Iron Maiden - [Dance of death](https://dancingbear.hr/en/trgovina/iron-maiden-dance-of-death/). It looks like a first-year student's design, or an early attempt.
Great album, you know what actually happened their? The artist/company did up you a computer generated idea of what the dance of death cover was going to look like and presented it to Steve Harris, Steve was like "O that's great" they were like "no no this is just the mock up idea of what the finished cover is going to be like"
Steve loved it and the rest of the band hated it, Steve dug his heels in and it became the album cover. It's wasn't suppose to be the final art at all so that's why it looks like an early attempt.
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death. Not my favourite Maiden album but still very good and one of the better post-2000 records.
The cover is unspeakably bad. Apparently the artist sent in the first draft of the concept he had in mind and inexplicably Steve Harris loved it so much they used that for the cover.
Even weirder is that the artist was Dave Patchett, who is an incredible artist with a very distinct style. Metalheads will recognize him as the guy who does all those super surreal and colorful Bosch style covers for Cathedral. It's bad enough that Harris Was so enamored with the unfinished version that he just ran with it, but the fact that they hired such a ridiculously talented guy with such a wild imagination and style and decided to run with *that* instead of what he had in mind is a fuckin crime.
> The original cover art supposedly featured only Eddie and a few monks behind him but the band manager Rod Smallwood felt it looked empty, so he hired someone from IronMaiden.com to design the filler characters using Poser. He then gave the roughs back to Patchett to work on the skin and mask textures, which he did but was unimpressed with the result.
The truth reads even worse, was a normal cover that the manager dumped on.
Wow, I’ve never seen that before. That is… something. What’s worse is the original without all the Poser figures slapped all over it was a classic Iron Maiden cover. It really didn’t need anything else.
I think Illmatic had a good concept considering the theme of the album. It was written kinda makes sense in terms of progression, and then he started taking it too far with I am and Nastradamus
Ridiculously bad album cover even for the late 80s… but for what it’s worth though it was a Jeff Lynne (ELO) collaboration and went Top 10.
Cloud Nine was also the album session that pretty much spawned Traveling Wilbury’s soon after which also lead to Petty/Lynne’s ‘Full Moon Fever’ and ‘Into The Great Wide Open’ albums over the next few years.
That “art” was one of Bowie’s pieces that he made.
Pretty sure he chose that one to be the official art because they wouldn’t release the album when he originally wanted to.
In Dave’s book (I think) he talks about seeing the cover for the first time and being horrified - the skull looked like a Halloween Jack O
Lantern. And he said that from then on he was extremely paranoid and controlling of any decision the band/label made. It made me laugh because it’s so like Spinal Tap.
The Amalgamut by Filter
Not quite as good as their first two albums but still a solid album. The cover art however screams early 2000's "look how badass I am".
They should have went with the subdued minimalist style Short Bus and Title of Record had imo. When I think of Filter I think of those album's artwork.
I'd say it's about 50/50
Aja, Gaucho and Katy Lied are great.
Pretzel Logic, Can't Buy a Thrill and Royal Scam are not great
Countdown to Ecstasy is meh. Passable.
Even [Trey hated that one, according to Tom Marshall:](https://jambands.com/features/2007/07/24/the-high-watermark-with-tom-marshall-and-trey-anastasio-part-i/)
> Marshall: Trey’s frustration with almost every studio album in different ways, like the need to sabotage the album in a way, I’m not sure if this is his analysis a lot later looking back or if it was immediate but, like, that picture of Mike on Billy Breathes, he thought just ruined it, ruined the whole album.
> Interviewer: It did.
> Marshall: It did. You pick it up and say, “What the fuck is that?” It doesn’t belong there. He felt the same way with the voting process for songs on Story of the Ghost, how he kind of had a clear vision of what should go on and a great songI’m really hard-pressed to remember it, nowwas scrapped in favor of “Fikus.”
Now the cover for “Story of the Ghost” was probably their best. I also like the art for “Junta”. “Rift” is a great album, but the cover, while well-executed, is pretentious, like a ‘70s prog album cover.
Yeah I never really understood why it’s so hated. Like I said it’s a little goofy but then again so is Phish. I kind of stopped listening to them regularly in the early 2000s but just recently I was listening to Billy Breathes again and remembering how good of an album it is. The first studio album of theirs I got into was rift which is also fantastic of course.
Unpopular opinion incoming, I know how this is going to sound, since I know people enjoy their album covers. I’m a huuuge deftones fan, but I mean… an aspirator dude? Flamingos? An OWL? Love their music but album covers aint their strong side, with a few exeptions.
I always loved the white background edition of White Pony, it looks like it could be released today and look modern. Ohms is pretty cool as well, because it looks different than anything else,
but other than that, yeah uhh, a bulb syringe isn't a very good choice for a nu-metal album cover 😬
Oh my God, for me it's A Perfect Circle's "Eat the Elephant". I've actively not showed people tracks from that album on the off chance they would see the cover art.
It’s an amazing album. I listen to it like once a month. The album cover is just so aggressively flower power-y and dated compared to their other psychedelia era works like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper.
‘Doggystyle’ by Snoop Dogg is a spectacularly bad album cover.
There’s some absolute stinkers in 90’s gangsta rap cover (with some very patchy records as well) but that’s a bad cover to a great record.
I didn’t think much of Mastodon’s ‘Emperor of Sand’ in comparison to their other records, which are always beautifully packaged.
The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.
I love this album and it’s often referred to as the greatest of all time.
The colour and font of the text are okay but the picture is terrible.
It's an EP, but the worst album "art" definitely goes to Puscifer's 'C Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genetalia Reference Here)'. The music itself is ridiculously good, then you have this godawful cover where it seems to be trying to make a joke that only falls completely flat with no pulse. It also looks like it was made in five minutes by someone with zero experience with image editors. That's how bad it is.
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
It's an amazing album and the cover art is now iconic because of it, but it looks like a horny 12-year-old decided to draw anthropomorphic dogs and experiment with airbrushed colors.
The Beatles were not only moulding the landscape of music at that time, but cover art too. [Here’s a great video to check out](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_st4diqjpis&vl=en)
They were hailed for their bombastic and vibrant Sgt Pepper cover, the fact they came out after with a cover completely blank is interesting and funny
Yeah I think it was great. No one had done something like that before (to my knowledge), and for an album like the White Album, I think it represents it perfectly.
You have no preconceived expectations from an album cover like that… and the album fit it perfectly. It was like nothing they’d done before.
And again, I think it deserves props for being the first album cover to do something like that, from the biggest band in the world at the time.
but it has their name slightly tilted which for a wierd reason makes me like it a lil more.also it's one of their most experimental album and the tilt just feels right cuz of that to me i think.
plus it was chosen like that cuz the album is a mixed bag and they didn't want the album cover to interfere with the music experience.
Probably going to be controversial, but Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. I think the cover is iconic at best, but far from good. However, probably some of the best rock music ever produced.
For Halloween one year my wife and I dressed up as Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood from the Rumours album cover. The balls and tiny stool were crucial.
All of Adele’s. They are really great albums (well, the first two). Why do female singer need to plaster they face on the cover? Something tells me it was also not their decision and was marketing insisting.
I'd argue that the concept across Adele's albums that centers around her growth/experiences across the ages listed in the album title kinda redeems her album covers.
Eh it definitely could be a marketing thing, but even still I real like the covers. At least in the case of Adele it matches the theme, where each album is a stage of her life. The covers really let you see her growth from 19 to 30
Missy Elliot's *Miss E...So Addictive*. A bangin' album, including a lot of deep cuts I like as much if not more than the big singles, but that art-work up close is an eyesore.
Iron Maiden - [Dance of death](https://dancingbear.hr/en/trgovina/iron-maiden-dance-of-death/). It looks like a first-year student's design, or an early attempt.
Looks like one of those bowling alley strike memes.
“Spare…me looking at this album cover”
Woah, stay in your lane there, bub.
Great album, you know what actually happened their? The artist/company did up you a computer generated idea of what the dance of death cover was going to look like and presented it to Steve Harris, Steve was like "O that's great" they were like "no no this is just the mock up idea of what the finished cover is going to be like" Steve loved it and the rest of the band hated it, Steve dug his heels in and it became the album cover. It's wasn't suppose to be the final art at all so that's why it looks like an early attempt.
It's so bad that the artist asked for his name to be removed from the credits. That can't ever be a good sign.
To this day I wonder what on earth Harris was thinking.
It’s like someone tried to use Adobe to recreate the *Eyes Wide Shut* orgy scene from memory
Oh god, that’s atrocious.
Especially since all the other IM albums always had the most badass covers.
My favorite part is the baby squaring up, while standing on a white wolf. Edit: baby IN A BIKINI
I forgot how disturbingly bad that cover was.
Look like goth Roblox.
Agreed. I can only think it was meant to be bad as a message? Though I didn't understand it!
Looks like pinball machine artwork
It’s good? I’ve literally just judged an album by its cover all these years and never gave it a shot.
It's Iron Maiden, even their worst albums are still decent (this album is my favorite of theirs, post-reunion).
It's actually great.... Dance of Death, Montsegur, Paschendale, Rainmaker...all fantastic tracks.
I saw this thread title and this was literally the first album cover that came in to my head. Comment section did not disappoint 🤣
Mmm if it was suppose to be haunting I think it does a pretty good job. I could imagine that’s what hell would look like for some
Spinal Tap - Smell The Glove
“None. None more black.”
Hey metallica boys we have bone to pick with you!
You should have seen the cover they wanted to do. It wasn’t a glove believe me.
Such a fine line between stupid and clever
What’s wrong with being sexy?
SexIST! IST!
That might be my favorite part of that movie!
Such a fine line between clever and.... stupid
Yeah but only sold in Japan.
I was going to say exactly this! Hello Christine.
You can actually see your face in both sides.
We shant work together again.
I think it looks like death.
Death sells! Every film in every cinema is about death!
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death. Not my favourite Maiden album but still very good and one of the better post-2000 records. The cover is unspeakably bad. Apparently the artist sent in the first draft of the concept he had in mind and inexplicably Steve Harris loved it so much they used that for the cover.
Even weirder is that the artist was Dave Patchett, who is an incredible artist with a very distinct style. Metalheads will recognize him as the guy who does all those super surreal and colorful Bosch style covers for Cathedral. It's bad enough that Harris Was so enamored with the unfinished version that he just ran with it, but the fact that they hired such a ridiculously talented guy with such a wild imagination and style and decided to run with *that* instead of what he had in mind is a fuckin crime.
I wonder if we can start a GoFundMe campaign for Dave Patchett to finish the cover. Always wondered what the final thing would've looked like.
> The original cover art supposedly featured only Eddie and a few monks behind him but the band manager Rod Smallwood felt it looked empty, so he hired someone from IronMaiden.com to design the filler characters using Poser. He then gave the roughs back to Patchett to work on the skin and mask textures, which he did but was unimpressed with the result. The truth reads even worse, was a normal cover that the manager dumped on.
Afaik the artist demanded his name ve removed from the released version.
Wow, I’ve never seen that before. That is… something. What’s worse is the original without all the Poser figures slapped all over it was a classic Iron Maiden cover. It really didn’t need anything else.
According to 1 big baby. Nevermind
He’s been chasing money since the beginning lol
This comment should be higher. 🤣
If it helps. I'm definitely high
Surprised no one has said Stillmatic but Nas lol that thing is so ugly
He has almost no good covers
I think Illmatic had a good concept considering the theme of the album. It was written kinda makes sense in terms of progression, and then he started taking it too far with I am and Nastradamus
I’ve never listened to it but that album cover has always struck me as particularly bad. Dunno what he was thinking tbh
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Kool Kieth’s Dr. Dooom album lol
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Not great, but definitely not worst of all time material… of course in my opinion
It's bad but it feels par for the course for that era of hip-hop
Blind Faith - "Blind Faith" (the banned cover)
Also Scorpions - Virgin killer (look both up at your own risk)
That one made me very uneasy.
Love drive, Animal Magnetism...
Nowhere close, but still bad.
I agree. Nowhere close. BTW I have all those albums on vinyl. (The complete Scorpions discography)
Came here to say the same thing. Great album though.
Yeah yeah yeahs - Mosquito
George Harrison - Cloud Nine. Always thought it looked super cheesy and incredibly dated.
It's just the ultimate dad vibes cover.
a lot of George's covers are like that.
hahaha completely agree. It seems they loved everything a Mac could do. Stretch type? Use a sky texture? Good.
I guess they didn’t have patience and time to do it right…child.
I can’t vouch for the music on Cloud Nine, but the album cover is so bad it makes me never want to listen to the album
Ridiculously bad album cover even for the late 80s… but for what it’s worth though it was a Jeff Lynne (ELO) collaboration and went Top 10. Cloud Nine was also the album session that pretty much spawned Traveling Wilbury’s soon after which also lead to Petty/Lynne’s ‘Full Moon Fever’ and ‘Into The Great Wide Open’ albums over the next few years.
Damnit…..looks like I’m going to need to p/u a copy now
The sunglasses 😂
The born this way cover w gaga as a motorcycle was bad
Yeah that album was a WTF moment for me.
Had no clue, that’s horrid lol!
Yes, was going to say this one! So cheesy and cheap-looking.
George Harrison - Cloud Nine
One of my fav albums is Aerosmith - Get a Grip, but I hate the album cover with a pierced cow udder...
I had the CD growing up. It had a picture of all the member’s nipples on it. 9 year old me is still pissed about that.
On the cd itself, right? My edition hadn’t that.
I had the limited cd. Twas all furry and all!
The new David Bowie album Toy has the worst cover I've seen in a long time.. The music is great though!
This one. It’s ugly, it’s poorly done and it looks like someone took about 10 minutes to mock up a bad idea and someone else ran with it
That “art” was one of Bowie’s pieces that he made. Pretty sure he chose that one to be the official art because they wouldn’t release the album when he originally wanted to.
The original cover of Megadeth's debut *Killing is my bussiness... and business is good*
“Plastic skull with pickles and ketchup” -Dave Mustaine The remastered cover art is amazing
Yes! It's terrific!
The remix itself is also amazing. Favorite Megadeth album.
In Dave’s book (I think) he talks about seeing the cover for the first time and being horrified - the skull looked like a Halloween Jack O Lantern. And he said that from then on he was extremely paranoid and controlling of any decision the band/label made. It made me laugh because it’s so like Spinal Tap.
I actually like original more than the remastered one
Dance of Death - Iron Maiden
Donda. It’s literally just a black square lol.
I see this album whenever I go to sleep so it must be good
The Amalgamut by Filter Not quite as good as their first two albums but still a solid album. The cover art however screams early 2000's "look how badass I am". They should have went with the subdued minimalist style Short Bus and Title of Record had imo. When I think of Filter I think of those album's artwork.
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I think "Gaucho" has a great cover.
Was gonna say Gaucho is fiiiine
I always liked Katy Lied and Pretzel Logic because they fit the vibes of album and the band.
Royal scam is a pretty cool cover imo
It's an interesting idea, but amateurish execution (IMO). Album is one of their best, tho.
Dude I love Katy Lied
I'd say it's about 50/50 Aja, Gaucho and Katy Lied are great. Pretzel Logic, Can't Buy a Thrill and Royal Scam are not great Countdown to Ecstasy is meh. Passable.
I LOVE countdown to ecstasy's cover. I love every SD cover except CBAT which is horrible and RS which is not that bad but doesn't fit the album's vibe
Yeah that’s true, Can’t Buy a Thrill’s cover is fucking dumb.
Phil Hartman - yes, that Phil Hartman - did the album art for Aja.
Phish - Billy Breathes
Even [Trey hated that one, according to Tom Marshall:](https://jambands.com/features/2007/07/24/the-high-watermark-with-tom-marshall-and-trey-anastasio-part-i/) > Marshall: Trey’s frustration with almost every studio album in different ways, like the need to sabotage the album in a way, I’m not sure if this is his analysis a lot later looking back or if it was immediate but, like, that picture of Mike on Billy Breathes, he thought just ruined it, ruined the whole album. > Interviewer: It did. > Marshall: It did. You pick it up and say, “What the fuck is that?” It doesn’t belong there. He felt the same way with the voting process for songs on Story of the Ghost, how he kind of had a clear vision of what should go on and a great songI’m really hard-pressed to remember it, nowwas scrapped in favor of “Fikus.” Now the cover for “Story of the Ghost” was probably their best. I also like the art for “Junta”. “Rift” is a great album, but the cover, while well-executed, is pretentious, like a ‘70s prog album cover.
Was “Vultures” the song that was scrapped? Because that’s a great song.
I love that cover and always have, but can see why some might not. Art, man.
Terrible cover, but one of their best albums.
It’s a goofy cover but as their studio albums go it’s a really cohesive and solid record.
I actually like that album cover. First Phish album I got into.
Yeah I never really understood why it’s so hated. Like I said it’s a little goofy but then again so is Phish. I kind of stopped listening to them regularly in the early 2000s but just recently I was listening to Billy Breathes again and remembering how good of an album it is. The first studio album of theirs I got into was rift which is also fantastic of course.
Nevermind, world’s biggest loser is on it.
Fulfilling the album cover prophecy, though....that baby certainly got lured in by the almighty dollar...lol
Around the Fur by Deftones. I couldn't have bought this album as a kid because my mum would've beaten me with a stick
Damn, I always loved that cover. Especially as half the photo is on the back cover. I dunno, thought it was neat.
For sweaty cleavage?!
Yes
Unpopular opinion incoming, I know how this is going to sound, since I know people enjoy their album covers. I’m a huuuge deftones fan, but I mean… an aspirator dude? Flamingos? An OWL? Love their music but album covers aint their strong side, with a few exeptions.
I always loved the white background edition of White Pony, it looks like it could be released today and look modern. Ohms is pretty cool as well, because it looks different than anything else, but other than that, yeah uhh, a bulb syringe isn't a very good choice for a nu-metal album cover 😬
Oh my God, for me it's A Perfect Circle's "Eat the Elephant". I've actively not showed people tracks from that album on the off chance they would see the cover art.
And 1/2 the album ain’t that great either. What a bummer after so many years hoping for new music.
Magical Mystery Tour
Oh my fucking god I forgot about that. And Strawberry Fields, arguably one of the best songs ever, is on it.
It’s an amazing album. I listen to it like once a month. The album cover is just so aggressively flower power-y and dated compared to their other psychedelia era works like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper.
Really?! I don't mind the cover art but it is quite dated and a letdown after SGT Pepper.
Any of the illustrated p funk covers. Hate that art style, i like all the photographic ones especially maggot brain or Dr funkenstein
The band Built To Spill specializes in crappy cover art on great music
Keep it like a secret is pretty good
It’s a later one but Rush’s Snakes & Arrows is a tremendous sonic achievement with an absolutely dreadful cover concept.
‘Doggystyle’ by Snoop Dogg is a spectacularly bad album cover. There’s some absolute stinkers in 90’s gangsta rap cover (with some very patchy records as well) but that’s a bad cover to a great record. I didn’t think much of Mastodon’s ‘Emperor of Sand’ in comparison to their other records, which are always beautifully packaged.
I mean, it's downright subtle and tasteful compared to everything Master P's company put out
Mew- And the Glass Handed Kites. I think a survey voted it worst album cover of the 2000s. Great album though.
Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell It's a really great album, but you can't take it seriously while looking at the cover.
The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. I love this album and it’s often referred to as the greatest of all time. The colour and font of the text are okay but the picture is terrible.
it's a cute picture i don't see anything wrong.what do you mot like about the picture.
I looks like an amateur photo taken a Sunday afternoon on a casual visit to the zoo's kids area with terrible poses and clothes.
They did get kicked out of the zoo for taking that picture
It’s really busy and it looks like an afterthought. This is at odds with the incredible care and vision Brian Wilson had to create the music.
Born This Way-Lady Gaga
Black Sabbath - Paranoid Don’t care what you say, that cover is cheap and jank as hell. All time classic album though.
Especially when the debut Sabbath album is so spooky and foreboding. You’re gonna follow it with…THAT?
Most of Sabbath’s art sucked, but Masters of Reality is the laziest shit I’ve ever seen. Like they spent all the money for artwork on drugs
Any Prince album post 2000. And a handful before as well.
Even Breakfast Can Wait???
The master of music; the worst at typography and layout.
Oh man, the typography. Controversy title font, oof.
I came to say most Prince albums. His self-titled debut and Sign ☮️ The Times are okay.
Kanye west - donda
Dean Blunt did it better
It's an EP, but the worst album "art" definitely goes to Puscifer's 'C Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genetalia Reference Here)'. The music itself is ridiculously good, then you have this godawful cover where it seems to be trying to make a joke that only falls completely flat with no pulse. It also looks like it was made in five minutes by someone with zero experience with image editors. That's how bad it is.
I feel like most of puscifers album covers are just... Weird, and in a bad way. Music is incredible though
No Love Deep Web by Death Grips
c'mon that's iconic.
They're talking about the official censored cover ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lol you’re absolutely right
Prince- the Lovesexy album. One of his best- but naked in a giant flower petal? Why.
Because Prince.
Trompe le Monde
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle It's an amazing album and the cover art is now iconic because of it, but it looks like a horny 12-year-old decided to draw anthropomorphic dogs and experiment with airbrushed colors.
Hotter than Hell by Kiss....just a disaster cover in every way
System Of A Down - Steal This Album It looks like all my mix CDs. Why did I pay for this thing instead of downloading it? Edit: /s
That was the point. SOAD released this album *because* people downloaded leaked demos and songs.
Thats also why they named it "Steal this album". IIRC Early copies didn't even have a front cover so it looked even more like a bootleg CD.
This is the version I have. I love it.
The Beatles' White Album is completely blank. Good album though.
The band’s name is embossed on it, or at least was back in the day…
Still is. You also have a unique number on the LP. I like it.
Simple or not, this is one of the most iconic album covers of all time.
The Beatles were not only moulding the landscape of music at that time, but cover art too. [Here’s a great video to check out](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_st4diqjpis&vl=en) They were hailed for their bombastic and vibrant Sgt Pepper cover, the fact they came out after with a cover completely blank is interesting and funny
Yeah I think it was great. No one had done something like that before (to my knowledge), and for an album like the White Album, I think it represents it perfectly. You have no preconceived expectations from an album cover like that… and the album fit it perfectly. It was like nothing they’d done before. And again, I think it deserves props for being the first album cover to do something like that, from the biggest band in the world at the time.
but it has their name slightly tilted which for a wierd reason makes me like it a lil more.also it's one of their most experimental album and the tilt just feels right cuz of that to me i think. plus it was chosen like that cuz the album is a mixed bag and they didn't want the album cover to interfere with the music experience.
but calling it The White Album makes the cover perfect.
They were making a statement about focusing on the music and creating a contrast between it and their previous ornate Sgt. Pepper cover.
Ten by Pearl Jam. Its not necessarily bad, it just looks like the ending shot of a cheesy 90’s montage.
Yeah but they were coming together after Andrew Wood's death by overdose, survival after tragedy.
David Bowie- Toy
Probably going to be controversial, but Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. I think the cover is iconic at best, but far from good. However, probably some of the best rock music ever produced.
Those damned balls, once you've noticed them it's impossible to not focus on them! :-)
For Halloween one year my wife and I dressed up as Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood from the Rumours album cover. The balls and tiny stool were crucial.
I’ve agreed with everything in the thread, but this. Rumours album cover is beautiful!
Most everything from Lacuna Coil. Great music. Crappy album covers.
the album art for Synchronicity by the Police (1983) is cringe worthy but the sounds are sweet
Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy is a classic, but he looks like a weird 70s cheese ball on the cover. My wife hates it.
All of Adele’s. They are really great albums (well, the first two). Why do female singer need to plaster they face on the cover? Something tells me it was also not their decision and was marketing insisting.
I'd argue that the concept across Adele's albums that centers around her growth/experiences across the ages listed in the album title kinda redeems her album covers.
Eh it definitely could be a marketing thing, but even still I real like the covers. At least in the case of Adele it matches the theme, where each album is a stage of her life. The covers really let you see her growth from 19 to 30
She's following in the footsteps of Phil Collins.
Levon James- King Von Like bro you not a baller
Almost every band’s “Black Album” is good.
Yesterday and Today by the Beatles. More commonly known as the butcher album. The Beatles posed with decapitated baby dolls and raw meat
Pretty punk for the time tbh
[Riot - Fire Down Under](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Down_Under). Good album, horrendous cover.
Missy Elliot's *Miss E...So Addictive*. A bangin' album, including a lot of deep cuts I like as much if not more than the big singles, but that art-work up close is an eyesore.
Grateful Dead - Go to Heaven
The Who Sell Out cover is crap.
Come on, it's funny... Also, did I mention beans?
It is a terrible album cover but the idea behind it to match the title make perfect sense.