Worst reggae album covers of all time, ever...

[mike andy]

Any of those awful Rhino/Cactus rip off albums with sleeves designed by 'Antsnest graphics' must come fairly high on the list.

[jordandance]

jordandance wrote :
You have a CD of this? My cover looks fine....as if an aritst sketched it with various toned pencils right on the red background...the yellow lettering with green shadow just popping off the cover. You hate bionic dub, too?

The CD I have is the Attack Records release - the one with the yellow 'mid price' circle actually printed on the cover (it's not a sticker). The JPG artefacts on it are blatant.

How about this one?


Don't own it but have seen it and found it cheap and lame-looking. I think that the PFI pic is nicked from the 'Long Life' Virgin album cover.

that's the problem, you're collecting CD's when I'm talking about the original vinyl covers.

[onthebeach]

This is pretty bad in my opinion: http://reggaealbumcovers.com/2010/04/ja ... t-it-most/

[Mick Sleeper]

This one gets my vote:

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No wonder you're a lonely man, Pat Kelly! You're scaring all of the women away lying by the side of the road with your shirt off.

[El Pollo Diablo]

This is pretty bad in my opinion: http://reggaealbumcovers.com/2010/04/ja ... t-it-most/

Makes me laugh a bit when you have an album filled with roots/culture/Rastafari/ital/live good/equal rights songs - but there will also be one on there about something like masturbation or anal sex or shagging whores that sounds completely out of place, like it was put on there by mistake or something...

Or just something really gnarly and dubious, like Jacob Miller's 'I've Got The Handle' (the sweetest and most radio-friendly ode to slashing your woman with a knife cause she didn't shut up and know her place ever written?) that makes you stop and think "what the hell did I just listen to there?".

[skylarker60]

there are several Melody Beecher 12"es which have absolute terrible cheesy and dates picture sleeves.

like this one:

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/7228 ... ezec5n.jpg

there is also an equal looking bunny brissett 12" but can't find it at the moment

[Max]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this so far:

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The art work is still beautiful in a way, and the music is lovely.

Studying album art work is a great way to figure out why it's not cool to follow fashion.

[flashman]

I've always disliked pretty much all the Shanachie covers.

[skylarker60]

junior demus - bad fool:

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9452 ... ose0fj.jpg

[abey]

Very "good ones" in this post. My 2 cents:


[cover=6002,4430] laugh or cry? I dont know, he gets kinds of scary....

[cover=1692,1985] dont judge a book by its cover!!