There is really nothing at all wrong with this album cover that makes it bad, offensive, or excessively silly…except of course for the TITLE of the damn thing. I really wanted Oral in Hawaii, but I didn’t feel like PAYING for it.
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Bored Housewife are a lo-fi punk band from Belfast. This album cover for “Too Horny To Sleep, Too Tired To Wank” is definitely a major winner for the band if they have the following goals:
1. To sell NO ALBUMS
2. To actively encourage people NOT TO BUY THIS ALBUM
3. To show the world just how indifferent they are to their own music.
The philosophy that’s always informed a band’s inclusion into the Turntabling WTF Bad Album Cover Hall of Shame is that an album cover has one important purpose–to sell the music and make people interested in hearing what’s on the record, CD, etc.
Sometimes that’s accomplished by making the album mysterious–a solid color field or deliberately non-representational artwork. Sometimes the artwork is so complex that it takes ages to figure out just what the hell is happening on the cover.
And then…there’s crap like this. I gotta hand it to them, they’ve certainly conveyed that the band doesn’t give a toss. What? That’s NOT what you were trying to say at all? Well, stranger, from a newcomer to your music…
I hate to be the arsehole in the room about stuff like this, I really do. The real tragedy about this particular album cover is that if they had just left off the stick figure and let the cover fly with JUST the grungey cardboard/particle board packaging it would have been 100% more effective.
But I’m just this dumb vinyl junkie, what do I know? Continue reading WTF Album Covers: Bored Housewife
Knowing absolutely nothing about this record other than this wacko-jacko album cover, the first thing that springs to mind when I look at the image is, “I remember THAT SCENE in Cannibal Holocaust…” The liner notes for this Roger Nusic album on CD Baby helpfully mention the contribution of a drummer named Sticky Dave Friendly. With a name like that, can a career in porn be very far away?
Unfortunately for Roger Nusic, the album covers only get creepier from here. Feast your eyes on THIS:
I weep for the future.
–Joe Wallace
Somehow I keep finding these “adults only” albums featuring poorly photographed humans from Earth in sexually compromising positions, making unfunny statements with cartoon speech bubbles. Ever since I found a Blowfly record in the dollar bin, these albums are now constantly turning up when I go vinyl shopping.
The most horrifying thing about this album cover apart from the nyuk-nyuk “lookit,we made a sex funny” vibe are the safari suit and the green checked pants. I want a pair to wear on stage now, thanks. When the alien archaeology teams land on this plant in a hundred years, they will find these records and wonder just who the the hell Sanford and Son were. Hell, some high school graduates are wondering that RIGHT NOW.
–Joe Wallace
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