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The Twenty-Five Worst Album Covers of All Time
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Posted on 09/29/2011 4:04:34 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at new.music.yahoo.com ...


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To: InvisibleChurch

21 posted on 09/29/2011 4:42:35 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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22 posted on 09/29/2011 4:44:03 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: InvisibleChurch
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23 posted on 09/29/2011 4:44:16 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: Liberty Valance

24 posted on 09/29/2011 4:46:40 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Oh please....

I pulled the more sensitive ones...

25 posted on 09/29/2011 4:48:12 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro; mikrofon

I predict a Long Playing thread.


26 posted on 09/29/2011 4:49:29 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Could be a record.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
It's hard to disagree, but then there are those Elvis covers, including the duets album he recorded with Brbra.


27 posted on 09/29/2011 4:49:48 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Rocko

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.....


28 posted on 09/29/2011 4:50:50 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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To: TomServo

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


29 posted on 09/29/2011 4:51:14 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: TomServo
Great list and well done. Those were some ugly times and ugly albums— a veritable freak show.
30 posted on 09/29/2011 4:51:42 PM PDT by Shqipo (I am AttackWatch parolee #1,237. I am breaking my parole once more.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

31 posted on 09/29/2011 4:52:04 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: I still care

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


32 posted on 09/29/2011 4:52:38 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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To: TomServo

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


33 posted on 09/29/2011 4:54:31 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I like both Perry and Palin, and will vote for whichever of them wins.)
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To: I still care; Liberty Valance; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim
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.

34 posted on 09/29/2011 4:54:31 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Could be a record.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
I don't know about worst, but this one wins my nomination for most bizzare:


35 posted on 09/29/2011 4:55:05 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: InvisibleChurch

36 posted on 09/29/2011 4:57:03 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: dfwgator

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


37 posted on 09/29/2011 4:57:17 PM PDT by representativerepublic (...loose lips, sink ships)
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To: Cyber Liberty

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


38 posted on 09/29/2011 4:57:29 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: InvisibleChurch

39 posted on 09/29/2011 4:59:22 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: TomServo
Yep, that one's pretty bad. And to think that the guy in the middle is a recent former congressman.
40 posted on 09/29/2011 4:59:33 PM PDT by hout8475
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