Big Red's Worst Album covers

Note: First, I haven't quite mastered the Mac world yet and haven't figured out how to get the album covers to work. Secondly, I found out while trying to come up with bad album covers that generally I either liked them, or they were so standard that I had no real dislike of them. I googled worst album covers and that just brought up a bunch of albums and artists from the 60s and 70s that I had never heard of. So for the most part I picked out albums from my collection that I liked the least.

10. Just Push Play - Aerosmith
Never was wild about the pink background and Robot chick. They were trying to be a little brave with this one and I don't think it worked. I think Aerosmith like Van Halen could pop their logo on the front of every album and be okay.

9. 15 - Buckcherry
I like this album and see that these hardrockers have a new one out that I might want to give a listen too. But the cover with a close up of a dirty finger getting pricked by a needle and blood pouring out is just a little too blunt for me.

8. Silver Side Up - Nickelback
This has a big green eye on the front crying silver tears. I think it'd be a great cover for some Sci-Fi or Fantasy book, but I don't get how any of it including the album title fits with the music.

7. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
This album spawned a couple of my favorite Beatles tunes like Penny Lane and Your Mother Should Know, but the whole concept is a little too drugged out for me. The guys in costumes in front is bizarre and all the color is a little over the top.

6. Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
This album put the Peppers on the global market, but I never got into the cover art. It has the four members faces acting as a frame for the album with their tongues sort interlocking. Just not my thing I guess.

5. Some Girls - The Rolling Stones
This has the four guys in different woman's wigs on the front and is made out to look like some kind of newspaper ad with the four colors in the background. The other thing about this album is that you can' find the song list on the outside anywhere. I hate when bands do that.

4. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
This is the paramount album from probably one of the top five bands of the 60s and you have them playing with some goats on the front? I think this really hurt the album as much as the Beatles releasing Sgt. Peppers at the same time. It really made the Beach Boys look like yesterday's band and the Beatles tomorrows.

3. In the Dark - The Grateful Dead
Upside down faces on a black backdrop. I get the reference for the title, but don't we all expect a little more creative from the band that made Tie Dye popular. At least gets us a skull or two in there somewhere. I mean they're the Dead. Let's play that up a little more.

2. Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Usually I am all for female nudity, but come on the girl on this cover is like 11 years old. These guys were all in their 30s and 40s by the time this came out. Anyone else think this is a little weird. They couldn't even make this album cover today. They'd be put in jail for it. I don't see the point or the art in it.

1. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Okay it took people how long to figure out Elton John was gay. Look back at this cover of a cartoon him straddling a piano and tell me you didn't suspect something then. Plus, my god like at the title of this thing. All together it's really campy, which was sort of John's thing, but a little too much so here.