Album Covers that beg the Question: What the Hell were You THINKING?

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remember, there are some things Pen & Pixel won't illustrate, like the destruction of your competitors ride, or a van driving in or out of a "coochie"

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:08 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f244/f24409qhctt.jpg

(I mean, "The Fury"... yeah, furious that Philip Michael Thomas was out getting coffee during the photo shoot)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d639/d6394295nky.jpg

(Yes, it's "+Live+", the band. welcome to the Wheel Of Vomit)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago) link

(ok, my commentary is sub Jay Leno now.. ack, must stop)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d662/d6627642asr.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c011/c01153113xe.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link

the Scorpions "virgin killer" (or whatever it's called) has a very very dodgy sleeve

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002EPLU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"yes, I want to be on the cover, dressed like a tango dancer!"

― fernando, Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bizarrerecords.com/pics/recpics4/swamprat.jpg

"let me get this straight : you want to be RIDING...a RAT?"
(this from http://www.bizarrerecords.com)

― fernando, Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

But the fact that it's called "Rat On!" is really what makes it.

I wish I could find an image of the album "Black Dick For President" by the band . . . "Black Dick For President"

― hurting, Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

http://king-diamond.coven.vmh.net/pics/large/xmas.jpg

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

you could fill up this entire thread w/ unfortunate gary numan album covers from 1981 until 1994 (besides the afore-depicted dance and the fury). and the funniest thing about that dance cover is how numan STILL LOOKS LIKE AN ANDROID, even though he was trying to shake the android-vibe musically.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002HOM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

http://gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote5/bl8%20025.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Michael Nesmith - 'From the Photon Wine to the Radio Engine' or some nonsense like that. It was one of my dad's records that I've never listened to.

Isn't he the guy from the Monkees?

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

that king diamond cover is genius

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

"Virgin Killer" - The Scorpions.

Just Google it - I don't even wanna post it!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

― mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"Just Google it - I don't even wanna post it! "

My god! Why did you even have to tell me about that one! I feel scarred for life, like I watched one of those beheading videos.

― Josh Saltzman (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Was Misogyny considered cool in the 70s?

http://moogie.info/music/cd/Foreigner-Headgames.jpg

― Josh Saltzman (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

"Just Google it - I don't even wanna post it! "

My god! Why did you even have to tell me about that one! I feel scarred for life, like I watched one of those beheading videos.

Sorry! No, seriously, it's pretty grim. Apparently even the band thought it was too over the top and released an alternate cover that just had a typical group photo.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

yea that was grim.

Christ that was worse than the Blind Faith cover

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

It's weird how in the Stoned Age they describe the hot girl as "like the babe on the Virgin Killers album".

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Between this and the WTF Album Covers thread:

Does anyone else notice that there's the mysterious period in the 1970s when all these respectable jazz artists seem to have completely lost their shit?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000046X0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000046YL.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009XFS8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002I3M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah yes. Also any of the previously posted Herbie Hancock covers.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000027EC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Uh, nice pajamas, Dex.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005MLW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

This one crosses over from mere "What were you thinking?" into the realm of "WTF???"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002AE9.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

There I go, losing my shit already.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e531/e53112fz627.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Garish art is awesome. This thread is easy. Just google liberace or satan or whatever. Here's the first thing that comes up for Polka. http://graphics.ink19.com/issues/august2002/polka.jpeg

― trashmaster (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/a/b/abrutalchristmas.jpg http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/s/w/swallows2.jpg http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/h/u/humbug.jpg

These are still nowhere near as good as that King Diamond cover.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link

some of the covers on this thread are fucking awesome

Sasha, get yourself some Michael Nesmith & The First National Band records - you'll never think of him as 'that guy from the Monkees" ever again.

You MAY think of him as the guy whose mother invented White Out, but that's another story. Anyway, he's great. Fuck the rest of those losers (except the fat one - was that Mickey Dolenz? I like him for some reason).

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 06:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"Alex, the funny thing about the Village People 'Renaissance' cover is that they're all going 'Wow, look what happened to you, how fabulous!' - and yet, it isn't fabulous at all.
-- colin s barrow (colinsbarro...), May 29th, 2003."

I've got to stop reading this at work.

So Michael Nesmith WAS a Monkee? Is that rekkid I mentioned any good? I've never had the innis to listen to it.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005YWRD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Which target demographic was in mind when this masterpiece was dreamed up?

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), May 29th, 2003.

the gay japanese demographic?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link

oh no, guys, you look coool. trust me.

http://math.scu.edu/~dostrov/split2.JPG

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 30 September 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

That Lonnie Liston Smith cover is AWESOME.
But:

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://ring.cdandlp.com/funkeur/photo_grande/5934936.jpg

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, that is a quality ass, but OH GOD AMBULATORY DOWN-SYNDROME ET COUSIN OF ROLLING STONES LOGO WITH UGLY SOCKS, STOP IT

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I worked at a music store... The first things guys would see when they passed this album were the tits. Then they'd see Richard D. James' face and yell out, "WTF?!"

― Jenny J., Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Lets try this again...

― Jenny J., Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

― Jenny J., Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

> AMBULATORY DOWN-SYNDROME ET COUSIN OF ROLLING STONES LOGO WITH UGLY SOCKS, STOP IT

Also the cousin to the title character in the '80s video game Jawbreaker, no?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Revive! In honor of these two blonde...ahem "beauties."

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006284JQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00064AEJW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I saw the Britney cd at Wal-mart yesterday, and the picture doesn't truly due it justice, for the background is really silver foil stock w/embossed doilies!

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.schenkt.nl/pics%20div/zing%20je%20moerstaalcopy.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

this might make me give up on the rev once and for all

http://www.mercuryrev.net/discography/discs/disc_migration.jpg

― jb, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if the Stefani cover was done by Nick Knight. Either way, it's a bad parody of his work (combined with Me Company).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.hardrock.com.pl/main2/service/dokken/tooth.jpg

and in case you haven't already seen this classic...

http://flakmag.com/web/images/julie16bday300.jpg

You can tell Julie knows the end is near, after the four hour car ride in the back on John's trunk.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

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