Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[TheGSMoeller]

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Ouch. Mine above is not really bad, just funny. But yours, George, is bad. 

[Artem]

Bizet's newly discovered opera, Car Men. About car salesmen?

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[Peter Power Pop]

Bizet's newly discovered opera, Car Men. About car salesmen?

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Oh dear. Such a simple thing, designing an album cover where the title is one word. One word.

That cover reminds me of a Twitter feed I follow:

https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob

Examples from You Had One Job:

[Peter Power Pop]

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There's something about drawings of composers that the artists don't quite capture. (For one thing, they don't capture what the composer actually looks like.)

Aaron Copland seems to fare the worst from the cartoon treatment.

A selection of Aaron Copland cartoon album travesties...

Not too bad, but not great:



The likeness is almost there, but the cover's messy:



Those eyes!:



I think the artist was trying to be witty here, but it just makes me go "What?":



Another "witty" one, but to me it's wrong, wrong, wrong:



Almost there, but then the artist goes into "Who is that man?" mode for Lenny:



This, for me, is the worst one (it's also, mercifully, the smallest one I could find):

[Peter Power Pop]

Also from You Had One Job...

[Peter Power Pop]

I just found this at the top of this thread's page (the banner ad that offers Amazon.com's album suggestions). I want to like it:



It's bad enough that there's a faded pair of glasses at the bottom of the cover, but... there are eyes in those glasses. [Shudder]

[amw]

Putting images on a cover is clearly a mistake. We should do something simple that's impossible to screw up, like just listing the composers, the names of their pieces, and the perf-



... never mind.

[Peter Power Pop]

Putting images on a cover is clearly a mistake. We should do something simple that's impossible to screw up, like just listing the composers, the names of their pieces, and the perf-



... never mind.

That's... er... uh... it's... it's...

There's a phrase that young people use nowadays:

"I can't even."

And the indignity for Giacinto Scelsi of having his name in Comic Sans. Ugh.

[Pat B]

Putting images on a cover is clearly a mistake. We should do something simple that's impossible to screw up, like just listing the composers, the names of their pieces, and the perf-

... never mind.

At first I thought that was a fake/joke cover. But it's actually real!

[Brian]

And the indignity for Giacinto Scelsi of having his name in Comic Sans. Ugh.

At the office, I recently got an email from the US Department of Homeland Security about potential security threats, and it was written entirely in Comic Sans.

[Peter Power Pop]

At the office, I recently got an email from the US Department of Homeland Security about potential security threats, and it was written entirely in Comic Sans.

Wow.

[kishnevi]

There's something about drawings of composers that the artists don't quite capture. (For one thing, they don't capture what the composer actually looks like.)

Aaron Copland seems to fare the worst from the cartoon treatment.

A selection of Aaron Copland cartoon album travesties...


I think the artist was trying to be witty here, but it just makes me go "What?":



Another "witty" one, but to me it's wrong, wrong, wrong:

Hirschfeld was possibly the greatest Armerican caricaturist of the 20th century.  The Copland drawings are representative of his work
http://www.alhirschfeld.com/artwork/originals.html
Horowitz and friends from that site

[amw]

And the indignity for Giacinto Scelsi of having his name in Comic Sans. Ugh.

That was my favourite part until I noticed that they also misspelled Bernhard Haas's name.

(And yes this is the real CD cover)

[EigenUser]

At the office, I recently got an email from the US Department of Homeland Security about potential security threats, and it was written entirely in Comic Sans.

That's hilarious! How can someone take that seriously?

Hirschfeld was possibly the greatest Armerican caricaturist of the 20th century.  The Copland drawings are representative of his work
http://www.alhirschfeld.com/artwork/originals.html
Horowitz and friends from that site

I love this! I'll take a guess at these. Starting at the guy at the piano and going clockwise-(ish):

-Schoenberg (I think)
-Liszt
-Elgar (or possibly Grieg or Faure)
-Brahms
-Bach
-Beethoven
-Saint-Saens (the guy conducting, I think)
-Mozart
-Debussy

Edit: Just found the list of people. The guy at the piano is Horowitz (duh, in the title!), not Schoenberg. Although, he did draw a caricature of Schoenberg on his website...

My favorite caricature is this. Anyone care to take a guess (apologies for straying from the thread topic!)?

[Sergeant Rock]

-Elgar (or possibly Grieg or Faure)

No, Scriabin.

-Saint-Saens (the guy conducting, I think)

No, John Philip Sousa. Horowitz often played the Stars and Stripes Forever as an encore piece.

https://www.youtube.com/v/P_TZzL6SNnc

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Gotta be Bartok.

Forsooth.

[kishnevi]

No, Scriabin.


Sarge

The website says it's supposed to be Tchaikovsky.   Although if it hadn't said that, I would have guessed any number of folks before him.
Between him and Horowitz at the piano is Chopin.

[Karl Henning]

The website says it's supposed to be Tchaikovsky.   Although if it hadn't said that, I would have guessed any number of folks before him.

I think the three of you have demonstrated that Hirschfeld did not much succeed in this case 

[Sergeant Rock]

The website says it's supposed to be Tchaikovsky.

I see it now...the eyes  ...although I associate Horowitz more with Scriabin than Tchaikovsky (well, there is that famous PC1 recording with Toscanini).

Sarge

[Peter Power Pop]

Is there a category of people called "literalist"?

I must be one, because when I first saw this cover I thought, "What's going on here? It's an album of duo recordings, but there are three people on the cover. Huh?"

It took me ages to figure out that they must have recorded their stuff two at a time, not all three at once.

But I look at that cover and I'm confused. I'm a literalist.



For the record (tee hee), I want to say that I really like the photo of the three (not two) artists. It makes a nice change from all those horribly posed photos you see of musicians being ultra-serious.

(Thanks to Todd for mentioning the album in another thread.)