10 AWFUL Album Covers

...and while an awesome Photoshop parody video about how every woman (and men...) you see in magazines is cleverly Photoshopped, some Photoshop jobs aren't as clever. In fact, they're disgusting.
I'd love to make an album cover someday... shoot it, edit it, perhaps even do the graphics. There are quite a lot of awful ones out there. Such as these:

Selective colouring is unarguably one of the world's biggest evils. Perhaps whoever edited this photo thought he wanted the "artwork" to reflect the music- tacky, and really not very good. Or perhaps he or she has got taste issues.

This one might've been done with Microsoft Word, using Clipart. Britney is the queen of bad album covers. She should give me a ring for her next album. No, seriously, I'm sure they had a lot of budget for someone as successful as her and it pains me to think that someone got paid shitloads to create something so.. awful.

An overdose of HDR and way too much airbrushing, and the fonts are awful. If I didn't know his music I would've thought he's one of those virtual Japanese popstars (there's quite a lot of them, no?). Or maybe that's the look they were going for.

I love CocoRosie. Which is why this cover makes me so angry.

Leaving Photoshop aside for a while, let's discuss a HUGE modern day evil. The Hipstamatic app on the iPhone. It looks like it's been taken using that.. no?

Seriously, when it comes to airbrushing there is a line that shouldn't be crossed. Especially when it's 3 pretty ladies.

Let's ignore the fact that I'm really not a fan of this woman, and admit that very often her music videos are fantastic. The same cannot be said about this album cover. And no matter how much you love her there's no point arguing with me. Plus that font is the second worst thing to Comic Sans.

Eh, I guess by Photography or Graphic Design GCSE standard, this one isn't too bad. But I'm pretty sure whoever made this is classified as a "pro".

Would it be so bad if they kept the original background and they didn't add those awful tacky shiny ray things? Probably not. THEN WHY DO SO? 

Let's just say this wasn't a magazine cover for a VERY obvious reason.

.....so which albums have I missed out? 

Just in case your eyes are feeling a bit sore, feast your eyes on Smashing Magazine's 35 beautiful music album covers!