Cover Browser is a wonderful site that I just stumbled upon. How I’ve managed to miss it till now is a mystery. Some Googling tells me that we did a thread on this back in 2008, but that was then.
Now they’ve grown and grown, with 450,000+ covers posted. But the section I need to post here is Oddest Album Covers, almost 2300 of them.
That one of Harpo’s isn’t all that odd, but block out the rest of your night once you start scrolling through. You won’t be able to stop.
Ca. 1990, I dated a man who owned a record store, and every.single.time someone bought Prince’s “Lovesexy”, they would cringe and say “…the cover…”
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The oddest I’ve ever run into is the cover for Feederz’s Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?. It’s probably not included on that site because it’s conceptually instead of visually stunning. The sleeve has 180-grit sandpaper on it. So, it scratches the covers of your other records every time you remove it from the collection. If you listen to it often enough, it might wear away the other records, and it’ll be the last one you own.
Actually the Feederz weren’t the first to release a sandpaper cover; post-punk band Durutti Column did it in 1980.
Bah. They stole the idea from the Durutti Column.
In Living Stereo!
Anyway, I didn’t claim they were the first, but they were the only ones I was aware of before. They did follow it up with Teachers In Space.
I can’t imagine that the zipper tab on the Stone’s Sticky Fingers did proximal albums in one’s collection any good either.
A great time-waster, I’ll admit, but their threshold for “Odd” is set pretty low. Some of those are pretty ordinary and run-of-the-mill kid’s records and the like.
I mean, heck, they’ve got Meet the Beatles in there – the straightforward ordinary version, not a parody or foreign version or anything. How is THAT weird?
That said, there is cert5ainly plenty of weirdness in there, but not 2,300 covers worth of weird.
I keep a sheet of cardboard (with a little groove gouged out of it for the zipper) in front of my copy.
Lo Mato ( Si No Compra Este LP). This album came out at the very same time the famous National Lampoon’s ‘buy this magazine or we’ll kill this dog’ cover came out.
I think Willie came up with it first, only because it fit in with his previous album covers like El Gran Fuga and Cosa Nuestra. All of Willie Colon’s late '60s early to mid '70’s were so themed.
Well, Wiki says the album came out in 1973, but the Lampoon cover was dated January 1973, meaning it was on newsstands in December 1972.
Jim and Tammy are terrifying.
