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Love this idea you came up with. It sent me down the rabbit hole of awful album covers. There's one I stumbled across of a chubby dude, naked, stuffed inside the open end of a box. Have you ever considered doing a top 20 of Outsider Music, god awful music that you dig cuz it's so hilariously awful. That would be just as entertaining.
That Bad Company album, Desolation Angels, is the album from which the single Rock & Roll Fantasy was issued. The artwork was by Hipgnosis, who did many for Pink Floyd, including Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, plus they did covers for Wings, 10cc and The Scorpions, plus many others too numerous to mention.
Mrs. Miller was actually on the old Merv Griffin show in the 1960s...she was an old lady who was just always there, and one day someone had the bright ides to ask her to make an album...she said okay and she ended up making several.
Mrs. Mills looked like just about any old lady you'd see on any given church or senior center's bingo night, but actually she put out several albums in the UK.
That Prince album was Lovesexy. It was the album that caused his popularity to slip, big time, just based on the cover art alone. Shortly afterwards he changed his name to a symbol and they started referring to him as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" to attract attention to himself.
Actually it was four years after when he became the symbol and he had more hit albums in between "Lovesexy" and that. Another factor that sabotaged "Lovesexy" success was people thinking like "But I wanted to hear The Black Album; I bet it was funkier."
Loved the commentary throughout this series! Many interesting album covers for sure, and many....interesting ones, too. But oh my gosh, so many generic ones that looked like they could be randomly picked out of someone's photo album 🤣 definitely some funny names though, some even highly suspect like 'The London Trio' 🤔 Also, I would just like to add that recently I finally received the 'Heaven Forbid' cd album of BOC (as well as the other albums I had to get separately from the Colombia Albums collection) and the date I received it was actually really close to the date of an earlier video of this series where you commented on its album cover! 😆 I think just a few days before the video released as well actually, it's like you knew I picked it up! I actually like it though, campy as it looks...Definitely unique, and definitely BOC-like to me (kinda reminiscent of Cultosaurus Erectus in a way too actually)
As usual, this was pretty funny and I agree with you that Pulling Rabbits it a great cover! I had Mad Dog as well (I think it was a blurry shot of one of John's not very scary dogs, so they tried to make him look scary). Mrs. Miller was wonderful, though a greatest hits album of hers would do me just fine...I have a friend who has I think four of her records. Gibby Hanes and The Butthole Surfers always have gross covers, though I like some of his/their records. I thought of two you can look up for next time...the band Pigeon, and the band Sand. I thought they should open a sandwich shop together.
Chicken Shack are a famous blues band from the UK in the late ‘60s and early 70’s. Christine Perfect who became Christine Mcvie in Fleetwood Mac started with them.
Hello CSM! Yes, Rare Earth is great and “Ma” was that album title. I love the Ray Manzarek first solo albums starting with The Golden Scarab; I bought it on LP and 8 track. I believe his name was pronounced “man-ZAIR-ek.” I love Mrs. Miller’s fun music! I love Sparks, too and the “Pulling Rabbits Out Of a hat” album cover was cool. I suggest you review some old album covers by Nurse With Wound and Current 93. “Whose idea was it?” Probably some name we’ve never heard of. The bigger question is why, I think. Maybe I'm the only Prince fan in the world who is absolutely neutral on the "Lovesexy" album cover. I like the Paul McCartney “Pipes Of Peace” album. Have a nice day and stay safe
There are rumours that the first name of the band The Believers was, The Christian Quartet, but soon after they just realised that they were six people...
16:34 The Sparks album cover shows the craziness that is Ron Mael. Whether it's his normal stiff-as-a-board posture at the keyboards in a bathrobe, or, as I first discovered him, his odd antics in the video for "Cool Places" (the first song I had ever heard of theirs), he is a bizarre creature. Sparks is one of those bands you either love or hate, and the same could be said about their album covers.
I love Mrs. Miller! I have a lot of fun singing "Downtown" in her fashion (preferably when I'm home alone!) We have a very special singing lady in Norway too, look up Olga Marie Mikalsen. You're in for a strange musical experience. She's dead now.
That drawing, of the obese lady on the rocking horse, it looks like something I could have drawn. Very like my drawing style, ugly and strange people, love drawing them. :D
Ca. 1990, I dated a man who owned a used record store, and EVERY.SINGLE.TIME someone purchased Prince's "Lovesexy", they would cringe and say ".....the cover......"
The Olaf Sveen Dance Party just looks to wild for me Larry and Chuck looks like a great old guy,I'd buy his album for sure and Mrs.Mills looks like a sweetheart. Bob.
"Die amigos" means "The amigos" in German. (of course, amigos is Spanish, but why nitpick.) "Weine nicht um unsre Liebe" translates to "Do not cry over our love". I'm Norwegian, but I had German in school. :)
Hi Studmuffin I remember the song out behind the barn a busker on Sparks St mall used to sing it. I have Juicy Lucy on cd and I kind of like the cover it certainly is a mess the music is good. Hodo Man was a great song well known by Junior Wells
Do check out Crystal Knight, though. Danish heavy metal band, had this one album, proceeded to be one of my favorite metal albums of the '80's, and then they dipped.
Almost all of Birth Control's album covers are repulsive. Pretty good band, more's the pity. Their Plastic People is a really fine krautrock album that for once has a cover that won't make you lose your appetite. The Ray Manzarek album is very good, more proggy than Doors-like. The first Juicy Lucy album had a different cover in the USA, the same general idea but not as explicit...and not quite so "juicy."
Two comments from me. 16:35 Sparks tendency for self-parody is fine, as on the previous covers. But this cover was visually overbearing. Much more subtle was "Introducing Sparks". 18:18 On the cover, is Paul wondering, like me, if the shady character is carrying a blue table? I agree, the whole folly was painful for we Macca fans.
Some random horrendous album covers Limp Bizkit- Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water Xiu Xiu- Dear God I Hate Myself Iron Maiden- Dance of Death Radiohead- Pablo Honey Swans- Soundtracks for the Blind Jockstrap- self-titled Voivod- Negatron Death Grips- No Love Deep Web (I own a copy of this album, i don't know how my parents let me keep that) Death's Dynamic Shroud- Classroom Sexxtape (Love them, but this album art is so ugly) Blank Banshee- every album Night Skinny- Botox (The songs are worst than the album art) Nas- Stillmatic
Daryl Hall and John Oates had some pretty bad album covers early on. Their known for some pretty bad videos too. Here's a few albums to take a look at: Whole Oats, War Babies, Abandoned Luncheonette, X-Static, Bigger Than Both of Us, Along the Red Ledge, and the infamous self-titled "silver album". The album Alibi by America is pretty bad too.
El disco de Mr. Ondioline es del fallecido tecladista frances Jean Jacques Perrey, uno de los pioneros de la música electrónica. Tengo ese disco, y la portada si está muy rara, y siendo fan de el, las melodías no soy muy buenas que digamos.
Well,Prince was Prince. He sure had...well,you know what he had. You can't see them but... Not a fan,but I think I would have felt silly bringing that lp to the till.
The cover for A Pound of Flesh looks downright disgusting. I like the album you highlighted by Prince. The Chuck Willis one? Oh lawd! Saving Birth Control for last: Pretty cool album, but that cover? Jeez Louise - it is f*ckin' AWFUL!!!
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Love this idea you came up with. It sent me down the rabbit hole of awful album covers. There's one I stumbled across of a chubby dude, naked, stuffed inside the open end of a box. Have you ever considered doing a top 20 of Outsider Music, god awful music that you dig cuz it's so hilariously awful. That would be just as entertaining.
RZzzzzzzzz! “Weasels ripped my flesh! RZZZZZZZZZ”. [Frank Zappa]
6:02 that looks like artwork from the legendary Robert Crumb
That Bad Company album, Desolation Angels, is the album from which the single Rock & Roll Fantasy was issued. The artwork was by Hipgnosis, who did many for Pink Floyd, including Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, plus they did covers for Wings, 10cc and The Scorpions, plus many others too numerous to mention.
Love the series. This one was a lot of fun to watch.
1:35 Prince be looking in great shape honestly - a bold and progressive album cover
Mrs. Miller was actually on the old Merv Griffin show in the 1960s...she was an old lady who was just always there, and one day someone had the bright ides to ask her to make an album...she said okay and she ended up making several.
Mrs. Mills looked like just about any old lady you'd see on any given church or senior center's bingo night, but actually she put out several albums in the UK.
At 5:00, whoever named a record company "Cacophonic" must have had a sense of humor. Maybe "cacophony" isn't always a negative word, but it often is.
One of the members of The Believers on their "We Believe" album cover sure looks a lot like Roy Orbison with his glasses, smile, and hairstyle.
That Prince album was Lovesexy. It was the album that caused his popularity to slip, big time, just based on the cover art alone. Shortly afterwards he changed his name to a symbol and they started referring to him as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" to attract attention to himself.
Frankly, the album itself wasn’t that good (my least favorite Prince album of the 80s), but the cover damn sure didn’t help.
On the Metro in Madrid, we had 12'x 8' billboards of That very album-cover! (Well, it *was*the permissive eighties)
Actually it was four years after when he became the symbol and he had more hit albums in between "Lovesexy" and that. Another factor that sabotaged "Lovesexy" success was people thinking like "But I wanted to hear The Black Album; I bet it was funkier."
Loved the commentary throughout this series! Many interesting album covers for sure, and many....interesting ones, too. But oh my gosh, so many generic ones that looked like they could be randomly picked out of someone's photo album 🤣 definitely some funny names though, some even highly suspect like 'The London Trio' 🤔
Also, I would just like to add that recently I finally received the 'Heaven Forbid' cd album of BOC (as well as the other albums I had to get separately from the Colombia Albums collection) and the date I received it was actually really close to the date of an earlier video of this series where you commented on its album cover! 😆 I think just a few days before the video released as well actually, it's like you knew I picked it up! I actually like it though, campy as it looks...Definitely unique, and definitely BOC-like to me (kinda reminiscent of Cultosaurus Erectus in a way too actually)
2:50 the album is a tribute to you Larry
As usual, this was pretty funny and I agree with you that Pulling Rabbits it a great cover! I had Mad Dog as well (I think it was a blurry shot of one of John's not very scary dogs, so they tried to make him look scary). Mrs. Miller was wonderful, though a greatest hits album of hers would do me just fine...I have a friend who has I think four of her records. Gibby Hanes and The Butthole Surfers always have gross covers, though I like some of his/their records.
I thought of two you can look up for next time...the band Pigeon, and the band Sand. I thought they should open a sandwich shop together.
Hi Larry. You have to wonder what the hell they were thinking! Looking forward to watching!!
Chicken Shack are a famous blues band from the UK in the late ‘60s and early 70’s. Christine Perfect who became Christine Mcvie in Fleetwood Mac started with them.
@3:45 Look in the lower left corner. What the? LOL
Hello CSM! Yes, Rare Earth is great and “Ma” was that album title. I love the Ray Manzarek first solo albums starting with The Golden Scarab; I bought it on LP and 8 track. I believe his name was pronounced “man-ZAIR-ek.” I love Mrs. Miller’s fun music! I love Sparks, too and the “Pulling Rabbits Out Of a hat” album cover was cool. I suggest you review some old album covers by Nurse With Wound and Current 93. “Whose idea was it?” Probably some name we’ve never heard of. The bigger question is why, I think. Maybe I'm the only Prince fan in the world who is absolutely neutral on the "Lovesexy" album cover. I like the Paul McCartney “Pipes Of Peace” album. Have a nice day and stay safe
Time to sit back and relax after a long workday to one of my favorite youtubers!
Haha, someone said they would be embarrassed bringing it up to the counter, you are funny😂
There are rumours that the first name of the band The Believers was, The Christian Quartet, but soon after they just realised that they were six people...
16:34 The Sparks album cover shows the craziness that is Ron Mael. Whether it's his normal stiff-as-a-board posture at the keyboards in a bathrobe, or, as I first discovered him, his odd antics in the video for "Cool Places" (the first song I had ever heard of theirs), he is a bizarre creature. Sparks is one of those bands you either love or hate, and the same could be said about their album covers.
2:55 Chicken Shack was Christine McVie's band prior to Fleetwood Mac. She was on this album, using her maiden name Christine Perfect.
I love Mrs. Miller! I have a lot of fun singing "Downtown" in her fashion (preferably when I'm home alone!) We have a very special singing lady in Norway too, look up Olga Marie Mikalsen. You're in for a strange musical experience. She's dead now.
That drawing, of the obese lady on the rocking horse, it looks like something I could have drawn. Very like my drawing style, ugly and strange people, love drawing them. :D
Ca. 1990, I dated a man who owned a used record store, and EVERY.SINGLE.TIME someone purchased Prince's "Lovesexy", they would cringe and say ".....the cover......"
The Olaf Sveen Dance Party just looks to wild for me Larry and Chuck looks like a great old guy,I'd buy his album for sure and Mrs.Mills looks like a sweetheart. Bob.
"Die amigos" means "The amigos" in German. (of course, amigos is Spanish, but why nitpick.) "Weine nicht um unsre Liebe" translates to "Do not cry over our love". I'm Norwegian, but I had German in school. :)
Hi Studmuffin I remember the song out behind the barn a busker on Sparks St mall used to sing it. I have Juicy Lucy on cd and I kind of like the cover it certainly is a mess the music is good. Hodo Man was a great song well known by Junior Wells
Love these videos. Hilarious
Do check out Crystal Knight, though. Danish heavy metal band, had this one album, proceeded to be one of my favorite metal albums of the '80's, and then they dipped.
Thanks for taking 1 of my Juicy Lucy suggestions Larry.
Thanks for the suggestion!
my friends call me Chuck but mommy calls me Chucky and never late for dinner great series cheers
Always fun!🍿
P.S. John Cale Guts! Just sayin’.🕷🍾
all those maths lessons wasted==so far in this series there has been a quartet with 5 members, quartet with 3. duo with 3,now trio with 5
Almost all of Birth Control's album covers are repulsive. Pretty good band, more's the pity. Their Plastic People is a really fine krautrock album that for once has a cover that won't make you lose your appetite. The Ray Manzarek album is very good, more proggy than Doors-like. The first Juicy Lucy album had a different cover in the USA, the same general idea but not as explicit...and not quite so "juicy."
I humbly submit the first Crazy Horse album. It IS excellent, but the cover is baffling. "Mad dog" reminded me.
The Crystal Knight cover looks like it's been drawn by a pretty talented highschool kid. Not all bad, but not quite professionally drawn.
Rare Earth? I wish that was even rarer.
Two comments from me.
16:35 Sparks tendency for self-parody is fine, as on the previous covers. But this cover was visually overbearing. Much more subtle was "Introducing Sparks".
18:18 On the cover, is Paul wondering, like me, if the shady character is carrying a blue table? I agree, the whole folly was painful for we Macca fans.
4:02 you don´t even know where you found this one...? Come on Larry, I suggested it to you by email :-) Andreas (Andy) from Germany
Sorry about that and thanks! 🙂🙂🙂
That Metal Church album cracked. my. shit. up!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
"My friends call me Chuck" Is that Chuck, standing in the wood? Woodchuck? How much wood would a woodchuch chuck, if... oh, never mind.
O.K...I will.
I'll go ahead and nominate the Butthole Surfers Hairway To Steven cover as better/worse than Electric Larryland.
A suggestion for your next video:
May Blitz 1970 album same name as the band.
Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstacy
The Beatles; HELP They just look stupid.
Limp Biscuit: CS&HDFW
Cream : Disraeli Gears
Stooges : Funhouse
Burton Cummings: an Engelbert Humperdinck lookalike?
Pretty sick of naked album covers.
Do more of these I love them 😂
The Rare Earth album is called Ma.
Any fans of The Mighty Boosh out there? Check the guy on the far left @6:47. Totally looks like Julian Barratt! LOL
Hi Larry, i like your videos of bad album covers, but i'd like to see what are your 50 best album covers of all time.
Working on top 100.
@@canadianstudmuffin cool.
I'm not colourblind and some of these covers are hurting my eyes!
Check out a guy called Wayne King, an Australian pianist with a great name and some hilarious covers to match!
Some random horrendous album covers
Limp Bizkit- Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Xiu Xiu- Dear God I Hate Myself
Iron Maiden- Dance of Death
Radiohead- Pablo Honey
Swans- Soundtracks for the Blind
Jockstrap- self-titled
Voivod- Negatron
Death Grips- No Love Deep Web (I own a copy of this album, i don't know how my parents let me keep that)
Death's Dynamic Shroud- Classroom Sexxtape (Love them, but this album art is so ugly)
Blank Banshee- every album
Night Skinny- Botox (The songs are worst than the album art)
Nas- Stillmatic
Daryl Hall and John Oates had some pretty bad album covers early on. Their known for some pretty bad videos too. Here's a few albums to take a look at: Whole Oats, War Babies, Abandoned Luncheonette, X-Static, Bigger Than Both of Us, Along the Red Ledge, and the infamous self-titled "silver album". The album Alibi by America is pretty bad too.
Some of these are very curious you know.🤔
El disco de Mr. Ondioline es del fallecido tecladista frances Jean Jacques Perrey, uno de los pioneros de la música electrónica.
Tengo ese disco, y la portada si está muy rara, y siendo fan de el, las melodías no soy muy buenas que digamos.
If you wanna see weird or gross album covers, check out the two albums released by a band called Toe Fat.
Olaf Sveen is Norwegian. :)
Red Octopus by Jefferson Starship is pretty bad although I love the album.
Well,Prince was Prince. He sure had...well,you know what he had. You can't see them but... Not a fan,but I think I would have felt silly bringing that lp to the till.
So wicked. So funny
Check out the snatch album if the parties in your mouth we’re coming
The cover for A Pound of Flesh looks downright disgusting. I like the album you highlighted by Prince. The Chuck Willis one? Oh lawd!
Saving Birth Control for last: Pretty cool album, but that cover? Jeez Louise - it is f*ckin' AWFUL!!!
Lol Mrs. Miller was great
She actually was a fun listen, ha ha!
I don't see anything wrong with these covers
Led Zepp, Presence has always left me cold as a cover. Corporate rubbish. Don’t like the album either.
Hypgnosis, the designers were 'cool' in the 70s. Kind of pop-art(❤️Presence)
@@iconicshrubbery I know it was done by Hypgnosis. I really don’t like any of their work. Arty Farty and bland.