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A new contender for all time worst album cover
Posted by Chimney Singing... on 28 October 2009 - 4:12pm.
Definitely the least glamorous
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It would be fine
without those four blokes in the centre
What music does this picture make you think of?
erm..
a bunch of Cnuts?
Kelly Jones' face makes me laugh
"So why are we doing this again???!?"
He looks like
he's just been asked a really hard question
I'm thinking now...
that it was probably his idea anyway so maybe he's thinking..
"Shit! Am I a massive twat???"
Photoshop
Has much to answer for. Now I would vote for this sleeve as great if the band were actually having to sit in cold seawater for a long shoot. There would at least be a point to it.
I was just about to ask the facetious question...
"Do we think Photoshop has been used in the making of this photograph?", but you got there first.
Why
does that band exist?
They really do ask for it
don't they! It wouldn't be so bad if you felt they had an ounce of humour or irony in them.
Says all you need to know
About what's going on inside..
The only thing that will save this...
...is if the back cover features a similar photograph, only with the band far-off in the distance, as if carried out to sea by a strong current.
All time worst album cover?
It's not even the Stereophonics' worst...
Is that real?
surely you just threw that together on your Mac? For a laff? In about 3 minutes.
Just Walk Away, Rene
It looks like a rejected idea from a Hipgnosis brainstorming session. In 1974.
Good
God. They are truly awful.
Come on in!
The lack of irony's fine!
The really alarming suggestion contained in this image...
is that in the event of the polar icecaps melting completely and flooding the UK, The Sterephonics would survive. Scary.
Never mind the image…
… is that seriously the album's title? Presumably someone within the Stereophonics organisation wandered into a 'gift shop', saw one of THOSE posters/mugs/tea towels and thought, 'Yes! That's it!'.
For the next album, might I suggest 'You Don't Have To Be Mad To Work Here…'
Or...
'I'm With Stupid ➔'.
That would be recycling
Aimee Mann bagged that title many, many years back.
If I was having a picnic at high tide ...
...I think I'd be moving up the beach a bit. Given the circumstances, "Keep Calm and Carry On" seems like irresponsible advice to me.
Another thought. Could this be their, er, homage, to U2's No line on the horizon cover?
They guy at the extreme left looks like
Captain Black (double agent for the Mysterons)
I'm guessing Sir Peter Blake probably wasn't involved...
Following on from the Bruce and U2 albums are we now in the middle of the worst period ever for cover art and has Photoshop killed the medium?
It's not like the cover of Momentary Lapse of Reason, where you can see the logistic difficulty in putting out and laying loads of beds on a beach, how hard could it have been for them actually to have gone to a location and done it properly?