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

[snowwhat]

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Another in a long line of Al Dimeola album covers that suggest he believes playing the guitar fast makes him irresistible to women. Extra credit for the dumb title. Douche.

Keith Raniere vibes

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Early contender for worst cover of 2023

 

[Hemotep]

Can't remember if this monstrosity has already been posted, but I just had the misfortune of seeing it again.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Sort of looks like your bald cat avatar

 

[avecigrec]

This is one of the lists I most look forward to every year!

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/worst_album_covers_of_2022

 

[nolalady]

I cannot unsee this

 

[yukbon]

how did you get my private cooking selfies, i didn't send you that

 

[panino]

I think Tobacco is one artist that (purposefully) makes their album art (?) as disturbing as possible.
and I see the trend having started with Black Moth Super Rainbow....

 

[panino]

Teenage fun Club are another band with consistently awful album covers....

 

[Selaws]

Can't remember if this monstrosity has already been posted, but I just had the misfortune of seeing it again.
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Urgh this is so bad. A shame because the music is actually quite good.

 

[Nee Lewman]

MAN! 2023 is turning out to be a year of stinkers.

WTAF is this?

Eye of I - James Brandon Lewis

 

[Nee Lewman]

I cannot unsee this

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You could have declined to share. What is that?

 

[panino]

You could have declined to share. What is that?

Fresh pepper by Fresh pepper

Toronto outfit Fresh Pepper, led by longtime friends Andre Ethier and Joseph Shabason, playfully navigates the mental and emotional mark left on many musicians by such places. Their self-titled debut is less concerned with their service-industry traumas, doldrums, and setbacks than it is with creating a relatable space for album’s contributors to fully be themselves within the ease and freedom of having similar histories. Shabason, Ethier, and company (Robin Dann, Kieran Adams
Felicity Williams, Thom Gill & Bram Gielen) recount their culinary past lives across eight jazzy and benevolent tracks that exude their authors’ sheer enjoyment of the creation process. Though the mental image of restaurant inner workings might trigger a mix of urgency, weariness, and yearning for a better livelihood, Fresh Pepper recolors these frazzled scenes with fondness and levity, exorcizing past workplace woes through skillful musicianship and an earnest, slightly bizarre sense of humor.


after reading the above, I believe these guys DESERVE that album cover.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Fresh pepper by Fresh pepper

Toronto outfit Fresh Pepper, led by longtime friends Andre Ethier and Joseph Shabason, playfully navigates the mental and emotional mark left on many musicians by such places. Their self-titled debut is less concerned with their service-industry traumas, doldrums, and setbacks than it is with creating a relatable space for album’s contributors to fully be themselves within the ease and freedom of having similar histories. Shabason, Ethier, and company (Robin Dann, Kieran Adams
Felicity Williams, Thom Gill & Bram Gielen) recount their culinary past lives across eight jazzy and benevolent tracks that exude their authors’ sheer enjoyment of the creation process. Though the mental image of restaurant inner workings might trigger a mix of urgency, weariness, and yearning for a better livelihood, Fresh Pepper recolors these frazzled scenes with fondness and levity, exorcizing past workplace woes through skillful musicianship and an earnest, slightly bizarre sense of humor.


after reading the above, I believe these guys DESERVE that album cover.

So it's the musical equivalent of ...Waiting?

 

[panino]

So it's the musical equivalent of ...Waiting?

i dunno.....
I haven't been brave enough to press play.

 

[avecigrec]

I'm enjoying this album quite a bit, but really can't get behind any aspect of the cover!

 

[cbl]

I was terrified of Aphex Twin most of my life because of this album art. I've come to enjoy the album, but damn...still feel it in my soul

 

[Nee Lewman]

Yarn The Hours Away

The debut album from New York based art rock outfit Foyer Red, 'Yarn the Hours Away,' is available on exclusive 'That's So David' Green in Pink vinyl.

www.vinylmeplease.com

So… this looks like a young Julian Lennon scribble all over a Mt Joy album cover.

 

[Hemotep]

Why does Steve Vai look like Prison Mike on the front of this album, which I assume he did willingly?

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

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I was terrified of Aphex Twin most of my life because of this album art. I've come to enjoy the album, but damn...still feel it in my soul

I was terrified of Aphex Twin because of this video that was obviously written and produced in hell...