Most Embarrassing Album Sleeves… Ever!

That's "peinliche plattencover" to you, my bilingual brethren... what does "I Want A Walmart Girl" or "Fistful of Chicken" translate as?

By Fred Mills, Blurt Managing Editor

What do The Great Kat, Stryper, Scatterbrain, Manowar and Lawnmower Deth have in common? Okay, sure, they all play heavy-ass music (some would even call it "overwrought metal," but for the sake of argument let's just call it "hard rock"). But our compatriots at Germany's Spiegel Online have apparently been scrutinizing more than just the artists' sonic aesthetic, and recently published a list of the 44 Most Embarrassing Album Sleeves.

Why 44 and not 50? Don't ask us - we don't speak German! Below is a sampling, and yeah, they're pretty awful. Fun fact: an editor of Blurt once performed in a Manowar tribute band!

Some artists actually appear on the list more than once - classical metallist The Great Kat actually has FOUR entries. Seriously, you have to see this to believe it, and then to wonder the eternal, "What were they thinking?" in terms of how the bands, their labels and their sleeve artists came up with these hideous visual concepts. Another fun fact: the Scatterbrain sleeve was done by the legendary Robert Williams, and it is alone among the 44 sleeves as actually qualifying as "art."

You can view the entire rogues' gallery here.