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LTSings · 2025-01-18T08:48:46-05:00

I just came across this video of bad album covers on YouTube and thought it might interest some of you. Some of these are pretty funny, but I think that Beatles album cover is just repulsive and disgusting. https://youtu.be/wRvDBcSo5B8

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MadhattanJack wrote:

I thought LTSings liked AI-generated art? 🤔

Besides, that album shouldn't even be listed on BEA - it's a quick repackage of this earlier collection that uses the same AI artwork, it exists only for Spotify, and while Michael Marc himself appears to be a real person and a decent flamenco guitarist, the backing tracks are probably AI-generated too (or else taken from a MIDI-file karaoke collection). On Spotify this is basically the musical equivalent of spam-flooding, without the saving grace (for me) of being a shoegaze or dreampop act to make it passably interesting.

Romanelli here is right, though. There's nothing "bad" about this album cover at all, aesthetically, and aside from the fact that this is really a stupid thread that should be deleted, there are plenty of album covers listed on BEA that are genuinely bad, because the recording artists wanted them to be. Just look at the Impaled discography sometime - that'll knock some sense into y'all, and there are dozens of others besides them.

There are a lot of different styles of AI art. I don't like modern art, whether it's AI or not. I enjoy creating AI art because, I've never had any artistic talent at all. I'm not alone. Many people love using AI to create images because they've never had any talent. It makes it possible for even people like me to make some decent looking images in the styles we like. And it's the only way people like me will ever be able make images we like. It's just fun to those of us who've never had any artistic talent.

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MadhattanJack wrote:

I thought LTSings liked AI-generated art? 🤔

Besides, that album shouldn't even be listed on BEA - it's a quick repackage of this earlier collection that uses the same AI artwork, it exists only for Spotify, and while Michael Marc himself appears to be a real person and a decent flamenco guitarist, the backing tracks are probably AI-generated too (or else taken from a MIDI-file karaoke collection). On Spotify this is basically the musical equivalent of spam-flooding, without the saving grace (for me) of being a shoegaze or dreampop act to make it passably interesting.

Romanelli here is right, though. There's nothing "bad" about this album cover at all, aesthetically, and aside from the fact that this is really a stupid thread that should be deleted, there are plenty of album covers listed on BEA that are genuinely bad, because the recording artists wanted them to be. Just look at the Impaled discography sometime - that'll knock some sense into y'all, and there are dozens of others besides them.

That's actually a good catch. Not sure what this guy is trying to pull...his own Spotify account (more proof that Spotify is truly awful) has the same identical album with releases in both 2022 and 2025, meaning that he is getting exposure for the same music at least twice. Looks like the same scam on Apple Music. He then has the same album for sale (as a download only) on his own website...with a different title (The Night Has A Thousand Eyes) and no date of release. This title exists absolutely nowhere else.

Submitting to see if it actually qualifies to be on BEA.

And yeah...threads like this one are no bueno.
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Romanelli wrote:

MadhattanJack wrote:

I thought LTSings liked AI-generated art? 🤔

Besides, that album shouldn't even be listed on BEA - it's a quick repackage of this earlier collection that uses the same AI artwork, it exists only for Spotify, and while Michael Marc himself appears to be a real person and a decent flamenco guitarist, the backing tracks are probably AI-generated too (or else taken from a MIDI-file karaoke collection). On Spotify this is basically the musical equivalent of spam-flooding, without the saving grace (for me) of being a shoegaze or dreampop act to make it passably interesting.

Romanelli here is right, though. There's nothing "bad" about this album cover at all, aesthetically, and aside from the fact that this is really a stupid thread that should be deleted, there are plenty of album covers listed on BEA that are genuinely bad, because the recording artists wanted them to be. Just look at the Impaled discography sometime - that'll knock some sense into y'all, and there are dozens of others besides them.

That's actually a good catch. Not sure what this guy is trying to pull...his own Spotify account (more proof that Spotify is truly awful) has the same identical album with releases in both 2022 and 2025, meaning that he is getting exposure for the same music at least twice. Looks like the same scam on Apple Music. He then has the same album for sale (as a download only) on his own website...with a different title (The Night Has A Thousand Eyes) and no date of release. This title exists absolutely nowhere else.

Submitting to see if it actually qualifies to be on BEA.

And yeah...threads like this one are no bueno.

Well, I didn't know any of this. I just saw it among the new releases on Spotify and then found it on Apple Music and thought I'd add it here. As for this thread, it's not my favorite. I only started it because I thought some of the ones I saw were laugh out loud funny. I'd much rather have my ballads thread back or the put your music player on shuffle thread back than have this one.

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Romanelli wrote:

MadhattanJack wrote:

I thought LTSings liked AI-generated art? 🤔

Besides, that album shouldn't even be listed on BEA - it's a quick repackage of this earlier collection that uses the same AI artwork, it exists only for Spotify, and while Michael Marc himself appears to be a real person and a decent flamenco guitarist, the backing tracks are probably AI-generated too (or else taken from a MIDI-file karaoke collection). On Spotify this is basically the musical equivalent of spam-flooding, without the saving grace (for me) of being a shoegaze or dreampop act to make it passably interesting.

Romanelli here is right, though. There's nothing "bad" about this album cover at all, aesthetically, and aside from the fact that this is really a stupid thread that should be deleted, there are plenty of album covers listed on BEA that are genuinely bad, because the recording artists wanted them to be. Just look at the Impaled discography sometime - that'll knock some sense into y'all, and there are dozens of others besides them.

That's actually a good catch. Not sure what this guy is trying to pull...his own Spotify account (more proof that Spotify is truly awful) has the same identical album with releases in both 2022 and 2025, meaning that he is getting exposure for the same music at least twice. Looks like the same scam on Apple Music. He then has the same album for sale (as a download only) on his own website...with a different title (The Night Has A Thousand Eyes) and no date of release. This title exists absolutely nowhere else.

Submitting to see if it actually qualifies to be on BEA.

And yeah...threads like this one are no bueno.

Good spot by MJ & apologies for not seeing this thread earlier (thanks to Romanelli for heads up). Agree this album is suspect for reasons described (these types of release, unfortunately, are going to be a growing problem).

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albummaster wrote:

Romanelli wrote:

MadhattanJack wrote:

I thought LTSings liked AI-generated art? 🤔

Besides, that album shouldn't even be listed on BEA - it's a quick repackage of this earlier collection that uses the same AI artwork, it exists only for Spotify, and while Michael Marc himself appears to be a real person and a decent flamenco guitarist, the backing tracks are probably AI-generated too (or else taken from a MIDI-file karaoke collection). On Spotify this is basically the musical equivalent of spam-flooding, without the saving grace (for me) of being a shoegaze or dreampop act to make it passably interesting.

Romanelli here is right, though. There's nothing "bad" about this album cover at all, aesthetically, and aside from the fact that this is really a stupid thread that should be deleted, there are plenty of album covers listed on BEA that are genuinely bad, because the recording artists wanted them to be. Just look at the Impaled discography sometime - that'll knock some sense into y'all, and there are dozens of others besides them.

That's actually a good catch. Not sure what this guy is trying to pull...his own Spotify account (more proof that Spotify is truly awful) has the same identical album with releases in both 2022 and 2025, meaning that he is getting exposure for the same music at least twice. Looks like the same scam on Apple Music. He then has the same album for sale (as a download only) on his own website...with a different title (The Night Has A Thousand Eyes) and no date of release. This title exists absolutely nowhere else.

Submitting to see if it actually qualifies to be on BEA.

And yeah...threads like this one are no bueno.

Good spot by MJ & apologies for not seeing this thread earlier (thanks to Romanelli for heads up). Agree this album is suspect for reasons described (these types of release, unfortunately, are going to be a growing problem).

Sorry, I didn't know when I added it. It thought it was just another new release.

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