Worst CD Packaging

[GloriousBlues]

The new REM gets my vote for worst packaging for a single CD. It has a large sheet of lyrics that's folded up like a map, and the cardboard case it comes in doesn't have a pouch to hold the lyric sheet. Every time I try to pick it up the lyrics fall right out.

Fortunately I won't need to pick up the case very often since the music contains about as many surprises as a bottle of water.

[king ubu]

I quite like hatOLOGY cover design. Most of mine look like new still.

Impulse, well, the older ones were a bit better (such as the ones mentioned), but newer ones (for instance the Coltrane/Shepp Newport) got very flimsy, just one layer of cardboard where you put in the cover, which is at least twice as heavy as that cardboard... can't hold long.

[kulu se mama]

the talking heads box is the worst i've ever seen.

it's so bad - i almost did not buy it.

not only is it oddly shaped, but there are some very bizarre drawings inside.

the music is of course great.