Worst Album Covers... - Page 7

Savage Clone · 10.12.2006, 10:51 AM

This one is super-ugly airbrush cheese. I love this album and I love Pentagram, but yecch:

Everyneurotic · 10.12.2006, 10:55 AM

power metal has the worst album covers.

Everyneurotic · 10.12.2006, 11:04 AM

Glice · 10.12.2006, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

let me get this straight...

this is a thread about album covers that are so bad they are good? because, besides, the rush, scorpions, chumbawamba and a few others, these covers fucking rule!!!

here's bad cover art:

rather ripped: laziest sonic youth album ever.

This is actually among my favourite cover art of theirs. EJST&NS, WM, ATL, Dirty are all worse, to my mind. And that's regardless of my opinion on the content of those albums (some I adore, others leave me cold).

Savage Clone · 10.12.2006, 11:29 AM

Those Marillion covers are hurtful to me.

Glice · 10.12.2006, 11:30 AM

I always think this seems like it belongs to a rubbish metal album, rather than being one of the finest moments of early 80s post-punk (or whatever)

Savage Clone · 10.12.2006, 11:31 AM

I don't like the color scheme of thar Birthday Party record, but I don't have a problem with Big Daddy-style hot rod cartoons.

porkmarras · 10.12.2006, 11:32 AM

Yes that's an awful cover and i can't figure out why it happened and what they were thinking there.

Glice · 10.12.2006, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

I don't like the color scheme of thar Birthday Party record, but I don't have a problem with Big Daddy-style hot rod cartoons.

The LP re-issue was worse than the original. It's even more Garish. And it doesn't make sense to have the singles they tacked on, ruins the flow of the record.

Inhuman · 10.12.2006, 11:50 AM

It was a completely unneccesary album. The cover seems as though they couldn't think of an appropriate cover, so they just put a black background with "Nirvana" in the center to give it the "epic" look of a polished greatest hits album. I really wouldn't mind if the box set had this cover, because it would at least be more appropriate. I hate how they promote Nirvana; isn't there a new CD release after the box set?

HaydenAsche · 10.12.2006, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Inhuman

It was a completely unneccesary album. The cover seems as though they couldn't think of an appropriate cover, so they just put a black background with "Nirvana" in the center to give it the "epic" look of a polished greatest hits album. I really wouldn't mind if the box set had this cover, because it would at least be more appropriate. I hate how they promote Nirvana; isn't there a new CD release after the box set?

There was a cd released post-Box Set that was just a highlights of the box set cd.

gmku · 10.12.2006, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

I always think this seems like it belongs to a rubbish metal album, rather than being one of the finest moments of early 80s post-punk (or whatever)

Actually, the manager of my favorite local record store is also an art student, and he claims the cover is a great example of the work by that artist. (I forget the name.) I don't particularly like the artist and his work, but it was interesting to learn that it apparently has some artistic merit or connection to the art world, at least.

Everyneurotic · 10.12.2006, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

I always think this seems like it belongs to a rubbish metal album, rather than being one of the finest moments of early 80s post-punk (or whatever)

same with this one:

Everyneurotic · 10.12.2006, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

This is actually among my favourite cover art of theirs. EJST&NS, WM, ATL, Dirty are all worse, to my mind. And that's regardless of my opinion on the content of those albums (some I adore, others leave me cold).

the rr cover looks almost like a bootleg/pirate cover, it's all badly done, fake computer-generated stencil. that's why i said it was lazy; if someone told me it was done in more than five minutes, i would call them liars.

DemonBox · 10.12.2006, 05:05 PM

yuck.
I absolutly hate these guys. I was working at the local-radio, and there was this guy who always played Die Flippers. Fuck him, fuck this incredebly crappy band, and fuck their ugly album covers.

luxinterior · 10.12.2006, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

I always think this seems like it belongs to a rubbish metal album, rather than being one of the finest moments of early 80s post-punk (or whatever)

That cover does seem out of place amongst their other album covers. Not that they were ever big on the cover art. I do think this is the best though:

jimbrim · 10.13.2006, 07:19 AM

every Iron Maiden cover look dreadful

Everyneurotic · 10.16.2006, 10:39 AM

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every Iron Maiden cover look dreadful

blasphemy!

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10.12.2006, 10:51 AM	#121
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	This one is super-ugly airbrush cheese. I love this album and I love Pentagram, but yecch:
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10.12.2006, 11:29 AM	#125
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	Those Marillion covers are hurtful to me.
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10.12.2006, 11:31 AM	#127
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	I don't like the color scheme of thar Birthday Party record, but I don't have a problem with Big Daddy-style hot rod cartoons.
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10.12.2006, 11:32 AM	#128
porkmarras invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London - UK Posts: 14,313	Yes that's an awful cover and i can't figure out why it happened and what they were thinking there. __________________
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10.12.2006, 11:50 AM	#130
Inhuman invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Montreal Posts: 5,807	It was a completely unneccesary album. The cover seems as though they couldn't think of an appropriate cover, so they just put a black background with "Nirvana" in the center to give it the "epic" look of a polished greatest hits album. I really wouldn't mind if the box set had this cover, because it would at least be more appropriate. I hate how they promote Nirvana; isn't there a new CD release after the box set?
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10.12.2006, 05:05 PM	#135
DemonBox the end of the ugly Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 840	yuck. I absolutly hate these guys. I was working at the local-radio, and there was this guy who always played Die Flippers. Fuck him, fuck this incredebly crappy band, and fuck their ugly album covers.
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10.13.2006, 07:19 AM	#137
jimbrim expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: UK Posts: 1,308	every Iron Maiden cover look dreadful
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10.16.2006, 01:44 PM	#139
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