Worst Album Covers of All Time
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These are hilarious. Check out the slide show.
These are hilarious. Check out the slide show.
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Thanks a lot, Kelly! I laughed so hard I had an asthma attack!
You're kidding, right? Anyway, Devastatin' Dave is definitely my favorite. That is some solid old-school rap right there. You can't tell that he raps about life on the streets, with a title like "Zip Zap Rap." And,his slavery to the turntable is a metaphor for his family's servitude at the hands of white plantation owners.
No, I really did have an asthma attack. Though my attacks are always mild, no trips to the emergency room, they are attacks which strike whenever I have a good long laugh, among other times. I use an inhaler whenever that happens. I didn't recognize any of the artists, but my favorite is probably "Jamie's Sixteenth Birthday". I really think the guy is supposed to be her dad, right? O.K., maybe not, but the beer and the cigarette are what made me laugh. The props are what make it so hilarious.
I got this from Wikipedia:
"Turntable slaves were common in southern plantations since the advent of the phonograph. For some freed blacks, scratching the phonograph records at white ballroom dances was seen as the best job available."
OK, I didn't really so much as get that from anywhere. It was more like I completely pulled it out of my ass.
Some other frightenig facts:
Jim Post (the naked wet [and sexy] man with the mustache) has released 14 albums since 1973. Since at least 2001, however, they appear to be all children's albums. Would you let your child listen to that creepy man? If you would, he released Alphabet Songs in May of this year.
Millie Jackson has released 12 albums since 1974. The cover of her 1989 album Back to the Shit depicts her sitting on a toilet. The label Weird Wreckus has apparently seen fit to allow her to release music as recently as 2001.
Pooh-man has released an album as recently as 2001, and in fact did a live album in San Quentin in 1997. That's all I'm willing to say about him.
You already know about the Village People.
In my search for information about Devastatin' Dave, I came across the name of a group called "The Department of Homeboy Security." There's also "Devastating" and "Devastation" and, of course, the timeless "Devastator X."
Ah, another list of worst album covers ever. This one begins with Devastatin' Dave:
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This list is more comprehensive and infinitely more disturbing. Millie Jackson appears a number of times. Included is David Ingles's smash hit Satan Has Been Paralyzed. There's three pages, and thank God someone recognized Andrew W.K.'s first album as having a terrible cover.
Now for Devastatin' Dave: he is now known as Devastatin' Dave the Cyberslave (you have to update with the times). His more recent album is called Havin' a Dream and it depicts the hotel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, if I'm not mistaken. You can listen to his music here, but I'm too frightened to do it myself. You can also purchase Devastatin' Dave merchandise here, although I think they're selling it just to make fun of him, although if that's their goal they may be taking it too far (they have dog t-shirts, coffee mugs, thongs, and more).
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