Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Peter Power Pop]

Great album, ghastly cover:

[Biffo]

Great album, ghastly cover:

I have a couple of other albums from the RCA Artistes Repertoires series as well as the Munch above - both have similar ghastly covers.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Great album, ghastly cover:

I have a couple of other albums from the RCA Artistes Repertoires series as well as the Munch above - both have similar ghastly covers.

I recognized the style right away and thought of a Rudolf Firkusny cover that I had seen before online.  Didn't find that one right away, but I did run across this equally odd one:



PD

[Biffo]

I recognized the style right away and thought of a Rudolf Firkusny cover that I had seen before online.  Didn't find that one right away, but I did run across this equally odd one:



PD

The Firkusny/Martinu is one of the ones I have, the other is Saraste (mainly)/Sibelius

[Todd]

One of the least bad from the series, at least that I have seen, is a nice Czech chamber music disc:



Discogs cites 53 titles, with images for 43 of them: https://www.discogs.com/label/499373-Artistes-R%C3%A9pertoires

[Pohjolas Daughter]

One of the least bad from the series, at least that I have seen, is a nice Czech chamber music disc:



Discogs cites 53 titles, with images for 43 of them: https://www.discogs.com/label/499373-Artistes-R%C3%A9pertoires

That one is o.k.

I had to look up Laurent Korcia as I had not heard of him before now.  The other two are favorites of mine.

Interesting that they used LK for the cover--particularly as his recordings make up the least of the 2-CD set.  I suspect that this was due to him being a French artist (and then currently the only living one of the three) and that it was put out by BMG France has something to do with it. 

PD

[Todd]

Interesting that they used LK for the cover--particularly as his recordings make up the least of the 2-CD set.  I suspect that this was due to him being a French artist (and then currently the only living one of the three) and that it was put out by BMG France has something to do with it.

He was a hot property at the time and got the almost instant reissue to sell a few more copies. 

[Peter Power Pop]

I recognized the style right away and thought of a Rudolf Firkusny cover that I had seen before online.  Didn't find that one right away, but I did run across this equally odd one:



PD

Ye gods, that's hideous.

[Peter Power Pop]

Attack of the Beards.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

He was a hot property at the time and got the almost instant reissue to sell a few more copies.

Ah, that further helps to explain things. 

PD

[Irons]

One of the least bad from the series, at least that I have seen, is a nice Czech chamber music disc:



Discogs cites 53 titles, with images for 43 of them: https://www.discogs.com/label/499373-Artistes-R%C3%A9pertoires

He looks like Renaldo.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

He looks like Renaldo.

He does bear a striking resemblance to him, doesn't he? 

PD

[Peter Power Pop]

Seen over at the Vaughan Williams Veranda thread:

[SimonNZ]

Reminds me of that portrait of Churchill that Lady Churchill destroyed.

[geralmar]

An asteroid about to destroy the earth?

[Peter Power Pop]

An asteroid about to destroy the earth?

What a weird cover.

[Jo498]

It's certainly funny. Not sure about the connection. Maybe the artist remembered the symphony still as the fifth, therefore Dvorak in a pentagon and the dodecahedron...
As has been stated before, both the "flower power design" in the late 60s and 70s and the new technology and computer graphics? of the 1980s generated some odd covers a and the step from genius to madness seemed small.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It's certainly funny. Not sure about the connection. Maybe the artist remembered the symphony still as the fifth, therefore Dvorak in a pentagon and the dodecahedron...
As has been stated before, both the "flower power design" in the late 60s and 70s and the new technology and computer graphics? of the 1980s generated some odd covers a and the step from genius to madness seemed small.

 

It looks to me like it's supposed to be a futuristic-looking cover.  Makes me think of spaceships and unknown vehicles/things (vs. a meteorite) myself.

PD

[MusicTurner]

Maybe-maybe visually inspired by say the 'Tron' movie (1982) ... at least it's in a popular style of that time. The LP is from 1983.

Cf also the Karajan DG DDD LP series (1985) ...

[geralmar]

 

It looks to me like it's supposed to be a futuristic-looking cover.  Makes me think of spaceships and unknown vehicles/things (vs. a meteorite) myself.

PD

Also, to me a bit unsettling.  The two red columns on the right make me think of the World Trade Center towers.  On the left their destruction.  The record jacket is from 1982.