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Subject: Worst album covers
Written By: Dude111 on 04/16/21 at 11:47 pm
www.gocontinental.com/covers.htm
www.stevecarter.com/albumcovers.htm
www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs
http://web.archive.org/web/20080908025543/http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/2003/10/worst_album_cov.html
Some are quite disgusting!!!!
Generally I find newer albums (80s on) to have worse and worse covers....
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Howard on 04/17/21 at 2:30 pm
https://cdn.pocket-lint.com/r/s/320x/assets/images/134579-gadgets-feature-53-of-the-worst-album-covers-of-all-time-image9-cylozamr9p.jpg?v1
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: violet_shy on 04/17/21 at 3:57 pm
https://cdn.pocket-lint.com/r/s/320x/assets/images/134579-gadgets-feature-53-of-the-worst-album-covers-of-all-time-image9-cylozamr9p.jpg?v1
What the heck?! Ha ha ha! ;D
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Howard on 04/18/21 at 8:04 am
What the heck?! Ha ha ha! ;D
I found this one, it looks like a bad Kiss album cover. ;D
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: violet_shy on 04/18/21 at 8:15 am
I found this one, it looks like a bad Kiss album cover. ;D
Lol they do look like Kiss! Ha ha, that's funny as heck. ;D ;D
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: wagonman76 on 04/18/21 at 9:06 am
I was waiting for that one by Orleans and sure enough I saw it in one of the OP links.
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: violet_shy on 04/18/21 at 10:27 am
I was waiting for that one by Orleans and sure enough I saw it in one of the OP links.
They have a song called "Dance with me" right?
Yeah they have various album covers where they are shirtless or nude. I just looked it up lol.
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: wagonman76 on 04/18/21 at 12:55 pm
They have a song called "Dance with me" right?
Yeah they have various album covers where they are shirtless or nude. I just looked it up lol.
Good band and my favorite song of theirs is Love Takes Time.
But yeah 5 guys who appear nude, draped over each other, and it looks like one is checking out the other guy’s details.
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Howard on 04/18/21 at 1:37 pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03287/if-you-can-believe_3287013k.jpg
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: whistledog on 04/19/21 at 7:37 am
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZZASQMEVL._AC_.jpg
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: whistledog on 04/19/21 at 7:38 am
Good band and my favorite song of theirs is Love Takes Time.
Same here. That song is fantastic!
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: whistledog on 04/19/21 at 7:41 am
https://img.discogs.com/wn5CyEQRpvhFFJ6grgWYMfBGaNQ=/fit-in/600x607/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14982526-1585071999-3502.jpeg.jpg
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Howard on 04/19/21 at 8:33 am
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZZASQMEVL._AC_.jpg
I don't know what Millie Jackson was thinking at the time when she created this album. ::)
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/21 at 1:23 pm
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/The_Beatles_-_Butcher_Cover.jpg
tell me why?
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Howard on 04/26/21 at 1:58 pm
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/The_Beatles_-_Butcher_Cover.jpg
tell me why?
What was with the decapitated heads? :o
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 04/26/21 at 2:04 pm
What was with the decapitated heads? :o
Didn't we JUST go through this about this album cover and explain everything on another thread? Like just a few weeks ago at most? American Girl did a great job explaining. I've seen two of these "butcher covers" in my life. One of them is with the photo completely exposed and one is with the "trunk cover" pasted over it. If you held it up a certain way you could see the butcher cover underneath. This untouched pasted ones with the butcher cover underneath are the ones worth a fortune.
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/21 at 2:07 pm
Didn't we JUST go through this about this album cover and explain everything on another thread? Like just a few weeks ago at most? American Girl did a great job explaining. I've seen two of these "butcher covers" in my life. One of them is with the photo completely exposed and one is with the "trunk cover" pasted over it. If you held it up a certain way you could see the butcher cover underneath. This untouched pasted ones with the butcher cover underneath are the ones worth a fortune.
That was how I remembered it, but where the reply and explanation is I cannot say. But something deep down inside tells me where.
Subject: Re: Worst album covers
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/21 at 2:10 pm
That was how I remembered it, but where the reply and explanation is I cannot say. But something deep down inside tells me where.
Found it!
Regarding vinyl releases, "USA" releases differed from "UK" releases. Who saw that a problem? The Beatles did! That is why they came up with the idea of the infamous "butcher cover" for the album "Yesterday and Today".
(The Butcher Cover - recommend not to look at this while eating 8-P ):
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRaHghiA2up8Jp3OJhNLkqRElzbVwAzmCvbs_stvGot3T3Dsdba
This distasteful album cover was a way for the Beatles to protest what Capitol records was doing to the American album releases. You see, "Yesterday and Today" was never supposed to be an album - at least in the minds of the Beatles. In essence, whereas the UK releases generally contained 14 songs apiece, Capitol records culled different combinations of songs from these to make the US versions, which generally contained only 11 songs (or less). The Beatles used the Butcher cover to protest Capitol's greedy behavior. However, the public wasn't happy with the cover and so Capitol had to recall the early released Yesterday and Today albums and paste a "boring" cover on top of it (ironically any album having the butcher cover today commands a pretty penny, as it is a collector's item).
Once Sgt. Pepper hit, the practice of making different albums for "USA" and "UK" stopped.
Any thoughts about the different album configurations? I will add personally that whereas I say my favorite Beatles album is Rubber Soul, it is the "USA" version of the album I refer to...