October 29, 2024

33 1/3 Hilariously Bad Album Covers You Have to See

Spin Through These Ridiculously Funny Album Covers

Hey-o! Brace yourself for another trip for your eyes and ears through the musical hall of shame—it’s time to explore more of the best of the worst in bad album covers! This dusty collection of retro vinyl disasters takes album cover art to a whole new level of awful.

From sexually charged gospel records that nobody asked for and classic rock covers that should come with aspirin to even nightmare-inducing clowns and a bonus track of a harp-playing midget (so wrong), these unintentionally funny album covers prove that bad taste never goes out of style. So, give them a spin and get ready to laugh, cringe and question everything about the ‘creative process’! Rock on, folks!

Isn’t that a sin?…

Album cover titled ‘Enter Me, Lord’ by Mary Hinge, featuring a woman with cat-eye glasses holding a small white dog with a red bow, set against a soft floral background.

 

The album cover that says, ‘Yes, we did our own makeup… why do you ask?’

Album cover for ‘Le Grand Cirque (Hey Ho) Papoose,’ featuring five men with colorful, pastel wigs and painted faces, set against a bright yellow background.

Enjoy the 1972 single “Le Grand Cirque” from the French Glam Rock Band Papoose.

 

The Strategy of Penetration’—bringing awkward conversations to church sermons since 1965.

Album cover titled ‘The Strategy of Penetration’ by Buckner Fanning, featuring a black-and-white portrait of the author against a white background with red diagonal stripes.

 

Why settle for one awkward uncle when you can have five?

Album cover for ‘Dansglädje 35’ by Nils-Eriks, featuring five men in matching bright pink shirts and white pants, all smiling and posing in a line.

 

Experience the joy of existential dread — now in stereo.

Album cover for ‘Music of El Topo’ featuring a close-up of a man with wild curly hair and a beard, looking intensely to the side.

 

Hopefully one day closer to seeing the optometrist

Album cover titled ‘One Day Closer’ by The Singing Rudds, featuring a black-and-white portrait of three people with warm smiles, set against a dark background.Watch The Singing Rudd Family perform live at the 46th homecoming celebration, 1987, Calvary Baptist Church, Knox, Indiana.

 

When you can’t decide between a Hawaiian vacation and a questionable meat platter… why not have both?

Album cover for ‘Leberkäs’ Hawaii’ by Gerhard Polt, featuring the artist’s head placed on a slice of meat topped with pineapple and cherries, set on a bed of lettuce with a whole pineapple in the background.

 

I hope he’s not referring to his interior decorator…

Album cover titled ‘He Is So Great’ by Roger Isenberg, featuring a man in glasses and a blazer standing by a carpeted staircase in a wood-paneled room with a vintage chair.

 

Arlekino: The only captain who steers his ship with nothing but smoldering looks and interpretive dance.

Album cover for ‘Arlekino’ featuring a man in a white naval hat and uniform, looking over his shoulder with a serious expression, set against a dark, abstract background.

 

Because nothing says ‘Wicked Lady’ like synchronized poses and a love for reflective plastic backdrops.

Album cover for ‘Wicked Lady’ featuring four women in matching white fringe outfits, posing confidently against a shiny, reflective backdropSee Wicked Lady perform “Plastic Queen” live, circa 1979.

 

Mr. Bat — proof that not all heroes wear capes… some wear very questionable clown suits.

Album cover titled ‘Mr. Bat Sings,’ featuring a person dressed as a clown with a painted face, wearing a yellow and red costume with a pointed hat, standing against a dark background.OMG. Ten Thousand Angels? This is what that killer clown is singing about? Makes sense to me.

 

When your look says ‘romance’ but your name says ‘surprise’.

Album cover of ‘Vragende Ogen, Lokkende Lippen’ by Cock van der Palm, featuring him sitting at a candle-lit table with a woman, both smiling warmly.

Experience the title track “Vragende Ogen, Lokkende Lippen” (Questioning Eyes, Tempting Lips) and fall in love.

 

I think Don is waiting for a little Cock van der Palm.

Album cover of Don Youngblood’s ‘For The Good Times,’ featuring him in a white suit with a black collar, holding a drink and sitting in a vintage red booth with an ashtray on the table.Crank up “Two Wheel Cadillac” and get yer toes a-tappin’!

 

It’s not the size of the musician in the fight, it’s the size of the harp on the bus.Album cover titled ‘Have Harp Can’t Travel’ by The Stanley Johnson Orchestra, featuring a man in a tuxedo struggling to carry a large harp in front of a bus.

 

Now, Stanley, that’s how you transport a harp!

Album cover of Raymond Devos featuring him playing a harp mounted on wheels while seated on a small tractor in a lush, outdoor setting.

 

Get ready for the Swedishduo that redefines ‘wild night out’ – in the most polite way possible.

Album cover featuring Elna Fredhøy and Rigmor Ødum sitting in a recording studio, with one playing an accordion and both dressed in modest clothing and hats.

 

Buy two Johns. Get one free!

Album cover for ‘I’m Free’ by John Inman, featuring three images of the artist wearing shirts labeled ‘I’m ONE,’ ‘I’m TWO,’ and ‘I’m FREE’ in a humorous sequence.Turn up the title track, “I’m Free,” by John Inman, the late English actor and singer from the classic British sitcom “Are You Being Served?”

 

When you’re so classy, even your drinks come in hi-fi.

Album cover for ‘Rippling Rhythm in Hi-Fi’ by Shep Fields, featuring a man in glasses and a suit sipping from a large punch bowl with a straw.

 

Set phasers to ‘party mode’.

Album cover titled ‘Cocktail Music for Robots,’ featuring a surreal scene of people in colorful retro outfits on the moon, with a disco ball, bats flying, and signs for ‘Cocktails Dancing’ and ‘Habla Haiti’ in the background.

 

Freida and Willie Jo: the ultimate duo in unsettling eye contact.

Album cover titled ‘Freida and Willie Jo LIVE,’ featuring a woman smiling next to a ventriloquist dummy with an exaggerated expression, set against a green background.

 

These guys didn’t just bring the bass… they brought the volume.

Album cover for ‘Wild Thing’ featuring four men with exaggeratedly large, bouffant hairstyles, in a black-and-white portrait with the title ‘Old Lady’ b/w ‘Next To Me’.

Rock out to Wild Thing’s “Old Lady” from 1969. It’s hotter than their hair.

 

Turns out, the ‘big break’ they were promised was actually just a giant cup of cocoa.

Album cover of ‘The King’s Singers’ featuring six men in suits and hats playfully posing inside a giant teacup filled with frothy liquid, with sugar cubes and a spoon beside itTurn up this smooth “Medley” from The King’s Singers, 1976.

 

When you can’t afford a photoshoot and must resort to your police artist sketches.
Terry Gilmore album cover titled ‘Terry,’ featuring an illustrated portrait of a man with a beard in three different poses, all set against a beige background.

 

Is it music, or is it wrestling? Either way, someone’s getting pinned.

Album cover for ‘Musette Catch’ by Robert Trabucco and his Musette Group, featuring a man playing an accordion while another man in wrestling gear playfully hugs him from behind.

 

When you’re not quite a magician, but still make hearts disappear.

Album cover of Zlatko Pejaković, featuring him in a white suit with a black shirt and top hat, posing confidently with one hand on his hip.

 

Photosynthesis has never sounded so good.

Album cover titled ‘Music For Your Plants,’ featuring a classical quintet playing instruments around a large potted fern, as if performing for the plant.

 

He’s either about to drop the most intense love ballad or tell you why you should buy a used Fiat.

Give Riz Samaritino’s “Riz Il Duro” a spin and feel groove.

 

Just wrong. So wrong.

Album cover for ‘As Favoritas do Carnaval Carioca’ by A Lyra de Xopotó, featuring three people in colorful, exaggerated costumes and masks, posing in a festive yet surreal manner.

 

Playing smooth jazz for an audience of two: a guy in deep thought and a woman questioning her life choices.

Album cover for ‘Les Enfants du Pirée’ by Trumpet Boy, featuring a masked trumpeter playing while two people dance awkwardly in the background.

 

Business in the front, party in the back, snake on the side.

Album cover of Stefan Rüden holding a large snake, with a retro hairstyle and dramatic sideburns, featuring the title ‘Hubba Hubba!’ in a comic-style burst.

Enjoy this gem, “Sofia Dansar GoGo,“ from this Swedish hunk circa 1973.

 

The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

Album cover for ‘Walk With Me’ by The Singing Gospelettes, featuring two women with tall, beehive hairstyles and matching outfits in front of a scenic background.Partake in a little swingin’ Souther gospel, “Feelin’ Mighty Fine,“ circa 1960.

 

When you just meant to have one drink, but the whole bottle heard your plans.

Album cover for ‘A Drop of the Hard Stuff’ featuring Mrs. Shufflewick, holding a drink with a mischievous expression, dressed in eccentric attire.Take a gander at this rare live video of Mrs Shufflewich circa 1972.

 

A bold statement on album covers… and maybe on digestive health.Album cover of R.K. Veulpoepers B.V. titled ‘Diarree,’ featuring a humorous image of three pigs from behind in a barn setting.

Enjoy the song “Makrobiones” from this Dutch anarchist folk band founded in 1976 in Hilvarenbeek.

Thanks for stopping by! When yer eyes and ears stop ringing, enjoy even more of the Worst Funny Album Covers!

 

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  1. Anonymous November 5, 2024

    Good lord! I’d give some of these at least a listen, but I am not too sure about that last one.

    These are hilarious!

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