The Crap Album Cover World Cup

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Amandasaur!

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a theme that is continued into the modern day....

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Let's find out what the crappest album cover in the world is.

Each of you get to nominate 2 album covers that you thing are really awful. When I get around 30 nominations i'll start to pair them off against each other in a knockout tournament until we have one winner.

Here's my two nominations to start things off .......

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Kevin RowlanRAB - My Beauty

What beauty?

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Alice Cooper - Pretties For You

Just what the hell is going on in this picture?
Who owns those cars?
Why is that woman cooling her minge against that ice cream?
Why is there a shed in the middle of that picture?
And WTF has any of this got to do with an Alice Cooper album?

your turn
 
I didn't go off on a rant about how ****ty it is, its an opinion.. and I still don't like it. There are plenty of album covers posted here that I like, I respect the fact that others may not. Please do the same.
 
I was reading up on that cover.

Apparently it was a painting in Frank Zappa's house

"Yes, I am the same person who did the painting used on the Alice Cooper album, Pretties for You. Actually, that was the title of the painting, which Frank Zappa then used for the album. Frank, a friend of mine, was visiting my studio one day, bought two paintings he wanted to used for album covers, one for Alice Cooper, another for the Mothers of Invention. The two paintings purchased: 'Pretties for You' and 'The Four Apostles'. Both ended up in Frank's home, 'Pretties for you' in the main livingroom, and 'Apostles' in the downstairs music studio. Who knows what happened to them after Frank's death. I'm still in touch with his brother, Bobby, but not his wife or kiRAB.
The idea behind the painting are the dreams and regrets of old men on the occasion of their death. It was inspired by the funeral of an Italian movie director who died in '68 or '69. There was a photo layout in Life magazine, I think it was, detailing the funeral. They had photos of the old director, and I liked his look, especially his hat. I tried to imagine his thoughts at his own funeral. Death is the fate of us all, of course, and I suppose the moment defines us as human beings... given the reality, however absurd it may seem to us, that we are born only to die."
 
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