.... is one of a long line of Van Morrison LPs that are thankfully better on the inside than out. This is probably my least favourite cover to one of my favourite albums. If someone could embed an image I'd be most grateful. Though it's not for the easily distressed.

There are many worse album covers that relate to the Union Sundown hitmaker (look it up, no.90 in 1983), indeed, so celebrated is the album in it's own right, that I feel the cover has developed an iconic status all of it's own. Plus, and in these compacted days this is often forgotten, don't forget that a prime purpose of an LP sleeve is the colour of the spine, for ease of recognition when in a long spread of records shelved together. It hits the spot, for me, but good to see you following kb's suggestion, nonetheless......

... but Moloko's Statues has a hideous cover. What were they thinking?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00008COPD/ref=dp_image_0?ie=U...

are less than inspired (and I'm not talking about the songs on "Pin-Ups" - ha ha) - given the groundbreaking material contained therein

Is Ziggy a great cover really? Aladdin has become iconic but is hardly inspired. Diamond Dogs is striking without being attractive. Heroes - lustrous B/W photo but an aesthetic triumph?

As for my favourite album - Station to Station - it's simply lazy - being a still from "The Man who fell to Earth" to which the music is not related. Similarly Low.

The fact his covers are dull is quite interesting

This is a good album. But I think the cover is absolutely outstanding.

I'm refraining from posting any Dylan albums, or albums that Dylan had anything to do with. They're a topic in themselves. Blonde On Blonde being probably the best example, but throw in his cover for Music From Big Pink while you're at it.

considered a bad sleeve? It's not a bad painting, the colourscheme though muted is harmonious and to someone like me who knows or cares little for Dylan's output it's the most (only) memorable sleeve apart from the fish eye lens one and a really bad one from his religious period.

Louvin Brothers http://www.amazon.co.uk/Satan-Real-Louvin-Brothers/dp/B000002U45/ref=sr_...

and Dre

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chronic-Dr-Dre/dp/B000NTPE9U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&...

I have the code pasted into a word doc on my pc so I can copy it quickly.

How do I add an image to my post?
You need somewhere to host the images yourself. Lots of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) give you some web space as part of the deal, so that's worth checking out. The other option is to find somebody on the web willing to host your pictures for free. There are a few options out there, including http://photobucket.com/, http://groups.msn.com/ and http://www.imageshack.us/

Once you've uploaded your image to the site you've selected, you need to get the URL (address) of the file. It will look something like http://www.foo.com/image.jpg. Some services will automatically generate the code you need to copy to embed the image on another site, but if not, it's easy to get it yourself:

PC:

Right-click on your chosen image
Select "properties"
Copy & paste the URL of the image
Mac:

ctrl/click on the image
select "copy image location"
Now just add the address of the image into the field where you write your post or comment on the Word site. You will need to surround the address of the image with a little bit of HTML code, like this:

Use the preview button to make sure your image has appeared and looks OK.

Remember:

You need to include the 'http://' part of the address - it won't work otherwise
Images should be no more than 500 pixels in width
Try and keep the file-size to a minimum if possible: uncompressed images will take much longer to load
You mean that's it?
Yes. Simple, isn't it? It's likely that we'll be making changes to this page as time passes and we learn more about how things work and what you want, however, so it's worth checking back from time to time.

Great record, terrible sleeve.

...which had the ugliest sleeve imagineable? It looked like they were deliberately trying to stop people buying it, at the very height of their fame. It's not big and it's not clever...

Most metal albums have dire sleeves, so it's just a case of sifting through the lot for a decent bunch of tracks...

his intellectual friends call him RT...

This is but one of many... bloody awful design, brilliant music.

Great album, though.

I can't do that embedding thing, but Zero Tolerance for Silence by Pat Metheny has a great cover (almost Factory great) and getting on for the worst music of all time. And I love Pat.

To use my teenage sons' most common verdict, it's meh. The artwork however is a thing of absolute beauty.

Hexagonal, dainty little cuts where the keys ought to be. Printed on gorgeous paper and the photos inside are remarkable.

http://www.horslips.ie/happy_cd_web_pic.jpg

This really doesn't do justice to the finished article. Take my word for it or look it out for it if trawling through a second hand shop.

It's the band's first album, a few decent tracks but very much an act finding its feet for better things to follow.

As a graphics designer, I find this sort of thing very interesting!

There's a blog I follow called 'What LP sleeves really mean', which has some thoughts about LP covers. The address for anyone who's interested is

http://whatlp-sleevesreallymean.blogspot.com/

There's also some sites around that specialise in showcasing awful LP sleeves!

Simone

Nic Jones's "Unearthed" is a pretty reasonable collection of old live performances by the legendary English folk guitarist. But the cover design - Yikes! We demand to know the culprits; they should be named and shamed...

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/nic.jones/images/largerec/u...

Great band. Consistently bad covers.

Case closed.

Tasteful design from the land of IKEA.

and from Norway

Calm down, girls.

1978

1979

1981

looks like the budget for the cover was about thirty bob?
good album though

Cracking album. But the only one I know with the group name spelt out in scrambled egg.
As for the miniature Dells being shaken out of the salt and pepper pots, well one looks like he’s going to land in the coffee and the others don’t seem to heading anywhere near the food.

but a great noise is held within

Pansy progsters..