Returning to our “We Aren’t The World” bracket in our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament (and if you haven’t voted in any of our previous installments, there’s still time), today we look at two covers in which the subjects are floating in space. In one corner, you have Chingo Bling’s pictorial ode to evading the border patrol, while in the other you have PJ Olsson’s depiction of angels floating around New York City in anticpation of picking their noses with the Empire State Building’s iconic spire. Which one is going to jump into the next round? That’s up to you.
The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Takes A Flying Leap
December 7th, 2007 // 27 Comments
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That Chingo Bling is kind of funny. The PJ Olsson big-head baby-angel looks like it’s going to use the Empire state building to pick it’s nose…which in my book, marks it the loser.
I like the chicken on Chingo’s cover. He gets my vote.
Dude. The WTC memorial lights? American Scream? Are you people nuts? There is only one vote and it ain’t Chingo Bling.
I had not noticed the chicken. That seals it.
1) There’s a chicken in the Chingo Bling’s Parental Advisory sticker.
2) He’s rockin’ sparking white cowboy boots, black cowboy hat with diamond chains!!! And he’s posing like a Don on his t-shirt!!
3) The sparkly/gaudy Chingo Bling font and “Deport” resembling the “Cops” logo!!!!
PJ’s is just creepy. Yikes.
Gotta vote American Scream. There are so, so, so many things wrong with that cover. I mean… the swarm of angel babies?
What, a chicken leaps over a fence with our hero? That’s right out of a Cheech ‘n’ Chong bit.
The PJ cover reminds me of creepy angel art that I often see at antique/lawn ornament shops.
This is no contest. The Chingo Bling one is purposefully garish and silly, the other one is just hideous.
I love the Chingo Bling cover. It’s so hilariously bad.
I’m scared of the PJ Olsson cover. Is that angel the monster that supposedly attacks NYC in Cloverfield?
WOW. that chingo bling cover is so insane i’m tripping…awesome.
it’s like george lopez got thrown in a blender with ICP. the chicken seals the deal for me…i just hope the whole cowboy boots with demin shorts thing doesn’t catch on. also: wearing a shirt with yourself on it on your album cover?
sublime.
Sorry guys, Chingo is clearly worse.
Chingo Bling is fantastic in so many ways.
I think we need to go upstairs for a ruling on this–are we
considering intent, or just pure aesthetics? Seems like every matchup
involves a “It’s intentionally ugly/funny/spankrocky!”
Chingo Bling is probably more atrocious, but trying to be funny ,
where PJ Olsson just makes me want to disembowel him with a letter
opener.
A crying angel with the WTC memorial lights. Must I say it again?
PJ’s cover reminds me of the Smashing Pumpkins.
Come on people. The Chingo Bling cover is a joke, and a funny one too. The Olsson thing combines so many sincere horrible kitsch elements that it’s in a different league altogether. PLUS IT LOOKS LIKE THE BUILDING IS GOING UP THE ANGEL’S NOSE
Chingo Bling doesn’t belong in this competition. He’s got what might be the BEST album cover of 2007.
@Bob Loblaw, it seems like the majority of us are punishing those who are trying to be creative and failing miserably (Dream Theater) over those who’re not creative at all (ex. Britney Spears).
But I can’t punish Chingy. I think I’ll put that up as my new desktop.
“American Scream” sounds like something a thirteen-year-old would think is clever.
I thought the giant angel was using the ESB as a straw.
@TheMojoPin: It does sort of look like that…hands outstretched , ready to grab and suckle on the great big teet of the American Scream…
o.k. i missed the WTC lights and made a horrible mistake in my vote. creepy angels swarming NYC should win this one.
Recount!!!!!!
I couldn’t vote for Chingo Bling. He’s like Houston’s best hustler-rapper ever. To me he’s like the coolest cartoon character that ever lived.
For the record, as of now the two covers are in a dead heat, with two votes separating them. If science vs romance is serious about changing his/her vote to PJO, we have a tie.
I’m a PJO voter myself, for all the reasons highlighted above: witty kitsch vs. bad kitsch, intention vs. tastelessness.
@beta.rogan:
And sup upon the juices of New York City?
Ew.
yes. I was serious. Thank the creepy fluttering angels that PJO eked out their rightful victory, misvote aside.