Worst Album Covers, Funny Album Covers
Rock Your Eyes and Your Ears
Hey there all your groovy guys and gals. It’s time to drop the needle on a stack of hot wax LPs featuring some of the worst album covers around. These bad album covers are off the chart! Better yet, many come with song samples from these classic bands from the land of rock, gospel, disco, Russian folk songs and Scandinavian dance bands. So give them a spin and enjoy the vintage vinyl record treats and funny album covers and album cover art. They’re a blast!
1. When you wander into the woods and stumble upon the missing link and bring him back to Thailand in hope of turning him into an international pop sensation and one of the worst album covers ever.
2. Surely another fine example of the carpet not matching the drapes.
Michael “P.S.” (Purely Sexy) Hayes is best known for his days in the 80s and 90s as a pro wrestler and WWF announcer under the name Dox Hendrix. For some reason, he thought he could add “rock star” to his resume to boot. Check out his official music video for his 1987 track “Backstreet U.S.A.”
3. When you’re too drugged-out to do the album cover photoshoot and your boy toys have to prop you up.
Remember Boys Town Gang? Neither do I, but this hi-NRG disco group from San Francisco actually reached No. 1 in Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands in 1981 with their “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” cover. Check out this live TV performance. It’s worth it just to see the shirtless dudes in the leather vests dance!
4. The higher the hair, the closer to God and a warmer nest for squirrels.
5. She’ll make you music. Just wish someone would make her a shirt that was long enough.
Take a listen to Beverly Bremers 1972 easy listening million-seller hit “Don’t Say You Don’t Remember.” Some of you may remember it.
6. Great googly moogly.
All I can tell ya about peeper Albert Negrita is he produced this sexually-charged German disco romp “That’s The Ball.” in 1976. Take a listen.
7. Looks like someone drowned himself in alcohol while the rest of the band snorted an 8-ball.
Ron Harper, a founding member of The Dazzlers (kinda like a British version of The Knack), played guitar in a college band but switched to bass when he invited Mark Knopfler to join the band. While at the University of Sussex, Harper was asked by Knopfler to play bass in Dire Straits. Harper declined. After dropping out, he was played guitarist for a band called The Rockettes with a guy named William Broad who became Billy Idol. In 1976, he became the drummer for The Clash for their “Anarchy Tour” in support of The Sex Pistols but quit after the tour. Why?… The Dazzlers! Actually, they weren’t bad. Enjoy their 1979 video for the song “Feeling Free”.
8. Get your wood on!
9. Appears that this group of young lovers took their cue from Weyerhaeuser hardwood paneling.
Enjoy side one of the cocktail music stylings from Carmen Cavallero’s 1959 LP “Informally Yours.”
10. There’s sexy… and then there’s “Jackie Gleason sexy.”
11. “Will dance for oversized Salvation Army sweaters and peroxide. Please help.”
Late 90s – early 2000s boy band Youth Asylum that never really made it. Check out this fanzine music video for their single “Jasmin.”
12. Nope. False alarm. Just breathing heavily.
13. Well, there goes the last of the communion wine.
The late, great German-born vocalist allegedly of Russian ancestry, Ivan Rebroff, was known for his onstage gusto and incredible 4 and a half octave vocal range. Enjoy this wacky live 1971 TV performance with Peter Alexander.
14. One of PETA’s most hated bands.
The Goombay Dance Band, yet another early 80s German disco group, performing “Eldorado” live on TV.
15. Buddy’s only handicap was his distant, mentally unstable gaze that crippled him with the ladies.
Enjoy Buddy Robertson’s 1960’s rural country gospel track “Cripple’s Reward.”
16. 1980s porn star Ron “The Hedgehog” Jeremy? No! Famous French comedian Panpan Kuku… But why?
17. Whoa, too much to unpack here!
Don’t know what the hell is in the water in Germany but I think this handsome Polka duo, Die 2 Strawanzer, may still be performing today. Enjoy this sample.
18. Music to die for… Or die from.
19. Just who is this Lady Banana and just what are they doing with that fruit?
Swedish dance band, Streaplers, have been around since 1959 and still perform today in some form or another. Take a listen to their 1975 smash “Lady Banana.”
20. Ooooooo! I get it!
Fruit was just another one of them there Euro-disco group of dance divas who never hit it big here. From 1979, take a listen to “Bananas.”
21. “I pooh, mommy!”
“Oh, what a good boy you are!”
The Italian pop band Pooh was huge in Europe in the 7s and 80s. In fact, Pooh has sold over 100 million albums. No shit. Check out this video of Pooh performing “Pronto, buongiorno è la sveglia” live in 1980.
22. I think the little dixie boy in the middle is having some gender issues.
23. Didn’t this album cover become the basis for a 1980s slasher movie about a troubled subway maintenance worker who was controlled by two alter-egos who liked to secretly do bad elephant impersonations?
Wach this video of Jean Malo performing his 1968 singe, “Les quatre saisons.”
24. The sultry Brazilian singer Gal Costa performing her tribute to The Camel Toe of India.
Give a listen to Gal Costa performing the title track from one of the worst album covers, “India” released in 1973.
25. They wanted to call it “Cheeseburger in Paradise” but that title was already taken.
If you were ever a Dr. Demento fan, you remember Ogden Edsl who was often played on Demento’s classic radio comedy show. Put your ear on this bizzarro 1997 medley from Ogen Edsl.
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