Really boring album covers

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― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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― thorJESUHOY (Thor), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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yawwwwwwwwwwwwwn.

j/k!

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the shins cover is my favorite album cover of the year. the die-cutting has a lot to do with it, but i like pretty much everything about it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

That new Junior Boys album...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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Although I still kinda like it.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

that reiver's cover is actually pretty neat

― thorJESUHOY (Thor), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

bah. i'll never learn to post images on this thing...

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Robert Palmer one is good in the context of "I am the Aphex Twin's dad" though. Most of these aren't that boring. There are 5 million more boring/generic covers out there. I can't post images either though, so I'll shut up.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 July 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles White Album. I mean, couldn't they throw on some news clippings or something? It's almost completely blank except for the band name. Boring.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 29 July 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 29 July 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles White Album. I mean, couldn't they throw on some news clippings or something? It's almost completely blank except for the band name. Boring.
-- Mark (-...), July 29th, 2004 2:18 PM. (MarkR) (link)

That cover alone basically launched Factory's entire aesthetic.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 29 July 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I've got that Reivers album, but it's actually the Zeitgeist version. Change the bandname, keep the cover. Seems lazy if you ask me.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 29 July 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking Heads, '77.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

In all serious every Bruce Springsteen cover except for Greetings... and Nebraska is terrible. The Boss is a bit too enamored with his face (this is coming from a fan).

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

awww man - talking heads '77 is one of my alltime favorite album covers, especially on vinyl, where the red is just a little more fluorescent than on the cd. the colors just clash so beautifully and tensely.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

whats that latest one, alex?

looks cool.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LM8.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

...it's also a really boring album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The one above the Replacements is XTC's Wasp Star

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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i am just bored by tortoise anyway.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Incidentally, I ADORE the Wedding Present...but boy are their covers yawnsome.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

most of those don't bore me at all - the tortoise is really good and the cover of brotherhood is beautiful and sad-looking. especially when it doeant say BROTHERHOOD NEW ORDER on it (which it doesn't in reality). I think it's perfect, in fact.

The reivers cover floats my boat too.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the WP's bizarro cover, in either color scheme.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

...and the squarepusher cover is also good, anti design abut not anti-design in an overdesigned way (like raygun).

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread's so boring...

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...I may as well be listening to Genesis.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we're blurring the lines between "boring" and 'bad".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i suppose i just like boring things.

― andy warhol (jed), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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― alan r. banana (alanbanana), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing can beat this one, from the album "Cool Rock" by some guy named Chris Lee:

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― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Nearly crumbling with emotion to think that someone else out there besides me actually has that first (excellent) Zeitgeist LP...definitely a cherished antique in my collection.

― Bimble (bimble), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I have really boring taste in album covers

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Or: really good taste in boring album covers

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I went out on a limb and got that Chr1s L33 guy a job and he quit within 3 days.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've still got my copy of that Zeitgeist album. "Freight Train Rain" is still one of my all-time faves.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

must disagree about the Candy Apple Grey and Brotherhood covers

this though, is very boring.

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― Neil FC (Neil FC), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 29 July 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

that dire straights cover is great too - i think we are confusing "boring" and "good" here. Well, Alex is.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 July 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

What's so good about it, Jed?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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― frankE (frankE), Friday, 30 July 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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― frankE (frankE), Friday, 30 July 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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Altho now that I think about it, the random colouring of certain words is worthy of a few seconds of thought. And I always it was kinda cute, putting the word 'Stereo' up there in the corner.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 30 July 2004 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"...always thought it was kinda cute..."

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 30 July 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

ANY cover with a sofa, a divan, a lounge, an armchair on it...i think there hundreds of covers like this...it was fashionable at some point.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 30 July 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Never seen that Built To Spill one before, Banana, and don't think it's boring at all! It has it's own charming gimmick to it - this is what saves PiL, too, you see.

Ride's Nowhere sleeve boring? No, just perfect, that's all. Would have been more boring if they'd put anything else on it, especially words.

I do find the Loveless cover boring, however. Would have been better if you couldn't tell it was a guitar.

Still, it's hardly as boring as this one:

http://www.stefanogemelli.com/gully/immagini/led_zeppelin/009.jpg

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 30 July 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 July 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Try again...

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 July 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 July 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"In Through The Out Door" boring? You must be mad! Look at the texture of the paper, the sensuous brown color, those exciting and daring (yes daring) ripples, and of course, the jaunty, angled text box. This album cover is sheer panic on an adrenaline rush!

― Davlo (Davlo), Friday, 30 July 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(...'course the REAL reason for the paper bag was to conceal the ACTUAL cover, of which there were six. No doubt one of the six was extremely scarce.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Shop Boys "Actually" is the winner, obv.

This is also boring:
http://www.qmu.org.uk/whatson/uploads/Franz_Ferdinand.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

And if you liked the paper bag, then surely you must love this
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cardboard box! Record retailers sure hated it, tho.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.interpolny.com/images/antics_lrg_thumb.jpg

Seriously, this must have taken all of 10 seconds to design.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 August 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That Pet Shop Boys Actually reminded me of a boring one,

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Just looking at it makes me Jan.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

That Pet Shop Boys Actually reminded me of a boring one,

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002R74.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Just looking at it makes me want to Jan.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

the two record that i currently listen to now mostly got covers that are half boring and very boring:(the opposite of the records themselvs)
http://images.google.co.il/images?gbv=2&hl=iw&q=%22lolita+nation%22
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1695540.jpg

― Zeno, Thursday, 11 September 2008 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drf500/f587/f58717zhvt1.jpg

― Zeno, Thursday, 11 September 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

i really like that one.

i also like the first cover that red snapper thing

― Surmounter, Thursday, 11 September 2008 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

Highway 61 Revisited

― res, Thursday, 11 September 2008 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

post-rock

― I know, right?, Thursday, 11 September 2008 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

like, in general

― I know, right?, Thursday, 11 September 2008 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

Just looking at it makes me want to Jan.

Ha, did you all see what I did there four years ago?

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 11 September 2008 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

I was all prepared to post that Dream Syndicate cover before noticing that I already did

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 11 September 2008 07:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Garbage_album.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Version2.0front.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Garbage-bgarbage.jpg

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 11 September 2008 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

Winner is Actually, actually.

Lotsa covers here that I think are pretty interesting, but that's inevitable.

Which is preferable, a boring album cover or an ugly one?

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 11 September 2008 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000F4MP9A.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― salsa shark, Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9316/mayfiecurtcurtis101bvb3.jpg

This is one of my favourite albums ever, but I've always thought the cover is pretty boring, right down to the very generic font used on the title. Some later Curtis albums have much better covers.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

What on earth?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

tv on the radio cover: ugh

lolita nation: totally acceptable, esp. since it's such a quality record

garbage stuff: not boring, per se, but more lazy, crappy nineties graphics that likely already dated themselves poorly at the time of the release

camera obscura: not boring. deer in the headlights expression is too alarming to be "boring"

curtis: tuomas, u r crazy

― dell, Thursday, 11 September 2008 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~alr237/wipers_overtheedge.jpg

("lolita nation: totally acceptable, esp. since it's such a quality record":
one of my favourite records ever.)

― Zeno, Thursday, 11 September 2008 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

i like a lot of these covers

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 11 September 2008 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/images/catalog/fullsize/388-1.jpg

― Zeno, Thursday, 11 September 2008 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://macnewbtube.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/weezer-300.jpg

boring+annoying (as the music itself probably)

― Zeno, Thursday, 11 September 2008 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/New_Order_Waiting_for_the_Sirens_Call_album_cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Get-Ready-cover.png

― html tarsier (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 11 September 2008 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

For a band whose artwork gets jizzed over so much New Order have a lot of crappy sleeves in there too.

Geir OTM about Garbage, those are boring and bad.

I dunno if there is a generic/stereotypical post-rock sleeve but I think most of the old Kranky output and the card Constellation sleeves are well designed and not boring. Actually most of Labbradford's are pretty weak so scratch them but other than that

― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 September 2008 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

the weezer cover is so weird.

for starters, the one dude is appropriating the gram parsons-revival look that had already been done a decade previous by beachwood sparks, etc.

― dell, Thursday, 11 September 2008 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.aepnet.de/user/Micheel/BEATLES/Pictures/10%20WHITE%20ALBUM.JPG

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 11 September 2008 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/9943.jpg

― turkey, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Beating that theme into the ground:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/125809.jpg

― turkey, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/9382.jpg

― turkey, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

"Waiting For The Sirens Call" is a great cover IMO.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

such a great record, such a boring an ugly cover

http://spectrumculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chick_corea_now_he_sings_now_he_sobs.jpg

O hai, it's a lame snapshot of me practicing in my apartment. That's boring, but it's not ugly enough, so let's add this puke green circular frame.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:59 (thirteen years ago)

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― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 03:48 (thirteen years ago)

rong

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 03:50 (thirteen years ago)

The Beautiful South to thread.

― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 04:22 (thirteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Greetings_from_Asbury_Park_NJ.jpg

― open letter to an open letter to a fanzine (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 07:28 (thirteen years ago)

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― open letter to an open letter to a fanzine (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 07:31 (thirteen years ago)

I like that Kinks one! In fact, I think at least half of the covers in the thread are pretty good.

― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 07:34 (thirteen years ago)

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