What the internet needs now is another post about bad album covers like I need a hole in my head. Over the past couple years bad album covers have gone from kitsch to yawn inducing. Why? Because it has become a topic well traveled and, thus, lost its novelty - especially when you see the same covers over and over again.
That being said (here comes the statement which negates everything I just said), I've stumbled upon some that still manage to impress me with their badness. I feel it is my duty as caretaker of Retrospace to present them to you. In fact, "bad album covers" was the topic of one of my very first posts, and I still, somehow, get pleasure from seeing an old LP cover that's particulary awful.
So, here's another batch of bad ones comin' at you. Click images to embiggen. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Awkward....
Not sure the significance of the person hanging out of the car. Did the three sluts kill her? via retro troll
I own this Eric Van Camp album. The back reads "Songs of Jews for Jesus"
As far as Christian albums go, this next cover isn't half bad. It's the "Jesus is a Soul Man" that I find so wonderfully awful. I'd give anything to hear it.
This one is not so much the cover as it is the title. image source
I own the next one. I'm positive that's a female on the cover, but it looks like her breasts have been artistically removed. What do you think?
A word of advice. Don't ever let Liberace come up behind you like that.
I'm not sure which one's Co Co Boy, but the dude in the glasses is freaking me out.
Since bad LP covers have been done to death, perhaps the next step is to start unearthing bad cassette covers. Just thinkin' out loud folks.
