Music. Visions. Drugs.
Album covers can often be the aftermath of happy clappy?drug abuse. You might be a boring lump of flesh?in your?real life, but add LSD and suddenly you’re a hero.?Your ideas?are original, you?speak with?the?voice of a?God?and everything suddenly makes sense – at least?it does to?you.
Below are 20 of the world’s weirdest album covers, some of them belonging to the barmiest musicians humanity has ever spawned. Look on in horror, humour or?disgust…
20 – The?Louvin Brothers
Satan is Real
Gee folks, thanks for telling us. This 1920s Alabama Gospel Band were? on their way?home from a lynching when they shot this.?Probably the forefathers?of Satanic Black Metal.
19 – Vikingarna
Kramgoa L?tar 7
Vikingarna, or “The Vikings” were an early 60’s band from Sweden. They were so?twisted that they covered a song by the Carpenters.
18 – Pooh Man (MC Pooh)
Funky As I Wanna Be
Scatological Funk-hop. Have a whiff of that mate.
17 – Millie Jackson
Back to the Shit
Probably married to Pooh Man.
16 – Paddy Roberts
Songs For Gay Dogs
Bestiality in?the early days.
15 – Heino
S/T
Here’s another culprit. Heinous and German.
14 – The Brothers Johnson
Light up the Night
The Wayans brothers before they got game.
13 – Manowar
Anthology
Heavy Metal, or no metal at all! WIMPS and POSERS, get up: Leave the Hall!
12 – Wire
Take a Terrifying Trip to the Past!
Nosferatu… or Peter O’Toole?
11 – Jim Post
I Love My Life
But your?’tache tells a different story…
10 – Barry Louis?Polisar
I Eat Kids and Other Songs for Rebellious Children
What exactly do you mean sir?
9 – Tino
Por Primera Vez
The REAL Emilio EsteVez.
8 – Europe
The Final Countdown
Nothing weird about this.
7 – Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
Love me! Love me!
6 – Country Church
S/T
Not a place you’d like to be.
5 – Richard and Wille
Funky Honkey, Nasty Nigger
Steady on!
4 – Colonel Sanders’ Tijuana Picnic
S/T
Drug-running, prostitution and some racist with a bucket of chicken.
3 – Joyce
S/T
Not exactly what you’d call a MILF.
2 – Picking Up Girls Made Easy
I’ll Take These Two. You Can Take the Rest.
Best album. Ever.
1 – Ray Conniff
Laughter in the Rain
It was all laughs for Ray as he peddled his?family to the abandoned lot. It would all be over soon.
gouchout says
Surely a few of Frank Zappas covers could be in this list – “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” for one – and unlike most of the records in the list, the music’s weirdness matches the album covers strangeness…..see “Lumpy Gravy” or “Uncle Meat”
John says
Might want to spend more time looking into the Louvin Brothers (#20, Satan is Real). Admittedly, it’s a strange cover, but these guys were a huge influence on some giants (Merle Haggard, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Elvis Costello, to name a few) and wrote some classic songs of fear, redemption, and fervor in the nuclear age. Reverend Horton Heat and Southern Culture on the Skids owe huge debts of gratitude here as well
The were born in the 1920s, but were most active in the mid-20th century, and, indeed, Charlie Louvin continues to tour to this day.
Sadlogger says
Nice and fun compilation.
Maybe here is another one: C
rob says
Lots of fun..thanks!
PS – it’s “pedaled”, not “peddled”.
wapper says
Rubbish plagerism. I am sick to the back teeth of crappy websites ripping other peoples work off and claiming it as there own.
jobad says
how do you know he didn’t sell them? then it would be correct as “peddled”…
robnass says
Actually i think that these covers look preety normal compared to the one bestowed on us by mariachi artist alejandro fernandez called “piel de ni
l'roi says
where’s the orleans album cover?
Harold says
Ha! I have “I Eat Kids (And Other Songs For Rebellious Children)”. My mom bought me that album when I was — well, a kid. (This was the 70s.) I LOVED that album. “Shut Up (In The Library)” was a great song, as was the title song. All fun songs that be appreciated by kids (and parents) with a more, erm, *sophisticated* sense of humor.
bob barker says
pick any cannibal corpse album cover and add it to this list…
Murderface says
Cannibal corpse has the most insane covers..
Custom Website Design says
LOL! MC Pooh should swith covers with Millie Jackson!
David says
I think the ManOwar cover is hot :-)
Lol says
I can has grammer?
TIM CHUCK says
What about bob Dylan’s “Saved”
Emtucifor says
Um. “peddled his family” means “tried to sell his family” as in door-to-door peddling. Did you mean “pedaled his family?”
Dave P I says
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Doug says
Too funny!