Dodgy Album Covers

[Avalon_Fields]

The original ‘artwork’ for The Scorpions ‘Virgin Killer’ is the most obscene (Much worse than the 11 year old Blind Faith album), I’m not going to put it up on here but if you really want to see it there are some unedited images of it online.

it’s a fully naked very young girl with a cracked glass image over part of her anatomy.

[not worthy]

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 hour ago, Avalon_Fields said:

I always though REM had really bad covers for almost all their albums

 

To be fair, the contents here are actually worse.

[Mardy]

I love John Martyn to pieces, he's written some of the most affecting music I've ever heard. Absolutely desert island disc stuff. But fucking hell, he's got some absolute stinkers month his cover art, from the work-experience photoshop of 'Inside Out' to the Athena poster print of 'One World' to the  sheer all-round awfulness of Road to Ruin

 

 

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Did anyone who started out in the sixties have a good decade, cover-wise, in the 1980s?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Actually,  I will stand by the cover of Hot Space. Shit still looks dope.

[parsonjack]

5 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Did anyone who started out in the sixties have a good decade, cover-wise, in the 1980s?

Floyd? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, parsonjack said:

Floyd? 

* sucks teeth*

Consistent with their 70s sleeves would be fair.

But the Hipgnosis vibe has never really been my thing e.g. Led Zeppelin's Presence might as well have been a Floyd sleeve - and it absolutely sucks.

[Mardy]

6 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

Floyd? 

Roger Waters' Hitchhiking album cover is one of the all-time stinkers

[CaledonianGonzo]

When so called Storm Thorgersen came for Ian Dury:

[lessthanwill1]

There are loads that I wouldn’t feel comfortable posting lol. These two do crack me up though:

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Everyone's parents had that Ken album!

[henry bear]

3 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Queen had some shitters didn’t they?

Yes they did, but not that one

[CaledonianGonzo]

Migos are biting Queen's style on Culture III:

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

52 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Everyone's parents had that Ken album!

Not mine. Oh no, I wasn't that lucky. My mom and dad had shite (as in seriously shite) Irish music. Oh, and for some unknown reason they also had this single;

 

Is it any wonder I am the way I am?

[Shanndy]

Not particularly offensive or anything, but the absolute state of this...

[CaledonianGonzo]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Did anyone who started out in the sixties have a good decade, cover-wise, in the 1980s?

 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

15 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Bowie did...

...and didn't

Edited June 12, 2021 by Supernintendo Chalmers

[alanr]

One from Al Kooper in 1976.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

12 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Philistine. 

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Orson Welles
 

[Gnomicide]

[Kurosagi]

A fan of Roy, but not a fan of this cover.

 

[Gnomicide]

[CaledonianGonzo]

On 6/11/2021 at 10:25 PM, CaledonianGonzo said:

Paging that German bloke blowing a tuba up that woman's jacksie.

 

[Crazyfool01]