Terrible album covers

[Mantle Retractor]

Jesus fucking CHRIST! Look at this abomination.

And then, when you've done that, imagine how awful the contents are:

[purlieu]

Fucking hell, that's appalling. Especially given that his album covers have mostly been fairly well designed in the past, even if the presence of his face tends to ruin them. But that's only half a step above 'local Hammond organist's CDr of Christmas pieces that's been sat in a charity shop for two years'.

[Olarrio]

I initially thought he was carrying a copy of the Christmas Radio Times, which would've been a nice touch.

[Glebe]

'RW'... Right Wanker.

[jenna appleseed]

I initially thought he was carrying a copy of the Christmas Radio Times, which would've been a nice touch.

the whole thing looks like he's gatecrashed the cover of the Christmas Radio Times.

[BlodwynPig]

Is it a christmas album?

[thecuriousorange]

I bet he'd kill to get doing the John Lewis ad. No chance mate. 

[idunnosomename]

lol the hanging bracket sign is his kids' names

also mise-en-abyme with him holding the image itself on his radio times fuckin hell

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

I kind of like that one, to be honest. Christmas albums are inherently like that.

[Absorb the anus burn]

[Rizla]

i like it, it's like they spiked the designer with mushrooms and he just painted the last thing he saw

[Glebe]

[gilbertharding]

Yes - the Robbie Williams one is fine. I mean, as everyone else has pointed out, it's a Robbie Williams album, and therefore terrible by definition. But as someone else recognised, it looks exactly like a Radio Times Christmas cover, or one of those Christmas cards they used to have.

[gilbertharding]

Steeleye Span covers... how about this one:



It's a Rocket cottage. Do you see? And they're all looking out of the windows!

[BlodwynPig]

Steeleye Span covers... how about this one:



It's a Rocket cottage. Do you see? And they're all looking out of the windows!

That's the only one I own

An album cover that can only come from 1995

[alan nagsworth]

I'm not commending it or owt, because it is absolutely hideous, but is the intention of this that you tilt the sleeve almost entirely away from your face and look across it so the faces of the band members almost look like normal proportions? You know, like they do with adverts printed on sports pitches.

It's hard work though, since obviously the immediate desired direction you'd want to be tilting it is away from your line of vision entirely, and once you've tilted it almost completely away from your face it's all too easy to just keep going until you aren't looking at it any more.

[jenna appleseed]

Discogs says "Includes card insert with "peepholes" and instructions on how to view the band on the cover using these via the magic of anamorphic projection."

Who was it who had a distorted LP cover that came with a silver reflective tube thing to make it look 'normal'? (something 70s & proggy probably)

[NJ Uncut]

Rock bottom

[NJ Uncut]

If this hasn't been posted before I'll listen to the fucking thing

[NJ Uncut]

At least the cover lives up to the title

[NJ Uncut]

If the great all-knowing Buzby tells me this is from an Onion article satirising weak rebranding, I'd believe it

What's not terrible?? Hasn't even cut his geet strings. That's not "street" mate, it's annoying because they rattle when you play

[alan nagsworth]

If this hasn't been posted before I'll listen to the fucking thing

Weirdly enough that aesthetic is not a million miles away from that of Estonian rapper Tommy Cash, who amusingly also had recent success with a single called "X-Ray".

[Egyptian Feast]

Rock bottom

I quite like this, though it would be much better without the border and horrible typeface.

[Ferris]

If the great all-knowing Buzby tells me this is from an Onion article satirising weak rebranding, I'd believe it

What's not terrible?? Hasn't even cut his geet strings. That's not "street" mate, it's annoying because they rattle when you play

I see David Millar has been keeping busy since retiring from professional road cycling.

[Bennett Brauer]

Discogs says "Includes card insert with "peepholes" and instructions on how to view the band on the cover using these via the magic of anamorphic projection."

Who was it who had a distorted LP cover that came with a silver reflective tube thing to make it look 'normal'? (something 70s & proggy probably)

Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection in 1975.

[non capisco]

Album titles that sound like Alan Partridge muttering bitterly into his dictaphone.

[BlodwynPig]

I see David Millar has been keeping busy since retiring from professional road cycling.

Millar is a lady now

[Ferris]

Millar is a lady now

You are thinking of Phillipa York - former British road cyclist (who competed in the '80s with the same surname as David). It's a confusion that happens all the time, and drives both cyclists bananas, apparently, which is why it's so funny.

I'm making reference to this fella:



Edit: they really do look alike

[alan nagsworth]

did you really have to post that fucking cover again good GOD

[BlodwynPig]

Didnt David Milla play for Cameroon?