Pink Floyd - Least Inspired Album Art

Edited by Progishness - July 19 2021 at 05:00

Obscured By Clouds. Even though I really like the music, the cover is not really inspiring.

A Collection of Great Dance Songs. A really dislike that cover on a prog album. 

JD wrote: Atom Heart Mother (1970) is UDDERLY underwhelming. Sure, it's become an iconic image...of sorts...to some. But it's lazy and pedestrian. Of course I have no doubt that an art grad would expound a deep critique into the subtext of the cow's arse and all it's societal meaning...YAWN. If record companies were ever to remaster covers, this should be the first one they do ! Oh, and I like cheese too.

The Wall. Appropriate, yes, but they may as well just used plain cardboard - which would have been more appropriately bleak.  Atom Heart Mother comes a close second. Both are great albums, though.

I loved The Wall album art, but then I was originally exposed to the LP gatefold sleeve version. If you mean just the album cover, then The Wall could be a contender, but I take that as part of the package. I don't know, and I can appreciate simplicity.

I loved this when I first saw it as a child:



As for Atom Heart Mother, I find the art udderly wonderful, if not particularly mooving. Much as I like it, I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. Loses points for lack of cowbell.

I find The Endless River particularly uninspiring and had to actually look up Saucerful Of Secrets to remember it! The Final Cut is pretty bad as is Delicate Sound Of Thunder.

Logan wrote: I loved The Wall album art, but then I was originally exposed to the LP gatefold sleeve version. If you mean just the album cover, then The Wall could be a contender, but I take that as part of the package. I don't know, and I can appreciate simplicity. I loved this when I first saw it as a child: As for Atom Heart Mother, I find the art udderly wonderful, if not particularly mooving. Much as I like it, I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. Loses points for lack of cowbell.

Progishness wrote: Logan wrote: I loved The Wall album art, but then I was originally exposed to the LP gatefold sleeve version. If you mean just the album cover, then The Wall could be a contender, but I take that as part of the package. I don't know, and I can appreciate simplicity. I loved this when I first saw it as a child: As for Atom Heart Mother, I find the art udderly wonderful, if not particularly mooving. Much as I like it, I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. Loses points for lack of cowbell. I really meant the album art as a whole, so that means both the outside and inside of gatefolds.

Thanks, Mike. Looking at the gatefold sleeve as a kid made me feel guilty due to the "rude" imagery in a similar way that I would stash Mad magazines under my bed, followed by more "adult" things such as Reader's Digest. It may be rather puerile, but I find it inspired (The Wall art, not Reader's Digest...).

I quite want to vote for the "I like Cheese!" option but I may vote for "The Final Cut" as I'm feeling like I'd Finally like to Cut the Cheese and that way I can combine both in a less than satisfactory way. I have a very nice Stilton in the fridge and have been longing to cut it.