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Weyland-Yutani · Mar 21, 2008, 05:27 PM

Covers that are somehow off. Perhaps in poor taste or silly or somehow cringeworthy.

Yet they were published.

I came across this cover and somehow it made me cringe. Naturally that means I just have to share it with other people in the hope of spreading some cringe today..

"Annie was too distracted by a shiny object to notice the brain-eating zombie behind her."

RAILhead · Mar 21, 2008, 06:03 PM

Peter · Mar 21, 2008, 06:23 PM

someone find that magazine cover of Kevin Rose

turtle777 · Mar 21, 2008, 07:40 PM

Wait, is this the reincarnation of the "Images you always wanted to post somewhere (possibly NSFW)" thread ?

-t

Weyland-Yutani · Mar 21, 2008, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Wait, is this the reincarnation of the "Images you always wanted to post somewhere (possibly NSFW)" thread ?

-t

Both threads have pictures...

LegendaryPinkOx · Mar 21, 2008, 08:10 PM

shh, don't let em find out!

LegendaryPinkOx · Mar 21, 2008, 08:19 PM

Still pretty controversial, but heres and Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone.

Chongo · Mar 21, 2008, 08:28 PM

published, but was pulled

and replaced, or covered with this

d4nth3m4n · Mar 21, 2008, 08:37 PM

/thread

IceEnclosure · Mar 22, 2008, 04:29 AM

I have this magazine in my drawer:

analogika · Mar 22, 2008, 04:33 AM

^ Season's Greetings!

ghporter · Mar 22, 2008, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by LegendaryPinkOx

Still pretty controversial, but heres and Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone.

Demi looked radiant (just about every healthy, pregnant woman does). I have never understood our American problem with seeing women who are pregnant as beautiful. But John and Yoko... that was just sort of what you expected from them at that time. Not "uncontroversial" but not unexpected, either.

residentEvil · Mar 22, 2008, 08:23 AM

one of my top 5 albums of all time...

Railroader · Mar 22, 2008, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure

I have this magazine in my drawer:

You only have one drawer?

analogika · Mar 22, 2008, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

Demi looked radiant (just about every healthy, pregnant woman does). I have never understood our American problem with seeing women who are pregnant as beautiful.

Absolutely bewildering to me.
That's just a beautiful picture.

Laminar · Mar 22, 2008, 12:46 PM

First one that came to mind.

Chongo · Mar 22, 2008, 12:56 PM

Chongo · Mar 22, 2008, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

First one that came to mind.

Chongo · 08:10 PM

most Iron Maiden CD/album

d4nth3m4n · Mar 22, 2008, 01:00 PM

i'm having a lot of trouble with this-

Oisín · Mar 22, 2008, 01:30 PM

^

This one’s quite old, but it’s always been a favourite of mine:

(BizarreRecords.com is a cornucopia of bad cover pictures, by the way)

analogika · Mar 22, 2008, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

First one that came to mind.

That one's actually pretty great.

brassplayersrock² · Mar 22, 2008, 02:24 PM

Worst Album Covers
Worst Album Covers #50-99
Worst Album Covers #100-149

d4nth3m4n · Mar 22, 2008, 02:28 PM

Doofy · Mar 22, 2008, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

(BizarreRecords.com is a cornucopia of bad cover pictures, by the way)

Nice one.

Oisín · Mar 22, 2008, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Nice one.

You just like it ’cause there’s an entire category called “Frenchies”.

RAILhead · Mar 22, 2008, 03:52 PM

Doofy · Mar 22, 2008, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

You just like it ’cause there’s an entire category called “Frenchies”.

It's giving me ideas for an album cover or two. Pure inspiration, I tell ya:

ShortcutToMoncton · Mar 22, 2008, 06:19 PM

I'd hit it™

keekeeree · Mar 22, 2008, 07:25 PM

The cover-picture-that-was-not-right winner would have to be Scorpions' album cover for "Virgin Killer"...the ultimate in poor taste (and borderline illegality).

I'm not gonna post it here. Google if you want to see it.

ghporter · Mar 22, 2008, 08:04 PM

Oh yeah..... Disturbing is another word for that particular Scorpions album cover. Not disturbing like their "Blackout" cover, not at all!

Chongo · 08:23 PM

Led Zeppelin’s Houses Of The Holy album is another

Blind Faith's self titled album tops "Virgin Killers"

The release of the album provoked controversy because the cover featured a topless pubescent girl, holding in her hands sculpture of a fantastic airplane, which some perceived as phallic. The U.S. record company issued it with an alternate cover which showed a photograph of the band on the front.

google blind faith

Doofy · Mar 22, 2008, 09:22 PM

Original "Animal Magnestism" by the Scorpions? You need both front and back cover for full effect.

turtle777 · Mar 22, 2008, 09:40 PM

Can we just agree that *ALL* Scorpions covers are sh!t ?

-t

design219 · Mar 22, 2008, 10:03 PM

From the Back Cover:
Bud Robinson, an ill-prepared preacher who came from a depraved background, carved a lasting niche in lives of thousands during his sixty-two years of ministry. Partly because of a speech impediment and partly because he was uneducated, his style was simple and his syntax confusing. This was not a major barrier, for he found he could interpret his feeling in unadorned language.

If this one didn't go gold, I'll be damned.

Doofy · Mar 22, 2008, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Can we just agree that *ALL* Scorpions covers are cool beyond words ?

Yes.

Dork. · Mar 22, 2008, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

(BizarreRecords.com is a cornucopia of bad cover pictures, by the way)

They have an entire page devoted to dorks!

turtle777 · Mar 22, 2008, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Yes.

Sorry, I forgot that you Brits have ~~different~~ no standards.

-t

subego · Mar 23, 2008, 12:51 AM

Seeing all these old covers made me think of this classic...

brassplayersrock² · Mar 23, 2008, 12:52 AM

Chongo · 10:45 AM

snipped

analogika · Mar 23, 2008, 08:04 AM

^ This is not the "classic record covers" thread, this is the "record covers gone WRONG" thread.

^^ I actually really like that Eulenspygel cover. It's nasty, but it hits the mark, alright.

Chongo · 10:32 AM

Nekid people on an album cover don't count as wrong? Annunciation painting, Abraxas album cover art, 60s psychedelic art
The music on "Abraxas" is classic. The cover art was, well, just say my mother did not like it when my older brother bought it.
Abraxas (album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

ShortcutToMoncton · Mar 23, 2008, 10:37 AM

There's already been covers mentioned with pubescent naked girls on them.

It might be "wrong" to some, but I agree that the cover is simply classic, especially so in retrospect. In fact, that might be one of the "best-fitting" album covers ever.

greg

Chongo · Mar 23, 2008, 10:46 AM

then lame covers do not count either

ghporter · Mar 23, 2008, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Chongo

Nekid people on an album cover don't count as wrong? Annunciation painting, Abraxas album cover art, 60s psychedelic art
The music on "Abraxas" is classic. The cover art was, well, just say my mother did not like it when my older brother bought it.
Abraxas (album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I think some people would consider the artwork "wrong" because it's not in a traditional style. Even though everything is rendered very realistically, the whole thing seems jumbled and disorganized-which is not true at all. It's a very cool painting, and I'm glad Carlos helped introduce us to Klarwein.

ajprice · Mar 23, 2008, 12:43 PM

Not right, but not right on purpose.

Chris Morris - Blue Jam

analogika · Mar 23, 2008, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Chongo

Nekid people on an album cover don't count as wrong?

Um, no?

Why on earth *would* they be?

brassplayersrock² · Mar 23, 2008, 02:44 PM

someone hasn't been paying attention

analogika · Mar 23, 2008, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

someone hasn't been paying attention

to Chongo? Possibly.

Or are you seriously equating the Scorpions' "Virgin Killers" album cover with "Abraxas" or something like the Lemonbabies' "Porno" album cover?

(the album doesn't *nearly* live up to the cover, which I think is great)