WORST Album Cover Artwork [Archive] - Aural Moon

SnardLivesHere

10-18-2007, 11:00 PM

Echolyn's As The World. The pile of shrunken heads is kinda gross, and does nothing to make me think of the music on this great album.

http://base.googlehosted.com/base_image?size=2&q=music/image/0/016uXEsO1lzG.jpg

Rick and Roll

10-18-2007, 11:28 PM

Zappa's Orchestral Favorites or Studio Tan have that awful drawing...but I think that was intentional as they were record company contractuals.

If you go for ugliness, try Black Sabbath's "Born Again" (the one with Gillian). That "thing" on the cover is hideous.

http://www.black-sabbath.com/discog/bornagain.html

Just read on that link that Bev Bevan went on that tour....Jim's favorite drummer! :)

SnardLivesHere

10-18-2007, 11:41 PM

Wasn't Bev Bevan in Triumvirat?

Lellu

10-19-2007, 01:32 AM

U.K. Concert Classics Vol.4

The cover looks like it was done in five minutes using Microsoft Paint.
It also features a nice little picture of sweaty Bruford. 8-o
The print quality is also a major let down. The resolution is really low...I am not even sure whether my copy is a pirate or not...

Aerosol

10-19-2007, 04:04 AM

Forget all the shrunken heads and badly-painted evil babies, nothing makes me want to puke so much as the front cover of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Love Beach...

Michael

10-20-2007, 04:10 PM

I love Galahad but i have to say there In A Moment Of Complete Madness Cover is Really in a few words Farked up.

NorCalKurt

10-20-2007, 06:59 PM

smell the glove..

schupdoggy

10-21-2007, 09:35 AM

Marilyn Manson - Holywood
http://www.johnnyleeclary.com/marilyn_manson_holy_wood_a.jpg

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
http://www.musicfolio.com/modernrock/marilynmanson_mechanical.jpg

Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
http://i17.tinypic.com/2zfo9wx.jpg

Michael

10-21-2007, 10:01 AM

smell the glove..

"It's like, 'how much more black could this be?' and the answer is none. None more black."

LOL

cribguy

10-22-2007, 08:49 AM

Ambeon's Fate of a Dreamer. No one should be putting 14 year old girls on their album covers. It makes me feel all pedophile-ish. And put on top of that that she sounds like a hot adult female, well...:knowing:

cribguy

10-22-2007, 08:53 AM

Forget all the shrunken heads and badly-painted evil babies, nothing makes me want to puke so much as the front cover of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Love Beach...

They never really have spent a lot of time/money on their covers, except for Brain Salad Surgery.

cribguy

10-22-2007, 08:57 AM

smell the glove..

"This is something you put around your arm. You don’t put this on your f***ing turntable." :LOL:

spewie

10-22-2007, 11:10 AM

I think the worst album cover for me would have to be the original cover of Deep Purples first album "Deep Purple" It had a reproduction of Dante's Hell on the front cover. Although I am still somewhat disturbed by the cover I still listen to that album and consider it one of Deep Purples best,

IMHO anyway;)

NorCalKurt

10-22-2007, 02:35 PM

worst cover.. try this one Space Escapade by Les Baxter.

Thor

10-22-2007, 09:15 PM

Worst covers... take your pick they are all here.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers

I am particularly nausiated by them all. something is not quite right with each of them

NorCalKurt

10-22-2007, 09:39 PM

OK those were good or should I say bad Thor... try some of these on..
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/djlanda/the_100_worst_album_covers_ever/

podakayne

10-22-2007, 10:14 PM

gosh thor...we'll all need therapy after perusing that sight...OMG songs for gay dogs!!!!

i'm scarred...get it out, get it out, get it out of my head!!!!

KeithieW

10-23-2007, 02:36 AM

There's even an album by Roger in there......:)

C'mon roger what are you not telling us............LMAO!!!!!

roger

10-23-2007, 05:02 AM

heh.

umm, that's roger.dot.

<runs and hides...>

teermin8r

10-23-2007, 06:43 AM

I'm gonna have to put some thought into worst album cover, but you can stop the presses as far as BEST album cover of 2007. That is the new Flower Kings cd 'The Sum of No Evil' A bugvan fish :D

KeithieW

10-23-2007, 06:54 AM

I reckon Starcastle's Real to Reel has to be up there somewhere.

DEzerov

10-23-2007, 07:33 AM

Butthole Surfers/Live PCPPEP

DEzerov

10-23-2007, 07:38 AM

Worst covers... take your pick they are all here.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers

I am particularly nausiated by them all. something is not quite right with each of them

I noticed # 30 on the list that Thor provided looks very much like the cover to Roxy Music's Manifesto...strange coincidence or more of Ferry's avant-gard attitude... check it out and see if you agree...

Rick and Roll

10-23-2007, 12:03 PM

I noticed # 30 on the list that Thor provided looks very much like the cover to Roxy Music's Manifesto...strange coincidence or more of Ferry's avant-gard attitude... check it out and see if you agree...

That list rears its ugly head every few months.......no less revolting.:)

Maybe it's the Russion Manifesto D'ez...

darksideof

10-23-2007, 04:59 PM

roger

10-25-2007, 05:21 AM

I reckon Starcastle's Real to Reel has to be up there somewhere.

indeed. this should be thrown out with the album in it. :ick:

SnardLivesHere

10-25-2007, 09:55 PM

Thanks for the links to the reeeeeally bad covers. I'm gonna go throw up now.
But i was really looking for bad prog album covers. Maybe we could do it by band... "Yes's worst is (insert your opinion here)", or "ELP's worst is ....".

Oh well, maybe this thread got played out quickly. Back to the music!!!

NorCalKurt

10-25-2007, 10:05 PM

I think we have hit the end of the line for this one. It was fun.

Michael

10-26-2007, 11:46 AM

Methem

10-26-2007, 04:50 PM

If you go for ugliness, try Black Sabbath's "Born Again" (the one with Gillian). That "thing" on the cover is hideous.
Some Sabbath artwork, on the other hand, is relatively well done. The covers of the debut album and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, for example.

Many years ago I copied the cover of Vol 4, or the figure of Ozzy, using the grid technique. The modest drawing, quite a bit larger than the CD cover it was copied from, is still on the wall in my old home, at my father.

-Methem

OverHillandDale

10-26-2007, 07:53 PM

Looks like we dediced that Stuermer, Daryl (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&opt1=1&sql=%Stuermer,Daryl%) - 20th Century Lady Steppin' Out, is worthy a nomination.

Yesspaz

10-26-2007, 08:35 PM

Some of Mike Oldfield's covers are lame. Just bad photos of him, like the wanna-be mystical crap-shoot (get it?) that was the cover of Voyager. Ommadawn's cover is pretty non-good too. Incantations....

As for Yes, I'd have to go with Big Generator and Open Your Eyes.
Pink Floyd: Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Rush: I'm pretty non-impressed with the debut's cover.

And most of Roxy's are just trashy.

Mighty-Boosh

10-29-2007, 04:04 PM

Some Sabbath artwork, on the other hand, is relatively well done. The covers of the debut album and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, for example.

Honorary 'worst album cover' mention, however, must go to Sabotage - Bill Ward's 'paunch and red tights' look is absolutely unique

SnardLivesHere

10-30-2007, 11:17 PM

Just pulled out my copy of Gryphon's LP "Midnight Mushrumps". That cover is pretttty bad. The album title doesn't have much going for it either, but that's another topic.

http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=gry-mm

Methem

11-02-2007, 09:42 AM

Honorary 'worst album cover' mention, however, must go to Sabotage - Bill Ward's 'paunch and red tights' look is absolutely unique
Yes, it's a interesting cover, heh. A good album anyway...

-Methem

Roger -Dot- Lee

11-02-2007, 08:40 PM

heh.

umm, that's roger.dot.

<runs and hides...>

It most certainly is *N*O*T*

Boy. I can't turn my back on you lot for a second. Honest to pete. Some people's kids these days....