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WTF Thanksgiving 2009 Edition: Rednecks Gone Wild

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WTF Bad Album Cover Art Chicken Coup deVille

Happy Thanksgiving 2009.We bring you the biggest turkey we could find–and what a steaming pile it is, hands down the most ridiculous album cover seen in weeks. Is the name of this band CHICKEN? Or is the name of the record “Chicken Coup de Ville”? Never mind all that, behold the SPECIMEN on the cover here.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is an honest-to-godzilla redneckity MULLET in all its repugnant, ill-advised 90s glory. This poor slob is clearly ready to audition for the part of A) backwoods Arayan Jesus,  B) Billy Ray Cyrus lookalike, or C) NASCAR crash test dummy.
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WTF: Swing That Gospel Axe

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Bad album covers Swing That Gospel Axe

I wonder if when gospel bands are praying to Jesus, if their lord and savior couldn’t take five seconds to have a word with them about their lame-ass album covers. I mean, come ON, now, Jesus…can’t you spare a COUPLE of moments for these poor dorks?

Let’s pass Go AND collect $200–the first thing this album cover says to me is that a slasher movie moment is in the offing here–the Gospel Axe is going to wind up in the back of that chick’s SKULL.

“Hey guys, what do you want to call this band?” Bruce Yelton asks the others. “We’re singin’ about Jesus here, so why don’t we give it some kind of dorky name that sounds like it’s SUPPOSED to be hip and happening, but is really some kind of dumb-ass made up word that doesn’t actually MEAN anything.”

To which the woman in this group replies, “You just said “dumbass”. You’re a sinner and you’re going to hell straightaway. The REST of this band is ‘upbound’ but not you.”

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WTF: Big Bear Doin Thangs

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big bear doin thangs bad album art

Rap once again snatches the bad album cover artwork spotlight away from Southern Gospel warblers, heavy metal lunkheads, and singer/songwriters. What a misguided pile of conceptual sludge this cover is! Let’s start with the idea that this guy’s rapper name is Big Bear. He’s surrounded by bears, but expects us to infer that he–the only non-bear in the photograph–is actually Big Bear. Ok. Thanks for that. It’s a stretch, but after about ten minutes of thinking about it, wee get it now. You aren’t ACTUALLY a bear that found itself in possession of a working set of vocal chords.

Gotcha.

What is up with the stupid crap everyone is WEARING in this photograph? Is Big Bear wearing an ASCOT? What gives? Continue reading WTF: Big Bear Doin Thangs →

WTF: Mr. Stinky Lives Up To His Name

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Mister Stinky Everything Dead

Rap CDs feature some of the most notoriously bad cover art of all time. Exhibit A, from a poor misguided soul who decided to hang his entire career on the name Mr. Stinky.

I’m trying to imagine the conversation about this cover. “Well, my name is MISTER STINKY, and there’s a, you know, stinky dead body over here to the right. And behind me is a stinky van, which is, like, stinky because it’s broken down and looks like something a soccer mom would drive, not an O.G. like myself.” Continue reading WTF: Mr. Stinky Lives Up To His Name →