Top 10 worst album covers

[Guest]

http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html

[888888]

Very funny covers.

Here are some of my favorites:

[Capmaster]

That last one is just soooo wrong ....

[Guest]

I love the commentary on that one.

[888888]

Type O Negative's Origin of the Feces should probably be up here.

A fake live album, The Origin of the Feces, appeared the following year, its notorious cover depicting a pair of spread buttocks (the album was eventually reissued with less graphic artwork).

http://www.groundzero-brooklyn.com/TON/albums/ootf_ly.html

Great album though. Seriously, Type O rules.

[Supreme2k]

So, did goatsex rip them off, or vice-versa?

[888888]

So, did goatsex rip them off, or vice-versa?

Type O Negative was way earlier. But this got me thinking. There is no better publicity then having the REAL gotse.cx picture on your album. I'll see if I can get the rights.

[Reaper88]

Very funny covers.

Here are some of my favorites:

that lady kind of reminds me of dustin hoffman in tootsie.

[hech54]

One for the Aussies.

"Christmas Is Johnny Farnham" is actually worse...

[Guest]

Very funny covers.

Here are some of my favorites:

that lady kind of reminds me of dustin hoffman in tootsie.

[Capmaster]

One for the Aussies.

"Christmas Is Johnny Farnham" is actually worse...

A pretty "hep cat", daddy-o

[Pwyll]

Don't know if these are albums or publicity photos...but they are pretty funny...
http://www.nyheter.nu/kultur/

[housepig]

Type O Negative was way earlier. But this got me thinking. There is no better publicity then having the REAL gotse.cx picture on your album. I'll see if I can get the rights.

you could always go with tubgirl.jpg, except that the Anal Penetration / Anal Whore split lp already used it....

link to follow when I'm not at work

[Shocker Milwaukee]

The Grand Funk Railroad album where they're all sitting around naked in pile of hay. I'll try to find a pic....

[housepig]

okay, here's a link to the A.P. / A.W. split cd.

scroll down to see the cover, and know that the white sticker * on the cover is just to keep eBay from shutting down his auction for being obscene....

[Guest]

Completely vile. Reminds me of a jpeg I got titled"beer poop". Probably from a German porn. This guy shakes up a bottle of beer and inserts it in this girls arse. Ass it comes back out he laps at the stream. He gets startled when a log comes out mind you, he is covered with you know what. Why was he scared

[Capmaster]

Completely vile. Reminds me of a jpeg I got titled"beer poop". Probably from a German porn. This guy shakes up a bottle of beer and inserts it in this girls arse. Ass it comes back out he laps at the stream. He gets startled when a log comes out mind you, he is covered with you know what. Why was he scared

Myyyyyyyyyy ...that's sexy

[Guest]

I'd love to see "where are they now" documentaries on all of these covers. Heeey!That might be a good movie script

[ViRaL1]

I think it was called 'A Mighty Wind.'

[888888]

okay, here's a link to the A.P. / A.W. split cd.

scroll down to see the cover, and know that the white sticker * on the cover is just to keep eBay from shutting down his auction for being obscene....

Yep. I've seen that pic before but not on an album cover. It appears to be a capture from a Japanese scat\enema fetish video. Honestly, I don't think it's right that this Pennsylvania label uses that pic as their cover as I doubt the original owners and creators agreed to it or are getting paid anything. There has to be some kind of copyright infringement going on. The bands and the label are making money off this image by getting mega shock value in record stores and eBay but the photographer and the "actress" are not getting anything. I doubt the photo is public domain. It would be the equivelant of me using a picture of a celebrity I clipped out of the Enquirer as my album art. I would get sued! The only thing I can think of is that because the pic is Japanese, they can somehow get away with it. I feel like reporting them. But there are some good death metal bands on there.

As for ORLEANS, they are actually pretty famous and are the band that released that cheesy "Still the One" song that you hear in commercials.

"We're still having fun, and you're still the one"

[ViRaL1]

. I've seen that pic before but not on an album cover. It appears to be a capture from a Japanese scat\enema fetish video. Honestly, I don't think it's right that this Pennsylvania label uses that pic as their cover as I doubt the original owners and creators agreed to it or are getting paid anything. There has to be some kind of copyright infringement going on. The bands and the label are making money off this image by getting mega shock value in record stores and eBay but the photographer and the "actress" are not getting anything.

She looks like she's getting something, just can't make out what it is (or used to be before it was digested or pumped in).

[Guest]

[quote="888888"]

okay, here's a link to the A.P. / A.W. split cd.

scroll down to see the cover, and know that the white sticker * on the cover is just to keep eBay from shutting down his auction for being obscene....

Yep. I've seen that pic before but not on an album cover. It appears to be a capture from a Japanese scat\enema fetish video. Honestly, I don't think it's right that this Pennsylvania label uses that pic as their cover as I doubt the original owners and creators agreed to it or are getting paid anything. There has to be some kind of copyright infringement going on. The bands and the label are making money off this image by getting mega shock value in record stores and eBay but the photographer and the "actress" are not getting anything. I doubt the photo is public domain. It would be the equivelant of me using a picture of a celebrity I clipped out of the Enquirer as my album art. I would get sued! The only thing I can think of is that because the pic is Japanese, they can somehow get away with it. I feel like reporting them. But there are some good death metal bands on there.

As for ORLEANS, they are actually pretty famous and are the band that released that cheesy "Still the One" song that you hear in commercials.

"We're still having fun, and you're still the one"[/quote]

really!thats awesome Were they known homosexuals?

[Rookie64]

really!thats awesome Were they known homosexuals?

dunno...here's a more recent pic of 'em



The Village People along a number of Disco singers from that era were "out" though

I think being naked on your album covers was trend started by John Lennon & Yoko Ono - and 2 people I wish I'd never seen nude :P

[Guest]

I managed a band that opened for the Village People in 1990.They had a "private" back room that no one could enter

[Shocker Milwaukee]

OK - I couldn't find the Grand Funk Railroad Album cover I was thinking of. However, this one came to mind.

http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1372554

[housepig]

I don't think it's right that this Pennsylvania label uses that pic as their cover as I doubt the original owners and creators agreed to it or are getting paid anything. There has to be some kind of copyright infringement going on. The bands and the label are making money off this image by getting mega shock value in record stores and eBay but the photographer and the "actress" are not getting anything. I doubt the photo is public domain. It would be the equivelant of me using a picture of a celebrity I clipped out of the Enquirer as my album art. I would get sued! The only thing I can think of is that because the pic is Japanese, they can somehow get away with it.

well, since I know the label owner, I can state with 99.5% certainty that he didn't pay anyone jack shit (no pun intended) for the photo. You're probably right, although I think scat pron may be a grey area.

pron is legal, "obscenity" is not. I can go into a video store in the US and buy pron over the counter - to get scat, I have to go to some comparatively extreme lengths to find it. I don't know if scat videos are obscene under the law, or if no one has the guts to test it in an above-ground venue by distributing or offering it for sale in an overground manner.

so if we conclude that (by it's omission in the [overground] marketplace) that scat may be too hot to handle (obscene), then you wouldn't be able to copyright them. so this label could use them with impunity.

in reality, it's just another in a loooooooooooong line of informally-appropriated imagery in the metal & hardcore tradition. how much imagery is original, and how much is stolen / recontextualized / sampled / parodied?

[thayne]

Dr.Gee
Dude, you need to get rid of that avtar! It's freaking me out!

[Capmaster]

Dr.Gee
Dude, you need to get rid of that avtar! It's freaking me out!

No shit. The guy looks just a little bit too content standing behind his band mate ...naked

[Supreme2k]

OK - I couldn't find the Grand Funk Railroad Album cover I was thinking of. However, this one came to mind.

And to add to that...

[Rookie64]

Dr.Gee
Dude, you need to get rid of that avtar! It's freaking me out!

No shit. The guy looks just a little bit too content standing behind his band mate ...naked

You gotta laugh just thinking 'bout some guy goin' into the record store and wanting to buy that album ('cause maybe he liked the songs) but how do explain that to the cashier or the people waiting in back of ya

Makes me think something like the scene in Bananas when Woody Allen goes into a store and tries to buy a nudie mag....but is embarrassed about buying it. So he tries to be discreet and picks up a bunch of other mags to make it less obvious...then the cashier holds the nudie mag up in front of everyone around Woody Allen and asks one of the co-workers where the pricetag is for it...and keeps drawing more attention to the mag
While Woody is cringing and freaking out


Does anyone remember this Prince album -