Top Ten | Worst Album Covers - Vol: 2

[@mrollins4684]

"Kiss is not a band that we would usually associate with doing anything in bad taste". Sharpest and driest sarcasm on the KZbins.

[@RUfromthe40s]

Yes, everything done by them was a bad taste ,they have maybe one song in their career what about the Kiss army, the cartoons, a band for early teens at the time

[@michaeldy3157]

Kiss could care less what anyone thinks. Which is why I like them

[@michaeldy3157]

​@@RUfromthe40s kiss is great.

[@MichaelRoy-hc3lz]

Kiss is an exercise in bad tastes

[@calebhightower6676]

More is an awesome cover lol

[@classicalbum]

Never liked it. I enjoy the album though. Same with 'Obscured by Clouds' - another one I don't care much for - the sleeve that is.

[@calebhightower6676]

@@classicalbum yeah that’s fair, but I think hipgnosis did the best with what they had both with more and obscured. That being said I feel both covers fit the Pink Floyd cover discography pretty well.

[@georgedoughly8682]

A great album too!

[@Meddled]

I think it was just a single pass at experimental stuff in the dark room, and it came out how it came out. Not planned or designed as such, just a still from the film with heavy processing.

[@fogzax]

I really like the More cover - maybe its the colours

[@davidl570]

Green Is the Colour?

[@elfensteen5222]

'More ' by Pink floyd fantastic album love it.., and the album cover I love too, it fits with the music, great cover !! thanks for the video

[@classicalbum]

Thanks for listening

[@marktrickett5081]

I like the Floyd cover too

[@alanthomson7770]

The blue / orange combination is a classic colour scheme.

[@alanthomson7770]

Brown ???? It's a sunburst orange , to me anyway .

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Have to love classic albums too when the record label logo appeared on the front as well.

[@ledzep9501]

Sabbath's "Born Again" cover and the music material as well, is a masterpiece of decadence. Intense, moody, strange, dirty, dark, furious and ultra heavy and provocative... Love it. The baby devil on the front, is like a Warhol "mistake" that is a classic now like the production mix. It is what it is and it's cool...

[@MsBenlane]

the baby reminds me of the it'smalive baby

[@CasperLCat]

3 years later, I just said the same thing, but not as poetically.

[@kevinputry5655]

I consider this list to be mostly spot on however I have to disagree about Pink Floyd's "More". By no means is it one of the best album covers of all time but I really dig the psychedelic vibe that's going on there.

[@interstellaroverdriven6450]

100% agreed. It captures the trippy motifs of the movie very well and I love the deep colours. I am biased though as it is one of my favourite records.

[@ronaran8420]

👍Could not agree more.

[@ronaran8420]

@@Spock105 yes, you do need 'More'.

[@janpoelkamp4229]

+1 and it’s even better in it’s current appeareance without any text.

[@donlebo6824]

I love the "More" cover. I want that on a t shirt. Depressing film, although, considering the plot, no surprise there. Great lp, in my opinion. I'll take it over "The Division Bell". Love that moody psychedelic stuff.

[@interstellaroverdriven6450]

Agreed 100%. Both the record and album artwork are vastly underrated. Perfect psychedelia that melds well with the movie and related scenes.

[@alysynbourque3570]

"Played and composed by the...pink floyd" Heh. Def designed by a music exec who still couldn't figure out 'which one's Pink'.

[@rexfreeman4981]

​@@alysynbourque3570 well that was their name for a long time...as with Can, the article was optional.

[@albarton7189]

I usually agree with your opinions, but, really? Magical Mystery Tour and More may not be the best covers, but they are far from being the worst. And think back to 1967 and 1969. Those covers were in no way considered bad back then. Maybe they didn’t age well, but then very few things do.

[@classicalbum]

Including myself... this videos are a kind of fun distraction and not to be taken that seriously. . Anyway, thanks for watching

[@judeconnelly6207]

@@classicalbum The UK EP version worked very well though - without the crappy yellow surround..?

[@chrisbergmanniii59]

I love the cover of Black Sabbath born again. It's actually 100% appropriate for the content part creepy and part tongue in cheek.

[@TOMM.E.COCKVOMIT666]

AGREED 110 PERCENT🤘🏻✌🏻🖖🏻🫵🏻

[@mrkrinkle72]

I had a born again T shirt and was sent home from School in 7th grade and told to change it!

[@davidslowhand5172]

Just want to point out the "Magical Mystery Tour" cover was originally designed for the double 7" ep for the six original tracks from the movie that was released in 1967. The original cover incorporated just the title of the ep and the photo of the fab four dressed in walrus masks and opened up as a booklet with photos from the film and double single in each sleeve of the gate fold. The album version of the cover was designed for the American market, with side one of the album made up of the six MMT tracks, and all of the tracks that were added to side two were of 'double a side' single' to fill album out and were never really part of the Magical Mystery Tour. So I think it's fair to say some of the original charm of the MMT cover were lost in transition from ep to album cover. However, this is a minor detail and doesn't distract from the wonderful and inventive music that the original double ep first presented in 1967.

[@apemoon1731]

I had that EP. The sleeve was a comic too.

[@RUfromthe40s]

i also have it , bought it maybe the first time i went to london, all my life only knew other person who as it, original art work

[@janpoelkamp4229]

I much prefer it over Pepper and I don’t have a problem with the sleeve as well.

[@RUfromthe40s]

@@janpoelkamp4229 it´s a Ibiza picture of the wind mil with a 60´s efect on the black and white photo,great cover ,taken from

[@glennandadriansrocktalk]

I've always liked the "More" cover - granted, not their best cover.

[@Silkyfur]

I absolutely adore your choice of words in describing some of these album covers.

[@classicalbum]

Wow, thank you!

[@alanthomson1227]

More cover is superb the contrast between colours is perfect

[@freaklives]

I can't believe you haven't flagged up Pet Sounds yet. For such an innovative album it has to have one of the worst covers in history. No costumes, no composition, no design, no lights or make-up - just send them to the nearest petting zoo and take a snap with an Instamatic. Unforgivable decision by the record company and the band to phone this one in.

[@classicalbum]

I don't mind the cover, but I do think it is completely inappropriate for the music on the album

[@123agidee_2]

Its not good but its not offensive either

[@NewFalconerRecords]

+freaklives. Couldn't agree with you more regarding Pet Sounds. Awful, awful cover. Brilliant, brilliant album. The Beach Boys deserved better.

[@fewwiggle]

@@123agidee_2 It offends me -- looks like it should be the cover to an album of nursery rhymes regarding animals in a petting zoo.....

[@petercena9497]

The cover was par for the course when it was released. The Beatles reversed the trend with Rubber Soul, but by then the Pet Sounds cover was probably already decided.

[@sundarmann6167]

Floyd? C'mon! Their sleeve art perfectly compliments the music.

[@PhilBaird1]

Really enjoyed that Barry and there are plenty more where they came from. An interesting one would be to rank the bands/artists with the worst number of awful album covers. Again it's a field of many acres but here's a few suggestions: AC/DC; Rolling Stones; Thin Lizzy; Bad Company; Black Sabbath; Status Quo; etc, are some of the worst offenders, but I'd be interested to hear your opinions. Keep 'em comin'...

[@mayflowerpdx5706]

“A bucket of vomit” sounds much classier with an English accent

[@michaelward9880]

I like Magical Mystery Tour cover. It just brings back fond memories.

[@Doviderus]

Pink Floyd's " More" is a landmark in the European sixties' culture. The music is a perfect collage of psych pieces and the cover exudes the raw , harsh experiences lived by a generation of bold, crazy explorers. Just a jewel

[@johndriscoll1950]

Agree, I gave up on pink floyd after meddle.

[@dasheristhebiggayyy366]

No Pink Floyd cover is bad Ok maybe Meddle is literally just an ear and The Final Cut can be easily remade with Photoshop but hey those covers work ig

[@Publius_Enigma]

​@@johndriscoll1950And after Meddle they reached their peak with the next 3 albums (excluding Obscured by Clouds)

[@chicklets4ever51]

@@johndriscoll1950 me too

[@mikesaunders4775]

More was a soundtrack album, released without fanfare just before Ummagumma, it wasn't trying to be a great album cover. Same goes for Magical Mystery Tour which an earlier poster has reminded us was an ad hoc 'Album' brought about by combining the EP tracks and the '67 singles. You are English , why do you call nappies 'Diapers'?

[@rexfreeman4981]

The More sleeve is beautiful.. overall I get the impression you dislike covers that use a very limited palette. That is understandable though, given the warholesque horrors evident here.

[@shanewright2772]

Ten Random selections that just don't get discussed enough when the topic of bad album comes up: 1. Sam and Dave - Hold On, I'm Coming. Sure, it's lazy and cheap but it's so lazy and cheap its an insult to one of the crown jewels of soul music; 2. Outkast - Aquameni. Hip hop album covers might deserve their own special category (but as a devotee of Harold Bloom, I understand that, as for all things, there is a single canon for bad album covers) so this is either a brilliant parody of bad hip hop album covers or another in a long string of bad album covers (which almost universally contained great albums) by Outkast. 3. Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites. Great Album, wretched cover 4. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam. I think it is a near axiomatic truth that Steely Dan's worst album is better than 99.95% of every other bands best (and this is not their worst album - Two Against Nature holds that by some way) but when it comes to cover art, let's say this brings them back to the pack somewhat, proving they can be just as awful as anyone else, if they really try. 5. Simon & Garfunkle - Bridge Over Troubled Water. This album cover is like a crime spree in a multi storey car park. Wrong on so many levels. A simple point to sum it all up - look at the beautiful symmetry and proportion of their "Bookends" album cover, and look at this. See what I mean? 6. Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate. Almost put Imperial Bedrooms on the list here instead, but B&C gets the nod because unlike IB, it's simply not a very good album 7. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms. A purely personal choice, does this just seem not only lazy but somehow..... pretentious? Or is it that deep down I resent the album cover for being the vehicle which packaged and delivered 36,000,000 copies of an underwhelming record on behalf of one of the most overrated bands of all time? 8. Pulp - This is Hardcore. I love Pulp, I think they were the best of all the so called "Britpop" bands and I think Jarvis Cocker is one of the best dressed men in rock and roll. But this album cover skeeves me out something wicked. 9a &b . The Beach Boys - Keeping the Summer Alive and Summer In Paradise. KTSA is just weird - here are the boys in their geodesic dome, keeping anthropogenic global warming alive, Brian stuffed away at the back in his sandbox and what appears to be a bikini clad sex slave imprisoned with them, while hungry polar bears patrol outside waiting to feast on the first guy who needs to duck out and take a leak. And Summer In Paradise is all this, worse and after you're finished boggling at the album cover, you then have to sit through very literally one of the worst albums ever made by anyone, anywhere, anytime. No one should ever by this record - ever - under any circumstances. 10. Nas - Stillmatic. Given that Illmatic is one of the best album covers ever, Nas should have known better. Given that Nas' career since the brilliant Illmatic has been a rapid descent downhill into self parody and confusion, maybe that's expecting a bit much.

[@tamunshud5730]

LOL! The Beach Boys one is a classic burn!

[@landrightsforgaywhales5766]

You two are like an old music hall double act, I swear.

[@davidl570]

Eh, far as their 70s output, The Royal Scam is one of my favorites by the Dan (almost as good as Aja in my book). But to each their own. (Agree it's a pretty awful cover--it looks like a poor imitation of an H.R. Giger artwork).

[@shanewright2772]

@@davidl570 Oh The Royal Scam is a very fine album indeed. Up to ''Everything Must Go" it's their guitars-iest album and Haitian Divorce" is a deep cut masterpiece.

[@briancherry8088]

Just LOVE the honesty at the beginning. And, why not. When it comes to KZbin, lightning DOES strike twice. Or in some cases, dozens of times. I definitely think Born Again deserves to be here, but what about Seventh Star.

[@dmk7700]

I feel the "MORE" album cover is incredibly "psycho-delic". Remnants of an unpleasant acid trip.

[@thekeywitness]

Mostly on point with the analysis, but I think the cover for Beck's Midnite Vultures was purposefully garish, reflecting the album's brash production style that evokes early '80s Prince. It's a day-glo collage aesthetic still seen on albums today. Would I hang it on my wall? Probably not, but it's an eye-catching CD cover for sure.

[@adrianokury]

Covers with inverted colors are so common... I don't think More is particularly ugly...

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

The final approved cover rendition of Spinal Tap's "Smell the Glove" leaves much to be desired as well..

[@matthew4694]

You should see the cover they wanted to do…

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

@@matthew4694 The PR department at Polymer Records put the kibosh on that one...idiots....The original as tabled would have been effing awesome....

[@davidl570]

@@matthew4694 It wasn't a glove, believe me!

[@renetrachet]

I agree with your opinion with the exception of Magical Mystery Tour and More. I certainly not think of them as awfull.

[@DrWrapperband]

Pretty neat series. There's a few covers I don't know if they are bad or not - I appreciate the analysis and history. I bought Sad Cafe because of the "bad cover" is it Bad?. Hopefully there will be more Cover Lists to find.

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

"Gaze at Over my Morning Porridge" good title for a Pogues bootleg compilation of live performances....

[@snowqueen_8958]

Good list

[@gemini2012100]

My nominees for worst album covers would include, in no particular order, The Moody Blues- Days of Future Passed (Love the album Just hate the cover) Yes- Tormato; Big Generator and Talk Pink Floyd- Meddle and Obscurred by Clouds Asia- Silent Nation (All their other albums have that cool Roger Dean artwork, which makes that one stick out like a sore thumb. At least I think they're Roger Dean) Black Sabbath- Sabotage; Technical Ecstasy and Born Again Bruce Springsteen: Any album (I am not a Bruce Springsteen fan) Accept: Balls to the Wall

[@ramilopez6921]

Have you done a list of albums whose album covers were better than the albums themselves. If you have could you include the link to that video. Thanks for the video I really enjoyed it.

[@classicalbum]

That's a good idea!

[@2112res]

@@classicalbum Have you done best/worst album titles?

[@digger65uk]

Another great review. Thank you. I was just thinking London Town by Wings. Primitive Cool by Mick Jagger. Undercover by the Rolling Stones...Any REM album?

[@mikewilson3581]

I don't mind More's cover and it does have some great songs. And Magical Mystery Tour frightened me as a child. The walrus was evil to me. One album cover I hate is Sally Can't Dance from Lou Reed. And I'm a Lou Reed fan.

[@kylez8010]

Looks like Dick Tracy or something.

[@grooveyerbouti]

Do people know Julian Clary outside of UK? That made me laugh almost as much as "Kiss,not usually known for their bad taste" classic.

[@classicalbum]

I'm glad you picked up on the irony of the Kiss and bad taste remark. I almost though about putting a banner that said 'irony' across the screen. My ELP/Bee Gees comment got me into trouble with some people.

[@iconicon5642]

More cobblers on "Exile" the most overrated everything ever. Why is it always hanging around?

[@davecostello560]

Ahh, I thought it was just me!

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I love these mean-spirited critiques. They're so much fun... Thank you for calling out Magical Mystery Tour. Total garbage cover.

[@classicalbum]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@henrikharbin5521]

Some of mine: Alice Cooper Flush the Fashion Nirvana - Incesticide Metallica - Kill em All Queen - Hot space David Bowie - Blackstar W.A.S.P. - KFD Plasmatics - Maggots The Record Twisted Sister - Come Out and Play

[@ThatPuzzledJoker]

That CSN cover is just awful, should have just took more pictures of them on a couch wearing denim

[@Mark-wx6xr]

Right way round this time

[@timothywright5522]

This is great ! May I suggest, as a future topic, top 10 inappropriate /sexist album covers ( 1 or 2 of which, I confess, I rather liked at the time !) Here's a few for starters :- Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland, Blind faith - Blind faith, Scorpions - Lovedrive, Be-bop deluxe - Sunburst finish, Roxy Music - Country life, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - Ain't that a bitch ?, Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy.

[@LucyOLastic]

the sleeve for "More" is perfect for the music within. It's been one of my favourites for years...the sleeve and the album. It does not need to be particularly clever. That's for Hipgnosis to come up with novel ideas. It's a film soundtrack. I only wish there was more like "Up The Khyber" with Rick Wright's jazzy piano playing. Gilmour and Wright's psychedelic jamming on this album reflect the colours on the sleeve.

[@rushbravado1972]

Love that you are wearing a Permanent Waves shirt. I enjoyed the first worst. I agree that Asylum is a bad cover. So is Animalize. Here are a few others that I am not a fan of. Styx-Serpent Is Rising Led Zeppelin-Coda Lindsey Buckingham-Go Insane Black Sabbath-The Seventh Star Prince-Around The World In A Day Jethro Tull- Too Old To Rock And Roll Starship-Knee Deep In The Hoopla Rod Stewart-Foolish Behavior Dokken-Under Lock And Key AC/DC-Powerage

[@MsBenlane]

love rush love the shirt

[@romangarcia608]

love that T-shirt, Long Live the Holy Triumvirate 🙏🏼

[@robswystun2766]

Apparently the photo of the baby that ended up being bastardized for the Born Again cover also ended up being retooled for a Depeche Mode (I think?) single, as well.

[@murdockreviews]

Interesting choices here :-) I don't mind the "More" sleeve, "Born Again" has become hilariously notorious, and the Beck cover somehow always was fitting for me (it's also a good album :-) ). The others, yes, ranging from dull to really bad.

[@classicalbum]

Thanks for sharing!

[@wabba67]

Some good (or bad) pics definitely. I'd add Nostradamus by Judas Priest to this list; a bloated double album with a cover that does not really invite you to look at it any longer than necessary.

[@fus149hammer4]

Maybe the Lennon/Ono album sleeve would have been better if instead of supplying the album in a brown paper bag they should have just put one over Yoko's head. What did these covers all have in common? The artists and probably the bands were out of their boxes on drugs at the time.

[@b2tall239]

Wow.....that CSN album cover is BAD. Just looking at it is having a detrimental effect on my psyche ;-)

[@classicalbum]

It is poor

[@tamunshud5730]

Between John Lennon and CSN I have seen all the weenies I want to see today!

[@ronsaunders7294]

Born Again was a great album, I played the hell out of it when I was 15 or so but yeah, that cover is disturbing.

[@RUfromthe40s]

the black sabbath album was the one where the vocals was deep purple´s ian gillian, not a bad cover for the style they were representing

[@vania1917]

I think the cover of Magical Mystery Tour is supposed to represent a bad acid trip.

[@victorhawkins3461]

Kinda hard to find fault with your choices -- again! -- Barry!

[@troubledjoe6201]

The worst thing about the vh3 cover is the naff superimposed text, if it had been properly done so it looked like it was actually engraved on the canon it wouldn’t be all that bad....

[@gwts1171]

It looks like the text was put on using MS Paint. Drop shadow!!! :)

[@richard623]

Surprise, surprise... Never would I have thought of the Beck album cover as a bad or awful one. And suddenly here I find it in the... number 1 position! In fact, I always found this cover quite good, and very fitting to the music. But this is what makes life interesting. Or, as Marcus Aurelius said: Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Thanks a lot Berry, you grumpy witty ol' bastard with your infinte treasury of words, your channel is superb!!

[@classicalbum]

Thanks for watching

[@davidGPS95]

Magical Mystery tour cover reminds me of the creepy party scene from the Shining movie .

[@steveramsey6562]

I actually like the VH3 cover, like you mentioned the music hitting you like cannonball to the stomach, unfortunately the music doesn't live up to that, I think that cover would've worked better with Fair Warning, plus it is kinda a fair warning, I mean the guy knew it was coming and prepared himself for it, lol.

[@alysynbourque3570]

I agree that the Sabbath BORN AGAIN album art wasn't the best, but, when you listen to the album as a whole, the artwork is kinda fitting. I think that they were onto something with the sound, but, just like a good Netflix series, it never had a chance to realize it's potential before it was scrapped.

[@alanboas810]

I AGREE WITH YOU. THESE ARE ALL HIDEOUS ALBUM COVERS. BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT I HAVE ALWAYS SECRETLY LIKED THE COVER OF THE BEATLE'S MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR. I GET THE HUMOR OF IT. I CAN THINK OF A FEW MORE: BLACK SABBATH-NEVER SAY DIE E.L.P.-TARKUS ROLLING STONES-UNDERCOVER

[@StonefieldJim4]

No Robert Plant, Fate of Nations? Among the worst covers I've ever seen. I don't wish to discuss it any further, as it's too distressing.

[@bobthebear1246]

Yay!! *Bananas* made this list!! I had put that on my list in my comment on your first video. Yeah, it's really bad. I still say *High And Mighty* and *Abominog* by Uriah Heep are pretty bad, as is April Wine's infamous 1971 debut. I also hate *In The Court Of The Crimson King* by King Crimson, not the album of course but the cover, which used to give me nightmares. Also, *Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die* by Jethro Tull looks like a Mr. Clean advert substituting Ian Anderson for Mr. Clean. Also - and I know I'm not supposed to say this - but I have NEVER liked the album cover for *Who's Next* by (of course) The Who. Sorry; I'm not into watersports, if you know what I mean. I am also no fan of the *Sticky Fingers* album cover by The Rolling Stones, nor do I like their *Some Girls* album cover, either. Come to think of it, the garish Day-Glo nightmare of their 1986 album *Dirty Work* was absolutely terrible, too. That one is probably the Stones' worst album cover ever.

[@Exisles]

Surprised you never mentioned 'Very 'eavy, Very 'umble' by the Heep. Awful band + album sleeves.

[@Baz63]

Rare Earth's 'Ma' album takes some beating.

[@rocky-o]

another great video barry...thank god 'bananas' made your list...someone needed to call out that piece of crap cover....peace...rocky

[@classicalbum]

Thank you kindly

[@adrianokury]

Bad sleeves = indeed an inexhaustible source...

[@davidsanderson5918]

Discussing continuity issues of Magical Mystery Tour as an album in comparison to Pepper is problematic. It's a compilation and wasn't meant to be an album. The six-track EP on the other hand works a treat, especially on vinyl where you turn over the 45s. COMPLETELY different experience from a Beatles LP. Meanwhile, not only do I think the Two Virgins LP cover is fascinating but it stands proudly as a well-executed album cover of its time. The desire of creatives on the cutting edge of late 60s art, music, film and literature were very often of course to push the boundaries of censorship and for a Beatle to go there too was bound to be of lasting interest. Mischievous bullshit or not (and regardless of its shock value at the time), I think it's tastefully done. I doubt his wife Cynthia was very happy though. Poor Cynthia!! See?? Even with that...there's just too much back story for it not to be of interest!

[@lonegroover]

Magical Mystery Tour isn't really an album, so I'm not bothered by that one. It's an artificial construct of a record company.

[@iconicon5642]

MMT wasn't an album in the UK...it's some ep's and singles stuck together but having said that what a collection of songs. I really like most of "More" but had to sell it due to the awful "Nile Song".

[@robertglisson6319]

I'm surprised Tormato didn't make your top 20. Hideous cover and a horrible departure (along with Going For The One) from the great Roger Dean covers. Wakeman hated the cover so much, he threw a tomato at it...

[@petejp1]

I agree with all of your choices except magical mystery tour, it went well with the times and the music. I was never a fan of Yes' going for the one. Especially considering how great most of their other covers are.

[@denniscain7218]

I've always thought they borrowed that one from Rush

[@nolongerthere]

"Russet turd brown" is the greatest description of a color ever! I am so tempted to ask for it from Sherwin-Williams

[@xwhite2020]

I must be colour blind. It was always orange to me.

[@leefertwayne8163]

Magical Mystery Tour?! Whaaa?

[@WelshIron]

Looking forward to more parts of this, there are a great many to come I think. Harking back to Born Again, I love the album, the cover is truly shite though and as a graphic designer/artist myself I am stunned that the artist deliberately did something crap, I mean its his reputation at stake and that is going to be out there forever!

[@coreycleven8414]

I've always hated Wire's 'Pink Flag' cover. I think it would've been better had the flag not been painted over the photo of the flag pole, I just don't get it. I can't say their '154' cover is much better though.

[@greatloverofmusic1]

Are you bananas? I rather like Harry Belafonte's Calypso. If you can't see that bananas and Shepherd's Pie pair well then I give up. In spit of this I love your channel. Keep up the good work. Cheers. P.S. Maybe the Crosby Stills and Nash album cover is an inadvertent admission that they are largely a band of self-important weenies.

[@bobleroe3859]

Usually "worst album" lists are unknown groups that are easy to criticize; your list has more credibility since well-known bands ought to have a higher standard.

[@rememberbeginning]

More is one of my favorite album covers ever!!!

[@classicalbum]

Yay!!!

[@plantagenant]

Ha! I love the cover to "More" by Pink Floyd...its quite mysterious and looks nothing like most covers by rock bands.

[@colinwilliams553]

Magical Mystery Tour is NOT, and I repeat NOT the worst album cover from the Beatles, it's the one for yesterday and today where they all wearing white butcher suits with blood stains on it while holding plastic baby dolls now that is the worst album cover you she check out.

[@classicalbum]

If you have an original copy on vinyl, I think you should send it to me and I'll have a good look at it....😊

[@Robert_St-Preux]

The cover of _Origin of the Feces_ by Type O Negative makes _Two Virgins_ seem modest.

[@Filip_Melander]

I kinda like the Asylum cover. I think The Elder with that brown door is way worse or Hot in the Shade cover is awful

[@masudashizue777]

I bought up all the Pink Floyd LPs I could find but gave a pass on "More" due to the wretched album cover.

[@fjcara]

Two of the best albums ever have lousy covers. The White Album, and Dark Side of the Moon. A Day in the Life, great Wes Montgomery album - a shot of an ashtray full of cigarette butts!

[@classicalbum]

Great albums can have bad covers

[@SwisstedChef2018]

Wasen't MORE the Sountrack of Zabrisky Point?

[@seamuscolgan7654]

Nice one Barry! There is easily enough shite record covers out there waiting to be included in Part 3 😉

[@thekivster]

The beard makes you look like an old Ian Anderson

[@classicalbum]

My beardy phase

[@HansRickheit]

The Beatles cover and the Floyd covers strike me as not being so bad, but just kind of generic. I do think they reflect the tone of the music contained on the album, whereas the others in your list might not do that job so well. . Albums covers that I find were awful would be: King Crimson's In The Wake of Poseidon, ELO's The Night The Light Went On In Long Beach, George Harrison's Extra Texture, and of course - ELP's Love Beach.

[@robertsaul234]

1. Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh 2. Peter Frampton - I'm In You 3. Humble Pie - Eat It. 4. Black Sabbath - Forbidden 5. ELP - Love Beach 6. Elvis - almost any of them 7. Bob Dylan - Shot of Love 8. Bob Dylan - Saved 9. Scorpions - Virgin Killer (original) 10. Prince - Lovesexy More and MMT I both like.

[@2112res]

Virgin Killer is classic.

[@rcpsammy7186]

Some pretty bad covers presented here, but the shirt sure is cool 😎

[@dondevice3342]

I have said it before and I'll say it again: "Ride a rock horse" by Roger Daltrey, and more recently, the "cult of Ray" by Frank Black. Checkout those covers.

[@RUfromthe40s]

the More album a bad cover ,maybe you didn´t saw other album covers from that time, at least two of those are bad covers but also very subjective.

[@michaelpassick7539]

I would include the Beatle's album 'Let it Be". They couldn't get the four of them to pose for a photo together. The four individual photos' that were used aren't at all interesting or flattering.

[@marcelpool4377]

The Scorpions had some really tasteless covers, like with “Lovedrive” and “Animal Magnetism”; Moby Grape’s “Truly Fine Citizen” is also a riddle to me.

[@anachronistofer]

Back is not Classic Rock; also, the cover sleeve/insert for Midnight Vultures was deliberately and ironically intended to be awful, which makes it quite good in a sense.

[@Anybloke]

On a par with Two Virgins is Roy Harper's Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion. Only a strategically placed black circle is hiding the fact that he appears to be "pleasuring" himself.

[@NoAntidoteMusic]

I think Bananas by deep purple is the worst. argghhhhh . didnt know that one

[@hartmutpeter215]

I agree absolutely with you. Bananas by Deep Purple has an awful album sleeve. Two poor guys are sitting on bananas, oh Jesus. IT's the worst Deep Purple cover of all time. Deep Purple in Rock, Fireball,Burn, Machine Head and then the Bananas cover. When i want to hear, in my opinion, the good album Bananas i think oh no i must see it and then leave it.

[@davidl570]

C'mon, what's wrong with the covers for In Rock, Fireball and Burn?

[@hartmutpeter215]

@@davidl570 sorry, unfortunately you misunderstood that. Of course i mean In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head and Burn have awesome cover artwork and then comes the awful Bananas cover artwork. Sorry again, maybe i didn't make it clear.

[@davidl570]

@@hartmutpeter215 No biggie! Figured you meant they were GOOD covers--but wasn't totally sure. Yeah, that Bananas cover is just plain STUPID............dunno what they were thinking!

[@hartmutpeter215]

@@davidl570 I'm a huge fan of Deep Purple since 1969. Their music is awesome and their cover artwork too. With one exception. The music on Bananas is really great but i hate that shitty cover. That's not worthy of DP. I guess Ian Paice, the chief, could have said ,oh man what have we done.

[@maryelms5948]

Being a fan of YES and Rick Wakeman, it pains me to say this, but Rick Wakeman album jackets have been pretty poor...IMO.

[@Fantumh]

Magical Mystery Tour may not have the greatest cover ever, but it doesn't belong anywhere near a worse covers of all time list. Neither does More, though the colors leave a bit to be desired.

[@mateoalmeida80]

i like the more cover actually

[@earlgrey691]

Never liked 'who's Next' to be honest. Not too dignified for the glories within, laddishness shennaniganry not withstanding. 'Piper at the gates of dawn' always looks kinda tacky but this phase of Floyd never really appealed tbh.