THE WORST ALBUM ART

[@BradTasteInMusicOfficial]

like the vid if you support degeneracy

[@super6070]

i am degeneracy 😈

[@Redanta]

The bagical masti

[@eddiedingle767]

Did you see the cover of The Coup's "Party Music" and the album cover is not any sort of mockery, considering it came out the day the event in question happened. You could almost say it was oddly foreboding

[@loplyan]

degenerussy

[@nobodyburgen4594]

Kinda bummed that you read mine and hated the cover and then you didn‘t feature it

[@imemobutitsokayiswear8403]

As a metalhead, people discovering Mayhem will never stop being hilarious. It's like every stereotype that your grandma has about metal in one package

[@synrmusic]

for reallll dude when people discover black metal for the first time it's so funny lmao

[@jwbartel6]

a metalhead with an american football pfp 👀

[@mememachine-386]

Picking that cover isn't really fair though since it was a bootleg and not an official decision that Mayhem made.

[@stewtrooper3425]

"as a metalhead" has an americ anfootball pfp🤨

[@imemobutitsokayiswear8403]

@@mememachine-386 I agree honestly. The fan who did it was supposedly a pen pal of Euronymus, and that's how he got the pic and used it for a bootleg. While I think it's okay to joke about dark topics, it's important to remember that what happened with Mayhem is very much not okay. Unfortunately, black metal culture can be pretty toxic, between the constant edginess and the ties with the far right, so it's no wonder something in poor taste like this was made

[@thedogfromraditude5449]

Bradley, the Brad Taste In Music. You said I look “F***ed Up”???? What the crap, man? And then you go out of your way to slander me, trying to claim that I faked that jump. I was born with those green-screen lines, it’s a rare birth defect that I had to live with my entire life. Wow. I thought you were a cool guy, but apparently not. I can’t believe you would stoop to such a low as to not only bully me in front of your audience, but also throw out false allegations and claim that my greatest accomplishment was a hoax. This is truly disgraceful, Brad from ARTV. I expect an apology.

[@twinkpeaks9993]

Tell em man

[@SoloSlater]

I can't stop partying, partying I can't stop partying, partying I gotta have Patron I gotta have the beat I gotta have a lot of pretty girls around me Oh, I can't stop partying, partying I can't stop partying, partying I gotta have the cars I gotta have the jewels And if you was me honey You would do it too Monday to Sunday I hit all the clubs And now everybody know me when I pull up I got the real big posse with me, yeah I'm deep And if you looking for me, I'm in VIP Just follow the smoke they're bringing bottles of the goose And all the girls in the corner getting loose Screw rehab I love my addiction No sleep no sleep I am always on a mission 'Cause I can't stop partying, partying I can't stop partying, partying I gotta have Patron I gotta have the beat I gotta have a lot of pretty girls around me Oh, I can't stop partying, partying I can't stop partying, partying I gotta have the cars I gotta have the jewels And if you was me honey You would do it too Uh, party like tomorrow is my funeral Gotta stop mixing alcohol with pharmaceuticals And the unusual is the fucking usual Man, my life is beautiful And my girls are mutual Okay bitches, it's Weezer and it's Weezy Upside-down MTV Please don't shoot me down because I'm an endangered species It's the days of our lives With my night just started I pray the killer doesn't take the life of the party I can't stop partying, partying I can't stop partying, partying I gotta have Patron I gotta have the beat I gotta have a lot of pretty girls around me Oh, I can't stop partying, partying I can't stop partying, partying I gotta have the cars I gotta have the jewels And if you was me honey You would do it too

[@ravenshade266]

I remember you from Astro’s vid. Still upset at making the lists, I see

[@ringer1324]

It’s crazy how Tyler turned white for the piss album cover. Brad thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[@TheRoyalTamarin]

this is the comment i was waiting and looking for.

[@JeanMarceaux]

Showbiz changes people. How so? Tyler the Creator used to be black.

[@samholdsworth420]

Tyler is trash who cares

[@jaythec7994]

@@JeanMarceaux so did michael jackson

[@crescentfreshbret]

@@jaythec7994 And then there’s Sammy Sosa. And Lil Kim.

[@lisalegato0109]

The Mayhem one is the most terrifying cover EVER, considering it's a REAL picture. And I think it was without the vocalist's permission, too. And I think the guy who took the picture took skull fragments from Dead's corpse and made them into necklaces, and SOLD THEM TO PEOPLE.

[@redthemonster0861]

But why tho

[@wilfir2697]

Tell me you know nothing about extreme music without telling me you know nothing about extreme music

[@JakeRanney]

@@wilfir2697 It's extreme music, so that makes it okay

[@exist4046]

@@wilfir2697 there's a fine line between doing weird shit for music and just outright using pieces of a dead person disrespectfully and SELLING that shit

[@Jack_Woods]

Yeah apparently the vocalist was a huge asshole, he's actually to blame mostly, because he would keep pushing his "friend" to suicude and purposefully left him alone with dangerous objects, because to him, one of the members commiting suicide would be so on-brand for Mayhem and he thought it would help cement their band in history He also stole his friend's unfinished song/suicide letter before he died, and it can be obviously noticed when the writing is suddenly that of the vocalist taking over, and conveniently at the parts where he says he wants people to do whatever they want with it

[@frogfan449]

that album cover is probably only the 4th most awful thing that happened in the history of the band mayhem

[@belalugosi_isdead]

@@jneigh727 they’re all straight up nazis, not even in a slight like they where a little racist way, they’re total nazis

[@adamisass5601]

@@jneigh727 varg

[@guen4413]

@@jneigh727 Read up on the history of Mayhem. It's insane. Murder, suicide, arson, psychopathy, you name it.

[@brookhaven86]

To be completely fair the album is a bootleg and not an official release from the band. Euronymous being an edgelord though did send those pictures to everyone he could so he's not completely off the hook either.

[@JeanMarceaux]

Is Great Declaration of War in those 4 most awful things to happen to Mayhem?

[@danzig3462]

The story behind Iron Maiden's Dance of Death is that it wasn't supposed to be the cover. It was a template for what would've been the cover but they ended up using that instead. Even the original artist David Patchett hated that they used it, and told them to not to credit him in the liner notes because that's how bad it is.

[@AnnoyingOrange420]

Did they run out of time? Anything would’ve been better than that it’s so goofy.

[@ctxx24]

@@AnnoyingOrange420 There’s a version of the cover with just Eddie and it looks much better lol

[@THEmeepmopmoop]

@@AnnoyingOrange420 Apparently, they just liked that prototype cover so much they just decided to use it before Patchett created the final version. He begged them not to use it, but they did.

[@AnnoyingOrange420]

@@THEmeepmopmoopwack, I don’t know why they would do that

[@brookhaven86]

Let's not pretend that the final piece wasn't going to absolute dog shit. The concept was bad from the jump. Lmfao

[@savestate13]

I love how all the blurred covers are "Honestly, Nevermind" 💀💀💀

[@RCRRREV]

Honestly nevermind's cover needs a hug😅

[@gatr-160]

Congrats to Weezer for appearing 3 times, virgins stay winning 💪💪

[@mrchiken1341]

hurley disrespect man

[@elemenopi9239]

raditude slander 😤😤😤

[@jamsanator0511]

Queezer 🤮🤮🤮

[@addison_deez]

wtf, raditude is the best album cover ever?

[@jamsanator0511]

@@addison_deez Weezer sucks lol

[@biddleeewho4181]

I'll forever support The Miracle's album cover. It's meant to represent the unity and camraderie the band had after Freddie was diagnosed with AIDS. Every song was credited to the entire band instead of individual members. It's also very technically impressive. You can't tell where one member's face ends and another one begins.

[@cas_de_marcat]

My only issue with it is the fact that Freddie still has both of his eyes in the cover, but to be fair it was the only way it could be done

[@scubasteve6175]

my man, it looks goofy. the meaning can be anything. the shit just looks funny lol

[@biddleeewho4181]

@@scubasteve6175 I think it looks really cool

[@ashen_roses]

I mean that's sweet, but I know a number of sweet people who get less respect for shit way more artistic than that album cover

[@crescentfreshbret]

@@scubasteve6175 It was 1989. They did what they could with the photo editing software that was available to them.

[@hasodium]

the worst part of the phil collins one is that he reshot all the pictures like 10 years ago so now its just like a 60 year old man staring at you

[@YoItsEvanAdams]

There's a picture disc version of the face value one so you can watch him spin around while you listen Also the back of cover is the back of his head so it's just what's left of his hair spinning around on the b-side

[@hasodium]

@@YoItsEvanAdams i change my mind phil collins has the best album art

[@JeanMarceaux]

On the 20th anniversary of his passing, his agents will dig up his body and do another reshoot, to keep releases up to time

[@JeanMarceaux]

@@YoItsEvanAdams I will now headcanon Swans' The Seer as a Phil Collins album cover. Yes, the back side too.

[@TM-np5lq]

Right? It's always blown my mind how Phil Collins can be so wildly successful and confident- like HOW? Look in the Mirror! WTF?!?

[@Bobby99Digital]

Dr. Dooom cover is just plain perfect.. poking fun at the mainstream cover arts that were dominating at that time.

[@HonkeyKongLive]

Exactly. That was a whole style of rap covers at the time and Kool Keith was just satirizing that.

[@CDrOfficial02]

I saw the "Born This Way" cover in an airport kiosk when I was 8 and it terrified me. That image is still burnt into my head and whenever I hear or think of Gaga that's all I see

[@jeffrey1954]

lol I was a senior in high school and when she posted the cover before its release it got completely decimated by critics. I probably laughed at it for a good five minutes straight.

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

Yeah that one was bad. I kinda like Lady Gaga, and that album art was just... Okay, Okay Gaga, you and your Monsters do your thing. I'm just here for the Gay Pride Anthem.

[@ombrenightcores]

I’m pretty close to a Stan of her but she’s definitely not known for her beautiful and not-nightmare-inducing album covers

[@Maxxx_Power]

Bro as someone with ADHD I actually genuinely love this editing, it keeps me engaged :) I know you’re doing it for yourself (you said so on Twitter) but I wanted to let you know that at least one of your fans really enjoys it

[@cosmophire]

i’ve always loved his editing aswell

[@militarydeviltube5014]

Does he have adhd

[@fluffymawilefan]

This video is my favorite of his because of the editing and all the funny sound effects. Sitcom laughtracks could never

[@hagelgevaret5174]

​@@fluffymawilefanur right this is literally like sitcom audience sounds if they were good

[@benja7423]

i hate this god damn editing it sucks so much

[@kyoungt14]

Welcome to the madhouse looks like a shitty Goosebumps book cover

[@IAmKillEveryone]

that was what i thought when i saw it. kinda fits the music.

[@Jack_Woods]

That is an insult even to bad Goosebumps book covers

[@avastoyboxandarcade]

I refuse to believe that David Bowie album cover is real.

[@RobLives4Love]

if you listen to the album production, I kind of get it

[@JeanMarceaux]

Not even half as bad as Diamond Dogs tbh (omg steel gear amorphic reference 🗿)

[@happycamperds9917]

Can't tell if the pun is intended

[@optiquemusic6204]

It looks like something generated by Craiyon, but years before it became popular. See also, the hideous cover for Sia's album 'This Is Acting.' Actually, don't.

[@wmvnotmp4]

I love how he says "you can see the green screen lines" on the dog in raditude when it just wasn't green screened. The image came from a National geographic magazine

[@hobabo9703]

The artwork for Welcome To The Madhouse looks like an NFT Also, the Jojo stand 'Born This Way' makes so much sense now that I've seen the album cover

[@SpareMango]

Surprisingly it's actually kind of difficult to come up with an awful cover yet that does not prevent Drake from proving everyone wrong EDIT: I am also now remembering and want to mention Kid Laroi's F*CK LOVE, so terrible. Like you got this off a 15 year old twitter artist for $8.75 ??

[@jacobbelyea7945]

Lol I kinda like the Kid Laroi one. Super cheesy and of dubious coloring quality, but it still looks kinda cool just based on the drawing/concept.

[@clashingflames]

yeah true you could probably whisk something up in ms paint and someone will say it's peak

[@melon_the_melon]

Actually the Ratitude dog on the cover wasn’t green-screened in. The picture itself was ripped from National Geographic and had the weezer logo slapped onto it.

[@t_albino]

Is it meant to be a parody of the dog on the cover of Beck's Odelay! That's my first thought

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

The Mayhem cover is a bootleg of the album that has become so infamous that a lot of people just instantly think of THAT cover rather than one that was released officially. The story behind why it even EXISTS is one of the most fucked band stories I learned about. Like I legit got angry reading it because of how the band member who took the photo essentially exploited his 'friend' not just in death but leading up to what happened. And it only got worse after that so...yeah. That one photo is just a stop in a rabbit hole of crazy.

[@henriquepacheco7473]

Mayhem is fun because, as bad as Euronymous was, he still somehow was only the second worst person in the band.

[@SheaMoroney-n9x]

The mayhem lore goes crazy

[@coolboyyo654]

i feel like the Tones & I one would be great if it was a weird hyperpop album or something where being exaggeratedly eye-searing and weird is part of the expectation. Same with the Modest Mouse one.

[@uncannyramsay8727]

Only difference is Modest Mouse isn't ear deafening.

[@jaythec7994]

the modest mouse album cover is the reason i have never listened to their music i couldn't live with myself with that image in my apple music library

[@plantain.1739]

@@jaythec7994 You're a moron. Please do yourself a favor.

[@catloaff]

Murdoc looks too conventionally attractive on Humanz cover and I do not like it. He should've been based on Willem Dafoe (not that Willem Dafoe isn't hot but this Murdoc resembles Pattinson more than Dafoe ya know)

[@laggy3099]

Not a take I expected but a take I can agree with

[@sodashiira1894]

i hate how humanz album cover murdoc and 2010’s 3d murdoc are the same exact character

[@Fearine_]

Angelic 2 the core may have the worst album cover but it makes up for it with strait bangers from start to finish🔥

[@greysnake2903]

Yeehaw

[@zacharywoloszynski4258]

😋😋😋

[@mocapcow2933]

I tried listening to it thinking it would be a hilariously bad listen that I could enjoy. Was sad when it was just genuinely terrible with 0 fun in it.

[@downward.spiral]

Its the album of all time

[@drilldasher]

Strait bangers so strong that you’re gonna be in strait jacket

[@etalex7074]

I think the new Cherrybomb cover is more a representation of Tyler’s current thoughts on that album.

[@mychemicalero100]

Pobably someone else already pointed this out but that Mayhem album is not an official album, the band members openly hate when people bring that shit up on interviews or wear shirts of it. The photo was taken by the guitarist after finding the body, then it got leaked years later and used for a bootleg live recording of the band. Many people to this day credit the album to the band.

[@countarchvile]

I saw some guy turn into a back patch bruh 😭😭😭

[@henriquepacheco7473]

"It got leaked" is a weird way to write "Euronymous (the guy who took the photo) spread it around to a bunch of people, including fans".

[@Beenscheese]

Right because it's normal to take a photo of your band mates body right after finding it. It's just as "normal" to leak it to fans then pretend you don't know how it leaked

[@henriquepacheco7473]

@@Beenscheese Nobody here is pretending Mayhem was normal. Go back to school, you need more reading comprehension classes.

[@SheaMoroney-n9x]

WEAR SHIRTS OF IT?!?!?!

[@tinhead_junk]

26:35 the thing is with the MGK album is that the tomatoes are practical. But they decided to very slowly bob them in front of the camera instead of either actually throwing them at MGK or properly swinging them

[@owo-ky9rz]

i honestly love the graphic design is my passion type ones. the dying fetus one is hard af

[@dariiofernando]

i like that dying fetus cover and dont know why =p

[@herothehedgefox]

the way brad had a panic attack when he saw the iron maiden cover LMAO

[@nimrod4996]

bruh dr. dooom is kool keith, a.k.a an old school/alternative hip hop legend. he is actually the guy that was sampled in the prodigy's smack my b*** up, so you have probably heard his voice before. the album cover is kind of amazing when you know his persona

[@thebalockhead6698]

I can just imagine Kool Keith making the album cover high off his ass with a couple of friends trying to make it look as shitty as possible. Fits the gross vibe of the album too cus the cover is a parody on No Limits album covers in the 90s and the entire album is practically just Kool Keith going in on shitty rappers coming out at the time

[@DustyDigits]

That Dr. Dooom album is a classic! The Sex Style album cover is pretty wild too

[@asantejsaymyname3537]

The rap general chief

[@gggumball]

Wait really? No way I love kool Keith. Get off my elevator is amazing

[@mr.selfdestruct5845]

Hot take, 90% of Nas' covers. His albums are solid, but he reused the same damn buildings of illmatic for IWW, I am and Nastradamus and don't get me started on how badly covers like stillmatic have aged. All of those are amazing albums though.

[@mistahmata]

I really like the Life is Good, Nasir and King’s Disease 1 & 2 + Magic covers tho for sure

[@mr.selfdestruct5845]

@@mistahmata Oh for sure. His recent covers are so clean, specially Kings Disease.

[@dannydamnmendez]

Life Is Good is the most savagely subtle album cover of his as he is holding Kelis' wedding dress in his lap

[@dyoung6003]

stillmatic is so bad its good tbh i support the cover

[@JonConstruct]

The Untitled album cover is great

[@apothecurio]

Angelic to the Core is a perfect album cover because it looks exactly how the album sounds.

[@JeanMarceaux]

On one hand, I'm surprised either Blind Faith's debut album or Scorpions' Virgin Killer didn't end up on this list, but then again, I wouldn't want Brad to be investigated on broadcasting CP charges, so it's for the better.

[@Pazuzu4All]

Virgin Killer is what I think of first when I think of bad album art.

[@Feldup]

Your editing gets better and better it’s ridiculous

[@crazyrabbit5722]

oh salut haha

[@fateofcl]

The dr dooom record is honestly so good and the cover makes it even better tbh. Fun fact: this record is used in the film grandmas boy and the main character even wears a shirt with that cover on it. Kool Keith aka dr dooom also wrote the theme song for the movie

[@fateofcl]

Also glad you didn’t show dawn of the black hearts, respect.

[@thoughtfulpug1333]

The Toy album cover is bad, but should be kept in mind: the album was recorded in 2000/01, before the record company had it shelved. This was one of the few pieces Bowie got for album cover submission and it was the one he was most positive for...not that he liked it but it was apparently better than anything else he had. AND then he died...and 5 years later, the label decided "Why not release this album now?". The people working on final mixing and stuff said that they considered making new art for it, but decided to just go with the only thing Bowie had any approval of. But yeah its terrible.

[@spritenoicy1676]

I remember seeing that cover pop up on my Spotify home page, absolutely jarring. Well I’m glad they at least chose something he liked at one point…?

[@aciddoctor]

Might be my bias because I love iridescence but I think it’s crazy that someone thought to bring it up as if it was bad enough to be lumped with all these other eldritch horrors

[@jml6263]

Same. It's...a pregnant woman. Like?

[@JeanMarceaux]

@@jml6263 pregnant womens bad confirmed.

[@hennerz93]

I might be biased as a little monster but I’ve really grown to love the born this way cover apart from the font which I can overlook haha I think it’s a faithful representation of both her surreal campiness in her visual style at the time and the message of the album itself If you want to do best album art though, definitely consider Get To Heaven by Everything Everything

[@rinamine]

YES, get to heaven has absolutely god-tier art to match its god-tier music. i love it so much that i recently bought the gth shirt, so now everybody i know has to appreciate it whenever they see me :)

[@hennerz93]

@@rinamine I lose mine 🥺

[@k2a2l2]

i remember that limp bizkit cover from when i was a kid and it never left my memory. i kinda like it now though idk why

[@BradTasteInMusicOfficial]

Trauma

[@lucayaki]

Stockholm syndrome

[@greysnake2903]

The same thing as the early appetite for destruction album art.

[@plantain.1739]

The art itself is decently drawn, so. I just wish it was attached to any other band.

[@nikkehtine]

As a fan of Tool and a professional graphic designer, it makes me nauseous to look at the album art of Puscifer's "V is for Va*ina" and "C is for (please insert sophomoric genitalia reference here)" (yes those are the actual titles). Both look like they just opened MS Office 2007 and slapped a bunch of random cliparts

[@insederec]

If you think dance of death was crazy, look at the search results next to it that he pulled up and you can see the original art. I forgot the story but I wanna say the producer was like "this is too boring, add some characters" and whoever in charge was just like "ight"

[@meggo2z]

looking up pissgrave’s album art was the worst thing i’ve ever done. im genuinely nauseous now.

[@HonkeyKongLive]

There are a bunch of bands that do that, too. Extreme metal does some shit.

[@sumnwayls]

@@HonkeyKongLive doesn't mean it's good

[@HonkeyKongLive]

@@sumnwayls it's just what it is. If you're not a fan that's understandable, some of us like it. That's all.

[@aboxoftissuesdude5810]

@@HonkeyKongLive ………….you like seeing gore………? What’s wrong with you?

[@smexykins3065]

@@HonkeyKongLive you got some real fuckin issues then pal. go to therapy or something, that is not normal in the slightest.

[@kevinrox666]

I mean if we're talking dead bodies on album covers, Pissgrave has by far the most putrid album covers in existence. I warn anybody even slightly squeamish not to look any of it up. They use real crime scene photos taken from the internet. And their music sounds as disgusting as their album covers look. Also Carcass's first 2 album covers are just a collage of autopsy photos. And those were made in the 80's when pictures like that weren't just available to look up online.

[@anuraglakshminarayan4559]

Ok the Mayhem album is a bootleg of one of their live performances with Dead(the guy in the pic) released by someone in Brazil and the cover is an artist’s rendition. The original image was never released and is in possession with the band’s guitarist’s family. The guitarist is the one who found the dead body and took photos of it P.S the guitarist of the band was also murdered by the ex-bassist over alleged “royalties” of his over band Burzum, and trash talking about him. He stabbed the guitarist over 20 times. The bassist guy has served his sentence and had relocated to France where he lives to this day. He is also a known racist and anti semite

[@AmImGaga]

As tragic and insane as it is, I think the story of Mayhem is genuinely fascinating. I’ve seen the interview with Varg (the bassist) recounting the night and I thought it was interesting.

[@life.9251]

Varg actually stabbed the Mayhem guitarist (Euronymus) twice because Euronymus was planning to kill him and make a film out of it, he also did steal vargs money and they generally hated each other.

[@greysnake2903]

@Life I mean they are both out for their own blood for dumb reasons.

[@droideca88]

So ive always heard this story but is the artists rendition an accurate redrawing of the picture or a little bit more artistically liberal

[@layne05]

I'm pretty sure "the original image was never released and is in possession with the band’s guitarist’s family" and "the cover is an artist’s rendition" isn't true. From everything I can find online, it's 100% a real picture of Dead's body. Unless you know something I don't.

[@Technocolor00]

Surprised the album Virgin Killer wasnt brought up for being borderline illegal, like it was literally banned in the UK to the point of blocking accsess to the albums Wikipedia page. I get the girls mom was there for the shoot and was done purely for artistic meaning and being provocative whatever sure but I think that could have been portrayed through just making it a drawing

[@moonlightequilibrium]

watching Brad learn about Mayhem has me cackling

[@sanfordcurtis8242]

I remember when Mosquito dropped in 2013 and there was more talk about how bad the album art was than the actual music. The album is the YYYs worst record, but there are diamonds in the rough (Sacrilege, Under the Earth, Despair, Wedding Song)

[@EthanolAcid]

I regret looking up what Pissgrave's album covers look like. I'm going to have those seared into my mind when I sleep tonight.

[@crazyboxfilms3229]

I listened to queen's the miracle when i was in elementary school and I would look at that album cover for hours trying to understand it completely. honestly really interesting.

[@chiqq-]

I think it’s a reference to the three face Jesus you find in Christian art, especially with the album being called The Miracle

[@jakeozzy4776]

It looks like something youd see on a lot of shrooms or DMT

[@GUNUFofficial]

Chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavored water's cover looks like an ai generated monstrosity, primus brown album looks like a bowling alley, and alias is literally cassandra from doctor who but they somehow made it more weird.

[@matthewmeachem2259]

Tales from the Punchbowl is more bowling alley then brown album

[@GUNUFofficial]

​@@matthewmeachem2259nah brown album looks like a sleezy casino the more I look at it.

[@CindyDijkema]

Mayhem is the most chaotic fucking band ever and the singer (nicknamed Dead, ironically) was the ultimate edgelord. But in seriousness RIP.

[@TheCamSays]

I still find it funny how a blank black square is better artwork than pregnant emojis.

[@somedude2384]

About Dawn of the Blackhearts. The band is called Mayhem, they're a black metal band from Norway. So context, the guitarist convinced the singer of Mayhem at the time to end his own life and later took a photograph of the body. Eventually when you heard that "one of the band members murdered the other" actually the lead man of Norwegian Black Metal band Burzum murdered the photographer of the body Mayhem Guitarist Euronymous. that's some context for you, it's an infamous story in music history.

[@Vitorio582]

I'm still not used to the "meme every 5 seconds" editing style in a BradTasteInMusic video but I'll probably get used to it sooner or later

[@zuzzzied]

i personally can't enjoy that kind of editing, it's off putting and very distracting for me. which makes me a little sad because it's gonna be hard to watch brad's videos anymore with the constant memes & audios being thrown at me

[@herothehedgefox]

at least it's done tastefully

[@iliketrains3495]

@@zuzzzied eh I kind of agree. The autotune impressions ever y 5 seconds in his reactions is already enough

[@zacharywoloszynski4258]

I like it

[@yurifairy2969]

i think it makes the horrified reactions way funnier

[@xxjestertheclownxx]

as a metalhead, its so funny to see people discovering mayhem bc its like this thing that everyone in the metal community knows about and every time someone finds out about it it just makes all of us laugh 😭

[@HonkeyKongLive]

Also seeing people freak out about death metal gore album covers lmao

[@jfishboy]

i don't care if this is "normal" behavior or you're used to vile metal covers; saying that something like this is funny is so insensitive it's insane. this happened to real people. someone literally died. i wouldn't blame anyone for being shocked

[@xxjestertheclownxx]

@@jfishboy the people who died are fascists i really could care less homie

[@zangafan27]

I want a full version of the autotuned "Take A Knee... My Ass" at 16:52

[@mateonemec6975]

the bath full of ecstasy looking like something my single aunt would frame and hang up the wall in between a "live, laugh, love" wooden deco piece

[@millygoose4100]

I'm a swiftie but I have to nominate her debut album Self Titled's cover, it was pretty at the time but it didn't age well at all

[@BABERZZZ619]

13:14 “Why are they all his face” HAHAHAHAHA I NEVER EVEN NOTICED BUT OMG UR RIGHT 😭

[@Skymoc4]

Cool video, it really is crazy how even greatly influential music artist like David Bowie, Queen and Iron Maiden could have bad album covers. (P.S: You are wrong about Pet Sounds being boring, Imo)

[@The_Void_Constellation]

The fact that Joe Halwey - Joe Hawley is here and he didn't hate the cover(?) is one step closer for Brad to listen to the album

[@que2000]

He will.

[@dmaster5556]

The first time I saw Raditude's album cover, I thought they photoshopped a kangaroo's torso and legs onto the dog. Even looking at it now, it still feels like the dog was shopped together to me for some reason lol

[@yurifairy2969]

my fav moments 2:03 7:48 9:00 13:35 14:26 16:40

[@trashhuman3977]

I totally called it while watching the stream that there was gonna be a lot of zooming in on Brad's face in this video

[@xODGx64x]

The Mayhem album is actually a bootleg of a live album, so the picture used was unofficial. However, the photo is real.

[@girlwithaguitar24]

Surprised the Metallica one wasn't Metal Up Your Ass - it might not be the worst, but considering it came before their first album, imagining that as their first visual message to the world is hilarious

[@JIopemUncym]

7:39 Kool Keith (Dr. Dooom, Dr. Octagon, Black Elvis, etc) is actually very unique underground artist (and his art is filled with sarcasm/postirony). He also was a co-founder of the Ultramagnetic MC's.

[@jare114]

How does limp biz kit go from a great album cover + title “significant other” to “chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavored water”?

[@awsumfireolimar]

Really enjoying this new editing style and can't wait to see what you do with the new setup. Great as always.

[@trevor245]

Yeah it really gives the video some personality.

[@idkwiainarp]

I abhor the new editing style, it's so vapid and feels like I am watching kid's content

[@jackpriddy1591]

im surprised that the aphex twin album didnt get mentioned. you know the one. its horrifying.

[@scoobooyt]

ICBYD is not bad though just scary

[@J25-p3h]

@@scoobooyt yeah I really like that album cover. It also helps that it’s my favorite RDJ project.

[@soupmuncher.]

Which one. I don't listen to much Aphex Twin, I'm guessing ICBYD?

[@jackpriddy1591]

@@soupmuncher. yes

[@soupmuncher.]

@@jackpriddy1591 Aphex Twin has much worse

[@spinestealer8129]

The album “you have no idea what you’re getting into” by: Does It Offend You, Yeah? Is an eyesore, despite how simplistic it is in comparison with other terrible album covers. The band name itself is terrible as well.

[@mocapcow2933]

Raditude by weezer is a real pic. Idk if the dog was thrown or jumped off a couch, but it was taken without a green screen.

[@johnsimpson8974]

Don't forget the Mayhem' bootleg album with the picture of their dead singer on the cover that the guitarist took after finding him dead after committing suicide, that was crazy.

[@ninja_tony]

He covered that in the video.

[@BinglesP]

10:18 The long pause followed by the "NOW THAT'S A LOTTA- EMOTIONAL- DAMAGE" sound is such a vibe for how awful that cover's context is

[@crossoverheathfirestan1239]

I would definitely say Cross over Heathfire has some of the worst cover art to ever exist. If you do do a part 2, please do cover them

[@jacobbelyea7945]

That rules dude you’re off the goop

[@IvanKNIGHTFROGSROCK]

YOU DID NOT JUST CALL PET SOUNDS OVERRATED!

[@zacharywoloszynski4258]

Rare Brad w

[@lazguy6936]

@@zacharywoloszynski4258 Rare Brad L

[@emilianorosario5935]

the david bowie cover made me fucking cackle out loud and it’s 3:30 in the morning ain’t no way he thought that was a good idea LMFAOOO

[@puppyspunx]

the audio brad put for iron maiden caught me so offgaurd and scared me so bad but his face 😂😂

[@osso321]

2:02 this made me crack up man 😂 the ambient drone with the pure shock is golden

[@ClearSoundzArchives]

I can’t believe no one said a thousand leaves by sonic youth. It has a large hand in a hotel room grabbing a giant hamster with a terrified hamster girl in the back round. It’s really weird.

[@codyallen43]

The worst album cover is Virgin Killer by Scorpions, I highly recommend you don't look it up as you'll likely be put on a list.

[@Goddot]

whenever you hear how a shite graphic cost a bajillion, the story behind is always "the graphists made hundreds of graphics and they all got rejected by the commitee/ idiot client and the one that got accepted is trash".

[@calliope_x3]

brads initial horrified reaction to the chumbawumba cover makes me fucking cry

[@sachitechless]

I can't believe I forgot F**K LOVE cover from Kid Laroi when you originally asked this, that freaking art is so 2010s deviantart it hurts

[@l.salisbury1253]

10:00 - DON'T PANIC! That Mayhem cover is a bootleg!

[@Jack_Woods]

You should actually look into Mayhem's history, it's a wild rabbit hole, the band was filled with everything your grandma would think Metal was all about

[@countyfactswailuigi]

12:00 I actually really love that Modest Mouse album art. I don't know if it fits the album, as I haven't heard it, but my first impression is positive.

[@justdirt]

Can't believe these high profile artists messed up the trend of "anything is a good album cover". Literally saw a tik tok of a dude taking pics of garbage and they looked better

[@Snoebal]

It was a very unpleasant surprise for me seeing the Father Of All album cover, considering Green Day was able to pretty consistently make cool album covers, with maybe the exception of The Trilogy.

[@wobber.]

TikTok Artist Naethan Apollo’s cover for Person In The Mirror makes me wonder how anyone can ever take any of his music seriously, but then I realize no one does because of the way I had to introduce him.

[@seth6691]

Yeah yeah yeahs mosquito actually looks decent imo. It’s horrible and grotesque but that’s the point. The cropped version is much better, I like the lighting on the mosquito.

[@JK-gm6kk]

B dizzle song reminds me of being at Bonnaroo 2009. It was the middle of the night, and there was this gentleman yelling "COKE COKE COKE COKE TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!!!!"

[@whoiskwanda]

i’m surprised no one said the picsart duo, the imogen heap cover or lana del ray’s blue banisters.

[@iLolipop]

i really expected to see nfr on here lmao

[@nicoolive7613]

14:52 What the eff is this music? XD Can someone tell me the name of it please?

[@soupmuncher.]

Imagine Dragons - Enemy (sus remix)

[@ProvenScroll]

I like how he just used a blurred version of the album cover for honestly nevermind as a place holder

[@JASHOJRMUSIC]

14:28 The origins of one of the channel's biggest memes.

[@IvanKNIGHTFROGSROCK]

the fact that toy was released in 2021, idk if that cover was made back when he created the album, if so they had the option to change it. and if it was created in 2021 for the album...thats even worse.

[@returns8108]

Woah w8 it was released in 2021? I didn't know. That makes it even funnier!

[@IvanKNIGHTFROGSROCK]

@@returns8108 yeah it was critically received well but fans were unhappy cos it was released as part of Bowie's main discography. Like it's an official album but it's not. It's someone remastering his old demos

[@maotsedunk1362]

Wanna clarify that Dying Fetus slaps and Reign Supreme is one of the best death metal albums of the mast decade.

[@MrNiceguyofficial]

Yeah Dying Fetus cant be pretty cringe but the just rock so damn hard and have an awesome bandname. I saw Mayham at the local student house theyve become pretty household since those days lol. If it makes it any better, the guy that made that cover against the rest of the bands will was also the same one that was killed

[@natebox4550]

Guy also made a necklace out of his “friends” skull fragments. Yeeesh. Not the best of people.

[@ok5988]

Strangely enough no carcass's first two albums (reek of purification and symphony of sickness) note: both album use real and gory autopsy photos.