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Itchload
= Cult of Ray =
USA
891 Posts |
 Posted - 06/12/2003 : 00:35:17
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With all the talk over poor Frankie's questionable album artwork, I was thinking we could list some great albums with truly heinous covers.
1. The Idiot--Iggy Pop. God, first of all, I never want to see someone in tight jeans shirtless, it just doesn't work. Every Iggy Pop album cover has been horrid, but this one is the worst.
2. Every Lou Reed album after around 1975..they're all just him in shades.
3. Velvet Underground: Loaded. From Andy Warhol's Banana to this cheesy early 70's phsychedelic thing? |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6213 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 02:33:14
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Uhm FB and The C's, BLD and DW....
''it's not a box, it's a submarine'' |
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the swimmer
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1602 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 08:46:14
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Originally posted by billgoodman
Uhm FB and The C's, BLD and DW....
''it's not a box, it's a submarine''
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JamesM
= Cult of Ray =
308 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 10:23:12
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FB and the C's is a great album with pretty shitty artwork. VU's "Loaded" artwork is great. Sorry. Angst's "Mending Wall" is a great album with pretty ridiculous artwork. -VERY- 80's. It's a picture of a "third-worldian" kid holding a goat - with neon orange, blue and purple faux paint splatters behind it. Very cheesy.
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1439 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 10:45:21
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| the inlay cover of ziggy stardust is a little disturbing - i own a copy from before it was remastered but i assume the shots are the same. yikes. |
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 12:18:34
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Husker Du's "Zen Arcade" has a pretty shitty cover, although it is a pretty decent album.
I don't dig the whole 80's 'wild graffiti' look....it comes of as very dated and just stupid-looking in general. |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 12:26:37
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| Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People. Terrible band name, awful cover. Amazing record. Amazing. |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 15:18:58
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I second Zen Arcade, and New Day Rising has a horrible photo of some dogs and a sunrise/sunset (SST did such horrible design for them, all paisly and muti-coloured splash effect stuff, yuk!). Clinic's, Internal Wrangler, also looks terrible, very 80's.
"I meet a man with no little toe and a real big head" |
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Mike Rutherford
- FB Fan -
USA
171 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2003 : 15:57:26
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Originally posted by billgoodman
Uhm FB and The C's, BLD and DW....
''it's not a box, it's a submarine''
I like the covers to BLD and Workshop, especially BLD. I don't see what's so bad about em? They have a certain aesthetic to them that fits with the music quite well IMO. Dog In the Sand had a really cool cover. Pistolero was cool as well. Even the ST Catholics record, the artwork tied in well with the new musical direction....really stripped down, simple. It worked. I guess if I had to pick a least fave FB album cover, I guess it would "Cult Of Ray"....something about that one just never clicked with me.
As for other records with good music/bad covers...hmmmm....I dunno....Im a metalhead/old school rocker for the most part and metal albums (especially in the era of metal I grew up with) generally tended to have some of the greatest album art. Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, Thin Lizzy...I always like those album covers quite a bit. I guess Ween's "White Pepper" is a bit dull, but still...it worked somehow. Kiss "Carnival Of Souls" is an album I like quite a bit that has an ultra shitty boring cover. I never was too hot on most of the Replacements album covers. Rush's debut is kinda bleh. |
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
947 Posts |
Posted - 06/13/2003 : 04:19:49
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I agree that Iggy Pop's covers tend to be fairly bad but one that I do like is the cover of 'The Idiot'.
I read somewhere that it's actually a pastiche of a piece of art by a group of German expressionists called 'Die Brucke'...they were a bunch of artists that amongst other things were interested in the relationship between sanity and art.
The pose (presumably of both the original and Iggy on the front-cover) is allegedly supposed to imitate the awkward angular poses of catatonic-style schizophrenics. |
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Shadoof McHoof
- FB Fan -
7 Posts |
Posted - 06/13/2003 : 05:34:55
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| All of Neil Young's Albums from the 70's were great, but they had shitty covers. |
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Ten Percenter
- FB Enquirer -
United Kingdom
1733 Posts |
Posted - 06/13/2003 : 05:55:45
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The Teardrop Explodes released a goodish album entitled Kilimanjaro. Julian cope described seeing the first copies of the sleeve thus (a rancid photo of the band): "Jesus, this is the worst fucking album cover I have ever seen". In that it was his band this speaks volumes.
After a few months sales were poor. A hit single followed - the album was released with a new cover, and all was well. My brother still has the original sleeve. God, it is rank.
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 06/13/2003 : 08:24:08
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Originally posted by therewererumours
I second Zen Arcade, and New Day Rising has a horrible photo of some dogs and a sunrise/sunset (SST did such horrible design for them, all paisly and muti-coloured splash effect stuff, yuk!). Clinic's, Internal Wrangler, also looks terrible, very 80's.
Good point, every SST cover for a Husker Du album I've seen looks pretty much just as horrid as Zen Arcade. Whoever concocted that "look" should be shot.
And I second Clinic's "internal wrangler"....it's worse and far more 80's looking than even the Husker Du covers! And yet Clinic are great. Go figure. |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 06/13/2003 : 08:36:41
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| I liked the cover for Internal Wrangler. Sure, it is very 80s, but not in a bad way, in my opinion. It's retro chic without being annoying, and doesn't have any of the cringe inducing elements of most of 80s style. After all, it's just words. |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 06/13/2003 : 11:08:58
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You know whats a horrible cover,
Radiohead doing Rhinestone Cowboy. |
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2003 : 12:16:42
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
You know whats a horrible cover,
Radiohead doing Rhinestone Cowboy.
Yeah, when I first encountered that cover on Audiogalaxy or Kazaa (i can't remember) I thought it was one of those mis-credited mistake MP3s...i was like "HA, yeah right! Radiohead covering Rhinestone Cowboy my ass." Then I downloaded it......rude awakening
Actually, I think its comedic value is the only thing about it that appeals to me. |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2003 : 17:44:32
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Originally posted by speedy_m
I liked the cover for Internal Wrangler. Sure, it is very 80s, but not in a bad way, in my opinion. It's retro chic without being annoying, and doesn't have any of the cringe inducing elements of most of 80s style. After all, it's just words.
All very well Mr Speedy M, but I think looks cheesey and dosn't suit the band (thier not very retro or chic), I like to turn the cover inside out and use the inlay as the cover  Still a great album though.
"I meet a man with no little toe and a real big head" |
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2003 : 21:15:40
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For me Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" has a pretty shity artwork...Poor inlay too...
www.munchienandalusia.too.it |
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ingersoll
- FB Fan -
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2003 : 17:12:17
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i know a lot of people diss frank's album covers, but the only one that i really dislike is "cult of ray." ironically, i have a huge poster with that artwork on it in my bedroom (it was the only frank poster i could find).
i really dont activley dislike too many album covers. however, sonic youth's "a thousand leaves" was absolutely hideous.
before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. that way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2003 : 20:27:25
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Originally posted by therewererumours
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Originally posted by speedy_m
I liked the cover for Internal Wrangler. Sure, it is very 80s, but not in a bad way, in my opinion. It's retro chic without being annoying, and doesn't have any of the cringe inducing elements of most of 80s style. After all, it's just words.
All very well Mr Speedy M, but I think looks cheesey and dosn't suit the band (thier not very retro or chic), I like to turn the cover inside out and use the inlay as the cover Still a great album though.
"I meet a man with no little toe and a real big head"
Sorry to take so long responding mate, I must have missed this one. You know, the cover for internal wrangler is an homage (or simply direct rip off of) to an old (jazz, I think) record by someone who's name I completely forget? I kept seeing it at this one record store on vinyl, and I would only glance at it, assuming it was internal wrangler, but an import from a non-enlgish speaking country and it was translated for some reason. But I actually looked at it the other day and it is indeed an old record by someone totally unrelated to Clinic. The only other cover art homage I've seen like that is Soul Asylum doing the Herp Alber thing back in the day. Anyone know of anymore cover art copies? |
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
4204 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2003 : 20:39:41
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Originally posted by speedy_m
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You know, the cover for internal wrangler is an homage (or simply direct rip off of) to an old (jazz, I think) record by someone who's name I completely forget?
Ornette Coleman, 1961 --
http://www.harmolodic.com/img/ornette_thumb.jpg |
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
4204 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2003 : 20:44:38
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Originally posted by speedy_m
Anyone know of anymore cover art copies?
The Clash "London Calling" after the first Elvis album
The Damned "Black Album" after The Beatles' white album |
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Mr Grieves
- FB Fan -
88 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2003 : 10:17:14
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Ash's 1977 - ok, a good album rather than a great one, but the cover sucks.
Pet Sounds - godawful literalism.
Muse's Showbiz was fairly bad.
They got a ranch they call No. 51! |
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1439 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2003 : 10:32:58
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sticky fingers by the rolling stones
Is your work done? Are all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?....
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