In honor of Weezer’s upcoming Hurley-face album, The Huffington Post compiled a list of the 18 Most Ridiculous Album Covers Ever. It’s not the first time this bottomless topic has been broached on the internet, but it’s a highly amusing list, particularly for making me aware of this album.
However, almost the entire HuffPo list consists of pre-80s pseudo-novelties, so in the interest of completism (not a word) and continuing this always-amusing bad album covers discussion, I’ve thrown together a list of 10 Additional Terrible Album Covers, comprised of some actually-famous bands as well as some more recent WTFers. Feel free to post your own in the comments:
10. Yes – Going For The One
9. Top Dog – Slam Dunk’n Hoes
8. Stryper – Soldiers Under Command
7. Rod Stewart – Sing It Again Rod
6. The Flexican & Najib Amhali – Topnotch Extravaganza
5. Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Love Beach
4. Jethro Tull – J-Tull Dot Com
[Fun Fakt: High School Me owned 17 Jethro Tull albums. I could've given them their own list]
3. Magnolia Shorty – Monkey On Tha D$ck
2. Big Bear – Doin Thangs
1. Orleans – Orleans
The classic, go-to “How was this an actual album cover?” reference. So notoriously bad, it’s come back around to being memorable and revered in an act of unforeseeable, accidental genius:
The actual #1 here would have been The Scorpions’ Virgin Killer, but I really didn’t feel like posting it. By all means, though, feel free to Google it and be arrested.
Other awesomely terrible album covers? Leave ‘em in the comments.
