear view mirror," i'm baffled that nobody complained that the mirror in the image is a side mirror, not a rear view mirror ... i mean what the fuck were they even thinking

budo jeru, Monday, 19 May 2025 21:38 (one month ago)

not so literal after all, eh?

whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Monday, 19 May 2025 21:40 (one month ago)

Though tbh, a side mirror still provides a rear view.

nickn, Monday, 19 May 2025 22:39 (one month ago)

literally every mirror does? do words have meaning or no

budo jeru, Monday, 19 May 2025 22:48 (one month ago)

I'm really rather please how much ... mileage we got out of the TVZ cover.

JifMoose, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 15:27 (one month ago)

Now THAT's What I Call a Rearview Mirror!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 15:44 (one month ago)

Hootie and the Blowfish missed a real opportunity here

bad faith guy (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 May 2025 18:40 (one month ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/359be6dcb3eda7952c70e3b672319482/10188390/diamond-d-the-rear-view-Cover-Art.jpg

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 May 2025 18:50 (one month ago)

Mac Davis – Texas In My Rear View Mirror

https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0002667632/front/400/ThBgIghtcPjUJdK9BcFOwVWnbEN5fCjifro6xhIBuB4=.jpg

and maybe you're gonna be the one that shaves me (Matt #2), Tuesday, 20 May 2025 19:19 (one month ago)

two weeks pass...

It has but unless people put the title of the album it's impossible to search for. Also a lot of broken image links.

Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 9 June 2025 22:44 (two weeks ago)

... it was, rather than it has!

Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 9 June 2025 22:44 (two weeks ago)

yeah i thought it might have been here before but search didn't turn up anything.

visiting, Monday, 9 June 2025 22:49 (two weeks ago)

great record, tho

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 00:31 (two weeks ago)

that neil young cover!!

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 00:32 (two weeks ago)

two weeks pass...

some good ones in the rolling stone worst album covers list from around a year ago

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/TrickDaddyThug.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Disco1976album.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Chuck_Berry_Is_on_Top_cover.jpg

adamt (abanana), Thursday, 26 June 2025 23:51 (two days ago)

Trick Daddy one is awesome

Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2025 02:14 (yesterday)

thugscape

budo jeru, Friday, 27 June 2025 04:57 (yesterday)


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