# 40 of the Worst album Covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [May 16, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125 "2023-05-16T13:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125/41 "2023-05-18T14:30:51Z")
Yeah, it’s almost quaint now, but in 1970, in the midst of Vietnam, war was still a pretty touchy subject and the record company refused to let them call it that. The song’s original title was “[Walpurgis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night).” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125/42 "2023-05-18T17:09:28Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > It’s actually a font called “VolumeFour”. Black Sabbath 4 came out on September 25, 1972. According to his web page, Ryan Corey designed VolumeFour in 2018 “a heavy, geometric art deco sans-serif display typeface inspired by the **custom lettering** of Black Sabbath’s Vol 4 album”. Another cool font they used was for the Masters of Reality cover art: [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41hSNAR4QxL._SY355_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41hSNAR4QxL._SY355_.jpg) Designed by Bloomsbury Group and art directed by Mike Stanford, the design is based on distorted and emboldened lettering using the font Kabel Ultra. The “T” gives it away. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125/43 "2023-05-18T17:57:08Z")
I don’t care what anybody says, I _hate_ the **In the Court of the Crimson King** album cover. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125/44 "2023-05-18T18:17:24Z")
Pat Boone in metal drag? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125/45 "2023-05-19T16:16:42Z")
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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125/46 "2023-05-19T16:54:08Z")
Sorta kinda reminds me of Camel’s “I Can See Your House From Here” (sorry, can’t figure out how to link to just the album cover image) > **[I Can See Your House from Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_See_Your_House_from_Here)** > > I Can See Your House from Here is the seventh studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. Released in 1979, a new line up was introduced with founding members Andrew Latimer (guitar) and Andy Ward (drums) joined by bassist Colin Bass (to replace Richard Sinclair) and keyboardists Jan Schelhaas (who joined in 1978 for the Breathless tour) and Kit Watkins (ex-Happy The Man) who replaced Dave Sinclair. At one point, the album was going to be called Endangered Species. > Work started on th... ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125/47 "2023-05-19T17:11:05Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > And no Scorpions this time. They, by themselves, have at least 3 covers that regularly show up By now at least one of them causes so much flagging (both manual and algorithm) on sight that people have stopped bothering. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/40-of-the-worst-album-covers/984125.md?page=2)