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Album Covers You Hate
Are there any albums covers u absolutely despise
For some reason, I hate David Guetta - One Love's cover Also, All 50 cent covers except the massacre |
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I don't like the Saturdays Wordshaker cover.
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Scissor Sisters' Night Work has a very unappetising cover as I'm sure we've all seen
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Leona's "Echo" cover, I think shes amazing, in fact shes one of, if not, my favourite female artist but there are so many better photos of her (even within the album art) and I don't understand the slicked back hair dealie going on there.
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Albums with bad album covers tend to put me off, even if the album is good.
Hip Hop albums tend to have cliched album covers, showing all their bling etc. Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty Metal has a trend of using illustrations, and I hate it. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare |
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Mariah Carey's Rainbow looks like a tampon advertisement.
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Metal has a trend of using illustrations, and I hate it.
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare |
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they all look... bad. Extremely bad. |
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Marina and the Diamonds- The Family Jewels. I just don't like her pose, it looks really uncomfortable!
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The G'n'R appetite for destruction replacement cover because the banned one was awesome.
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Yeah, I think an album cover is extremely important, all of rihannas were terrible and generic up until rated r
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Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment.
He wore a bit of eyeliner during American Idol and suddenly he's an androgynes transvestite. It wasn't even 'cool' and edgy androgynes, it was tacky and overly photoshopped. Britney Spears - Blackout. The music is ace, the cover is awful. I also have a like/hate relationship with M.I.A.'s covers. They do represent the chaos of her music but, like her, they're a bit too angsty and anti-establishment and after a while it's just like...we get it, now can you make an album cover that doesn't hurt my eyes please, dear? |
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I also have a like/hate relationship with M.I.A.'s covers. They do represent the chaos of her music but, like her, they're a bit too angsty and anti-establishment and after a while it's just like...we get it, now can you make an album cover that doesn't hurt my eyes please, dear? |
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I also have a like/hate relationship with M.I.A.'s covers. They do represent the chaos of her music but, like her, they're a bit too angsty and anti-establishment and after a while it's just like...we get it, now can you make an album cover that doesn't hurt my eyes please, dear?
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Personally I like them, they represent the cd well and aren't cliches
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There's a difference between not being cliches and trying too hard to make a statement about 'hey look I'm sooo different to everyone else' which is what I don't like about M.I.A
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Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment.
He wore a bit of eyeliner during American Idol and suddenly he's an androgynes transvestite. It wasn't even 'cool' and edgy androgynes, it was tacky and overly photoshopped. Although I like the regular one, the styling for the alternate cover for the Fame Monster is so ugly and... cheap. If she was representing herself 'pre-fame', then couldn't she have at least dyed her eyebrows to go with the hair colour? And gotten something better than a cheap Poundland wig? I don't hate the cover for Goat's Head Soup (it's awesome), but it does make me laugh every single time, probably because it was a quick replacement for an actual crap cover (the label was right about this one). Apparently... the original cover for Bad by Michael Jackson was supposed to be him in full makeup with a woman's funeral veil over his head ![]() I think the worst album cover by a mainstream artist I have ever seen (I mean outside of the unknown acts usually included on 'worst album cover ever' lists) is the cover for Beat Boy by Visage, it's just so, so hideously bad that it sticks in my mind. In fact, nearly all 80s album covers are horrible, there are only a few nice ones in my head. |
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orginality shouldn't be critisized
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I don't think those sort of generalisations count for much. I could record myself banging my desk for 3 minutes, but that doesn't automatically mean it's good just because it's original.
Nothing wrong with giving a bold abstract image, seeing as that's what her albums are. |
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Ok, but her covers aren't that extreme.
Nothing wrong with giving a bold abstract image, seeing as that's what her albums are. As for M.I.A, I've never been a fan personally, but what I don't like is how, lately, the stuff she's always said in her previous music has started to affect her own music in the same way imo. I just think she trying too hard to prove to everyone that she's different, and that's compounded by some of the things she's said in the media as well. |
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I don't like the covers where its just a face with nothing else. Boring.
IMO Duffy Rockferry is a brillant cover. |
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. I just think she trying too hard to prove to everyone that she's different, and that's compounded by some of the things she's said in the media as well.
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I don't like the covers where its just a face with nothing else. Boring.
IMO Duffy Rockferry is a brillant cover. |
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That album cover is pretty much a face though... or at most a person. My personal favourite is Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavillion, it mooeeooves.
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The cover to "Any minute now" by Soulwax hurts my eyes.
How many albums actually cause physical pain! |
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Without becoming an MIA thread, would it have occured to you that she's different because that's who she is as a person. i.e not another artist from the conveyer belt.
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