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

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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)

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)

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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 (four 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 (four months ago)

I hate it when that happens.

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

Is that last peanut really worth it?

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

Sn is the symbol for tin, fyi

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

not so literal after all, eh?

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Monday, 19 May 2025 21:40 (four months ago)

Though tbh, a side mirror still provides a rear view.

― nickn, Monday, 19 May 2025 22:39 (four months ago)

literally every mirror does? do words have meaning or no

― budo jeru, Monday, 19 May 2025 22:48 (four months ago)

I'm really rather please how much ... mileage we got out of the TVZ cover.

― JifMoose, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 15:27 (four months 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 (four months ago)

Now THAT's What I Call a Rearview Mirror!

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 15:44 (four months ago)

Hootie and the Blowfish missed a real opportunity here

― bad faith guy (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 May 2025 18:40 (four months 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 (four months 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 (four months 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 (three months 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 (three months ago)

... it was, rather than it has!

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

yeah i thought it might have been here before but search didn't turn up anything.

― visiting, Monday, 9 June 2025 22:49 (three months ago)

great record, tho

― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 00:31 (three months ago)

that neil young cover!!

― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 00:32 (three months 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 (three months ago)

Trick Daddy one is awesome

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2025 02:14 (three months ago)

thugscape

― budo jeru, Friday, 27 June 2025 04:57 (three months 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 (two months ago)

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

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

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 (two months ago)

Crikey.

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

And smiling through it all.

― nickn, Monday, 7 July 2025 20:42 (two months ago)

three weeks pass...

John Pantry, "It's For You"

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/6763ccc55916eb9faca5c0115dcf79a6/3882871/john-pantry-its-for-you-Cover-Art.jpg

― Posts That Witness Madness (Tom D.), Monday, 28 July 2025 13:52 (two months ago)

That font. I've seen it in the logos of countless 80s BBC sitcoms, I'm sure.

― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Monday, 28 July 2025 14:51 (two months ago)

The linework, if not the letter forms, screams "Dynamite magazine." If I'm not mistaken, the idea must have been to take the thick, casually curving lines of writing in a thicker marker, but treat them as colored solids outlined by a thin black pen. I like it. Dynamite debuted in 1974... and, to its credit, kept that design all the way through its final issue in 1992. From "Dynamite Meets M*A*S*H" to "Julia Roberts! Arnold Schwarzenegger! Marky Mark Poster!"

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2025 16:33 (two months ago)

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2025 16:38 (two months ago)

That is my favourite kind of ILX thread, thank you DC!

― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Monday, 28 July 2025 17:51 (two months ago)

Surely Mr. Pantry appears in the "puns on the artists name" thread as well.

But no (per wiki):
Empty Handed (1977)
Nothing is Impossible (1979)
To Strangers and Friends (1980)
Hot Coals (1981)
Breaking New Ground (1988)
The Church Invincible (1992)
Bitter Sweet (1994)
God of the Empty Space (2009)

― nickn, Monday, 28 July 2025 18:11 (two months ago)

Like, maybe a 2-LP best of called Well Stocked, or something.

― nickn, Monday, 28 July 2025 18:16 (two months ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/3e433570a618b6b2fe484fb6671e1591/4071996/john-pantry-simple-sailing-for-beginners-Cover-Art.jpg

This one intrigues me

― Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Monday, 28 July 2025 18:27 (two months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/LD1CxLmqSu55pBZQ3Y9-ZqWiTabJDIfWzTrQ5_0un5Q/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUwMTA0/NjQtMTM4NDM1NzQ0/Ny0zODAwLmpwZWc.jpeg

Naoya Matsuoka & His All Stars – Joyful Feet

― visiting, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 22:34 (one month ago)

That's a beauty.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 11:24 (one month ago)

Excellent.