Great albums with awful cover art

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  1. Choba b CCCP

    Choba b CCCP Forum Resident

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    Roger Waters, "Amused To Death", 1992
     
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  2. Hammerpeg

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    Two words: Blind Faith.
     
  3. supersquonk

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    Not so sure that'a a "great" album. :shake:

    I think the grand prize goes to Pet Sounds. Consistently in the top albums of all time polls, but notoriously bad cover.
     
  4. redfloatboat

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    The 1st Heart album. Really like the music but from the moment i saw the cover i hated it and was confused by it too. The picture doesn't say anything about the band being a rock band at all.
    It looks like it should be on the cover of a romantic paperback! There is no hint that this Heart are even a band, perhaps Heart is a female duo?
     
  5. bettsaj

    bettsaj “I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”

    Good album, spoilt by sub-par sleeve

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  6. abzach

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    One of the best sleeves and album covers I know.
     
  7. Choba b CCCP

    Choba b CCCP Forum Resident

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    For me — that IS.
     
  8. illwind64

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    could be :)
     
  9. illwind64

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    How about Planet Waves? That's a little crummy. Rushed (but good) album, rushed cover.
     
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  10. gonz

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    Freewheelin’ changed track listings
     
  11. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    yes, #4!
    I like the music!
     
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  12. gonz

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    Great Album

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  13. HeavensAbove

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    Probably my favorite Curtis Mayfield album, Sweet Exorcist, has an unusual cover:

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  14. dennis1077

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  15. andrewskyDE

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    Probably not. This cover was a creation by me btw.^^
    But (as we know) another photo from that shoot was used for the official album sleeve's gatefold.
     
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  16. FillmoreGuy

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    The Trespass artwork sums up the music inside quite nicely. (at least to me)
     
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  17. FillmoreGuy

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    ELP-Love Beach musically bad too.
     
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  18. illwind64

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    PLANET WAVES is a great album. Very underrated. I like it more than BOTT. KNOCKED OUT LOADED is another lousy cover. Dylan isn't exactly known for great album art! I think his best album covers usually just feature cool pictures of him.
     
  19. illwind64

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    Could be the greatest album cover of all time. (And great songs.)
     
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  20. majorlance

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    Songs in the Key of Life
    Stevie Wonder
    Great album, but the cover looks like a 70s high school prom poster. :doh:
     
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  21. detroit muscle

    detroit muscle MIA

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  22. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    Maybe you ignore the person who already mentioned it and didn’t see it.
     
  23. majorlance

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    This. I'll throw in DITG, GAIBTY (not just a bad cover, but one of his most unflattering photos ever) and that "Columbia's Revenge" outtakes album from 1973. Probably a couple others I can't think of right now...
     
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  24. illwind64

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    Forgot about GAIBTY--that's pretty bad. EMPIRE BURLESQUE might be even worse.
     
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  25. Kiss73

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    Now.....I am going to argue that this is simply a great Fairport Convention album, and should sit proudly amongst the classic Convention albums.......however with that cover.........

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