This is an interesting post. I have TWO vinyl copies of The Beatles, aka The White Album. To me, they are super cool, and I'll tell you why. First off, the words "The Beatles" are in white!! They are in letters which are elevated the rest of the cover, so yeah, you can notice them if you hold it at an angle, or feel them, but otherwise, the sucka is ALL white!!(except for a six-digit number imprinted in the bottom right corner.) Now, the other thing that's cool about the vinyl album is that the booklet you get in the CD is much-smaller and different from the record version. The CD-booklet is extremely abridged, although it contains many of the photos and all the lyrics. It also includes the color photos I got inside my album sleeve, but here's the BIG difference! The album didn't come with a booklet. It came with a humongous folded-up poster. One side had all the photos in the CD-booklet,and several more besides, plus it had several of John Lennon's doodles, which I can't find in the CD-booklet. Also, those four color photos of the Beatles, which take up the middle portion of the CD-booklet, they came in 7 3/4" by 10 3/4" glossy poster-quality paper (not photo-quality, but gettin' there...no, I never put them in any 8X11 frames, but they're much sweeter than the CD stuff.)
So let's see. I think I lerve the "White Album's" cover and all the treasure trove of goodies. Yeah.
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I agree with Mark, whom I share the coincidence of owning two copies of the "White Album" on vinyl with. Following the overdone Sgt. Pepper cover, it made perfect sense.
I didn't say that I didn't like the Sgt. Pepper cover, just that it was a tad bit "overdone". The Beatles, never ones to repeat themselves in any way, made a good move by toning it down a few notches for the "White Album". As far as bad covers are concerned, how about any Meat Puppets or Dinosaur Jr. albums? I love both bands, but man are those albums ugly. If we want to talk "lame", Johnny Cash's "Bitter Tears" and "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" need some recognition.
I think it's long been established that Creed's Weathered has one of the worst, if not the worst, album covers ever. Not to say anything about the quality of the music.
Its easy to pick crappy music album covers. Most are as bad or worse as the music inside. Here are some albums with real quality music on the inside with lame covers:
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla Strokes - Is This It (both versions)
I'm with Paradox...Weathered by Creed is probably all-time's worst album cover. How can you guys even bring up the White Album when the cover to Weathered by Creed is out there.
But, we wouldn't want to dismiss Creed's freshman outing "Human Clay", who's cover depicts a man being meld from the earth's surface. That was some stupid shit.
And coming in at number 3 would have to be Nickelback's Silver Side Up. I mean, are they fucking kidding with that shit, or what?
Plus, Creed and Nickelback are probably the two worst bands on earth, so it makes sense.
Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine (Really bad computer graphics - very cheap looking)
The Prodigy, Music For the Jilted Generation (It looks like a man's head is melting, and I wish he had his mouth closed - gross!!)
Courtney Love, America's Sweetheart (I am a fan of Courtney Love, and I believe she is talented, but even I do not want to see an overly airbrushed image of her wearing lingerie/leather/angel wings. She needs to start cultivating a different part of her identity . . . .
Here's a recent album cover that really pissed me off from seeing it on store CD racks..
Ashlee Simpson - I Am Me
With the shadow making it look like there's a tear running down her face. Waaa! Poor me, I lipsynced on Saturday Night Live and got caught! I'm going to go mourn the millions of dollars in my bank account. Poor, poor me!
There are bad album covers, and ones that make you want to forcefully give the artist gender reassignment therapy to make them into a man to make it socially acceptable to punch them in the face.
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