Sweaty shirt front, but worse is the inside back cover, almost as bad as the above, a severed fingertip stuffed with pencils.

No comment.

Self-explanatory.

I assume this is a bad attmept at sex appeal.

Apparently, this is making fun of using sex appeal to sell album covers, but that doesn't necessarily make it good. A bad joke makes for a bad album cover.

Possibly the creepiest cover of all time. It is a great album, though. The cover warded me off from buying it when I was a kid.

Great album, but do we need the most androgynous waif of all time topless on the cover?

The Barnes & Barnes Fan Club produces an opera.

I've never seen this on a worst list before, and it's a perennially poular album, but something about it disturbs me, or maybe I just find it tacky and uninspired.

There is a worse album cover than this from the Dwarves--it's like this only bloody.

Johnny Janot holds his raincoat open. A joke that reeks of desperation.

Doin' coke while pregnant...

Implied bestiality, totally gratuitous nudity. I would be embarrassed to own either of these, even though I might like the music. This is the kind of album you have to hide from your girlfriend even though the audio contents are probably innocuous. It probably hurts their marketing, because women are not going to want to buy this album, even if they might like the music.

This is a great album, but the cover implies a gay metaphor and surely hurt sales. Based on the band's comments on the _Octopus_ album two years later, I believe that a gay metaphor did not even cross their minds.

If you really need to use a painting for filthy old men to sell Carmen, especially at $42, you're doing something wrong. If this were a $10 budget album, I could understand...

As if this opera weren't accused of sexism enough, you have to go and give it this cover..

Since Amelia was only tempted to cheat, isn't this cover image a bit sexist?