Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Symphonic Addict]

Fortunately the awful cover art wasn't an impediment to hear an interesting early String Quartet in B minor:

[Madiel]

Fortunately the awful cover art wasn't an impediment to hear an interesting early String Quartet in B minor:

Who knew that all those blurry photographs I took could have been the basis for art.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Who knew that all those blurry photographs I took could have been the basis for art.

    Reminds me, I have a *bunch that I need to delete off of my phone and computer. 

*And a number of various red-tailed hawks....very distant ones which I took in my early enthusiasm of them (including some with finger/thumb blocking part of the image). 

PD

[Peter Power Pop]

Seeing double:

[JBS]

Quadruple actually



Okay, 3.5 times since his hand is positioned differently in Los Angeles. Maybe it cramped up from being in a traffic jam on the freeway.

I'd presume they meant it as a visual unifier for the series. But using the same photo or. series of photos from the same shoot seems rather common.

[Peter Power Pop]

Seeing double:

Quadruple actually



Okay, 3.5 times since his hand is positioned differently in Los Angeles. Maybe it cramped up from being in a traffic jam on the freeway.

I'd presume they meant it as a visual unifier for the series. But using the same photo or. series of photos from the same shoot seems rather common.

Fabulous. I didn't know that more photos from his photoshoot were used for other covers.

More Giulini!

[Irons]

For such a good looking man odd he had an aversion to having his photo taken.

[Peter Power Pop]

"Pucker up, baby, I'm about to start kissin'..."

[Peter Power Pop]

Don't really care for that "peering out of a diving bell" look.


Also a little perplexing since Earth isn't one of Host's planets.

Plonking a huge image of Benny Britten in the middle of a Planets painting is weird. (Way to trash the reputation of the original painter, dudes.)

[Irons]

Plonking a huge image of Benny Britten in the middle of a Planets painting is weird. (Way to trash the reputation of the original painter, dudes.)

I'm surprised Dutton came up with such a daft cover.

[vandermolen]

"Pucker up, baby, I'm about to start kissin'..."

I agree. It looks like Eduard Van Beinum is struggling with a hot potato in his mouth.

[vandermolen]

[DaveF]

Aaargh, where do you start with that one?  Not an impossibly bad pic of VW, although his ears appear to have been severed and their tissue used to bulk out his nose - but why Symphony no.8 in 'D' minor?  And whose is it - VW's, Bax's or Butterworth's - or did they all write one, or perhaps collaborate on the one work?

My own modest contribution:



Beautiful picture (can't go wrong with Norwich cathedral) - but another font failure - the composers' names are up there in the vault somewhere.  (On the real physical product they are even less legible.)

[Scion7]

That Hovhaness cover is a tragedy - good grief.  Couldn't the bloody photographer take his time for a decent angle?

[Peter Power Pop]

My own modest contribution:



Beautiful picture (can't go wrong with Norwich cathedral) - but another font failure - the composers' names are up there in the vault somewhere.  (On the real physical product they are even less legible.)

That's an impressively bad cover. It's the kind of cover that gives you a headache when you try to read the text.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

That's an impressively bad cover. It's the kind of cover that gives you a headache when you try to read the text.

Yep!  The bottom writing is fine, but trying to read the composers' names is difficult.  Pretty picture though.

PD

[pjme]

The RVW and Hovhaness drawings/photographs are ugly and awkward. Cheap quick design .


Hovhaness as a Guggenheim felow

This formal studio portrait has been used often



Two famous portraits of RVW are responsible for the awful copies/variations


all by Sir Gerald Kelly (1879 - 1972)


https://museumcollections.rcm.ac.uk/collection/Details/collect/29

Some photographs from the family archives show a gentler face...

[pjme]

Anyhow, over the years, poor RVW's craggy face hasn't been captured well....

[vandermolen]

Aaargh, where do you start with that one?  Not an impossibly bad pic of VW, although his ears appear to have been severed and their tissue used to bulk out his nose - but why Symphony no.8 in 'D' minor?  And whose is it - VW's, Bax's or Butterworth's - or did they all write one, or perhaps collaborate on the one work?

My own modest contribution:



Beautiful picture (can't go wrong with Norwich cathedral) - but another font failure - the composers' names are up there in the vault somewhere.  (On the real physical product they are even less legible.)

LOL at your VW 'nose graft' suggestion.

[vandermolen]

The VW Symphony No.9 Everest LP drawing is pretty bad.

Here's another VW cover. The composer had clearly been using his 'Lunar Surface Moisturising Cream':