Now I'm going to clean up my monitor. Well, that explains it then. All of you who thought they'd read about the worst-album cover issue on Metafilter: Mcstayinskool raised the issue in a posting about John Hall. That photo of Cody Matherson should have included a fistful of Euro notes. That's one of my therapy sites. That's nice. Now I feel like I should start contributing to it again. The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is pretty bad. So he even got the title wrong. Naked hawt women.
Hitch hiking. How fucking juvenile. I don't know. Devourment's "Molesting the Decapitated" has a lot going in this "bad album covers" contest. Someone emails this to me once every month or so. I still laugh at Joyce, though. Sometimes album covers are fabulous, sometimes not so fabulous [exhibit 1] , but the music, it's all about the music [exhibit 2]. Double - ish. Which is to say, RegurgitationFilter. Sure, if "Cody" is Vietnamese. For the real Terry and Dean experience you have to go to their rented house in Sunalta.
That's south west , near downtown. When I was a kid I used to jerk off to that Orleans cover. I think I will right now, for old time's sake. I think the general rule for these aside from the fact that it's cannibalism of already cannibalized content is that the worst covers are all either cheesy, Olan Mills-style photography of a person with no clue that their face isn't going to sell any albums see: Joyce, Ken, and the like or else a bold idea with piss-poor execution, where a better job might have made it work well see Orleans, All My Friends are Dead.
For instance, the All-Time worstest album cover ever - Virgin Killer - is awful not just because of its content: i. On the other hand, the Houses of the Holy cover is done in a tasteful way which doesn't suggest any exploitation, and makes the cover seem artistic and beautiful.
You don't or at least I don't get the queasy feeling that the girls are in immediate danger that I get with the Scorpions. That album cover is some fucked-up shit. I know this because I was recently flipping through my girlfriend's Witkin monograph for a project related to the film Se7en and exclaimed "Oh, my god! I don't know if I'd call it an all-time "bad" cover, unless you're counting copyright infringement among its offenses. I've certainly seen more grotesque, and much less "artful," cover art, particularly on '80s punk records.
How was Al Stewart's Year of the Cat album overlooked?! Talk about horrendous. There went 30 mintues of my day. Thanks Metafilter! Can I borrow a feeling off of any of you? It's too easy to pick out terrible album covers when you can choose from the entire universe of recorded music.
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I can't resist Speaking of Mash Meals from a Can, vol. The Mash Theory: A Breakdown. Mash Theory: A Breakdown. Heino: Liebe Mutter Keeping the rose theme going, German singer Heino was on his way to plant this rose bush when he stumbled into the photo studio. Orleans: Waking and Dreaming I've had the naked-at-school dream plenty of times.
But naked at the photo shoot? Also, notice how the photographer arranged them not according to height, but beardedness. This is an album with a good heart: a sermon aimed at teens which tries to tell them the truth about drug abuse. With an album cover like this, though, I'm betting Gage didn't sell a lot of copies to anyone, young or old.
At Play with the Playmates Do their wives know about this?
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