WORST Album Cover Artwork

[SnardLivesHere]

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_im...6uXEsO1lzG.jpg

[Rick and Roll]

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]

Wasn't Bev Bevan in Triumvirat?

[Lellu]

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.
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...

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]

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

[cribguy]

Originally Posted by Aerosol

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.

[Methem]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

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(Admin)]

Looks like we dediced that Stuermer, Daryl - 20th Century Lady Steppin' Out, is worthy a nomination.

[Mighty-Boosh]

Originally Posted by Methem

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]

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/d...php?rev=gry-mm

[Methem]

Originally Posted by Mighty-Boosh

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

[NorCalKurt]

smell the glove..

[schupdoggy]

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

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

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

[Michael]

Originally Posted by bobrelayer59

smell the glove..

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

LOL

[cribguy]

Originally Posted by bobrelayer59

smell the glove..

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

[cribguy]

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...

[spewie]

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]

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

[Thor]

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