Are these the worst ever album covers?
Vinyl has brought back the art of the album cover... but would you have any of these designs lying around your house?
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1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
The 2013 album from Karen O caused much comment and discussion when the sleeve artwork was unveiled. Mainly along the lines of "What the...?"
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2. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Well, it's kind of cute. But not as sophisticated as we'd like from such a band.
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3. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
We suspect that this was painted by Lennon Gallagher at playgroup.
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4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
This cover wasn't designed, it presumably just fell together.
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5. Frank Black - The Cult of Ray
The Pixies album covers were works of art: photos by Simon Larbelestier, design by Vaughan Oliver. This solo effort, however, appears to have been drawn on Microsoft Paint.
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6. Beck - Midnite Vultures
Hard to imagine that somebody actually DESIGNED this... this... THING.
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7. The Stone Roses - The Second Coming
We loved your Jackson Pollock period, John Squire. What happened?
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8. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Just what was he thinking? Nauseating.
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9. The Strokes - Angles
WARNING: This one may give you a migraine. It's like some obscene 1980s computer game.
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10. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Just some lads, standing around. That's it. Think they used Instagram for this.
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11. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
We've never, in all our years, what this ghastly photo of a nightmare communal toilet had to do with anything. It's like the Glastonbury long drop and Trainspotting all rolled into one. The record label agreed with us and initial copies came with a much nicer, plain typographical sleeve instead.
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12. Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
Great album. Cover designed on computer in three minutes.
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13. Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In the West
Yeah. Take THAT for a statement! Can you handle it? No. No, you can't.
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14. Paul McCartney - Paul Is Live
Yuk yuk! Remember all those "clues" that claimed Fab Macca had died in a car accident back in the 60s and replaced by a lookey-likey? The man himself pays tribute to this stupidity on the super-fake sleeve of this live album. Snort!
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15. The Vines - Winning Days
The designer goes overboard with a set of coloured Sharpies.
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16. Nirvana - Incesticide
Well, to be fair, it was a stop gap singles and B-sides album. But even the title is a stinker.
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17. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavoured Water
This album has already appeared on our "Terrible Album Titles" list. Here's a cover to match.
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18. The Charlatans - Some Friendly
"Guys! This new thing called Photoshop is AMAZING! Look, there's this filter called RIPPLE - wait a mo - WOOOOooooooh lukkathat."
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19. Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me
Badly drawn monkey tastes a book, then tastes a cake. This comes from the pre-Rumours Mac of 1973. They soon got it together again.
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20. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
To be fair, you only bought it for the title track, didn't you?
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21. Black Sabbath - Born Again
Classic bad taste entry from the Sab, minus Ozzy for this 1983 outing.