Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[TheGSMoeller]

Trouble is, it is a gorgeous CD, for the ears and mind if not the eyes. I play it often and just try not to look.

Oh, I agree, Luke, but that's the case with some of the recordings here. In fact here is another goody from phantasm that could've used a little help from the art department, but again some beautiful performances.

[Grazioso]

Oh, I agree, Luke, but that's the case with some of the recordings here. In fact here is another goody from phantasm that could've used a little help from the art department, but again some beautiful performances.

Bad Photoshopping seems to have replaced real graphic design these days

[Opus106]

Bad Photoshopping seems to have replaced real graphic design these days

Add terrible puns and a lack of imagination to that.

[DavidRoss]

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned...."

[Grazioso]

Add terrible puns and a lack of imagination to that.

I look at those classic Reid Miles covers for Blue Note and lament the loss of the good old days of album art.

[ibanezmonster]

Looks like a new, utterly wrong superhero: Naked Marble Opera Diva with a Penis

At least it's small...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Bad Photoshopping seems to have replaced real graphic design these days

Probably the lesser of two evils with a photo-shoot like that: either be photoshopped in or be sitting ducks in real life for bird poop bomb-arama!

[kishnevi]

Besides that--aren't those seagulls?  If you're going to have birds on an album cover with that name, at least show birds usually associated with singing?  You know, nightingales and robins and skylarks and avians of that ilk...

[Opus106]

Besides that--aren't those seagulls?  If you're going to have birds on an album cover with that name, at least show birds usually associated with singing?  You know, nightingales and robins and skylarks and avians of that ilk...

I can't understand why people won't open their minds up a little. It's always those "greats" -- the cuckoos, the nightingalres et al. Why don't you explore other bird songs? I say give gull-iard a try. If you don't like, take a break and go to the beach a couple of weeks later and listen again.

[Grazioso]

I can't understand why people won't open their minds up a little. It's always those "greats" -- the cuckoos, the nightingalres et al. Why don't you explore other bird songs? I say give gull-iard a try. If you don't like, take a break and go to the beach a couple of weeks later and listen again.

The raucous, atonal cries of gulls circling a garbage dump are in fact very similar to the modernist experimentation of... 

[TheGSMoeller]

"Oh wait, everyone! Come back, we forgot to get a photo for the Dvorak disc." -photographer

[Grazioso]

"Oh wait, everyone! Come back, we forgot to get a photo for the Dvorak disc." -photographer

They're smart: they're wearing white in case the birds in the photo shoot next door poop on their clothes.

[snyprrr]

I'm glad to see you're taking this Thread seriously. I must commend you.

[kishnevi]

"Oh wait, everyone! Come back, we forgot to get a photo for the Dvorak disc." -photographer

Or project manager to the art director: "Oh, we have these stills from the last CD still hanging around.  Let's use one of them.  Be a lot cheaper."

Harmonia Mundi did a similar thing with the first three CDs they released for the Jerusalem Quartet.

although apparently they did allow one of the musicians to change his shirt to match the others before the final shot.

[TheGSMoeller]

although apparently they did allow one of the musicians to change his shirt to match the others before the final shot.

There's always that one bad apple to ruin everything!!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I'm glad to see you're taking this Thread seriously. I must commend you.

If the record companies would ask us first there wouldn't be these problems!

[Opus106]

Or project manager to the art director: "Oh, we have these stills from the last CD still hanging around.  Let's use one of them.  Be a lot cheaper."

The title of Most Notorious Use of Photos from a Single Shoot is awarded to the series of boxes from Warner for their Barenboim boxes (Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and more recently, Wagner).

[Mirror Image]

The title of Most Notorious Use of Photos from a Single Shoot is awarded to the series of boxes from Warner for their Barenboim boxes (Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and more recently, Wagner).

Don't forget Liszt!!!



And Mozart!!!

[Opus106]

Don't forget Liszt!!!

And Mozart!!!

Ah, yes. It's like they worked towards winning the award.

[TheGSMoeller]

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