Worst album covers

[DiscoIgor07]

And while talking about fantastic freestyle albums with terrible cover artwork. We have to feature this...
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It looks like they placed a net curtain over the camera lens? They have photoshopped out the woman in the middle's leg and arm and the woman on the far right is about to have a dump.

The hair or the one in the middle had some serious cropping issue too.
You gotta love this kind of photoshop mess.

 

[biffy77]

I actually love this mess.
In a bonus side I didn’t know about them and now I’m jamming it my home.

The music is really good. late 80s freestyle and opening track written by SAW.

 

[V3RYP05H]

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Great songs but awful album cover. the Highlighter yellow, chopping off their heads, the end of the triangle looking like its coming out from the blonde's legs, Also were bumbags ever fashionable even in 1988?

It’s gaudy but it’s also very late 80s/early 90s gaudy in a way I find nostalgic and endearing. This gets a pass.

 

[Eric Generic]

I'll take both of these over today's dismal dreck.

(I have both in my collection, in fact!).

 

[Skyline]

Jennifer Rush - Stronghold: The Collector's Hit Box (2007)

 

[Doodvid]

 

[Eric Generic]

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And...."How?"

 

[Booers]

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The head scratching seems to go well with the title.

 

[DiscoIgor07]

And...."How?"

And…. “why?”

 

[magictreehouse]

That Nicki French one is hilarious. It looks like she's walked into a room and forgotten what she came in for. Fits the title though.

 

[Mvnl]

The room giving

 

[Eric Generic]

The room giving

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Total eclipse of the Start.

 

[biffy77]

I'll take both of these over today's dismal dreck.

(I have both in my collection, in fact!).

Both great albums. I'm having a bit of an 80s Freestyle binge.

Any other albums/artists that you'd recommend in a similar style EG?

 

[Doodvid]

I mean the poor love’s never had the greatest luck with her artwork…

 

[Mvnl]

The Last Dance one isn't even all that bad!
But yeah, I assume she's... on a budget

 

[bcmuk]

I hear she is a lovely person. Maybe this is just a way of showing that she doesn't take things too seriously!

I quite like Last Dance. It's better than, say the Microsoft Publisher '95 cut-and-paste job Dannii Minogue Neon Nights reissue cover, which probably had a budget of at least £8.

 

[V3RYP05H]

I do/did love the scrapbook philosophy of the Neon Nights20 cover. Was also ahead of its time (well, second wind) as last year I recall seeing more and more people/artists do that (off the top of my head, the Sugababes).

 

[bcmuk]

I do/did love the scrapbook philosophy of the Neon Nights20 cover. Was also ahead of its time (well, second wind) as last year I recall seeing more and more people/artists do that (off the top of my head, the Sugababes)

Each to their own. To me it will always belong in "Worst Album Covers" (although the original album cover was genius at the time).

I think I dislike it because it feels like a "let's not pay the photographer for more shots than we need to" approach to do something different with the sleeve, rather than a creative choice.

 

[V3RYP05H]

Each to their own. To me it will always belong in "Worst Album Covers" (although the original album cover was genius at the time).

I think I dislike it because it feels like a "let's not pay the photographer for more shots than we need to" approach to do something different with the sleeve, rather than a creative choice.

I actually meant to say I like it as its own thing but it’s fucking hideous as a celebratory, anniversary cover. I still don’t get the aversion to the original cover, which is perfect. The 2007 reissues also had a hideous cover, and get that bubblegum pink and baby blue off the album color scheme!

 

[Eric Generic]

Both great albums. I'm having a bit of an 80s Freestyle binge.

Any other albums/artists that you'd recommend in a similar style EG?

Those are probably two of the main ones, along with Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam....maybe too mainstream?