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Least favorite album cover?

riley540riley540 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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  • PJfanwillneverleave1PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Binaural
    Great Poll OP!  
  • riley540riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    No Code
    No love for back spacer 
  • Stickman24Stickman24 Posts: 210
    Binaural
    Binaural 
  • NamiNami Newfoundland Posts: 5,998
    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....

    hehehe
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  • drummerboy_73drummerboy_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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  • pledgeagrievancepledgeagrievance Posts: 2,873
    Backspacer
     Not a big cartoon guy 
  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,459
    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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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,459
    Ten
    "Pearl Jam" would be my 3rd least favorite because I hate how everyone calls the album fucking "Avocado."
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,986
    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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  • RideTheWave93RideTheWave93 UK Posts: 210
    Pearl Jam
    drummerboy_73 said:
    Self-titled is my least favorite. Great album, but the cover is the least creative in my opinion.
    +1
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,986
    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 SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,890
    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. 
  • on2legson2legs Posts: 15,607
    Backspacer
    Backspacer is by far my least favorite. 
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  • Abe FromanAbe Froman Posts: 5,340
    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 
  • drakeheuer14drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,557
    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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  • whoanelly15whoanelly15 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_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,352
    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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  • rummyrummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,458
    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.

  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,109
    Lightning bolt
    LB just didn't do it for me.
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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,196
    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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  • evsgjammevsgjamm 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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  • pljampljam 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.
  • silvosilvo 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
  • mace1229mace1229 Posts: 9,668
    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.
  • mace1229mace1229 Posts: 9,668
    Backspacer
    Really a toss up out of the last 4 for me, but I think Backspacer snuck in.
  • BettrMan21BettrMan21 Chattanooga,Tn Posts: 288
    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.

  • huntersthompsonhuntersthompson Posts: 1,003
    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_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,352
    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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  • deadendpdeadendp 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_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,801
    Backspacer
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
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