Music. Visions. Drugs.
Album covers can often be the aftermath of happy clappy drug abuse. You might be a boring lump of flesh in your real life, but add LSD and suddenly you’re a hero. Your ideas are original, you speak with the voice of a God and everything suddenly makes sense - at least it does to you.
Below are 20 of the world’s weirdest album covers, some of them belonging to the barmiest musicians humanity has ever spawned. Look on in horror, humour or disgust…
20 - The Louvin Brothers
Satan is Real
Gee folks, thanks for telling us. This 1920s Alabama Gospel Band were on their way home from a lynching when they shot this. Probably the forefathers of Satanic Black Metal.
19 - Vikingarna
Kramgoa Låtar 7
Vikingarna, or “The Vikings” were an early 60’s band from Sweden. They were so twisted that they covered a song by the Carpenters.
18 - Pooh Man (MC Pooh)
Funky As I Wanna Be
Scatological Funk-hop. Have a whiff of that mate.
17 - Millie Jackson
Back to the Shit
Probably married to Pooh Man.
16 - Paddy Roberts
Songs For Gay Dogs
Bestiality in the early days.
15 - Heino
S/T
Here’s another culprit. Heinous and German.
14 - The Brothers Johnson
Light up the Night
The Wayans brothers before they got game.
13 - Manowar
Anthology
Heavy Metal, or no metal at all! WIMPS and POSERS, get up: Leave the Hall!
12 - Wire
Take a Terrifying Trip to the Past!
Nosferatu… or Peter O’Toole?
11 - Jim Post
I Love My Life
But your ’tache tells a different story…
10 - Barry Louis Polisar
I Eat Kids and Other Songs for Rebellious Children
What exactly do you mean sir?
9 - Tino
Por Primera Vez
The REAL Emilio EsteVez.
8 - Europe
The Final Countdown
Nothing weird about this.
7 - Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
Love me! Love me!
6 - Country Church
S/T
Not a place you’d like to be.
5 - Richard and Wille
Funky Honkey, Nasty Nigger
Steady on!
4 - Colonel Sanders’ Tijuana Picnic
S/T
Drug-running, prostitution and some racist with a bucket of chicken.
3 - Joyce
S/T
Not exactly what you’d call a MILF.
2 - Picking Up Girls Made Easy
I’ll Take These Two. You Can Take the Rest.
Best album. Ever.
1 - Ray Conniff
Laughter in the Rain
It was all laughs for Ray as he peddled his family to the abandoned lot. It would all be over soon.
