Topic: Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Madiel]

A friend posted this on Facebook. I'm not sure whether to put it in the "best" or "worst" thread:

Or potentially in the "fake" thread. Many of these sorts of things aren't genuine.

[Biffo]

A friend posted this on Facebook. I'm not sure whether to put it in the "best" or "worst" thread:

Are they Cone-heads wearing wigs?

[Jo498]

It's almost certainly a fake, but the three ladies seem genuine; with some effort one could find the cover they stem from as they are remarkable enough for a collection of genuine weird covers.

(I was very puzzled that the humanoid Martians of E.R. Burroughs despite looking like and being able to interbreed with terrestrian humans, hatch from eggs...)

[steve ridgway]

Or potentially in the "fake" thread. Many of these sorts of things aren't genuine.

I’m a bit suspicious of some of those titles Matron.

[Peter Power Pop]

These modern "Hey, how can we get the artist to pose in a different way?" album covers give me the heebie jeebies.

It looks like he's been put in the naughty corner.

[T. D.]

This is a jazz album I enjoy listening to and consider excellent, but the fugly cover art makes me avert my eyes.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

This is a jazz album I enjoy listening to and consider excellent, but the fugly cover art makes me avert my eyes.

I just did a bit of googling:  neat to find out that Alice (Mrs. Coltrane) was also a jazz artist/composer.  What instrument(s) did she play?  And did she write much music?

PD

[SimonNZ]

She played piano on the last few John Coltrane albums. I believe, though I've only heard about a quarter of her solo work, that she performed almost exclusively her own compositions, also playing harp.

[T. D.]

She started off as a pianist and later took up the harp and organ.

Allmusic is often a good source for pop and jazz: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alice-coltrane-mn0000006143/biography

For more of a focus on her "spiritual" work: https://www.alicecoltrane.com/

I've heard her recordings with John, a decent chunk of her "major label" releases, and this reissue of self-produced "ashram" music: https://www.alicecoltrane.com/world-spiritual-classics-1

[Peter Power Pop]

Here's the full album:

https://youtu.be/RzuyR6GeXRg

This is a jazz album I enjoy listening to and consider excellent, but the fugly cover art makes me avert my eyes.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Thank you for the info gents!

PD

[geralmar]

1977

I just don't like it.

[pjme]

I just don't like it.

The Pathétique is/was an easy victim...

[Irons]

Similar to first -



and third -
 

[Jo498]

#3656 is quite cheesy and the one with the boots very strange (I probably don't get the joke?) but the other ones seem "classic" (mostly 1950s?) covers, maybe not the most beautiful but certainly remarkable; I don't really understand how they should be among the worst.

[Madiel]

Similarly, the flowers/boots one was the only one I really reacted to in that selection.

[pjme]

#3656 is quite cheesy and the one with the boots very strange (I probably don't get the joke?) but the other ones seem "classic" (mostly 1950s?) covers, maybe not the most beautiful but certainly remarkable; I don't really understand how they should be among the worst.

Yet another case of "des goûts et des couleurs"...I fear. But first of all, let's not be too serious about LP/CD covers.
The young people I know go crazy over (imho cheap & ugly) 1950-1960- ies furniture and lamps. Personally, I don't give much (= I hate) for formica, lava lamps, skai and what we call in Belgium "the Expo 1958 -style": asymmetry, twisted rebars, slanting table legs, flag stone/ marble/travertine floors and table tops...orange plastic.
The Lp covers I find brute, rough, garish & gaudy. And rather fun.

[steve ridgway]

Oh that’s nice! I went up that Atomium on a school trip years ago. It reminds me of the days when we used to believe in progress, discovery, optimism.

[T. D.]

Oh that’s nice! I went up that Atomium on a school trip years ago. It reminds me of the days when we used to believe in progress, discovery, optimism.

I wouldn't hang that on the wall as a poster, but think it's fine as an album cover / historical document. As noted above, the underlying (perhaps kitschy) '50s aesthetic is highly popular in many circles, though I'm mostly indifferent.

[Brian]

It looks like he's standing at a urinal.  (Sorry).

With his hands in his pockets?? Brave man!