RANT- Bands With Lots of Bad Album Covers, Part 3 (w/Martin Popoff)

[@TheRollingStoness]

Fleetwood Mac- Tusk album cover photo----It was Lynsdey Buckingham's dog biting Engineer Ken Callait's leg.

[@CMPProductions]

Pete, I’m really enjoying your content. I especially like these rant series with Martin and others. Take care and keep up the good work.

[@KoolKatDave]

Pete, I love your video pairings with Martin. You guys work really well off of one another! Nice job!

[@angusiha]

Double albums that should be single albums. That's a great ideal, Pete!! I would just avoid to pick those late 80's/early 90's fake double albums, like: Metallica's Justice/Black Album; Maiden's Fear of the Dark. I mean, when albums have 12 songs but they are not even 65 minutes long, they don't deserve the double album stamp. For sure, lots of classic double albums fit one CD (Stones' Exile, Clash's London Calling and so on and on...), but those have lots of songs and are longer than 65 minutes. I mean, even Metallica's Load is a real double album (it's 80 minutes long), but those double albums with only 62 minutes, nah.

[@RickNBacker]

Humble Pie - Eat it. 4th side live was horrendous. Very short songs on the other 3 sides that probably could have been compressed into a single album.

[@Tristan.Witthoeft]

What about a rant called "Bad Album Titles" That would also be very interesting.

[@analogkid2869]

Martin popoff is a legendary co host ! Chris Alo and Martin are my favorite co hosts on Pete’s show. I wish he would pair the both of them more often!

[@PopPop_2]

No way I can support all the bands and music I'm learning about from this channel. Learning new stuff everyday..

[@jimfritz9503]

Christine drew the Kiln House cover art. John took the Bare Trees cover photo. The kids on the cover of Future Games were Mick s.

[@tentringer4065]

Can this run to 100 parts? Very entertaining stuff guys. It's interesting to find out how much input the bands had on their image.

[@michaelpurnell5203]

Great stuff as always! I’d love to see an episode on bad remasters or re-releases

[@urbangustafsson8067]

Very good suggestion, there are a lot of bad remasters, especially the last 10 years.

[@sspbrazil]

The first time I went to England I went to visit the places that Ray Davies sings about in Kinks songs and it was very important for me being a huge Kinks fan to connect to those places.

[@mrt77wv]

I love the cover of Dirty Work. It's so painfully 80s it hurts, but in a good way.

[@mrt77wv]

@Eric Byrd 80s fashion. Like Pete said, watch Miami Vice and you'll see that garish fashion everywhere.

[@grooveyerbouti]

It does have that weird cartoon strip.

[@mutant_blues]

You didn't show the worst Fleetwood Mac album cover: English Rose compilation!

[@captainbeyond7469]

All the co-hosts are great but Martin and Pete together are far and away my favorite. Surprised to hear Martin’s love for the Stones Black and Blue, it’s my favorite along with Exile on Main Street. Black and Blue is usually overlooked by most people I love it.

[@JosephFrancisBurton]

@23:25 - YES! The only reason I bought Misfits back in the day was because I thought it was the new Jon Anderson solo album! 😂

[@devindungan4081]

Great video!!! I know you've done the ranking of the Molly Hatchet and Skynyrd albums but I would love to see you and Martin do a history of both of those bands and go album by album!!!

[@sspbrazil]

I like the early Fleetwood Mac albums covers, they are unique, better than the later covers.

[@drummer78]

“Beggar’s Banquet” and “Let it Bleed” are what I would call classic album covers.

[@johnstucky2168]

High Number Exile on Main Street is my favorite Stones album cover

[@Jamie.Laszlo]

When I worked at a Pittsburgh record store in 1990 a woman came up to me with the Undercover album in her hand yelling "Why are you selling porn in your store?!?!?"

[@peterm.fitzpatrick7735]

I think the Skynnrd white bird flying through the broken fencing was supposed to suggest a "Free Bird" theme.

[@sierramodre1]

Great episode Pete; the Fleetwood Mac catalog, hands down is the stinker... wow, never realized how horrendous they were

[@rocky-o]

thank you again for another great video....you and martin are so brilliant together...one thing...the stobes album 'goats head soup'...i heard that the cover is supposed to be mick's head like a match head and the back cover is keith as a match head, symbolizing their certain drug preferences...that's what i heard anyway...peace to you both...rocky

[@rocky-o]

obviously supposed to say stones not stobes (ha)...just a typo...

[@vinnieoskokie]

Double albums that should have been single is a great idea. Again fantastic work from both of you.

[@willfitzpatrick1107]

Great show. Martin talks a lot about production, and in this show he refers to the later Kinks albums. Would love to see a show where you guys talk about great album production.

[@richbillionair]

The cover of get lucky by Loverboy with a guy’s butt and a hand gesture

[@DokkenSabbath]

Apparently it's a chicks butt and a guys hand, for some dumb reason. I read that somewhere.

[@billslocum9819]

@@DokkenSabbath According to Wikipedia, the photographer's daughter, Tymara Kennedy, was the only person he knew who could fit in the pants.

[@Rockerlady]

I definitely prefer Sticky Fingers and Too Fast for Love. 😂

[@newavatar2947]

It was taken in a Vancouver bar.Its some random chicks butt with Mike Reno's hand.

[@inmyhouse11]

Love these rants with martin . Keep them coming.

[@jasonmarkham2592]

One of the most underrated band from Germany, Bonfire. I love this band. Love to see your opinions.

[@mariorapp1431]

They are from Ingolstadt bavaria

[@johnmichaelwilliams6694]

Popoff and Pardo again and a great show. A couple of thoughts. First, Pete, Fleetwood Mac's Mystery To Me may be my favorite Mac album. Originally bought because of the song Hypnotized but I remember thinking "Yikes!" about the album cover. And whenever it was pulled out for play at the time, my friends would go "WHAT is that on the cover?" Then as to the Chris Alo rule and pictures of the band on the album cover. That was so common on 1960s albums that it boggles the mind. The most popular might be the Beatles but that is understandable since everyone knew them as John, Paul, George and Ringo as if that phrase was one word rather than five. Enough rambling here. Great show and looking forward to the next. Thanks, gentlemen!

[@woutwout8398]

The Rolling Stones' It's only Rock and Roll-cover art was not done by a Dutch artist like Martin said, but by Belgian (Flemish) artist Guy Peellaert (who also did Bowie's Diamond Dogs).

[@johnstucky2168]

woutwout Thanks - didn’t know the same guy did both covers

[@diannecarpenter7718]

Thank you for your RANT- Bands With Lots Of Bad Album Covers, Part 3 (w/Martin Popoff).🎤🎸🎵🥁

[@jeffreywebb7932]

Love these vids,with you two.Great stuff guys

[@beachbum6460]

He does do good topics. I like it when he has the 4 guys.

[@RickTBL]

About Goats Head Soup: I don't know why there should be any confusion about it, it's Mick and Keith's heads, floating in soup. They are the goats. About It's Only Rock and Roll: One of the greatest album covers of all time. Mick mentions sticking a pen in his heart in the song, It's Only Rock and Roll, and you can see it on the cover, if you look closely. As a student of film, I can't help being fascinated by all the famous actresses from famous movies, with the band on the front cover. Just behind Charlie Watts and slightly to our right, holding a bouquet of flowers, is the legendary Lillian Gish, from Birth of a Nation (1915), and just behind her and slightly to our right, is Oscar winner Claudette Colbert. Those are the only two I know for sure, but I'm sure there are film historians who could identify more than me. One of the flappers behind Bill Wyman looks like Joan Crawford, but can't say for sure.

[@billslocum9819]

Left off Fleetwood Mac's "English Rose," which is another beauty shot of Mick. "Pious Bird" isn't that out there, because the cover with the nun holding a big white bird references the best known songs on the record, "Black Magic Woman" and "Albatross."

[@lonegroover]

The interesting thing, despite their images, is that the Stones were nice middle class boys from the affluent South-East and the Beatles were working class Liverpudlians.

[@craigmoorhouse8241]

I was also in the back row of that Stones/Living Colour show in TO. So far away the sound was out with the video screens.

[@drummer78]

I love the Muswell Hillbillies album cover. It’s a classic old English pub scene. So British. Btw didn’t realize how awful Fleetwood Mac album covers were.

[@LummiTV]

On "It's only RnR" there was no band or album title on the original vinyl. "Emotional Rescue" wasn't wrapped up in a poster, it was inside the cover. "Dirty Work" was wrapped in red plastic. There were no removable stickers on "Undercover".

[@SH-ud8wd]

Inside the Goats Head Soup LP used to be a painting, showing a cauldron with a grinning goathead swimming in liquid.

[@kingsporttoolreview8703]

I have always thought that the Cover for Rolling Stones "It's Only Rock N Roll" was one of the greatest album covers of all time. I can remember just staring at that album cover as I listen to that album.

[@j.j.4150]

How about Best Outtakes from an Album? So Tracks, that weren't originally put on, but later added.

[@seanschmidt8408]

Maybe Frank Zappa should be included here. Albums like "Burnt Weenie Sandwich" definitely fit.

[@JosephFrancisBurton]

Sean Schmidt - Studio Tan? Man from Utopia? Great albums. Terrible covers!

[@taylorkeahey5785]

The Stones’ Goats Head Soup is their best layout. The individual shots of the band are pretty weird and interesting with the lace and Keith’s being all burned up like a match. But the best part is the insert...an actual goat heads soup! How metal is that?! That thing was freaky and awesome.

[@iainholmes2735]

Goodness only knows what people thought about Tusk when they saw the cover, and heard the music. I quite like Mirage cover and Tango (an homage to Henri Russeau's paintings: he used to do pics of jungles, and clowns on moonlit nights etc). They look quite 'coffee table' . Agree about the rest of the covers though: from 'meh' to bizarre.

[@mikeprofo2328]

Tango in the Night, would it look good on a T-shirt? Yes, definitely.

[@GardettoJones]

I found this out earlier this week: take a picture of the Stones record More Hot Rocks (big hits & fazed cookies), invert/negative and BOOM! Between The Buttons alternate shot.

[@Dagger-Deep]

Aerosmith, they've had horrendous album covers.

[@bluejayfan5584]

Absolutely Stones were the worst. Conspiracy theory they didnt want Mick Taylor on the cover.

[@DavysFlicks]

Interesting what Pete says about the Kinks being more British than other British bands he loves. It's because, I think, Ray Davies was more influenced by London Music Hall (vaudeville stuff) than he ever was American Rock N Roll.

[@drummer78]

I’d put the Small Faces as the most quintessentially British bands of the 60’s. The Kinks were right there too.

[@neddystark3351]

I love these two guys, so much fun watching you keep it coming 😀

[@derekroberts6654]

have yall ever ranked live album covers? I seem to remember a Kansas live album was a spoof of a Norman Rockwell painting. that was clever.

[@Baz63]

FYI Goats Head Soup is a Jamaican dish where the album was recorded.

[@jimg6570]

Ah, didn't know that, thanks!

[@woutwout8398]

You guys are starting to sound like the Waldorf and Statler of rock podcasts.

[@harrymccandless5995]

Great choices guys.. Or I should say "Horrible" choices. Another stellar show!

[@grooveyerbouti]

Let it bleed cover i can take or leave.. Funnily enough was in Record store the other day with my 13year old daughter and she saw L.P. on rack and loved it so plainly it works on aesthetic level for some. Sadly she still likes mainly musicals.

[@campbellfiles9019]

I saw Mob rules tour also ...1st concert at the new Events Center in Casper,Wy...outlaws and sabbath with Dio

[@danohstoolbox]

The cover for street survivor was pulled days after the crash the 3 members the flames are touching are the ones that parished i used to have it on 8 track Great show pete and Martin 👍🇨🇦

[@KoolKatDave]

Behind The Mask was done by artist D. Gorton. The cover was supposed to spiritually symbolize the band. Check out his other work here>>> www.dgorton.com/portfolio.html

[@TheD4VR0S]

The mod (and ska) revival was a lot bigger in the u.k a lot of bands on two tone records (MADNESS, THE SELECTER, THE SPECIALS, THE BEAT)

[@dnjn67]

In '83 Big Country released 'The Crossing', which came in either a Red or Blue cover, I choose the Red one.

[@morriscolautti9822]

Would be nice to a have a list of bands that have great covers. Just to get away from the bad covers for a while. Show us some great stuff!!! Cheers.

[@toddstevens13]

Hmm, if you have not done it yet, and you kind of brought it up, how about Mis matched Bands playing together. Mine was Bob Seger opening for Kiss. Also had the opportunity to see Battered Wives first Canadian appearance. way before their style became "in" in Canada, not that it really did.... I warned them before hand it was going to be a longgggg short set for them, as they were opening for Triumph at a Catholic High School. Lasted 2 songs before the Food, etc. got lobbed at them, and 3 songs before the School Priest shut them down. What did they think "Battered Wives" was going to be.

[@jeffreycoy]

Paul McCartney and Wings for me, especially when held up to Beatles covers or John and George's solo stuff.

[@jollyjakelovell4787]

It is interesting watching these videos and seeing what are to some 'bad' album covers, no opinion from me what one finds bad or good as it is subjective. However, maybe consider at the end showing at least what is a 'good' or 'great' album cover from anyone just to juxtapose and give at least a few words as to why one is good or great and others are bad. Thanks for the great content.

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

We are planning some great album covers shows, so stay tuned.

[@liquidvizionsmadferit]

Wow. Those Fleetwood Mac album covers are a mess! And lol @ Martin "This is a great choice because these are terrible" 😀😄😆😅😁

[@purplepeavey7874]

Would love to see an interview with Pat Travers. Great show again Pete and Martin.

[@carle9924]

You guys should do the Elton John albums . Some really bad once there as well, except for captain fantastic I think that's a great one

[@LuisGarcia-ee2tr]

I can' t split the huge Stone' s music with the covers album, though they aren' t so nice. For me " Exile, Goats head, 'Beggars, ' Lei it bleed, " Tatto are one thing and I loved them

[@observationsfromthefencepo7207]

Can't argue on this one. Fleetwood Mac - Very bad covers. The worst of the four here. The Rolling Stones- As a whole below average. Goat's Head Soup, Black and Blue, and Under Cover are horrible covers to me. The Kinks and Lynard Skynyrd covers are overall plain and average. Nice topic as I haven't given any these covers much thought as they are just there. Always enjoy Martin's takes.

[@felinefanII]

Skynyrd's Twenty cover has a kind of Poco vibe, I think.

[@patrickmichels7888]

Could you do a show on rock memorabilia or collector items such as rare albums you may have. Could be bootlegs or posters. Picture discs etc. Just an idea

[@corleth84]

Oh yeah... glad to know Martin is (also) into the mod revival scene... The Jam, The Circles, The Moment, the TVP's, Secret Affair, Long Tall Shorty, John's Childern, the Lambrettas (obviously...)... Not a topic for this channel though!...

[@corleth84]

@Martin Popoff I read you wrong then. Not even the psych-punk-mod-rockers TVP's... they could have been bigger than the Beatles? 😎 No worries... to each his own. But it was more than just a 'fizzle' in the UK. Hope you continue as a regular guest of SoT.

[@danceswithcritters]

I like the Goats Head Soup cover. I've always considered it Jagger's boiled head made into soup . (my favorite Stones album too) .

[@dnjn67]

'Eat A Peach' , one of my favourites.

[@JRZ67]

As a high school graphic design teacher for 25 years my favorite assignment for students was to redesign album covers. Unfortunately with the slow death of the CD, that project has died as well.

[@Rockerlady]

I did one in college. Madonna's Ray of Light. I put an image of a sunrise on the cover. Not amazing but I liked it haha. Yes, these days of downloading have ruined album cover art.

[@muldoon67]

So you need to do a mirror version of this where an Artist's album covers are nearly ALL perfect. Surprised to hear Martin say 'The Jam' is one of his favorites. They are in my top 5 bands. Had posters and 7" singles covers plastered on walls and ceiling.

[@markellis7847]

The ironic-ization aspect really kicks in for me here. I find the early covers up to Between the Buttons better than the later covers.

[@ChrisNorwood3]

@9:20 Full House is what it looks like, although that came later.

[@sylvainmclean1307]

Like i told you pete i relisten to Deep cut dive you did on journey songs and didnt choose any Steve Perry era songs your choice was good but could do another one with Steve Perry era on His 7 albums i know and for me too all the songs who was not on greatest hits was good like winds of march, i' m crying,where were you, peoples places and so on ..

[@Brumlebass-k6o]

"That's garbage!" Martin is funny!

[@grooveyerbouti]

Best review of Dirty work cover i have seen (paraphrasing) "they looklike failed male prostitutes auditioning for Miami vice" wish i could remember who said it.

[@tanis7050]

It is true that some album covers are strange or downright ugly, but I think that is what makes the charm of certain choices made by the artists, it is a bit like the musical tastes some will like and others no.

[@nickrogerson8129]

Fantastic video, big early Fleetwood Mac fan but some awful album covers. As mentioned in another comment, English Rose may be the worst! Also would like to echo other comments - your pairing with Martin is superb, thanks!!

[@andyparton3755]

I agree Martin. All talk about thrash metal and hard rock is an insult to other great music!

[@dr.phibesinred6066]

It's certainly not an insult. There are quite a lot of great thrash bands and also hard rock bands. It's all a matter of taste. And taste is always debatable. And they're both metal fans.

[@steveseim]

*Tusk* is one of the few double albums I can enjoy top to bottom - but I agree the cover is terrible. "Double albums that should have been singles" is a great topic (*cough* Goodbye Yellow Brick Road *cough*).

[@waedi73]

Out of topic, Recommendations for new Bandnames, after the Rant bandnames we need new ones ! THE POPOFF ( not playing pop ) THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY ( sometimes this band sounds a little bit like Deep Purple ?) THE RANT (playing aweful) 🚀🌍👍🏼

[@FireMoon42]

You forgot to mention the "Satan's Eyes" controversy of the Stones "Between The Buttons" cover. It wouldn't surprise me one iota to discover the Stones own management started that whole rumour however, it's pretty much the first time in rock where a cover art was directly called "deliberately Satanic".

[@cartermlb]

Exceptional series Pete... keep it up man! #PetePardoArmy #PetePardoNation #BigMeatPete #SplashYourSeaOfTranquilityAllOverMyFace

[@chazblitz]

When Pete interviews Jakko, he should ask about his time playing with the Kinks.

[@atlasking6110]

Martin actually got to see Angel City open for the Kinks? I saw that tour in Buffalo and we were all very excited for Angel City and then they didn't play. We got some crappy local band instead. Major disappointment. (The Kinks were good though.) I've always kind of not liked Angel City because of them skitching out on that show.

[@bluejayfan5584]

Pre Rumours Stones booked hotel rooms under the alias Fleetwood Mac.

[@jockmctodger]

Thank you, I really enjoyed this topic.

[@aeromurph]

Totally agree on these picks. How about Ted Nugent covers?

[@jake6887]

Kinks covers ain't bad in my opinion. Canibal corpse has the worst, but it's not interesting when it's done with that intention off course.

[@guifathers]

I love these bands but their covers I think are Bad... The Cure and Depeche mode Mr Popoff and Pete, i'm not sure if you accept recomendations, I hope you give a listening to a band from argentina called Soda stereo and the soloist albums of this same band singer by the name Gustavo Cerati. Awesome music , all their álbum covers are bad or pointless. Cheers Pete and martin

[@kamranmalik8546]

English Rose album is the WEIRDEST album cover I have ever seen!

[@BlackMoore82]

The cover of "Something Else by the Kinks" I liked, the rest not so much. Most of those Fleetwood Mac album covers I rarely see, then again I stopped listening or paying attention to them after "Then Play On".

[@kitoyobeni1]

Agreed on both points.

[@MrSmitht04]

I love the stones voodoo lounge and some girls album covers. But that’s just me. Great video as always. Thanks guys

[@Dagger-Deep]

I find it odd that Martin slams all these bands album covers but his book covers are no better.

[@liquidvizionsmadferit]

His Rush books look awesome. Plus album covers shouldn't be bad because most of them end up on T-Shirts. You buy a book for what's on the inside. I for one would never buy any of those Fleetwood Mac shirts if they had them album covers.

[@MichaelABruce-ew8zs]

To me.. It's only Rock and roll reminds me of the kiss love gun covered in some ways.

[@abdulbasheer8349]

Southern Rock bands, Blackfoot for me.

[@stephensasso663]

Pete and Martin listening to Assault Attack, sounds great, the German sound, MSG

[@liquidvizionsmadferit]

Why call it that? These are terrible... I love Martin being grumpy 😃😃😃