There was some excitement in the air at the discovery of Rolling Stone’s Smoking Section on Worst Album Covers Ever. But joy turned to annoyance when it was discovered that RS only had the wherewithal to post a single, vaguely cruddy (but not truly hideous) album cover by somebody called Mike Bones.
They couldn’t go the distance apparently, and even though there was a desperate five minute (ok, two-and-a-half minute) search to find more Worst Album Covers Ever pages in the Smoking Section, it was clear that some doofus intern had been turned loose on this project before getting canned for stealing Jann Wenner’s weed or putting his naughty bits in the executive drinking fountain.
Here’s the merely lame-o album cover Rolling Stone saw fit to brand as one of the worst album covers ever:
This cover looks a bit like some kind of Jonas Brothers backstage blackmail photo–the kind you mail to the victim with the idea that there’s more where that came from and ten times as naughty. “Tell the Brothers if they don’t pony up the dough, we send out those pictures of the lads stuffing their greased, drooping willies into the light socket.”
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But this certainly ain’t the WORST ever. We reserve such praise for more worthy feats of artistic cluelessness, like this little beauty, packed as full of brain-melting racism as you can get without actually attending a Tea Party protest in Washington. Yes, that IS a jackass in blackface in case you can’t tell. I pity the fool.