The lack of self-awareness on most of these is shockingly hilarious. Also, my new goal is to make "Lord, lubricate my bones" into a common catchphrase.
Some people getting mastered by the Lord of "business" could not accept that others could propose funnier stuff than what is preached by "holy" consumer strategies of big business, "my Lord" ?
One of the Christian cable channels held a 'trial' to determine if Pat had really gone bad. They found him innocent (of course he's innocent: he's Pat F'n BOONE!!).
I've always thought I was born in the wrong time, because I genuinely love a lot of these covers, especially some of the ones lacking taste, and think it's sad that they are all so perfect and airbrushed nowadays. Also Cucumber Castle is an epic cover!
that album cover at 9:31 by "catholic girls" IS EXCELLENT! and the "eddie mack" cover at 2:06 looks pretty yummy too! and those covers beginning at 10:30, or so, i can't read the time stamp, are parodies of herb alpert's album cover for "whipped cream & other delights." they're intentionally silly. and so is the wonderful cover at 6:12 for the "john and vicki jo witty" album "family portait." lastly, why on earth would anyone name their album "all my friends are dead?" its better to have dead friends than no friends at all - ain't it?
"There is nothing that bothers a non-conformist more that another non-conformist who refuses to conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity!"
That album made her rich!! It was a big best seller of her most famous Broadway show tunes set to disco music! She re-recorded every single song on that album with a LIVE orchestra backing her up!
I would imagine it's from the "Bizarre Records" website we often see on the album covers. Not to be confused with the "Bizarre Records " released by Frank Zappa.
That's the dumbest and most ignorant comment in these mentions. If you actually believe that, then that explains a lot. Before the tech everyone had to be able to play an instrument. Even the most average session musician was far more technically accompished than the biggest star of the last 10 years. Popular music is now mostly about the optics and the musicianship takes a back seat.
@@Gough-jf9zf Proof? How do you KNOW that? or is a case of YOU thinking that conservatives are not clever. If that's the case you are WRONG. 50+ years later, conservatives make the BEST memes!
@@jamesslick4790 You're reading a shitload into the 11 word sentence I posted. I said nothing about conservatives. Perhaps YOU are overly sensitive. Do you mean conservatives as the subject of memes? In that case I'd agree, they provide so much ammunition. Badges with Au H20 were around in 1963, the band formed mid 1964. I assume somebody in the Goldwater campaign thought it up. Wouldn't they be conservatives? Hey, look, a clever conservative.
Why some of these performers weren't told "Hey - you don't HAVE to be on the cover" is beyond me. This video is also proof that nobody is immune from having a bad album cover - no matter how well known you are.
It wasnt until the late 60s that album covers got really creative, before that they were mostly made to advertise the artist and their collection of songs ("album")
These ‘Worst Album Cover’ videos are hilarious !! Absolute gems 🤣😁 I had myself in fits of laughter 1 morning for hours watching them and almost choked I laughed so hard ! Thank you !! What is the song/are the songs playing in the background of this video, though ? Very funky 🤩
0:23 Is that even real? All I can think of is The Simpsons episode where Kirk Vanhouten got dumped by his wife, bet on himself and made "Can I Borrow A Feeling".
Marc Frana Band "You asked for it" Standing in front of the paneling and behind his weapons of choice: Accordions. It all looks and sounds like a not too veiled threat...😳
Was the music at around 2:38, when the "carpet" album cover came on, a continuation of the opening music? If not, what is the music taken from? I really liked the long guitar jam from 2:38. Also, that Edgar Winter album cover was truly awful and creepy. 🤮🤮🤮
They didn't have to have a picture of the girl on the cover . Maybe a pair of hands together in prayer . That's the main mistake with these album covers . The artists think an album cover must be a god awful picture of themselves. Many of the great album covers in history featured incredible artwork. The titles are cringeworthy, too
I actually saw a few of these albums new, in shrink wrap, on the shelf for sale such as the album of Ringo Starr, Twisted Sister, Village People. There was one artist which I saw in concert live, Merrill Womach. His testimony was entitled, "Tested by Fire." However, my friends joked it should be "Toasted by fire."
I played the Open Face Sandwich Club once. They say if you survive, you need never fear anything ever again. Well, off to my gig at Shakeys Pizza Parlor. Wish me luck!
3:12 And that my friends is the best picture they could find that would make you want to buy that album. But then it may just be made up as it just can't be real, can it?
8:10 Dan whatsisname 'lady's fancy' - I can't imagine he's ever been near a 'lady's fancy' and probably never will (unless it's one of the blind singers )
Imagine you make an album. You write it all, get it recorded, mixed so it sounds just right...Now it's time to do the cover art for your labour of love. You hire a photographer..Pose until you feel you've got the perfect shot... Then post THIS as your album cover 3:11 Edit: should have kept watching... Jesus wept.
I'll never get thru this video at this rate because I'm actually dragging up some of the available records and listening to them . It's almost like a whole new world .........
Dear Eric! Please could you publish the names of the songs in the video. I love the whole playlist! Especially the first song is great! Greetings from Vienna
In the early 70's I had the album The Frivolous 5 . The old ladies were an instrumental group playing songs by Al Hirt and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass . Here in Corpus Christi , Tx. the Naval Base has it's celebration every year by hosting Air Shows . At that festival one of the local radio stations was giving away free albums from its mobile unit . They were transmitting from the Naval Base & that was the album they gave to me . I listened to it a couple of times & I don't know what happened to that album . I wasn't into that type of music and what's strange , was that the radio station didn't play that type of music. This was back in 1971 mostly my grandparents were the ones listening to that album . I guess that's one reason the radio station got rid of that album .
I have the album shown at 3:36. The deliberately mis-spelt "Teartul Walking" (track #5) is very long with a rather slow tempo. The cover notes mention that you can take the title to mean "Tearful Waking" or "Turtle Walking". Pure genius. Either way, I've found it's a great song to listen to as you drag yourself out of bed first thing on a Monday morning.
00:19. The Faithtones, David Mitchell, Stephen Fry and Eddie Izzard in Beehive Drag. for you non-Brits, 3 VERY Funny and Famous people in Great Britain, well worth the google Wayne Carr really Wayne Carr .... uh huh
Ive just seen Part 1 , w/Uncle Buds Hospital Experience. I surrender. You win. The man who persuaded a record company to fund this should be teaching at Harvard Business School.
The lack of self-awareness on most of these is shockingly hilarious. Also, my new goal is to make "Lord, lubricate my bones" into a common catchphrase.
Some people getting mastered by the Lord of "business" could not accept that others could propose funnier stuff than what is preached by "holy" consumer strategies of big business, "my Lord" ?
Think I'll go bleach my eyes now
Sorry, but that Pat Boone album cover is awesome. I was working in a record store when that came out.
Who knew he was so METAL?
@@constancewessel3906 He was the next-door neighbour of the Osbournes.
@@kimmathis1945 And a friend of/golfing partner of Alice Cooper
One of the Christian cable channels held a 'trial' to determine if Pat had really gone bad. They found him innocent (of course he's innocent: he's Pat F'n BOONE!!).
@@constancewessel3906Do you remember when he got in trouble with Christians for wearing a black leather jacket to an award show?
Just when I thought the Braillettes had it, up popped "All my friends are dead".
that's a song by Turbo Negro ! who ripped off who?😁
The Brailletes' big hit was their cover of the Bee Gees' "I Can't See Nobody."
Laughed so hard at your comment!
5:45 It is an absolute travesty that Shag Connors Carrot Crunchers never hit the big time!
Edgar Winter's They Only Come Out at Night is after all, HIGHLY recommended!!
2:06 The problem with the Eddie Mack cover is that the photographer was on the wrong side of the room.
wjlintz yup and 9.34 looks like start of adult video
YEP
Folk Songs that bug the liberals 🤣
Just where is the Open Faced Sandwich Club?
people bought it to see the B-side
The Edgar Winter Group album was seen showcased in every record store at the time. It contained the huge #1 hit "Frankenstein." An iconic cover.
Music to drill oil wells by. Must have it!
Can we also bug the liberals at the same time?
I assume the follow-up album was called Frackin' Tracks.
Loudest fucking record ever.
I only like their early stuff
I worked on offshore drilling rigs for many years. I NEVER heard that album!
"Music for washing and ironing"- the perfect love gift for your stressed out partner!
Somehow Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'" became "Washing and Ironing!"
Loved washing, hated ironing!!
Each Women's Studies class should have one!
I just smelled under-the-stairs mold and damp
Slow down so we can read the freaking thing!
try pausing
@@jamesbaker8653 yes, but another worst album cover video gives at least 10 seconds...
No. This way there is more to see. You can slow it down if you want.
No problem for me.
Try settings wheel
Best title: All my friends are dead. Hilarious and depressing at the same time.
I've always thought I was born in the wrong time, because I genuinely love a lot of these covers, especially some of the ones lacking taste, and think it's sad that they are all so perfect and airbrushed nowadays. Also Cucumber Castle is an epic cover!
Duly NOTED.....
Very nostalgic for sure, I think Cucumber castle looks cool too.
It contains one of my favorite song from the which is IOIO, though a 2000s cover became the much well known
Cucumber looks fine to me, too. Wonder what it means?
that album cover at 9:31 by "catholic girls" IS EXCELLENT! and the "eddie mack" cover at 2:06 looks pretty yummy too! and those covers beginning at 10:30, or so, i can't read the time stamp, are parodies of herb alpert's album cover for "whipped cream & other delights." they're intentionally silly. and so is the wonderful cover at 6:12 for the "john and vicki jo witty" album "family portait."
lastly, why on earth would anyone name their album "all my friends are dead?" its better to have dead friends than no friends at all - ain't it?
Music For Washing And Ironing. Well I know what my wife’s getting for her birthday.
HAHA!!
Sean M Be prepared for a lot of trouble! Lol!
You'll be sleeping in the dog house...
For the comment alone...
😂😂😂
That would be a hilarious gag gift.
...and she'll be getting you a divorce... :)
"There is nothing that bothers a non-conformist more that another non-conformist who refuses to conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity!"
Did you come up with that? Can I use it?
@@tiki_trash No idea who said it - I just heard it back in beatnik days and remembered it. So I think you you can use it, no problem!
That's easy for you to say !
😏
We had the Edgar Winter album as kids...it was great..
I still have that album. LOL
@@andrewluchsinger I had it too. Damn, where is it? I've got hundreds from the 60s to 70s.
Trout Mask Replica, anyone?
@@patrick5838 wanna sell any? That is if you didn't play them to death.
@@patrick5838 Trout Mask - only if yer trippin', circa pre-1975.
Doesn't make the cover any better
Such tonal whiplash between "Dance Little Bird" and "A Loving Send-off for Frankie Yankovic" 😱
Poor, poor Ringo. He must have been high as all get out to allow that album cover.
How about that Fleetwood Mac cover?
Penekamp11 , Ringo was partying with George somewhere.
I think the all time high as a kite album cover though is probably the photo of Elton John on "Caribou"..lol
There's the yoko influence ya just can't shake.
No no no no, he don’t take it no more.
" I have one song". Thank goodness.
One too many!
Edgar Winter cover scared the hell out of me as a kid
It's actually a pretty good album, though.
Don't know if it qualifies as a "worst." At the time, I thought it was cool enough to keep out of sight from my parents.
One could imagine Kevin Barnes from Of Montreal dressed exactly like him
The album sold inspite of the cover, certainly not because of it!
" Frankenstein " and " Free Ride " .
Note: They only come out at night is a great album.
Is a great album cover
NOTHING wrong with that Eddie Mack cover @ 2:06!!!
Yep I thought the same thing
He’s a Mack-Daddy!
I loved your video!! But could you please show each album cover for a little bit longer, please? I need more time to shake my head.
Yes.
That gave me a good laugh, thanks!
Use the playback wheel and select a slower speed.
You can slow it down or pause.
The Mystery Science Theater of album covers.
Ethel Mermen Does Disco! No!
Doesn't bear thinking about, does it?
There's No Disco like My Disco!!!
That album made her rich!! It was a big best seller of her most famous Broadway show tunes set to disco music! She re-recorded every single song on that album with a LIVE orchestra backing her up!
I'm curious about how you compiled such an impressive collection. Good job, sir.
I would imagine it's from the "Bizarre Records" website we often see on the album covers.
Not to be confused with the "Bizarre Records " released by Frank Zappa.
The Braillettes. Somehow they never had a feel for music
They covered Paul McCartney's "I'm Looking Through You" and "You Won't See Me."
@@randyjordan5521 And of course, their breakthrough cover hit "Touch Me".
They HAD to feel it . . . they couldn't READ it!!
Some covers are really creepy. Special award to the Christian albums.
Even creepier were the atheist albums.
Liked the 'I'll see you in the Rapture' by the Mast Family. There's a lap dancing club near me called The Rapture, never seen them in there though.
Yes, the Christian albums seem to have... em... something that the others don't.
@@bellerophonchallen8861 Cause they were next door at Dunkin Donuts.
@@paulhagen5645 young boys involved.
Those were the days, when EVERYONE got a record deal regardless of any musical talent.
That's the dumbest and most ignorant comment in these mentions.
If you actually believe that, then that explains a lot.
Before the tech everyone had to be able to play an instrument.
Even the most average session musician was far more technically accompished than the biggest star of the last 10 years.
Popular music is now mostly about the optics and the musicianship takes a back seat.
That's funny they normally say that about now
Actually, many of these were released at the artist's expense.
I love the music at 3:18
The Goldwaters with the Au H2o sweaters. Goldwater was a failed presidential nominee back in the 60's. There were bumper stickers with AuH2o.
"Au H2o" is actually clever.
He was destined for greater things in the music world 😂
@@jamesslick4790 Yes, but not thought up by those on the album cover...
@@Gough-jf9zf Proof? How do you KNOW that? or is a case of YOU thinking that conservatives are not clever. If that's the case you are WRONG. 50+ years later, conservatives make the BEST memes!
@@jamesslick4790 You're reading a shitload into the 11 word sentence I posted.
I said nothing about conservatives. Perhaps YOU are overly sensitive.
Do you mean conservatives as the subject of memes? In that case I'd agree, they provide so much ammunition.
Badges with Au H20 were around in 1963, the band formed mid 1964.
I assume somebody in the Goldwater campaign thought it up. Wouldn't they be conservatives? Hey, look, a clever conservative.
Why some of these performers weren't told "Hey - you don't HAVE to be on the cover" is beyond me. This video is also proof that nobody is immune from having a bad album cover - no matter how well known you are.
I'm sure some of the album covers are based on the the performers' vision of what it should look like.
It wasnt until the late 60s that album covers got really creative, before that they were mostly made to advertise the artist and their collection of songs ("album")
I love the musical accompaniment, you have the same musical tase-buds as I do! Thoroughly enjoyable, thank you!
These ‘Worst Album Cover’ videos are hilarious !! Absolute gems 🤣😁 I had myself in fits of laughter 1 morning for hours watching them and almost choked I laughed so hard !
Thank you !!
What is the song/are the songs playing in the background of this video, though ? Very funky 🤩
i was thinking the same! :) lidted my spirits immeasurably.
Numbskull
Funky Yeah by Eddie Bo & The Soul Finders
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@@DadgeCity
It's called a typo ! 🙄😜
@@simpleman5688
I know You are, but what am I !?
(P.s. - it's not nice to call Yourself names). 😉
Lulu Roman was quite famous on "Hee Haw". She lost a LOT of weight in later years.
Yep, she's on that Hee Haw reunion special that's on Netflix.
0:55 It's Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie!
I noticed that too !
2:20 jan brady with her glasses
0:18 Is the girl on the right Stephen Fry?
The paradox of course is all these covers are awesome. I spent decades combing this kinda stuff out of the record bins.
Yeah, we used to hit the thrift shops for 'art.'
Good, but far too quick, not enough time to read many of the titles.
I know what you mean. I ended up changing the playback speed, found in the settings menu.
@@detroitfunk313 I kinda liked the music, lol!
@@tiki_trash Well then these are the perfect album for you. ;-p
try pausing
The music is awesome.
do you know any of the bands or titles
gaz Riley it’s in the description, sorry if I’m late
My mother would've gagged at "Music for Washing and Ironing."
0:23 Is that even real?
All I can think of is The Simpsons episode where Kirk Vanhouten got dumped by his wife, bet on himself and made "Can I Borrow A Feeling".
Steve Mackay: Did anyone noticed that the booklet was upside down?
patricia amaro It’s okay, he can’t read!
I don't want to know what goes on in that 'Cucumber castle.' 😳
How anyone in their right mind could go out and buy "Maddy Genets et son ensemble" (at 3.11 of video) is beyond me. Utterly hilarious.
They were really hot back in the day. People would line up for new releases. (to get out of town). 😉
"I have one song". Hopefully it's a really good one.
The Faith Tones are my favourites - sheer bliss - totally beyond belief.
Watching this, I wasn't sure I was glad I'm not on drugs, or wished I was...
Marc Frana Band "You asked for it"
Standing in front of the paneling and behind his weapons of choice: Accordions. It all looks and sounds like a not too veiled threat...😳
Yeah, is he gonna play 'em or throw 'em?
4:03 Sleazeville. Music included?
5:26 Related to 'Weird Al'? Now I understand...
"The Links" Tell me that guy on the upper right doesn't look like Will Ferrell in a blonde curly wig. 😆
My exact thoughts. He needs to see this.
"Lord, Lubricate My Bones".....and check my oil and washer fluid while you're at it.
😂
Was the music at around 2:38, when the "carpet" album cover came on, a continuation of the opening music? If not, what is the music taken from? I really liked the long guitar jam from 2:38.
Also, that Edgar Winter album cover was truly awful and creepy. 🤮🤮🤮
9:30 Lord Lubricate My Bones??????
It's an unusual way to treat arthritis, but whatever floats his boat...
That's christian slang for boneR.
Stay Hungry a bad cover pic? Are you crazy?! It’s iconic!
Them Heavy Metal guys try to look scary, but the Gospel guys beat 'em hands down!
that twisted sister album cover is a classic, and genuinely funny too.
My parents had the knockers up album
I've got this record at 10:26. It really has great music to eat pizza by.😅
Started my morning with your factual content , Malcolm. !!
Best to you each and everyday!
Some are meant to be bad, but the most impressive ones are the ones that were meant to be taken seriously.
I guess some of these album covers look awful, but if an album is called "A Little Crippled Girl's Prayer", what do you EXPECT the cover to look like?
They didn't have to have a picture of the girl on the cover . Maybe a pair of hands together in prayer .
That's the main mistake with these album covers . The artists think an album cover must be a god awful picture of themselves. Many of the great album covers in history featured incredible artwork.
The titles are cringeworthy, too
I thought the cover and girl looked pretty cute, not the worst one here, Idon'tthinkit was a bad picture of her, he body just looks different.
It's strange that so few of these albums are on spotify.
My probation officer had a fit when I told him I was roadying for The Catholic Girls.
Lucy O’Brien is a power pop queen, but she gave her band such an unfortunate name
Ought to be worst hairdos on an album cover.
7:03 ... An evening of roofies and romance.
Which leads directly to 7:06!
...and necrophilia.
Ethel Merman.... Disco? I'd love to hear that album!
(4:20)
The Fifth member of
"The Village People"?!?!?!?!?!?
What would Pat had said if he'd been offered the chance to be the fifth member of a six-man group?
Don & Seymour @ 4:47 was satirized on a Canadian comedy show as 'Erwyn und Gwinslaw, the Austrian Navy Sailor Frog'!
I actually saw a few of these albums new, in shrink wrap, on the shelf for sale such as the album of Ringo Starr, Twisted Sister, Village People. There was one artist which I saw in concert live, Merrill Womach. His testimony was entitled, "Tested by Fire." However, my friends joked it should be "Toasted by fire."
I actually bought the Village People Renaissance album.
They tried this new image but the music was the same fun style as always.
I played the Open Face Sandwich Club once. They say if you survive, you need never fear anything ever again.
Well, off to my gig at Shakeys Pizza Parlor. Wish me luck!
You just talking about Eddie Mack
@@dannymontoya9469 The ONE. and ONLY!
In Hi-Fi!
I loved going to Shakeys!!!☺️
And what exactly is wrong with the "Cucumber Castle" cover, if you please? BTW background music is bloody "earful"...
1:28 isn't so bad, I wouldn't mind being Ringo at that moment.
Songs for you and you you...but no songs for you!!😮😅😊😢
Collectors really snatched up all those "Kissing the Pink" albums.. 😜
They’re okay. Last Film is a good synth track
I proudly wore my kissing the Pink teeshirt
Scrolling too fast, can't really enjoy these gems. 😅
try pausing
Didn't know dolly parton was a mass of bubbles, and Mrs merman did a disco album that would have been interesting
The album cover of almost any 80's hair band looks stupid to us now. But it's important to remember: They looked stupid then, too.
3:12 And that my friends is the best picture they could find that would make you want to buy that album. But then it may just be made up as it just can't be real, can it?
8:10 Dan whatsisname 'lady's fancy' - I can't imagine he's ever been near a 'lady's fancy' and probably never will (unless it's one of the blind singers )
Imagine you make an album. You write it all, get it recorded, mixed so it sounds just right...Now it's time to do the cover art for your labour of love. You hire a photographer..Pose until you feel you've got the perfect shot...
Then post THIS as your album cover 3:11
Edit: should have kept watching... Jesus wept.
I see that the band "Vikingarna" ("The Vikings" in Swedish) got a spot, its probably the most well known dansband from Sweden 1:20 .
Dansband?
@@muffnman980 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansband
If you wanna extend your collection considerably, check out Todd Rundgren's album covers after Ever Popular Tortured.
I'll never get thru this video at this rate because I'm actually dragging up some of the available records and listening to them . It's almost like a whole new world .........
A strangely inverted world....
Almost!!!
Dear Eric! Please could you publish the names of the songs in the video. I love the whole playlist! Especially the first song is great! Greetings from Vienna
How does a yodelling whistler go?????
3:11 - Maddy Genets et son Ensemble are three of the swingin'est people I think I've ever seen. Party on.
"Where are the dead"? Have a guess. 😅
the Menudo album cover at 6:50 mark before Ricky Martin was part of it.
Ethel Merman disco album. I bet that's a real chart topper!
7:17 And an entire AI industry is born...
Now you've hurt my feelings. I appear on several of those album covers.
0:57 What makes this album cover even more nerdy are the matching sweaters featuring the periodic table elements of gold and water.
In the early 70's I had the album The Frivolous 5 . The old ladies were an instrumental group playing songs by Al Hirt and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass . Here in Corpus Christi , Tx. the Naval Base has it's celebration every year by hosting Air Shows . At that festival one of the local radio stations was giving away free albums from its mobile unit . They were transmitting from the Naval Base & that was the album they gave to me . I listened to it a couple of times & I don't know what happened to that album . I wasn't into that type of music and what's strange , was that the radio station didn't play that type of music. This was back in 1971 mostly my grandparents were the ones listening to that album . I guess that's one reason the radio station got rid of that album .
I have the album shown at 3:36.
The deliberately mis-spelt "Teartul Walking" (track #5) is very long with a rather slow tempo. The cover notes mention that you can take the title to mean "Tearful Waking" or "Turtle Walking". Pure genius. Either way, I've found it's a great song to listen to as you drag yourself out of bed first thing on a Monday morning.
That was painful.
00:19. The Faithtones, David Mitchell, Stephen Fry and Eddie Izzard in Beehive Drag. for you non-Brits, 3 VERY Funny and Famous people in Great Britain, well worth the google
Wayne Carr really Wayne Carr .... uh huh
Ive just seen Part 1 , w/Uncle Buds Hospital Experience. I surrender. You win. The man who persuaded a record company to fund this should be teaching at Harvard Business School.
9:25 I still have the Brother Dave album
We had this album. Hilarious stuff. Brother Dave was a great comedian.
Go to settings and put the playback at .75 or .50 (although the music becomes as bizarre as the visuals at .50)...