… or are they just rank?
For your viewing pleasure…in the Punjab!
I call fake on “Can I Borrow a Feelin’?”. The art looks more like something somebody slapped together in Photoshop than a scanned album cover, and the title is almost identical to a Simpsons gag.
What the hell is the point of a ventriloquist putting out a record album?
A group of blind singers called “The Braillettes” gives new meaning to the words “politically incorrect”.
One of the ladies on the cover of Number 27 looks like German chancellor Angela Merkel. Apparently she was young and needed the money.
I am so glad that Ken (No 40) appears only by request. What a relief!
#42 is…creepy. Not as creepy as #1, but “All my friends are dead”? Who thought that would be a good album title?
The Les Baxter cover has no business being in there. I love it.
Yeah, that would be like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy having a radio show.
It’s nothing but cheap shots, consisting of two classes:
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Self-published albums. Right. Of course they’re bad; the performer was not a graphic artist. Snarking about them is like snarking about a child’s third-grade pictures.
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Pro albums whose style does not match our 2009 conception of what is good. In twenty years, people will be laughing at what we think is cool today. And there is a sophomoric disdain for anyone who doesn’t look like a Hollywood star (on the part of people who, of course, do not look like Hollywood stars – glass houses).
There are certainly bad album covers, but these are just cheap shots.
Agreed. I Dig Chicks and Have Harp, Can’t Travel, both clearly the work of a professional art department with an actual idea, don’t really belong, either. Nor do parody covers, like the Frivolous Five and the Electric Amish. And whatever you think of the cover, that Terry Riley album is an awesome and historically important piece of music, and doesn’t deserve to get lumped in with all those amateur vanity albums and cheesy exploitation releases.
Slim Goodbody doesn’t belong.
What about that blog convinces you it’s a real album?
Meh. Every month we get one of these lists, and this one’s weaker than most. Besides, it left out a few essentials:
Orleans “Waking and Dreaming”
Ministers Quartet “Let Me Touch Him”
Scorpions “Virgin Killer” [NSFW]
The Electric Amish’s A Hard Day’s Work doesn’t belong. That’s one of the best album covers of all time.
Scary thought: the guitarist from that Orleans album cover is now a Congressman.
But I have to agree with Chuck- why pick on unknown albums by unknown acts?
Why not ridicule Prince’s idiotic “Lovesexy” cover, which is at least as hilarious as any of those in the OP!
This.
Aw, uncork your poopers. There’s a lot of perfectly good, yet inexpensive shots in the world to be enjoyed.
Next you’ll be telling me fart jokes aren’t funny.
Skid Row Joe … and his orchestra!
Where’s Smell the Glove?