Terrible album covers from established acts (first pic NSFW!)

axisus

We've all see those terrible album covers from weird american families in the 70s etc, but what album covers from established bands do you think are truly terrible. I have to kick off with Blind Faith, even now I can't bring myself to buy a copy of this horrendously inappropriate looking record.

vasselmeyer

This one is pretty high up the list:

boogieman

https://goo.gl/images/LAe3zc

Looks like it was done by a 14 year old. 

HAL9000

axisus said:

We've all see those terrible album covers from weird american families in the 70s etc, but what album covers from established bands do you think are truly terrible. I have to kick off with Blind Faith, even now I can't bring myself to buy a copy of this horrendously inappropriate looking record.

Agreed. I've been a Clapton fan from the Beano days, but it was only recently that I bought this album. I'd always been put off by the somewhat disturbing/creepy nature of this image.

boogieman

Maybe a good idea to mark this thread as NSFW? 

amarok1971

vasselmeyer said:

This one is pretty high up the list:

happy birthday Julie  she's well excited.

Fortheloveofguitar

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ICBM

HAL9000 said:

axisus said:

We've all see those terrible album covers from weird american families in the 70s etc, but what album covers from established bands do you think are truly terrible. I have to kick off with Blind Faith, even now I can't bring myself to buy a copy of this horrendously inappropriate looking record.

Agreed. I've been a Clapton fan from the Beano days, but it was only recently that I bought this album. I'd always been put off by the somewhat disturbing/creepy nature of this image.

Same here. I bought a copy on CD recently - it was displayed openly in HMV, which really surprised me. The case insert has the alternative American cover on the inside, so I've simply folded it the other way. I'm no prude, but I've always found the original cover unsettling and I'm quite surprised it's even legal now, historic context or not.

not_the_dj

Maiden's Dance of Death, supposedly an early version to show the concept but Steve Harris loved it and went with it...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Iron_Maiden-Dance_of_Death.jpg

Mike Scott having a some really deep thoughts by a tree..

https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/l/446eabb951b73111a955bc5ea3417220/3651470.jpg

ICBM

not_the_dj said:

Mike Scott having a some really deep thoughts by a tree..

[Dream Harder]

That's a terrible album too, apart from Glastonbury Song.

I would nominate Lady Gaga's Born This Way…

https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/650e7db6-b795-4eb5-a702-5ea2fc46c848/albumcover/born-this-way-50575c248478d.jpg

not_the_dj

ICBM said:

not_the_dj said:

Mike Scott having a some really deep thoughts by a tree..

[Dream Harder]

That's a terrible album too, apart from Glastonbury Song.

It has some gems, but much better versions played live over recent years and tours, the "Return of Pan" for instance....and Steve Wickham playing a fuzz fiddle solo on "The return of Jimi Hendrix" is awesome.

"Love and Death" had a reworking a few tours ago as well to fit in with the rest of his Yeats material.

Still "Spiritual City" is certainly a load of old tosh

Moominpapa

The OP almost kills the thread from the start  Yes there are loads of other bad album covers, but that Blind Faith cover is in a shite class of its own.

HAL9000

Does 'Smell the Glove' count?

mudslide73

Easy.

stimpsonslostson

The Scorpions- Virgin Killer is pretty bad too. Here's the "safe" version. 

https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/9188959dea2b595e5ada54de569b4345/3065615.jpg

axisus

stimpsonslostson said:

The Scorpions- Virgin Killer is pretty bad too. Here's the "safe" version. 

https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/9188959dea2b595e5ada54de569b4345/3065615.jpg

WTF?????? What were they thinking?!?!?!?!?!?!

AlexC

http://i64.tinypic.com/29v09vo.jpg

AlexC

http://i67.tinypic.com/119clch.jpg

Nitefly

@AlexC - FAKE!!!!

Travisthedog

I though that the blind faith girl would turn out to be 17 or something when I looked on Wikipedia 

11!

different times I guess, but jeezus it’s sickening 

AlexC

@Nitefly From Billboard's website - article on worst album covers of the 1990s. I've just double checked on Wikipedia - afraid those are the covers.