The worst album sleeves of all time - in pictures
From breasts and balls to the Beatles, Guardian readers pick the worst album sleeves they've ever set horrified eyes upon – featuring a line-drawn howler from Neil Young, space-cartoon rubbishness from Def Leppard, an unfortunate back-seat mishap with some chewing gum and Kevin Rowland dressed as a girl
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The Faith Tones regularly appear on 'worst album sleeves' lists with Jesus Use Me. Must be the dodgy typeface
Photograph: Public Domain
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Accept's Balls to the Wall – the ball in question here is clearly a metaphor, representing the band's fondness for cricket
Photograph: Public Domain
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Neil Young's Zuma was released in 1975 and he's still only just quit drugs
Photograph: Public Domain
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Cool tour bus Def Leppard! Did you get it from the same place you got your clip art?
Photograph: Public Domain
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The most shocking thing about Kevin Rowland's My Beauty is that the resulting album was actually very good indeed
Photograph: Public Domain
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Mates of State's sleeve for Our Constant Concern is the worst kind of bad – there aren't even any naked people to laugh at
Photograph: Public Domain
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Pantera used this sleeve after it was passed over by Belle and Sebastian
Photograph: Public Domain
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Roy Harper's Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion. At least the picture fits the title
Photograph: Public Domain
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It must have been great for the Band to use that fluorescent 3D font and think: 'This is in no way the worst thing about our album sleeve'
Photograph: Public Domain
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Everyone can relate to that moment when you try and store chewing gum somewhere and before you know it it's all over a woman's breast in the back of a car
Photograph: Public Domain
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Ooh, Guardian readers are getting controversial by putting the Beatles' White Album in here. But not that controversial. Because the sleeve is rubbish
Photograph: Public Domain
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Here's Oxymoron's Feed the Breed. Would type more but my eyes have done the decent thing and self-combusted while captioning this gallery
Photograph: Public Domain
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