I asked this last night, and didn’t get quite the kind of answers I was looking for. I KNOW YOU CAN DO BETTER, R&P!! Please give picture links if Y!A isn’t being a jerk, and then balance it out with the best album cover ever.
These are my personal nominations.
Manowar’s "Anthology." (for worst)
http://seeyouinhell.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/manowar-anthology2.jpg
Symphony X’s "The Odyssey." (for best)
http://static.metal-archives.com/images/7/9/0/1/7901.jpg
GO GO GO!
HA! I knew somebody’d come out with that DragonForce album…
And that Orleans album? Ghastly… 0_0
Egh, yeah, most any cover with the actual band on it is bound to suck.
But, HOLY SH*T THAT OTHER ONE WITH THE WIZARD AND ROBOT SHARKS LOOKED FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!
Lars’s burp residue on Metallicas "Load"album( metalheads know what it is") ewwwwwwww
http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/releases/load.htm
BEST= IronMaiden Killers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iron_Maiden_Killers.jpg
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:51 am
Worst:
Rat On! – Swamp Dogg
http://www.scq.ubc.ca/filter/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/g1dogg.jpg
Best:
Animals – Pink Floyd
http://www.album-art.net/art/albums/p/pink_floyd/animals.jpg
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March 2nd, 2010 at 7:26 am
http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/
so many
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March 2nd, 2010 at 8:01 am
This album is not out until next month but here it is.
Dragonforce- Ultra Beatdown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dragonforce_-_Ultra_Beatdown.jpg
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Nintendo!
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:32 am
boy, that manowar cover sure makes me wish i was a viking
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March 2nd, 2010 at 9:01 am
worst: Orleans – Walking and Dreaming
http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/08/orleans_4.jpg
best: Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
http://iadtmusicappreciation.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/cover.jpg
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March 2nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
Millie Jackson’s "Back to the sh*t"
at what point did some album art director think "hey, a swell idea would be Millie taking a dump. that would make a GREAT album cover!"
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http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/millie.jpg
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:51 am
I couldnt think of album cover for the worst and i found this LMAO
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnbullas/1324188708/
best Intestine baalism, hard to see, but is a beautiful painting of some demon (not that demons are beautiful)
http://www.anus.com/metal/images/intestinebaalism1.jpg
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March 2nd, 2010 at 10:30 am
worst: singularity by mae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Singularity_Mae.jpg
(it looks like they couldn’t come up with anything and just decided to scribble all over the cover)
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March 2nd, 2010 at 10:47 am
You really have to see this full sized in real life to fully appreciate it (and the flash is covering the daughter’s face and she is frightening looking) – seriously: this is probably the most bizarrely unnattractive looking family I have ever seen – but the fact that I was actually able to even find this image online is amazing to me!
I bought this record a LONG time ago just for the sheer hideousness of the cover (believe me: the music is pretty terrible too) and it’s never left my collection since:
http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Whelchels-Heirs-Of-The-Kingdom-Sing-MSP-9101_W0QQitemZ200214957529QQihZ010QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247#ebayphotohosting
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March 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Radiohead.pablohoney.albumart.jpg
I just wanted to bash this bullshit of a band
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March 2nd, 2010 at 11:33 am
worst: A Thorn For Every Heart – It’s Hard To Move You
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/57a3c498-d8ee-4d0b-905c-0f8dbb54b540.jpg
This seems more like a 21st century boy band of scene kids rather than an underground screamo band
Doesn’t help that the CD sucked too.
best: Four Year Strong – Rise or Die Trying
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Four-Year-Strong–Four-Year-Strong-CoverHi-Res.jpg
Who doesn’t love a wizard and his monkey buddy flying through space on an octopus fighting off robotic sharks? Not me.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Lars’s burp residue on Metallicas "Load"album( metalheads know what it is") ewwwwwwww
http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/releases/load.htm
BEST= IronMaiden Killers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iron_Maiden_Killers.jpg
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March 2nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
http://allmusic.galeon.com/caratulas/c/Creed-Weathered-Frontal.jpg
Hands down the worst Photoshop job ever.
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