Happy New Year!

"Musical Sounds are the Best Songs"?

What th' hell does that mean?

Freddie Hubbard RIP

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/arts/music/30hubbard.html?_r=2&hp

Is "Jazz" the old broken shoe?

The "50 years" logo gives it a military look...
and kind of kills the mood...

Voyage to my WHAT?

Another crappy series of covers

Highly magnified scraps of paper from the trash

An especially crappy series of covers...

Looks like dirt being squeegee'd off a floor...

be still my beating heart

Surely, the most boring series of covers ever devised.

Ever

More Jazz dance background-music nightmares...

Reza posted something else from this label:

http://nicealbumshameaboutthecover.blogspot.com/2008/11/even-worse-i-actually-have-this-record.html

where are the scabs and bruises?

the burgers are better at hungry jacks

Nice dose of subtlety from Mr Coffey, especially with the horseshoe underwear - surely they could have come up with a "lick here" logo and and arrow, in case anyone missed the joke?

And that drumstick has seen better days. I worked at KFC for a week when I was 18, and it looks like one of the ones from the bottom of the vat that's picked up an extra "skin" from leftover "herbs and spices".

Clearly Dennis favours his chicken uncut.

The colored urchin plays jazz

This has a vague flavor of racism....

Change the green dots to a blue blob and it'll be good as new!

Hey Katonah doesn't this mean it HAS to be good?

Murky, with free-style text drawn by...

...a "right hander" using his left hand.

Everything is not on the One!

Can any of the graphic designers among us find anything good to say about this?

Tiny Imaginary Woman vs. Serial Killer

No, I'm not alleging anything about Mr. Niehaus. Only people in general with glasses like that and a vaguely unsettling smile (apparently with a little lipstick), strangely gazing past tiny imaginary women dancing on saxophones.

Looks vaguely scientific...

The upside-down type is helpful,

in case you're holding it upside-down.

This is always a possibility...

yes it's 1968, but that doesn't excuse the hair

Even in 1968, this comb-over is quite inexcusable. But is it even his, or has it been literally cut and pasted from a magazine shot of someone else ? I see telltale scissor lines ...

The other three guys have been sworn to secrecy under threat of being entombed in those concrete coffins behind them, so I guess we'll never know.

(Quite an interesting real story behind this album anyway, check Inconstant Sol ... )

Copy paste. Copy paste. Copy paste....

Can you dig it? Oh baby I think you can...

Andrew White's Christmas record?

Drank too much at the Christmas party

"Hey big boy, we're all alone.

Come over here..."

"Jazz" the new under-arm deodorant from Colgate-Palmolive

"...and it loves your clothes"

See. No staining...

Neo-Fascist Christmas logo...

Proper Shit

Not sure if this one's been posted before.

There's nearly 300 of the things here now!

Just in case no one has ever seen this appalling cover before

I made the cover on my computer. Really!

It just took a minute...

Oh No!!!!

The artist either bribed or blackmailed

the musician into using this for the cover...

Puttin' a little "dick" in Dickens...:^)

Bunky thinks this is a stupid idea...

"Latinization" sounds like something which is done to

you, rather than something you want to do...

It just flies apart...

Just foolin' around...

Point of entry?

Crash Landing

Um guys, when you "take off" the plane goes UP.

I'm finished with the yard work...

... let's take the CD picture.

The sign is at least 800 miles wide...

(A compilation of groups playing at the club)

Sort of a theme here...

(and I'm sure Chris & Ed don't know each other)

"...and I made the cover on my computer!" pt.2

Six fonts again! Deluxe!!

"...and I made the cover on my computer!"

Six fonts! Deluxe!!

This cover screams," We don't...

...care if it sells much."

Completely Obscure Concept. Really...

monster flute

By day, a sensitive jazz flautist ...

by night, a mean mutha, as the Fantastic Four battle the forces of evil ..

What can you say...

(from 1976)

Old guy waxes nostalgic about his first piano key

"I think it was this one. This key. It's the first one I ever played. Here let me touch it again. Hey wanna see me play 'Chopsticks'?"

"Sit on My Organ" Of course. Beautiful...

...But we've got more 'orange phallus' action happening too.

Bigger than Johnny "Guitar " Watson and...

... a pleasing shade of orange.

Woke-up, flipped out.