search results for worst album covers Refine by Type Date Range News Review How To Buying Guide Feature Event This Week This Month This Year Last 12 Months Last 24 Months Last 36 Months All Time “Using AI is so disappointing. Pay a real artist”: Tears for Fears attract ire with new AI-generated album art By Daniel Griffiths published 23 September 2024 The cover for the band’s new album was produced “with AI being just one of the many tools used in the creative process.” And fans aren’t happy The 5 lost guitar albums that you can now hear – and are worth your time By Rob Laing published 10 October 2023 Starring Billy Duffy, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Rivers Cuomo and Bernard Sumner J Mascis: 10 albums that changed my life – “The Stooges was definitely my guitar sound inspiration. That’s still the best sound I’ve heard for guitar on a recording” By Jonathan Horsley published 7 April 2023 The Dinosaur Jr frontman picks the albums that took him from a young drummer under Ian Paice's spell to pioneer of US alt-rock, and warns of the danger of the pastel-coloured sports jacket "You guys - it sounds like a really bad Pearl Jam": Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst hated Creed so much he asked their label not to release their debut album By Daniel Griffiths published 12 December 2024 The divisive post-grunge mainstays wouldn’t be part of history if the label had listened to their star My favourite album of the year: MusicRadar’s writers name their top records of 2023 By The MusicRadar team published 20 December 2023 Here’s what we’ve been listening to most over the past 12 months Watch Slash cover Howlin’ Wolf’s Killing Floor on first single from new blues album, with AC/DC’s Brian Johnson on vocals, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on harmonica By Jonathan Horsley published 8 March 2024 Orgy Of The Damned finds the GNR guitarist tackling blues standards with an all-star cast of vocalists – watch Slash rock a Bigsby-equipped ES-335 in the video for Killing Floor now 5 great songs with questionable mixes: "The more you look at it like some tech-boy producer, the less you get it" By Jake Gill published 6 March 2024 From Burial to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we round up five unconventional approaches to mixing that resonated with listeners “Probably some of the dumbest sh*t this band has ever put out… I want it”: Green Day fans are loving the crazy formats for Dookie ‘De-Mastered’ By Will Simpson published 10 October 2024 Green Day re-issue 'de-mastered' version of Dookie Who sampled Pink Floyd? The best, worst and just plain oddest tracks featuring Floyd samples By Andy Jones published 29 July 2023 The most sampled Floyd songs, and some of the best, worst and just plain odd tracks they spawned, featuring The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Metalheadz and, um, Milli Vanilli... "If you're not joining in, you're out… I got my P45”: How the Bee Gees, Burt Bacharach and coke derailed the first attempt at recording Oasis's Definitely Maybe By Scott Rowley published 1 November 2024 It started with a promise between friends and turned into every producer’s worst nightmare: Inside the aborted first attempt at recording Oasis’s classic debut "This Noise Defender is meant to be a noise gate but it actually makes it noisier": Revisiting Steve Albini's tour of his worst effects pedals By Rob Laing published 22 July 2024 "As a combination, I travelled the furthest and wasted the most in terms of the percentage of value on those two pedals, of any purchase I've ever made" “I thought it was too pop. I rebelled against it”: How Ozzy Osbourne learned to love a song that was written and recorded in one hour and ended up becoming Black Sabbath’s biggest hit By Paul Elliott published 7 February 2025 And how Sabbath made the most influential heavy metal album of all time "What the hell is that?" From Marilyn Manson to Zack Snyder: The 6 best covers of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams By Andy Jones published 11 August 2023 40 years of Sweet Dreams have given us some varied covers – some are sweet, some are frankly just nightmares “It’s just so hideously sexist but it pretends to be a love song, but it’s really, really retrograde”: St Vincent brands John Mayer’s Daughters 'the worst song ever written' By Will Simpson published 7 August 2024 "I hate it," says Annie Clark “Of course I made MP3 copies, they’re like hidden in safes all around the world”: Wu-Tang Clan album owner is sued for illegal distribution By Will Simpson published 12 June 2024 Owner of unique Wu-Tang Clan album is sued for making illegal copies “She didn't move from the sofa and she sang two takes of Rolling in the Deep and that's what we used”: Adele, Daft Punk and Taylor Swift are among our picks for the best recorded albums of the 21st century By Andy Jones published 30 October 2024 For your Recording Week pleasure, these are the are the most notable albums of the last 24 years… “Imagine not knowing Eric Johnson, Vai and Satriani and seeing this for the first time? It literally blows your mind”: Matteo Mancuso – 10 albums that changed my life By Jonathan Horsley published 21 February 2025 The Sicilian virtuoso salutes Jimmy Page's stylistic adventurism, the compositional genius of Pat Metheny and Al Di Meola, and declares Jaco Pastorius “the Jimi Hendrix of bass” Watch YouTube drummer Tyler Visser cover Tool’s entire Lateralus album in a single, unedited take By Stuart Williams published 6 October 2023 The drummer set himself the challenge of covering some of Danny Carey’s most difficult drum parts in one marathon video “The music business attracts the lowest form of life!”: How the leader of a multi-million selling rock band took on the industry and won! By Paul Elliott published 21 November 2024 If ever an artist stuck it to The Man, it was Boston’s leader Tom Scholz 5 Mark Ronson tracks producers need to hear By Daniel Griffiths published 4 September 2023 We take a time-travelling trip through the mind and music of the uptown funker "Fans will know it from the cover of his debut solo album": Jeff Beck’s famous Les Paul sells for more than £1m! By Paul Elliott published 22 January 2025 The guitar is seen on the cover of a classic ’70s album A bemused Taylor Swift fan reveals that her Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) vinyl has been pressed with an album of rare ‘90s UK electronica By Ben Rogerson published 12 July 2023 “What is this!? Please help me!” New book Dust & Grooves Vol.2 tells the tall tale of the scam records that could make collectors a fortune By Daniel Griffiths published 20 December 2024 Some of today’s most in-demand rare records actually weren’t meant to be bought at all… “It’s high and low, it’s poetry meets drugs, it’s earnest meets arrogance”: Which classic album could Charli XCX be talking about? By Will Simpson published 9 December 2024 She namechecks its influence at Variety’s Hitmakers awards Mysterious Black Sabbath Paranoid-era live album quietly surfaces on Spotify By Rob Laing published 5 July 2023 Nuit Noire features material from their first two albums and arrives with zero fanfare “I thought it was my friend joking when the receptionist said ‘Bob Dylan on the phone for you,’ but I could tell as soon as he spoke, it was Bob”: Dave Stewart recalls his first meeting with Bob Dylan as he unveils new covers album, Dave Does Dylan By Ben Rogerson published 11 February 2025 “It's been a long road and these lyrics and melodies have kept me company through the best and the worst of times,” he says “The guy on the tills put this in my bag too… I asked and thought maybe it was his demo or something but he didn’t seem to have a clue, saying he’d just been told by ‘management’ to give it out to customers”: Jack White gives away his new album By Will Simpson published 23 July 2024 Jack White gives away his new album to customers at Third Man stores “A noise like God conducting the soundtrack to the end of the world!”: The classic Black Sabbath album with the most bizarre song they ever recorded By Paul Elliott published 12 February 2025 Drummer Bill Ward called that song “a demonic chant” "Where menace meets magic": 6 legendary albums recorded at the iconic Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin By Andy Jones published 15 November 2023 Bowie, Iggy, Bono, Stipe, Depeche and Sylvian all recorded their master works there. Thankfully not all together “The whole history of Led Zeppelin is musical expansion”: Their monumental double album Physical Graffiti is 50 years old By Paul Elliott published 24 February 2025 It was Zeppelin's answer to The White Album and Electric Ladyland 1 Archives
“Using AI is so disappointing. Pay a real artist”: Tears for Fears attract ire with new AI-generated album art By Daniel Griffiths published 23 September 2024 The cover for the band’s new album was produced “with AI being just one of the many tools used in the creative process.” And fans aren’t happy
The 5 lost guitar albums that you can now hear – and are worth your time By Rob Laing published 10 October 2023 Starring Billy Duffy, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Rivers Cuomo and Bernard Sumner
J Mascis: 10 albums that changed my life – “The Stooges was definitely my guitar sound inspiration. That’s still the best sound I’ve heard for guitar on a recording” By Jonathan Horsley published 7 April 2023 The Dinosaur Jr frontman picks the albums that took him from a young drummer under Ian Paice's spell to pioneer of US alt-rock, and warns of the danger of the pastel-coloured sports jacket
"You guys - it sounds like a really bad Pearl Jam": Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst hated Creed so much he asked their label not to release their debut album By Daniel Griffiths published 12 December 2024 The divisive post-grunge mainstays wouldn’t be part of history if the label had listened to their star
My favourite album of the year: MusicRadar’s writers name their top records of 2023 By The MusicRadar team published 20 December 2023 Here’s what we’ve been listening to most over the past 12 months
Watch Slash cover Howlin’ Wolf’s Killing Floor on first single from new blues album, with AC/DC’s Brian Johnson on vocals, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on harmonica By Jonathan Horsley published 8 March 2024 Orgy Of The Damned finds the GNR guitarist tackling blues standards with an all-star cast of vocalists – watch Slash rock a Bigsby-equipped ES-335 in the video for Killing Floor now
5 great songs with questionable mixes: "The more you look at it like some tech-boy producer, the less you get it" By Jake Gill published 6 March 2024 From Burial to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we round up five unconventional approaches to mixing that resonated with listeners
“Probably some of the dumbest sh*t this band has ever put out… I want it”: Green Day fans are loving the crazy formats for Dookie ‘De-Mastered’ By Will Simpson published 10 October 2024 Green Day re-issue 'de-mastered' version of Dookie
Who sampled Pink Floyd? The best, worst and just plain oddest tracks featuring Floyd samples By Andy Jones published 29 July 2023 The most sampled Floyd songs, and some of the best, worst and just plain odd tracks they spawned, featuring The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Metalheadz and, um, Milli Vanilli...
"If you're not joining in, you're out… I got my P45”: How the Bee Gees, Burt Bacharach and coke derailed the first attempt at recording Oasis's Definitely Maybe By Scott Rowley published 1 November 2024 It started with a promise between friends and turned into every producer’s worst nightmare: Inside the aborted first attempt at recording Oasis’s classic debut
"This Noise Defender is meant to be a noise gate but it actually makes it noisier": Revisiting Steve Albini's tour of his worst effects pedals By Rob Laing published 22 July 2024 "As a combination, I travelled the furthest and wasted the most in terms of the percentage of value on those two pedals, of any purchase I've ever made"
“I thought it was too pop. I rebelled against it”: How Ozzy Osbourne learned to love a song that was written and recorded in one hour and ended up becoming Black Sabbath’s biggest hit By Paul Elliott published 7 February 2025 And how Sabbath made the most influential heavy metal album of all time
"What the hell is that?" From Marilyn Manson to Zack Snyder: The 6 best covers of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams By Andy Jones published 11 August 2023 40 years of Sweet Dreams have given us some varied covers – some are sweet, some are frankly just nightmares
“It’s just so hideously sexist but it pretends to be a love song, but it’s really, really retrograde”: St Vincent brands John Mayer’s Daughters 'the worst song ever written' By Will Simpson published 7 August 2024 "I hate it," says Annie Clark
“Of course I made MP3 copies, they’re like hidden in safes all around the world”: Wu-Tang Clan album owner is sued for illegal distribution By Will Simpson published 12 June 2024 Owner of unique Wu-Tang Clan album is sued for making illegal copies
“She didn't move from the sofa and she sang two takes of Rolling in the Deep and that's what we used”: Adele, Daft Punk and Taylor Swift are among our picks for the best recorded albums of the 21st century By Andy Jones published 30 October 2024 For your Recording Week pleasure, these are the are the most notable albums of the last 24 years…
“Imagine not knowing Eric Johnson, Vai and Satriani and seeing this for the first time? It literally blows your mind”: Matteo Mancuso – 10 albums that changed my life By Jonathan Horsley published 21 February 2025 The Sicilian virtuoso salutes Jimmy Page's stylistic adventurism, the compositional genius of Pat Metheny and Al Di Meola, and declares Jaco Pastorius “the Jimi Hendrix of bass”
Watch YouTube drummer Tyler Visser cover Tool’s entire Lateralus album in a single, unedited take By Stuart Williams published 6 October 2023 The drummer set himself the challenge of covering some of Danny Carey’s most difficult drum parts in one marathon video
“The music business attracts the lowest form of life!”: How the leader of a multi-million selling rock band took on the industry and won! By Paul Elliott published 21 November 2024 If ever an artist stuck it to The Man, it was Boston’s leader Tom Scholz
5 Mark Ronson tracks producers need to hear By Daniel Griffiths published 4 September 2023 We take a time-travelling trip through the mind and music of the uptown funker
"Fans will know it from the cover of his debut solo album": Jeff Beck’s famous Les Paul sells for more than £1m! By Paul Elliott published 22 January 2025 The guitar is seen on the cover of a classic ’70s album
A bemused Taylor Swift fan reveals that her Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) vinyl has been pressed with an album of rare ‘90s UK electronica By Ben Rogerson published 12 July 2023 “What is this!? Please help me!”
New book Dust & Grooves Vol.2 tells the tall tale of the scam records that could make collectors a fortune By Daniel Griffiths published 20 December 2024 Some of today’s most in-demand rare records actually weren’t meant to be bought at all…
“It’s high and low, it’s poetry meets drugs, it’s earnest meets arrogance”: Which classic album could Charli XCX be talking about? By Will Simpson published 9 December 2024 She namechecks its influence at Variety’s Hitmakers awards
Mysterious Black Sabbath Paranoid-era live album quietly surfaces on Spotify By Rob Laing published 5 July 2023 Nuit Noire features material from their first two albums and arrives with zero fanfare
“I thought it was my friend joking when the receptionist said ‘Bob Dylan on the phone for you,’ but I could tell as soon as he spoke, it was Bob”: Dave Stewart recalls his first meeting with Bob Dylan as he unveils new covers album, Dave Does Dylan By Ben Rogerson published 11 February 2025 “It's been a long road and these lyrics and melodies have kept me company through the best and the worst of times,” he says
“The guy on the tills put this in my bag too… I asked and thought maybe it was his demo or something but he didn’t seem to have a clue, saying he’d just been told by ‘management’ to give it out to customers”: Jack White gives away his new album By Will Simpson published 23 July 2024 Jack White gives away his new album to customers at Third Man stores
“A noise like God conducting the soundtrack to the end of the world!”: The classic Black Sabbath album with the most bizarre song they ever recorded By Paul Elliott published 12 February 2025 Drummer Bill Ward called that song “a demonic chant”
"Where menace meets magic": 6 legendary albums recorded at the iconic Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin By Andy Jones published 15 November 2023 Bowie, Iggy, Bono, Stipe, Depeche and Sylvian all recorded their master works there. Thankfully not all together
“The whole history of Led Zeppelin is musical expansion”: Their monumental double album Physical Graffiti is 50 years old By Paul Elliott published 24 February 2025 It was Zeppelin's answer to The White Album and Electric Ladyland
