ITT: Great albums with terrible album art

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>>71842846

>>71842846
It's kinda lame but not terrible

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>>71842846
77% of my enjoyment for it came from this cover, I think it is really beautiful.

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>>71842846


Could you even imagine?

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>>71842846

>>71842900
This can't be real

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This version of the art is wayyy better

>>71842951
this artwork is amazing what are you talking about?

>>71843056
It is. And it's probably the worst album art I've ever seen.

>>71843063
This just looks like a shitty slowcore album

original is better

>>71843063
I definitely think that's shittier than the original

>>71843063
Agree
>>71842920
Getting mixed signals here.

Does anyone have that one Iron Maiden album cover with the Computer Generated people that looks like a bootleg Disney movie?

>>71843063
nailed it

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LMAO DUDE ABSTRACT ART

>>71843425
I could see that being sold from an art gallery for a few hundred dollars...

>>71843063
My CD has that cover, looks way better

>>71843361
Dance of Death?

>>71843063
The original looks like a mid-2000s emo album, this at least looks presentable

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>>71842951
Not even the worst M83 artwork

>>71843696
>Not thinking that Album art is GOAT tier

>>71842900
If only it was fully pixalated and bigger pixels.

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Metal artwork, the vast majority of it is pretty bad or straight up cringy
Gore, skeletons, violence and satanic shit all giving the feel of being drawn by an edgy 15 year old, with a convoluted band logo that tries too hard to look cool
Theres a couple good ones but they're far in between

>>71843697
What where they thinking

>>71843063
Meh the original is better

No such thing. The album art is a part of the aesthetic reception. Thereefore, if the album art is terrible, the album itself can be mediocre at best.

>>71843623
>>71843361
I like that cover.

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>>71844130
my bad. this is the cover.

>>71844103
shut up bruce

>>71842951
thats my fav album cover

>>71843338
this is a great cover

>>71844154
I have it on vinyl and it looks great bruh

>>71844154
thats my 2nd fav album cover

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>>71844295
Killing Joke is an amazing band, but not when it comes to cover art.

>>71842846
really shitty lighting here, in this photo

>>71843300
Leif is that you

>>71843697
everything that m83 does looks shit so i dont bother to listen

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im gay but still meh

>>71842951
I can't stand M83 but that's great art though

>>71843697
Yeah, this is much worse.

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>>71844035
The Dwarves: Blood Guts & Pussy.
I got this album solely based on the cover. I don't this it's metal, per-say, more punk or half & half but I remember it was about 15 minutes long and the songs were about a minute or so. Made me laugh...

>>71844036
I can't believe this shit became so successful.

At least Duran Duran could write decent songs...

>>71844685
What does Duran Duran have to do with a Prog Revival band? I'm not following...

>>71844325
Agreed. That album art ruined the record for me.
Especially compared to their previous effort with the crushed egg...

I had to change out the cover with a generic black & white photo of the band on my ipod just so I could get into the music. Weird how that irked me so. But it did. It's a decent album though but damn that cover.

>>71844356
no

>>71844487
they have nice hair

>>71844707
Sorry.
They kind of have the same sound to me. Same vocal mixing and styling, same punchy mix and slick production. I'm guessing because they both had decent producers in high end studios. I think Marillion recorded at Hansa if I recall.

It's just that, to me, they lacked any substance even though there was a "story" to that album it comes off empty. Not to say Duran Duran was any better but at least the imagery was interesting. Especially with the Arcadia spin-off.

That Marillion album cover is truly atrocious.
I blame the drugs when somebody thinks that was a good idea.

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>>71842846
The US cover is an improvement

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>>71844325
I fucking love YYY's but both the cover and the album itself were pretty 'eh'. Easily their worst effort.

Also can I post EPs ITT?

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one of my favorite polish records

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Suicidal Tendencies - Freedumb
Amazing album

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>>71842846
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>>71843697
agree

>>71843606
not sure, it's just a still from Time to Pretend video but I like it

>>71842920
>>71842951
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>>71844356
they look fine to me

>>71845010
WIECZORAMI CHŁOPCY WCHODZĄ NA FORCZANA
fully agree though

>>71844954
that's actually kinda funny
>vroom vroom

>>71845010
hahahaha!

looks like an elementary school kid's cut up collage

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>>71844904
I mean, for an album cover that reflects the lyrical content of the album it could be way fucking worse. It could be a Dream Theater cover.

>>71845501
but musically it's really good, at least if you dig britpop and if you don't mind non-english lyrics(I;m sure you'd appreciate it more if you knew polish)
check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gmpW8SDm58

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I don't care what you say, an elephant just doesn't work.

>>71844927
You can denied the beauty of Jeff sempai

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Can't believe the greatest offender hasn't been posted yet. Regarded as some of the worst album art of all time by some, but I like it, I get what they were going for.

>>71845261
holy shit kek

>>71845560
oh wow.
True that!
Point taken...

>>71845627
Hey thanks for that link.
And you're right, it is very good.
And yeah, I dig Britpop and I don't know a lick of Polish. But's really good stuff.

Kind of reminds me of the newer Camper Van Beethoven stuff even though they sound more Polish musically (heh).

>>71845737
he looks too much like James Franco on this cover tho

>>71845893
Could easily be a Motorhead concert tour poster.