Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Mirror Image]

This:

[Madiel]

This:

Yikes. That's bad. It took me at least 30 seconds to figure out that I was possibly looking at the back of a woman with pigtails. As opposed to some kind of multi-coloured chicken in flight.

[Mirror Image]

Yikes. That's bad. It took me at least 30 seconds to figure out that I was possibly looking at the back of a woman with pigtails. As opposed to some kind of multi-coloured chicken in flight.

Indeed. It kind of reminds me of 8-bit Nintendo graphics.

[kyjo]

Yikes. That's bad. It took me at least 30 seconds to figure out that I was possibly looking at the back of a woman with pigtails. As opposed to some kind of multi-coloured chicken in flight.

Ha! I had the same reaction

[Madiel]

What possible association do... a couple of folk dancers (?) have with a Bruckner symphony anyway?

The more I look at it the worse it gets. We don't often get technically incompetent and thematically meaningless into the same cover.

[amw]

Yikes. That's bad. It took me at least 30 seconds to figure out that I was possibly looking at the back of a woman with pigtails. As opposed to some kind of multi-coloured chicken in flight.

Wow can't believe no one else realised this is actually a still shot from the award winning stop motion animation film Chicken Run (2001) which also, like Bruckner's 3rd symphony, contains quotes from Wagner's Lohengrin and Tannhauser in its soundtrack

[Madiel]

Wow can't believe no one else realised this is actually a still shot from the award winning stop motion animation film Chicken Run (2001) which also, like Bruckner's 3rd symphony, contains quotes from Wagner's Lohengrin and Tannhauser in its soundtrack

[Biffo]

I have only just discovered this thread, there was a similar one in the Amazon.co.uk forum a while ago. I am surprised how sensitive some people are, I have never not bought a CD or LP because of a repulsive cover. Most classical ones are boring, occasionally they are horrid, even more occasionally they are outstandingly good. If I wanted another Bruckner 3 (I don't at the moment), the hand-knitted chicken taking flight wouldn't put me off - the performance is vastly more important.

[Mahlerian]

What possible association do... a couple of folk dancers (?) have with a Bruckner symphony anyway?

The finale of the Third does have that polka/chorale second subject...but I agree it's a weak association.

[Madiel]

I have only just discovered this thread, there was a similar one in the Amazon.co.uk forum a while ago. I am surprised how sensitive some people are, I have never not bought a CD or LP because of a repulsive cover. Most classical ones are boring, occasionally they are horrid, even more occasionally they are outstandingly good. If I wanted another Bruckner 3 (I don't at the moment), the hand-knitted chicken taking flight wouldn't put me off - the performance is vastly more important.

This thread isn't about things we wouldn't buy. Indeed, in a great many cases people are presenting things they HAVE bought.

[Biffo]

This thread isn't about things we wouldn't buy. Indeed, in a great many cases people are presenting things they HAVE bought.

Some of the early posters say they have been put off buying by covers - Varese, Lulu etc

[Madiel]

Some of the early posters say they have been put off buying by covers - Varese, Lulu etc

Well if you're reading posts from 10 years ago I'm afraid I can't help you.

Nor did I say no-one had ever said that. What I said is that that isn't what the thread is about.

[Biffo]

As I said, I have only just discovered this thread and so I read the first few pages. I didn't ask for your help.

One positive point, I have ordered the Chailly/Varese disc.

[amw]

nothing to see here, totally normal back cover, how did I even get to this thread

[André]

The devil is in the details...

[amw]

honestly I've always wanted to hear the long-lost minuet to the Prague Symphony as well as the extended, 25-minute version of the finale

[Undersea]

Well... I personally think this is rather awful but what do you guys say?.

[71 dB]

Well... I personally think this is rather awful but what do you guys say?.

Could be okay if it was Kanye West on the cover, but Wagner? Awful! 

[Undersea]

Could be okay if it was Kanye West on the cover, but Wagner? Awful! 

Lol, yeah, I don't get it...
(it says on the Amazon blurb for the Disc that the image is by Dutch Artist Erwin Olaf).

[Jo498]

The swan makes a nice contrast and a "ghetto kid" seems a reasonable parallel to the "pure fool" Parsifal. Anyway, the others from this series are actually worse:

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