This cover was painted by Billy Joel’s wife, Christie Brinkley, showing why she’s better known as a model than as a visual artist.
This gallery collects 50 of the worst. Enter the carnival tent to witness the monstrosities, the design disasters, the images that you can’t unsee no matter how hard you try. As you will see, even as they fail by the traditional yardsticks of being “good” or “visually compelling,” many of these album covers are at least memorable, and so we gather here to celebrate the craziness of these choices, not to shame the artists behind them.
Our selection criteria for the list, other than fugliness: We skewed toward major artists with the resources of professional graphic designers who really should have known better. No more than one album per artist. No mercy for the album’s music actually being good . Yes, these are all real. As you look at these album covers, remember: With each one of these, multiple highly paid people thought this was a good idea.painted by Billy Joel’s wife, Christie Brinkley, showing why she’s better known as a model than as a visual artist. We’re not saying that this cover art led to their divorce a year later and Joel never making another studio album, we’re just observing that both of these things happened after she perched a tiny cheetah on his naked shoulder.
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