worst album cover 5151 Responses

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• eighteen

  http://www.discogs.com/viewimage…
  Just borrowed this one from my friend, went to look up the album cover and almost threw up on my cat.

  Sep 1, 08, 4:37 p.m. – Permalink

• eighteen

  FACK
  

  

  • AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH– eighteen

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:37 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  I can think of a worse one.

  • Oh wait... it wasn't actually the album cover. Nevermind.– ismith1/2

    hehe– ismith2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:37 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  Here:

  

  • I saved you from fail– ismith1/4

    that art and website around this album was quite nice i thought– matt312/4

    finally, thanks. I almost threw up again though.....– eighteen3/4

    yeah...that's HARDLY the worst cover....NOT EVEN CLOSE– marychain4/4

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:38 p.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  What's wrong with that as an album cover?

  Its strong.

  • Did you do it?– MrOneHundred1/2

    No.– SkyPoo2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:39 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  Don’t even get me going on this topic.

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:39 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  

  • what the?– flashbender1/3

    haha– VectorMasked2/3

    best cover ever!– matt313/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:40 p.m. – Permalink

• eighteen

  just looked up more album art on itunes and I now realize I'd rather see a best cover art thread.

  • +1– MrOneHundred

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:43 p.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  I'll be perfectly frank and admit I did this one below, and I personally think it is the worst album cover I've seen for a long time. I was specifically asked to do this by the band's lynchpin member. As I was commissioned as an illustrator and not as art director it was not for me to try and pursuade them to change their whole campaign concept, just to get on with providing the work they wanted and to do my best with the piss poor fee they were paying me for the work...

  

  I mean... really.

  • Logo designed by a band member's wife.– SkyPoo1/14

    name doesn't help either– eighteen2/14

    The name is terrible int it. I wanted so much to tell them to stop everything and start from scratch...– SkyPoo3/14

    ... the music is good and they could be big, but not like this!– SkyPoo4/14

    I thought my brother made that, or the logo, or something. I was pretty sure he was involved somehow.– GORADIO5/14

    I think your bro might be havin a laugh Go. Illustration work is mine and logo is a bandwife's. Maybe he cleaned up the logo...– SkyPoo6/14

    logo. It used to be even more bonkers and I recommended they at least tidy it up.– SkyPoo7/14

    What's his name, I'll check my promo copy tomorrow to see if he's credited for owt on there.– SkyPoo8/14

    I think that's it... I knew he didn't make this cover (obviously...) but I think he did clean up the logo or something.
    crazy.– GORADIO9/14

    Dan Smith– GORADIO10/14

    I'll checkimout! Does he work for the dreaded SonyBMG by any chance?– SkyPoo11/14

    nope, just is a designer and knows a band member or two.– GORADIO12/14

    Oh right, he knows Jaz then. Did he enjoy 2.00am phone calls to discuss painting Jaz's trainers?– SkyPoo13/14

    (probably best not to answer that).– SkyPoo14/14

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:47 p.m. – Permalink

• thismanslife

  So bad it's good?

  

  Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

  • The top half I actually like. The collagey bottom bit is just 6th form art project laziness.– SkyPoo1/5

    (actually the top half is that too, but I applaud the craft skills)– SkyPoo2/5

    Indeed. Album's "alright" though– thismanslife3/5

    no way this is awesome...i LOVE this (and wp)– catalina4/5

    it aint so bad.– THA5/5

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:49 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  http://www.qbn.com/topics/555868…

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:52 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  better:

  http://www.qbn.com/topics/556788…

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:53 p.m. – Permalink

• Audria

  every year.. I think at least 400 horrible album covers are created. this includes local bands to major signed bands.
  When I worked at KXLU I started judging music on the album covers... bad idea.. but when you get 50 shitty covers and music thats just as bad.. its just what happens.

  • 50 per week**..– Audria1/2

    I was going to say that number seemed a bit low.– SkyPoo2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 4:58 p.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  I actually lost heart very quickly after first doing music industry stuff. The odds of getting satisfaction just seem to be so massively stacked against the designer. It caused me no end of emotional stress and the only pay off was the ridiculous amounts of money you could charge, until a few years ago. Once that went there was really no value in doing it anymore becuase you'd be lucky to get one project done to any creative satisfaction in any two year period. Its always the fucking lead singer who fucks it up.

  I have massive amounts of admiration for the determined few who manage to craft entire portfolios of solid, uncompromised creative work for music clients. The effort it must take, beyond the creative process, in sterring that through and getting people to just fucking trust you and to shut the fuck up so you can do it, must be immense.

  • Yep.– MrOneHundred

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:05 p.m. – Permalink

• eighteen

  thought of another
  

  

  
  everytime I see this one I feel like I'm missing something, but no.....

  • Haha, I bet when this came out it seemed quite cutting edge graphically though... it just hasn't aged well I think.– SkyPoo

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:07 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  

  • Vegan-Metal– elahon1/2

    http://anmblog.typep…– Bender2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:08 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  I have done around a hundred covers and I’d say about 96 of them suck a pair of large, hairy balls. And it’s always for the same reasons – the “creative element” of the band always has some shitty “vision” of the band (meaning a biro drawing that their house-mate did while stoned) which must be included. You get into an argument with the bass player, whose boyfriend has “done some graphics before” about whether the logo needs to be 1mm higher on the page.

  Over-inflated (unjustified) egos, a mistaken sense of creativity and a general lack of open-ness to the ideas of the designer.

  You can trust me on this since I have been in bands as long as I have been designing covers.

  • You hit the problem right on the head there M100. That is exactly it.– SkyPoo1/2

    YES, +100000000– ismith2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:09 p.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  Even more excrutiating is when you've written off your aspirations for the cover and gone with a photoshopped version of the lead singer's wife's biro drawing and then its time to fill 12 pages of booklet, and the band provide you with 12kb jpegs of their legs, and polaroids of street signs that have some significance to them, and they get really angry about the record label stifling their creativity becuase they can't have a die-cut on each page in the shape of their parent's heads.

  One single I did for Scissor Sisters, they wanted their Mom's photgraphs on the back of the sleeve. They provided really piss poor pictures and I crammed them in (five old dears in total) but they were not happy about how small they were.

  Aside from the pictures there has to be barcodes, track listings, legal copy, codes, logos... all that other stuff, and a CD single is about 120mm square.

  The label executive looking afte rthem called up and said "They're not happy. You have to make the pictures bigger" and we ended up having an arguement about the physically impossibility of doing that vs the contractual obligation to deliver artwork that could be approved. I explained really clearly the physcial limitations and then told the label executive to instruct me exactly what size to make each picture. She said "Make each one cover half of the back of the sleeve"...

  You can't argue with logic like that.

  • hahahahaha. Funny how it goes all the way to the top. (or the lower-middle in this case).– MrOneHundred

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:24 p.m. – Permalink

• marychain

  

  • don't even dare...– Meeklo

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:30 p.m. – Permalink

• marychain

  

  • holy gheyness– flashbender1/4

    Ha! I was just about to post this. Still in my clipboard, actually.
    – elahon2/4

    wtf!! manowar is the shit. . you took this from my other post!!– Audria3/4

    this is a classic cover. its so bad its amazing!– Audria4/4

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:31 p.m. – Permalink

• marychain

  

  • Oh, here we go.– MrOneHundred1/2

    HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH…– eighteen2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 08, 5:32 p.m. – Permalink