Never Was And Never Can Be Cool: Worst Album Art Thread

[Hemotep]

I was reading some lists of worst album art that had me laughing and thought it would be a fun thread to start. What kicked off the list I read was this one by Creed. Show us your worst.

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

Green Day - Father Of All Motherfuckers (2020)

Worst album of the year. One of the worst albums covers I've seen..

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (2017).

Made my AOTY list, but the album art has to be one of the most boring.

 

[Hemotep]

This album cover has always made me feel uncomfortable and I'd be happy to forget it exists.

 

[Hemotep]

I love everything he does musically, but think these solo album covers of Steven Wilson's face are cringy.

 

[Hemotep]

Green Day - Father Of All Motherfuckers (2020)

Worst album of the year. One of the worst albums covers I've seen..

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This always made me think of that Charlie YouTube cartoon of the unicorn. And all terrible clipart style things are awful and belong in the tomb of Windows 95.

 

[threesunrises]

Orleans - Waking and Dreaming


On a semi related note, I cannot recall which former member of Orleans it was, but one of them was in the band that my husband and I hired to play at our wedding 3 decades ago. He was part of a 4 piece band managed by James Daniel Entertainment out of Stamford, CT. Will need to dig out the wedding album to see if I can figure out who it was.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

So many to choose from
Possibly Quentin Tarantino's favourite album cover

 

[Turbo]

OMG is right. Or maybe WTF.

 

[avecigrec]

So many to choose from
Possibly Quentin Tarantino's favourite album cover
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That line-up, though!!

 

[dirty hands]

Black Flag went from iconic to eyesore with this cover

 

[Nee Lewman]

 

[gafacaode]

This is obviously in every worst album cover art list ever made.

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

I love the art of a terrible album cover! Two that always come directly to mind for me are Tyga’s Kyoto and Kevo Muney’s “Baby G.O.A.T.”

 

[jamieanderson1968]

This is obviously in every worst album cover art list ever made.


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Oh c'mon, that is the Herbie Mann Mannifesto right there. He is either flutin' or fuckin', sometimes flutin' AND fuckin'. But always while slightly greased up

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

I love everything he does musically, but think these solo album covers of Steven Wilson's face are cringy.

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I love SW and PT, but, yea, some of the album covers were cringy. I particularly never liked PT's debut album cover On The Sunday Of Life..

 

[avecigrec]

Peak stupid shit, right here.

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

Great thread idea. Almost every legacy band had terrible album art in the 90s. I blame the rise in popularity of the CD, which in turn required less high resolution images, and thus quality saw a stark drop. The fonts were also god awful.

Anything Prince
Anything Bowie
Anything Springsteen
Stones - Bridges to Babylon (I kinda like the Voodoo Lounge art)

As a bonus:

 

[Hemotep]

Great thread idea. Almost every legacy band had terrible album art in the 90s. I blame the rise in popularity of the CD, which in turn required less high resolution images, and thus quality saw a stark drop. The fonts were also god awful.

Anything Prince
Anything Bowie
Anything Springsteen
Stones - Bridges to Babylon (I kinda like the Voodoo Lounge art)

As a bonus:

It looks like a terrible kids show but with that name it's clearly run by perverts.