Worst modern album covers

I think this is actually a good cover (because it shows the band and not some arty but non-descript photo from google images) and I can't really see it being a rip-off of Exile on Main St, different color scheme altogether ,POM shows the members of the band , Exile shows random b/w photos of artistes,freaks etc. , totally different fonts

 

P.S. the only cover it reminds a little of is The Bangles' Different light

 

I think you have the wrong rapper there.

 

Yes, it's Ludacris not ODB. Was going to correct the OP but exceeded the time limit.

 

I unabashedly love both of these.

 

Well said! Did the limo forget to take him to his private jet? I can't imagine he actually carries his own instrument much less ever "needs a lift."

It would have been funny if they had a limo driving away and him running after it with toilet paper on his shoe. I don't see a guy like Sting laughing at himself though.

 

She's great and it's a great cover.

 

Exactly! Blue Notes in 60s are what comes to mind when I think of "great cover art." They are their own sub-genre of cover art.

 

Reminds me of what happens in Twin Peaks' Black Lodge

 

Oh dear...paintbox hell. This took all of 5 minutes to put together.

 

It also sounds very 80's. Which is why the cover of "Chris" is actually ok.

 

My own parameter for new or modern would be post 1994 or so. Or if to push it back maybe 1990 or later.

I think for more popular albums - Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" is rather hideous. (already posted)

 

As I've mentioned in other threads, I attended the 2011 concert where she revealed the album cover.

I thought it was a joke - no way that could be the actual cover, right?

 

That's what I thought the first time I saw it on a shelf in the record store. "Surely it was a gag, right?" Nope, it was legit!

 

Did she ever talk about why she choose it?

 

I think most people agree that the Leonard Cohen cover for Popular Problems (2014) is awful. Cheap and half-arsed. Just terrible.

But have you seen it in real life and not just on a computer screen? By chance I saw the large vinyl edition in a shop and it looked perfectly okay to me. It’s not great artwork but it looked competent and respectable to me. The font and the colours looked okay. It wasn’t an eyesore or horrible. So I decided to look at the small CD version. Again, it looked okay. It lost something being smaller but it was tepidly okay.

It looks much better in the flesh. I’m looking at it again on a computer screen and it looks terrible.

Look at it in real life and see if it changes your opinion.

 

Was this mentioned? I mean, really?

 

Now that is one hideous album cover

 

Not exactly modern but I always thought the red hot chilli peppers “Stadium Arcadium” cover was rubbish. It looked like an X-Factor compilation or Now That’s What I Call Red Hot ChilliePeppers 8

 

from 2014, does not get any worse than this

 

There's a scene in the documentary for his 1st solo album where he shoots daggers at Branford Marsalis for laughing when he discovers that his real name is Gordon.

 

Adding Van's new abomination of an album cover to this thread