cliffski over in Everything Else made me want to start this. HERE BE THE RULES:
We’re talking bad covers, not bad music. Just because I hate, say, Journey doesn’t mean their album covers weren’t kind of awesome.
YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY OWN THE RECORD. Or CD. Or 8-track. Whatever. So no Heino covers unless you plopped down some actual money for it.
Let’s start things off with what has to be the crappiest cover I own:
Pigface - Fook:
Irritatingly, this is actually Pigface’s most consistent record, but Holy Jesus God what the hell? OK, I know it was 1992 and computers were really cool, but this seriously just makes me want to punch somebody.
Doesn’t help that Love Beach also massively sucked at the music. ELP really should have quit after Works V2. There’s some cool stuff on that album. They could have skipped Tarkus along the way, too. Which also had a cheesy cover, btw.
This might be a personal thing, and others might appreciate it as nothing but pure awesome, but this one has always irked me. I can’t put my finger on it, but it makes me want to get into a fist fight.
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Really Slayer, Really? I guess they were aiming for creepy, but this is all kinds of the wrong type of creepy. It doesn’t make me feel all awesome like I should when when listening to an album with an awesome cover, like Slayer’s Divine Intervention, it makes me feel like I’m about to get molested by a pasty-faced zombie priest.
Not one of Rick Wakeman’s best albums (not by a long shot), but still fun, with a few decent keyboard solos in the mix. I’m glad he stopped doing his own vocals, though. And, egads, is that cover awful!
