Albums with the highest difference in quality between cover and content

[Trotskilicious]

pretty much hands down

[Trotskilicious]

the fucking sun flares

[Mo]

[Trotskilicious]

haha yeah dinosaur jr is a strong contender for this award. you're living all over me and bug have pretty horrible covers too

[TuralyonW3]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nGreyhound.jpg

[TuralyonW3]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...The_Corner.jpg

[Order 66]

for me probably led zep 3 but i'm sure there are much worse out there. i could get into the weeds though

fun fact: storm thorgerson of pink floyd concept art fame was originally going to do the cover. it was going to be a glowing tennis court with a racket. he was like 'it sounds like racket lol' ... so they told him to fuck off and opted for that.. thing

[Trotskilicious]

what's wrong with zep 3? you know the vinyl has a wheel in it and the cover had holes so you could rotate the different pictures, that's lost on cd reprints

[Trotskilicious]

what kind of philistine thinks zep sounds like racket maybe that's why he's dead

[Shallowed]

Bad cover, good music:

http://991.com/newGallery/Curve-Dopp...-Au-277163.jpg

It's really ugly and unattractive. If I felt like buying something based on its cover, I would pass right over this.

Conversely:
http://991.com/newgallery/Soup-Drago...god-445352.jpg

The music isn't terrible, it's just not crazy acid-fueled psychedelic-______. It's lame Madchester dance.

[cocksure]

of course:

[Xteenmachine]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...m_cover%29.jpg

[Order 66]

mary star art gave you the impression its way more psychedelic than it is

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3588/...ef3e1a786c.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../Zwan_Logo.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/77595476.png

[Order 66]

i had the cowboy guitar guy sticker on my fender stratocaster for awhile

[Euronomus]

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...93286447_n.jpg

[Trotskilicious]

i dunno that looks amazing i want to do that one day

"Darling, will you let me blow a french horn into your butt?"

[Euronomus]

yeah the cover is amazing, the music contained therein is horrible. The look on the guys face is classic.

[noyen]

i love that album cover. amazing way to prepare for anal sex.

[myosis]

when i bought this back in the day, the guy at the counter went "what the hell is that?"

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41F03K3VHVL.jpg

[myosis]

this old vinyl is also pretty great. the guy loved to look silly but he's a poet.

http://image1.archambault.ca/3/5/B/F....0.320x320.jpg

[reprise85]

french horns are like the hardest instrument to play.

[Shallowed]

You're supposed to put your hand inside the bell of the horn. Amateur.

[LalaPumpkinhead]

[paranoid]

Originally Posted by Xteenmachine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...m_cover%29.jpg

I love this cover.

[teh b0lly!!1]

i always thought this was an exceptionally weak cover for such an astounding musical effort
not really up to par with the rest of the covers itt tho

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/n/n...-pink-moon.jpg

[smashingjj]

I've noticed that Mastodon's covers have been very matching with the musical quality of the albums.

Remission and Leviathan are both great and their covers are beautiful:



crack the skye: erm


The Hunter is as laughable as its cover. Horrible!


seriously what is this shit

[Trotskilicious]

leviathan is one of the greatest covers of all time

OF
ALL
TIME

[smashingjj]

more on topic:



i really like meshuggah but what the FUCK

[Sonic Johnny]

I love that cover art.

[Sonic Johnny]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5...ips0o1_500.jpg