Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Brahmsian]

He's the Row-mantic master.

You know, this wouldn't be such a terrible cover if he just wasn't wearing a tuxedo, but perhaps some sportsmen attire, and fishing hat.  And it was actually on a real lake or river, not just a fake photoshop image of a canoe on lake.   

[PaulSC]

Yes, a bad cover. And in this case, you can safely judge the disc by the cover.

[TheGSMoeller]

I'm having too much fun with this thread.

[Renfield]

These last three are like in those boxing films, where the protagonist delivers a one-two punch, and then some kind of uppercut at the end, launching the primary antagonist into the air to win the big fight. And this is EMI and Profil and, er...

EMI and Profil!

[The new erato]

They must have mistaken the Nocturnes for Barcarolles.

[Lethevich]

He's the Row-mantic master.

*diiiieeeessss*

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I like that cover as well Don jeez.

You must be kidding.

All of the genuinely bad ones are taken so you're just posting decent ones.

You must be kidding.

[DieNacht]

He's the Row-mantic master

yeah, that extr-oar-dinary piano music is soo my-steer-rious ...

They must have mistaken the Nocturnes for Barcarolles.

- or perhaps it is a rather sentimental recording of the Raindrop Prelude ??

[snyprrr]

I'm having too much fun with this thread.

I'm having moooooore fun!! Yes, this is lots of funny!!

[Opus106]

[eyeresist]

That doesn't really qualify for this thread.  The pictorial element isn't so bad.  It's the title concept that fails.  Although Rossini certainly knew his food...

There are probably hundreds of such themed collections. Australian Eloquence, to their lasting shame, put out a series of "Aromatherapy" collections.

Up a certain creek...


I didn't think the last ones GSMoeller posted were so bad - not compared to this:

[ASIN]B002BAODUU[/ASIN]

ANTHEMS FOR THE GAYEST TIMES OF YOUR LIFE!

[Coco]

[ASIN]B002BAODUU[/ASIN]

Looks pretty good to me. What it has to do with the music is questionable.

[eyeresist]

Looks pretty good to me. What it has to do with the music is questionable.

You don't think there's anything suspicious about this super-muscular oiled-up chap with silver body paint?

[TheGSMoeller]

You don't think there's anything suspicious about this super-muscular oiled-up chap with silver body paint?

Maybe he's Romeo.

[Renfield]

Maybe he's Romeo.

As long as he's not Cinderella.

[eyeresist]

"How could this happen? We started out like Romeo and Juliet, but it ended up in tragedy!" - Milhouse Van Houten

[Mirror Image]

This one:

[asin]B002LTJ2XY[/asin]

Not very creative and almost as bad as Spinal Tap's infamous black album cover.

[eyeresist]

Looks fine to me.


This one has some doozies, though the cover for Abbado in Mozart's Requiem looks fine to me.
http://gramilano.com/2011/04/worst-classical-music-album-covers-ever/


UUUuuuuurrrrghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!



UUUuuuuurrrrghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!



What.



WTF?







This one is not bad so much as irrelevant - plus makes my arteries ache:




ALSO: Pretty much everything Westminster Gold put out.

http://www.westminstergold.com/

[Mirror Image]

Looks fine to me.

It doesn't to me, that's why I pointed it out. Looks like people in the marketing department went to sleep behind the wheel. Zero creativity. Let's just put letters on a black backdrop and call it a day. Bloody brilliant!

[Brian]

MI, that's part of a series of Philharmonia recordings all based on that concept. That is the only black background in the series, so I don't think it's bad because I come from the point of view of having already purchased the green and blue volumes. 

Now, this:

Initially I thought, "Hey, now, that's not bad."

...then I saw the dog.