pic related (obvs)
the 90s in general were ugly
I like that prodigy cover. It's like 'INCREDIBLY FAST CRAB RUNNING AT INCREDIBLY FAST SPEED.'
>>65989748
now that i think about it this should've been an ITT
>>65989748
Screaming Crab is a good cover, fits the music
>>65989748
this cover is pretty cool
>>65989748
I actually love this cover
>>65989866
perfect
Why do edgelord girls nowadays use 90's aesthetics ironically like wearing Marilyn Manson shirts
and dancing to come come m'lady - crazy town
>>65989748
>Tfw that crab is probably dead now
>>65989866
lmao
excuse me?
>>65989916
This meme was never that funny, and especially so with Montie
>>65989748
I love this album cover, it just reminds me of the best time of my childhood so well.
Every summer we would go to my families batch and me and my brother would go down to the rock pools and put two crabs into this perfectly round bowl in a rock and make them fight, they would looks exactly like this crab and I swear every damn time my cool uncle would roll up cranking the album in his green ford escort that had the two back seats taken out for subs.
We were pretty well off and this happened every summer until my parents moved from growing/smoking weed into heavy drugs/needles and shit and lost our home and all our money and we had to move town to escape some problems. I think they ripped off some family members too because I didn't go back to the batch for like 10 years.
The lame part is now the great uncle who owned the batch has divorced his wife and married some young thai gold digger, so these days when I visit there's always like 10 asians (her extended family) crowding the place up hunting all the crabs, they have jars in the kitchen filled with em. I've returned to look for the crabs a couple times in my 20s but I never find any, the crabs have all gone along with my innocence.
>>65990044
im so sorry
>>65990044
So you're saying your uncles Thai hooker family has crabs?
that crab is dead now
>>65989748
That's a good cover, argueably the best album cover in The Prodigy's discography
>>65989748
>obvs
that cover is great fuck you
>>65989748
JUST
>>65990274
yeah, album quality aside the cover of Jilted Generation is horrible compared to it
>>65989916
makes u think
>>65989825
5 / 7 / 6 / 3 / 9
>>65990044
didn't read, nobody cares
>>65989916
montie steals another meme and ruins it oh boy
>>65989913
Kek what?
>>65990044
damn...
>>65989913
cause they are dumb
>>65989748
>that crab is dead now
feels bad man
>>65990044
rip crabbos
>>65989940
>shit typography
>that black box tangent to the flames
>crap vertical balance
the drawing is cool and pretty timeless though
But what about this
>>65991014
They're fighting each other in valhalla now.
>>65990121
You and me both friend.
![00032153[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XZd2up8.jpg "00032153[1].jpg")
Photoshop was new
>>65989866
wait a fucking second
There were some cool covers.
>>65991252
That crab picture makes me feel awful.
>>65991254
(You)
>>65991252
:(
Poor crabbo
The 90's were like if the mid 70's lasted ten years.
Absolutely EVERYTHING was ugly in the 90's. What a shit-show of a decade.
>>65991352
Based
>>65991578
it was purposefully anti-aesthetic though. everyone was burned out from 80s excesses.
>>65991578
>That picture.
I haven't felt genuine repulsion in awhile, thanks.
>>65991578
even bowie, one of the coolest men to walk the earth, didn't look cool in the 90's
>>65991578
>that dave grohl look
>>65991578
why would francis ever think denim jacket and denim pants would be comfortable? it also looks extremely uncomfortable
>>65991578
i miss y2k aesthetic but absolutely nothing else
>>65991578
story of this pic?
>>65991578
Is that man in the top left corner holding a doll or a child? Either way it looks creepy. Got that vacant, dead expression.
>>65989866
10/10
>>65991782
it was after a concert where all of these artists made an appearance. I believe it was a David Bowie show and most of these people were guests.
>>65991817
that's thurston moore and his daughter i think
>>65991953
I thought it might be him. His daughter is scary.
GREAT album, horrible album cover (knowing Beck, this was definitely on purpose)
>>65989866
holy poop
>>65989916
shut up, montie
>>65989866
life imitates art
>>65989916
https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/long-crabs-live-4e03d8a4c1741401
Maybe not
>>65991237
not exactly bad but it isn't good either
>90's Album art is bad
>>65992383
>liquid swords and illmatic have good covers
This wasn't
>>65991953
That would explain the vacant and dead expression
>>65989866
holy shit i never put these together until now
thanks
>>65992412
neither is this
>>65992412
only actually good cover in thread
rest are either bad or neither bad/good
>>65991578
>>65992383
Shitty but colorful "artsy" photo
That one is good
black kid looking disappointed with life
stolen art from a classic dead Japanese artist
shitty comic book-art ass cover
bad examples
>>65992409
but anon illmatic's cover is regarded as a masterpiece even today
>>65992468
neither is this
>>65992280
>tfw that crab might still be among us
FFFUUUUUCCK
even foetus' art got shit in the 90's
look at this fucking abomination
you can't beat this for horrendous 90s art on an otherwise good album
oops
>>65992511
>nobody has posted any good art itt
C'mon guys it aint that hard. There must be what, hundreds of albums released in the 90s.
all the albums released by artists that started in the 80s/70s usually had shit album covers in the 90s. Maybe they just badly adapted to the times.
art world was enamored of awkward, asymmetrical, outsider/naive art. lots of artfags in music, like the beatles were in the 60s, from then until today, esp. in the 80s
>>65992616
It's beautiful.
Probably my favorite.
>>65992700
just seeing this cover makes me nauseous
please, just don't
>>65992733
Such a nice logo and such shit cover art.
Really nobody thought of this? It's at least good as an allegory for life
>>65989866
holy kek
>>65991578
WE AT THE HOTEL MOTEL HOLIDAY INN
>>65992084
fun fact: that cover was actually designed by Yamataka Eye from the Boredoms
so yes, it was definitely on purpose
>>65992700
I'm actually triggered at how many bad memories and terrible music this reminds me of
>>65992700
but anon, that came out two and a half years ago
>>65992603
>tfw that crab might have been caught and eaten by some person that didn't even know the crab was more famous than they'll ever be
>>65993389
nah he probably died fighting pointy fish near his cave
>>65992513
>Photo perfectly encapsulates the sound of the album
>not even gonna argue the Nas one. Just go look at the Wikipedia page
>you can't use art from other sources for albums
>Again, album cover packs a huge amount of information about the album/artist into one image. GZA's themes of Kung-Fu, chess, and urban violence
>>65994792
>https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/long-crabs-live-4e03d8a4c1741401
OH SHIT WADDUP
>>65992849
>It's at least good as an allegory for life
its facile and sophomoric. god those guys were such shit.
beep beep best 90's album cover coming through
?
>>65992849
Hackneyed, high school-ass metaphor for "selling out" to a major label. Still an eyesore.
but
Great album, but I keep it hidden on my shelf because I don't want people to get the wrong idea.
>>65989748
because it was the leap year from analogic to digital technologic
This cover is fucking brilliant, don't be a pleb
>>65989748
It was the grungy experimental aesthetic that was popular at the time, made with early digital shit. The inside of the cd's even uglier, but all those layers and filters of shit were probably really impressive at the time.
>>65989748
Ugly was the aesthetic of the 90s
>>65989825
>implying there's anything ugly about JT
Now Chris Kirkpatrick, I'll give you.
![qSb0ZGH[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/F51mLP7.jpg "qSb0ZGH[1].jpg")
>>65995568
that image is pretty much in line with their political message. A monk setting himself on fire in political protest
>>65989748
Ugly was the aesthetic of the 90s. It was a time where everything ugly, weird, scary, unusual, queer, etc. was celebrated and glorified.
>>65990497
more like 7/8/7/-5/10
One of the best 90's covers, would have been even better without the writing
![The_Fifth_Element_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack_Bande_Originale[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MGv9Yfe.jpg "The_Fifth_Element_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack_Bande_Originale[1].jpg")
just rectangle me up f.a.m.
r8
>>65991817
Thurston and coco
>>65989913
It's called Butterfly you fuck.
>>65991578
>Bowie asserting his alphaness, as he needs room for his elephant dick
RIP
>>65991237
I love this album cover
>>65996468
art is cheesy in a good way, font is cheesy in a bad way
>>65989866
upvoted
Popular music always has ugly covers thoough
>>65992084
Looks like a James Ferraro album
Pic related is like the only good cover
>>65989866
Someone add the prodigy logo and album name please
The frog was cute
Could they get away with this today?
>>65995485
literally cringed.
>>65992616
can't believe i didn't notice the girls face for so long
>>65990497
>>65996279
>Joey Fatone anything higher than a 4.
>>65991578
Bowie was a god but that soul patch and that hair tho.
>>65990044
>they don't sleep anymore on the beach
>>65998940
this
>>65992513
>describing what's on the cover is somehow legit criticism
>>65992849
wait a sec is he circumcised?
>>65998446
i couldn't figure out how to stretch the text so it would extend beyond the bands logo like on the cover without making it look pixelated or making the font too large... but here ya go
>>65990044
This is now a crab thread
>>65998895
>lemonade and brownies
>piss and shit?
>>65989748
graphic design shifted to computers, which were in their infancy
>>65989961
Who the fuck is Monty? Can somebody explain?
did japan have a 90's though? xd
>>65992872
Totally a e s t h e t i c desu
>>65989748
looking at this makes me wanna play skyrim
>>65999472
Yup
>>65989916
> hahaha this thread was posted about 2 months ago, that's long enough for me to steal this meme, no one will remember! - Montie
>>65999480
tripfag attentionwhore
>>65998441
>Loveless
>Aegatis Byrjun
>Spiderland
>Spiritualized
>Goo
despite being mucore and shit these are all cool covers
>>65999971
>>65999981
>>65999946
Loveless's cover is terrible and cheesy and I've no idea why anyone likes it.
I always thought the wowee zowee cover was nice. Every other pavement cover would be up there with the worst though
>>66000069
Cheesy? That's a perfect visual representation of the albums sound. I'd understand you don't like the music and the aesthetic itself though.
>>66000095
Any cover with an instrument on is off putting. The font is dated as hell. The bright pink is obnoxious. I don't think it sounds like the cover that much really
