Least favorite album cover?

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  • evsgjamm
    evsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    edited August 2017
    Pearl Jam
    riley540 said:
    No love for back spacer 
    If I operated the trap door chair switch, you'd go through the floor. bahhhhhhh (full transparency; a vote against No Code album cover!) 
    Post edited by evsgjamm on
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  • pljam
    pljam Posts: 387
    Backspacer reminds me of something KISS would have put out around the late 70's really a very ordinary album cover and that is being polite.
  • silvo
    silvo Posts: 294
    Pearl Jam
    Voting self titled, I don't mind the cover art but can't get past the inner sleeves, band images, etc. Love the album tho
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,831
    Backspacer
    Abe Froman said:
    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 
    Thats exactly why I love that one. Its clear evidence what and who was emerging from that 80s scene. The clothes are amazing! Tights and all.
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,831
    Backspacer
    Really a toss up out of the last 4 for me, but I think Backspacer snuck in.
  • BettrMan21
    BettrMan21 Chattanooga,Tn Posts: 291
    Backspacer

    I just simply don't like it. Tom Tomorrow is a great artist but this just didn't work for me.

    Yield for the win.

  • huntersthompson
    huntersthompson Posts: 1,031
    Riot act
    drummerboy_73 said:
    Self-titled is my least favorite. Great album, but the cover is the least creative in my opinion.
    The fact that the cover has forced us to call it the "Avocado album" is reason enough to vote against self-titled.....
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,693
    edited August 2017
    Backspacer
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    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.
    I am not in love with the cover (I don't hate it either - I mean, it's a halved avocado. How is that THAT bad? ;) ). But the inner gatefold art on that album is super duper cool IMO. I find it impossible to separate that from the front of it.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Pearl Jam
    huntersthompson said:
    drummerboy_73 said:
    Self-titled is my least favorite. Great album, but the cover is the least creative in my opinion.
    The fact that the cover has forced us to call it the "Avocado album" is reason enough to vote against self-titled.....
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,467
    Backspacer
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Ten
    We should get @MedozK to do an Album Cover weakest link.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,516
    Lightning bolt
    PJ_Soul said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    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.
    I am not in love with the cover (I don't hate it either - I mean, it's a halved avocado. How is that THAT bad? ;) ). But the inner gatefold art on that album is super duper cool IMO. I find it impossible to separate that from the front of it.
    excellent point. 
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  • riley540
    riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    No Code
    HesCalledDyer said:
    We should get @MedozK to do an Album Cover weakest link.
    That would be sweet. @MedozK is more than welcome to use these results and a conclusion to round 1. 
  • evsgjamm
    evsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    Pearl Jam
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
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  • riley540
    riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    No Code
    evsgjamm said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
    There's a set of lips on No Code that I just don't like very much. It's an an annoying set of lips to me. 
  • evsgjamm
    evsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    Pearl Jam
    hahaha. Just laughing over here. Fair enough to the odd set of lips.
    That cover, when I first saw it in my early teen years, was all kinds of confusing to me too. Creepy in ways. Probably because of those damn lips! hahah.
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  • whoanelly15
    whoanelly15 Posts: 742
    Backspacer
    riley540 said:
    evsgjamm said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
    There's a set of lips on No Code that I just don't like very much. It's an an annoying set of lips to me. 

    This gave me the giggles. Never heard lips described as "annoying" before.
  • DW139059
    DW139059 Posts: 365
    Vitalogy

    I don't like letters with swirls...

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  • evsgjamm
    evsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    Pearl Jam
    haha. ahhhhhh too funny. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,482
    edited September 2017
    Pearl Jam
    DW139059 said:

    I don't like letters with swirls...

    riley540 said:
    evsgjamm said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
    There's a set of lips on No Code that I just don't like very much. It's an an annoying set of lips to me. 


    Yeah, that must really make it worse than this...


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