I like album art where the artist makes a risky or adventurous fashion choice. Behold "Find Your Way" by Gabrielle:
Ahhh, 1993. The year of the fashion eyepatch.
Here's the album cover of David Lee Murphy’s debut, “Out with a Bang”, which never fails to send me into fits of giggles:
It should have been titled, “Out with those Bangs”. Love the album, hate the hair.
I was really reluctant to include this last one, because it would mean admitting to my enjoyment of the musical stylings of Toby Keith. For the uninitiated, Toby Keith is a country singer with a loudmouth redneck image, who churns out patriotic, borderline sexist and racist tunes for the beer-swilling, Confederate-flag-waving, Rush-Limbaugh-listening demographic. Needless to say, I gobble his music up like a hungry pigeon eats breadcrumbs. His albums and songs often have hokey, LOL-inducing titles (my personal favourites include "Honkytonk University" and "You Ain't Much Fun (Since I Quit Drinking)")
Last year, Tobes released a Christmas album. Imagine my glee as I rushed to download it and was met with this hilarious album cover:
It's got all the essential elements:
Cheesy grin? Check.
Awkward ‘sleaning’ (sitting/leaning) pose with glamour shot-esque hand on cheek? Check. He looks kinda uncomfortable. And where is his right arm?
Santa hat worn over cowboy hat? Check. (As a side note, I’m thrilled to see that the hat-on-hat look is still making the rounds. When I was at school, it was the vogue to wear a baseball cap under one’s bicycle helmet, a style that I rocked frequently.)
I’m struggling to decide if he’s intending to portray a Naughty Santa look or not. I mean, that cheeky expression on his face tells me that at the end of the night, Toby’s still going to be wearing that Santa hat… except not on his head. Or maybe the album cover is completely innocent and my mind is just in the gutter.
OH, TOBY. SO MULTI-LAYERED. SO COMPLEX.
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