Because Cap'n Montgomery refuses to let the Weezer album-cover controversy die, we're inspired to point out that this is not the first time a talented band/artist has chosen to make themselves look ridiculous in public through flamboyantly awkward album cover art. Oh no, there have been many, many instances of this throughout rock history.

And, you know, we can speculate about the source of the bad judgment -- anything before 1980 we're blaming on one drug; anything after 1980 on another; anything during the mid-90's was more likely due to an over-developed, overly self-conscious sense of irony. Anything in the early 00's can be blamed on "sincerity"; anything since on the generational-sincerity backlash. Or something.

After the jump, a few of our most favorite examples of when artists have chosen to artistically display themselves on the covers of their (quite excellent) albums -- to spectacularly bad effect. Seriously, these are great records, but you kind of want to brown-paper-bag 'em... Read more...