Godawful album covers
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Topic: Godawful album covers
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Subject: Godawful album covers
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 08:26
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Inspired by another thread. A few candidates:
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 08:40
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What sre you talking about, this one's great! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 08:56
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I thought ABACAB was ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 09:16
Tell me this isn't real. Please god, tell me this isn't really an album. ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Eemu Ranta
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 09:40
 Epic, heroic, masculine, relevant, describing. Moving  No, really guys, hands down.  ------------- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable - George Bernhard Shaw |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 09:58
| Sweetnighter: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000004V4/qid=1118239061/sr=1-47/ref=sr_1_0_47/026-9734300-7069241 - tada . |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 10:03
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This one looks like the cover of a gay mag. The Manowar dream boys will come to you. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 10:19
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I've got something for you more aweful than Manowar the worst of the worst!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 10:26
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Actually I'm used to that kind of stuff, I have a few Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe albums... For me, "Back to the sh*t" is the worst so far |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 10:27
That album would better b called "Menace for the Eyes" ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 10:49
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Lizzy Borden? Man those guys are soooo tough! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 10:51
Check out the song titles
Tracks 4 an 5 must be classics! |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 10:58
Quiet Riot and Crimson glory are also not bad at all in the Hard / 80s heavy metal genre -------------
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 11:21
Yup , she's even worse than that GonG album called Acid Motherhood (actually a collaboration with Acid Mother Temple) where on the back cover the japanese AMT leader is also on the jock but quite tastelessly. On the forefront of that album is Daevid's head over two naked pregnant women and on the inside booklet is a nice selection of pics of female genitals of all kinds.
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 12:21
 How about this one?  Actually, Haikara is a very good band, but this cover is absolutely terrible!  ------------- 
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 12:25
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..speaking about bad taste BTW : for those who haven't done it, check out the website : http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/ ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 15:12
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incredibly ridiculous!!! These guys are so amazing!!!
These ones are for you Joren (just jocking -------------
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 15:13
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the prog archives family's reunion album -------------
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 15:21
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Wow ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 15:37
Yeah, I have "Stay Hungry" on vinyl |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 15:46
http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/ - http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/ CHEATER!!! |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 16:12
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Most death and black metal albums ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 16:46
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You are right, how can we forget it!
I DON'T HAVE THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE MASQUERADE OF THESE SATANIC CLOWNS -------------
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 16:57
There's soooo much more where that came from ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 17:44
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Twisted sister! Yust I whuld rather eat sh*t then buy one of their albums ------------- 
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 18:43
gary glitter - touch me always dedicating his albums to the kids ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:39
 morrisey, you are the atrocity! ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:40
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This takes the bisquit. The music is excellent though. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:45
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ELP - LOVE BEACH!!! ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 23:56
i like that cover ------------- 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 03:08
OK - which one's Maani? 
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 05:29
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I just couldn't believe these two:
And Frenchie didn't dare to do this, cause he's afraid of the ELP fans (headed by 3f), but here it is:
Now I'll go and hide...
------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 06:27
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the first Birth Control cover, that was replaced later.
another cover that was banned... (quiet funny so) ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 06:38
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After Birthcontrol...Wallenstein no more love
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 06:43
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------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 09:56
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I really don't know what's worse, the cover or the tracklist. Affortunately I could only find a small cover image...
TRACKLIST:
------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 10:00
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. I really don't know what's worse, the cover or the tracklist. Affortunately I could only find a small cover image...
TRACKLIST: .. the worst will be the music! now something different: miam, miam..
------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 10:07
Well at least they seem to be enjoying themselves! ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 10:23
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lekker meisjes lol ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 10:24
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"Well at least they seem to be enjoying themselves" ... not as much, as the guy who put on the whipped cream. ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 15:46
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This album features a male ass on the cover. The inside cover is even worse; you can see how hairy it is there. But the music is excellent heavy space rock. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 15:59
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yes you are right bluesy / kraut jamming stuff with delirious voices and psychedelic effects...great!!!!! -------------
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 16:07
Believe me, you ain't seen NOTHING yet. Don't go looking for any others, because this cover won't prepare you for anything. ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 16:08
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------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 16:14
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Posted By: Azrael2112
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 16:51
 ------------- http://www.flywithjet.com"> 
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Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 17:35
 perhaps he killed them with his music... ------------- 
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Posted By: BebieM
Date Posted: June 10 2005 at 02:18
A Renaissance cover?  |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 10 2005 at 06:42
It is Guru- GUru? ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: abyssyinfinity
Date Posted: June 10 2005 at 12:15
Yes, it is! |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 10 2005 at 18:47
Actually, everytime i see that cover, something usually clicks in my head! I just wanna kill something!! Especially the "lady" on the cover ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 00:23
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Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 00:36
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I can't believe that Heino... thing...is supposed to be male.
------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 00:39
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PROG HAS FOUND ITS NEW KEYBOARD GOD, OUTTA THE WAY EMERSON, WAKEMAN, BANKS! -------------
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 08:11
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 19:20
Ah leave them be... They think they're doing something new. |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 19:23
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And whats with the Manowar bashing at the start of this thread? So what if they dress all erotic? Those guys are the kings. 
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Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 19:25
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And here's my contribution to this thread.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 20:48
| too funny!!! LOLOL |
Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 21:56
hahahahaha that man makes elton john to look like peter north. -------------
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 06:19
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speaking about awful covers..
------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 06:53
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Totally square!!! -------------
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 08:45
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i'm so straight i'm a weirdo ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: June 14 2005 at 17:33
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Never liked that one ------------- Vive le Québec libre!... |
Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 12:29
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Queen - The Game. Cringeworthy
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 14:21
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i agree paradox, how about some effort lads, you put it into your music! i have always thought that REM have hideous album covers. ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 14:46
Ah yes, terrible cover, and not one of their better albums IMO, though it contains what may be my favorite Queen song of all time..."Dragon Attack" (the "Get down!'s" and all )
Sorry for O/T |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 18:17
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yes 90125/big generator. NO effort put into the album covers, doesn't even bare the classic logo or have lovely roger dean or storm thorgerson artwork like their previous albums. The albums have very bland colours and crappy fonts. kinda reflects the music on those albums really... ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 18:19
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maybe it can be said that the album cover reflects the music inside... example: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon: amazing album cover, amazing album King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King: amazing album cover, amazing album Yes - 90215: crap album cover, crap album Genesis - Genesis: crap album cover, crap album ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: June 15 2005 at 20:18
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I have many times thought the same thing and many times it works albums with great covers often have great music aswell, realy strange. Take for example the white album by the beatles i have newer liked it as much as the ather albums by them maby becaus of the album cover the music to me is very colorless, meby i whuld have liked it more if it hade a beter cover, and sgt pepper have a great cover with much colors and i think the music is much beter on that one then the withe album. so i think the cover is very important for the album. Or look at an classic Yes, king Crimson or Genesis album the cover allmost tells you about how the music will sound i think, like fraggile the album sound yust as the cover looks. or Red the cover is dark yust as the music. Or Tales from topograpich oceans the cover its deep beautiful and mystic yust like the music are. -------------
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 12:03
 ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 12:06
 ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 12:07
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For the non-Spanish speaking people let me tell you that this cover is much more scary when you know that "Por primera vez" means "For the first time"
------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 12:08
And my favourite: ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 12:09
Good to know.------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: comicbookguy
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 15:48
MOM!!!? |
Posted By: comicbookguy
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 15:50
DAD!!!? |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 16:06
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as comic book guy might say... worst album cover EVER ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: comicbookguy
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 18:11
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..Might be this..
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 19:01
^That's a really bad cover there. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 19:09
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Gdub411's foray into music led to this crime against eyesight and hearing:
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: June 16 2005 at 19:13
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^Steve Howe's father. -------------
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 03:23
The scariest thing is the first three tracks are "whipped cream", "a taste of honey" and "magic trumpet".... no sexual connotations there, then! Prince, where are you when we need you? -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 03:27
Bloody Hell - it's been a while since I've thought of this band.... I actually bought this album when it first came out; The Handsome Beasts hail from Nuneaton in the UK's West Midlands, and were actually a fairly good Sabbath type band, but spun through with a deep vein (thrombosis) of humour -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 07:03
Oh my god I HAVE TO HEAR This record,"whipped cream", "a taste of honey" and "magic trumpet".... ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 10:44
^ I hear that these girls are the mothers of Dream Threatre too. 
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 10:49
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That's utterly absurd!!! None of them look japanese!!!
------------- Eppur si muove |
Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: June 18 2005 at 16:22
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Here's another. Do you think 80's album cover design saw rise to the commonly used addage: "Less is more"? e.g, Hold Your Fire (below), 90125...
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 18 2005 at 16:53
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Sigod, your avatar goes perfectly with the covers you post... ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 14:17
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norweigen band Mayhem had a member who shot himself in the head with a shotgun so they used one of the photos from the suicide scene as an album cover. The bassist also killed the drummer or something. see the original at:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/es/d/db/Mayhem_dawn oftheblackhearts.jpg ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 14:23
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well found. I've heard about this cover, totally mad...certainly the worst cover ever made -------------
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 14:31
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THIS ONE BEATS THEM ALL!!!!
And of course, cannibal corpse!
and others from them.. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:12
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That's the SICKEST cover ever because it's REAL (Humans are sick |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:39
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once one of the band members found the dead body he apparently cooked and ate his brain, and made necklaces out of his skull ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:46
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Yeah,course he did!!! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:54
Ive heard something very similar to that. So i dont doubt that its true. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 18:01
Yep, I've heard the same story too.. don't know if it's true though. But that cover is apparently REAL. I just don't understand how the record company let them do something as sick as that... Sick people!  -------------
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 18:02
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the record company didnt technically allow it. The album had to be bootlegged with the cover so that people could hear it. I think there has been an official release with that cover though ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 18:35
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All I can say is that I wish this cover was larger... I had wet dreams about this one when I was 14, no wonder it was sold in a brown paper bag!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 19 2005 at 18:41
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It can be done:
Dream on! |
