The Ugliest Album Art From Rolling Stone's "1994: The 40 Best Records From Mainstream Alternative's Greatest Year"

And if the link to the article itself is hard to see up there for whatever reason:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/1994-the-40-best-records-from-mainstream-alternatives-greatest-year-20140417/

God, "mainstream alternative".

makes me nostalgic for the days when I didn't know what bad photoshop design looked like

Voted for Experimental Jet Set whatever, but am tempted to register socks to log additional votes for Dinosaur J and Soul Coughing.

for me, a toss up between Corrosion of Conformity and Sugar. Vitalogy cover has aged well!

Live is the most hideous to me, though--true story--my high school bf claimed that staring at that Pumpkins cover once made him throw up.

I was gonna post the link in the crow thread, but this works

Chris Molanphy on FB brought up something too:

This is a minor point, but one other interesting thing about the ugly-album-cover movement of 1994 was that in America, labels and record stores only began dropping the CD longbox in 1993. So when you walked into a record store in '94, for nearly the first time, it was dominated not just by CDs (that had been going on for a while) but by small plastic boxes instead of larger cardboard ones (LPs or CDs in longboxes), and the intentionally hoary album covers only compounded that ugly-is-beautiful vibe.

Vitalogy looks like a Chicago album.

Horrible though most of these are, Soul Coughing just about edge it for me.

the days of Corel Draw

I'm discounting ugly paintings, as I'm pretty sure the bands chose them for a certain degree of grotesquery. Sadly I think this means I have to discount Mellow Gold for the same reason, even though I've always found it ugly and I think its ugliness is more down to the weird focus in the clouds than the skullbeastthing sculpture. Similarly, Dookie is meant to be juvenile and a bit stupid.

The design of Unplugged in New York is pretty horrible, as are the film soundtracks, but maybe they should be treated as separate things? I don't know, I'm pretty tempted by the Nirvana, in all honesty.

Offspring album is ugly, but I could probably ignore it. Corrosion of Conformity cover is a pretty bad photoshop job, but I don't think it's quite there. Frank Black as prom queen could have worked but it bears all the hallmarks of the age's bad image software. The Bush album has an amazing array of badness - early photoshop, shit fonts (really really shit fonts), poor colour choice, bad title and I'm really not sure what the binary has to do with anything.

BUSH WIN.

sonic youth

From a bad/dated design perspective I'd go with either Toadies or Neil Young. From a "I don't really want to look at this thing" perspective, I'd go with Hole, but that might be due to me being repulsed by people with mascara running down their face.

I don't get the hate for Sonic Youth. It's not amazing, but it just looks like a zine.

Sonic Youth is a rip-off of Sister artwork but with mid-90s major label aesthetics

to me it looks like a compilation album made by the label with no input from the band, which i had always assumed it was

Gonna be a moralist and vote for korn

Actually not too bad for what they are : Rancid, Johnny Cash, Blur, Weezer, Jeff Buckley, Beastie Boys

I really like the Mellow Gold cover. Also Tori Amos.

I was going to joke that the problems with the Toadies cover really jump out at you but i just realized the dude is supposed to be drowning. that was also one that could be really inconsistent based on printing and light damage. a Google image search turns up a whole range of tint variations, all bad. (for reference, see the original painting; for fun, see the 20th anniversary cover.)

Sleeps with Angels is also really bad though it does have the remarkable effect of making me feel bad for whoever, presumably at Reprise, had to design it. it doesn't give me the sense that anyone was really passionate about the image, which makes it hard for me to vote for. "for Neil's 21st album, what if we take an extremely blurry image and just dump snippets of the lyrics of the title track all over it in Courier"

So I have to agree with emil.y. The Bush cover is bad and ugly in so many unintentional ways, though I think what specifically seals it for me is the dropshadow on the i in sixteen.

The heavy-handed paedophile imagery of Korn is pretty horrid. Weird to think of that album as 1994 - it only made it big in the UK, or at least in my social circles, around 96/97. Forever associate it with grim evenings smoking nasty soapbar hash with my anti-social high school buddies.

As it was the year I got into 'alternative' music, I have a lot of fondness for my era. There are some genuine classics in that list (Cash, Hole, Nirvana, Neil Young, Beasties) and flawed favourites like Monster, Experimental Jetset and Grace. And Dookie! Can't deny my fondness for it. And next to Blink 182 it sounds like The Exploited or Black Flag.
The artwork of this era is pretty horrid though. I had Vitalogy on vinyl - big fancy fake book format, with Victorian design and text. Thought it was the coolest thing at the time.

Voted for Live - I see Emily's point about the deliberately grotesque paintings, but the black block and naff font are just awful.

The STP album cover is pretty appalling, hard to top that.

The Rollins ain't bad. Also don't get how you could line these up and think the SY is the worst of the bunch.

the blur, johnny cash, and beastie boys ones are for me clearly the best in just about that order.

i think the tori amos cover is good, actually. same with pearl jam and nine inch nails (just now realized how much underworld's 'second toughest in the infants' cover owes to 'the downward spiral'!)

hate the liz phair, beck, soundgarden, and nirvana covers.

really though the worst for me here is 'sleeps with angels', which is probably the worst, most generic, dull, and incoherent cover art in neil young's entire career and that's really saying something. it's a great album that deserves something a lot more evocative.

Basically any of them that involve actual photography, while not great, are probably saved from being the worst.

I never really thought about the fact that Nirvana have an album with an MTV logo on the cover

This also inspired me to create a Reality Bites cover poll, at which point I discovered it had been done, albeit about the movie poster, not the album art (and somewhat poorly imo! "decaf" ≠ "dEcAf" etc.). Anyway, whoever designed the poster added an apostrophe to "hey thats my bike," but more importantly for this poll, the album art is just the same image with the phrase "MOVIE POSTER" cropped out.

Basically anything with the mid 90s typewriter font

As it was the year I got into 'alternative' music, I have a lot of fondness for my era.

Totally the opposite here. I'm lolold and have no emotional attachment to any of these, don't own a one of 'em.

Unplugged In New York looks like it was thrown together in 10 minutes without Nirvana's input, which I think kinda disqualifies it, and others like Soul Coughing are I think intentionally slapdash/ugly, but for art that actually looks like it was trying for something and failed I'm voting Toadies.

it's amazing how every single of of these albums with the possible exception of one or two are 50 cent bin fodder now.

that rem cover takes the cake for me. so embarrassing.

can't think of good New Young sleeve art tbh

'my era' should read 'this era' of course...

94 was a classic year for hip-hop. I wonder how the album covers stand up next to these? Doggystyle is hideous, while PE's Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age is terrible, but kinda awesomely so with the Skeleton holding a gun to its head while the Klansman and the white politician laugh on...

Jesus Christ I can't believe Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age is 20 years old! Every time I see that album title it seems so freshly horrible.

Weird how the first couple of REM albums have great, evocative covers, then they just go to shit, with maybe the exception of New Adventures (a bit boring, but Stipe's b&w photo is nice enough). I can see what they were going for with Monster's trashy aesthetic, but it's poorly executed. But it's less ugly than Green and Out Of Time's horrible washed out greens and yellows.

Illmatic and Ready To Die on the other hand... the fonts date them, but the images are pretty iconic.

can't think of good New Young sleeve art tbh

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:17 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think up through 'comes a time' neil young covers are pretty stellar

I think objectively Neil Young might be worse but I so intensely hate everything about the Offspring that I can't not vote for that

There are nice ones like On The Beach and Time Fades Away but Neil does tend to have an agressively cruddy aesthetic about half the time. Zuma literally gives you the finger.

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5561/neilyoungcrazyhorsezumayl0.jpg

I would argue that Ruby Vroom was the only good Soul Coughing cover. It's indeed slapdash but it feels at least semi-classic to me!

CASH is the best

I feel crazy saying this, but these are not nearly as bad as I was expecting.

You are crazy.

something about the cheap photoshop jobs of the time just seems kind of quaint to me as opposed to hideous

I think I might vote for the Sugar album because it is so half-assed and generic, although I may be choosing it in part because that album was such a disappointment to me when it came out.

i don't think i've ever realized how terrible the nirvana unplugged cover is. it's by no means the worst, it's just...taking a decent picture and making it as ugly as possible

Hard to choose between Neil and Sugar.

But this reminds me that I listened to Grace a few weeks ago for the first time in 8 or 9 years and wow, that album really did not age well at all.

honestly though, I can live with most of the top 20, plenty of them are even good or at least iconic. The bottom twenty start to get more into the ugly zone, but a lot of them embody the low budget DIY aesthetic that was in vogue at the time or just come across as lazy "product" without any pretense of trying to look interesting

neil's is generic 90s alt and stupid but ultimately pretty forgettable and harmless. (a lot neil's cover art is terrible but there are some absolutely classic covers too - all the ditch trilogy covers are awesome, i like zuma, too)

i hate the blur cover. all those dumb britpop bands that have a fucking logo. fuck off, blur sucks

sonic youth isn't too bad, ain't any worse than dirty, a thousand leaves, or nyc ghosts and flowers

otm, plus it had the different cards inside so you could change out the 'real' cover for a cooler one.

though as much as i hate oasis, that cover doesn't bother me

yeah I expected to have a more visceral reaction to these but I also maybe didn't realise how much they were burned into my brain

don't think I ever twigged Pisces Iscariot was a face :/

I actually think the top 10 albums on this list, excepting Soundgarden, have good album covers.

Voted Dookie -- I always hated that one.

Toadies seems way out in front as the worst to me, I can make a devil's advocacy argument for probly every other sleeve in the list

that Live one always really bothered me.

the Sugar one is not very notable but really sucks in its own overly graphic designed way

man talk about some rough fonts

the weezer one is actually pretty clean and iconic at least

dookie i never minded cuz it was sort of a ramones/mad magazine vibe i guess

Parklife has a great cover IMO

i wonder if mad men's betty character was inspired by the helmet cover

oasis and blur might be the best ones in here. The rest are all hilariously bad.

UMS otm

Neil young, offspring and beck are particularly ugly

yea beck is the worst i'm thinking. or toadies

i feel like the yeah yeah yeah's mosquito cover was created in 1993 and given to the band 20 years later

created for green jellÿ

lol

94 was a classic year for hip-hop. I wonder how the album covers stand up next to these?

Think I said this on another thread but the colour palette and font on Jeru the Damaja's The Sun Rises in the East (also '94) always reminded me of Sleeps With Angels (and vice-versa).

Bush's "16 Stone" by a mile in this category. Though I agree 1994 was Modern Rock's best year.

The ease with which I voted for that neil young album was astounding.

Soul Coughing one is pretty bad, although their 96 album's cover was even worse. Meat Puppets one is disappointing in the sense that most of their previous album covers had been cool surreal drawings by the band and then they suddenly flipped the script. idk voting for The Toadies i think.

Looks like some counting crows record that showed up in the record shop I used to run and would just never leave for long, maybe it's PTSD

it's funny how much the '90s seemed to be filled with a smug sense of superiority towards the aesthetic/design/clothing trends of the '80s (and even the '70s) but then you look back and almost everything was just hideous

Totally... The decade of "I just learned Photoshop!" design aesthetics

yeah i look at pics of folks from the '70s and '80s and it's just a cavalcade of awesome, the '90s is just everyone in flannels, it's not even a cliche really. ugly flannels, everywhere.

i mean and the dress shirts

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/07/22/32/1910408/8/628x471.jpg

I dunno, I agree that a lot of these covers are pretty bad, and the dawn of the internet age (sorry for that phrase but not sure how else to describe it) was responsible for some terrible digital art, but I for one was thankful that there was an anti-fashion aesthetic while growing up. Being female is shit, being a teenage girl is even shitter, but actually feeling ~allowed~ to reject a whole swathe of that shitness was pretty important. So GO UGLY OVERSIZED FLANNEL SHIRTS I LOVE YOU.

yeah i'm not necessarily hating on grunge fashion. that was really the original normcore, rock kids wearing corduroy and lumberjack shirts instead of getting all decked out in leather jackets or whatever you were supposed to wear to be punk or metal before that.

40: live, "throwing copper" ::closes tab::

i can't, i just can't do this

voting neil young for its resemblance to vintage vertigo comics house ads

that veruca salt cover is genuinely good, never seen it before

i can't hate flannel, just the ugly flannel. also '90s hair was some terrible shit vs the usually mocked '80s hair.

I dunno, I agree that a lot of these covers are pretty bad, and the dawn of the internet age (sorry for that phrase but not sure how else to describe it) was responsible for some terrible digital art, but I for one was thankful that there was an anti-fashion aesthetic while growing up. Being female is shit, being a teenage girl is even shitter, but actually feeling ~allowed~ to reject a whole swathe of that shitness was pretty important. So GO UGLY OVERSIZED FLANNEL SHIRTS I LOVE YOU.

― emil.y

I don't know what you're saying emily. Being female is great.

sonic youth isn't too bad, ain't any worse than dirty, a thousand leaves, or nyc ghosts and flowers

― marcos, Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, plus it had the different cards inside so you could change out the 'real' cover for a cooler one.

― mattresslessness, Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I bought this cd used, and for years I thought this was the actual cover art:

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/lp10h.jpg

Which I actually like quite a bit more than the real cover art, though it also still very much fits in this thread

At its best - Courtney, Kurt, Steve Turner from Mudhoney's vintage shirts, Winona in Reality Bites - grunge style was great and its no surprise that elements of it have been revived. The really horrible fashion was the kind of vaguely bohemian, rustic yet modern style which seemed to be a reaction against 80s garishness: loads of earth tones (various shades of brown and snotgreen), floaty floral dresses, baggy suits, chunky shoes, neo-hippy bracelets and necklaces... That combined with 'grunge' around 93-94 - thinking people like Crash Test Dummies, Counting Crows. Then there was that ghastly designer hippy-grunge thing you got with 4 Non Blondes. Oh dear oh dear. That aesthetic went into artwork and videos too.

voting neil young for its resemblance to vintage vertigo comics house ads

sooo otm

there are worse ones here but it's not like i ever lived w/ that korn album so neil got my vote though really i kinda like it's awful 'lol 90s' vibe, it's his 'lol 90s' album

sonic youth seems fitting, a not very close approximation of 80s cool, i love some of their 90s covers though - washing machine, goo, dirty.

that sugar cover has presented me from ever owning that album.

The Beck cover is amazing and complements the music perfectly

The worst is either Bush or Bad Religion, and they're both entirely loathsome. Might vote Bush - it's fucking disgusting actually

i feel like the entire rykodisc aesthetic led to shitty covers. i don't know why. maybe the covers weren't any worse than other labels and it was just the sickly doctor's office waiting room green of the jewel cases that did it.

american thighs cover is gorgeous imo

yeah that's a real good cover

in a weird way i kinda respect the nirvana mtv one, w/ that album it'd be so easy to overplay the reverance and make it seem like 'here stands a testament to tragedy and genius', god knows that album actually played that way in the culture that winter, like the pop equivalent of playing an old answering machine message or staring at old photos, but the cover works as a rebuke as if to say 'yeah it's very sad and the music is great which is nice but let's be clear - this is a cash-in'.

vitalogy cover and art kinda secretly blew my mind as a 12 yo

never really thought about it before but the 'exile in guyville' cover is pretty bad.

xp I picked up the vinyl Vitalogy at a big garage sale in '98, and was very impressed w/the lp sized booklet and overall design.

vitalogy cover and art kinda secretly blew my mind as a 12 yo

― mattresslessness, Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:39 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha, yea me too. even as a 12 year old i didn't think the music was that good though.

also i know we're talking about album covers here but w/r/t music i really love nirvana unplugged. i don't engage much with all the critical discourse on nirvana, after being exposed to it so much for 20 years, so i don't know what the consensus is on that album. but i feel like i listen to it 50x more than the rest of nirvana. don't know if this is akin to imago's comment that he likes electric wizard more than black sabbath but i really prefer unplugged.

I blasted "Corduroy" a lot in my freshman dorm, my neighbors probably hated me

agree w/ marcos, unplugged doesn't really feel like a 'live' album so much as a great lost nirvana album, something as complete and satisfying (or moreso) as any of their studio work.

it's one of those small wonders, the show was kind of a gimmick at that point, nirvana didn't strike me as a band that would translate particularly well to an acoustic context, but there was a certain magic there

Bush

A really good friend who geeked out on a lot of the same music as me gave me this album for my birthday and I just looked at him like 'really dude' and he was all 'you know it's a really good album you should give it a chance'

*gasface*

Don't recall ever hearing anyone slate Unplugged, responses seem to all be in the "that's pretty good" to "their unheralded masterpiece" range. I suppose the conjunction of acoustic (=stripped down=vulnerable somehow) and tragedy makes that more predictable, but I'd say it stands up even if you try to forget connotation.

i wouldn't be surprised if their bowie and leadbelly covers from that album get more radio play than all of their nevermind/in utero singles. unplugged is definitely the nirvana album it's safe for WXRT/dadrock rolling stone types to own more than the others.

hahaha I wasn't in Chicago when it was released but I distinctly remember thinking at the time, "Man, I bet this Nirvana record is burning up XRT" (between blocks of Poi Dog Pondering, of course).

kurt's final anguished "where...did you sleep...last night???" followed by applause fading right into the intro for the cover of "wild night" by john mellencamp.

hahaha

Meat Puppets one is disappointing in the sense that most of their previous album covers had been cool surreal drawings by the band and then they suddenly flipped the script

OTM, also their later album covers are nearly all terrible, Too High to Die is the only one that's just boring.

I like Unplugged, I probably like the Meat Puppets bit best of all

TBH I get tired of the sound of his guitar after a while (in this context). But I suppose that's me having a pop at Cobain for sounding like...Cobain

The recent Meat Puppets albums covers are laughably bad.

a major label put this out

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/No_Joke%21.gif

idk if this is heresy but I really hate that Dinosaur Jr cover

Monster cover struck me as singularly dreadful at the time.

I think adding an image to a record is usually a bad idea. Like covers on a book. Nothing to do with what's inside...

Also: taking sides - White Album vs Spinal tap's Black Album.

enjoyed whiney's circumspect blurb for ruby vroom

a lot of these are lazy or half-assed or lolsomely obvious, but the only ones i really hate are mellow gold and jar of flies. and it's hard to distinguish the latter from my hatred of the music

jar of flies was grammy nominated for best recording package!

are you gonna make me mention jethro tull

xp^^Didn't the first pressings come with plastic flies inside the jewelcase, or was I smoking crack when I was 12?

i didn't say they won!

o man that's right, there were little plastic flies in the spine

i don't doubt that jar of flies was carefully crafted to piss me off, but i do think it's ugly as fuc

mellow gold bears the brunt of ugliness and failed irony tho

Live or STP or Sugar. Tough decision.

that liz phair one is insanely bad

I kinda dig the vibe of the Jar of Flies cover--reminds me of the movie Tollbooth--but it def strikes me as the single gauchest cover of the bunch...

Mellow Gold the most divisive cover here - makes me like it more

The Jar of Flies cover made it into the claymation I Stay Away video.

The weird breed of sheep dog on the cover of Odelay is also in the 16 Stone booklet somewhere.

Pisces Iscariot has different covers for cd, vinyl, tape -- all blurry, weird photographs.

I have never seen Meat Puppets No Joke before this moment, and I am actually lolling in the office. Words fail.

i think the tori amos cover is good, actually. same with pearl jam and nine inch nails (just now realized how much underworld's 'second toughest in the infants' cover owes to 'the downward spiral'!)

I think I listened to the Underworld in a listening tower at Blockbuster Music solely because the album cover looked like NIN.

Johnny Cash, Tori Amos, and Weezer are all pretty good and also all basically the same album cover

I like the Weezer cover a lot; has always reminded me of The Feelies:

http://bern.hitparade.ch/cdimg/weezer-weezer_(the_blue_album)_a.jpg
http://bern.hitparade.ch/cdimg/weezer-weezer_(the_blue_album)_a.jpg

Dammit.

http://0.tqn.com/d/altmusic/1/0/D/B/-/-/thefeelies.jpg

yeah i wonder is that an purposeful reference? it seems so close...but weezer seems like dudes that were probably not as hip musically as you'd think so who knows if they even knew the feelies?

i'm pretty sure it's a reference

Yeah, it's actually kind of a knowing cross between Feelies and T. Heads I think.

http://www.billepperly.com.php53-14.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/T-Heads1-150x150.jpg

Got to be "Sleeps With Angels" I held a grudge against that record for a long time cuz of the cover. I still don't evne like touching it. Blech.

lol as if Weezer designed their cover!

Weezer album cover is good as, without knowing the ins and outs of the band, it doesnt scream 1994 like so many of these

90s yes, but some of these are ridiculously date specific to me

Are the Meat Puppets recent efforts the 50 something 80s Amerindie version of those Neil Young /Clapton album covers (Fork In The Road/Old Sock)?

Sugar cover so bad and half-assed. Facebook macros are designed better.

Also '94:

http://www.recordrevolution.com/sites/default/files/album_covers/sebadoh_bakesale.jpg

Srsly the fact that that cover isn't even on this list just fatally indicts the whole year

Well the list is not bad covers just RS' s favoeite albums, but point still taken!

i feel like echolyn's "as the world" (a christian prog band influenced by gentle giant who were signed by sony, apparently as some sort of tax write-off, in '95) could beat any record on this list in terms of "terrible cover"

Wow, when Oasis are an example of good design you know the field is awful. So much horrible.

Whoops yeah that ws posting at 4am talking

it is massively depressing to think beck and blur are the least offensive at anything

I really like the cover to Monster, I can't be the only one, surely? can we at least agree it's better than any post-90s REM album cover?

I think Monster looks a lot better on an actual CD case than it comes across as a picture on a computer screen, and it definitely wouldn't work on a 12 inch LP cover

I thought that this was going to be a straight-up competition between Dinosaur Jr and Live but then I saw that Korn album cover and holy shit.

A lot of these do look like album covers for bands who were suddenly catapulted into a commercial arena in which they were so out of their depth and ended up either just trolling everyone or getting their record company to produce something totally half-arsed.

I get that the Dinosaur Jr one is meant to be ugly but I hate Dinosaur Jr and that cover really evokes why, but fuck knows what that Throwing Copper one is supposed to be.

I do remember going into Our Price and being able to immediately spot a whole shelf full of Monster spines right behind the counter.

Korn is straight up horror movie trope, whereas AiC is "let's compare a jar of puke-orange translucent honey with flies in it with a possibly-decapitated head of an eleven year old girl"

xp

(Idk why I felt the need to offer a retort to Matt DC)

I voted Sixteen Stone. I didn't buy the album several times simply cos of it as a teen.

then I heard the music which sealed it

Could do the same with 1994 movie posters.

http://www.retrorobotreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Ref-1994-movie-poster.jpeg

CAPTURE THE LAUGHS

Judy Davis stares longfully at Leary's crotch

A few of these covers aren't pleasing to the eye, but Sleeps With Angels is just fucking next-level shite.

A couple years later, but prime example of when Print Shop goes bad:

http://projectyuck.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/cult_of_ray.jpg

Toss-up between Without a Sound and Purple, went for STP in the end

Offspring's Smash hands down

this is pretty much all-my-first-albums-the-list. thanks to my shitty concept of time, i now know that 1994 was the year music first resonated with me. interesting.

also voted liz phair because what is that

the stp one is annoying but for whatever reason i find it sort of enjoyable to hate? whereas the korn and aic ones are terrible but also just make me angrier the more i think about bands like that playing domestic violence / violence towards children for shock value

that doesn't describe AiC whatsoever, wtf

violence towards flies for shock value, imo.

marketed to flies

idk the flies + detached body parts things strikes me as kinda violent

and i haven't like brushed up on my semiotics recently but i always thought the use of dolls in a lot of '90s imagery was trying to evoke tainted/dysfunctional childhood stuff

it was inspired by a science experiment Cantrell did in school iirc, where they had two jars of flies, underfed one, overfed the other, and the one that was overfed survived...and it apparently stuck w/ him for years.

their music was already too adult for kids anyway as it was primarily about heroin addiction. they were my fav band in high school but it wasn't lost on me how morbidly depressing the music was.

whereas Korn wrote fairly exclusively about that child abuse stuff on their first album and the cover kind of emphasized that even more.

I'm not certain that any of the visible body parts on the AiC cover are visibly detached.

yeah tbh i might just be reaching for more reasons to hate aic. i always assumed it was a doll

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huh i guess i never thought of sleeps with angels as particularly ugly
not great or anything just never seemed that noteworthy compared to some of these hideous ones

It's so very of its time.

Lol at Beck sounding like Bill O Riley with that "i didn't have ~time~ to be depressed when i was poor and hustlin" crap