My vote goes to Lovehunter by Whitesnake
I saw this album cover in a charity shop the other day, and had a sniggering fit. Almost bought the album so I could see the assistants face as they put it in a bag, but bottled it. You can see why.
Warning: Wrongness/Offensive image after the jump
http://hardrockheavymetal.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/whitesnake-lovehunter-1979.jpg
Is there a worse album cover than this? I'm here for the magic...
Hard fi's new one
was the definition of fail
^
Dismemberment Plan
Emergency & I
Looks like early nineties clip art.
I like that cover.
Take that back!
Haha! I think it might be the lines
and colours used, but yes, it does look rather cliparty.
Haha
A the Plan album covers are pretty horrendous I reckon, Is Terrified has got to be my least favourite, it looks like it should be a The Shaman album or something.
I vote this:
http://dujour.tavfiavo.com/art/B000E6GC1Q.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Absolutely awful. Crap record too.
hmm.
NSFW
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Carnivorous_erection_Album_cover.jpg
That's troubling
on every conceivable level.
Can we have comedy bad rather than 'ugh, I think I'll skip that last cookie' bad?
By worst, you mean best, right?
That's clearly one of the greatest album covers ever.
this rocks
i mean seriously rocks
Huey Lewis & the News - Sports
is my favourite:
http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/huey-lewis.jpg
Great band
http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/98301.jpg
Love the font on
'Huey Lewis', it's amazingly 80s but classic at the same time.
the many moods of melly
is a great one, though i can't find a picture :(
we have a whole shelf of them in the music library at uni, but for some reason that's the only one i can remember off hand.
obv
http://tinyurl.com/5d2gvh
Clearly this.....
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/68121595_71bd8c17f6.jpg
or even this!
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/66-1.jpg
terrifying stuff!
Changesbowie
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Dbcb.jpg
Wow. That really is shit, actually.
what's wrong with being sexy?
quite obviously
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2897/empirelbo3.jpg
this is a terrible album cover
i don't know why is doesn't get more abuse
http://tinyurl.com/5nu4qs
Clearly this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/TheFratellis_-_HereWeStand.jpg
because it's quite cool?
three-way gay sex on the Liars single "it fit when i was a kid" is fairly hideous
and dinosaur jr "where you been" but there's lot's worse, just can't think of them now
here it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Fit_When_I_Was_a_Kid
^ i vote this one.
ditto
Saved by the techno pun though??
That remix is an atrocity.
i own this
on 7 inch always a talking point
check out the cookie on the disc picture
It's filled with olives or something
actually if you have the cd version
the picture of the cookie is scarier than the 3-Way. Look closely; I think those black things baked into that overdone cookie are OLIVES!
It's got to be Sweet Sixteen by Royal Trux
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/blueskin/ohnotheydidnt/ontd2/royaltrux_controv.jpg
Why? Why? Oh God Why?
I don't know what to think about that.
Did someone have to create that for the photo or is it just a 'found' picture of awfulness.
Menergy by White Octave.
Which is also the worst album title.
>_
http://panther1.last.fm/coverart/300x300/2028631.jpg
Seriously Virgin Killer Wins!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg
It's not even shocking as it's intended to be just absolutely awful.
Rick James...
...this is a beauty.
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/258/0000025883_350.jpg
predictable
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/X33Q/Zip-Zap.jpg
This makes me feel ill
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lovedrive-Scorpions/dp/B0000073NG/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1213175692&sr=8-10
The worst and the best
http://cdbaby.com/cd/armofroger
I don't reckon it is that bad.
That womans arse looks positively edible.
Stadium Arcadium
I bet some designer got tens of thousands for that ugly thing. It looks like a petrol station rock compilation.
I thought it was a petrol station rock compilation?
ire works
by dillinger was pretty bad, underated record though
Good To Go by Terrorvision
was pretty bad, especially after the genius sleeve for Regular Urban Survivors
Yes
I remember that sleeve being particularly poor. Shocking pink and acid yellow dayglo was not a good move.
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Shitty cover and name but still one of the best albums of recent years.
I like the name
reminds me of Super Mario World.
This?
http://tinyurl.com/5fegbn
here's the terrorvision one in all it's glory
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Terrorvision-GoodToGo.jpg
never fails to make me laugh :D
while probably not
one of "the worst of all time", this one is new to me and pretty horrific:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/GavinRossdale-Wanderlust.jpg
always my favorite
http://www.octanecreative.com/Parodyville/worst_album_covers/9.jpg
a close second:
http://www.octanecreative.com/Parodyville/worst_album_covers/16.jpg
for anyone who's interested, the louvin bros. even have their own museum in nashville!
either
scorpions - virgin killer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg
or that cazals album reviewed over there <----
w0rst (or best)
Fabio - after dark
simply genius
or ken - by request only
I'm surprised no-one has metioned this
Pantera in their Hair Metal Phase, scary stuff.
http://lacofla.blogspot.com/2007/05/pantera-metal-magic-1983.html
Looks a bit like a Thundercat. It's actually pretty awesome in it's awfulness.