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 Låtar 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.

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