Weird, Funny & Absurd Album Cover Art

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BIRTH CONTROL ‎– Hoodoo Man ( 1972 Netherlands )

"Birth Control" was a German rock band known for their progressive hard rock sound and provocative album covers.

NEMS NEL 6009

BLACK SABBATH - Greatest Hits ( 1977 West-Germany )

This is a compilation album released iThe illustration on the album front cover is "El Triunfo de la Muerte" by Pieter Bruegel, El Viejon 1977

BLODWYN PIG - Ahead Rings Out ( 1969 England / UK )

The artwork / illustration on the front cover of "Ahead Rings Out" shows a pig's head wearing sunglasses, headphones and smoking a cigarette.

"Ahead Rings Out" was the debut album by British blues-rock band Blodwyn Pig, released in 1969. The band had been formed in 1969 by Mick Abrahams, the former guitarist of Jethro Tull , and sales of "Ahead Rings Out" rivalled those of Jethro Tull's next album, "Stand Up" , reaching No. 9 on the British album chart. The album contains a healthy mixture of various styles of progressive blues and "The Modern Alchemist" displayed the jazz influence and saxophone skills of Jack Lancaster.

Rondelet Music and Records ROUND 30

THE FITS - The Last Laugh 7" EP ( 1982 France )

"The Last Laugh" record's sleeve has an offensive picture sleeve with nude dude poking a finger in this nose.

"The Fits" were a punk rock band from Blackpool, Lancashire, England, who were active between 1979 and 1985.

Burbank Home of Warner Bros Records K 56344 BSK 3010

FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours Gatefold Album Cover ( 1977 England / UK )

Jingle Balls. Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Largely recorded in California during 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut and was released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records.

FRANK ZAPPA 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly , Live in Sweden 1967

The album front cover of Frank Zappa's unofficial album "'Tis the season to be jelly" is an illustration of Frank Zappa wearing an Oxygen tank and showing off his green smelly sock.

Groupe Haiti Cherie - A L'ombre de Septentrional

I am not sure what is so interesting about what it is about the wall? Any commetns?

Herb Alpert & The Tjuana Brass - Carmen 70 Ex-Libris ( Austria )

The album cover of this album "Carmen 70" is the same cover as "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" and the album cover alone is considered a classic pop culture icon. It featured model Dolores Erickson wearing chiffon and shaving cream. The picture was taken at a time when Erickson was three months pregnant.

KING CRIMSON - In the Court of the Crimson King ( 1969 England, UK )

"In the Court of the Crimson King" is the 1969 debut album by the British progressive rock group King Crimson. The album is generally viewed as one of the strongest of the progressive rock genre, where "King Crimson" largely stripped away the blues-based foundations of rock music and mixed together jazz and Classical symphonic elements. The Who's Pete Townshend was quoted as calling the album "an uncanny masterpiece". In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came No. 4 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums". The album was named as one of Classic Rock magazine's "50 Albums That Built Prog Rock".

GWR Records - GWLP 24

KING KURT - The Last Will and Testicle (1988,UK) New Web-Page  

King Kurt are a psychobilly rock band from the UK. They formed in 1981 and split up in 1988. This is a compilation album with two previously unreleased tracks. The tracks on this album were produced by Dave Edmunds, David Batchelor, Pat Collier, Phil Wainman and Steve Brown.

NORMAHL Biervampir ( 1988 West-Germany )

This is the original first issue on AM-RECORDS / SNAKE, this is not the re-issue on Zyx

  Normahl is a German punk band formed in 1978 in Winnenden near Stuttgart by four high school students. Their first major entry into the U.S. was with the song Keine Überdosis Deutschland featured in the hit movie Euro Trip.

The Famous Charisma Label 6302 201

PETER GABRIEL - 4 aka Security ( 1982 )

"Peter Gabriel" is the fourth album released by the British progressive rock musician Peter Gabriel. This album was originally released as Gabriel's fourth eponymous album, this album was released in the USA as "Security"

ODE Records 21653

Rocky Horror Picture Show ( 1975 Canada )

is the original soundtrack album to the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, an adaptation of the musical The Rocky Horror Show that had opened in 1973. This is the soundtrack released as an album in 1975 by Ode Records, produced by Richard Hartley.

United Artists UG 30045

Stranglers IV - Rattus Norvegicus ( 1977 ) .

The photo on the album's back cover is kinda weird with a strange dwarf at the left

TOM NOVEMBRE - L'Insecte ( 1985 France )

L'insecte is the third studio album released in 1985 by Tom Novembre. T

Half Ass Recordings HA 001

VA VARIOUS ARTISTS . Always Catching Snot In The Wind(1988, USA)

This album "VA VARIOUS ARTISTS Always Catching Snot In The Wind" is a split compilation album with unreleased tracks by "Malicious Grind", RMSD, "Fuck It", "Maniacal Genocide", "The Douche Lords" and Mortis

Music For Nations MFN 12 KUT 109