Hilariously Bad Album Covers That Deserved To Be Shamed

[@danielkokal8819]

the sad part is.... none of those hairdressers ever paid for their crimes.

[@jrnfw4060]

I, too, have had a few hairdressers I wouldn't mind sending to prison.

[@markaxworthy2508]

Sadder still, they were probably paid FOR their crimes!

[@benvandam369]

😅😆😆😆😆😆

[@mirrorblue100]

Crimes against humanity!

[@Yogestroge]

They were ingenious coiffurists, those creators of inflatable hair.

[@inamorata966]

Elmer Fudpucker in concert. I was there, man. I was THERE!! Four encores. My disposable lighter ran out of fuel. Awesome!

[@brewcrew5854]

was that summer of 69 at "fudstock " ? i still have my "pucker up" tour 69 " concert shirt

[@karkigann]

I went to the wrong concert due to a typographical error. But Elmer FudgePacker put on a great show.

[@Nooziterp1]

Not the best name to do a spoonerism on.

[@Keepinit100upinhere]

For real?????

[@inamorata966]

@@Keepinit100upinhere no. I'm having fun there at poor Elmer's expense.

[@julieblaha4960]

25% serial killers ~ 25% pedophiles ~ 25% didn’t realize what the cover said until it came out ~ 25% OMG that hair!

[@sunnyzengaravito4930]

😂🤣

[@elisatovar9466]

No, some of the last 25% must be for "inbreeding" people.

[@beachbum6460]

@@elisatovar9466 LOL

[@Missunderstood103]

You forgot the percent that were just flatout to stoned to really use good judgement.

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

"Born to Die"...that one sounds like a tattoo someone got at the fair after spending too much time at the beer tent.

[@banba317]

"The Fairfield Four..." All five of them! And the "Crossroads Quartette!" All five of them too!

[@baritonebroker]

I lost it at the 5 member quartet. II missed the Fairfield Four 5…. I’ll watch again.

[@albertbrammer9263]

Counting aint big in the Southern US of A.

[@SheOfCertainGait]

It's their high-end dungarees under the suit jackets that really set them apart from the competition. Who cares if they can't count? They got swag!

[@9y2bgy]

It was nice of them to include the subs...

[@aisforapple2494]

"Nobody Does Me Like Jesus" and "Lord, Split Me Open" must be played back to back! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Name-ps9fx]

It's more effective if you play front to front. 🤣

[@02chevyguy]

"How Big Is Jesus?" I think that's a question for the Theologians.

[@Kuulei265]

That went to heck pretty fast.

[@aisforapple2494]

@@Kuulei265 You can say "H-E-double hockey sticks" on the internet, my friend. 🤣

[@aisforapple2494]

@@Name-ps9fx Fan of the missionary position, I see. 🤣

[@michaelsonnon2333]

I laughed my butt off at the vid. Then I came to the comments where the real humor is. You folks are gold!

[@kcjazzcat7822]

These have to be the best comments I have seen of any YT videos. The singing midget got me, but the comnents are over the top. Hilarious.

[@maryskillan284]

I couldn't agree more!

[@luisreyes1963]

It's like Night Gallery...hosted by Weird Al Yankovic. 😆

[@brianthomas2434]

I love the "Come Home Baby " cover. It shows why "Baby " left.

[@andsoitbegins464]

😂😂😂

[@clarencewalker3925]

He has a copy of "High Times." Just a little slack.

[@laHagans]

😂😂

[@miranduri]

😂😂😂😂

[@stillnotwoke]

She just couldn't handle his "awesomeness"...

[@LayzeeGiant]

The Sex Symbol of the South - Elmer Fudpucker Sr. I can’t. I just can’t. 😂😂😂

[@geoffreypiltz271]

Really comedian Hollis Champion.

[@jaimehudson7623]

Sexy lady at 3:43 is actually an Italian Porn Star.

[@billybunter3753]

You're just gonna have to I'm afraid! 😂

[@jrnfw4060]

Well, would you rather have that or Pudf--ker? Turn that name around and it really gets interesting.

[@donnatate458]

Is there an Elmer Jr. to continue his father's success in the world of entertainment? I think one generation is enough is this case.

[@kander63]

That “Relax you’re going to lose weight” gave off vibes of “you’re going to lose weight because I’m not going to feed you while I keep you trapped in a pit for 10 days before I murder you”

[@dpcnreactions7062]

It gave me exorcist vibes.

[@PrimeTX]

“It puts the lotion on its skin.”

[@brendafuller907]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@brendafuller907]

​@@PrimeTX😂😂😂

[@Joseph-z7s3b]

"I found Jesus at a Walmart." No sir you did not. That is a lie. Even Jesus has a limit.

[@danielkokal8819]

Jesus ate with the lepers.... but at least he had SOME self respect.

[@infonut]

Well, he did meet with tax collectors and harlots.

[@maxwellcrazycat9204]

@@infonut Oh! They had Democrats way back then?

[@yannisgk]

@@maxwellcrazycat9204 lol

[@albertbrammer9263]

Walmart makes people feel the need to seek our Jesus. Or bleach for their eyes.

[@charlesbird781]

The Night Pastor totally sounds like the name of a 1970’s serial killer.

[@karenglenn6707]

AC/DC have an older song written by the great Bon Scott called Night Prowler, sounds similar doesn’t it 😂😂

[@miranduri]

😂😂😂😂

[@stillnotwoke]

The Pastor of Disaster!

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

He's the Holy Diver

[@trudygreer2491]

He'll hear your confession, then dispatch you straight to Heaven! 😵

[@toddscheler7194]

When a musician's questionable friend says "You gotta let my buddy do your album cover photo! They're awesome and you'll love it! "

[@danielkokal8819]

those pics were taken with an Instamatic. google it.

[@tommyudo3195]

I think the video content creator has discovered a new art form.

[@sheilabloom6735]

😅😅😅

[@robotrix]

Yeah, but then they go with it anyway.

[@CortexNewsService]

"We Will Make Love." Why did that sound like a threat

[@erniebuchinski3614]

Come again? 😜

[@OutsidersRo]

😂😂😂

[@keithulhu]

"The Hell We Will!"

[@edgarsnake2857]

I've played in bands since I was a kid and now I understand how we never hit the big time. We never even got close to this level of artistry. T's all clear to me now. Thanks.

[@queenmarynovelwriter5397]

"...And the Singing Midget" was all I needed to see.

[@Gamble661]

Yeah, the poor guy didn't even get his name on the cover!

[@kcjazzcat7822]

Friggin hilarious. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

[@joeblog2672]

The "singing midget" could have fit inside Sharon Malone's hair!

[@bunglingbadger]

The lack of people's self-awareness is astounding. 😳

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

Most of these come from the decades where the world was just a cloud of drug vapors.

[@brianarbenz1329]

It's like when you put your two fingers up behind someone's head in a pic, when you were 6.

[@Davewutsup]

Yes, we see it more than ever these days. ,,, Just whatever he said!

[@stillnotwoke]

I can't believe crap like this EVER existed! I've been around for over 7 decades... how did I miss all this?

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

@@StrangeScaryNewEngland What - you think fewer people take drugs these days? Seriously?

[@tabletopwarrior]

Ok. Who was spying on my playlist? No privacy anymore

[@Enigma8750]

😅😆

[@JosephGoclowski]

:-)

[@02chevyguy]

Your fault. You left it in plain sight on your coffee table.

[@PrimeTX]

Google hears all!

[@Notarealponcho444]

At our church in the 70's the youth pastor had a brilliant idea to do a sign for the meeting room that read "Comealot." No adults stepped forward to give him a reality check and no teenager could get through the door without snickering.

[@lmsteller9736]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelfisher7170]

John Bult, Juilie's Sixteenth Birthday......"uh...someone call the police."

[@erniebuchinski3614]

As Onkel Heinrich (Uncle Henry) might have put it: "Sixteen is legal in Germany, but that still doesn't make it right . . . fuggin' groomer!"

[@Lemmon714_]

He sounds like a Red Bovine impersonator.

[@Lemmon714_]

Sovine

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

They both look like the parents of a sixteen year old.

[@willicat44]

It;s OK,...it's Alabama!!

[@johnralph3704]

Sure, everyone’s heard of J.J. Worthington, but who are the Beatles?

[@gizmotis]

ironically, that Beatles cover is known colloquially as the butcher baby cover and is worth a lot of money since Capitol Records pulled the bloody cover before many sold.

[@DTD110865]

@@gizmotis I think that "butcher baby" cover was supposed to be a reference to one of their Christmas albums.

[@joycerichardson1810]

Sharon Malone's hair has its own postal code!

[@erniebuchinski3614]

The Beatles, you say? They were a short-lived country rock band from New Jersey. If memory serves me right, they opened for Springsteen on a couple of tours back in the '80s and then more or less disappeared. I've always felt that they didn't really get the recognition they deserved, but that's the way it goes sometimes - life can be unfair.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

DYN-O-MITE!!!!!

[@juliee.7072]

'Music to Lure Pigeons by the Night Pastor and Seven Friends' cemented my decision to become a professional pigeon lurer against the will of my family.

[@kenthompson5723]

Individual tracks sound like wild jazz that one would hear in a New Orleans speak-easy.

[@timberwolfdtproductions3890]

You might want to rethink that; long ago I made the choice to dedicate my life to pigeon luring, but it’s left me a lonely old man with shit stains on my shoulders and only bird brains for friends.

[@mamacindyrogofsky495]

I wish I didn't drink ice tea when I read your comment. 😂😂😂😂

[@mamacindyrogofsky495]

Mom.mudt be so disappointed. Coo coo coo😂😂

[@seankayll9017]

What disturbed me most about that cover was the atrocious grammar. It's "Music by which to lure pigeons". Honestly.

[@deniseboldea1624]

Some of those beehive hair styles are the reason why Aqua Net was called "Helmet in a Can!"😂

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Most of those ladies look like they used either Rave or White Rain, hairspray wise that is?????!!!!!

[@keithulhu]

And why we almost lost the ozone layer.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

9 times out of 10, that could only have possibly been contributed by the users of the Non-Aerosol brand known as Final Net?!

[@deniseboldea1624]

@@LindaCooper-i3f My mother used Aqua net to keep her hair from moving, she'd apply so much that we had a hard time getting dust off of the walls of the bathroom. What was worse was when you would walk into the bathroom a few minutes after one of her spraying frenzies and your eyes would be burning. I bought a purse sized one to keep before pepper spray became legal for self defense for that reason. 😄

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

As positive as that sounds, obviously the idea of using a pocket sized spray for defense prior to legalization of pepper spray reminds me a lot of the fight scene in the classic 007 movie “THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN” that took place in the dressing room of the belly dancer in Beirut?! If you haven’t exactly seen the movie in question, do so at the first available opportunity, especially since 007 in the movie is portrayed by my distant cousin the late actor Sir Roger Moore?!

[@ernestcruz6316]

Religious albums and foreign language albums on small labels are usually comedy gold for bad album covers. The covers in this videos only scratch the surface, so if you think these are bad you ain't seen nothing yet!

[@lkeke35]

There was a guy on Medium named Ocelot who regularly posted an entire series on bad album covers for a couple of years. Dude, I done seen some s***! 👀 (The Thousand Yard Stare)

[@tribblebooth1224]

You've got to be joking! Having seen these horrors, I have to go to sleep at night, with the light on.

[@MartynClarke-j7s]

Thank you for posting these. Not laughed so much in ages. Wonderful.

[@aaroncostello8812]

When I go to Goodwill I always browse through the old vinyl for just this kind of laugh. 😂

[@kenthompson5723]

"... for just this kind of laugh."? ---------------------------------------------- I would say for just this kind of trash.

[@mh53j]

You really need to find something else to do. One day you will start buying and collecting them.

[@bobblowhard8823]

You must have quite the collection.

[@leedaniels7196]

@@kenthompson5723🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@peterjacobs2012]

What's really bizarre is that the comedy covers AREN'T funny, and the serious covers are hilarious 😂

[@physicswithpark3r-x3x]

we had a lot of laughs though, dear, didn't we? -yes, but never at the same time

[@erniebuchinski3614]

0.54 "Sounds of His Coming" Surely something that these three haven't heard too often . . .

[@bunglingbadger]

Hahaha! You're right about that. 👍🏻

[@karenglenn6707]

That’s the first thing that I thought of too! 😂😂

[@kellywalker1664]

It was foley mined by the pr0nz industry.

[@bobblowhard8823]

Or perhaps quite often.

[@lauranorwar]

And they wouldn’t want, heathen!! 😂

[@richarddixon7855]

These U.S. religious albums were "regional" acts and produced on shoestring budgets in small studios with limited distribution. So those performers were just lucky to get their message on vinyl... and cardboard. The Xavier Cugat Cha Cha album cover features top model of the 1950s, and later actress, redhead Suzy Parker!

[@bobblowhard8823]

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!

[@magneticstorm1]

When I was a kid I would find tons of those religious albums thrown out at a nearby dumpster I guess those people didn't find Jesus.😅

[@candorablecando8093]

I like the “quartet” album covers have 5 people on the cover. I guess one is their backup??

[@robertgibbs6154]

There were 2 4-member quartets. The one with 4 black men and 1 white boy, the 2nd near the end with 4 in matching suits and 1 in tan suit. He might have been their manager. On both counts, they never heard the word "quintet"?

[@aequoria2949]

Four black men and one white man. FYFY

[@stephenrivera4382]

The group was originally made up of four members many years earlier so they stuck with the name - but they used to joke at concerts that, “somebody can’t count…” 😊

[@mysticwolf75]

Well, every time they show the Three Musketeers, there are always 4 of them, so why not? 😅

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

The fifth member is known as "spare tire".

[@apfenn7777]

You had me at “Nobody Can Do Me Like Jesus.”

[@pegs1659]

Yeah, Jesus Perez

[@joycerichardson1810]

Amen!! 😂

[@kcnoha23]

I guess the higher they tease their hair, the closer they are to the Lord…?! 🙄

[@Kuulei265]

That used to be a Sunday contest. There is still a couple of ozone holes hanging around their house and Church. Honestly. Those ladies took it serious about their hair.

[@merriemisfit8406]

We had one lady relative, way back in the 1970s, who did the straight-up Bride-Of- Frankenstein-esque tease. Never saw her without it, and it kept getting higher every time we did see her. It must have added at least seven or eight inches to her "height". It was so egregious that we started referring to arbor vitae trees by her name.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

😂

[@AndieZ4U2]

Ikr

[@isabelbeckerman9226]

😂😂😂😂😂😂Kcnoha, I salute you🫡

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

"All My Friends Are Dead"... now that's just depressing.

[@Makeyourselfbig]

Even more than "Born To Die"?

[@LeonFelixRusso]

It was a reaction to hearing his music.

[@hebneh]

I believe the point is supposed to be that all his friends were irresponsible sinners who died young, but he’s alive because he found Jesus. Or something.

[@jeffshoemaker2462]

Or is he hiding something? Organ harvesting perhaps?

[@scarletguillot1992]

Yeah, but you can---Just Dig Them Up

[@thecrowpit24]

I think all these covers were done by people who ate a lot of lead paint chips as a child.

[@kenthompson5723]

Yes, and lived in rural Louisiana.

[@terrywestbrook-lienert2296]

Ya think?! 😂

[@joeblog2672]

Washed down with asbestos no doubt!

[@terranceparsons5185]

The one with the vaguely menacing bloke stood in front of a jumbo jet😂😂😂

[@bobblowhard8823]

Clearly a mob boss.

[@robstockton911]

I like that one, too…he’s trying to represent that he has his own 747, I guess? 🤷🏼‍♂😂

[@akrenwinkle]

For Americans, bloke means guy, dude.

[@anophelesnow3957]

With a half-smoked ciggie in his hand. He's a menace.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@anophelesnow3957 But the optimist would say it's half-NOT-smoked.

[@StONed-yx5qq]

LORD SPLIT ME OPEN VOLUME 3…… I need 1& 2 pronto!!

[@joycerichardson1810]

Lord, Stitch Me Up...the follow-up album!

[@stillnotwoke]

​@@joycerichardson1810 🤣

[@kevynhansyn2902]

So mamy album titles to reference, but that one you mentioned takes the cake.

[@Hisfaithful_Berean]

@@joycerichardson1810 Literally, I'm crying from laughing so hard. 🤣

[@Hisfaithful_Berean]

I don't want to laugh yet I can't help it. And then I read the comment from @joycerichardson1810 and it sent me.

[@DrPandemonium]

Some of these people look like they were the inspiration for the family in A Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

[@buyerbware25]

I feel much better about my life choices now.

[@lisalennon498]

😂😂😂

[@iandawe948]

Who could ever forget that old great classic, all my friends are dead 👍🤣

[@bobblowhard8823]

He had a few other hits: "All My Friends are in Rehab"; "All My Friends are in Prison", and a few others.

[@BlackRaven-w4e]

I remember some atrocities like these from my childhood.... 😂

[@krazykat6066]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@rachelm2041]

My mother had quite a collection of albums. Oh, this brings back memories 😂

[@masudashizue777]

If "All My Friends Are Dead" won't make you buy the album, I don't know what will.

[@greensorrel6860]

😂

[@thekraemer1757]

Sounds like a Jim Carrol song.

[@prairiewolfedogg]

More than just great music, this album is evidence of mass homicide.

[@Enigma8750]

These cannot be real and I cannot unsee some of these.

[@lennryberg6352]

They are real,I even know some of them

[@stephenbrown4211]

I thought so until I saw the Beatles “ Butcher” cover

[@markbenson9334]

Lmao you are not alone

[@kelf114]

Wait til you actually HEAR Wing sing AC/DC! She's definitely better than Yoko!

[@Angel-rq3pi]

Juanita Bynum is a real person. These are real covers. Yikes

[@postive-vibes]

Edith Massey appeared in several John Waters films in the 1970s (and 80s?). The Korn album cover is legit scary.

[@speedysteve9121]

Cuddles Kudesky!

[@infonut]

I KNEW I heard that name before. Never saw his movies but I heard him mentioning her name on his stand up show.

[@postive-vibes]

@@infonut Seek his films out (I'm sure you can stream them via some service). They are outrageous indy films to be sure.

[@crimsonwolf9099]

Edith Massey's 45 was pressed on GREEN vinyl too. Just sayin'.

[@68fmj51]

“The Fairfield Four” and some other dude.

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

Their manager must have insisted on being on the cover with them. Or, somebody lost a bet. 😂

[@joannicholson970]

😂😂😂

[@clarencewalker3925]

That Beatles album cover is a collector's item and worth a considerable sum. The only shame is that very few have it in their possession.

[@fiendishthingy1630]

It was definitely in bad taste. May have been OK for British "humour" but not U.S. My mother worked at the album cover manufacturer in Burbank, CA that put this out... when it was recalled, the truck driver (who was my mother's friend) gave one to us. The company pasted the current cover over top of the ones recalled and sent them back out, and continued manufacturing the rest. Some peope steamed off the replacement pictures to have the censored one; some people steamed to find only bare cardboard underneath. Little did we know at the time that it would become a collector's item... my sister and I played the album to death as we did all the Beatles albums as they came out!

[@jrnfw4060]

@@fiendishthingy1630 Especially since late-term abortions are now legal in some states, that cover is particularly troubling.

[@TheUluxian]

@@jrnfw4060 If you're trying to push Trumps LIE that abortions are happening in the 8th or 9th month, give it a rest. It's not true,, The Beatles put that cover out to protest the Vietnam War..

[@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname]

i remember seen that Beatles album some 40 years ago in the house of friends of my family

[@junehitchens7998]

@@fiendishthingy1630 The album and its cover were only ever a US release.

[@NeilNelson-hg7bz]

I can’t believe I lived with some of these fashions on these album covers- boy do I feel old now…..

[@melissacooper8724]

I guess they took the phrase the higher the hair the closer to God too seriously! 😂

[@NeilNelson-hg7bz]

What a profound concept…

[@Gamble661]

They're all coming back in style....you just wait!

[@philthycat1408]

My head is aching 😂. “The Fairfield Four”. There’s 5 of them 😂

[@megnotmegan1966]

They aren’t the only five person quartet on the list either!!😮😂

[@bobblowhard8823]

Soon to be six!

[@kelf114]

You can tell by the Frankie Yankovic cover that Weird Al is definitely his son. 😄

[@svetlanafilipovic2745]

They aren't relatives

[@RaymondHng]

Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born in Downey, California, on October 23, 1959, the only child of Mary Elizabeth (née Vivalda, 1923-2004) and Nick Yankovic (1917-2004). Yankovic claims that his parents chose the accordion over the guitar because "they figured there should be at least one more accordion-playing Yankovic in the world"; this was in reference to Frankie Yankovic, to whom he is not related.

[@mysticwolf75]

@@kelf114 I used to think that, too, but they actually are not related.

[@jrnfw4060]

@@mysticwolf75 Maybe not, but Weird Al sure is funny. I have some of his stuff on my Dr. Demento album. Surprise?

[@mysticwolf75]

@@jrnfw4060 Weird Al is hilarious. And really a genius in his own right - coming up with all those songs parodies is amazing.

[@joannicholson970]

All my friends are dead grabbed my attention.....at 76 years old i relate to that cos theres not many of my friends left.😂

[@bobblowhard8823]

You still have time to make some new ones.

[@joeblog2672]

That guy must have flipped and joined the "Let's Dig 'Em Up" group!

[@vernongriffith8308]

I have to presume that musically, most of these people were supremely gifted. They exhausted their artistic vision when it came time to create the album cover.

[@robertgibbs6154]

That seems like a lot of grace. I'm not believing they had much talent. Some of them appeared to be comedy albums.

[@mysticwolf75]

@@vernongriffith8308 I think in a lot of cases, it was just a poorly chosen album title.

[@fernanddominiquevitoux6447]

No no, the artists were very good, it was the audience who didn't understand anything! 😂

[@timberwolfdtproductions3890]

That’s a very generous assumption to make!

[@joeblog2672]

"Nobody... Like Jesus" and "Lord, Split Me Open" do not (I repeat) do not suggest the slightest bit of talent for any genre of music!

[@creamnsugar6771]

Who could possibly forget “The Singing Midget”? No proper 1st name… just THAT! I was dumbfounded, then… I just lost it. 😂

[@StONed-yx5qq]

@@creamnsugar6771 me too!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mysticwolf75]

@@creamnsugar6771 I found his name on another album cover at another "bad album covers" video - it's Lowell Mason (except on that cover it was "The Singing Midget, Lowell Mason "). 😂

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

I was wondering if that was what it said on his driver's license.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@mysticwolf75 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnrSqIFvmNOBjaMsi=-3Bx6C9Oq3xttYc5 His voice is so deep for a midget, but he also still sounds like a midget. It's weird. Lmao

[@DannySettle-yi2ef]

Love ❤️ Thank's 😂

[@Lisafer15]

That was the best short comedy I've ever seen. I really want a flip book of these images and better still a least a T-shirt of the second cover! 😂

[@michaelwilliamson4060]

I love that horse wearing moe Howards hair.

[@leftylou6070]

Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!

[@DannySettle-yi2ef]

I Concur 👍 Thank's

[@melissacooper8724]

Why you!

[@lorrainebowe9585]

That was funny alongside Dumb and Dumber they should rename themselves the 3 Moes

[@barrybrodin7085]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@TarpeianRock]

This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Now to unsee all this horror….

[@luisbelisario7861]

I've never laughed so much watching a video 😅🤣😂 Best one all year

[@along5925]

It's like they opened the doors of an institution and all these people just spilled out. I watched to the end. I couldn't stop...

[@joeblog2672]

By God I wanted to stop after a minute. I never thought I'd make it through but I did. Can't say I'm exactly proud of myself but hey, at least the "singing midget" wasn't roosted inside Sharon Malone's hair!

[@brianthomas2434]

My initial reaction was Bless their Hearts! since so many were clearly self released. A major label, I reasoned, employed people just to make sure eyesores like these NEVER see the light of day.... Then we get to George Jones, Chuck Willis, Gino Vanelli, Roger Whittaker and, yes the Beatles " butcher " cover. Should have saved that for last.

[@jrnfw4060]

Yeah, and the sad thing often is that very real talent simply couldn't find a major label that would accept their work, and were therefore forced to self-publish through small, independent studios just to get heard. Also, there's the matter of creative control and artistic freedom. Some of these folks may have had serious problems with being dictated to by powerful suits in some huge ivory tower in some far away city. "If you want it done your way, do it yourself." That can mean very limited resources and having to settle for what one can afford, but at least it's a sincere effort from the heart and not just something that's considered "commercially viable" and often very shallow, fake and phony. Artists who go this route are at least allowed to be themselves and not what some high-powered agent or publisher tells them has to be their "image" in order to sell records.

[@bluekitty3731]

Chet and Dave spent a lotta years trying to convince people they were just roommates!

[@jrnfw4060]

Wonder how many believed them?

[@isidoramaggana9733]

"Oh,my eyes!"!!!! 👀👀👀👀

[@valkyrie1066]

🤣

[@roypiltdown5083]

you should know better than to view these refugees from the Centers for the Visually Unpleasant without using the special safety glasses.

[@nellgwenn]

Oh, just get a horse.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Keeping it in mind.

[@moodydeb6814]

The cover at 5:48 is wild & looks more appropriate for a novel by H P Lovecraft. Laugh out loud funny! Thanks...I needed that.😂

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

9:01 When having more hair than face was GOALS!

[@MsPea]

The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Especially for the ladies?????!!!!!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

And always in no uncertain terms?????!!!!!

[@mapleext]

The bouffants and chest hair!!😂

[@vulture3874]

And some of the men were worse.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

I got a good feeling that the bouffants might just happen to be on the verge of a major comeback?????!!!!! Sure wish that more retail stores would stock up on Prell?????!!!!!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Agree completely with that in no uncertain terms.

[@mapleext]

@ Anyone remember the “Breck (shampo) Girl”?

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Yes indeed!!!!!

[@biakabutooka]

My two all time favorite songs are "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts Of Life" and " Does Your Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight". Those tunes just resonate with the marrow of my soul in a way that mere mortals could never hope to even begin to comprehend.

[@kelf114]

I love Little Arrows by Leapy Lee. I also liked The Eggplant That Ate Chicago.

[@biakabutooka]

@@kelf114 Allow me to give an honorable mention to "Who Shot This Hole Through My Sombrero?" and "You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd". That's a philosophy upon which I have based my entire adult life btw and it has stood me in very good stead lo these many years.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

I remember Master Bungholio & his twirling band of fartknockers.

[@pamelaspooner7183]

Not headboard, it’s bedpost

[@biakabutooka]

@@pamelaspooner7183 So sue me.

[@tonyascarlett2413]

The Fairfield Four are extremely talented. They sang with John Fogerty (Creedance Clearwater Revival) on a song 110 in the Shade. The song is amazing.

[@garydavis9361]

Wasn't that the one with five people on the cover? Somehow they lost count.

[@rossbabcock3790]

Elmer Fudpucker Jr. and Finding Jesus in Wal-Mart is hard to beat!

[@erniebuchinski3614]

I'm guessing that those two don't find it "hard to beat", if you get my meaning . . .

[@kathleenmcconaha5608]

you really CAN find anything at Walmart!

[@mysticwolf75]

Benny Hill used that name for one of his characters, Angus McFudpucker! I never expected to see that as a real name! 😂😂😂

[@nancyskids5696]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂omg I can’t breathe 😂😂😂😂😂

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@mysticwolf75 I looked up Elmer Fudpucker and he was a comedian with that as his stage name

[@BillWendell-y5c]

Here in the South record bins in the thrifts are downright scary. You can just smell the polyester sweat and Aquanet.

[@erniebuchinski3614]

That's one more reason why a road trip to the US South is near the top of my bucket list!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Unless they happen to be users of either Rave or White Rain, seeing as how they most likely snubbed Final Net.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Including KENTUCKY?!

[@benjaminwilson4558]

WHO "CURATED" such ...visual trauma...?!

[@luisreyes1963]

Ed The Clown? 🤡

[@StudioDaVeed]

Imagine; serious thought and effort was spent on these covers...and too many said: "YES; that's it!"

[@kcjazzcat7822]

😂😂😂

[@joeblog2672]

I guess they were trying to employ the blind back in the day. Good intentions but unfortunately some things you just have to discriminate against. Blind people driving cars and devising album covers just can't work!

[@CheapSquierBassPlayer]

I found Jesus at target and he was almost double the price that he was at Walmart!

[@recceeboy1237]

That Beatles cover is worth thouands, they pulled them back and destroyed most of the stock. If you have or find one it's payday.

[@mrnmrn1]

Did they destroy only the covers, or the records, too?

[@Kahlessa]

@@mrnmrn1Just the covers. There were many that had the new cover glued over the original. Those are the ones that may still be out there. If you steam the new cover off, you have a rare collectible. When more albums needed to be manufactured, the new cover was printed on them.

[@Kuulei265]

I died the first album cover in. But the “Jesus Split Me Open,” one buried me for sure.

[@bobblowhard8823]

Apparently, Jesus was well endowed.

[@vulture3874]

​@@bobblowhard8823Jesus was her pool cleaner.

[@davidogan]

Took a while but I recovered from the video. Then I read the comments.. they cracked me up even more!! 🤣 Now I can't move. My abs muscles cramped up from laughing so hard. These comments are golden!

[@kcjazzcat7822]

Right. Hilarious.

[@jamesberry9632]

The horror, the horror!.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

At least the album of Jack & Sharon Malone looks decent enough?!

[@luisreyes1963]

Especially the Cicciolina one...😱

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

How about possibly a better description?!

[@luisreyes1963]

​@@LindaCooper-i3f Seeing that repulsive woman is description enough. 😨

[@borderlands6606]

Bernard Bresslaw "I only Arsked" was a British comedy fixture in the 1960s and 70s. Usually playing naïve, oversized characters (Besslaw was 6' 7") most notably in the Carry On film series, and a foil for street wise Sid James.

[@hebneh]

Was he as frightening-looking on film?

[@kathrynabbott5032]

He was very tall but not at all frightening

[@hebneh]

@@kathrynabbott5032 Last night I watched a video about his life. This particular photo on the record cover makes him look scary. In some publicity pictures he did look unsettling while in others he appeared normal or even somewhat attractive.

[@BILLRANDO]

THE BEATLES BUTCHER COVER MAY BE SHAMED BUT IT'S ALSO WORTHY $$$$$

[@l.salisbury1253]

Original pressing now start at $10K!

[@BILLRANDO]

@l.salisbury1253 JOHN LENNONS PERSONAL COPY SIGHNED AUTOGRAPHED SOLD FOR TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

[@erniebuchinski3614]

I'm just wondering why George is the only one not visibly holding some raw meat. Had he done something wrong? 😜

[@robertveith6383]

Stop yelling your post in all caps, you rude, entitled poster.

[@dragoncubes1074]

YES, WE KNOW. YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL.

[@BrendaLegault-v9s]

The hair... my flabbers are gasted!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Just remember that the ladies’ hair is better?????!!!!!

[@kathryncoles4206]

Relax you're going to lose weight. Because you'll be throwing up.😅

[@Cobra-ky9bt]

And I interpreted it as 'Because you're chained to my bed frame and I'll only feed you when I remember. '

[@Ran-rv9jz]

Or dead

[@terranceparsons5185]

Oh this is absolutely wonderful! Sharon Malone's hair 😂😂😂

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

@terranceparsons5185, If my oldest son succeeds in getting his intended over here from Ukraine 🇺🇦, I can easily see her with the same exact coiffure as Sharon Malone, even at around thighlength probably, not to mention parted in the middle.

[@heatherhillman1]

@4:50 And they thought we had big hair in the 80's!!!

[@karenglenn6707]

I’m an 80’s girl too, we never had hair like that 😂😂. Their hair is higher than their head, it just cracks me up 🤣m and we thought that we used a lot of hairspray

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Surprising, isn’t it?????!!!!!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Strong possibility?????!!!!!

[@hannibalslecture61]

I was chocking with laughter at the Fairfield Four when there was 5 of them

[@bobblowhard8823]

Soon to be 6.

[@chasmenear7130]

Ohhh boy. Speechless, and without language now.

[@ALA9E]

The innuendo is off the charts

[@megnotmegan1966]

Wait….that chick singing AC/DC must be a real hoot 😂

[@paulbaxter430]

Somebody else posted that she's actually on KZbin. I'll hav3e to check it out for sure

[@foreignparticle1320]

She's a thing, and has been around for a while. I recall they used her music on South Park once.

[@jaydouglas5847]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaLEXnuPns2UkNE Wing is for real and she's a dragon !! I just had to listen and I'm peeing my pants without running to the loo, it's so bad that it's good !! If only we could had a duet between Wing and Tony Clifton I could die a happy man !

[@mightyluv]

Check out some Mrs. Miller while you’re at it; not sure of her album covers, but her singing is… indescribable.

[@megnotmegan1966]

@@mightyluv I have the sense that most of these albums are just that…indescribable 🤣👍❤️

[@paulbaxter430]

Not Mrs Mills! Noooooo, she was a regular on K-Tel TV ads here in Australia in the '70s. You just can't do that

[@bobblowhard8823]

Apparently, they did.

[@lookandlisten5740]

K Tel... blimey, just that name sums up the 1970s🤭

[@johnmaxwell4072]

“ I spent all my money on actually recording the album and I only have about…..hmmm…..let’s see……about $1.60 for the cover art.” Graphic artist: “No problem.”

[@SAMTYLER1974]

All My Friends Are Dead is surely a classic by now. I think eBay had a copy for about $300 a while back. Apparently Gage also wrote a book with the same title and was an evangelist for over 60 years … … whether he ever got around to releasing “All My Friends Are Still Dead”, “What Is It With Me And My Friends, Eh?” and his posthumous album “So I’m Dead Now But Can’t Find Any Of My Friends Amongst All This Fucking Fire And Brimstone” is still uncertain.

[@Harlequin1951]

Some of these cannot be unseen! ☹️

[@ffjsb]

The Korn album cover is actually kinda good... kind of looks like a "Slenderman" reference.

[@bobblowhard8823]

Actually looks like a child molester getting ready to abduct that poor little girl.

[@zentierra7803]

Yeah, the mid-sixties to mid-eighties were _wild_ y'all... 🤣🤣🤣

[@FriendofDorothy]

they have NO IDEA how much fun those years were compared to the depressive. inflationary, and social media-addicted 2020s... different world!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

So it seems?????!!!!!

[@georgiasmith64]

How many aerosol cans does it take for the hair to stay like that (asks the ozone layer )

[@app103]

Didn't they use sugar or corn syrup to hold that in place?

[@bobblowhard8823]

Not much. Just a bit from a can of "Aquanet" hairspray from back in the day.

[@bobblowhard8823]

@@app103 Nope. "Aquanet" hairspray. It was all the rage back in the day. My mom used it back in the 70's.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

I knew ladies with extremely nice tall bouffants who only used either Rave or White Rain, and they still managed to accomplish a bouffant masterpiece?????!!!!!

[@casswood11]

The feedback is just as hilarious as the album covers.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

More or less.

[@Red_Whitenblu]

Its like they let their imagination go to write some music but forgot to turn it off

[@tomservo5347]

The Beatles one defies any and all logic-except when you realize they're all blazed and high as Georgia pines.

[@bryanpalmer9660]

Known as the "Butchers sleeve'" it was done with the bands approval trying something different -after a small amount were issued Capital Rec got nervous,stopped pressing and issued LP with a new cover,(Butchers sleeve' copies are now highly collectable)

[@kelf114]

​@@bryanpalmer9660The lucky people who got a copy and were able to steam off the new cover they slapped on top! There weren't too many of those.

[@savagedaughter9904]

Laugh yourself fit is the translation for the creepy German sock puppet guy .

[@bigmike4962]

They were tired of the "lovable mop tops" crap would be my guess.

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

A woman had a very good condition copy of this album with the "butcher" cover, and appeared on the US Antiques Roadshow. The appraisal she received astounded her, though I don't the amount.

[@Robert08010]

Why does every gospel trio feature at least one woman with big hair such that she looks like a star trek alien?!??!?!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Or some of the ladies in the series “DARK SHADOWS”.

[@caronstout354]

The Beatles "Butcher Babies" album cover is the most rare- and the most coveted-album cover in history...

[@nodanceswithwolves8425]

Planned Parenthood definitely wants one ..

[@sallygomez8799]

If Come Home Baby doesn't get women excited, nothing could🙄🙄

[@Svenson612]

👍👍

[@yezdnil]

I was putting my drink down when 'Lord Split me Open' appeared. I've now had to wipe down the coffee table top. I've decided to pop down to Sainsbury's tomorrow just in case Jesus pops in to do his weekly shop. Fingers crossed 🤞.

[@peshadowbird7320]

Wish you all the best! But - whatever will happen: Don't forget the hairspray!!

[@bobblowhard8823]

Apparently, Jesus was well endowed.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

And the same thing goes for the Prell?????!!!!!

[@rasmuswittsell10]

I am afraid all are genuine. I recognized several.

[@krazykat6066]

Can't nobody do me like Jesus, touch me again, lord split me again, sounds of his commings??? Does anyone else find these titles a bit sexually suggestive or is it just me?

[@SC-gp7kt]

Ah, nope not just you.

[@mikespangler98]

Some religious people are a bit repressed and it expresses oddly.

[@davidogan]

Oh.. your comment cracked me up! Lord split me again... oh I'm dying... 🤣

[@krazykat6066]

@@SC-gp7kt 😄😄😄😄

[@48Ender48]

Sounds like that Southpark episode 😝

[@pacovalderrama4109]

Mainly funny and disturbing at the same time. Ah!!! , the 60´s

[@jessicasoderberg5953]

Tarzan och banarne was a children’s show in Sweden in the eighties. Loved it😀