# What's your LEAST favorite album cover? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124 "2017-09-23T23:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 24, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/21 "2017-09-24T04:15:01Z")
It’s been discussed elsewhere, but the **Blind Faith** album cover is pretty bad. And not just because its a topless 12 year old. That girl is just plain fugly. > **[blind faith cover - Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=hSDfe%2bUy&id=63F9AC5954620B4202DC773A9549C9075A5EE734&thid=OIP.hSDfe-Uyzxu3wVqajPv7TAEpEs&q=blind%2Bfaith%2Bcover&simid=608044813974573008&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/22 "2017-09-24T06:28:22Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > That cover was part of the reason the album was so popular with teenage girls. :o Well, just as long as you weren’t gonna go down the [_I’m In You_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH0dq02TOPQ) road. 😛 pardon the earworm\* \*actually - really - you know where it’s going - you’ll really still go there? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/23 "2017-09-24T17:42:03Z")
**Tarkus**. An album of terrific music, desecrated by a cover that looks to have been conceived and executed by a six-year old. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/24 "2017-09-24T18:11:29Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > **Tarkus**. > An album of terrific music, desecrated by a cover that looks to have been conceived and executed by a six-year old. With an even more amateur “comic book” spread when you open it up. Their “Manticore” looks like a middle schooler was drawing monkeys in his notebook… ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/25 "2017-09-24T18:39:36Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Versus_Powerman_and_the_Moneygoround,_Part_One). Not as cringeworthy as some, but it has the lowest album cover quality to album quality ratio. You’d have to admit that it looks like the Mona Lisa compared to the rush/hachet job Reprise did with ‘Kinks Size’ tho [![](https://i.discogs.com/QHRUFRmfGBzTFu06nL-d4PjLvruzkIZTDELl6HA1spM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNzk0/ODEtMTM0Njc3NDQ5/My00MjU1LmpwZWc.jpeg) ](https://i.discogs.com/QHRUFRmfGBzTFu06nL-d4PjLvruzkIZTDELl6HA1spM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNzk0/ODEtMTM0Njc3NDQ5/My00MjU1LmpwZWc.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/26 "2017-09-24T20:17:39Z")
Beatles for Sale. They look like a bunch of very tired early 20 somethings, worn ragged with constant touring, recording, and long nights. [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles_for_Sale#/media/File:Beatlesforsale.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles_for_Sale#/media/File:Beatlesforsale.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/27 "2017-09-24T22:11:06Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > **Tarkus**. > An album of terrific music, desecrated by a cover that looks to have been conceived and executed by a six-year old. Sure, goofytown, but I’d take more issue with [Trilogy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epJ03N31MYk), which looks like it’d be perfectly at home on the side of a van that has one of those round, dark, little windows, along with an air-brushed wolf at sunset. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/28 "2017-09-24T22:28:15Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The [Scorpions Love Drive](http://ultimateclassicrock.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/295/files/2015/01/scorpions-lovedrive.jpg) isn’t much better. The Scorpions have a tradition of horrible covers. I’ll leave out the massively NSFW “Virgin Killers” for obvious reasons. [The only thing worse than the “Animal Magnetism” cover](https://www.lifeofvinyl.com/images/super/9000000016736.jpg) [is the back cover.](http://www.ebreggae.com/i595/MB198951W595.jpg) And totally safe for work but not for any sense of taste, [the “Fly to the Rainbow” cover!](http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/scorpions-fly-to-the-rainbow-5-ab.jpg) ---
**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:** [September 24, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/29 "2017-09-24T22:59:54Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Sure, goofytown, but I’d take more issue with [Trilogy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epJ03N31MYk), which looks like it’d be perfectly at home on the side of a van that has one of those round, dark, little windows, along with an air-brushed wolf at sunset. And the artists’s level of expertise looks to be “advanced beginner.” It’s cringeworthy terrible, but IMO Tarkus still takes the boobyprize. And yet musically the instrumental virtuosity on both records is extraordinary. Further yet, Emerson and Palmer pushed their skills to even high levels on their next studio album ( **Brain Salad Surgery** , my favorite non–classical album for 44 years), and finally graced it with one of the very finest covers ever. I love your airbrushed van characterization. It’s _perfect_. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124/30 "2017-09-25T19:01:13Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I love your airbrushed van characterization. It’s _perfect_. > **[wolf howling at the moon - Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=ZRW17jca&id=921D40CA4772ECE02D98A2A529BA7FAFF752D201&thid=OIP.ZRW17jcaoSVTL13gCqE2RwEgDY&q=wolf%2Bhowling%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bmoon&simid=607992119010723018&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-least-favorite-album-cover/797124.md?page=1)