Six more of the world’s worst and most hilarious album covers

View them and weep / giggle…

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The greatest worst album covers of all time – three ‘new’ finds

About 18 months ago Slacker Shack wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the worst album covers of all time.

Old album covers that are sooo bad they’re actually strangely beautiful and fascinating. The posts included covers by Kevin Rowland, Freddie Gage, Green Day, Manowar, Millie Jackson and the Faith Tones. They all amuse me still.

In the last few weeks I’ve stumbled across three new beauties that I’d like to share. None of them are by artists I’ve previously heard of and I guess there’s a tiny chance they’re shit on purpose. That doesn’t concern me. They make me laugh and I want to share them. So here they are:

Randy Jack Wiggins – Body Language

Country Church – Country Church

The Hanleys – Come Home My Child

Lovely aren’t they?

The genius of Mati Klarwein

My first introduction to the work of artist Mati Klarwein (who once described himself as “half German and only half Jewish with an Arab soul and a African heart”) was the cover artwork to Osibisa‘s 1972 album Heads. That album cover (see below) and the Peter Blake Sgt Pepper‘s cover, were my two favourites from my Dad’s old vinyl collection.

A few weeks back I opened a Pinterest account and whilst searching for old album art from the 60’s and 70’s I came across more of his work (Klarwein also designed album covers for amongst others, Miles Davis, Santana, Gregg Allman, Buddy Miles andThe Last Poets). Loads of it in fact. So much that I’m now mildly obsessed. His art is stunning, vivid, intricate, surreal, psychedelic and odd – and I’m hooked.

Check out three of my favourites below – if you’re not very familiar with his work I’m sure you’ll be equally stunned:

Soundscape (1982)

Evil (1972)

Jimi Hendrix (1970)

You can check out more of Mati Klarwein‘s work here.

Best ever psychedelic album covers – The Zombies ‘Odessey and Oracle’

My third entry (of five) or example of a truly great psychedelic album cover is The Zombies‘ 1968 opus, Odessey and Oracle. The album was The Zombies’ third studio album and was recorded at Abbey Road and Olympic Studios.

Check it out below and revisit it’s majesty:

Best ever psychedelic album covers – Joni Mitchell ‘Song To A Seagull’

Joni Mitchell‘s 1968, David Crosby produced debut album Song To A Seagull has a great cover. Naive and charming in equal measure, it’s also a great example of the vivid, wild and intricate psychedelic style that permeated late 1960’s musical culture:

Best ever psychedelic album covers – Cream ‘Disraeli Gears’

Most people parp on about Sgt Peppers… being the greatest psychedelic album cover of all time. I like it, don’t get me wrong, but there’s some far better album covers out there.

Here’s one for starters – Cream‘s 1967 masterpiece, Disraeli Gears. For those who’ve forgotten it’s vivid brilliance (or for those who fancy basking in it’s beauty once more – and even those who’ve never seen it before) check it out below:

The greatest worst album covers of all time: Manowar – Anthology

Beyond Spinal Tap…way beyond….a parody of a parody…

The greatest worst album covers of all time: Millie Jackson – Back to the Shit

I never seem to tire of the sheer grottiness of this album cover. Millie Jackson, Slacker Slack salutes you.

Buy it here (warning – it’s not as cheap as it looks)