Sure, finding bad album covers is easy to do – whole books and websites have been devoted to the failed and unintentionally humorous in album cover art. Yet, usually in those examples the music is just as bad as the cover. What’s more interesting to me is when bad album covers happen to good albums….
Tag: Black Sabbath
Rush, Hell & the Summer of ’81
The stream turned blood orange red that summer. Back in the woods behind the apartment complex where I lived, my friends and I had spent the previous years building small dams, floating things and basically just hanging out. The stream was a drainage stream, and not long after spring had melted into languorous longer days,…
Halloweeny
My three favorite spooky creepy halloweeny album covers: ANY CHARACTER HERE Black Sabbath’s first album, from 1970, has a cover shot taken at an old mill in England by Marcus Keef (photographer of many 1960’s/1970’s album covers). The infrared film that was used creates a very surreal, otherworldy aura, heightened by the autumnal-wintry landscape. The…
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