Ecstatic Wax

Herb Jeffries (name misspelled on the cover), Devil Is a Woman (Golden Tone, 1957) No, I'm pretty certain the so-called devil woma...

Sic him, hellhound! Robert Johnson reincarnated. I wonder if this asshole made a deal with the devil, too. Judging from his astonishing...

File under Comedy/Fantasy: Miserable Moe Bandy's 1979 vinyl turd,  It's a Cheating Situation . Sorry, Moe, but you're dream...

At the height of the 1980s cock rock phenomenon emerged cocks of a different feather, the inimitable, though short-lived synth-pop sensa...

And the Grammy for Most Laughable Use of a Picnic Tablecloth on an Album Cover goes to...

"GOODBYE, JANNA."  - Jesus

Following the photo shoot for Swedish folk singer Cornelis Vreeswijk’s homage to Evert Taube, the six-string acoustic cradled in the sweat...

Summer is here, ladies and men! And Michael Henderson (known for his electric bass work with Miles Davis, among other more notable accompl...

You know you’re in trouble when your record label believes so much in your new album that they slap a Ford Pinto on the cover. Named for ...

Oh, Danny Boy! Sharp-dressed in his wicker nest. Discovered another Wicker Man hiding on an old SD card. I snapped this pic last year...

The Living Stones, four singing sisters and their poorly conceived suicide note. Taking their lives might have been the most selfless a...

Hmm … judging by the illustrations, this doesn’t look like any ordinary exercise album. Backdoor pantomiming, pelvic thrusting, and che...

We may never know what begot the wicker chair trend of the 1970s, but it hardly matters. The fact of the matter is that these specimens of ...

After this photo, Marcy's duet partner never wore another smile. On this album cover, Marcy's new partner failed to smile en...

Christian folk's Captain & Tennille take on the great orphan crisis of 1974. This 1974 album details one child’s harrowing and ...

Put a Bird on It: Merv & Merla break wind. If Merv and Merla hadn't been so bent on festooning their album cover with cliché Chr...

Ronnie Milsap's unfortunate 1976 album, 20-20 Vision  One advantage of being a blind singer is never having to look this album cove...

In conceiving this terrible LP in the early 1970s, well-meaning Christians had tried their darnedest to re-brand the initialism of LSD i...

Long before they instigated the Good Friday massacre, during which they torched dozens of churches and committed innumerable heinous ac...

Since when is pinning down and forcing one’s self upon an incapacitated and presumably disinclined partner a “Serenade for Love”? A year a...