Strange, cringeworthy, and WTF album covers. Share your favorites

Women in the 80s. And the socks always had lace.

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Not always, but mostly always.

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Brings back some ZZ Top video memories.

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Say what you like about those guys, but they know how to tear up a dancefloor. Their wedding parties are legendary.

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This one is pretty bad. I’m not sure exactly why I bought it either.

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I’m not ready to give up on this thread yet.

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That Al Jolson one is terrifying!

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Makes me wonder what Volume One must have been like.

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D… Did he fossilize like that?

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Here’s one I stumbled across the other day:

You can always count on clowns to add a “nope” factor to just about… well, anything.

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…and the '50s to add the rest of the “nope” factor.

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You mean the bow-tie, right? Hideous!

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Personally I find this one delicious, and not at all cringeworthy. Sort of a classic.

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The parody of that cover is pretty legendary among bad album art enthusiasts (even though they miss that it’s meant to be a parody):

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I think there is actually a website devoted to all the parody versions of the infamous Herb Alpert cover. This one might be the first.

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I wonder when that Jolson album was produced?

1983 :astonished:

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Why am I not surprised… of course, how late did the BBC show the Black and White minstrel show air? Was in the mid 70s? 1978, it looks like!

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