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Oh well, each to their own, I thought "Showcase in a Suitcase" fell into the "cheap and nasty" category.

This one's pretty bad
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Another one that springs to mind is
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Now I'm not saying it isn't a cool looking cover. It happens to be one of my favourite covers, I say it's a bad cover because it's just a collage of random photos that have little to do with the music, there's even a picture of Jacob Miller in there and I'm not sure but I think that looks like Johnny Clarke at the bottom next to Scratch's elbow.

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You would not believe how crappy this looks when you hold it in your hands. It looks as though someone has taken a small drawing of H.I.M. found somewhere else and scaled it up to CD cover size using Paint Shop Pro - then saved it as a JPG with the compression set too high.

several of the black uhuru 80s records were a bit hurting on the cover photo scene...then again it was the 80s so there was much worse out there.

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Barry Brown rubbing his nipple? haha.

jordandance wrote:Why is that Mighty Diamonds a bad cover? Man, you guys love complaining.

Well, it's not really much better than this one:

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sq ... foxqt5ld6e

is it, if we're being honest?

hmm. i think that is more in the eye of the beholder.

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although i prefer this kind:

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and now with brackets....

hmm. i think that is more in the eye of the beholder.

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although i prefer this kind:

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No suggestions, just to say that I love the hand drawn, felt tip and ruler style of artwork that you find on so many backayard record covers, and label logos. It is a genre of its own that deserves respect for its disregard for commercial mass marketing styles. There is soul in this artwork, a humanity you dont find anywhere else. Ghetto graphics, seen? Please check my post called Ghetto Graphics Gallery.

Funky Punk wrote:jordandance wrote :Why is that Mighty Diamonds a bad cover? Man, you guys love complaining.

Well, it's not really much better than this one:

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sq ... foxqt5ld6e

is it, if we're being honest?

Let me guess, you're not an art critic? What is similar about those 2 covers other than the band being shirtless?