Actually terrible album covers of 2010

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http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/burzumwhite.jpg

― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:07 (fifteen years ago)

http://gormsey.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cobra-starship-hot-mess-official-album-cover.jpg

― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:08 (fifteen years ago)

That Cobra Starship came out in August of last year! It is truly terrible though.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.mbvmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/oddblood.jpg

this one is sort of enjoyable in a sort of 90's internet/newage/terrible way

still terrible though

― Kate 'Impeach' Bush (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)

Is Burzum's a concept album about being lonely in jail?

― Doran, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

I should add that I'm not going to believe that's the real artwork until I see it, in real life.

We're just getting the Cobra Starship over here - they have a song a-listed on Radio One apparently :/

― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, it's a bit too good to be true I guess.

― Doran, Thursday, 7 January 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

Is there a thread yet for great album covers of 2010?

― Body Butter (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 17 January 2010 11:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://i47.tinypic.com/az0v6.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

i hate when they don't even finger proper chords in these photo shoots.

― zvookster, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

Is there a thread yet for great album covers of 2010?

― Body Butter (a hoy hoy), Sunday, January 17, 2010 6:18 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Actually good album covers/avatars of 2010

― mizzell, Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)

Gandalf: Fly quickly, my friend. Frodo needs his axe to take on Sauron in the battle of the bands!

Eagle: Squreawww!

― andrew m., Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/uglysideoflove200__.jpg

― Hardcore Homecare (staggerlee), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b9e0MWTGM1k/Shnli8lsKLI/AAAAAAAACCA/aal8ILIutpw/s400/office.jpg

This is a band called Officer Kicks, who sound almost exactly like the Arctic Monkeys and have commissioned someone to slavishly imitate Banksy for their album artwork. 2010 lookin' good

― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 February 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.alternativevision.co.uk/cdcovers/cdreview1078.jpg
Just a single cover, though truly terrible
Kind of ITV Schools indent meets "Rhubarb" by Rootjoose

― PaulTMA, Monday, 15 February 2010 13:02 (fifteen years ago)

lock thread

http://www.mbvmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/coco-rosie-grey-oceans-cover-art.jpg

― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 February 2010 09:03 (fifteen years ago)

I should add that I'm not going to believe that's the real artwork until I see it, in real life.

― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 18:12 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)

Wtf?! Is that some parody fantasy metal band?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)

this will have to act as proof for now.

http://www.subpop.com/releases/cocorosie/full_lengths/grey_oceans

― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)

Oh wow, that's pretty special.

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/burzumwhite.jpg http://www.mbvmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/coco-rosie-grey-oceans-cover-art.jpg

― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 12:07 (fifteen years ago)

^now imagine that with Arshavin's head popping up in the middle

― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 12:08 (fifteen years ago)

These are actually really hard to look at.

― pithfork (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://nervousnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/20994_livefromuranusOUTJAN.jpg

― Doran, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:37 (fifteen years ago)

Fwiw guys, this is the real cover for the new Burzum:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WtT-4WauMl4/S0NZGUMX5VI/AAAAAAAABq0/Y5whH8lGpUM/s400/BURZUM-+BELUS.jpg

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B0037HYG08/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=77197031&s=dmusic

― Doran, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/tip_.jpg

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 13:08 (fifteen years ago)

He was gone? Didn't he release a new album like a year ago?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 13:40 (fifteen years ago)

back from jail?

― There's Always Been A Prance Element To (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

Wow, that Burzum looks like a result of the "make an album cover" meme that was on Facebook last year...

― Bill A, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

back from jail?

Back from being mercifully silent.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:08 (fifteen years ago)

mr doran was trying to add this one i think :

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510KMFlx-fL._SS500_.jpg

― mark e, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61nLzTI%2BqDL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

― mizzell, Friday, 12 March 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)

That last one is the perfect example of a phenomenon I've been tentatively referring to as "the desert of shallow effects."

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 12 March 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/holdsteady.jpg

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 15 March 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

that would be much better without the 'scuse me sir, can i go to the toilet please' aspect.

― mark e, Monday, 15 March 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)

ooo I like that HS sleeve..

― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Monday, 15 March 2010 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

It would almost be classic if more care had gone into selecting the *right* typeface.

― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Monday, 15 March 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

Reminds me of...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Afghan_Whigs_-_Up_in_It.jpg

...but not half as interesting.

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B4ru2yTHADQ/SrzqeVO19mI/AAAAAAAAAzg/Yag7HlCyo9M/s400/kill_the_moonlight.jpg

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

Does anyone have an album cover with the arm(s) coming from the left side of the frame?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Low_Trust.jpg

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf000/f004/f00463zh2ls.jpg

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:03 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y8OQivohL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

― Not a musician, but I thought of Justin Fashanu for some reason (DJ Mencap), Friday, 26 March 2010 11:38 (fifteen years ago)

I like the eye bit and the horizon bit, but the band name and fonts are pretty bad.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 26 March 2010 12:01 (fifteen years ago)

Also, it's generally a bad idea to make the cover pic a literal illustration of the album title, unless you come up with something really cool, like this:

http://strider01.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/cover15.jpg

― Tuomas, Friday, 26 March 2010 12:24 (fifteen years ago)

a round of applause for england, everyone

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/futurecgas42.jpg
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/foals_.jpg

― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

i like that foals

― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Friday, 26 March 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah despite not being a fan of bands goofing about underwater in photos, that's not even close to terrible imo

― Not a musician, but I thought of Justin Fashanu for some reason (DJ Mencap), Friday, 26 March 2010 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

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its not an album cover but

http://www.factmag.com/wp-content/themes/modularity_/images/header.gif

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:46 (fifteen years ago)

and lol coco rosie a+ trolling

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:46 (fifteen years ago)

Trolling? That CocoRosie cover is legitimately shitty.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:49 (fifteen years ago)

I think you could swap those two lists and I wouldn't tell the difference. I mean, the Gorillaz cover is better than at least 7 of the ones on their supposed best covers list.

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:51 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, that best of list was 9/10ths shit too.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:52 (fifteen years ago)

http://drownedinsound.com/resized_images/500x500/65372.jpeg

― ia! ia! Cartman fthagn! (aldo), Monday, 6 December 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

all I got from that list is that FACT loves album covers that don't have the band name or title on them, unless it's Vampire Weekend

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Monday, 6 December 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

loads of shit on here has been lifted for the pitchfork worst covers list

― straightola, Monday, 6 December 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

cocorosie is def terrible.

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)

coco rosie is next level

― ice cr?m, Monday, 6 December 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)

― ice cr?m, Monday, 6 December 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)

it's intentionally bad though so i suppose they have succeeded in what they were going for.

― jed_, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

o i know you know that.

― jed_, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

such an s ban for ice cr?m

― modrić in paradise (blueski), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

i wish their visuals were more sierra's voice and not so bianca's

― modrić in paradise (blueski), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

dude u listen to coco rosie and ur sbin me smh

― ice cr?m, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

i went to see fennesz a couple months ago, and cocorosie was playing the same venue, outdoor stage instead of indoor (emo's in austin tx), and there's a common waiting area for the two stages. anyway... cocorosie fans wear costumes. a lot. and most of them are as completely baffling and hideous as those on the album cover. i'm not kidding.

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 05:29 (fifteen years ago)

also, i bring a new sacrifice to this thread

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kHBr2QeNL._SS500_.jpg

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 05:30 (fifteen years ago)

It's a mess, but at the same time that's probably the hottest picture of Natasha Bedingfield I've ever seen.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 05:33 (fifteen years ago)

typeface by harold of haroldsfonts.com

― buffalo sportsfield (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:06 (fifteen years ago)

Why is it such a thing now to have paint strips under your eyes?

― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/STRktkRJVTI/AAAAAAAAR8Q/-t0Apc9R3Bc/s400/adam.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 07:07 (fifteen years ago)

not an actually terrible album cover, btw

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 07:07 (fifteen years ago)

it's intentionally bad though so i suppose they have succeeded in what they were going for.

The thing is, there are actually record covers that are intentionally ugly yet manage to make that ugliness look kinda cool or at least interesting. But the Cocorosie cover goes one step beyond that and comes back as merely ugly, with nothing cool or interesting about it.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 07:58 (fifteen years ago)

Much like CocoRosie's music. HA!

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:03 (fifteen years ago)

ilxor otm about that ghost cover

― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:04 (fifteen years ago)

loads of shit on here has been lifted for the pitchfork worst covers list

― straightola, Monday, December 6, 2010 9:13 AM Bookmark

last year they used a shop i did of chris brown's grafitti cover and then changed it like half a year later after i pointed it out on an ilm thread.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:19 (fifteen years ago)

haaaaaaaa

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

http://media.social.s-msn.com/images/blogs/002a0065-0000-0000-0000-000000000000_00000065-0821-0000-0000-000000000000_20101207032213_halford.jpg

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

i thought that said "made of meth"

― caek, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:46 (fifteen years ago)

i almost feel like the most offensive thing about the grey oceans cover is the black borders.

― modrić in paradise (blueski), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:48 (fifteen years ago)

http://drownedinsound.com/resized_images/500x500/65372.jpeg

I actually think this is good.

While I'm disagreeing, Pitchfork's feature includes MGMT's album and I personally think it's one of the best covers of the year. I'd go as far as buying the vinyl version for a couple of dollats only to look at it regardless of how awful its inner contents are.

On the Fact list I'd disagree with the Gorillaz one, not precisely good but I like the diorama thing, the typography not so much.

― Moka, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 05:42 (fifteen years ago)

Mmmm... wrote 'dollats' instead of 'dollars'. Google image search tells me this is a 'dollat':

http://goinglikesixty.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/gas-grabber2.jpg

― Moka, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

damn harold's gettin around http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PcosHLgfGOg/TPV0f18LaFI/AAAAAAAAA-w/WYKDBOjfxAc/s1600/Spoon-BonusTracks08-09.jpg

― buffalo sportsfield (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

quite like that

― modrić in paradise (blueski), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:38 (fifteen years ago)

i like it as well but why does it say SPOO. is that a band?

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)

maybe it is SOO?

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:50 (fifteen years ago)

SoPo?
SOIPO?

At first I thought it was a Spoon b-sides and got a little excited.

― a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

...

― BO (DJP), Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

yes that would be cool

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/metal/various/haarpfilth.jpg

lol this is on Phil Anselmo's label, who'da thought he'd have poor taste in sleeve art

NB this is quite possibly a really good sludgy metal record, based on the split they did a while back with Thou who have some of the best metal art in the game

― Princess BigSam (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 December 2010 11:54 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.pendragon.mu/pics_shared/artwork_pics_shared/artwork_500pixhigh/passion_500pixhigh.jpg

― Satantango! (Matt #2), Monday, 13 December 2010 14:57 (fifteen years ago)

their name really is pendragon, huh

― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Monday, 13 December 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jU-Od9VCtVo/TMnswHmeRrI/AAAAAAAAAVE/cjZFArpwvY0/s1600/games+that+we+can+play.jpg

I ignored this for the longest time because of the artwork. The artist does pretty cool stuff (http://www.christianoldham.com/3.html) I guess this one it's just not for me.

Ugh.

― Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

How do you go from this

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-944929-1269447749.jpeg

to this:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2350153-1278795811.jpeg

― Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

boring:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2276332-1283272122.jpeg

ugly:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2124924-1265382089.jpeg

― Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:43 (fifteen years ago)

I kind of really like that Massive Attack cover? Same with the Jams Murphy.

― rihanna refurbished my dick (rennavate), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

http://poponandon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cheryl_cole_flood.jpg

Okay, so that's actually a big nautical chain she's lying on, but that's NOT what it looks like at first glance.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

That is amazing. Her Loreal contract will no doubt be under review after this dirty protest.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

That Games cover actually intrigues me a bit, in that nearly all the flags I know there seem to be of notable disputed/defunct/potential-separatist entities (Northern Cyprus, Taiwan, Corsica, South Vietnam, the GDR, Kosovo, um the United Suvadive Republic)... except that there are regular Turkish, Mongolian and Czech* flags there as well.

*) OK I guess it can be seen as the flag of the defunct Czechoslovakia

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 11:32 (fifteen years ago)

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