The Butterfly sleeve is genius. As well as the literal interpretation, the foil wrapping forms the shape of butterfly wings, the torso of the insect being represented by the butter, thus extending the impact of the title even further.

My head hurts.

She also covers

Bob Marley - Guava Jelly
The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You (later covered by Guns N Roses)
Graham Nash - Simple Man
Bill Withers - Grandma's Hands

So possibly I'm missing the point.

Perhaps it's symbolic of a new direction ‘dirty hands and back to basics' - expressed through medium of dairy produce and not having rolled up newspaper (or edition of The Word) to hand

http://www.ilikemusic.com/images/article_images/full/hardfi_nocoverart_2...

quite a recent contribution, and probably the most discernible example of ''doesn't give a bullock''. Taking irony and the derision of the ''commercially charged music industry'' to the limit. So cack-handed that the message becomes obsolete.

Also, I don't condone the swatting of flies. How about I swat your middle class allowance.

No Cover Art - must try Harder fi

PIL pulled it off with 'Album'though

'middle class allowance'? I live in Sunny Southend on Sea - we don't have that in the swamplands

Ho ho ho.
I'm quite accustomed to the swamplands.
I too live in Southend...just off Sutton Road.

I'm just by Chalkwell park (near Music King - Blind Alvin and his guide dog's guitar and records shop).

Spooky - we may have even crossed paths at Riga or The Ship/Grand gigs

Unfortunately, I don't live in Southend! Getting back onto the rubbish/boring/half-arsed/no-effort-whatsoever album art..

The Beatles '1' (2000) - stands out, but not outstanding..

Talking Heads '77' - half-arsed title, even less arsed sleeve, nevertheless not a bad effort on the album

Brian Eno's 'Music for Films' has an intensley boring cover also..

Single-coloured sleeves merit a special place in Lazy Hell:

The White Album - brave, groundbreaking, iconic, also very very dull

New Order / Joy Division - often lauded for their sleeve designs but wasn't "Still" just a grey cardboard sleeve? Also a New Order album (forget which one) had a sort of steel-blue sleeve which was slightly textured in a vain attempt to make it look more interesting.

Prince - The Black Album - none more black, none more dull.

I'll make an exception for the Style Council's "Cost of Loving" because it's a nice bright orangey colour. Crap music though...

The Beatles deserve more points on the artistic license

Beatles For Sale - blokes looking up a tree
Red Album - blokes looking over Balcony
Blue Album - blokes looking over balcony (again)
Help - blokes in a row
Abbey Road - blokes crossing road

Anything with people walking up a street is plain lazy (Oasis, Embrace even Bob Dylan)

At least Princes Black Album saved us from the shorty in speedo's (Dirty Mind) or even worse (Lovesexy)

Wasn't Music For Films inside out (matt outside glossy inside - so Eno made a bit of a go)

Any artwork created courtesy of A/Btec Level students fiddling about on Photoshop. i.e. any hip hop compilation album.

according to ''The Sun'', the hand-grenade pin is a fitting emblem to an ''explosive career''.

ay? come again?
Is this metaphor being attributed to Kelly Jones band?

As always, the red top has got it soooooo wrong.
As for the artwork, think its the work of an acclaimed photographer who used to work for ''The Face''. Anyone know the name?

but I thought this thread was about crappy album art?

Thought you were a ''demented guitar freak''?
you should be skirting the rules of convention.

Lazy because they've just turned the pic sideways (bit of hand tinting) but that's just brought a freshly embalmed ambience to the mood.

Almost a bigger bunch of odd bods as The Vapours, hang on a mo' isn't that Kelly Jones - Stage Left

The Approved By The Motors sleeve above was withdrawn on the grounds of them being too ugly. It was replaced with this:

Whilst we are all intensely sleeve-art literate when it comes to the "classics", there is an untapped multiple-pile up of horrendous sleeves just here..only the truly brave need to venture there..for God's sake, take some provisions!
http://www.stevecarter.com/albumcovers.htm

Was going to post ''Let Me Touch Him''.
Though the utter whimsy of contrastment between the title and accompanying cover means it can't qualify for crapness.

Loads more horrifying album sleeves at http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/index.htm

Pink Floyd - Meddle
outsized ear bath anyone?

Good call, PM. A man needs to justify being in possession of a Barbara Streisand album. My personal favourite for literal treatment has to be "Rock & Roll Featuring The Robins" from '57.

Can we add a sub-category? Worst album covers with the artist's own scrawlings adorning them. Planet Waves has to be #1.
Music From Big Pink's up there in the top five. Worse than a primary school's walls on open day.
Also - Self Portrait, The Who By Numbers, etc. All guilty.

Paul. Top Cover - that's got to be it surely?
Final whistle, fireworks and first prize to that cover.

I can't seen anything knocking the Robins off their perch (ouch!)
As well taking the literal biscuit - that cover's double the fun. Looking like an Eastern European animation short - possibly by the creative minds behind The Singing Ringing Tree, Tinderbox or similar.

Self Portait covers! Uh Oh ! Ron Wood, Joni Mitchell, and Eno really should know better.

Low may be Bowies most boring cover (this is the facing stage left version)- but there's a twist you see.

After over indulging in allsorts and bolting to Berlin Bowie decied to bury himself in the city and keep a 'Low' Profile - geddit!

I read the visual representation of ''Rock and Roll'' as ''Stones and Scones''.