The Twenty-Five Worst Album Covers of All Time

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[Revolting cat!]

It's time we go international, says Mamula!

[Revolting cat!]

Listen to Bichevskaya, bitch!

[j_tull]

Broadsword. Hmm, that one has been out of the rotation for a while. Time to give it a listen, thanks for the reminder!

[Salamander]

One of his best, IMO.

Barre goes over the top on the title track.

Some of my other “lesser known” faves are Crest Of A Knave, Catfish Rising and Root To Branches.

“Jump Start (Or Tow Me Away)” is a ‘hit replay’ song....:)

[”Hey, Jack the Ripper, won’t ya c’mon over and hook me up to the power lines of your love”]

God, I love that reverb/echo thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxl-EfA_X2k

[Rocko]

Is it possible the song is as great as the album cover? It is!

Julie's Sixteen Birthday -- the song!

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

What a talent! And the comments underneath that Youtube are pretty good too:

That's a beautiful song. But PLEASE untie Julie, and let her out of the trunk of your Camaro. FOR YEARS I wanted her to see her seventeenth birthday. Deep down I know you chopped her up into steaks and have pieces of her in your freezer, and I bet her flesh tastes great with a little Texas Pete, but for my own piece of mind, tell me you set her free so she could shack up with some other West Virginian redneck so he could chop her up and fry her flesh and make Julieburgers out of her.

Of course, I think that comment clearly got its facts wrong, because we know this guy probably drives an El Camino, not a Camaro. Which means no trunk, though Julieburgers in the basement freezer are still a possibility.

[InvisibleChurch]

Nice to see Mr. Lung make a cameo. BTW, what’s up with the band? Ian is taking TAAB on the road but without Martin. Has MB been sacked? He noted on his website that he was forming a band to debut next year (I think).

[angcat]

It is a disturbing thread yet I cannot click away.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

That appears to be a portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest on Byrd's wall:



Per Wikipedia, Forrest "served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against blacks, carpetbaggers, scalawags and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South."

Yup, that's our Bobby Byrd, Grand Kleagle and bright star of the Democrat Party.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

The Whipped Cream lady’s name was Dolores Erickson, and she was pregnant.

She’s covered with a white blanket, with the addition of a few cans of shaving cream.

That album-cover is legendary— sometime catch Herb Alpert in one of the wonderful jazz evenings he and his marvelous wife, singer Lani Hall, have been putting on across the country, and maybe he’ll tell the story. It’s a hoot. It took some doing to get it past the record company, I gather, but it’s probably the most influential (and imitated, and satirized) album cover of all time.

[a fool in paradise]

I've got that other party record, I think Scatman Crothers sings on it.

Here's a different party record.

[a fool in paradise]

Amy Camus?

[Fledermaus]

The 2nd gayest album cover just behind (pun intended) that ManOWar one Tom Servo listed.

Let’s not forget their one hit was “Dance With Me”.

Hmmmmm

[Fledermaus]

I’m pretty sure I knew a couple of guys that had that original album cover.

I know I’ve seen the photo before.

Did they sell any before they changed it? Like the Beatles one?

[Fledermaus]

I didn’t know Sally Stuthers had an album.

[Fledermaus]

You need help! LOL

[Revolting cat!]

(All of these people in the picture are dead now!)

[Revolting cat!]

Hmmmm. Missing a "CHA" from the title!

[Revolting cat!]

Bangable!

[Revolting cat!]

I'd drink that!