Brilliant albums with horrible album covers

Okay that's a really terrible one, what the hay?

 

The follow up... I don't care for.

 

Wow they did do a lot of coke!

 

That's really bland. Could be any forgettable indie guitar band. Crap colouring too.

 

Yeah that's a stinker, who are the puppets supposed to be? The one on the right looks like a long haired Guy Smiley

 

Me too great design.

Have yet to hear the album but it's supposed to be one of their better ones

 

Brian Jones, Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and John Peel.

 

Loaded?

It's their most commercial one. It's superb.

 

Stevie Wonder's cover for Signed Sealed Delivered is as cheesy as they get. He improved dramatically in his next few albums

 

Yeah the songs from it on "Best Of the VU" are fantastic, esp the title song

 

Most Hipgnosis covers with a few memorable exceptions....

Great: Dark Side, Ummagumma, Wish You Were Here, Argus

Awful: Tormato, How Dare You?, Houses, And Then There Were Three, Dirty Deeds

 

I don't get why so many seem to have a problem with this cover either; I thought it was fascinating when I was a kid, and still do. It makes me think of the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, with this unusual black object turning up in all these disparate contexts, evidently possessing some power only some seem clued into...

 

Blindfold yourself. Now spin around as fast as you can, in a room filled with the complete album catalogues of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Prince.

Whichever album you trip and collapse upon has a 95% chance of having terrible cover art.

 

I actually kind of like it - because when taken with the album title and their picture on the back cover, it makes them seem like members of some bizarre cult.



Dig their dead-eyed stares and creepy grins. I can just hear them saying "Join us....join us..."

 

Brian Jones, Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Graham Bond.

 

Are you suggesting that Mike Love should be interested in the goat's bottom?

 

Well, as long as nobody told him...

 

I'd have Dirty Deeds in the Great list! I like the strangeness of it. One from before AC/DC albums started to look similar, but still great.

 

I love that pic, it’s beautifully pastoral which is not unrelated, without text which was highly unusual. I consider it one of the high points of 60s album art. ( but that’s just me)

 

Huh????? .... No way! Have the original from the 70’s
when it was released. That’s a classic.

Might lose something in a cheap reissue or tiny CD art work.

Don’t agree with Can’t Buy A Thrill by SD either.

Sorry but there are more than a few here that aren’t close to bad.

 

That one would have been fine if the toilet seat had been clean.

 

If the rationale behind the album cover has to be explained in order to be understood, then in my opinion it has failed.

 

It isn't a brilliant album but it's pretty good and I have no idea how they even fathomed this cover was a good idea.

 

It's got a bit of a "My First Photoshop Assignment" feel to it, 35+ years early.

 

It's John Peel for certain.