WTF Bad Album Covers Showdown

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Some days you just can’t decide…and today is one of those days. Normally only one bad album cover gets featured at a time here, but I found three utterly horrific vinyl LP releases today that not only defy reason with their utter cluelessness, but also transported me temporarily into a completely other dimension of disbelief. I couldn’t NOT write about any of them.

Not even Christian rock is this astonishing. You may be able to find some kind of mental acrobatics going on for a born-again record label to be able to justify a band like Stryper combining their gender-bendy spandex-n-sexual confusion vibe with bible verses and (apparently) chaste-living philosophies….but no amount of sacramental wine could fog your brain enough to think the following album cover artwork choices made ANY sense at all… Continue reading WTF Bad Album Covers Showdown →

Unrezt and Recordings of Thin Consolation

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I stumbled across Thin Consolation by accident today after checking out a new Twitter.com/turntabling follower who is part of this Belgium-based record label.

I spent AGES on this site listening to glitchy, electronic wonderfulness including a FABULOUS electronic 12 inch by Odaka called Warm Geometry. I’ve played this six times in a row now. Part of what Unrezt calls the “Pastorale Electronics series”, Warm Geometry is an analog synth dreamy-fest that kicks into some nice percussion-n-bass analog synth action.

I am dying to hear Warm Geometry on vinyl as the gods of stereo intended but the track at Unrezt is a nice experience regardless.

There are other wonderful discoveries to be made at Unrezt including the glitch-happy Cupp Cave (which features a nice sample about zombies on the intro to the track linked here). And I love the description of Cupp Cave’s world, which is inhabited by “improbable vegetarian Texan zombies on Mexican mushrooms, all thumbs and two left feet.”

Unrezt is my new favorite record label (at least for this week)–great stuff from Belgium and more to come.

P.S. The label is Thin Consolation, the website is Unrezt. I am new so I don’t get the distinction between one end and the other…so Unrezt folks, forgive a dumb Yank.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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WTF: Crying Demons LP

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Bad album art? Well, hell son, YOU be the judge. This album cover does NOT depict a 12-year old Mos Def doing a prank record…instead it’s made for suckers who think they’re going to hear real live demons talking through their halpless victims. But let’s not get carried away, WTF is all about the LP cover art and what artwork this is.

What in the WORLD is going on here? The album is called “Crying Demons” but we see a grinning cross-eyed partygoer with one too many Bud Lights with Lime in him instead. Or maybe it’s nitrous oxide. Perhaps our cover model is fresh out of a car accident and he’s got some horrific head injury we can’t quite see…whatever is going on here, it’s pretty far away from demonic possession. Where’s the green pea soup spewing?

I LOVE this album cover to DEATH. I need to OWN this masterpiece, and you can actually PURCHASE IT ON AMAZON albeit at the insane collector’s price of $27.86 for a used copy (at press time. Who knows what one is going for now??)

I won’t say that I’d SELL MY SOUL for a copy of this record. No I won’t.

–Joe Wallace

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Jesse Franco’s Bloody Moon

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I have NOT seen Jesse Franco’s Bloody Moon yet. But I did pick up a soundtrack compilation featuring the ridiculously fun Bloody Moon disco soundtrack sounds, I simply HAVE to see it now. It’s a MUST. A slasher movie with a disco soundtrack? Oh HELL yes.

Any soundtrack music featuring a singer enthusiastically dribbling on about disco nights and taking a shower, set to a psuedo-Zappaesque rhythmn section circa Joe’s Garage, is a total winner.

This is an exceptionally stinky cheese in all the best ways. Wait til you hear the farty synth noises on Die Sage des Todes Suite…sheer cornball delirium I couldn’t possibly live without.
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