Great album horrendous artwork...

[Rock N' Rollin' Man]

Black Sabbath's Paranoid

Rush's Hemispheres

Both have very awful album covers IMO.

[SelfDevouringSnake]

The members of Steely Dan have stated that they believe the album covers to Can't Buy a Thrill and The Royal Scam to be the most hideous of the '70s. And both are great albums.

[Electrophile]

The cover of Blind Faith's album -- the one with the topless pre-teen holding the airplane (it looks like one to me, anyway). I'm not a prude by any means, but I always found it absolutely tasteless, while the music on the album is absolutely phenomenal.

[danelectro59]

I always thought Wheels of Fire was a cheesy album cover, but what do i know. It won best album cover design for 1969.

[Led_Zeppelin_Chick]

Black sabbath - children of the grave, the album cover really sucks it just has a half-assed look to it. Sorry about the langauge.

[Rock N' Rollin' Man]

Black sabbath - children of the grave, the album cover really sucks it just has a half-assed look to it. Sorry about the langauge.

I'm sure you mean Master of Reality and yeah I agree.

[dave2007]

Black Sabbath (again) ........SABOTAGE album. Ghastly cover......brilliant album.

[Wolfman]

I guess I'm the only one who likes the Sabotage cover. Fun to look at when you are tripping out.

[Roxie]

[Quix]

I'm sure you mean Master of Reality and yeah I agree.

There was a re-release of Volume 4 with remastered audio and a live version of Children of the Grave.

[Oracle]

Great album, awful cover. Cheese to da max!!

[Hand_Of_Omega_91]

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

It is kind of growing on me but at the time I thought it was terrible. C

[greenman]

I hate to say it but HOTH.

[dazedcat]

Great album, awful cover. Cheese to da max!!

Man you're not kidding there. Great great album and band but probably the worst album cover in history. I remember almost not buying it because of the cover.

[Footsteps of Dawn]

Can't say I'm a huge fan of any of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "buncha dudes standing around" album covers...not that Second Helping is much of an improvement over that modus operandi, though. Although the drawing itself doesn't really bother me...I think if it was less yellow I would like it better. I'm not much of a yellow fan.

[SelfDevouringSnake]

It's not bad, but I've never been a big fan of album covers with no print on them. Nothing against these albums, though. I know that Led Zeppelin was trying to make a statement, and I understand that, but I think the music could have spoken for itself in that case (with the album containing so much great music). It makes you wonder if the album would be held in such high esteem if there wasn't so much attention on the mystique of the album itself. This only bothers me a little though. I did like the idea of having a symbol represent each band member, that was nifty. Anyways, I might put Led Zeppelin IV as my favorite album ("Stairway to Heaven" might be my favorite song; "Black Dog" and "When the Levee Breaks" are among my favorites; the rest of the album is also great). And for what it's worth, the cover itself is cool: really vague and mysterious. Here's how I'd rank the Led Zeppelin studio album covers:

1. Led Zeppelin.

2. Physical Graffiti.

3. Led Zeppelin IV.

4. Led Zeppelin II.

5. In Through the Out Door.

6. Houses of the Holy.

7. Presence.

8. Led Zeppelin III.

9. Coda.

I can't think of any album covers or artwork that I really hate.

[Swede]

Excellent heavy rock from the mid 80's, but the cover is pretty ugly:

Missing In Action

[Rock Historian]

I hate to say it but HOTH.

Are you serious???!!!!!!