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://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c848/c848104y8y7.jpg

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

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 30 January 2004 09:51 (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)

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Ugh

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 5 May 2025 09:28 (two months ago)

BTW how do Limp Bizkit know urine tastes like hot dogs?

― Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 5 May 2025 10:08 (two months 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 (two months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/BeWTDW6p7KAIZKHiHac9KEFaKkum8gT9fMEojMoQAaE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:571/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg4Mzg1/NjItMTY0NTAyMzEx/MC05ODYxLmpwZWc.jpeg

Albert Collins – Ice Pickin'

― visiting, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:17 (two months 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 (two months ago)

It looks like NYC subway typeface

― Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 5 May 2025 19:42 (two months ago)

It's Helvetica, but like each letter was (imperfectly) pasted in by hand(?)

― hypothetical rogue notary (morrisp), Monday, 5 May 2025 19:45 (two months ago)

https://ippc2.orst.edu/coopl/t3_40.jpg

― visiting, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:46 (two months 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 (two months ago)

(ah possibly the same car, different paint job)

― visiting, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:50 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago)

cool that he got a matching shirt

― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 02:06 (two months ago)

lol shit sorry visiting

― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 02:07 (two months 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 (two months ago)

car is a '78 or '79 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala, album cover is a mirror image

― Lee626, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 05:46 (two months ago)

(thus the image matches the album title)

― Lee626, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 05:47 (two months ago)

true, though an earlier edition of the album did not have the mirror image.

― visiting, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 06:27 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago)

I hate it when that happens.

― enochroot, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:56 (two months ago)

Is that last peanut really worth it?

― nickn, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 18:09 (two months ago)

Sn is the symbol for tin, fyi

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 May 2025 11:43 (two months 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 (two months ago)

"Party In Me":
https://i.discogs.com/nFZqlyxav5fYCYfiBHXN6GowjOzE6RBV7Leq_Wlm_wg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:540/w:512/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk1MDkx/NC0xMTc2NTAzMDEx/LmpwZWc.jpeg

― enochroot, Monday, 19 May 2025 21:10 (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)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/c053fee0c1b2097c5170c74ebc675281/5558376/mark-slaughter-reflections-in-a-rear-view-mirror-Cover-Art.jpg

― Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 May 2025 15:29 (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...

this wasn't here before?
https://i.discogs.com/vPAWfH7UnBXOQsWEw8G-5yh8QCPf6ZJ4Bw4aWCh3Yac/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg1NTg4/MjItMTQ2NDAyMjQ1/My04ODM2LmpwZWc.jpeg

The Meters – Cabbage Alley

― visiting, Monday, 9 June 2025 22:37 (four weeks ago)

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 (four weeks ago)

... it was, rather than it has!

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 9 June 2025 22:44 (four 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 (four weeks ago)

great record, tho

― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 00:31 (four weeks ago)

that neil young cover!!

― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 00:32 (four 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 (one week ago)

Trick Daddy one is awesome

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2025 02:14 (one week ago)

thugscape

― budo jeru, Friday, 27 June 2025 04:57 (one week ago)

Lenny Williams, "Rise Sleeping Beauy"

https://i.discogs.com/HaU8QBDzhn1TtasAU1lpAzdYdyBFk76CJR3q0jz1_RA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMDEx/MDMtMTM3MjgyMTM4/Mi01NTk3LmpwZWc.jpeg

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 7 July 2025 19:33 (yesterday)

... looks dead rather than sleeping... and on fire.

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 7 July 2025 19:35 (yesterday)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/b2a5a9792fdbfdef3c4cc24e8efdc3a8/3659019/paul-kelly-hooked-hogtied-and-collared-Cover-Art.jpg

― Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Monday, 7 July 2025 19:42 (yesterday)

Crikey.

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 7 July 2025 19:52 (yesterday)

And smiling through it all.

― nickn, Monday, 7 July 2025 20:42 (yesterday)

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