Creepy album covers

[Bigjay73]

When I was a kid there was one album cover that for whatever reason, always captivated me in a horrifying way. Pic attached. What album cover was creepy or disturbing to you? The 80s had some awesome album art.

 

[Birdbander]

Disturbing enough the guy sued when he grew up. I'm not sure of the result.

 

[kwyeewyk]

The robot thing and woman on the ground against the fence from Appetite for Destruction was pretty creepy, just looked it up and decided not to post it though.

Tool had some creepy art.

 

[Schaaf]

When I was a kid there was one album cover that for whatever reason, always captivated me in a horrifying way. Pic attached. What album cover was creepy or disturbing to you? The 80s had some awesome album art.

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[LopeHunter]

Disturbing enough the guy sued when he grew up. I'm not sure of the result.
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Lawsuit by the "baby" tossed out "with prejudice" 9/30/2025. The lawsuit was undermined when discovered the plaintiff (baby) has the cover shot now as a chest tattoo, will reenact the photo for a fee, and his parents were at the original album cover shoot which was shot by a friend of the family.

 

[Bigjay73]

Hilarious, guess im not alone.

 

[WildWill]

My parents had this one in their collection that I always thought was weird.

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Nameless Range]

When I was 10 and my brother was 7 my mom and dad took a week long trip somewhere. I think it was the first trip they took as a couple after having us. They paid my cousin from Fargo, ND to come out to Montana and babysit us for that week, and only being as musically erudite as my folks' tape collection I learned quite a bit about "what the kids were listening to" at the time. She was really into 90s grunge/alternative, which makes sense since it was 1994.

She brought numerous binders of CDs, and I remember being totally weirded out about this one.





I think I was loosely associating it with the statues in Neverending Story, which also freaked me the F out.



Kind of strange that I probably listen to more music now than ever before, but never really see album covers.

 

[schmalts]

Rolling stones, sticky fingers.....

 

[recon6036]

 

[Ben Lamb]

 

[Elky Welky]

 

[Charlie Bob]

THE CONTROVERSY: The fifth album from the legendary Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, Street Survivors, was, sadly, the last album recorded by founding members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, as well as new guitarist Steve Gaines. On October 20, 1977, just three days after the album was released, a chartered plane carrying the three bandmates crashed in Mississippi, taking seven lives in all. The album cover featured a photograph — shot at Universal Studios — of the band engulfed in flames: an image that was hard to ignore as an unfortunate and macabre premonition of the tragedy that soon followed.

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Ben Lamb]

 

[JCS]

 

[JV842]