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Cerys Matthews - Cockahoop (2003)
This album cover proves that no matter how disastrously bad your fashion sense is, you can always make it look that much more ridiculous if you portray yourself with some artwork as drawn by a 10 year...
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Eddie Layton - Great Organ Hits
Eddie only learned how to play the organ because he thought he could pick up chicks. When he discovered that most women don't find playing the organ to be very attractive, he resorted to subliminal...
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Crosby, Stills & Nash - Live It Up (1990)
Ah yes, whenever I think of the smooth, folky melodies of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, what immediately come to mind for me are giant hot dogs. On the moon.
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Ted Nugent - Love Grenade (2007)
You hear that, women with breast cancer? Ted Nugent says "Fuck you!"Amazingly, this is actually less demeaning to women than the original, unused version of this album cover:
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The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked (2003)
This cover breaks my eyes every time I look at it. I refuse to believe that anyone with any inkling of design sense had anything to do with this cover. Using photo negatives on an album cover is a...
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Led Zeppelin - Coda (1982)
You know the album you're releasing is a cynical cash-in when you can't even spring for actual album artwork. Granted, stark minimalism can work sometimes (such as the iconic art for the Beatles' White...
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LaVerne Tripp - The World of Laverne Tripp
"Oh I'll get my reward all right! A reward of ETERNAL GLOBAL DOMINATION! I'm going to have to get rid of this leisure suit first, though. Isn't really becoming of the future WORLD EMPREROR TRIPP! Shit,...
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Birth Control - Operation (Alternate Cover) (1971)
Quite a while ago, I took these guys to task for one cover of their album Operation, which featured a katydid chewing up human babies. What I didn't realize at the time is that apparently Birth...
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Dave Starr - The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat
"Huh? Who are you assholes? Can't you see I'm eating? The album cover? I thought you fuckheads were coming at 6! Look, if you want a picture so bad, just take one right now. I ain't in no fuckin' mood...
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Various Artists - That Dobro Sound's Goin' Round!
There are so many hilarious things about this cover that it's easiest to just make a list.1) The fact this photo was obviously taken in a studio warehouse instead of a barn2) The black on yellow text...
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Various Artists - M'm! M'm! Good!
Another product placement album (for Campbell's Soups of all fucking things) and this one is just goddamned inexplicable. The mother's so hopped up on thorazine she's starting to think that she's...
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Chumbawamba - Tubthumper (1997)
I've talked before about 90s album cover design and its failings. Here, we see it in action. Any ape with a new copy of Photoshop could've made this fucker in about 30 seconds. Take a photo of a baby,...
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Formula 3 - Sognando e Risognando (1972)
I didn't know that cutting a woman in half could actually be made more creepy and disgusting, but these guys sure managed to figure it out. I guess they figured that if they made the body look like a...
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American Gypsy - Angel Eyes (1974)
Portraying your band as a group of cheetahs on an album cover is kind of strange but it could potentially work if done well. Unfortunately, whoever drew this apparently only had four paint colors to...
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Anton Maiden - Anton Gustafsson Tolkar Iron Maiden (1999)
As I was saying earlier, Photoshop has enabled damned near anyone an opportunity to make bad album covers. You can be an ugly, nerdy metalhead with a computer and a dream and all it takes is 15 pounds...
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Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! (2007)
I love psychedelic artwork as much as the next guy but I usually don't like it quite this terrifying. I especially take issue with the really ugly comic book style color job on the figures. This all...
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Fotomaker - Fotomaker (1978)
While this obviously isn't on the same level, as, say, Virgin Killer, there's definitely some implications to this album cover that I don't like in the slightest. At least Fotomaker only made a preteen...
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Frank Black and the Catholics - Frank Black and the Catholics (1998)
Boy there's nothing like having a color palette on your album that makes its title hard to see. It's even better when said color palette consists of brown, yellow, gold, and more brown.
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Gang of Four - Mall (1991)
This album cover would already be pretty lousy if it had come from some rinky-dink pop-punk band or similar, which is what the album cover reminds me of. It's absolutely depressing when it comes from a...
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Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary (2003)
Putting a photo of any band members on an album cover isn't a bad idea, really. It just helps if you don't have so much lighting shined on your face that you look like a bloated, doughy corpse. Soaking...
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The Monkees - Pool It! (1987)
Somebody should have told the Monkees that they stopped being teen heartthrobs approximately 20 years before this album got made. Let's face it, there's nothing more depressing than a bunch of doughy,...
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Ratchell - Ratchell II (1972)
Words just fail me on this one. I never realized there could be a band so collectively ugly that even doctored, Glamour-shots style photos couldn't save any of them. These guys look less like a rock...
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Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (1994)
Q: How do you make the usual sort of cut-rate fantasy artwork found on countless metal album covers even uglier than usual?A: Make everything a eye-hurting shade of blue, and I mean everything.
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Quick Change - Circus of Death (1988)
You are now listening to a metal album. If the metal you are listening to is not sufficiently "face-melting," you may have to resort to ripping your own face off for the proper metal effect. To...
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moe. - No Doy (1996)
moe. must have realized a bit too late that having a photo of a man with a nail driven through his skull on an album cover was pretty morbid and sent the wrong message about what listening to the...
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