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Creepiest Album Cover
Posted by Bra-less Wonder on 24 March 2010 - 1:00am.
OK, this may have been done before, but I'm a newbie here and can't be arsed to trawl through and look.
What's the creepiest album sleeve ever?
I'm sure there must be hundreds (if not thousands!) of contenders, but I'm starting off with this one:
Eeeww...makes my flesh crawl...
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It's just yer manhood Kevo
I think he did this at Reading.
Where is Kevo nowdays? I miss him.
Thanks for that TKK
I nearly brought my packet of salt & vinegar Discos back up!
Don't get me wrong, I can dig a fella in stockings, given the right mood (and amount of alcohol intake), but he's no Johnny Depp, is he? And what's with the silky-smooth baby's botty? Bet that was one waxing that hurt like hell!
Spooky?
Where is Kevo? See earlier Deaf School post. I wonder which version of Kevin will appear on April 17th.
I thought
it was F Murray Abraham!
I found a couple sites
I found a couple sites awhile back filled with funny/strange album covers
http://waxidermy.com/features/stock-covers/
http://www.bizarrerecords.com/gallery.html
I'm going to assume...
... that the original post was the Scorpions' effort with the naked prepubescent girl on the front, but all I'm seeing is that the image violated Photobucket's terms of use, 'violated' being the operative word.
If it wasn't that cover, then it should've been. Although there is a Norwegian black metal album released after the shotgun suicide of the singer, which is a photo of the deceased with his brains all over the wall. Apparently, one of his bandmates thought "cool, potential album cover" upon discovering his dead friend, rather than "shitshitshitshit oh my God, Geoff's dead, I'd better call the police". For me, that's the creepy part.
His name wasn't Geoff, of course. It was Martin, Lord of Entrails and Committee Chair of the Royal Association of Tedious Skull-botherers.
Weirdly...
... I can now see the Kevin image.
So yeah, my vote goes to the Scorps. They should've been strung up.
At least
it wasn't Susan Boyle kitted-out in the accoutrements.I've gone cold just at the thought.
My Beauty
My Beauty was a notorious disaster. But it's a wonderful record. Still a big favourite in our house and we play it all the time. And I think if the cover had looked like the cover of his first solo LP, The Wanderer, it would have done well.
I too enjoy this album
but it grates that I had, and gave away, a promo copy that had Thunder Road on it, which was susequently pulled from the final released album
Anyhow, thanks to the wonders of the inter-web.....
I think it's the "Have a lickle faith" line that warranted the refusal.......
i've never heard that before...
but I'd heard of it.
I think it's bloody good. I really likes it acksherly...
The MIllie Jackson one
Where she's sitting on the khazi, legs splayed, knickers round her ankles.
No thread on this topic is complete without...
Rod's "An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down", a title which automatically makes one think of a tramp paedophile chasing a youngster across a park.
And here's your Millie Jackson one Brookster, the charmingly titled "Back To The S**t!"
Why is she using that shoe...
... she's got bog roll?
This one does it for me !!
Not creepy in the same way as the "pervvy" ones above, but I find it very unsettling !!
Apologies if I don't manage to post the link properly.
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-King-Crimson-In-the-Co...
It's all about context, innit?
Don't know the album, though on the basis of Richard Lowe's recommendation, I'll search it out and give it a listen. I'd want to know or at least have a hint of the overall artistic intent before reaching a conclusion. Don't know if 'creepy' would be the word, anyway.
I saw Kev just over a year ago walking along Charing Cross Road, dressed in the semi-Gilbert O'Sullivan garb he favoured at the time - floppy Bugsy Malone cap, lots of tweedy, earth colours.
Top bloke, I think, and a genuine artist.
My Beauty was Kevin Rowland's "therapy" album
It's an album of covers he did for Creation in the late 90s when Creation was coining it and Alan Magee was in a position to indulge himself a bit by signing up people he had a soft spot for. Cost a packet to make. Sold about two copies - one to me.
Kevin Rowland had just come out of that whole rehab/therapy thing (coke, booze, depression, what-have-you) and I think the big idea was that he'd do an album singing old songs he really loved, blow off a bit of steam and clear the decks for "new material". It didn't quite work out that way. Mostly, I reckon, because of the dressing up in women's clothes business.
I've never been in therapy but, as I understand it, a big part of treating patients for the sort of things that Kevin was in for is about rekindling, or establishing for the first time, self-esteem: "learning to love yourself", as the key line in the opening song, a version of George Benson's "The Greatest Love Of All" has it. Of course when Kevin came out looking like he did people roared with laughter or snorted with derision, but I think this was a bit cruel: it was his own idiosyncratic way of trying to project this new-found "self-esteem", hence the album title.
As far as the music goes, opinion was divided. A lot of people thought it was corny rubbish. But I remember Danny Baker playing The Greatest Love Of All and, when it ended, him and his playmates in the studio at the time, erupting into a spontaneous round of applause.
And I say his version of The Marmalade's "Reflections Of My Life" is as good as anything he's ever done.
If you have trouble tracking it down, PM me and "I'll sort you out"
Just picked this up
from a local second hand shop for 3 bucks..you are right it is a very enjoyable album! Why nothing from him since though?
I had to laugh
at the symbiosis of the My Beauty cover and the OP's username...
This always makes me feel like throwing up
More for what's inside than the cover.
AAAAAAAGGHHH!! MY EYES!
BraLess. Don't put up pictures like that. It's worse than the one of him with one foot on the monitor.
Ooh. I feel all funny now.
Please
Someone pt a looooong post on to push that horror onto page 2...