most awesome disappointments set up by record sleeves

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keeping in mind that often then name of the band is PART of the sleeve

my vote is for "macho mozart" by the latin rascals

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.coconutsdisk.com/catalog/images/R0012188.JPG

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

That sleeve is awful.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

The dude looks like Tiny Tim. What does the rekkid sound like?

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

HORRIBLE

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

however, the latin rascals are (usually) geniuses

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT A SURPRISE THE RECORD WAS HORRIBLE SHOCKA

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha dude actually that sleeve is kinda awesome

― mango selassie (teenagequiet), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

duh!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

naw that was directed at my macho mozart hatin' bro mr. que there.

― mango selassie (teenagequiet), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

That sleeve is not awesome in the slightest. Country Church is awesome. Nantucket covers are awesome.

http://www.lumi.at/images/weblog/worst_album_cover/country_church.gif

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.overstock.com/f/102/3117/8h/www.overstock.com/images/products/3/L10192629.jpg

This is probly my most awesome disappointment, but I haven't listened to it in 20-ish years so maybe I'd like it now.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

however, SUBMITTED:

"macho mozart appears neither macho nor mozarty"

― mango selassie (teenagequiet), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

You're all a bunch of blind people. All of you!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

mr. que were you really expecting great music from the country church record, based on that sleeve?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YES

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i mean i wouldn't, but this thread isn't about consensus on what's a great sleeve, it's about you and your disappointments

aha so does the music suck?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I expected this would be awesome but it is not.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Whoops. This one:

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drf000/f079/f079586ef61.jpg

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://orbita.starmedia.com/~subhumans/grupos/throbbing_gristle/20jazz.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

That album does not disappoint.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Neither of the last 2 albums disappoint!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.debaser.it/resize.aspx?path=/files/be%20here%20now.jpg&width=250

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's a subjective question!

xpost

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

haha that record sleeve doesn't look anything like oasis sounds

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I know. Judging from the cover, it sort of sends out the message that "We have just made our "Sgt. Pepper", and then what you get is a Cocaine-influenced collection of some good songs, drowned in overlong arrangements with overlong guitar solos and way too much strings and brass.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

You make it sound much better than it is, Geir.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mykeweiskopf.com/8eyedspy.jpg

Beautiful Neville Brody sleeve. Hideous Lydia Lunch racket.

(Sorry, no wave fans.)

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002HDV.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1057208638_.jpg

Not actually a CD comprised of transient random noise bursts with announcements ...

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-127881-001.gif

... nor a CD of meontological research recordings and test(e) tones.

(We were hoping for more like this.)

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ach, bastard Discogs.com image hosting.

Re: above-

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drd200/d296/d2963184f1b.jpg

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I can't tell you how many times I've seen this sleeve in the dollar bin:
http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/140/149492.jpg
and thought it had to be some cool New Wave record.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 28 September 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

myke i have a disappointment story regarding that stereolab record as well, but it's not my own. (i think the music really lives up to the sleeve.)

in 1994 i had just made friends with some kids in glasgow, and i was so thankful for it, because i knew absolutely no one there, and hadn't even heard the sound of my own voice for weeks except in shops. i was 19 at the time. one of these kids was about 17 i guess, always on speed, a total tweaker but very harmless, wouldn't hurt a fly, tall and gangly and constantly sweating. he had come of age, like many of my friends there (who were all a couple of years younger than me) listening almost exclusively to techno and dance music. one time i put a steve wonder tape on the stereo and he asked me if it was massive attack. another time i had "bellbottoms" by jon spencer on and he was like "is this heavy metal?" anyway, before all that, i came home with that stereolab record and his eyes suddenly lit up. "new vinyl!" he said. "let's play it!" the look on his face was really priceless.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Euai, I had a similarly starry-eyed boyfriend who saw this Elvis Costello-Steve Nieve box set and was enticed by the candy-colored sleeve, only to discover it was more "music for thirty-year-olds," as he so gently put it. He did me the favor of stealing my Pansy Division CDs when we split up not long thereafter (presumably also for the sleeves).

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

"A Real Mother For Ya'" owns, fool.

I wonder how many people bought "20 Jazz Funk Greats" expecting actual jazz funk greats. Cheeky, Mr. P-Orridge.

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/images/riotactcover2.jpg

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, I loved that album the day it came out, and for about a year afterwards. "I Am Mine" is heaven in 3/4 time. Ed mumbles bored Lennonisms for a few minutes, Stone lays down a poppy riff, you think the song's gonna fade out on the third chorus, and BAM!!! Mike McCready busts out an infernal, wailing mini-solo, and I glimpse the face of God -- for 20 seconds!!!

"Bu$hleaguer" made me a democrat.

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

I like TG (and dislike jazz-funk), but the album cover was designed to disappoint jazz-funk fans, surely

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 29 September 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

@ Dan Selzer:
What the fuck record is that? I've seen it dozens of times too,I always flip it over and become disappointed and I still can't recall what artist it is.

― chad (chad), Friday, 29 September 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

some crappy James Taylor album

― Rat Nasty (ratnasty), Friday, 29 September 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Tism-machiavelli-and-the-four-seasons.jpg

Not a disappointment.

― bergholt (bergholt), Friday, 29 September 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

the label logo, if nothing else, tips you off there

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

why did geir capitalize "cocaine"?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

James fucking taylor indeed.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

James Taylor in yacht rock shockah

Also, why "O"?

― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Stereolab nicked that cover from a Haymarket Stereo Test record.

Side One Track 1 of which was indeed named and contained "Channel Recognition, phasing and balance. Transient random noise bursts with announcements"

S1 T4 is Wow and Flutter.

Also all the gubbins about "Art is a science having more than seven variables" was lifted off the same disc.

A classic found for 25p in Oxfam.

― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

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