Worst Album Covers of All Time (The Definitive List)

[prdctvsm]

[Rubin Farr]

[TubularCorporation]

This thread is mostly full of the best album covers of all time, though.

 

Even as a middle school kid who was pretty deep into thrash when it came out I thought this cover was pretty crap, and it hasn't improved with age.

[TubularCorporation]

Imagine how much money the design firm that came up with this was paid:

Let's be real, the worst covers are usually high budget, major label affairs.  

[Rubin Farr]

[prdctvsm]

Broken covers: collector puts world’s worst album art on show (guardian)

[TubularCorporation]

Nah, that cover is so good.

[xyrofen]

On 10/23/2021 at 3:15 PM, TubularCorporation said:

Let's be real, the worst covers are usually high budget, major label affairs.  

Completely agree. It's really easy to say something low budget or DIY sucks, but there's at least the charm of "this was made by like 3 people and one happened to have a GIMP installed" or something. When it's not ironic and made with a bunch of market research and soulless, then comes out the sphincter of its design firm as a piece of shit. That's when it hits like that Madonna or Metallica cover.

Same with movies. 

[Zephyr_Nova]

On 10/23/2021 at 3:15 PM, TubularCorporation said:

Imagine how much money the design firm that came up with this was paid:

Let's be real, the worst covers are usually high budget, major label affairs.  

I like that "music" is in quotations. Nice self-jab on her part.

[Rubin Farr]

[Rubin Farr]

[Scaramouche]

[Rubin Farr]

[prdctvsm]

[bronchuseven]

Lil' Flip belongs on the best album covers list. 

[BobDobalina]

On 11/14/2021 at 7:31 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Dafuq dem ghost triangles nia

The future is sweatpants (boners)

[Zephyr_Nova]

$tewmac FTW.

...although that one seems more like parody.  I couldn't find him on youtube.

Edited November 25, 2021 by Zephyr_Nova

[Rubin Farr]

So bad it’s good 

[Rubin Farr]

[Dragon]

[Rubin Farr]

[iococoi]

https://www.discogs.com/release/21924820-Steve-Vai-Flex-Able

Edited February 13, 2022 by iococoi

[Rubin Farr]

[prdctvsm]

[gnarlybog]

On 11/8/2021 at 7:58 PM, prdctvsm said:

Broken covers: collector puts world’s worst album art on show (guardian)

is this the Dark Web?? 
I genuinely like a lot of the covers in this thread.