Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Peter Power Pop]

Yeah, it looks like one of those photos you'd take with your phone back in late 90s.

It's a composite of three different photos (left, right, and background), all stitched together with fuzzy black borders that do nobody any favours.

What's weird is that the other releases on the Maguelone label don't have horrible covers at all.

[TheGSMoeller]

What's weird is that the other releases on the Maguelone label don't have horrible covers at all.

This one is pure gold, there is so much going on here. I love it..

[Peter Power Pop]

This one is pure gold, there is so much going on here. I love it.

Yeah, that's probably the worst of the other ones on the Maguelone label, but it's still nowhere near as shudder-inducing as that Histoire du Soldat cover. Ugh.

[Peter Power Pop]

Also on the Maguelone label is this...



...but it's more of a "What?" cover to me than an "Oh no" cover.

[zamyrabyrd]

Did Mr. Désenclos override the artistic director for the cover art? If so, I can understand capitulating.

Well Dressed Clavier

[zamyrabyrd]

1968.   (She's saying, "Sock it to me, Dvorak")

Half Dressed Dvorak

[kishnevi]

HUGE bonus points for utilizing the clarinetist's striped shirt. 

The devil made them do it.

[Parsifal]

HUGE bonus points for utilizing the clarinetist's striped shirt. 

Someone got paid to produce this!

[Brian]

This portrait belongs in either Best or Worst, and I can't decide which, although to be honest I'm leaning Best.

[TheGSMoeller]

This portrait belongs in either Best or Worst, and I can't decide which, although to be honest I'm leaning Best.

I'm going to go with best, Brian. This is one of those covers where I'm fairly sure all those involved knew it was a ridiculous cover, and were still alright with it.

[North Star]

[Madiel]

Somehow I don't expect Brilliant to come up with something so awful.

[ritter]

Somehow I don't expect Brilliant to come up with something so awful.

Someone at Brilliant must have thought "Our covers are too bland!" and came up with this horror   

[Mirror Image]

Yeah...that's a hideous cover for sure.

[TheGSMoeller]

Gramophone is getting in on the action as well....'

The record covers from hell
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/the-record-covers-from-hell?utm_content=buffer444c3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[SimonNZ]

No.11 led to one of the most heated debates at TC some years back.

[TheGSMoeller]

No.11 led to one of the most heated debates at TC some years back.

What was the debate? Nice violin?

[SimonNZ]

Heh. It started out as a debate on whether she looked worryingly underage (even knowing she was in her early 20s), and whether that was deliberate marketing. Also about how it represented the music of Bach. Eventually moved on to a debate on the marketing belief that "sex sells".

[Mirror Image]

Another rather hideous cover:



This is either an advertisement for the next installment of 300 or a cheap porno film with a title like Una noche de lluvia en Tarragona (A Rainy Night in Tarragona). Either way, it sucks and is quite distasteful.

[zamyrabyrd]

Gramophone is getting in on the action as well....'

The record covers from hell
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/the-record-covers-from-hell?utm_content=buffer444c3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Oh gosh, this really made my day!!!