Rollingstone Announces the Top 50 WORST Album Covers of all time

We all love a Rollingstone Magazine Top list whether it be top guitarists, top albums, top singers they are to their credit on the money, and this list is no different. By god, some of these albums are awful.

Rolling Stone had some specific criteria when compiling the list, and particularly targeted huge acts that had the ability to have a great cover designed for them, but still chose not to.

While an album's artwork isn't necessarily as important as its musical content, the design can still have a pretty big effect on the record's performance. The cover of an album is supposed to grab a prospective listener's attention, and if it looks bad, they may not be as enticed to listen to it.

Some big names have made the list such as Queen, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi and Van Halen but the Top 3 are as follows..

#3 - Creed, Weathered 

Rollingstone have said - If you want proof that nepotism is a scourge on our cultural landscape, you need only consider this album cover, the creation of guitarist Mark Tremonti’s brother Daniel Tremonti. We’d be annoyed by the semi-competent Photoshop fakery of the band’s faces being digitally carved into a digital tree, except that no real-life tree deserves to have Creed carved into it.

#2 Roger Daltrey, ‘Ride a Rock Horse’

Rollingstone have said - If you’re the lead singer of an internationally renowned rock band like the Who and you record a solo album at the height of your band’s success, the only good reason for doing that is because that allows you to express a side of your personality that has been squelched by your main gig: being a goddamn centaur. Bonus points for Daltrey not only pumping his fist at the awesomeness of finally living out his dream, but also doing an impossible backbend and pumping his hoof.

#1 Limp Bizkit, ‘Presents Chocolate St★rfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water’

Rollingstone have said - Five Gollum-looking dudes lolling around on a bed of nitrate-infused meat? Sure, that’s a fair representation of Limp Bizkit. Following up on their breakthrough hit Significant Other, the nu metal band leaned even harder into being repulsive — “chocolate starfish” is a slang term for “asshole,” a nickname vocalist Fred Durst adopted with pride — as a substitute for an actual artistic philosophy. This cover (made by the band’s guitarist, Wes Borland) is both tacky and gross, but at least it works as a warning label: What you see is what you get

You can see the full list HERE

Reckon the missed any?