You may have a couple of these on your shelf. 
No genre is spared. Rock, Metal, Rap, Gospel, Pop. Adele even made the list .
I feel bad for the musicians. Graphic artists and the record label are usually responsible for designing the cover art.
I’m surprised The Beatles Butcher cover didn’t make the list.
Link https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2A4E/production/_106903801_cb44d434-f8ac-4e94-9bb0-458fcc8d8f91.jpg
There’s always a lot of Christian music albums in these. It’s usually because they’re self recorded and don’t have an art director. Most of the time, the photo is staged like a high school yearbook photo. It doesn’t help that many hymns have double entendres. “He Touched Me” is very popular.
There’s nothing wrong with that Cramps album cover. 
I know, right? That’s exactly what I thought.
I was briefly intrigued when I saw the entry titled “#34 Burt Reynolds And Susan Sarandon, Music to Massage Your Mate By”. The couple on the cover do indeed look like they could be Burt and Susan, and I had high hopes for a celebrity duet vanity project that I had somehow never heard of.
But alas no, the cover models are look-alikes, and the music is by some guy named Robert Wotherspoon.
No Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap?
Many of them are funny (ha ha) and funny (sad) rather than just plain bad.
You should have seen the cover they WANTED to do!
I always find the bad album cover collections interesting. Who knew there were so many religious ventriloquists?
In the linked list the one I found most horrifying was Leonard Nimoy’s record. And it didn’t even have the hobbit song on it.
And no Scorpions this time. They, by themselves, have at least 3 covers that regularly show up on lists like this.
A mildly cringeworthy album cover:
I was the unwilling host of “The Organ Music Show” early Sunday mornings, back in my radio days. This was one of the better albums available.
Mary Hinge ?!
Yeah. Right.
Seeing that iconic cover pop up in the middle of that list is jarring. I think someone must have just done a Google image search on “Bad album covers” and found “Bad Music for Bad People”.
There is literally no other possible cover that’s more ideal for that album. That cover is perfect and lives a life of its own.
ETA I freaking love that Jodorowsky cover.
Two things. Nacha Guevara heavy tango does not rock as hard as I thought it would. And Adele’s album cover does not belong on that list. It’s not a great album cover, but it’s not horribly bad either. Uninspired at best.
Wow!
I’m in no mood to investigate myself, but is the actual music as cringeworthy as the covers or do you sometimes get some decent tunes?
The Adele and Cramps are fine. I have no clue why either is on this list, especially the latter. The rest I don’t know a thing about.
Some of the Gospel albums have a amateurish approach to the album covers. It does make me wonder about the music production. I don’t want to investigate.
Musicians would visit our church and perform. They usually had a box of music cassettes to sell afterwards. It helped pay their travel expenses. We also passed around the offering plate to pay them.
The production on those albums was minimal.
I expected the same old stuff, but was surprised to see many bad covers that were new to me (yeah, and I also wondered what the Cramps album does on this list). I especially like the white gospel group covers, they look like randomly picked photos from the family stack of self-taken pictures with cheap cameras, blown up for an album cover. And oh, the double entendres! It’s actually quite unbelievable, but I suspect that really everybody in the production of these records were so naive that they weren’t aware of these double meanings. Or some were, but didn’t have the heart to tell the artists.
At least one of those is deliberately “bad” (#9: Bad News is a “joke band,” like Spinal Tap, featuring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, and Nigel Planer, of The Young Ones), and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if several others aren’t, too.
Yeah, the Knorkator cover too is intentionally bad. They’re a veteran German metal parody band. The title of the album, “Hasenchartbreakers”, gives it away. It’s a veeery bad pun on “Hasenscharte”, which is German for cleft lip.
