Album Covers That Make You Say "Uhhhh...."

[JSngry]

Really? You can't have a "hit" or a "popular favorite" like everybody else, you have to have a "success"? Fopped on a largosta with the tubels, have we?

[duaneiac]

[duaneiac]

[Shawn]

Hipsters! I bet I could sell a crate of these records at Intelligentsia Coffee over in Silver Lake.

[gmonahan]

Hipsters! I bet I could sell a crate of these records at Intelligentsia Coffee over in Silver Lake.

I don't know. In Portland, hipsters wear hats.

gregmo

[sidewinder]

Hipsters! I bet I could sell a crate of these records at Intelligentsia Coffee over in Silver Lake.

:lol:

Reminds me of these guys..

Edited March 29, 2014 by sidewinder

[duaneiac]

This must have made for a nice relaxing evening of hi-fi listening:

[JSngry]

This must have made for a nice relaxing evening of hi-fi listening:

I don't have that one, but I do have this one.

One cut is pretty bone-chilling. The rest is basic chilly-cool actory-angsty readings with musical background that could just as easily have been recorded for some other project. A lot of anger directed at people who for the most part are dead now, and not at the fucked-up humanity on display. To listen to this, you'd think that it was a case of oooops, wrong people, not dammit, people never figure shit out, do they. End result (except for that one cut) = period rage-ragging, not timeless meditations. Too bad, really, too bad.

I've seen this Massacre album once or twice but have always passed on because this one was such a disappointment.

Now here's one I've never seen:

[duaneiac]

This goes from "uhhhh . . ." to "YIKES!" in record (no pun intended) time.

[l p]

i can't remember if this album was any good.

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

[sidewinder]

This goes from "uhhhh . . ." to "YIKES!" in record (no pun intended) time.

[duaneiac]

Maybe not "uhhh" so much as "why?" and "who would buy this?" and "what other weird stuff did Riverside put out?"

[JSngry]

[Spontooneous]

[duaneiac]

[Van Basten II]

Beardless Santa handling his big sausage , nice concept.....

[B. Clugston]

This goes from "uhhhh . . ." to "YIKES!" in record (no pun intended) time.

From Waxidermy:

John Bult wants to set the record straight.

His one and only LP, Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday should have been his calling card to country music stardom. Instead the album has been singled out as the best of the worst – not for Bult’s singing abilities, but for its unfortunate cover art.

“It still chaps me real bad,” he said. “The whole thing still makes me mad, even after all of these years.”

http://waxidermy.com/john-bult-julies-sixteenth-birthday/

[GA Russell]

[mikeweil]

John Lewis seems to think "How in all the world did we end up on that cover", while Bags laughs and says "I did play with Art, how about you?"

[JSngry]

That's the back cover of Blues At Carnegie Hall, which adds a little extra "Uhhhh...." to it.

To that end, I always get a little "Uhhhh...." myself whenever I see a "foreign" cover of an American album I know so well, so..

[mikeweil]

That's the only official MJQ album still missing in my collection ...

[JSngry]

One of their best of the period, imo.

[gmonahan]

Rhino Atlantic did a nice Master Jazz Recording of that one, though the cover was not nearly as goofy as the original! Continue to love this thread!

gregmo