LIVE! Contrarians Chat: HORRIBLE Last Album Covers!

Can't hear most of what Martin is saying.

The last Dire Straits album--great music, terrible cover. It was a contract obligation, it began as a Mark Knopfler solo album, before MK's agent/lawyers called him Fix your mic, Martin

The Rick James album cover reminds me of Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s

Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension Pat Benatar - Go Extreme - Six Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards Grand Funk - What's Funk The Cars - Move Like This Foreigner - Can't Slow Down Twisted Sister - Love is For Suckers Thunder - Dopamine Gamma - 4

That last Kiss album epitomizes that band, everything they did is contrived.

Great discussion, I could not hear Martin. At all unfortunately.

A Different Kind of Truth- Van Halen Blind Faith- S/ T

Wow, the audio 😬

Grand Funk-What’s Funk? A woman wearing a yellow dress and holding jumper cables?

Re: that Billy Joel River of Dreams album cover - I guess he felt a certain pressure to put her painting on the cover to maintain good marital relations (not that it ultimately worked). I suspect David Gilmour might feel a similar pressure to use Polly Samson's lyrics...

“Flaccid Pancake” - sounds like a name for a psychedelic band

My top 10: Aerosmith - Music from another dimension (horrible comic) Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio (Potato printed waves? WTF?) Can - Rite Times (cheap looking weird distorted face) Genesis - Calling all stations (cheap looking for such a big band) Soundgarden - King Animal (looks like some cheap swedish metal album) Slayer - Repentless (weird image, strange composition) Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation (hope for more albums, but that one has a terrible cover) Pink Floyd - The Endless River (CGI kitsch) Nick Drake - Pink Moon (such a beautiful album, such a crappy cover) Love - Reel to real (looks like some new age album with whale noises)

What's up with Martin's microphone?

Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning, looks it was just thrown together by some Arts & Crafts class. And Jim Fitzpatrick who had designed Nightlife, the covers for Jailbreak, Johnny the Fox, Black Rose and Chinatown had a great piece for the album but the label just wouldn't stump up the money, choosing to invest about a fiver on it instead.

Atomic Rooster cover is a picture of a ticker tape parade…

Gotta go with the album I mentioned in chat. Gorefest - Rise To Ruin. Great album musically but always have thought the album cover was kind of goofy and doesn't really fit the band or music. It has these jack in the box type figures on the cover. Still it's a great album despite the cover and would recommend it to any Death Metal fan.

The cover of Hawkwind's latest (and possibly last) album, Stories from Time and Space, is pretty awful - it looks like it was designed using free computer software.

I'll throw in Alan Parsons Project - Gaudi. Also, Small World was another Huey Lewis & The News album that just featured Huey on the front cover.

Be-Bop Deluxe-Drastic Plastic is pretty lame. I think there’s a Zucchini on it.

I agree on the 13th album cover. What a pathetic way to end your career. PS: Martin, I have that Budgie cover on a t-shirt, looks amazing.