Cracked presents "The 15 Worst Album Covers of All Time"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16761_15-worst-album-covers-all-time.html

#10.
The Frivolous Five - Sour Cream and Other Delights

[trueblue2007]

1. Those albums were hideous. TOTAL garbage.

[Westegg]

2. That's why I got rid of that Beatles album!...

..It was so hideous. Creepy. My dad died five years ago, and he left me a bunch of stuff, including a lot of old vinyl records when he used to be an exec at Capitol Records in the '60s? Some of those albums were really nice (I don't have a record player, but the covers look cool!). But then he had, like, seven copies of that Beatles album, still in their plastic wrap. Where they're all covered with dead babies? I know I was supposed to hold on to them as memories of dad and all, but the cover picture was so awful, I took them to a flea market and got over $400 dollars for them! For seven old albums! Which I don't understand, because you can get the same music for about ten bucks now. Record collectors are weird! Whatever. I bought a new iPod with the proceeds.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Umm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_and_Today#The_.22Butcher_cover.22

Copies that have never had the white cover pasted onto them, known as "first state" covers, are very rare and command the highest prices. Copies with the pasted-on cover intact above the butcher image are known as "second state" or "pasteovers"; today, pasteover covers that have not been altered in an attempt to remove the white cover are also becoming increasingly rare and valuable. Covers that have had the white cover steamed or peeled off to reveal the underlying butcher image are known as "third state" covers; these are now the most common (and least valuable, although their value varies depending on how well the cover is removed) as people continue to peel second state covers to reveal the butcher image underneath. In December 2005 a "first state" copy of the album was sold for $10,500.<9>

In 1987, then-president of Capitol Records, Alan Livingston released for sale twenty-four "first state" butcher covers from his private collection. When the original cover was scrapped in June 1966, Livingston took a case of already-sealed "Butcher" albums from the warehouse before they were to be pasted over with the new covers, and kept them in a closet at his home. These albums were first offered for sale at a Beatles convention at the Marriott Hotel near LAX on Thanksgiving weekend 1987 by Livingston's son Peter. These still-sealed pristine items, which included nineteen mono and five stereo versions, are the very rarest "pedigree" specimen "Butcher Covers" in existence. These so-called "Livingston Butchers" today command prices of $40,000 and up among collectors, the five stereo versions being the most rare and valuable of these.

[Westegg]

6. You're... kidding, I hope?

...But I'm guessing you're maybe not? Because why would you write all that just to make fun of me? All I know is, these seven records were in an old white cardboard case with my dad's address at Capitol on them, and the return address was some record store in New York. There was a note inside that said, "Per your request," or something like that, and an indication that Capitol Records picked up the price of mailing the records back. Ten thousand dollars a piece? You've got to be fucking kidding. I don't see how that's possible. I sold them to a record collector at a flea market in Fayette County in Pennsylvania, and he told me he was giving me a good price.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. I didn't write it -- Wikipedia did.

I sold them to a record collector at a flea market in Fayette County in Pennsylvania, and he told me he was giving me a good price.

Yeah, I think he would have a vested interest in lying to you about the price.

[CBGLuthier]

4. You are joking right?

If they were true originals and not reproductions you got screwed.

I know a guy who back in 1980 traded a Les Paul guitar for one and it wasn't a cheap Les Paul either.

Going price now a days seems to be about 3 to 5 hundred apiece.

Anyway, I hope you are just kidding.

[Tom Kitten]

5. You're kidding about the Beatles albums, right?

A woman on Antiques Roadshow had one and it was appraised at 12,000 dollars! I had one with the newer cover pasted over it that I found at a thrift store for 5 dollars. Steamed it off (before I knew that was not a recommended thing to do) and sold it for 300 dollars, but it wasn't an original still in the shrinkwrap!

[johnnie]

8. You're pulling our legs...right?

Right?

[Westegg]

11. Yeah. Sorry. It's been a long day...

...And I felt like taking the piss. Apologies to DU Beatles fans, but I saw the "Butcher" cover on the "Worst Album Cover" thread and couldn't resist. I could have gone on for a lot longer-- I'm pretty good at dissembling. Comes naturally to me. But I respect DU too much for that, so: Two and out. I'm done. I'll save my fiction for lesser sites.

Love ya,

Westegg

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Good one.

I was praying you were kidding. :rofl:

[johnnie]

13. It was great

[Tom Kitten]

7. Those are pretty awful

Now this one, however, is worth owning!

[HEyHEY]

10. The real shock is that "Cracked" actually made me laugh.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. Their Web Site "best" and "worst" lists are consistently cool...

...I remember when the late, great Don Martin didn't get what he wanted from Mad Magazine and then jumped ship to Cracked. Broke my heart. As a kid, I occasionally picked up an issue, but I always knew it was a bottom-feeder in Mad Magazine's shadow (which got even more intense when National Lampoon came along and changed the game).

But the Cracked Web Site? My kinda place.

:toast:

[mokawanis]

15. I always liked this one