Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Moonfish]

This looks like a corporate meeting room and not a cover for Beethoven's concerto.....     

[Artem]

Is this real?

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[Peter Power Pop]

Is this real?

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Apparently so.

Yikes!

[Peter Power Pop]

This looks like a corporate meeting room and not a cover for Beethoven's concerto.....     

That's so... business-like.

And the dude with the cigarette in his mouth. What?

[Madiel]

This looks like a corporate meeting room and not a cover for Beethoven's concerto.....     

No, look we're going to do it this way: violin entry first, then cello, then piano. If you don't like it then the deal's off.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Yes, it has a Titanic feel to it!

"Bruckner for the Bottom of the Bay".

[Peter Power Pop]

No, look we're going to do it this way: violin entry first, then cello, then piano. If you don't like it then the deal's off.

I read your caption, laughed a lot, went off and had some lunch, came back to the computer, saw your caption again, and laughed a lot again.

Thank you, orfeo.

[Jo498]

It does look like a provincial 1958 business meeting. The main indication that these are artists is that three of them are not wearing ties.
In any case, Schneiderhan and Anda do look bored to death.
For the originals re-issue they picked the cover of the Brahms double which is boring but not quite as bad and Schneiderhan is almost smiling.

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Apparently there was also a nicer cover for the triple in some other LP issue:

[Luke]

Fine, but give me a stuffy-but-sensible Beethoven business-meeting over this sort of thing (not classical, I know, but to give context):

[EigenUser]

Brahms double which is boring

I'm glad we agree!

[Peter Power Pop]

Fine, but give me a stuffy-but-sensible Beethoven business-meeting over this sort of thing (not classical, I know, but to give context):

Ah, I love me some Glam.

It makes me...

https://www.youtube.com/v/OT_gKaipe5g

[kishnevi]

Apparently so.

Yikes!

Amazon thinks this is a recording of Schumann piano works


The three works selected for this recording by pianist Caspar Frantz Davidsbündlertänze, op. 6, his first great piano cycle; Nachtstücke, op. 23, and Gesänge der Frühe, op. 123 are quite dissimilar in some ways and yet closely related in others. Typical of the arch-Romantics, all have as their inspiration a literary source, and all three differently represent Schumanns early creative burst and his somewhat ill-considered latterly decline. Mr. Frantz is an internationally recognized concert and recording artist, with two acclaimed previous recordings for the Ars Produktion label.

[Mirror Image]

I just had to laugh at this one:



No one told me Rachel Barton Pine was a druid!

[ibanezmonster]

"Instrument of the Devil?" Cute.

[Peter Power Pop]

I just had to laugh at this one:



No one told me Rachel Barton Pine was a druid!

I reckon they must be Patrick's hands.

Also: The look on Rachel's face tells me it wasn't her idea to dress up for the cover.

[Peter Power Pop]

"Instrument of the Devil?" Cute.

With a title like that, I though somebody was going to make a joke along the lines of:

Instrument of the Devil:


...or...

Instrument of the Devil:


That kind of thing.

By the way, I found the photo of that accordion on a page featuring one of the weirdest things I've ever read on the Internet.

[EigenUser]

I just had to laugh at this one:



No one told me Rachel Barton Pine was a druid!

That must be a viola!

[DaveF]

Is this real?

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Mods, you can lock this thread now.  This is it - I mean THE worst looking CD/LP artwork.  (The writeup on amazon.com is gratifyingly wrong as well.)

[Dancing Divertimentian]

The Stephen King version of a classic tale?

[Peter Power Pop]

How to fill up a picture the easy way: