eFestivals Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 this wasn't a popular one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted July 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 11 minutes ago, eFestivals said: this wasn't a popular one Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 12 minutes ago, eFestivals said: this wasn't a popular one It is a pretty ugly baby tbf. Even by baby standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odessa Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Struggling to believe this thread is a few pages deep with no sign of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagelaureate Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted July 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 (edited) 15 hours ago, fatyeti24 said: It is a pretty ugly baby tbf. Even by baby standards. It's basically me sticking my head out of my tent on the Monday morning Edited July 18, 2018 by Quark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernintendo Chalmers Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 10 hours ago, vintagelaureate said: God damn I need that tracksuit. And the album, probably Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomicide Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 Not the worst cover in the world but I love that the drummer missed the photo shoot because he was on holiday do they just slapped on a little picture of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 57 minutes ago, Gnomicide said: Not the worst cover in the world but I love that the drummer missed the photo shoot because he was on holiday do they just slapped on a little picture of him. That's brilliant Also I love the proto death metal font they have used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry bear Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 NWOBHM 'classic'. This ticks a number of boxes; none-more sexist band name, generic clichéd album title, terrible cover design, equally shit quality of the artwork, useless font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZigster Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 On 11 July 2018 at 11:31 PM, cammie81 said: Their first album was a great debut. With a great minimalist cover appropriate for its time (imho). They took the concept too far with this though. Remember thinking at the time "that's bollocks that is". I mean? That's crappier than having a crappy photo isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZigster Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 On 12 July 2018 at 5:44 PM, Fishman said: Ha - I'm secretly impressed that you know this. Loved this album. Had tickets for them live the day after the night of the great storm of October (insert year here, 84? Mid Eighties definitely. Just googled it. '87. Fuck me). Our train home was cancelled and me and my GF of the time had to do the "her hitchiking while I hid in the bushes" thing to get home. Honest to god the bloke gave us the "cash, ass or grass" speech after about a minute. We scarpered out at some convenient traffic lights. Thanks for reminding me. Hadn't remembered that for ages Did anybody ever get a copy of said album (or copy of a copy) that didn't have that "bad pressing" faint echo of everything going on? Or was that deliberate and part of the gag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 I like a lot of these covers. Even when they're objectively shit, a lot stand out. The Kevin Rowland album, for instance - it's not exactly beautiful, but it's memorable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 25 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said: I like a lot of these covers. Even when they're objectively shit, a lot stand out. The Kevin Rowland album, for instance - it's not exactly beautiful, but it's memorable. It's definitely memorable to me. I wish it wasn't though! I could say the same of a few others too, mainly from my Teenage Heavy Metal Phase (THMP). Metal does seem to be well represented in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted July 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 9 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said: It's definitely memorable to me. I wish it wasn't though! I could say the same of a few others too, mainly from my Teenage Heavy Metal Phase (THMP). Metal does seem to be well represented in this thread. Hair metal anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 1 minute ago, Quark said: Hair metal anyway! Yeah, true. Some of the stuff I listened to would maybe bring down this thread's light-hearted tone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted July 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Just now, fatyeti24 said: Yeah, true. Some of the stuff I listened to would maybe bring down this thread's light-hearted tone You? Surely not Fun fact: interestingly the concept of Iron Maiden's Eddie came from an early Derek Riggs sketch. His original name was "Electric Matthew" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dentalplan Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 The new Tom Grennan one struck me as a terrible album cover. Not in its content, just that it’s basically his press photo that he’s been using for a while made into a CD cover on MS Paint, like an old fashioned bootleg. I can only imagine all the CD’s said Memorex on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eFestivals Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 those old enough will remember this series of tacky not-original-artists compilations... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomicide Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 I think it could be a combination of this thread and listening to Johnny Walker's new Rock Show on Radio 2 but I've started listening to some of my old metal albums this week, Ozzy on Tuesday, Maiden & Priest last night. None particularly horrific but definitely of their time. This on the other hand... 6th form project from someone who got a D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomicide Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Just now, eFestivals said: those old enough will remember this series of tacky not-original-artists compilations... Same era as the Big D nuts cards they had in pubs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted July 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 21 minutes ago, Gnomicide said: I think it could be a combination of this thread and listening to Johnny Walker's new Rock Show on Radio 2 but I've started listening to some of my old metal albums this week, Ozzy on Tuesday, Maiden & Priest last night. None particularly horrific but definitely of their time. This on the other hand... 6th form project from someone who got a D. That last one is just amazing. The Ozzy one is also objectively pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 I like that Rob Halford started a band and became successful just so he could dress the way he wanted, in those less enlightened times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 10 minutes ago, Quark said: That last one is just amazing. The Ozzy one is also objectively pretty bad. Now that's a genuinely shit album cover. Derivative, badly executed and not memorable. Rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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