Anteater

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Anteater's 21 Fav Albums Of 2020

Anteater's Daily Tune Roulette

lisastribs

lethal b - best of bizzle = awful!

lisastribs

also Giggs let em have it is pretty dire

MissMusic

Kayne West's new album Dark Twisted Fantasy

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Paedantic Basterd

I kind of hate this artwork as well, I'm not going to lie.

Dotoar

An absolutely marvellous blog on the subject. In swedish obviously, but it doesn't stop anyone from enjoying the collection of album covers:

Katastrofala omslag

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Janszoon

Wow. Just wow. The two guys fighting with flowers was definitely the highlight of the thread for me.

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

OccultHawk

Dotoar

What's more (and what's worse), a lot of the covers present on that blog gives you quite a thorough insight in a more or less uniquely swedish music pehomenom; "dansband", freely translated as "dance band" whose equivalent I don't believe is to be found anywhere else as a cultural phenomenom.

Musically it's basically sort of a cross between the worst strains of rockabilly-revival glamrock of the mid-70's type (preferably featuring saxophone) with an occasional tint of late 60's Vegasy schlock and it's designed exclusively for the elderly to dance to (and it's particularily popular out in the countryside and among retards, no kidding!) Imagine a small-town cultural phenomenom of a whole nation entirely built upon this...



...and you pretty much get the whole picture. As you can imagine (and tell from many of the covers), the musical scope is virtually zero and the aesthetics are firmly frozen in the mid-70's, and not the good kind of mid-70's, mind you. And even I get surprised each time I learn about the existence of yet another of these bands which often bear the name of the supposed band-leader, and even more surprised at how many of them are consisting of relatively young dudes (with an occasional singerine) considering that its archetypical setting resides among the middle-aged. You will find them by the hundreds on ferryboats, outdoor dancefloors and on homey game show broadcasts and the only reason any serious musician ever would get involved in this business is that there are supposedly a lot of money in it. And the second-hand stores in Sweden are absolutely brimming with old vinyls featuring covers that grin at you in the bins:




Now that guy is really something! First of all, did you know that we've got a party in our parliament that's basically national-socialistic with a neatly shaved background clad in bomberjacket and army boots? That guy is (or at least was, I think he's been given the boot lately) one representative for that party in one of the provinces of Sweden and made a name for himself in a renowned interview where he openly (and slow-wittedly) stated that the immigration was destroying old swedish traditions such as christmas eve. That particular record was obviously his interpretation of various songs, including "Imagine". Yes, a nazi skinhead covering Lennon, you heard it!

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DoctorSoft

I was just going to post that, that was mine too. That white tee is just so stylish.