Worst album covers by successful artists.

[Wat_Tyler]

This could all be about The Cure of course, as Exhibits A,B and C prove.

[Wat_Tyler]

1. Kate Bush had some crackers.

[TommyO]

7. WOW! Always nice to see Kate

around, even if her album art is being trashed, though I really do like the art for The Dreaming.

[Wat_Tyler]

9. It's affectionate. I'm not commenting on the sounds inside.

[Beaverhausen]

19. She's so wacky the covers just go with her "art"

WHEN will she put out a new CD?

[tigerbeat]

21. i've actually always kind of liked "the dreaming" cover....

but the one with the psychedelic swans flying from between her legs is terribly disconcerting.

two below. one from a not-so-accomplished artist and one from a charming band that had a few hits.

[Wat_Tyler]

26. .........

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Worst album covers by unsuccessful artists

:)








http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/000302.html

[Wat_Tyler]

4. Aw, you've gotta have the guy with the hook. That's the best.

Although, 'Julie's Sixteenth Birthday' is pretty close.

[asthmaticeog]

13. Here you go:

[Wat_Tyler]

17. Man, I just lost it at work.

That is extraordinary.

[UdoKier]

52. OMFG

LMFAO. "Let me make sure and pose so as to highlight my HOOK, rather than my good hand."

The hair, the blazer, the red pants, THE AGONY!

[BurtWorm]

80. Without the sympathy market

he's nothing but a singer with a hook for a right hand. (Or is he a piano player? :o )

[LibertyorDeath]

62. ROFL that's brutal

What were they thinking

[el_gato]

72. don't laugh he plays a mean slide guitar

:evilgrin:

[UdoKier]

59. How could you forget these?

[blondeatlast]

88. Oh. Good. God.

That first one is about as nauseating as it gets.

EEEEuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwww.

:puke:

[Placebo]

3. Hey I always liked that 'The Cure' cover!

'Mixed Up' kicks ass. :thumbsup:

[Wat_Tyler]

5. The record's OK, but I guess they had no budget for the cover.

[Placebo]

6. No, I'm sure they wanted it that way.

It looks like someone just mixed all this paint together; sweet.

[bloodyjack]

27. No no no, you've got it all wrong

The Cure have been parodying themselves since the release of "Mixed up"

They are silly people--Morrissey once described them as "a new dimension in crap"...but, of course, if you look at him now, he isn't in such a great position either, legacy-wise

[Wat_Tyler]

8. Neil Young is the King of Shit Covers.

[LibertyorDeath]

12. Good Gawd those suck ferociously

& I like Neil Young :) kinda

[Wat_Tyler]

15. Yeah. They really are awful.

And I'm a fan.

[Rambis]

61. Forgot one

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

66. i think we're all trying to pretend that album doesn't exist

what the hell was he on in the mid 80s?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

67. even u2 has a bad one

just a band shot, but those hairdos haven't aged well, especially adam's blonde 'fro

but i'll give them credit, all of their other albums have excellent artwork and they have a damn good batting record- with credit due to anton corbijn

[Rambis]

76. You got me

I know I don't want any of it though.

[blondeatlast]

89. What were ANY of us thinking in the mid '80s?

I had big, burgundy hair then...

And I do mean BIG hair.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

65. i like the first one

kinda folksy, but the others blow

in fairness, neil's had some great covers, too (mirror ball, harvest moon)

[XNASA]

10. Tarkus - ELP

WTF? :shrug:

[Wat_Tyler]

11. Yeah, that's gotta be up there.

[Richardo]

75. What the...? I loved that cover as a kid.

That was among my first rock albums.

[XNASA]

90. You & I.........

Have way too much in common.

[Wat_Tyler]

14. I've always thought 'Warehouse Songs and Stories' had a lousy cover.

[asthmaticeog]

25. Oh, I disagree, there.

I think it evokes a similarly surreal sense of space as some of the early Echo and the Bunnymen covers.

Besides, this is the cover they REALLY cheaped out on:

[Wat_Tyler]

28. True, that is pretty lame.

Come to think of it, Warehouse does look suspiciously like Crocodiles.

[LibertyorDeath]

16. The Notorious Zip Zap! Give it up

[Wat_Tyler]

24. Genius, clearly.

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. Clearly:

[Wat_Tyler]

22. Yeah. Even Their Satanic Majesties Request is better.

[Wat_Tyler]

20. You can always rely on the Chameleons.

[Wat_Tyler]

23. I always hated these.

[LibertyorDeath]

29. Here we go

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. Trans by Neil Young

[Wat_Tyler]

31. What about this......

[asthmaticeog]

33. I'm the only person who likes that record, aren't I?

[Wat_Tyler]

37. It's OK. Better than Hawks and Doves or Re:ac:tor.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

43. I like it -- the artwork is shite

[LibertyorDeath]

Couldn't resist

[Wat_Tyler]

34. You leave my mum out of this.

:grr:

[Phillycat]

70. HOLY SHIT.

[asthmaticeog]

32. These covers are pretty assriffic:

[Wat_Tyler]

36. Yeah. Pretty bad. How about these.....

[asthmaticeog]

35. HERE you go:

Flame away, I can take it, but it's a totally shit cover.

[Wat_Tyler]

38. I totally agree.

[asthmaticeog]

46. Squeeze! Niiiiiice.

Doug Yule and Ian Paice, using a band name they have NO damn right to use. What a POS.

[Wat_Tyler]

49. Has anyone actually heard it?

[asthmaticeog]

60. I have.

The radio station I used to work at still had its copy. It's awful.

[obreaslan]

39. For a band as good as the Dead...

WTF is this!?!?!?!?!

[Wat_Tyler]

41. Grateful Dead - The Disco Years.

[Wat_Tyler]

40. I hate this record.

[Magrittes Pipe]

51. Don't let *somebody* see that.

She may come up there and kick your ass.

[Wat_Tyler]

53. Feh.

She's no Skittles.

[asthmaticeog]

57. Careful - dolo amber might kick your ass.

[Spider Jerusalem]

42. McCartney's had some horrible covers, too.

This in particular.


Looks like he's trying to coax the sheep into a suitable position for buggering, doesn't it?

[Wat_Tyler]

44. Yup.

[LibertyorDeath]

45. successful artists

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

68. ugh!

i'd forgotten about that one-the album that marked the permanent transition of aerosmith frompast their prime rock band to just plain shit

[Kid_A]

47. Radiohead's "Amnesiac" cover has always annoyed me..

And this one, too...



I'm all for minimalism, but ugly is ugly.

[Spider Jerusalem]

48. And the Beatles deserve a mention.

For this.



And this.

[Wat_Tyler]

50. Hey! Yesterday and Today is High Art!

Shit High Art, but High Art nonetheless.

[Spider Jerusalem]

54. Shit high art=bad album cover...heh...

Just as much as "shit low-art graphic design" does...

[Beware the Beast Man]

58. I agree, MMT is their worst (British EMI version) album cover

[Goldmund]

69. The cover for "yesterday and today" was banned in the US

But they had already printed a bunch of albums, so they ended up just sticking a new cover over the old one. Then somebody figured out they can peel off the new cover... I wish I was there to see his/her face.

[Beware the Beast Man]

55. Black Sabbath- Sabotage

Three reasons:
1. Geezer in a leisure suit
2. Bill in red tights
3. Bill in red tights.

Oh, and in case you didn't notice:
Bill Ward in RED FUCKING TIGHTS

[LibertyorDeath]

56. A salute to the Artists

[Wat_Tyler]

63. Odelay is a classic.

[LibertyorDeath]

73. The content yeah

The cover not so much imo

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

71. i like the odelay cover

just plain bizarre-exactly like beck. it gets a regualr mention on best of cover lists, too

beck found the image when going through a book on dog shows. he found the photo endlessly hilarious and couldn't stop laughing at it

that no doubt one's fuckin' tacky, though

and n sync's cover matches the shiity content of the music

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

64. ani difranco-little plastic castle

just plain ugly and bad photoshopping-looks like some bad mid 90s psuedo-alternative artist's work

too bad, too-cuz it's actually one of her best albums

[Wat_Tyler]

74. Is it fair to inculde the Dukes?

[asthmaticeog]

82. I like those. OK, not the top one.

Here's where '80s psych album covers went horribly wrong: The Three O'Clock.


They couldn't afford Rick Griffin, but luckily one of their girlfriends had a design class at LACC.


Frontier records spent more on cover art for China White, for fuck's sake.


Molly Ringwald had a band? Who knew?


"We used to be pretty rad back in the day, but then we discovered SofTouch makeup."

[LibertyorDeath]

77. Depeche Mode - Speak & spell

[Wat_Tyler]

78. Even Costello.

[LibertyorDeath]

79. I remember the first time I saw Costello on SNL

He was singing Watching the Detectives & for the life of me I thought it was a SNL skit

[LibertyorDeath]

81. Turns out he's really good

& I was really stoned

[DemPopulist]

83. I love that cover

Barney Bubbles :thumbsup:

[warrens]

84. Bowie had some awful ones

Let's Dance is as boring a a cover can get, and Diamond Dogs is just...yeesh.

[donheld]

85. I love this one

[Wat_Tyler]

91. Difficult to stare directly at it, isn't it?

[donheld]

86. I love alanis but who does her covers - ugh

[donheld]

87. Another favorite