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WTF Album Covers: Coup Party Music

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Staggeringly poor taste? Misguided attempt at controversy? Or bad timing? According to several sources, this album cover for Party Music by Coup was accomplished before September 11, but that didn’t stop the FBI from taking a look. Coup were cleared of any perceived wrongdoing, but the mere existence of this imagery is enough to send Tea Party rebel flag flyers into a fit of apoplexy. To me, it’s just another cheesy album cover–but what POORLY TIMED CHEESE indeed. The story goes that this artwork was accomplished only a few months before September 11. Creepy.

This is not the official artwork for the album–the image above was yanked after 9/11, but it’s still what comes up when you shop for Party Music by Coup on Amazon.com. And that makes it a bona fide WTF moment for me, at least.

But according to the blog Whole Lotta Album Covers, the official album art is much more clever–and more subversive. The subtlety on THIS album cover puts 99% of their peers to shame. In an era filled with excessive goofiness on hip-hop & rap covers, the official cover for Party Music is definitely a breath of fresh air:

UPDATE: Not more than three hours after I posted this, magically Amazon has the official album art on display now instead of the controversial 9/11 cover that was originally designed, then pulled. Did I have anything to do with that? Who knows, but I AM amused…greatly amused.

WTF Album Covers: Before Lil’ Kim, Lil Wayne and Lil Jon…

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Before Lil’ Kim started a “mee too” bandwagon longer than your arm, here was Lil’ Richard, toiling away in some miserable little studio. And NOT the Lil Richard responsible for the utterly unlistenable “Hos on My Team”…

The REAL Little Richard would be outraged to have his identity linked in any way to an album cover so dim-witted. Just chant “duh” and go into a trance with me here as you view this thudding failure…

We’re still fixated on the me-too factor. There are far too many people with “lil” in front of their names…can’t you come up with something on your own? Apparently not if your name is:

Lil Romeo, Lil Zane, Lil Fizz, Lil Flip, Lil Troy, Lil Wayne, Lil Bow Wow, Lil Mama, Lil Jon, Lil Boosie, Lil Scrappy, Lil’ Rob, Lil Whyte.

Here’s one that’s currently unclaimed, our gift to some aspiring wannabe out there who just can’t rub two brain cells together to think up a clever stage name:

Lil’ Dumbass.

Sick DIYers Mutilate Vinyl Records

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We’ve shown a few vids like this before, but this one is by far the SICKEST one yet for vinyl collectors, as the woman in this video not only recommends DIYers BAKE the records in an oven at home (toxic fumes, anyone?) but also encourages people to seek out COLORED VINYL to perform these mutilations to.

We’re all in favor of re-using and recycling records that are scratched, warped, and otherwise useless (how many copies of the soundtrack to No No Nanette, Flower Drum Song, and Jesus Christ Superstar do we REALLY NEED in this world?). But there’s no such caveat given in this.

Nope, she might as well be saying, “Yes, you know that acetate of The Velvet Underground’s first recording you picked up at a garage sale last summer? Go right ahead and CUT THAT MOTHER UP.”



WTF Album Covers: Pat Cooper

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This does NOT look like pasta sauce. It looks like Pat Cooper has committed seppuku in a gigantic pile of spaghetti. It really ought to be re-titled, Pat Cooper Commits Ritual Suicide For Laughs In the Catskills.

The cover is a riff on a Herb Alpert album cover that was popular in the day, for reasons that should be fairly obvious. Even my parents owned a copy. But then again, they also owned the soundtrack to Victory At Sea, so I shouldn’t be very surprised.

And then there’s THIS:

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