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baystateoftheart wrote:
Romanelli wrote:
You're all way off base. Haven't seen a truly bad one in this thread. So I'll start things off with this garbage dump passing itself off as album art. You can't even think about this conversation without it.


Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches by Happy Mondays


That is a good album cover actually.

Here's an awful cover:


The Cult Of Ray by Frank Black


I think they're both awful.
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baystateoftheart wrote:
Romanelli wrote:
You're all way off base. Haven't seen a truly bad one in this thread. So I'll start things off with this garbage dump passing itself off as album art. You can't even think about this conversation without it.


Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches by Happy Mondays


That is a good album cover actually.

i'm mixed on it. given the time it was released, it's kind of respectable. in the age of adobe photoshop, i'd rate it differently. not my style either way as it is rather ugly, but the technique required to pull that off in 1990 makes it rather interesting.

i feel like there's a difference between "i don't like this" and "this is pretty terrible". i could lump nirvana's nevermind, the rolling stones' sticky fingers, radiohead's the bends, etc. into that first category, but none of them strike me as inherently bad so much as just not my thing. compare the average indie/bandcamp release to those covers, and the difference is pretty stark. the indie landscape is littered with crappy album covers.
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Nine Lives by REO Speedwagon

I have soooo many that I could share but to start with a cover that I own. Truly terrible cover but not the worst by any means.

Just want to interject on the Beatles cover. There is a stark difference between terrible and offensive. What some might find offensive others will not and offensive doesnโ€™t automatically equate to terrible or bad
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Well, there are some awful covers. But I guess the art is to have an awful cover and still make a decent record. My pick for the top are these two:



Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC

The irony is that the cover of the European pressing is on of my favourites.





In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) by King Crimson

For more than 40 years I refused to buy this record until I gave in.
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Bubbling Over by Dolly Parton

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Liedzeit wrote:
Well, there are some awful covers. But I guess the art is to have an awful cover and still make a decent record. My pick for the top are these two:



Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/

The irony is that the cover of the European pressing is on of my favourites.



[url=https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=1169]In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) by King Crimson


For more than 40 years I refused to buy this record until I gave in.


Thatโ€™s an interesting category on its own. The ac/dc cover is pretty bad. I actually quite like the king crimson cover.

Sabotage by Black Sabbath
This would be my take on good album, bad cover
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Johnnyo wrote:

Nine Lives by REO Speedwagon

I have soooo many that I could share but to start with a cover that I own. Truly terrible cover but not the worst by any means.

Just want to interject on the Beatles cover. There is a stark difference between terrible and offensive. What some might find offensive others will not and offensive doesnโ€™t automatically equate to terrible or bad


Well, it's extremely offensive to me, so that means I think it's bad.
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baystateoftheart wrote:
Here's an awful cover:


The Cult Of Ray by Frank Black

unironically love this
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this is a dream thread I love bad album covers, or more accurately album covers that well-adjusted people find horrific I adore

here's some "bad" ones that I genuinely love


No Money No Honey by Kenny Millions

First Come, First Served by Dr. Dooom

King Of Da Playaz Ball by Kingpin Skinny Pimp

The Dude by Devin The Dude

Erik Satie And His Friend Darius Milhaud by Bernard Herrmann / The London Festival Players


Haus Der Luege by Einstรผrzende Neubauten


Party Music by The Coup
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LTSings wrote:
Johnnyo wrote:

Nine Lives by REO Speedwagon

I have soooo many that I could share but to start with a cover that I own. Truly terrible cover but not the worst by any means.

Just want to interject on the Beatles cover. There is a stark difference between terrible and offensive. What some might find offensive others will not and offensive doesnโ€™t automatically equate to terrible or bad


Well, it's extremely offensive to me, so that means I think it's bad.


Agreed LTS. There are so many things wrong with this album cover that itโ€™s hard to know where to start.

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