Out of place album covers... music doesn't match the artwork.

So I took a chance on this album for $2 in fairly decent condition. based on the artwork I was expecting a soulful 70's porn funk something. what I got was a Motown signing group like the Temptations. the music sounds like its from the 70's, and to be honest, it isn't that bad, but the cover doesn't seem to fit a group that has been around since 1954 according to wikipedia.

Spinners - From here to Eternally

 

Derek & The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Not just the cover, but the album name, too.

 

That is one funked up cover! I would have definitely taken a chance on that too.

 

I always thought Let It Bleed had the wrong kid of cover for the music inside. It's a good cover but it doesn't fit.

 

Based on the cover alone, I would never listen to this.

 

The first one I thought of:

 

The Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat.
Guaranteed Food Poisoning would better match the music!

 

All of ELO's music do not match their album covers with the exception of their first.

 

Oh no, I respectfully disagree. Everything up through OotB is perfect. Especially OotB and Face the Music.

 

Pogues:



Never thought their painting-turned-album-cover quite matched up with the music inside....

 

After a brilliant and fitting debut cover, Sabbath's "Paranoid" cover was a no-fit...

 

I never thought Nantucket's album covers conveyed the type of music inside. In fact I might say it was one reason they weren't more successful.

Mark

 

hmmmmm.....

 

Do we have a winner?

 

The Violent Femmes-The Violent Femmes.Music-Angry garage rock.Cover:some young girl looking into a window in what looks like a European (maybe French) building-WTF?

 

A case of the artwork AND album title not matching the music. Of course, that was their intention.

 

I am torn on this one
I think it was carrying on the western motif
For San Fran psych established by the Charlatans
Which would have been known by members of the scene:the artist, musicians, fans, etc.,

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2IjE77e29wQ/TEuSPoRNkyI/AAAAAAAAA-0/Ro5eYuHLqEU/s1600/*****-Galore-Historia-De-La-Mu-443373.jpg

 

Nerdy, funny garage pop/new wave band from Texas in the early '80s

 

at the end of the day, if I saw that in a used bin and got it home I wouldn't have expected psychedelic rock if that is what it is.

 

Really? It seems appropriate enough to me. If it was the cover of a Monkees album I'd agree that it doesn't fit, but it seems ok for the work of the Loafster.

Maybe you were expecting it to be a bit more heavy metal?

 

True, maybe not The Electric Prunes, Tomorrow, Hendrix, etc.,
But it is consistent with essentially a west coast jam band type sound
Ala the Dead, Moby Grape, Bandersnatch, Seatrain, postGram Byrds, Kak, etc.,