Covers that were obviously last minute rush jobs

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The cover for the new Walkmen album just has the anonymous look of an "oh shit, we need an album cover right now - just do ANYTHING" last minute rush job.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00018D486.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Post more examples please!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd200/d239/d239589t470.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e662/e66246x35wt.jpg

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not a big Tortoise fan (they're ok), but I've always considered that one of the greatest covers of all time!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

this cover OWNS this thread:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DD7LB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That Walkmen cover would be 1000x cooler if "The Walkmen Bows + Arrows " was spray-painted on that wall and the guy's face/ shirt.

― Will (will), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c930/c930771qj1w.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not a big Tortoise fan (they're ok), but I've always considered that one of the greatest covers of all time!

I love that cover too! I'm not saying that it sucks by posting it here, just that it seemed like a last minute afterthought

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre100/e142/e142064f3zd.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e929/e929866vw40.jpg

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

― djdee2005, Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I refuse to believe that Creed cover would be approved by the company in a rush. There's no way the band did not FIGHT long and hard to get themselves chiselled into a goddamn tree. Damnit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.progressiverock.com/covers/12.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fuseboxfilms.com/8-track%20tapes/Chipmunks%20-%20Punk%201.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre100/e186/e18659wcch3.jpg

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I think he got that picture taken at Sears.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably got the shirt there while he was at it.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the metal machine music cover, even though it also kinda looks like a rush job. i love it b/c it looks like the cover for a live album, which feeds into the whole "SUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!" vibe of the whole thing.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

my nomination:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd400/d475/d47508k9trf.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you sure it's not Ghost?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

that one, too.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.visi.com/fall/discog/pics/ayamw%20big.jpg

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

most Fall album covers seem like rush jobs, actually....

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002GE7.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

― adamth, Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.clara.net/antoni/outsid.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen this cover entirely too much this week.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm starting to like it.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Seek help, then.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg000/g059/g05908odbe4.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.music.ne.jp/~softpop/Review/Pet%20Sounds.jpg

― Collardio G. (collardio), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

fifth greatest album cover of all time:

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

number one (duh):

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the cover of the current Westlife album on a supermarket display last week, and thought that even by their standards it was distinctly shoddy - it looked like a five-minute knock-up job you might do on a photocopier to promote a pub gig.

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 29 January 2004 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c962/c962364vo6v.jpg http://www.displeasedrecords.com/images/bandimages/celestialseason_sonicorb.jpg

― tod (tod), Thursday, 29 January 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002P49.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

They had to replace the original "flames" cover after the tragic plane crash, of course. So, sparing no expense, they used this: a greatly enlarged copy of a photo that was about 2" by 4" on the original's back cover. Dunno what's on the back of THIS one...

― Myonga Von Bontee, Thursday, 29 January 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i think this one says in the liners something about how they just made the cover in the day before it was due or something like that

http://www.jambase.com/features/overheard/ween.jpg
ween - white pepper

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 29 January 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.monorecords.de/zappa-fill.jpg

― mzui, Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Not too many of those look like real rush-jobs to me.
Anyways, I always HATED that Tortoise cover. It's a nice enough album, but that drawing is just hideous.

Ennihoo:
http://perso.ksurf.net/salmacis/pochettes/Zombies_Odessey.jpg
Surely they could've done something to fix the spelling error? I seem to recall there being a monetary issue behind why it wasn't done, though.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

botched job, baggy style:

http://www.cerysmatic.clara.net/Factory/images/facd310thumb.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh! Charlie, too right! I HATE that album cover, makes me feel ill!

― mzui, Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently it was the result of the band pissing Factory off so much that they sabotaged the cover on purpose as a typically self-harming act of revenge. Ahhh, Northside - shall we take a trip...down the DSS?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 29 January 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If that Sam and Dave cover is only the 5th best of all time, I'd love to see the top 4. Wow.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Thursday, 29 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

This was going to be kind of a joke, but actually, now I'm serious:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d662/d66282uy2yt.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 29 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000I07P.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Thrown together when the original, more predictably prurient cover was nixed by the record company.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Smell the Glove, et. al.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 29 January 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely they could've done something to fix the spelling error?

Doesn't it say in the liner notes to the Rhino CD version of that album that the mis-spelling was intentional?

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 29 January 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It's easy to say that after the effect.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

about the R.E.M. cover: just after it came out I read somewhere that finishing the cd + the artwork actually was a last minute rush job and that that was the reason they chose that title.

― willem (willem), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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http://www.dropd.com/issue/59/CD/ShudderToThink/cover.jpg

Tha album sounded like a last minute rush job too, ho fucking ho.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Geto Boys win, but this is certainly the runner up:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e249/e24927z3kre.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c461/c46141rq3et.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hardrock80.com/groupes/whitesnake/06Ready%20An

Apparently this was another Slippery When Wet / Smell The Glove type scenario. They censored the 'Snake!

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHA, wait, Slippery When Wet was supposed to be what, originally?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It was a slicked up bikini woman all wet (geddit??)....I remember the art work ran as an ad in Circus and some of those mags at the time....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It was originally a wet, busty woman with a ripped t-shirt on. The final version, I'm told, was finger-drawn text on a wet garbage bag (how appropriate).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

That's it? (x-post)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, even Chemical People, are far lower budget rock band at least not only afforded a model, but put her in a velvet Satan suit.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe so. I'm sure Jon himself would tell you a more entertaining anecdote about it, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000733R.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://chinook.kpc.alaska.edu/~kpcc/Dec2002/images/steal%20this%20album.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Simillarly,....

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000AOSX.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Lydon probably has little pantience for standing around for photographs.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/blackmore/Images/slipperywhenwet.jpg

Here's the original Slippery When Wet. Here I come, Banned Cover Art thread!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit, even the garbage bag cover is ten times better.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/bryan_ferry/foolish.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/MrHCIHF/RecCovrs/oof.gif!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.adequacy.net/reviews/uam/tripmastermonkey.jpg

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0002W2KRM.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002X9NWQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

About 3/4 (maybe more) of Neil Young's recorded output to thread.

(Note: this is the first time I have used the dreaded "to thread" construction, so leave me alone about it.)

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

that le tigre cover is great.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://umbrellamusic.com/images/large/tangiers-cover.jpg

indie rock bands just make me mad when they do shit like this

― Timbo, Monday, 15 November 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

will this do?

― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000002HLC.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

(grr)

― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think the Le Tigre cover looks rushed at all. They obviously had a certain design aesthetic in mind and strove to attain it (which I'd say they did). That said, that cover makes me not only never want to listen to Le Tigre ever again so long as I do live, but it makes me want to find existing copies of Le Tigre discs and snap them into many pointy shards that they may never be played by anyone ever again. Smarmy fucks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e505/e505317zjgw.jpg
When I first saw this, I thought it was a promo cover - but it's the actual release cover! Try! TRY, DAMN YOU!!

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"OMG. We have to get rid of that toilet somehow and fast. But how?!"
*in walks junior designer*

-- may pang (pange...), January 29th, 2004.

Toilet issues aside, I doubt this is a rushed cover. Imagine the logistics involved in fitting the Mamas and the Papas into the bathtub.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

'I Am The Walrus' - Joe Pop-O-Pie. He doesn't even bother trying to hit the notes in the last verse - his voice just sort of slumps into the corner. Total classic.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd400/d484/d48479095bs.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh right, album covers. i thought song covers.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

how bout nearly all the GBV album covers to thread? except maybe mag earwhig. as i'm totally jpeg-challenged, maybe someone could post anything from the scat years, bee 1000, or alien lanes.

not that there is anything wrong with 'em though as they all completely represent well to the consumer what their going to get: slapdash lo-fi geek-rock that doesn't in the least take itself too seriously (though can't say the same for a lot of the fans).

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know about that. gbv strikes me as the kind of band that spends more time on their covers than they do on their music. and while a lot of them are far from great, they do fit in perfectly with the aesthetic of the music. they're just kind of hit-and-miss. while the cover of bee thousand, for example, is nothing to write home about, the inside art is fantastic.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

curiosity google provides this page of banned covers:
http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_5747

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

while the cover of bee thousand, for example, is nothing to write home about, the inside art is fantastic.
-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), November 16th, 2004.

you are correct 'bout that.

curious, does anyone else refold their CD booklets for just this reason? to create a new cover? i did with bee 1000 so the cool train with 'guided by voices' inscribed wreaks into the guys head.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Thrown together when the original, more predictably prurient cover was nixed by the record company.

Actually, I heard Jon Bon say that he had it nixed himself, for being too pink and effeminate.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Could be, Kenny. Manufactured controversy either way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"...the inside art is fantastic."
"curious, does anyone else refold their CD booklets for just this reason? to create a new cover?"

i did this with the butthole surfers "electriclarryland"
and definitely a few others i can't recall right now. i've wanted to do this to plenty more. yeah, sometimes the cover art detracts from the whole thing, to where i don't want to pick it up and play the cd.

― reo, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00022FWPE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg000/g093/g09367kh4da.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

am i wrong for loving the PiL Live In Tokyo sleeve?

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

no, many here seem to be wrong.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

am i wrong for loving the PiL Live In Tokyo sleeve?

No, I love it too. The album itself? Eh, not so much. Actually, that's not true. While it's widely regarded as being crap (Lydon sacks the classic line-up and recruits hacks from New Jersey....oh, and Shatkins) to limp through PiL classics. I once was stuck in a multi-hour car trip to the Berkshires with a friend and only two tapes....Live in Tokyo and Yes' Tales from the Toppographic Oceans. After hours of excruciating prog-wankery (and I like Yes), Live in Tokyo sounded like the most vital, fresh music in all creation.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I especially like Live in Tokyo's back cover. Signature Lydon scowl and red-yellow spikes like a beacon of bitterness in a hazy sea of brunette.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that cover too... definitely made me determined to make it to tokyo someday when i first saw it

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Likewise. Still haven't, alas.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I think Lost in Translation officially cured me of my desire to goto Tokyo.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://fun.supereva.it/cdcoverart/copertine/antenna_zz_top.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Easy one:

http://coverart.last.fm/300x300/23157.jpg

― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think anyone actually rushed to do this, but
http://fun.supereva.it/cdcoverart/copertine/zuma_neil_young.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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