Great albums with awful cover art

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Joshua Hudson, Apr 14, 2019.

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  1. Joshua Hudson

    Joshua Hudson Forum Resident Thread Starter

    I doubt many could top my contribution; The Royal Scam.

    Just how those aesthetes passed that cover, I'll never know.
     
  2. Record Rotator

    Record Rotator A vintage/retro-loving sentimental fool

    I think a lot of forum members could top your contribution.

    Here's one:

    Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan.
     
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  3. Joshua Hudson

    Joshua Hudson Forum Resident Thread Starter

    See, I think that's great.

    Gaudy, but great.

    Countdown is abstract, but great.

    Royal just seems willfully bad to me.

    Of the four animals' heads ontop of the skyscrapers,
    can you honestly tell me that one is remotely
    indicative of the sophistication within?

    Especially the shark (or its rough equivalent)?
     
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  4. Record Rotator

    Record Rotator A vintage/retro-loving sentimental fool

    More like "gaudy and godawful. :D
     
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  5. Joshua Hudson

    Joshua Hudson Forum Resident Thread Starter

    The grease-stained liner notes top off the conceit...along with the knowingly deflating sarcasm.

    Great.
     
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  6. Record Rotator

    Record Rotator A vintage/retro-loving sentimental fool

    Perhaps not, but from an aesthetic standpoint I don't think it looks awful.
    I think it's a concept nicely carried out, aesthetically, even if the concept itself
    is rather clichéd.

    As for Can't Buy A Thrill, it's like an '80s nightmare set in the '70s, the Cars on cocaine. And I love this album.
     
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  7. Joshua Hudson

    Joshua Hudson Forum Resident Thread Starter

    Speaker's Corner, here I come!

    I LOVE Fire in the Hole!

    Oh.
     
  8. vinylontubes

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    Not sure how this devolved into a Steely Dan thread, but, honestly are there any good one? Aja is a chick in a black robe against a black background. I think this is the best one. Katylied had a bug on it. Pretzel Logic had a Pretzel push cart. The Royal Scam had a guy sleeping on a park bench.

    Anyway this top has been too many times. My answer is still Rainbow - Straight between the Eyes. The artwork is terrible, the concept is poor and event he typeface is boring.
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  9. skisdlimit

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    Prince - Lovesexy

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  10. Another Steve

    Another Steve Senior Member

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    Beggars Banquet, its cover will be hard to beat as being awful, but I've owned it for years. Easily in my Top 3 Rolling Stones albums. A lesser album, I would have passed on.
     
  11. warewolf95

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    A few years ago I was in a thrift shop with my dad and they had a vinyl copy of it. Pissed me off that I couldn't get it because, ya know, how am I gonna explain this to my very straight-laced dad :D
     
  12. pig bodine

    pig bodine God’s Consolation Prize

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  13. warewolf95

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    How in the world did anyone approve this. It looks like 5 piles of dog poop stuck on there.

    I win this thread:
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  15. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

    Dead or Alive-Nude/88-89 Both Japan and world covers :laugh:
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  16. buxetehude

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    Pink Moon
     
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  17. MHP

    MHP Lover of Rock ‘n Roll

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    “Help!” by The Beatles.
     
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  18. I like the Pet Sounds album cover.
     
  19. TheLazenby

    TheLazenby Forum Resident In Memoriam

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    I dunno, man. The Beach Boys totally went downhill after "Remember The Zoo". :p
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  20. Record Rotator

    Record Rotator A vintage/retro-loving sentimental fool

    I have no words.
     
  21. saborlord123

    saborlord123 "I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard working guy."

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    Gonna have to say Beatles For Sale. I don't hate it, it's just so bland compared to the other ones.
     
  22. I thought that was after Pot Sounds.

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    Under a pseudonym to hide their embarrassment of course.
     
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  23. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

    :laugh:
    Josh asked...
    I really don't feel very good about it. Hopefully he doesn't ask for 12 inch single covers :winkgrin:
     
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  24. Record Rotator

    Record Rotator A vintage/retro-loving sentimental fool

    Now I may have to google the band's 12-inch single covers :help: :laugh:.
     
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