Great albums with awful covers

Sounds like insider knowledge to me!

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Is it something to do with cerebral dominace where traditionally one hemisphere has been linked to artistic/creative traits, the other to practical/analytical skills - it’s considerably more complex than this in reality of course!

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Possibly. After all, what says artistic/creative more than a naked geezer doing his best Nureyev pose?

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Here at stately Bhoyo Manor, we’re big fans of the Aussie prince of darkness. I love the album, and have tried to like the cover. But, to me, it still looks more My Little Pony than Stagger Lee.

@bhoyo F@&k me. Tough customer you! :sweat_smile:

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Ha! I’m a big softie – unless I’m sitting at my keyboard. :wink:

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This definitely counts as an awful cover. At the time I bought it I really didn’t like it, having loved his previous two albums. Beautiful Way is just playing on RP so perhaps I need to give it another go.

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Then there’s this on the recent reissue.


At least it’s in monochrome.

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Bob Dylan. Empire burlesque. Actually contains some great tracks including one of my favourites “Trust yourself “ but at the time it was difficult to get past that pose and wide lapel fashion.

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Oh dear.

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I need this album!

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Agreed. See post #79 :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi Igahman,
sorry missed you post #79.
Richard

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Good album. But really. Nothing to do with the music, what were they thinking?? Utter bollocks imho.

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an avant-garde wonder. Gimme that old time religion any day

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A great album, with an equally great cover. However, this would have been the cover had Roger Waters not overridden Storm Thorgerson:

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yes, it would have been a tad unfortunate wouldn’t it

Storm’s original idea for the cover of Meddle was going to be a photo of a baboon’s anus, but strangely, the band didn’t think this was a good idea. :rofl:

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so it ended up looking like a fart in the bath

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