Top 10 Worst Album Covers

The "Butcher Cover" showing The Beatles draped in raw meat and dismembered dolls was recalled immediately, with Capitol Records pasting new artwork over existing copies.

David Hasselhoff's cover featuring him in a gold jacket surrounded by diamonds and purple lighting became an instant meme, perfectly encapsulating the excess of vanity album packaging.

Miley Cyrus's psychedelic free album featured intentionally provocative cover art so garish and random that critics couldn't tell if it was subversive commentary or just bad design.

Limp Bizkit's nu-metal album title alone was enough to land on worst-of lists, and the cover's grim brown color palette did nothing to class up the juvenile branding.

German schlager legend Heino's cover photo featuring his signature oversized sunglasses and unnervingly stiff pose became an international punchline for unintentionally creepy album art.

The budget cover art featuring a poorly photographed rapper in a Party City costume became a perennial fixture on worst album cover lists and a symbol of cash-grab '80s rap packaging.

While the stark Larry Mullen Jr. mother-and-son embrace wasn't ugly, the forced iTunes download to 500 million accounts made the cover the most unwelcome visual in digital music history.

Billy Ray Cyrus's mullet-forward cover for Some Gave All became shorthand for everything cheesy about early-'90s country, with the hairstyle overshadowing any musical discussion.

The NWOBHM band's cover featuring a nearly nude overweight man holding playing cards and a pint became a cult-classic of so-bad-it's-legendary album artwork in heavy metal circles.

The "Butcher Cover" showing The Beatles draped in raw meat and dismembered dolls was recalled immediately, with Capitol Records pasting new artwork over existing copies.

David Hasselhoff's cover featuring him in a gold jacket surrounded by diamonds and purple lighting became an instant meme, perfectly encapsulating the excess of vanity album packaging.

Miley Cyrus's psychedelic free album featured intentionally provocative cover art so garish and random that critics couldn't tell if it was subversive commentary or just bad design.

Limp Bizkit's nu-metal album title alone was enough to land on worst-of lists, and the cover's grim brown color palette did nothing to class up the juvenile branding.

German schlager legend Heino's cover photo featuring his signature oversized sunglasses and unnervingly stiff pose became an international punchline for unintentionally creepy album art.

The budget cover art featuring a poorly photographed rapper in a Party City costume became a perennial fixture on worst album cover lists and a symbol of cash-grab '80s rap packaging.

While the stark Larry Mullen Jr. mother-and-son embrace wasn't ugly, the forced iTunes download to 500 million accounts made the cover the most unwelcome visual in digital music history.

Billy Ray Cyrus's mullet-forward cover for Some Gave All became shorthand for everything cheesy about early-'90s country, with the hairstyle overshadowing any musical discussion.

The NWOBHM band's cover featuring a nearly nude overweight man holding playing cards and a pint became a cult-classic of so-bad-it's-legendary album artwork in heavy metal circles.