Bad Album Covers

Tmuk · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 13:00

Dimrill wrote:

Well I know the Mutiilation ones are because I own them. Except my copy of "Vampires..." is a reissue because the original often reaches prices of 300 quid on eBay.

Yeah, I thought that was genuine, I'm thinking more of the boss-eyed American hick sitting on a haystack ones.

Plissken · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 14:02

Zardoz wrote:

Brendan Fraser on the left has done well for himself, since.

Shin · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 14:08

She is Alan Carr!

Plissken · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 14:16

The one in the middle is familiar - a chubby Christian Slater, maybe?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 14:19

The album title has always bothered me.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 15:36

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 15:46

Surely this is the worst album cover of all time...NSFW: Warning it's nasty and some of you may find it offensive (and not in a funny way either).

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

This is the lead singer of Mayhem just after his suicide, instead of calling the police his bandmates rushed off to buy a camera when they found him to take this picture. As a polite Death Metalling Norwegian bloke he apologised for the use of the shotgun indoors (it must of been cold outside).

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 15:47

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/921274.jpg

NSFW.

I don't think I have my copy any more.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

They must have posed it a bit as well then, unless he managed to shoot himself in the head, then drop the gun, pick up a knife, get the blood spatter over it, and then put it back down on top of the gun.

EDIT: That to morte's album cover of a man who has shot himself.

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 15:52

Mr Russ wrote:

They must have posed it a bit as well then, unless he managed to shoot himself in the head, then drop the gun, pick up a knife, get the blood spatter over it, and then put it back down on top of the gun.

EDIT: That to morte's album cover of a man who has shot himself.

Well they are wacky Norwegians, one of the band also murdered the guitarist by stabbing him 23 times (after burning a few churches).

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 15:57

Well, Dead left a suicide note saying "Excuse all the blood". Plus Dawn of the Blackhearts is a bootleg, really.

Tmuk · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 16:32

Mr Russ wrote:

They must have posed it a bit as well then, unless he managed to shoot himself in the head, then drop the gun, pick up a knife, get the blood spatter over it, and then put it back down on top of the gun.

EDIT: That to morte's album cover of a man who has shot himself.

They should have put his hand down his pants and sprayed shaving foam on his trousers while they were at it. Comedic opportunity missed.

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

This guy: "Look, it's my garage, and if I can't be in the band, you're not rehearsing in it."

Band member: "Awww, daaaaaad..."

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Morte wrote:

Mr Russ wrote:

They must have posed it a bit as well then, unless he managed to shoot himself in the head, then drop the gun, pick up a knife, get the blood spatter over it, and then put it back down on top of the gun.

EDIT: That to morte's album cover of a man who has shot himself.

Well they are wacky Norwegians, one of the band also murdered the guitarist by stabbing him 23 times (after burning a few churches).

Sounds perfectly horrible. Both the running to get a camera, and the stabbing.

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

Mr Russ wrote:

Sounds perfectly horrible. Both the running to get a camera, and the stabbing.

IIRC, the guitarist made a necklace with pieces of his skull too.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 18:04

Ian Osborne wrote:

Mr Russ wrote:

Sounds perfectly horrible. Both the running to get a camera, and the stabbing.

IIRC, the guitarist made a necklace with pieces of his skull too.

Euro and Hellhammer claimed to, plus eating a part of his brain.

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 18:42

There really isn't anything to do in Norway is there?

Sinestro · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 19:19

nervouspete wrote:

Sinestro wrote:

Quick! Somebody put in a request for... er... Ken!

Hee hee. Looks like several of the characters from the comic about a gay lad in the Deep South, 'Stuck Rubber Baby'.

Mrs Mills is terrifying. She's the sort of creature who haunts nightmares, knitting in her rocking chair beyond the door all dead eyed and smiling in the most hideous fashion. You open the door and your eyes fall upon her. Your heart leaps into your mouth and your limbs die on you as you float up into the air towards some unspeakable fate in the dimly lit room, faster and faster towards her awful, shrouded, oppressive, corner and her vacant eyes until just before you reach this monstrous aberation you awake, and stagger to the bathroom for a glass of water dripping cold sweat.

Ugh.

This thread has taken a slightly disturbing turn and I think it all started there...

Shin · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 19:28

Ugh, I can't believe that someone would take a picture of a dead guy that had his head shot though >.<

Mind you, I did used to frequent rotten.com back in the college days.

Plus...didn't the Victorians or something take picture of the dead too? And add it to photo albums and things of them? Creeeeeepy

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 19:47

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I have been summoned and now you shalt do my bidding. MUHAHAHAHAHA.

...Reaper · **Joined:** 27th Sep, 2008 **Posts:** 3

That's my line.

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 19:54

...Reaper wrote:

That's my line.

Mock not the Ken...mock ye not.

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

Shin wrote:

Plus...didn't the Victorians or something take picture of the dead too? And add it to photo albums and things of them? Creeeeeepy

Yes, dead babies. The cameras in those days had such long exposure times it was impossible to photograph a very young child - they just wouldn't hold still. Couple this with a very heavy infant mortality rate, and quite frequently a child would die long before he or she could be photographed, so taking a picture of the corpse was the only option. There were photographers who specialised in taking pics of dead toddlers, arranging their bodies to make it look like they were asleep, painting eyes on their eyelids, etc.

Incidentally, that's why Victorians frequently look grumpy in pictures. It was simply easier to hold a formal pose with no smile for the minute or two it took to expose the frame.

metalangel · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 23:35

I've never quite understood the photos in the Lovelife sleeve. At least in Split they were vaguely arty pictures of groups of four objects.

Still, at least I know what CD is going in my car tomorrow...

Shin · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 23:58

Ian Osborne wrote:

Shin wrote:

Plus...didn't the Victorians or something take picture of the dead too? And add it to photo albums and things of them? Creeeeeepy

Yes, dead babies. The cameras in those days had such long exposure times it was impossible to photograph a very young child - they just wouldn't hold still. Couple this with a very heavy infant mortality rate, and quite frequently a child would die long before he or she could be photographed, so taking a picture of the corpse was the only option. There were photographers who specialised in taking pics of dead toddlers, arranging their bodies to make it look like they were asleep, painting eyes on their eyelids, etc.

Incidentally, that's why Victorians frequently look grumpy in pictures. It was simply easier to hold a formal pose with no smile for the minute or two it took to expose the frame.

I remember watching 'The Others' with Nicole Kidman in it and seeing that part of the film with it in.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

Here's one from the music department at my old college, they've had a few crackers over the years but that's the only picture I can find

Attachment:

bad cover.jpg

Da5e · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 15:15

Dimrill wrote:

Well, Dead left a suicide note saying "Excuse all the blood". Plus Dawn of the Blackhearts is a bootleg, really.

Also, De Mysteriis is a worse cover, in my opinion...

Ooo, how grim!

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Davydd Grimm wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

Well, Dead left a suicide note saying "Excuse all the blood". Plus Dawn of the Blackhearts is a bootleg, really.

Also, De Mysteriis is a worse cover, in my opinion...

Ooo, how grim!

Well yes, that's about the size of his house.

Tmuk · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 15:58

Dudley wrote:

Well yes, that's about the size of his house.

Dudley obviously had his Ready Brek this morning.

Yartek · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8

This is the awesomest album cover I ever owned.

Even as a nine-year old child, I marvelled at how they changed certain things on this cover just enough so they wouldn't get their arses sued off.

Morte · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 19:39

I have the album as well, twas my favourite as a nipper.

Hain · **Joined:** 5th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 34

Mark X · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 0:43

That Beatles album cover was of course quickly withdrawn, a more family-friendly shot of the band slapped over the top of it before returning the record to store. But! The new cover was just a huge sticker, so everyone could carefully peel off the 'new' cover to see the old one. Trying to peel off a price sticker on a DVD case in one go without leaving any annoying sticky residue is a tough enough task - how many people managed to do so with an entire 12" by 12" sticker not designed to be removed, I'm not sure.

Craig · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1236

Even now you've got to wonder what the hell they were thinking.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:18

I'm looking at George who's strangely pushing his jaw forward while smiling.

Runcle · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:58

is that fuck a bad album cover, the background itself is more interesting than most pictures theese days and have you seen another photo with the beatles with the meat visible between their legs?

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:18

Craig wrote:

Even now you've got to wonder what the hell they were thinking.

Is the acid kicking in yet? Should I skin up again while I wait?

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

Just for a second there I thought I was being clever spotting the homosexual theme in Ruysan's post.

ultrabrilliant · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:28

Quote:

Har Mar Superstar?

Tmuk · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:30

Try to keep that gurn under control, George. Lennon looks like Partridge when he's colliding with the airbag in slow motion in the second (third!) series.

Bear or Bust · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 16:48

Still not an album,and yet... so bad.
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1413566

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Runcle wrote:

have you seen another photo with the beatles with the meat visible between their legs?

Mark X · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 0:59

Now here's a good reason to take a defibrillator to this thread....

All from this excellent site.

Malc74 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:06

Mark X wrote:

Now here's a good reason to take a defibrillator to this thread....

In with the obvious Father Dougal McGuire joke before anyone else...

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:56

Really? I was thinking Mike Myers when I saw that one.

Mark X wrote:

Now here's a good reason to take a defibrillator to this thread....

"Swallow your soul! Swallow your soul!"

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6515

I'd go to church more often if God's Power were channelled through karate vicars. That would be pretty awesome. Would mean the CoE would finally stand a chance against those pesky Jehovah's Witnesses with their kung-fu skills.

Runcle · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2008 0:59

Rodafowa wrote:

Really? I was thinking Mike Myers when I saw that one.

Mark X wrote:

Now here's a good reason to take a defibrillator to this thread....

"Swallow your soul! Swallow your soul!"

how lovely is that guitar though.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

nervouspete wrote:

Billy Crystal: "And the 'Can't... Maintain... Gender!' award goes to... POISON!"

I went to school with Gary Finbow, proud recipient of the "Can't... Maintain... Gender!" award for the shadow fighter comptetion in Amiga Power. He used to trace Manga, make it naked and sell it to the horny geeks in my school.

Little claim to fame that.

RBR2 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2008 18:14

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