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best/worst album cover/inlay ever?

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  • 22-06-2004 6:57pm
    #1
    sinus
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    best
    deftones - around the fur (i dont know why...but its pleasing!!)
    radiohead - kid a
    pearl jam - vitology/yield/binaural/no code
    poisin the well - cant think of name of album
    ah back in black!

    i cant think of anymore....it will come to me...(why did i start this thread)

    worst?


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    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Originally posted by sinus
    why did i start this thread

    Because the rock/metal board obviously didn't have enough "Best so and so" threads!? :rolleyes:


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    mike65
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    Best cover - Yes 90125, perfect design

    90125.JPG


    Worst - anything by Manowar and similair.

    manowar.jpg

    Mike.


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    niallith
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭niallith


    worst st. anger - metallica :/
    best hmmm i dono rust in peace - megadeth


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    the_obsolete
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    Ah come on the manowar covers show them in their best gay attire! Which is so stupid it's funny!
    I dunno, I've always liked the front cover for Demanufacture by Fear Factory
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    And the cover for Rage Against The Machine
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    One of the worst at any rate HAS to be Busted's album cover...VERY gay...
    B00006L9TE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


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    Tommy Vercetti
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    best - any Darkthrone album, best inlay - Carcass, Necroticism

    worst - ....hmm....there's a lot of dodgy looking covers from the 80s around...


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    nosmo
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    Anything and everything to do with Manowar sucks.

    What's good?
    Carcass - everything :)
    Nailbomb's "Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide" and "Point Blank"
    Most stuff by Nine Inch Nails
    Bongzilla - Gateway :D
    Iron Monkey - Our Problem <- The cover is drawn by the first artist to ever be jailed for obscenity.
    Anything by Eyehategod


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    Doctor J
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    I dig Voivod's stuff immensly, Michel usually does individual art pieces for every song on the album, thier inlay's alwyas kick ass

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    Placebo
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    Placebo - WYIN
    One of britneys was very good, white with her with different alpha coloured shadows,
    Placebo - special needs single.

    A Perfect CIRCLE - mER de noms.

    blah


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    Hanza
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    I have to say that AMENs we have come for your children is very good. The art work is NOICE! Aswell as Reroute to Remain by In Flames. Lovley Art, especially the hand with the stars in it... NOICE touch!

    Fav cover is probally still Cruelty and the beast, by COF. I just love that cover. Dunno why!

    cruelty2.jpg

    Worst... hmmm, there is soooo many! Anything that just has words on white in a plain black font. That really anoys me.
    Godless Savage Garden by Dimmu Borgir is very disapointing. Its the same image over and over again. They usually have steller inlays. This one was pittyful.

    Hanza


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    Gobblor
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    10 WORST Album Covers ever:



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    album_03.jpg

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    album_06.jpg

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    album_10.jpg


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    #12
    Pugsley
    Registered Users Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    Gobblor wins :eek:


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    mike65
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    Pa! :D

    cover103.jpg

    cover15.jpg


    cover23.jpg

    Mike.

    oh yes Look out below!

    cover367.jpg


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    Doctor J
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    Actually, Pork Tornado wins...


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    nosmo
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    Originally posted by Gobblor
    album_10.jpg
    Classic


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    Hanza
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    LOL!

    I love it :D


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    wiped
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    Originally posted by nosmo
    Classic

    You can listen here :eek:

    http://www.io.com/~dork/records/pages/DrugsDave.html#


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    Buck Owens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭Buck Owens


    I like the artwork from the pumpkins album Machina/the machine's of god, dreadful album but great artwork. Radiohead amesinac artwork is class, Slayer's Album cover's are cool as well.


    Down-Nola. Crap cover but deadly artwork, and is it just me or has none mentioned Iron Maiden yet


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    byte
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    byte


    I used to like all the old Iron Maiden ones (before X Factor). Some went into great little detail, especially Somewhere In Time.

    Obituary - Cause of Death

    As for worst one, I think there are too many to mention


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    cournioni
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    Lads in all fairness, half of those aren't metal covers... Anyhoo...

    Best...
    In-flames---Whoracle.jpg
    arise.JPG
    vulgardisplayofpower.jpg
    Divine%20Intervention.jpg
    opeth.jpg
    youthanasia.jpg
    morbidangel.jpg

    Worst
    Anthrax - Fistfull of Metal
    Any ManOwaR


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    mr_angry
    Registered Users Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    I'm pretty damn fond of Mansun's "Six", but the winner has to be Tool's "Lateralus". It doesn't even come out well in JPEG format, since it's layered over about 5 pages of translucent plastic.

    Personally, I think the worst ever had to be Prince's eponymously-titled debut album. Riding a winged unicorn naked with a giant afro? What a load of bollocks...


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    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
    Worst
    Anthrax - Fistfull of Metal
    Any ManOwaR


    ant_fistful.jpg the one Pantera ripped off ;)

    and of all the Manowar covers, I think Into Glory Ride is just head and shoulders above the rest, and it's a classic album too, I mean just check out the lyrics to Gloves Of Metal

    'Leather, Metal, Spikes and Chains
    Gloves of Metal raised to show the brave.
    Into the darkness march the armies of the night.
    Bound by metal we live the fight.
    We wear leather, we wear spikes, we rule the night
    With hands high fists fill the air
    Against the world we stand.
    Hands high forever we'll be there,
    Gloves of Metal rule tonight. Yea'

    Manowar2.jpg


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    #23
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users Posts: 8,146 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Less of the manowar bashing!


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    #24
    Doctor J
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    I'm not bashing Manowar, I fooking love them.


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    Doctor J
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    revwhite.jpg

    millieshot.jpg

    cat.jpg


    and a great album ruined by one of the worst covers ever...
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    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    Originally posted by Doctor J
    the one Pantera ripped off ;)
    Less of it! :D


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    #27
    Doctor J
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    :D but sir, the facts speak for themselves ;)


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    #28
    nobodythere
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    Tool - Lateralus


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    #29
    nesthead
    Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭nesthead


    Lateralus is pretty good, as is all the Carcass albums (including Swansong!)

    the Scorpions - Virgin Killer is pretty nasty
    ScorpionsVK.jpg


    Manowar covers rule!!


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    gogul
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    Jaysus, I didn't think that any inlay could be as bad as Blind Faith's, but that Scorpian's one takes the biscuit..


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