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

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Wow. I'm still reeling from Mr.Hands!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

"And now, my young padawan... to complete your training, and become a Jedi master... you must first grab my magic ball!"

"Master - NOOOOOO!!!!" *becomes Darth Vader*

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025H2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Sam J. (samjeff), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this must be the worst album cover ever. It's not even funny or weird, just plain BAD.

http://www.nic.fi/~jsantala/nightwish/ocean.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 10 July 2003 07:56 (twenty years ago) link

joe cocker is the undisputed master at this sorta thing ... take a look fer yerselves ... ALL HAIL JOE COCKER ALBUM/CD COVERS!!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 10 July 2003 08:12 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d848/d84839q75re.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 10 July 2003 08:14 (twenty years ago) link

That Nightwish cover is actually kinda cool.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

Nightwish have the best album covers! They're just all-around perfect. Especially the picture on the front of their website where one of the guys is trying to look all tough in a doo-rag...

― adam (adam), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000348M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 10 July 2003 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

those herbie hancock ones are great!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e697/e69782f6sv4.jpg

I like to pretend this one didn't happen.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000C9ZLD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― wtf?, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

It's the color choice that really does that one in.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

An obvious one:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f110/f11074q3334.jpg

A lot of people wondered what they were thinking - and and lot of people still do....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

played a gig with Cheap Trick once in the 80's and Steve Walsh was the *hidden* keyboard player. He wore Reeboks, tube sox, and running shorts. He had a rainbow mohawk. He stood and dance all night behind a speaker stack in a club that only held about 200 people. Everyone could see him, but he was never acknowlaged. It was sad and hilarious at the same time. When the band was done, he acted as a roadie. Neilson kind of shut me up when I was making jokes ala "Carry on my Wayward son" but then he started snickering too.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

That Strokes one is a (non-commissioned) painting from some artist, innit? Not that that makes it good. I really hate the fact it's a bit lopsided, I scanned it in three times before I realised it wasn't my fault.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:49 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.io.com/~dork/records/pages/DrugsDave.html

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:33 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

Yes and I thank You! Don't know IF I'm in the right place or not, but here goes! I am looking for a company called PEN & PIXEL GRAPHICS INCORPORATED - 2400 Central Parkway - Suite M - Houston, Texas.

Do I have the right Album Cover People? Please email me back as I am interested in doing a CD Album cover for my music. Will await your reply. Thank you!

― Gerald L. Withers, Friday, 26 March 2004 07:48 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg000/g054/g05479gvo26.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:03 (twenty years ago) link

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

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