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Originally posted by Mel:
pitchforkmedia.com came out with their worst album covers. it's pretty interesting

I had a look through it. Oh man, did I ever laugh.

Some of those covers were geniunely gross, though, so I'll just link to the funny ones, and save you all some trauma.
The Cranberries - Bury the Hatchet
Minami Haruo - Sekai
Ultimate Spinach - The Box
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Adman - Jammin'
Corey Feldman - Love Left
Ken - By Request Only
Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
Milton Babbitt - The Music of Milton Babbitt
Electronicat - 21st Century Toy
Little Feat - Hoy-Hoy!
Holly McNarland - Stuff
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal (borderline gross, but still more hilarious than anything)
Elvis Costello - Spike
Andy Bey - Experience and Judgment
Nantucket - Nantucket
Doktor Kosmos - Cocktail
Richard & Willie - Funky Honkey, Nasty Nigger
Fotomaker - Vis-a-Vis

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I've always hated the cover of "Automatic for the People" by REM, even though I think it's one of the best albums ever recorded.

The Original Gordon by The Barenaked Ladies was horrendous. What made it so awful was the picture of the band itself. No doctoring, airbrushing, or trick photography. Just 5 really ugly guys making really dumb faces. The new cover has some strange Pepsi logo.

Nobody has mentioned:

Deerhoof - Milk Man

I've got a banana imbedded in my armpit! Help!

Here is my list (i will not include pop album covers or pseudo metal covers like disturbed because if i do i'll not sleep this night:

The books - lost and safe
Controller Controller - History
Golden Smog - Weird Tales
Rosanne Cash - Rules of travel
Mclusky - My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad And Painful Than Yours
Mogwai - Come on die young

and many more

I'm pretty sure that this Xiu Xiu cover has to be the worst album cover ever.

Thanks a lot for sharing, Bro!

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Originally posted by mark f:
Thanks a lot for sharing, Bro!

I do my best.

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I'm pretty sure that this Xiu Xiu cover has to be the worst album cover ever.

I'm pretty sure Xiu Xiu is one of the worst bands ever.

Other crappy cover art? Beck: Guero.

I think any cover depicting an artist trying to look earnest is retarded, except for maybe Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" mug shot.

Imitation, moreso in visual arts than music, bugs the hell out of me. So I give you Exhibit A and B. You can see their big brothers here and here. It's one thing to pay homage to Elvis Presley and announce, maybe somewhat inadvertently, a rock revolution, but it's another thing entirely just to copy.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice calls, m.l.

I loves me some Joe Jackson and have no doubt of his respect and admiration for Sonny Rollins, but I thought his homage to Newk was a poor choice then and I still think so.

The Clash definitely got it right.

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I thought the homage to Herb Alpert (via Soul Asylum) was at least funny:

The original: http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/A/Alpert/herb_alpert.html

The funny reponse:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000018VF/qid=1141504...79888-2019144?n=5174

I think there was at least one other take off on the Herb Alpert but I can't recall it now...

Side-by-sides of famous copycat covers here:

http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/2006/02/cover-me-im-going-in.html

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
I thought the homage to Herb Alpert (via Soul Asylum) was at least funny:

The original: http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/A/Alpert/herb_alpert.html

The funny reponse:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000018VF/qid=1141504...79888-2019144?n=5174
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Wow, that's a pretty impressive copy. Even the tone and gradient of the background is perfect.

For some reason I've always hated Hunky Dory's cover, It looks like it belongs in my Grandma's house, and does no justice to the music.

I don't like the music or the cover of All Night Radio's Spirit Stereo Frequency

Also, I don't think she could have made herself look any worse or make her album look any more like cheesy adult contempo.

Dylan's Empire Burlesque.

>>>This one right here!<<<

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I'm pretty sure Xiu Xiu is one of the worst bands ever.

Uuh, how about hell no.