Product Description

There have been some truly awful album titles and designs over the last 50 years. Some covers may be doomed to awfulness by the artist's face-made-for-radio looks or clothing; others by a compelling odd choice of props or layout; many simply by an incomprehensibly strange (or incomprehensible) choice of title or subject. "Seriously Bad Album Covers!" brings together the very worst of the previous two volumes along with a whole new gamut of bad jackets - a total of over 225 album covers whose sheer bad taste ensure they will have a place in the annals of music history for evermore. Accompanied by a fascinating potted history of some of the albums and artists, this book is sure to amuse both music buffs and design aficionados alike.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55086 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 252 pages

About the Author
Nick DiFonzo has dedicated many years of his life to visiting obscure record shops in search of the ultimate bad album cover. He lives in Houston, Texas, and is the author of the previous New Holland titles Worst Album Covers in the World Vol. 1 & 2.

Customer Reviews

Does what it says on the cover.
Here we have the kitsch and the truly awful album covers. (Or should that be the all bum covers??) As you can imagine the majority are from America where I guess the market is so big they can publish anything. The UK contributions range from the budget priced disco albums by Percy No one and his allstar swingers type groups. This is reminds me of those really boring Sundays when everything was closed and Dad would put on his truly awful sing a long singers type of records on the old Dansette! This was my idea of hell. I guess being surrounded by rack upon rack of this stuff would give anyone nightmares.
Suffice to say I personally think that a few of the covers are not half bad. I'm thinking of Elkie Brookes 'Rich Man's Woman' here but I imagine there are a few brave souls who when perusing this book will here themselves disclaim, "Hey this one is not so bad!"

If you know of or have a friend who's taste in records is.. how shall we say 'Challenged' still thinks Tank Tops are much underrated, knows all the words to the grate (sic) Cliff Richards type tunes this is the gift for them a real talking point.