Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[North Star]

And Jacques Ibeart

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Not even Beartók is sacred.

[North Star]

Some might say that Bearhms is a bit of a stretch.

[listener]

and other arrangements, or bearbeitungs by Shönbearg. perhaps

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I'm partial to Webearn performed by Bearenboim!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Some might say that Bearhms is a bit of a stretch.

Not Chandos!

[North Star]

I'm partial to Webearn performed by Bearenboim!

I wonder if Bearezovsky has played von Webear's piano music. 

[Peter Power Pop]

And Franz Schubeart wrote all those songs. What are those fancy songs called in German? Oh, yeah: Liebear.

[Peter Power Pop]

I'm having a look through the list of Schubeart's compositions, and there's actually a song called "Abschied. Nach einer Wallfahrts-Arie bearbeitet." Yes, really. It's D 475.

[North Star]

And Franz Schubeart wrote all those songs. What are those fancy songs called in German? Oh, yeah: Liebear.

Unfathomable that I didn't remembear him.

[Madiel]

I'm having a look through the list of Schubeart's compositions, and there's actually a song called "Abschied. Nach einer Wallfahrts-Arie bearbeitet." Yes, really. It's D 475.

LOL. "Bearbeitet" means "edited". Pronunication is be-arbeitet, in other words "be" is just a prefix to the root word.

[Jo498]

"arranged" would probably capture the meaning of "bearbeitet" best. The most literal translation would be "reworked" The implication is usually that the arranger or redactor does more than merely edit a piece but less than a complete overhaul.

[Abuelo Igor]

You must not forget baritone Olaf Bär, who was renowned as a Schubert interpreter. Bär=bear.

[Moonfish]

I'm really in the mood to do something to that cover. Any suggestions? With polar bears?

I envisioned keeping the Funeral Music title, adding a polar bear on the ice and then suspend the graph with the decreasing Arctic ice data in the sky section. This could be enhanced by a big SUV with smiling passengers and plenty of exhaust next to the polar bear. It would be a best seller, eh?

[Moonfish]

.

[Peter Power Pop]

LOL. "Bearbeitet" means "edited". Pronunciation is be-arbeitet, in other words "be" is just a prefix to the root word.

"arranged" would probably capture the meaning of "bearbeitet" best. The most literal translation would be "reworked" The implication is usually that the arranger or redactor does more than merely edit a piece but less than a complete overhaul.

Wah. That makes the pun much less fun* than I thought it was to begin with. I was hoping to find a Schubeart composition with at least one "bear" in it, and was full of glee when I found that. And all it means is "edited" or "arranged"? Wah.

(*It's an un-fun pun.)

[Peter Power Pop]

I'm really in the mood to do something to that cover. Any suggestions? With polar bears?

I envisioned keeping the Funeral Music title, adding a polar bear on the ice and then suspend the graph with the decreasing Arctic ice data in the sky section. This could be enhanced by a big SUV with smiling passengers and plenty of exhaust next to the polar bear. It would be a best seller, eh?

Maybe I should have rephrased that and said "Any light-hearted suggestions?".

That image you've pictured, Moonfish, is grim, grim, grim. I don't know where whether to call it irony or blacker-than-black humour. Either way, it brings me down, man. I was hoping this thread would maintain its sense of "Let's have fun at the expense of album covers that take themselves way too seriously".

[Peter Power Pop]

You must not forget baritone Olaf Bär, who was renowned as a Schubert interpreter. Bär=bear.

Brilliant!

Olaf Bär is the ideal artist to feature on Chandos' Bear Essentials series. (I don't even have to change his name, considering how it's pronounced.)

By the way, the series is pretty meagre. It consists of only ten titles:

CHAN 241-15    HANDEL: CLASSICS 2-CD SET
CHAN 241-19    SIBELIUS: COMPLETE TONE POEMS
CHAN 241-11    WEDDING CLASSICS 2-CD SET
CHAN 241-12    BRITISH FILM CLASSICS 2-CD SET
CHAN 241-13    DINING CLASSICS 2-CD SET
CHAN 241-14    ROMANTIC CLASSICS 2-CD SET
CHAN 241-16    LULLABY CLASSICS: 2-CD SET
CHAN 241-17    REMEMBRANCE CLASSICS
CHAN 241-18    IN MEMORY OF. . . CLASSICS FOR FUNERALS
CHAN 241-23    AMERICAN CLASSICS

(Being Australian, I feel like paraphrasing Crocodile Dundee by saying to Chandos, "That's not a series... That's a series."

[Moonfish]

Maybe I should have rephrased that and said "Any light-hearted suggestions?".

That image you've pictured, Moonfish, is grim, grim, grim. I don't know where whether to call it irony or blacker-than-black humour. Either way, it brings me down, man. I was hoping this thread would maintain its sense of "Let's have fun at the expense of album covers that take themselves way too seriously".

Grim but unfortunately true...   

[Moonfish]

By the way, which label released that album? Bearato?