i thought this record cover was pretty awesome

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― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

this too:

http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/24909.mew-andtheglasshandedkites.jpg

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

man i LOLed at a lot of that article. I don't remember Schreiber ever being that funny!

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

the first one is cool. the second one is so ugly that it stops me from buying the mew album even though i think it's kind of cool.

― hm (modestmickey), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

What article, btw?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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this one is AWESOME. what are you thinking, ryan?

xpost, mark: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40185/Staff_List_Top_25_Worst_Album_Covers_of_2006

― hm (modestmickey), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/24898.citizens-postcromagnondrift.jpg

― hm (modestmickey), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like this one:

http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/24904.icet-gangstarap.jpg

He looks so much like the Jeff Koons of rap there that I wonder if it's deliberate.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, WTF at Pitchfork being overly tight-assed about tastefulness in cover art? Oh wait actually I don't find that surprising at all.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean honestly I like quite a few of their "worst" picks. I guess they're bad cause they don't have quilted bunnies and kites in subdued colors.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the Who one.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess they're bad cause they don't have quilted bunnies and kites in subdued colors.

Yeah, but the best part of the article is the self-deprecation of admitting that there's bad cover art they'll give a free pass to, like "They couldn't just get some drawing of a coat like every other Danish band?"

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Waydaminnet...Richard Butler put an album out? What's it like?

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

that red hot chili peppers cover is so bad that it makes me think that the band was involved in every step of the album-making process.

― scott seward (121212), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's designed to stand out in bargain bins.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the Lupe Fiasco one. The only really bad covers there are the bland ones like the Pearl Jam, Paul Simon, Incubus. The TVOTR is kinda weak too, I agree. But you can't really diss an anti-aesthetic cover for being anti-aesthetic.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

no, the tvotr one really sucks

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"anti-aesthetic" record covers do not employ two contrasting typefaces, one of which has been altered in both form and texture, along with a highly evocative background image.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I like how they bash a 4AD album for looking like a 4AD album there

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I felt compelled to tape a post-it over the cover of Actual Fucking when I sold it to the local used CD store.

― nathan explosion (natepatrin), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, "anti-aesthetic" was not a reference to TVOTR.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

oh sorry

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I just mean if you're going to put a big sloppy mess of shit-colored pudding with eyes and an imprint of a dwarf on your cover, you're probably not going for "tasteful" in the first place.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't even know that Robin Thicke album came out!

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The problem with the TVoTR is that it looks like an ass-end faded-glory rip-off of a proper 4AD design, like the mantle got passed from Vaughn Oliver through 88 separate people, each worse than the last, until it hit this moment.

I like the Mew one because it looks like a gang of mid-90s Mike Pattons is coming to get you. Someone please Photoshop the largest head saying "IT'S IT" and the smallest one saying "WTF IS IT DUDE?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

the built to spill one looks like it should be on homestead records for some reason. it has a treepeople vibe too.

i like the ice-t and lupe fiasco ones...and the liars one.

i kind liked the mecca normal one too.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

See, this I agree with, but the way they have a crack at it just makes it look like they're not familiar with the context of the label's design (which I'm gonna take a wild guess and say they are)

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 14 December 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Refusing to buy album b/c of shitty cover art = legitimate aesthetic choice

Refusing to buy album b/c of shitty title = philistinism

― theo theodopolous (theo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get what's supposed to be so bad about the Mecca Normal one -- just that she's old and wrote an album about online dating?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 December 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Waydaminnet...Richard Butler put an album out? What's it like?

The music on the album itself is way more offensive to long-time fans of both the Furs and Love Spit Love than the Butler-painted cover art.

― Johnny Fever (johnnyfever), Thursday, 14 December 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i think the problem with the mecca normal album is that mecca normal is on the cover

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

To me the TVOTR one just looks like a Stone Temple Pilots album or something.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 14 December 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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