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It's not extremely unpleasant to look at, but it makes me uncomfortable.


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Great album, horrible cover
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a Great Album too, but the cover....
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Another Great album...
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There should be a rule against posting that abomination.
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These are hilarious ....but not intentionally.....
http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/12-absolute-worst-album-covers-5541520



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Originally posted by andreol263 andreol263 wrote:

Another Great album...
What ?!! You don't like Okra and bit of tomato..??
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The White Album - The Beatles. I mean, truly, - WHAT were they thinking? As devoid of inspiration for an album cover as some of the music therein. George Harrison was said to have loathed much of the experience of recording the thing, to boot.
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this one caught my eye for all the wrong reasons

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/221840410390-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

The White Album - The Beatles. I mean, truly, - WHAT were they thinking? As devoid of inspiration for an album cover as some of the music therein. George Harrison was said to have loathed much of the experience of recording the thing, to boot.

I love that album, all of it - the best album the Beatles ever made. as to the cover: maybe they saw all kinds of things when looking at a white cover. don't forget this was the Beatles' LSD period


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A clown's condom? A nursing device? An enema device or one of those things that cleanses my ears of earwax?
I love BANCO but this album cover is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lame
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OK. Need i say more than this guy got pretty anal here?
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

The White Album - The Beatles. I mean, truly, - WHAT were they thinking? As devoid of inspiration for an album cover as some of the music therein. George Harrison was said to have loathed much of the experience of recording the thing, to boot.

The cover was Paul's idea. They were originally going to call the album "A Doll's House", and give it this cover: 



However, the band Family had just recently released "Music In A Doll's House" so as a last minute decision Paul decided to go for something completely different, and stuck with the idea of having as minimalist of a cover as possible to act as a contrast to the busy, detailed cover of Sgt. Pepper's. 
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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Yeah but hold on--  accident or not, I'm sorry: that was a brilliant cover.   Firstly, they'd gotten to the point where almost anything on a cover would've been unnecessary and contrived after beauties like Meet the Beatles!, Revolver and Pepper's.  That's probably why the next two records (excepting YS) just had band photos.   Without realizing it, they'd said with one cover "It's actually the music that's important here, not the fanfare or images.  Forget the bluddy cover, listen to the wax."

And second, what a neat idea of stamping a production code and band ID on blank cardboard.   That was a much more startling and unconventional image in the paisleyed and perfumed late 1960s than any other option.




Edited by Atavachron - June 28 2016 at 02:09
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^^^ Wasn't it inspired by bootleg albums of the time, which were sometimes sold in a plain white sleeve?
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Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

^^^ Wasn't it inspired by bootleg albums of the time, which were sometimes sold in a plain white sleeve?
 
Those didn't start appearing until 1969, after the White Album was already out. Dylan's Great White Wonder was the first rock bootleg of note.
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Points: 15243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2016 at 13:50
^ while the White Album isn't the most creative album of the lot, it sure was planned out and they knew what they were doing. Remember that this was the time of intense creativity when they visited an ashram in India and the idea of a blank album cover was symbolic of a tabla rasa and symbolizing a spiritual rebirth of sort, so i can understand that it appears to be contrived and a WTF moment but actually was quite calculated and appropriate for the time and state of mind of the band for the album at hand. 
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