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-two years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think it's terrific!

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

Where approximately are they seated?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

also rick springfield's australian

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 30 January 2004 07:15 (twenty-two 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-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)

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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 (nine months ago)

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

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

hahahahaha that is so flat

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

Rejected album title: Collar my World

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

So don't be afraid to let them show

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

Yawnsome? This is riveting!

(sorry)

― clamage, Sunday, 8 February 2026 20:50 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)

Missing a foam finger for extra literalness there.

― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 12 February 2026 21:37 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)

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

― Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 February 2026 11:44 (eight months 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 (seven months ago)

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

― jmm, Saturday, 21 March 2026 15:02 (seven months ago)

two weeks pass...

Coco Montoya, "Writing on the Wall"

https://i.discogs.com/jQyTJFfon_MFiGPjtVK3pMnaFem5ADkG99CBfoW2HhM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:537/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4MTk2/NjQxLTE2OTQxMDE2/OTktNjY2MC5qcGVn.jpeg

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2026 19:52 (six months ago)

I saw this and thought it was sufficiently strange.

https://mostlymusicstore.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/57_8b322dd2-04b3-417f-86d3-a94a0532133e.png?v=1761403429&width=1920

Bryan Adams - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

― earlnash, Monday, 13 April 2026 13:43 (six months ago)

https://i.discogs.com/GsvlpEM09DjJFnKWinGXyP2MZvzFA9UbTGlWDAod2aI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcwMzY1/Ny0xNjIwODMyMzAx/LTg5MjAuanBlZw.jpeg

Kleeer – Taste The Music

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Friday, 17 April 2026 17:08 (six months ago)

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/39e1c950bc609cfaf56018b014019674/2363005/the-flirtations-love-makes-the-world-go-round-Cover-Art.jpg

The Flirtations - Love Makes the World Go Round

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Friday, 17 April 2026 17:20 (six months ago)

three weeks pass...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81b3W4tmw1L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

David Bromberg Band – Bandit In A Bathing Suit

― change a word make a third (Matt #2), Monday, 11 May 2026 17:26 (five months ago)

"Kleeer – Taste The Music"

I learn from the internet that they were originally The Jam Band, but they changed their name in 1977 to avoid confusion with The Jam. Or at least that's what Discogs.com says. It doesn't pass the smell test, and Wikipedia has a different chronology. They're a pretty obscure band. But this is Ilxor, where the obscure is commonplace. It's not called Mission: Difficult.

I have to say that Kleeer immediately makes me think of Blakes Seven. It's a bad guy name. Comissioner Kleeer. Sector Chief Kleeer. Of the planet Sinofar. Series three, episode five. He probably dies a nasty death. Or alternatively the episode ends with him pulling off a latex facemask, and - surprise - it's Servalan!

"Jimmy Grierson, "A Series of Long Jumps""

I respect that cover. Because it actually has a series of long jumps. Not just one long jump. It has a series of them. Some of the yawnsomely literal album covers up the thread aren't completely literal and I disrespect them. Ray Stevens isn't holding a bullet. He's holding an artillery shell. And Mary O'Hara is not at the Royal Festival Hall. She's not at the Royal Albert Hall. She's clearly some distance away. The correct title should be Mary O'Hara Standing On the Hungerford Bridge, Overlooking the Royal Festival Hall.

But in Jimmy Grierson's case there actually is a series of long jumps. And they are long. It's hard to judge the scale, but each bound appears to be at least twice his height, so we're talking 10-12 feet. That's nowhere near Olympic standard, but it's still a long jump. I would have trouble jumping that far horizontally once, let along several times.

It's a good example of why Peter Saville is not necessarily the answer. Given the same brief, he would probably have delivered a black and white image of a Grecian bust with some fancy typography. Also Firefox has stopped checking my spelling. I can't tell if Firefox is broken or if this is an Ilxor thing. Is it a subtle way of winnowing out AI. Should I add some, or add more spelling errors, or take some away.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 11 May 2026 18:25 (five months ago)

They're a pretty obscure band.

They're pretty celebrated in funk and soul circles, and well-sampled.

― an uncharacteristically irritated Mr. Rogers (stevie), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 07:24 (five months ago)

OTM

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 08:35 (five months ago)

one month passes...

Just spotted in the wild:
https://i.discogs.com/MMxj3st0WKuqWgUtgEUo2W7O3X7vv3OIQ-GErUfC6aY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyNzc3/MTQyLTE2NDkzOTEx/NTctMTMwMC5qcGVn.jpeg
Gemini - Pulling Together

― enochroot, Friday, 19 June 2026 20:42 (four months ago)

Let's try that embed again:
https://i.discogs.com/MMxj3st0WKuqWgUtgEUo2W7O3X7vv3OIQ-GErUfC6aY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyNzc3/MTQyLTE2NDkzOTEx/NTctMTMwMC5qcGVn.jpeg

― enochroot, Friday, 19 June 2026 20:44 (four months ago)

One for the 'shit drawings of guitars' thread too, wtf is that thing on the right meant to be?

― pax ramona (Matt #2), Friday, 19 June 2026 21:18 (four months ago)

Violin bass?

― nickn, Friday, 19 June 2026 21:54 (four months ago)

aka Beatle bass.

― nickn, Friday, 19 June 2026 21:55 (four months ago)

one month passes...

Vinegar

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 20 July 2026 19:03 (three months ago)

Haha sorry went to soon!

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 20 July 2026 19:03 (three months ago)

Leroy Vinnegar - Glass of Water

https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0005437495/front/400/df4dMDVSNkE2fyOrFP8T-g4Q1ghY8VaPylnm7PwcKNY=.jpg

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 20 July 2026 19:08 (three months ago)

The working title was "Full of Piss and Vinnegar", but the label rejected the cover photo for that one.
(in all seriousness, this album has a track called "Damn! Somebody Stole My Pants")

― enochroot, Monday, 20 July 2026 21:02 (three months ago)

amazing! listening now and it's fairly mellow jazz fusion, very nice but perhaps not warranting that title

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 July 2026 08:07 (three months ago)

two months pass...

Actually this one kinda rocks:

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273e5c069d0659c145a5b439823

Nancy Walker, I Hate Men (1959)

― cryptosicko, Tuesday, 6 October 2026 01:29 (three weeks ago)

Wow. Feels weird that I've never seen it before, you'd think it would be iconic and heavily merchandised.

― Bouncing blocks to buffet you! (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 October 2026 11:55 (three weeks ago)

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