The Worst Album Covers of All Time

This is a two-for-one deal on news stories; combining the news that an exhibition of albums with terrible art collected by Steve Goldman is happening at the Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery as well as the upcoming Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This hand picked collection of design calamities was specifically chosen because of their awful artwork - Steve did a similar exhibition which was covered a few years ago. 

You may well discover some great music thumbing through the collection, if you can hold back the vomit having looked at the hundreds of god-awful cover designs on show. Here's more from the article... 

"It is like the invasion of the bunny body snatchers," says JT Thompson, the former lead singer of the 1970s US rock band Peter Rabbitt, as he looks at what is regarded as one of the world's worst record covers. The 1979 album Roadstar shows all five members of the California rock band with their faces morphed on to rabbit bodies, with Thompson emerging, like a terrible dream, smiling from a top hat.

"We had no idea they were going to do it," he said. "This actually came out after we had split up."

The cover is one of several hundred which have gone on display in the latest version of an exhibition that has become something of a phenomenon.

Four years ago the Guardian featured the first Worst Record Covers in the World exhibition in Huddersfield. Since then there have been numerous exhibitions at galleries and festivals, and it will be at the Edinburgh fringe, on display at the Assembly Rooms Studios Bar in George Square later this year.

The Worst Record Covers in the World exhibition opens at Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 6th June. Read about the exhibition here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/07/exhibition-worst-album-covers-ever

Alongside that story is a slightly more straight edged take from classical-music.com who have picked their own selection of terrible Rock album covers. Surely they have some Classical album clangers to pick on! Here's more... 

Great album, terrible cover: 17 legendary LPs with awful artwork Lapses of judgement, signs of the times or just bad taste? These fine albums were let down by disappointing, or just plain bizarre artwork

See the Classical-Music.com article here https://www.classical-music.com/rock/great-albums-terrible-covers

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