Worst Album Covers

[ImaStupidBaby]

the scorpions album with the naked 10 year old with the glass crack covering her vagina. yeah, I think thats probably the worst one.

Virgin Killer is the album I think.

 

[Vorago]

And the drummer made a necklace out of pieces of his skull.

Gotta love Mayhem


And Manowar are dead serious

 

[invader3k]

the scorpions album with the naked 10 year old with the glass crack covering her vagina. yeah, I think thats probably the worst one.

Virgin Killer is the album I think.

You are correct.

What the heck were they thinking with that one? "Yeah, this one will make everyone think we're pedophiles! Rock on!"

 

[Baryonyx]

What the heck were they thinking with that one? "Yeah, this one will make everyone think we're pedophiles! Rock on!"

Wasn't Gary Glitter in the production chair for that one? And Pete Townsend guesting on guitars?

 

[StanFan]

The Blind Faith album is another bad one for similar reasons to Virgin Killer.

 

[peaveyuser]

Wasn't Gary Glitter in the production chair for that one? And Pete Townsend guesting on guitars?

Gary glitter is disgusting!
Pete Townshend's case is kind of controversial after all the children's charity work he does I am more open to believe that he wasn't intentionally engaged in the material since those charities are anti child abuse. Even more so after reading this article.

As part of the Operation Ore investigations, Townshend was cautioned by the police in 2003 after acknowledging a credit card access in 1999 to the Landslide website alleged to advertise child pornography. He claimed in the press and on his website to have been engaged in research for A Different Bomb (a now-abandoned book based on an anti-child pornography essay published on his website in January 2002), his autobiography and as part of a campaign against child pornography. The police searched his house and confiscated 14 computers and other materials and after a four-month forensic investigation confirmed that they had found no evidence of child abuse images. Consequently, the police offered a caution rather than pressing charges, issuing a statement: "After four months of investigation by officers from Scotland Yard's child protection group, it was established that Mr Townshend was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images." In a statement issued by his solicitor , Townshend said, "I accept that I was wrong to access this site, and that by doing so, I broke the law, and I have accepted the caution that the police have given me." As a statutory consequence of accepting the caution, Townshend was entered on the Violent and Sex Offender Register for five years. This would normally prevent travel abroad, but in Townshend's case such restrictions have been waived, making possible his numerous concert performances with and without The Who since receiving the caution.

A later investigator stated that he was "falsely accused". After obtaining copies of the Landslide hard drives and tracing Townshend's actions, investigative journalist Duncan Campbell wrote in PC Pro Magazine, "Under pressure of the media filming of the raid, Townshend appears to have confessed to something he didn't do." Campbell states that Townshend accessed a single site which was not connected with child pornography.

The more you know.

 

[peaveyuser]

The Blind Faith album is another bad one for similar reasons to Virgin Killer.

ya I just saw both covers on wiki and I regret seeing them , very very very disturbing :scowl:

 

[Audiophage]

There is something very odd about this album cover.

 

[Spector_Ray]

You know, I remember my mom having this LP in her collection when I was little. Even in my naive youth, I knew there was something wrong about it.

 

[ImaStupidBaby]

ya I just saw both covers on wiki and I regret seeing them , very very very disturbing :scowl:

i wonder how those are even legal? i mean, i doubt wikipedia would have anything illegal on their website but damn.

 

[Rattman]

the scorpions album with the naked 10 year old with the glass crack covering her vagina. yeah, I think thats probably the worst one.

Virgin Killer is the album I think.

I just looked this up because I thought you were just kidding about the LP cover shot... you weren't. I've seen strange covers, but that is not cool. :scowl:

 

[ImaStupidBaby]

Yeah, and the title of the album doesn't help a whole lot either.

 

[Rattman]

There is something very odd about this album cover.

I'm wondering what the photographer was thinking when the shot was composed. Not a flattering lay-out by any means. I mean why not have the big guy behind everyone else, and move the smallish dude out in front as to be better seen? I have no idea.. I wonder if that decision affected LP sales or concert numbers?