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

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― OleM (OleM), Friday, 30 January 2004 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good lord! That Foghat cover is absolutely brilliant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*slaps forehead*

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

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

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

What's the title of the above?

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

That would be Holy Diver.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...and here it is!

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

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

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

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

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

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

My teacher has that one.

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

heh

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

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Listening to the song right now. It's incredible.

― jmm, Sunday, 11 January 2026 14:15 (two months ago)

I was once in a band that loved yawnsomely literal etc. We were working on an album to be called Movers and Shakers with the front cover being staged photos of us comically attempting to load furniture into a van. The other side was to be us playing maracas and presumably other shakers.

In a tragic series of events that will astonish exactly no one, the project fizzled and the band went nowhere. But... one can never truly stop wondering what if....

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 11 January 2026 15:01 (two months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/N17RxgRFw1zOqsgMG_Iz60my0i17GMeirM0besT1azg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0MTIx/NjItMTU4MjI4MjA5/Ny00MjcyLmpwZWc.jpeg

Claudja Barry – Feel The Fire

― visiting, Thursday, 22 January 2026 00:48 (two months ago)

I was scrolling through the Shanachie catalogue and came across this:

https://www.discogs.com/master/377016-Mary-OHara-Mary-OHara-At-The-Royal-Festival-Hall/image/SW1hZ2U6MTYwMjQ5OTg=

It's like she felt she needed to provide evidence

― clamage, Thursday, 22 January 2026 23:19 (two months ago)

Hmm... Looks like I ballsed that up. I'll try again in the morning.

― clamage, Thursday, 22 January 2026 23:27 (two months ago)

I see 2026's entries are still delivering the goods, including YMP's tragically non-existent instance lol.

― Heavy, downy baby goose (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 22 January 2026 23:43 (two months ago)

Right, let's try that again shall we:

https://images2.imgbox.com/6e/ad/OFtOOEZP_o.jpg

― clamage, Friday, 23 January 2026 10:21 (two months ago)

hahahahaha that is so flat

― the important "maybe his head just did that" theory (stevie), Friday, 23 January 2026 10:43 (two months ago)

will never not love the RFH tho

― the important "maybe his head just did that" theory (stevie), Friday, 23 January 2026 10:43 (two months ago)

hahahahaha that is so flat

I know! It's like the alt text of album covers :D

― clamage, Friday, 23 January 2026 14:36 (two months ago)

Yessss. Most of these are more "amusingly literal" but that one, that is truly yawnsomely literal.

― emil.y, Friday, 23 January 2026 15:14 (two months ago)

Can't decide whether I like Mary O'Hara's collar or the Thames' debris better.

― punchy wunchy wikipedia woo (bendy), Friday, 23 January 2026 21:23 (two months ago)

Rejected album title: Collar my World

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 January 2026 21:26 (two months ago)

So don't be afraid to let them show

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 January 2026 21:28 (two months ago)

two weeks pass...

Tom McConville, "Tommy on the Bridge"

https://i.discogs.com/YjF2_hD5oTZf6aQ02UolSxWfVtrp1YB95_GI4ujXjWY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUxMzU4/MjktMTM4NTQ3MTA4/MS04MDQxLmpwZWc.jpeg

― The Olde, Old, Very Olde Man. (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 February 2026 12:39 (one month ago)

Yawnsome? This is riveting!

(sorry)

― clamage, Sunday, 8 February 2026 20:50 (one month ago)

Saw this album cover and thought of this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beside_Myself_(DJ_Haram_album)#/media/File:Beside_Myself_(DJ_Haram_album).jpg
DJ Haram - Beside Myself

and then thought, surely it didn't take until 2025 for someone to come up with this brilliant idea and sure enough:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Beside_Myself2.jpg
Ray Stevens - Beside Myself

― silverfish, Thursday, 12 February 2026 18:53 (one month ago)

first image was supposed to be

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Beside_Myself_%28DJ_Haram_album%29.jpg

― silverfish, Thursday, 12 February 2026 18:54 (one month ago)

Pretty sure if you went to Discogs and typed in "beside myself" you could depress yourself in a hurry.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 12 February 2026 20:26 (one month ago)

I'm seeing a "Depress Yourself" cover, with pictures of the band's faces on the keys of a computer keyboard.

― Who's going to stop 200 balloons? Nobody! (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:01 (one month ago)

From the same great mind that brought you Beside Myself:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bcPhYJ4jL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Ray Stevens – #1 With A Bullet

His other albums include Have A Little Talk With Myself, Turn Your Radio On, There Is Something On Your Mind and Be Your Own Best Friend, none of them featuring yawnsomely literal album covers. Which seems a missed opportunity.

― you're doing that thing again (Matt #2), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:29 (one month ago)

Oh, he's got some more literal ones.

― Who's going to stop 200 balloons? Nobody! (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:34 (one month ago)

Missing a foam finger for extra literalness there.

― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:37 (one month ago)

He spent the whole budget on the oversized novelty bullet.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:44 (one month ago)

lol, nice work Matt #2 - missed opportunities indeed.

― Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 February 2026 11:44 (one month ago)

one month passes...

Jimmy Grierson, "A Series of Long Jumps"

https://i.discogs.com/Jtsf70k8BIc5-p_wTtkwDdnx5K47I_0kUtuIMyoNhdw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2MjI0/OTgtMTY5OTYxNDUw/MC0xNDk4LmpwZWc.jpeg

― Schlub 7 (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2026 14:52 (one week ago)

Jimmy Grierson hopping towards you across an empty field is an unsettling image

― jmm, Saturday, 21 March 2026 15:02 (one week ago)

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