Album Covers that RUINED YOUR LIFE!

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― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

OK, I agree #1 is quite bad, and I'm kinda "meh" on the John and Yoko cover now, mainly because the context is so removed. but the other ones are GRRRREAT!

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

true, true. some of these covers are really quite wonderful (ie. the sheperds with very fake-looking beards).

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

I bet you these people would rank this as a worst.. and that's just not right..

http://www.mackron.com/random/covers/waltons_small.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Royal Trux' Sweet Sixteen ruined my life

― jared, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

See, that's a good answer, and no explanation needed.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Not if you don't know what it looks like. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

white album - gr8 band,gr8 album but no artwork at all on cover.

― lazyboy, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000008A3G.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Just knowing it exists in my Mum's record collection is ruination enough.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on, both the Beatles' The Beatles and the Cliff Richards' Minutes and Seconds are great!

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Seriously? Feel free to elaborate, you've got me curious. I've never entertained the notion of going back and listening to it, he traumatised me so greatly as a child.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

i hadn't seen this one before:

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/frivolousfiveth.jpg

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Seriously? Feel free to elaborate, you've got me curious. I've never entertained the notion of going back and listening to it, he traumatised me so greatly as a child.

it does help that a) I've never heard much Cliff Richards, and b) I'm too young to have been a Cliff Richards fan in his early days.

I just think the whole spotwatch motif, the expression on Cliff, the album title (which I now read as 32 minutes and 17 seconds, which is a great title, with a great design, with the spiked circles), and overall design looks fab. Again, it helps that this kind of design I find appealing only because I didn't grow up in the decade when this design was tried and true.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Derrick on the other hand hit a more sour spot (no pun intended), though it doesn't outsuck the Soul Asylum parody.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

I was expecting the Blind Faith album to be #1. Between that one and the Scorpions cover, I'm not sure which is in worse taste. Although admittedly, semi-paedophilic album covers and the bad taste therein isn't the sort of thing I think about too often.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

The Fuzztones had a horridly paedophilic cover on their "Nine Months Later" single which had a young girl dressed like a tramp on a tiger-skinned couch putting out.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

that was probably the first "offending" album cover I ever saw... later i'd saw a bunch of album covers by W.A.S.P. that would outdo those.. and other random bands on Metal Blade, one of which would insinuate violence against a woman's privates using shaving cream and a barber knife. I remember this last one only because the metal music director at my alma matter college station had a FIT, and she stomped over to give the label rep and a call and give him or her a piece of her mind about that album.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.discrockers.de/home/music/tragic%20kingdom.jpg

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

I just think the whole spotwatch motif, the expression on Cliff, the album title... and overall design looks fab.

Oops. I forgot we're just talking covers. In which case, I have to beg to differ. The look on Cliff's face looks like someone snapped his brain stem mid-thought.

And he's creepy.

xpost: shut UP. I totally dig that cover!!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicmatic.de/P/Prince_Ia.jpg

All downhill from there. Including Musicology.

― ff, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

bah.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025OL.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

My step father practically confiscated my stereo when he saw this on my desk.

Invariably designed to do just this, my mother was shocked and appalled when I walked through the front door brandishing this sleeve.

http://www.geocities.com/ozzypro/speak.jpg

This should've been titled Greasier than a Thousand Blackheads or Who Killed My Killing Joke?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003S1W.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/images/galleries/gallery%20n/generic.jpg

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

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