April 5, 2011
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 [...]
February 22, 2011
It’s another installment of Other People’s Vinyl, this time featuring some albums in the collection of a YouTuber known as ColoradoSurfrider. This video is full of “gadget” album covers, each of which features a gimmick like the Rolling Stones 3-D album cover for Their Satanic Majesties Request. The most fun is the album cover for [...]
February 18, 2011
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 [...]
February 17, 2011
The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers was released in America with a cover designed by Andy Warhol, the iconic “zipper” cover which originally had a real, working zipper.
Warhol biographies say two models were used to shoot the cover image–the zipper unzips to reveal another crotch clad in boxer shorts–and nobody was definitively told whose (covered) [...]
November 4, 2010
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 [...]
