Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Yo-Yo Ma's new album cover is SICK! 

Has he gone Goth?  That's the last genre he has yet to try...

[Peter Power Pop]

Has he gone Goth?  That's the last genre he has yet to try...

No Goth, I'm afraid.

This is apparently the latest album of new material from Yo-Yo Ma:

The Goat Rodeo Sessions (2011)

[Wikipedia – Amazon.com]

And it looks like the material is denim.

http://www.youtube.com/v/u0nsxCsJgdg

[Peter Power Pop]

I think they look like a Rorschach test for metal fans.

(Psychiatrist: "And what does this look like?" Patient: "Metal!")

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

It's satanic, that's for sure. 

[Peter Power Pop]

Snap!


[Amazon.com]



[Discogs]



[Discogs]

[Peter Power Pop]

Inspired by:







..and, of course, who can forget:

It's satanic, that's for sure.

Only if you look at them backwards.

[kishnevi]

That Orff Gorecki counts as the oddest coupling I know of.

[Peter Power Pop]

That Orff Gorecki counts as the oddest coupling I know of.

It's a two-CD set on the Brilliant Classics label, with Carmina Burana on the first CD and Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 (coupled with 3 Pieces in Old Style) on the second. (It's the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for all works, with Carmina Burana conducted by Richard Cooke, and the Gorecki conducted by Yuri Simonov.)

There's also a single-CD of Cooke's Carmina Burana, which uses the same artwork:



Even more confusingly, Brilliant Classics have also released a two-CD set containing Cooke's Carmina Burana and the original music that Orff's work was based on.

At least that has a different cover.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I rather like that one.

Das Ewig-weibliche zieht uns hinan?

[Florestan]

Das Ewig-weibliche zieht uns hinan?

[Ken B]

Florestan
Empty your mail box! I tried to PM you but you're full.

[TheGSMoeller]

Florestan
Empty your mail box! I tried to PM you but you're full.

Wrong thread. 

<--- (thread police)

[Peter Power Pop]

Snap!


[Amazon.com]

I rather like that one.

I don't mind it, but (Warning: Nitpicking Alert) from a graphic-design perspective a couple of things bother me:

1. I don't like the font used for the pianist. For me, it doesn't match (or even complement) the other fonts. Plus, it looks like Times New Roman. Ugh. I would have much preferred the font that was used for Scriabin's name. Consistency!

2. The pianist's name is touching the man's elbow. To borrow a phrase from Arrested Development, "No touching!"

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Snap!

And yet another one, sans touching:

[Peter Power Pop]

And yet another one, sans touching:

Wow. That makes five. I didn't realise one painting could be that popular with musicians.

The painting is The Angel of Splendour, by Jean Delville.

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Incidentally, another of Delville's paintings has been used more than once for an album cover.

Behold Satan's Treasures:


Hexenhaus - A Tribute To Insanity



Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick

[Peter Power Pop]

Ever get the feeling you've seen a picture somewhere before?

From the Wikipedia entry on artist Karl Friedrich Schinkel:

"Working for the stage he created in 1816 a star-spangled backdrop for the appearance of the 'Königin der Nacht' in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, which is even quoted in modern productions of this perennial piece."

This is Schinkel's painting:




It got quoted alright.

Here's a (distinct lack of) variety of covers:






























That sure is one popular painting.

[Gurn Blanston]

Note though, Peter, it doesn't have to be Die Zauberflöte, only Mozart!

[Peter Power Pop]

Note though, Peter, it doesn't have to be Die Zauberflöte, only Mozart!

Wow.

[Peter Power Pop]

It's also been used for something other than Mozart:

Poor Moon - Illusion (EP) (2012)

[Peter Power Pop]

Note though, Peter, it doesn't have to be Die Zauberflöte, only Mozart!

Thanks, GB. I'll add those two (and, would you believe, two three four five more I just found) to the original post.