Music Worst and best album covers ever (Read 2688 times)

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NOW THIS IS THE WORST:



Honestly that is horrible.









This is one of my favourites:

I really like the smoke effect from the candles.




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Not sure if it should be in the 'Worst' or 'Best'.
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Man, I should totally post steel's last FM thing on this. The Hard-Fi covers were god awful.
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LOOK AT US WE ARE FUCKING STUPID.
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They should seriously be ashamed of that. I mean, Jesus christ.
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man that is easily the worst cover I've ever seen

I don't know what the english word for it, but this reeks of "trass" (just doing something opposite as the standard for the sole purpose of being different)
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man that is easily the worst cover I've ever seen

I don't know what the english word for it, but this reeks of "trass" (just doing something opposite as the standard for the sole purpose of being different)

non-conformity is the nice way of saying it, garbage is the better way.

the funny thing is they could actually have genuinely conveyed their message by having just the word COVER ART on there, but they wrote the NO, thus making it a HEH...IRONY thing. and yes, in interviews they said something like "ah, we wanted to make people question what cover art is with this" which is just hilarious.
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I was always pretty embarassed to have these in my collection.



It's not so much the content of this one but just the colours and empty space. I like simple albums but I just think this one is pretty ugly.



I get the whole PSYCHADELIC theme but this one's just ugly. The whole PSYCH-PURPLE WHOA YIN-YANG. Great artist but come on man :(



This one just annoyed me.

NOW FOR SOME GOOD ONES:



This was just an album cover I really liked. It was simple, used EMPTY SPACE correctly and had nice simple colours. It's probably nothing specialy to you guys but I wanted to show it as an example of how to NOT do the peace orchestra route above.



It's psychadelic but it has personality.

It's hard for me to really say THESE ARE GOOD ALBUM COVERS because all the ones I have lying around my collection are NEAT but not GOOD if you know what I mean. They work as album covers but they're not going to make anybody laugh or THINK. They just look.
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I always thought the cover of Alive 1997 was pretty cool.

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that one reminds me of metallica's live shit
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This cover does the album no justice whatsoever. Looking at it makes you think it would be some boring music and if you bought it thinking  so you would be horrified by how atonal and experimental this album was.



This is one of my favorite album covers, it is just as confusing and nonsensical as the lyrics.
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Some off of the top of my head:


Terrible. :(


One of the best I think. It is cover art that is actually VERY representative of the album's sound!
Last Edit: May 24, 2008, 05:50:30 am by Quest-Master
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Don't have any bad ones off the top of my head. I'll try and think of some later.

This is one of the best.

The photo is of some teenagers running from police during the Civil Rights Movement era. I like it because it's so intense and striking. I mean, look at that girl's face and look at the number of cops. Thae layout of the text up the top is also pretty good. Nothing flash, and out of the photo's way.
There are some alternate covers that were made, and they're all pretty good. To my knowledge, the one pictured is the main one now.

I also quite like King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime by Faith No More. It fits in very well with most of the songs: aggressive and loud. Just three colours on it.
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This is horrible and nsfw:


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I like this:



More horrible ones:



This is real wierd:



NSFW, IM....SORRY




Admittedly I cant claim credit for all of these as some are stolen from other forums. I'll post some album covers I actually like later.
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This is horrible and nsfw:

DK's Frankenchrist is the best, though it's technically just a poster. Hell, I wish my copy came with one!

This one was on the TV show Spicks & Specks the other day and it's one of the best things I've seen:

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why's the War one nsfw.

also have you guys actually heard DOIN THANGS.

its not that good :(
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I'd post Mayhem's Dawn of the Black Hearts (okay, it's a bootleg but w/e) as worst, but I think it's too nsfw to be posted at all!
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Easily the worst i've ever seen.




I don't really know what's the point of this cover, but hell who am i to diss elephants.




And finally la crème de la crème.

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you could tell us what album it is you know.
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