While you might have noteworthy covers like the Fleetwood Mac Rumors album, there are plenty that aren’t on the standard radar. Mostly because they’re not very memorable since they normally feature the artist and the title. Yet, do a Google search and you’ll find plenty of album covers that can quite ridiculous. A lot of them can be unintentionally funny, creepy, or inappropriate. While some of them can be more risque than you’d think they be, considering if the release date was before 1970. Some can just be plain weird, especially if they’re sci-fi inspired or aimed to children. Nonetheless, most of these musical acts typically remain unknown. Though you’ll find a noted singer or band once in awhile. So for your reading pleasure, I give you another treasure trove of crazy old album covers. Enjoy.
- Moe Bandy: I Just Started Hatin’ Cheatin’ Songs Today

You can’t find a more country album like this. Apparently, his wife left him, his dog died, his pick up truck broke down, and he almost went to prison. And he probably has a drinking problem.
Moe has never been the same since Sandra left him for Pablo the pool boy.
2. The Beatles: Yesterday and Today

Yes, even the Beatles had their share of terrible album covers like a the infamous butcher cover. Fortunately for collectors, this one is worth a lot of money.
Unfortunately, even the Beatles weren’t above mutilation.
3. Ivory Chuck: Ivory Chuck at the Ivories

Ivory Chuck can always be handy with the piano keys. Yet, mess with him and he’ll strangle you and dump you in the river.
Hustler by day, lounge musician by night.
4. Ferrante and Teicher: Blast Off!

One guy is lying with his legs up on the piano like he’s supposed to be in zero gravity. Star Trek this is not.
Unfortunately, they didn’t qualify as space camp material.
5. If the Bomb Falls: A Recorded Guide to Survival

Sorry, but I don’t think this album has any good information on surviving nukes. Seriously, if a nuke dropped where you live, you’re most likely to die.
Need to know about surviving nukes? This album will tell you everything you need to know.
6. Music for Dreaming

And yet, they lie in street clothes in the snow. Outside a village with very small people. My guess they’ll end up like Gulliver before they wake up.
Finally, a album you can play while you sleep.
7. Dwayne Smith: “Get Directly Down”

Nonetheless, Dwayne is determined to hold a beach concert as a low-budget Elton John with his keyboard and amplifier in tow. While his trusted dog is by his side.
Why directly? Was “Get Down” already taken?
8. Esquivel: Exploring New Sounds in Stereo

Then again, to explore new sounds in space may require a way larger telescope than he could muster. And they wouldn’t sell it in stores.
And yet, he’s using a telescope.
9. Si Zetner and His Orchestra: The Swingin’ Eye

Someone must’ve been on acid to design this cover. Seriously, you’d think she was from the VFD strip club from A Serie of Unfortunate Events.
Featuring a large eye with a lady’s butt and legs.
10. Warren Barker and His Orchestra: William Holden Presents a Musical Touch of Far Away Places

Here William Holden sits in the study with a nervous smile. Hoping the band doesn’t play the “Colonel Bogey March.”
Apparently, the bongos is making William Holden feel cramped.
11. The Stanley Johnson Orchestra: Have Harp Can’t Travel

I’m sure any concert hall would have a harp there. I mean almost every one of them has a piano.
Yeah, I don’t think you can fit that in a tour bus.
12. Si Zetner and His Orchestra: High Noon Cha Cha Cha

Sure she’s topless and wears high heel sandals. But ogle at her bare rack long enough and she’ll take you out her six shooters.
Featuring the notorious Ta-Ta Jane, the best topless straight shooter in the Old West.
13. Music to Light Your Pilot By

Wonder what the pilot’s going to do with that large wooden propeller. Hope he’s not thinking a threesome.
After all, pilots need music while having sex, too.
14. Maya Angelou: Miss Calypso

Yes, that’s Maya Angelou herself dancing to the fire in a strapless dress that she could stick her leg out. I know it’s kind of uncomfortable to see her this way.
Here you can listen to the great American poet and author sing calypso music.
15. The Incomparable Robin Hood Band: Spectacular Sounds

If you had to wear a humiliating marching band uniform in high school, imagine having to dress up like Robin Hood while playing professionally. Because these guys look totally ridiculous.
Hear the music from this band of merry men.
16. Living Strings: Music to Help You Stop Smoking

Wonder what kind of songs would be on this album. And wonder if that music helps people to break the habit.
Because if you need to quit, put on this record while going cold turkey.
17. Music to Keep Your Husband Happy

Indeed, this is album is meant to be played during sex. Nonetheless, I’m sure Barry White and Marvin Gaye are somewhere on the listings.
Includes booklets inside to spice up your love life.
18. Fun’Da’Mental: Erotic Terrorism

This is by a British Muslim hip-hop group from the 1990s which is still around today. Yet, the cover seems ripped from a foreign film about a guy with a thirst for revenge.
You don’t mess with this man with a gun.
19. Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves, and Other Truck Driver Favorites

And yet, the cover features a truck stop waitress. Mostly because they think sex sells somehow.
If your job takes you on the road, here’s the soundtrack for you.
20. The Gateway Singers

Yet, the outfits are much to be desired. Seriously, plaid sport coats and drapery dresses?
They’re just a wholesome group in front of a cabin.
21. Ron Johnson: “Happiness” with Ron Johnson

Here he has his guitar in the garden. While he sings, “The Tax Returns Don’t File Themselves.”
Ladies and gentlemen, Ron from accounting would like to sing a song for you.
22. Jeff: Something Special from Jeff

From Mental Floss: “Poor Jeff looks like death warmed over, from his Herman Munster tan to that funeral director suit. I just hope the ‘something special’ he’s got for us doesn’t involve that hook.”
Presenting something special by the all incomparable Jeff.
23. Rusty Warren: Knockers Up!

They seem awfully close to one another while drinking martinis. I think I know where this is going.
This drummer always knows how to turn on the charm.
24. Alan Gardiner Accordion Band: Play It Again

Oh, God, you don’t want to have 4 accordions in a room like that. That’s not a party. That’s torture.
With accordions you’ll always have a party.
25. Zillertal Band: Beer Drinking Songs by the Zillertal Band

Yes, this album features a lot of German drinking songs. And a couple of guys just have to enjoy a beer with a barmaid who might be a Vulcan.
Finally, an album you can play for Ocktoberfest.
26. Millie Jackson: E.S.P

Nonetheless, the crystal ball seems to magnify her boobs. Since the ball is almost totally transparent.
Millie Jackson sees all, knows all.
27. Elin Proysen and Egil Johansson: Med et Smil

This is from Norway. Still, on the bright side, despite being stranded on their car, their music could attract flood rescuers.
Just because you’ve been flooded on the road, doesn’t mean you can’t have fun making music.
28. Mohamed El-Bakkar and His Oriental Ensemble: Port Said Music of the Middle East

Still, it features a very scantily clad belly dancer that would infuriate many Muslims today. Besides, are those nipple pasties?
Be transported to exotic places with music from the Middle East.
29. Li’l Richard and His All Stars: Happy Easter

Yet, he probably got that nickname while in prison for armed robbery. And no, I don’t think the bunnies soften his rough-hewn image.
No, he’s not that L’il Richard.
30. The McKeithens

I mean the one woman has a beehive that’s straight from the 1700s. And yes, this is a Christian album.
Brought to you by Marie Antoinette hair products.
31. Jean Pierre Jumez: The Nimble Fingers of Jean Pierre Jumez

Seriously, is this guy even wearing pants? Maybe I really don’t want to know.
He’s a musician so dedicated to his art that he practices on the toilet.
32. Siegfried Schwab & the Voice of Rosy: The Fabulous Guitar from Bach to Almeida

Ironically, Johann Sebastian Bach wasn’t known for being a perv. In fact, he was a family man known for fathering 20 kids with 2 wives.
Didn’t know Bach was into women in pink bodysuits.
33. Sister Mary Bernadette O.P.: Sister Sings of Many Things

So what kind of things does she sing about? Okay, I know religious music is most likely. But for all I know she could be singing about pina coladas or something.
There’s not just one singing nun out there.
34. Daniel DiCarlo and His Orchestra: Moonlight Madness

Indeed, she’s touching the whiskers of a guy in a tiger suit. An early example of furry fandom at its finest.
Featuring Ginger and her tiger friend.
35. Buzz Martin: Where There Walks a Logger There Walks a Man

Monty Python lumberjack-transvestite jokes aside, loggers aren’t known for their resilience. Should more appropriately be titled: Where There Walks a Logger There Walks a High Insurance Risk.
Because lumberjacks are the pinnacle of manliness.
36. Willeta Boren: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord

And yet, the wind has no effect on her large hairdo. Thanks to copious amounts of hair spray.
Here we have Willeta walking on the sand.
37. Black Sabbath: Born Again

Man, that’s one freakish baby. Even has devil horns, fans, and claws. Still, Black Sabbath is a metal band so this isn’t out of the ordinary for them.
Featuring the infant spawn of Satan.
38. Cody Matherson: “Can I Borrow a Feelin?'”

From Mental Floss: “Cody had the great honor of having his album title stolen by the writers of The Simpsons: in the episode “A Milhouse Divided,” after Milhouse’s dad loses his marriage and hits rock bottom he records a terrible album called “Can I Borrow A Feeling?” Sounds like Matherson should borrow a lawyer.”
By the hunkiest man from the trailer park.
39. The Melachrino Orchestra: Music for Daydreaming

Yet, she feels quite inadequate with her life. With a boyfriend who won’t give her the time of day and a dead-end job, Blanche often sought to live a fantasy life.
Brought to you by the woman reading her book with a yellow rose.
40. ET: Best Friends

Seriously, his pants have seashells on them. Also, comes across as a rap artist Eddie Murphy would parody on SNL during the 1980s.
Featuring his seashell pants.
41. W.W. Bauer, M.D. and Florence Marvayne Bauer: Explaining Sex to Your Little Girl: A Common Sense Guide to Growing Up

Yeah, this is pretty awkward. And here the girl sits on her dad’s lap as he explains periods.
Need to explain sex to your daughter? This album could help.
42. Gary Dee Bradford: Gary Dee Bradford Sings for You and You and You

Look into his eyes and you’ll see a soulless child from the Village of the Damned. Don’t let his smile fool you.
Here the voice of the kid who seems like he’d kill ants with a magnifying glass.
43. The Gospel Four: The Gospel Four Sings “I Won’t Walk Without Jesus”

Seriously, look at their coats. Also, the woman’s bouffant is so garish. In addition, they seem like they’re watching a squirrel do something funny.
Sponsored by red denim.
44. Tex Ritter: Tex Ritter Sings “Happy Hands!”

After all, children need clean hands in order to strangle the living daylights out of you. Seriously, those kids appear to be the stuff of nightmares.
Said to be “a song that teaches the value of clean and busy hands.”
45. Moscow Nights: Popular Russian Hits

Apparently, they don’t party very hard in Russia. Though I think the happy couple dancing must be drunk on vodka. Since the others have blasé faces.
Listen to the popular music of Russia.
46. Music to Massage Your Mate By

However, this woman’s face says, “Not feeling it.” While the guy could almost pass for a 1970s porn star.
Rub down your mate with a collection of these tunes.
47. Weela Gallez: A Hysterical Evening with Weela Gallez

And yet, she dresses like she’s just been on vacation. Still, that face as she’s holding her monkey in sheer horror is priceless.
Caption: “My turtle’s dead!”
48. Julia & Barbara the Blind Slye Twins: It’s Me Again Lord

Sure they can’t see a thing. But they’re bound to haunt your dreams with their big hair and thirst for blood.
Hear the songs of Christian twins you wouldn’t want to run into at a haunted hotel.
49. Tubby Boots: Tubby Boots Goes Topless

Yet, that doesn’t mean you should put nipple pasties on your man boobs. Also, is that a centurion helmet?
But why do an album on that?
50. W.A.S.P: Animal (F**k Like a Beast)

I’m sure any guy looking at this album cover would freak out over the saw in the crotch belt. Seriously, that looks really painful.
Brought to you by the crotch ripper.