I listen to Pandora and Spotify all day long, and today a Bob Seger song started playing and I couldn’t look away from the album cover… it was like a long haired, feathered, bearded train wreck… staring uncomfortably at me from the record cover… the look on his face like he just shrugged his shoulders and mumbled, “Wha yah gonna dooh?” in total acceptance of his feathered-mullet fate.
In some ways, album covers are a nice snapshot of our culture. They’re style and art wrapped in an attempt to make a statement. The funniest and most entertaining album covers seem to come out of the 60’s and 70’s, but we can still find plenty of awkward photos well through the 80’s.
And so, while it’s not the first time done on the Internet to show funny album covers, given what some of the post topics are here on POLITUSIC “album cover art” is something we should do to pull all the topics together. We did our best to dig up some funny and awkward albums that are a little less known, so without further delay…
Our favorite funny album covers:
These are some of our favorite funny, strange, bizzarre album covers after a brief search online. If you have any more to share, go ahead. Posting album covers seems like a good combination of art and music (and in Reagan’s case adding even politics) which is fitting for this site. Post your own priceless album art ;)
But we should talk about album cover / art effectiveness… maybe some of these record covers are so strange on purpose… I mean… If I was in a record store (… wait… what’s a record store?) and walked by a stack of albums, but one was one of these… I’d stop and pick the thing up to see if I was having some sort of strange flashback event.
In the end, even album covers ARE art: photography, graphics, and somehow having a vision for the final design that reflects what the music is like inside. Wow. Pandora’s box with some of these (like how I tied that back in?) ;)
So, whether your personal album cover has you naked, smirking awkwardly, or looking like a 1950’s wall flower destined for the nunnery, rock your own album cover. Be proud and put it on the shelf.
So to all the photographers, graphic designers, and maybe even, dare we say, pure and inspired visionaries who created these timeless covers to what I’m sure are also timeless records: POLITUSIC salutes you!
