The Twenty-Five Worst Album Covers of All Time

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[InvisibleChurch]

Inspired by the ugliness of the new Jane's Addiction album, The Great Escape Artist, we here at List Of The Day (ok, just me and a bunch of friends with great suggestions) compiled a bunch of lists of album covers that are, in the technical sense, awful.

The list below is one where real record companies were involved and artists who sold actual records were aware that the albums would go into the stores looking like this.

Fact is, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of terrible album covers. A web-search suggests that 90 percent of them come from religious artists who believe that competent artwork is akin to committing the sin of vanity.

Enjoy these album covers that dare you to enjoy the music held within its confines.

[InvisibleChurch]

#2

[Tijeras_Slim]

Now you’ve done it.

[InvisibleChurch]

we deserve it for the liberalization of America

[warsaw44]

I’ve seen far worse than what this guy has come up with. Once found a web site devoted to terrible album covers and those just blew all of these away.

Lost the bookmark to that sit though.

[InvisibleChurch]

it’s probably called “terrible album covers.com”

[dfwgator]

I don't know whether this one belongs in the Twenty-Five Best Album Covers, or the 25-Worst.

[Tijeras_Slim]

These aren’t even close. You want absolutely horrible... go here.

http://www.octanecreative.com/Parodyville/worst_album_covers/

[geege]

I love “Animal Magnetism”

[Snickering Hound]

[Rocko]

Try this one.

[Jet Jaguar]

[dfwgator]

The guy at the front looks like Charlie Weis.

[al44]

On that site is the “Ethel Merman Disco Album”. I think my brain just puked.

[GSWarrior]

This is the worst album cover that I actually have in my collection.

[WePledge]

BLECH!! You win. Those are definitely the worst I’ve seen.

[I still care]

If you go into independent and smaller releases territory, you can get absolutely the most horrid covers. Most of those are either corny strange religious or creepy weird perverse. Try this one:

[Rebelbase]

I hate it when that happens.

[Drew68]

This one deserves a special mention:

One of the greatest albums ever recorded packaged in one of the worst album covers of all time.

[deoetdoctrinae]

If anyone starts a "25 BEST" list, I want to put this one on it. Always loved it.

[Rocko]

That must have been the inspiration for the Randy Newman song.

[Liberty Valance]

[Liberty Valance]

[stylecouncilor]

[Liberty Valance]

[TomServo]

Oh please....

I pulled the more sensitive ones...

[Charles Henrickson]

I predict a Long Playing thread.

[Revolting cat!]

It's hard to disagree, but then there are those Elvis covers, including the duets album he recorded with Brbra.

[WePledge]

I sent out my personal “We have a winner” post too soon. That site definitely has the worst of the worst. The one with the elephants in wigs looked interesting I must say.....

[Rocko]

On Julie’s sixteenth birthday she bought a can of Mace.

[Shqipo]

Great list and well done. Those were some ugly times and ugly albums— a veritable freak show.

[Revolting cat!]

[WePledge]

AWWWWW!!! I just love me some singin’ midgets! WOOHOO!!

[Cyber Liberty]

That has to be the most disgusting series of pics I’ve seen posted in a while.

[Charles Henrickson]

If you go into independent and smaller releases territory, you can get absolutely the most horrid covers.

Yes, however, the article linked for THIS thread disqualifies all those. It sets as criteria: "The list below is one where real record companies were involved and artists who sold actual records. . . ."

We had a long "worst album covers" thread, but that was mostly the small obscure stuff. Here the challenge involves more mainstream albums.

[dirtboy]

I don't know about worst, but this one wins my nomination for most bizzare:

[Revolting cat!]

[representativerepublic]

The back of that album cover is more revealing...btw, Holiday is a great song off that album

[TomServo]

Yeah - and I didn’t even post ‘em all...

[Revolting cat!]

[hout8475]

Yep, that one's pretty bad. And to think that the guy in the middle is a recent former congressman.

[Revolting cat!]

[TomServo]

Credit goes to this guy...

http://stevecarter.com/m4.htm

They’re all linked to his site...

[Revolting cat!]

Please beat this if you can!

[Cyber Liberty]

You succeeded. Good work Tom. You are one of the couple of dozen here longer than me.

[Sawdring]

[hattend]

Thankfully, I had/have none of those albums.

[hattend]

I’d hit it.

[Rocko]

[Pharmboy]

Stop it...stop it...I can’t take it...crying here...my stomach muscles hurt...

[FightforFreedomCA]

there are so many wrong things going on in this thread, I wouldn’t know where to start...