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    The worst album covers ever #3: illustrated

    Chris VinnicombeJune 5, 2009, 15:29 GMT

    • A curiously phallic book and cake-eating ape sucks its fingers at the beach. Quite frankly, this is a mystery to us tooFleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me
    • Because nothing says 'young forever' like lion sex. Still, they'll sleep tonightAberfeldy - Young Forever
    • In 1975, percussionist Mickey Finn left T.Rex and produced this illustration for The Kinks. We're not sure how many other commissions followed in its wakeThe Kinks - Schoolboys In Disgrace
    • We've censored this one slightly, but you get the idea. Featuring such demure beat combos as Vagitarians, Anal Penetration and I Shit On Your Face, this isn't a compilation album for your nanVarious Artists - Uncontrolled Laxative Abuse
    • Nothing says 1986 quite like this dreadful sweet shop explosion of ill-advised huesQueen - A Kind Of Magic
    • No, we don't fancy theirs much eitherMay Blitz - May Blitz
    • "Guys, I've got this great idea for the album cover! I'm thinking giant lunar weiner roast..."Crosby, Stills & Nash - Live It Up
    • Mr Lobster went to great lengths to circumvent the 'no denim' door policyNantucket - Nantucket
    • We're guessing that any album that features a track entitled Burning Nipples isn't entirely seriousDethkorpz - Metal Tit
    • There's something about the MS Paint stylings that we can't help liking. Or maybe at this stage we've seen so much bad artwork that anything looks goodFrank Black - The Cult Of Ray
    • Fact: country star George Jones once attempted to play a whole concert singing in a Donald Duck voiceGeorge Jones - I Wanta Sing
    • From a band who are no strangers to 'worst album covers ever' rundowns such as this, here's another truly awful effort. Guitarist Uli Jon Roth: "It looked ludicrous to me back then and looks just as bad today."Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
    • Amazingly naff graphics make this album cover look like the packaging for a 1980s children's toy. Remarkably, it was released in 1975Bonnie Raitt - Home Plate
    • Comfortably the worst album title in history, the cover makes us sick in our mouthsLimp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
    • Pantera's debut album was produced by Dimebag and Vinnie Paul's dad and released on the band's own label. We're guessing that the budget ran out shortly before the time came to design the artworkPantera - Metal Magic
    • Another LP that's unlikely to be in your grandmother's record collectionJohnny Otis - Snatch And The Poontangs
    • If The League Of Gentlemen's fictional band Creme Brulee were real, their albums would have covers like thisThe Human Instinct - Stoned Guitar
    • More hellish eighties-style graphics that actually originated in the 1970s. Isn't it clever how the band's name is incorporated into a face? No?XTC - Drums And Wires
    • "Wow, look at that f**king massive bunch of grapes."Moby Grape - Wow
    • Another one we've had to edit, featuring a man ****ing in a ****'s *****, after ****ing it out of its mother's ****. Google it, if you mustWhore - Unfinished Business
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