 | Communion by The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.98 When I first saw this I thought it looked like an advert for a herbal spa treatment, male e.d., Centrum silver... etc. Nothing clever about this boys, just really bad.
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 | Visiter by The Dodos
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.57 A yellow blob with some crayon inspired writing on it. Super ugly.
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 | Cardinology by Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.92 To be honest, I really find Ryan Adams sonically annoying. But this artwork is lazy and lame. I hate looking at this at any size. The type alone makes me wanna puke all over my keyboard, let alone the bad "logo" with the cheesy glow filter on it.
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 | Distortion by Magnetic Fields
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.86 Wow do I hate that Times New Roman Bold on the cover. When I first saw this, I didn't exactly hate it, but it made me look for the nearest restroom. Pepto pink and sidebar band type don't help matters. Sometimes, minimal can be bad.
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 | Digi Snacks by RZA as Bobby Digital
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.82 Would someone please tell RZA that he (or whoever) can not not draw, not even in that bad ironic way.
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 | Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.90 I've hated this since the moment I first saw it. That big, ugly, dark, human shape in the foreground is just too off putting to ignore. Music is really good, too bad that didn't spill over to the album art.
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 | District Line by Bob Mould
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.93 A yellow dot... a green dot... a boring album sleeve.
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 | Perfect Symmetry by Keane
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.57 I think I know what they are trying to do here with the whole 80s thing, it just doesn't work. Their covers for their first two records are very good.
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 | Dear Science by TV on the Radio
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.19 Another snooze fest here. The other problem is the stuff on the inside (band photo with graphics) is much cooler. Great record though.
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 | Third by Portishead
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.49 A decade of nothing from them and we get a rather weak type treatment and nothing more. I expected more, even from a non-concept such as this. Color bugs me too. I just wish there was something there because this album is great. Just a blah sleeve of epic proportions.
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 | St. Jude by The Courteeners
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.19 It's a good record, not the great one it was supposed to be (they rarely are), but this ugly painting by lead signer Liam Fray has got to go. The Smiths/Belle and Sebastian-esque art for their first singles is much, much better than this.
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 | Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $8.34 Kind of a goof I know, but how could you NOT want to hear it with artwork like this? From Luke of The Sleepy Jackson fame. So crazy and ridiculous its good? I'm not so sure.
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 | Some People Have Real Problems by Sia
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.34 Hmmm, this is the updated domestic version of the album art. The UK release is even worse graphically speaking, but this one wears thinner faster, so it makes the list. Something about the stupid open mouthed pose and type just doesn't cut it. Adam Ant and MGMT pull off the make up thing much better.
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![Weezer (Red Album) [Deluxe]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518hAqGOVeL._SL75_.jpg) | Weezer (Red Album) [Deluxe] by Weezer
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $8.40 Ok I get it, you stand in front of a color and name your albums "Weezer", so people then refer to them by the color. I get it and I'm sick and tired of seeing it. The staches make this one harder to look at.
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 | Hard Candy by Madonna
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $1.62 I usually like most of her self-serving sleeves, this one however, I don't like all. The rounded type, the super-forced sexy pose, the candy backdrop, nothing really works.
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 | Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses
Buy used from: $3.09 Talk about your wasted opportunities! So Axl takes a billion years to write this thing and this is the best they could do for a sleeve? You'd think someone soooo concerned over this record would've managed something better. With a pretty cool title they really missed the boat... badly. Maybe I just hate the way the type is treated?
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 | Funplex by The B-52s
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.23 Musically, this has to be one of the most annoying albums of the year, the album sleeve isn't much better. I have grown to hate this band.
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 | The Evening Descends by Evangelicals
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.68 Someone just got photoshop. A dog's breakfast of bad design elements.
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 | Only by the Night by Only By the Night (U.K. artwork)
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $15.02 This is the import version, the domestic version is slightly better, but not much better. This hawk/band face version though is uglier, so I included it here. Still wondering why they aped the "In Rainbows" underscore type treatment?
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 | Liferz by Blood on the Wall
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.44 I hate everything about this artwork.
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 | Break Up the Concrete by The Pretenders
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.98 Hard for me to bag on Chrissy and co., but when you see/say your album art like this, I can't resist.
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 | Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) by Cloud Cult
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.13 With a stupid cover like this - you'll be surprised to know the record is not bad at all.
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 | Safe Trip Home by Dido
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.00 Boring, really boring.
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