post awayyyyy.....

this recent one comes to mind

not sure if this one was any better though...

some others










and that Lamber dude. .. not even worth posting.

google and just type in horrible album covers....










WTF???

whoa!!!

ALBUM COVERS

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[Edited 1/3/10 20:00pm]

Susan Boyle

CHIC0 said:

retro circus style i like it

I am going with this also

ernestsewell said:

viejo

alexothetimes said:

Verdad.

It's too easy, but I can't help but post it...




^ Sorry, I don't know who to credit for this image, but I think I got it from Housequake. Click for full-size.

Prince - The Black Album

Wowugotit said:

By far one of the suckiest covers I ever seen in my life.

Timmy84 said:

What do you expect, the lady's called Joyce???

MattyJam said:

And she's got the Bob Ross Fro.

Timmy84 said:

it looks homemade

MattyJam said:

does it say 50 cents at the top right

Luckily I saved this so it'll be ready every time this subject comes up.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Unfortunately, this award has and always will belong to James Brown...

So, here we go starting in '50s/'60s era:



Another interesting point is depending on where you look, the same album title/release date might have a different cover.
This is probably dependent on whether it's on King (Papa's Got A Brand New Bag):

Awful
or Polygram (Papa's got a brand new bag):

Better (Not to mention a completely different set of tunes)



The '70s for The Godfather was not much of an improvement:






It now the '80s and more bad covers for Mr. Dynamite:






...It's startling how the number of bad album covers housed some of his best music.

It took the '90s-Y2K era along with comps/imports/reissues/unathorized releases for The Godfather to finally get some decent (not great but decent) album covers.






The signature JB cover should have one/all of the following elements:
A) Get the man in action.
(split, slide, scream, mic trickin', camel walkin', knee dropin', processed hair flying in all directions, anything involving a cape, etc.)

B) Tight performance head shot letting you know that a devastating...
1) barrage of unintelligible vocal syllables
2) "eeeee"
3) "Good god"
4) "Maceo"
5) "Jabo"
6) "Hit me"
7) "Lookee here"
8) "Uhh"
...is being delivered.

C) Gallons of hard-workin', stage-stormin' generated sweat.

I love this guy but the King of Super Heavy Funk probably also deserves the King of the Bad Album Cover title also.


Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

This is real!
Album by GRP Jazz artist Dave Valentine. The album sucked more than cover.

alexothetimes said:

i like the font...but come on. there's just no effort in that one.

on the upside though...it's really all about the music, or at least should be. so no need for fancy covers really.

CHIC0 said:

i believe that the album cover should be in the same style that the music comes with

I love them but this shit right here is uncalled for