Some of the worst album covers are married to some of the worst album concepts.
He even won an Ivor Novello Award in 1966 for the novelty song “Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?” Señor Coconut: El Baile Alemán Allan Smethurst really was a Norfolk postman who hummed tunes on his round and (with help from EMI) later recorded them. Yes, the sleeve is unfeasibly bad, but there’s a backstory. The Singing Postman: The Best Of The Singing Postman The application of any other logic here, frankly, is too scary to countenance.
This album of Tijuana-flavored, Herb Alpert-esque pop pastiche from 1966 includes a track called “Whipped Cream.” On seeing this, it would appear the record label’s design team had a collective light-bulb moment. The Frivolous Five: Sour Cream & Other Delights Decades later, its double entendre potential remains boundless. This innuendo-laden funk-soul monstrosity came straight outta Detroit in 1977. In mitigation, Boxer’s Ollie Halsall (aka Ollie Haircut) was also in ace pop parodists The Rutles. Boxer: Below The BeltĮver wondered why punk needed to happen? Look no further than the sleeve of this 1975 album, which – even by the standards of those less-than-PC times – beggars belief. Tino Fernandez: Por Primera Vezĭiscussing the design of their immortal Smell The Glove album cover, a confused Spinal Tap member posed the question: “What’s wrong with being sexy?” The answer to that is provided by the sleeve to this 1983 album by Spanish heartthrob Tino Fernandez. Here, uDiscover salute 20 monumentally epic fails as we reveal the worst album covers of all time. Unfortunately, though, for every award-winning graphic, there are thousands that should have been consigned to the design studio’s bin. As the artwork housing albums as diverse as The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks… Here’s The Sex Pistols bears out, the quality of a record can often be matched by the timelessness of its sleeve, regardless of its genre.
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