the legendary album covers thread

maxxcab · June 11, 2014, 5:19am

rev_skarekroe · June 11, 2014, 7:16am

j_cartoon · June 11, 2014, 9:02am

Sabotage album cover has been brought up here before a few times haha…don’t know if I love Bill Ward’s wife’s tights or Geezer’s cane better…great drugged out album,great drugged out album cover…

I can’t believe i never noticed Geezer’s cane before! Amazing album.

Gunnar · June 11, 2014, 10:49am

I didn’t know you used to get high. I always thought yuo were an alcohol only guy.

I AM an alcohol only guy.
Haven’t smoked pot for at least 16 years.

But I had my time with it in high-school (when the story takes place) and also in college a bit. I even did some low-level “dealing” in my day.

Tomasz · June 11, 2014, 11:37am

Speaking of psychedelic experiences -

a little psychotronic visual slop from these guys never hurt anybody:

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Peligro · June 11, 2014, 8:35pm

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HA!!

A great cover that may be but…woah…that is by far and wide THE worst Boredoms album of all time.

A mate of mine was the biggest Boredoms fan ever in the history of the universe during the 90’s and he ordered this from a supplier in Japan (it’s really hard to get). I remember looking at the liner notes and seeing that it was produced by John Zorn. So I was really excited to hear it.

When we finally played the thing - it was awful. There’s a fine line between artful noise and just dicking around. And not only did the Boredoms in this case cross that line…they took a massive dump on it.

“Well” I finally said after 40 odd minutes of excrutiating tomfoolery “that…could have been better!”

In the years that followed this album became the benchmark of badness. If either one of us bought an album that sucked and the other asked what it was like, the answer would invariably be : dude, it sucked! It was totally Wow 2. I’m not kidding it was THAT bad!!

Revco · June 11, 2014, 8:45pm

Ambulance · June 11, 2014, 10:26pm

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Tomasz · June 11, 2014, 10:39pm

In the years that followed this album became the benchmark of badness. If either one of us bought an album that sucked and the other asked what it was like, the answer would invariably be : dude, it sucked! It was totally Wow 2. I’m not kidding it was THAT bad!!

Huh…I don’t recall it being that terrible, but then again I haven’t listened to it in maybe a decade. There was a time in which I used to see a ridiculous number of Boredoms copycat bands (amusingly, at the Osaka club that Boredoms’ Yamamoto Seiichi owns…), and that probably made this seem a lot better by comparison.

I remember originally picking it up on the strength of Martin Bisi being the engineer.

Here, I will offer this as an olive branch:

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Tomasz · June 11, 2014, 10:44pm

This should also be an obvious choice from me…a very odd anachronistic design that really does look like how I dream:

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Ambulance · June 11, 2014, 11:31pm

I love Scorn.

And I’m glad to find out I’m not the only one. Nobody I know has even heard of them.

They are legendary. Mick Harris is a hoot.

Tomasz · June 12, 2014, 12:06am

I love Scorn.

And I’m glad to find out I’m not the only one. Nobody I know has even heard of them.

They are legendary. Mick Harris is a hoot.

What’s great is that numerous fans of the band Evanescence apparently picked up the above disc on iTunes (not being able to distinguish between a band and album title) and actually ENJOYED it.

The Harris ‘solo’ Scorn is terrific, but the ‘group’ formation with contributions from Plotkin and Bullen really made something that hasn’t been replicated since. Kind of a cross between Meat Beat Manifesto, PiL and the secret inner life of a mantis shrimp.

Gunnar · June 12, 2014, 12:26am

I actually found this one a long time ago in my grandma’s collection. The music rules too.

Ambulance · June 12, 2014, 12:50am

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Tomasz · June 12, 2014, 12:50am

Well, if we’re gonna start steering the thread into a Thrift Store Favorites direction (and my dad had some Herb Alpert records too…), how can we not bring up the undisputed world champion of schlock, JAMES LAST:

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Yep. That’s some serious, uh…voodoo going on, there. To be sure. Pretty much the first thing I think of when I hear the word “voodoo” is not Baron Samedi or some such, but ol’ dopey-faced James Last and his merry band of German pranksters.

Nurse with Wound had a song title about a persistent phobia of the guy…he is indeed the king of Easy Listening Nightmares.