Worst Album Covers in History?

What, in your opinion, is the worst album cover ever?

definitely a contender

also awful

Also that one Iron Maiden album.

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King Crimson's debut's cover was shit

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as was PF's Dark Side, don't know why people call it a "design classic", when it's more of a "design assic"

Font doesn't fit but I like the imae.

oh god what the fuck were they thinking

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These threads are fun

actually bad

unfortunate products of their time

botched potentially good album cover

not actually bad

t. designer

yea, seems many artists had a lot of problems with fonts back then

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The original artist sent the band a mock up and the band decided to use the mock up as the final album art.
The artist asked them not to be credited.

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scan lines are actually part of the artwork

another so-called "classic"

HAHAH A SPORK XDDDD

STA's album cover is dope

This. Holy fuck.

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no idea what Floys were thinking with this one either

This is actually amazing

We wuz Kanes and sheet

You literally don't get it, but that's okay.

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What are these

self aware shit is still ultimately shit

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album covers

I mean yeah, but I always saw that design as descriptive of collaborative sampling/production

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Agreed.
"dude let's just use a banana as the album cover people will lose their shit trying to figure out what it means LOL"

inside is yellow :)

>designer
haha

Wow they're literally all shit

When Dreams and Day Unite is a great album cover. Falling into Infinity, Train of Thought and Systemic Chaos are all good, well thought out and recognizable. Metropolis pt 2 and Octavarium are both ok, not great but serviceable. The rest are horrendous photoshop collages I have no idea why anyone would approve.

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is alright

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if you think that album cover is bad you don't understand it.

almost all modern prog bands, metal or otherwise, have a similar odd aesthetic

it's pretty weird actually

Basically every Iron Maiden cover. Or every Dream Theatre or Stratovarius cover.

Goddamnit he's so cute.

Hours is even worse than that one

If nothing else, you can say that the quality of AnCo's cover art is generally reflective of both the quality and style of the music.

And while Centipede Hz left something to be desired, it's certainly not the worst cover (or album) ever.

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>t. designer

kek

Man what is it with black people and DBZ

>every maiden cover

wew lad

Looks like covers from some flea market bootlegs sold by a sketchy, over-enthusiastic foreigner.

"YOU LIKE THE PINK FLOYDS? I CAN SELLS YOU THE PINK FLOYDS! IT'S REMASTER COVER ART!"

holy shit

The girl you knew in special needs class who liked one piece
This was drawn by that girl. This is what she grew up to do.

YES! WE HAVE THE CRIME-SON KINGDOM! YOU BUY?

Good album, dreadful cover.

A true classic

southern hip hop is basically cheating

I second that.

nice quads

Honestly, early King Crimson had the worst covers.

I honestly like 80% of these because of the postironic connotations

i am too far gone

You know this could've been alright if not for the godawful letters

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All of these are fucking great.
Y'all're bitches
Peace

Shit

They literally ripped off Sandman

kek

what's wrong with that

FUCK no

I actually used to hate this and still think it's kinda bad but now it's also kinda good at the same time
same goes for the original version of it

This was pre 9/11

No it wasn't

Don't know why but I kinda like this. It embraces bad with simplicity, and makes a good shit.

it's horrible... I love Bowie but how can you defend that shit.

While I don't find it bad, I still don't know what the fuck is that supposed to be

I disagree, I like it.

>mfw inside is pink
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Wow

Prince's discography is full of awful awful covers but this one just tops it for me

>It's amazing because I ironically enjoy lower income black culture!

>The Coup -- Nigger Music

Lol. This

It's funny how it's not considered the least bit racist or patronizing when educated white people use cringeworthy hyperbole to describe knuckle-dragging jigaboo dross.

I'm fucking dead

is this the new liturgy album?

This looks like an awful PS1 game cover

This isn't the GOAT album covers thread

I'm sure the singer of Liturgy could spin a snappy Artist statement to justify that album cover.

>The poor artistic quality is reflective of the perpetual state of suffering blah blah despair blah blah and a refusal to engage in bourgeois aesthetics that are not related to the TRUE nature of metal... and something about the dark void of existence

no

>the_truth_behind_911.jpg

Where's the one post where someone goes into detail explaining the symbolism in this cover and how it is a masterpiece

they must really like Karma Police

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die soon

this is classic and "fresh white reebocks kickin your ass" is a legendary album title

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