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Vinyl has brought back the art of the album cover... but would you have any of these designs lying around your house?
The 2013 album from Karen O caused much comment and discussion when the sleeve artwork was unveiled. Mainly along the lines of "What the...?"
Well, it's kind of cute. But not as sophisticated as we'd like from such a band.
We suspect that this was painted by Lennon Gallagher at playgroup.
This cover wasn't designed, it presumably just fell together.
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.
Hard to imagine that somebody actually DESIGNED this... this... THING.
We loved your Jackson Pollock period, John Squire. What happened?
Just what was he thinking? Nauseating.
WARNING: This one may give you a migraine. It's like some obscene 1980s computer game.
Just some lads, standing around. That's it. Think they used Instagram for this.
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.
Great album. Cover designed on computer in three minutes.
Yeah. Take THAT for a statement! Can you handle it? No. No, you can't.
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!
The designer goes overboard with a set of coloured Sharpies.
Well, to be fair, it was a stop gap singles and B-sides album. But even the title is a stinker.
This album has already appeared on our "Terrible Album Titles" list. Here's a cover to match.
"Guys! This new thing called Photoshop is AMAZING! Look, there's this filter called RIPPLE - wait a mo - WOOOOooooooh lukkathat."
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.
To be fair, you only bought it for the title track, didn't you?
Classic bad taste entry from the Sab, minus Ozzy for this 1983 outing.