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Best/Worst Album Covers Ever

brian crackout · 2005-09-27 11:54:12

i know this thread has been up here before, but i cant seem to find the existing one... there were some excellent suggestions in the previous thread with album covers ranging from the classic to the absolute bizzare. anybody got anyting to offer???

27-09-2005 11:54am

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i know this thread has been up here before, but i cant seem to find the existing one... there were some excellent suggestions in the previous thread with album covers ranging from the classic to the absolute bizzare. anybody got anyting to offer???

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#2 27-09-2005 12:22pm

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The best.......

simple and defines rock n' roll. Not a bad album either!

Worst? There are too many of them for my liking!

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#3 27-09-2005 12:32pm

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Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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#4 27-09-2005 1:04pm

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BEST:

Leftfield - Leftism

A Shark jawbone and a big ass speaker...... Savage.

WORST:
weezer - Green Album

Im a huge weezer fan, but thats just terrible, how lazy and crap is that, what makes it worse is that they had already done it on the Blue album.....

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#5 27-09-2005 2:11pm

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Yea the Green album, one of the catchiest albums in recent years, but i have to admit the cover is pretty lame. its still a bit better than the 'Make Believe' cover, Whats that all about?!

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#6 27-09-2005 2:15pm

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Best:
AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It
Great band, great live album, pure greatness.

Worst:
Oasis - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Sh*t cover, sh*t music. Just sh*t.

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#7 27-09-2005 10:22pm

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Best album ever - well drawn, check www.genesimmons.com for cover

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#8 27-09-2005 11:05pm

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<snipped>
This is definitely the best/worst album cover of all time.

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#9 27-09-2005 11:48pm

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That Mayhem one is pretty rough. On one hand I think it's perfect expression of the type of music that they play, violent and heavy as hell but on the other hand it's a real photo so that's pretty ****ed up. Scratch that, it's immensely ****ed up. I don't think I can think of another sleeve with that much power and aptness for the record it represents.

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#10 28-09-2005 12:03am

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Not as ****ed up as this, which I really actually found while googling for the Mayhem cover:

<snipped for obvious reasons>

Is this actually real?

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#11 28-09-2005 12:08am

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Unfortunately I think it is. I don't really want to google it to find out though. And to think I just posted on a thread saying that boards.ie shouldn't have links to violent and pornographic material.

I can't see your posts staying here long Dadakopf.

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#12 28-09-2005 9:31am

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That mayhem one is rough, isnt that the singer? with possibly the now most Ironic name ever "Dead"

S.

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#13 28-09-2005 12:49pm

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reel big fish - everything sucks, its got a baby being bitten in the face by a dog...classic

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#14 28-09-2005 3:51pm

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JESUS! Have some cop-on DadaKopf.

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#15 28-09-2005 4:53pm

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The best album cover ever is Spinal Tap, 'Smell the Glove'. Its so black, how much more blacker can you get? No more blacker.
Nigel Tufnall likes it, thats good enough for me.

The worst, anything with Jon Bon Jovi's evil face looking out from it.

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#16 28-09-2005 6:19pm

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Thin Lizzy - Night Life and Johnny the Fox
Andy Warhols corver for The Velvet Underground is just a classic with the peeling banana
I'm not gonna bother with worst albums cause there's far too many

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#17 28-09-2005 8:29pm

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Fidelista wrote:

The worst, anything with Jon Bon Jovi's evil face looking out from it.

actually the new bon jovi hits effort has got to be one of thee worst & unimaginative album covers ever designed pure fukkin pony :mad:

LONDON CALLING has got to be the definitive rock album anyway cover buti quite like the cover of "straight outta compton" by nwa - with all the lads starin down at ya & lookin all "gangsta"

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#18 28-09-2005 9:50pm

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hmmm best would be

worst would be make believe's cover

it's almost like saying "well you stood for a photo on your two best selling albums (blue 3million+ green 1million+) so it will work again, sadly it didn't

here's another one of my favourites... just so great...

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#19 30-09-2005 11:20pm

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All of The smiths album covers were stunning apart from strangeways here we come with The world wont listen, A hatful of Hollow and The Smiths been particlarly fetching.

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#20 01-10-2005 12:01am

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Have always loved the BellX1 - Music in Mouth album cover...
http://www.studentuk.com/images/phooey/bellx1-2.jpg

Badly Drawn Boy - You Were Right...
http://monkfeesh.redefine.org/img/covers/ywright_lrg.jpg

Also the MBLEH! style artowork of the I Am Kloot album cover always catches me...
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007SK9OW.03._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

So many more... these are just recent

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#21 01-10-2005 12:07am

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Worst:

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#22 01-10-2005 8:42am

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aaahhhh my eyes....the goggles do nothing.

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#23 01-10-2005 8:21pm

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lol
best:

or

for the sheer boldess of releasing an untitled album sleeve.
Pink Floyd have amazing covers on their stuff.

the worst:

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#24 02-10-2005 7:31pm

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Actually, the worst cover I think is Led Zep's 'Presence'.

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#25 02-10-2005 9:47pm

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fade2black wrote:

Worst:

That's a dodgy family photo...never mind an album cover....

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#26 03-10-2005 6:34pm

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CocoRosie - Noah's Ark. I rather love this cover... so whimsically incorrect.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/cocorosie/noahsark

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#27 03-10-2005 10:17pm

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elephamt king wrote:

lol
best:

jaysus...

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#28 12-10-2005 9:05am

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Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow

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#29 12-10-2005 10:27am

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No contest

How do you post images anyway? Can some one post this one??

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#30 12-10-2005 1:30pm

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Maccattack wrote:

How do you post images anyway? Can some one post this one??

Paste in the address of the picture and put [/IMG] after it and

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#31 12-10-2005 1:58pm

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#32 12-10-2005 2:01pm

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Doctor J wrote:

The artwork certainly lives up to its title.

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#33 12-10-2005 2:19pm

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Yeah, you have to marvel at what posessed a band, who were struggling to shake off an image as a joke band, to release what was actually a very, very good album with that unbelieably ****e cover.

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#34 12-10-2005 2:27pm

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Maccattack wrote:

No contest

Wow... impressive

elephamt king wrote:

that Sigur Rós baby head

Egads...

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#35 12-10-2005 2:27pm

Maccattack

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Voila!! hey thats cool!

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#36 23-10-2005 4:41pm

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Turn's new album... terriable cover

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#37 23-10-2005 5:01pm

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=251860&highlight=album+cover

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#38 23-10-2005 8:35pm

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addicted wrote:

All of The smiths album covers were stunning apart from strangeways here we come with The world wont listen, A hatful of Hollow and The Smiths been particlarly fetching.

I've always thought Louder than Bombs:

was far and away the best.

My favourite cover of any album that I can think of at the moment is:

It's Rufus Wainwright. Dressed as a knight. A knight, like.

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#39 23-10-2005 9:04pm

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Let's get the worst out of the way:

Now My Favourites:

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#40 23-10-2005 10:24pm

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Rudimentary Peni - Death Church
(Linked for size)

http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/534/rp3fx.jpg

Dwarves - Blood Guts and Pussy
(Linked for NWSness)

http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/8973/bgp9mv.jpg

Blind Idiot God - Blind Idiot God
(Biggest I could find)

Big Black - Hammer Party

Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle

Edit: I forgot this:

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#41 24-10-2005 2:09am

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David Gray - White Ladder
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth

Just two that come to mind straight away.

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#42 24-10-2005 4:00am

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I must point people towards The Museum of Bad Album Covers

My personal "faves" being

and

I'll get my coat.

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#43 24-10-2005 4:45pm

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Strokes- Room on Fire.

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#44 27-10-2005 2:40pm

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addicted wrote:

All of The smiths album covers were stunning apart from strangeways here we come with The world wont listen, A hatful of Hollow and The Smiths been particlarly fetching.

here here.
Also Janes Addiction -Ritual De Lo Habitual or Nothings Shocking.

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#45 27-10-2005 6:32pm

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best- the smiths...all

worst- slayer....all

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#46 30-10-2005 9:21pm

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Megadeath's Killing Is My Business cover is just terrible considering the band wanted to be like. Its really lazy and cartoonish.

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#47 30-10-2005 9:57pm

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this one is ****ing **** and scary...

my first post!

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