Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Peter Power Pop]

With that Al Hirschfeld cartoon, these were my guesses (and why):



1. Er, dunno (probably a Romantic composer or pianist)
2. No idea
3. Brahms (the beard)
4. Bach?
5. Beethoven (the hair)
6. Mozart (the clothing)
7. Debussy (it's gotta be – nobody else looks like Debussy)
8. John Philip Sousa (the outfit)
9. Haven't a clue

I haven't seen the list of composers yet to find out who they're actually meant to be. Hang on...

Righty-o. According to the Al Hirschfeld website, here they are:

1. Chopin
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Brahms
4. Bach
5. Beethoven
6. Mozart
7. Debussy
8. John Philip Sousa
9. Vladimir Horowitz

[EigenUser]

With that Al Hirschfeld cartoon, these were my guesses (and why):



1. Er, dunno (probably a Romantic composer or pianist)
2. No idea
3. Brahms (the beard)
4. Bach?
5. Beethoven (the hair)
6. Mozart (the clothing)
7. Debussy (it's gotta be – nobody else looks like Debussy)
8. John Philip Sousa (the outfit)
9. Haven't a clue

I haven't seen the list of composers yet to find out who they're actually meant to be. Hang on...

Righty-o. According to the Al Hirschfeld website, here they are:

1. Chopin
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Brahms
4. Bach
5. Beethoven
6. Mozart
7. Debussy
8. John Philip Sousa
9. Vladimir Horowitz

I definitely think that the guy at the piano looks more like Schoenberg than anything, but, whatever...

[Karl Henning]

But, Schoenberg was not a pianist 

[Bogey]

I believe that the cartoon intended to feature Horowitz and the composers are the ones he played or were known for playing would be my guess.   cannot recall Hirschfeld just doing historic caricatures, but rather his focus seemed to be on  his present times.  I could be wrong due too the Sousa figure.

[Karl Henning]

I learn (via Wikipedia) that Hirschfeld remarried in 1996 . . . at what must have been the age of 92 or 93.

[Ken B]

But, Schoenberg was not a pianist 

It's Horowitz. Bow-tie.

[Madiel]

This has been a fascinating study in logic processes. Lots of people see a bunch of caricatures of composers and think that the guy at the piano must also be a composer. But the composers are all just standing around, and the guy at the piano is playing the piano.

[Jo498]

#1 looks more like Paganini than Chopin (or a cross between those two).

[Peter Power Pop]

#1 looks more like Paganini than Chopin (or a cross between those two).

I first thought number 1 might have been Liszt, but then I thought it could be any Byronic figure. (I look at number 1 and see a Generic Tortured Poet™.)

[Peter Power Pop]

I first thought number 1 might have been Liszt, but then I thought it could be any Byronic figure. (I look at number 1 and see a Generic Tortured Poet™.)

I first thought it was Peter Murphy.

Mr. Murphy certainly has that look...

https://www.youtube.com/v/v_Qzd3OnbL4

[Peter Power Pop]

I know it's a little thing, but that tilted photo bothers me (mainly because it's tilted).

Is it too much to ask for the image to be straighter?




Hang on...




Ah, that's better.

[Peter Power Pop]

What? Really?

[Peter Power Pop]

Yep. It's real.

Confirmation here. And here.

[Peter Power Pop]

"Hey guys, let's lug a couple of massively heavy grand pianos on to a beach, at great expense and effort, just so we can have a photo of you two playing at the beach. And wear those matching blue suits you have. They're really 'beachy'."

[Abuelo Igor]

Is it too much to ask for the image to be straighter?

You must not like Orson Welles' films very much, then.

[Peter Power Pop]

Is it too much to ask for the image to be straighter?

You must not like Orson Welles' films very much, then.

I love 'em.

The odd thing is that my favourite genre/style of movie is film noir, and those movies are full of bizarro angles.

But with that cover there was something about it being at an angle that bothered me. Maybe because it's a colour photo of something innocuous – unlike film noir, where everything's in black-and-white and sinister.

To me, that photo of the shell on the steps has no business being at an angle.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

"Hey guys, let's lug a couple of massively heavy grand pianos on to a beach, at great expense and effort, just so we can have a photo of you two playing at the beach. And wear those matching blue suits you have. They're really 'beachy'."

Where is high tide when you need it?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

"Excellent...this blue tile is perfect for the bath..."

[SimonNZ]

Has this one been mentioned?:

[Peter Power Pop]

Has this one been mentioned?:

Nope.

I have a bad memory, but that's a cover I'd remember.