Least favorite album cover?

riley540
riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
edited August 2017 in The Porch
Which album cover do you not like the most? 

Least favorite album cover? 159 votes

Ten
9%
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VS
7%
Force Of Natureaustinevolution10lastexitlondonClonehrd2imgnI am a patriotMRMACPHISTO75PapALauxtylermooreKysmith72hihobibo 12 votes
Vitalogy
1%
DW139059jhager79Eddiefam 3 votes
No Code
4%
pjhawksOnWis97Kearn5yhm210980rgambsnortherndragonriley540 7 votes
Yield
1%
aurelguguswhampwhamp414 2 votes
Binaural
2%
bosshogg18cjzolyPJfanwillneverleave1Stickman24 4 votes
Riot act
7%
mcgruff10spnooneYefaedoconPA JammerJimmyVRP112579Verbasanhuntersthompsonrbrum7JeremyV135Bine75 12 votes
Pearl Jam
22%
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Backspacer
31%
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Lightning bolt
11%
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Binaural
    Great Poll OP!  
  • riley540
    riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    No Code
    No love for back spacer 
  • Stickman24
    Stickman24 Posts: 210
    Binaural
    Binaural 
  • Nami
    Nami Newfoundland Posts: 5,999
    Backspacer
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:
    Great Poll OP!  
    riley540 said:
    No love for back spacer 
    Stickman24 said:
    Binaural 
    I think all all of you read the question wrong....

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  • drummerboy_73
    drummerboy_73 Las Vegas, NV Posts: 2,011
    Pearl Jam
    Self-titled is my least favorite. Great album, but the cover is the least creative in my opinion.
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  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    Backspacer
     Not a big cartoon guy 
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Ten
    Just beats out Backspacer.  I'm not a big fan of Tom Tomorrow but I do like some of the Backspacer art. Just not all of it together.  Ten's cover, though, never been a big fan of album covers with band members on them.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Ten
    "Pearl Jam" would be my 3rd least favorite because I hate how everyone calls the album fucking "Avocado."
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,516
    Lightning bolt
    not a big fan of the cover art on this one. the band pics in the book, however, I love. 
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  • RideTheWave93
    RideTheWave93 UK Posts: 211
    Pearl Jam
    drummerboy_73 said:
    Self-titled is my least favorite. Great album, but the cover is the least creative in my opinion.
    +1
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,516
    Lightning bolt
    drummerboy_73 said:
    Self-titled is my least favorite. Great album, but the cover is the least creative in my opinion.
    reminds me of pop art. I dig it. 
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,637
    edited August 2017
    Pearl Jam
    This is making me think most of their album covers are pretty terrible. Vs - No Code are really the only solid ones. Binaural is pretty good too.  The rest range from passable to terrible. 


    TBH, their single art (both commercial and fan club) has been infinitely better than album art. 
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 15,980
    Backspacer
    Backspacer is by far my least favorite. 
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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,381
    Ten
    Ten is easily the worst. Super cheesy group high five. The reissue is slightly better with changing that really bad pink coloring of the original. 

    I love the rest of their album covers. Especially No Code & Binaural easily my two favorites 
  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,620
    Lightning bolt
    Can't stand the red, black, white together. But what really ruins it is all I can see is a strange dog shape when I look at it. 
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  • whoanelly15
    whoanelly15 Posts: 742
    Backspacer
    Binaural is the coolest (cover and music, really ;) and Vitalogy is so classic. I remember it being the first CD that I had that didn't have the standard plastic case.

    Surprised at the dislike for Ten. I guess it is pretty cheesy. I took notice of PJ and began listening at VS. Animal especially grabbed me, so I guess the "5 against 1" thing was already a rally cry for me. The Ten cover represented that to me, even if I took it a bit out of context.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,692
    edited August 2017
    Backspacer
    I Just really don't like the art on this album at all. I find it annoying (I guess it does go well with the music on the album in that case, but still, lol).
    My fave is probably Binaural.
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  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    Backspacer
    Vitalogy is my favourite in spite of it being a pain in the ass back in 1994 trying to line it up with the rest of my CD's that were in those jewel cases. 
    Like some of you have said, Ten is a bit cheesy but I think I let the actual music of BS get the best of me here and chose it instead.

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Lightning bolt
    LB just didn't do it for me.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,482
    Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam is visual disaster. Sort of. Just so weird how they come to the decision to go with that art direction.

    Backspacer doesn't have an illustration-style I really dig. The digital coloring and the gradients looks cheap. It is also weird having the cover split up in 9 tiles like that. Maybe should have been 9 variants instead.

    Lightning bolt looks like "adobe illustrator tutorial for beginners No1". Not a fan of that clean look. Didn't work at all printed and on t-shirts and such. 

    Riot Act, Vitalogy and No Code are the champs.
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