The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Takes A Squiggly Path

blake lewis gets points for that blank “who am i? where am i?” stare

I think Lewis might be trying to fool people into thinking he’s James Murphy in that picture. Add a little make-up and that’s practically the “All My Friends” video on a CD case.

I vote for KPax!

Seriously, Blake Lewis even looks like a young Kevin Spacey in that shot…ish.

Something about that Common cover just yanks my crank…Gap spokesman, FTW.

are you kidding? common looks like a pedo hiding in a vat of melted chocolate waiting for a small child. granted, i almost voted for blake lewis, and then i realised the only reason i wouldn’t be voting for the common album was that i had gotten used to the sheer horror it had instilled in me in the first place.

This may sound crazy but I don’t think the Common cover is that bad! Blake’s on the other hand, is heinous.

I could never vote against Gordon from Sesame Street. Too many good memories.

only one is called Audio Daydream though

Common’s sexy.

Blake wins.

The Common cover has grown on me.

I voted for Common because it’s probably the only one instance in this competition where I was on the fence about buying the album and the cover actually helped me make the decision not to. And post-Electric Circus he really shouldn’t be running the risk of making his album look like more psychedelic bullshit even if it doesn’t sound like it.

Blake’s is worse for a simple reason — the double high-school-formal headshot.

common’s because the cover of Be is so awesome, you’d assume that he’d have decent taste in covers. lewis’ is hilarious on many levels, common’s just kinda disappointing.

@Ned Raggett: Agreed — plus, I saw an interview with him on a local wake-up show where he said he found that picture of him on the internet. He didn’t even make it, apparently!

If it wasn’t for the black hood, Common’s cover wouldn’t be that bad. As for Blake, he’s got a metrosexual cyberpunk element going on. The green smear of light looks like a Photoshop glitch.

What is that thing connected to Blake’s neck? Is that how he jacks into the Matrix?

Jujitsu? I know…Jujitsu?

Common’s is bad, and deserves to be in the competition, but this one goes to Blake for the aforementioned stare and the double-headshot thing.

@Ned Raggett: Ohhh yeah! I couldn’t put my finger on it but it IS so high school!

Re: Blake. Lewis. Has anyone ever seen that Richard E Grant movie ‘How To Get Ahead In Advertising’?

In hell: Fauxhawks, everywhere.

I think Common is just trying to be a hip hop Jedi.

I just realized that’s not shadow on Blake Lewis’ chin, that’s some sort of bizarre facial hair.

@Ned Raggett:
I was on the fence until you pointed out the high school-esque nature of Blake’s cover. Good call.

Common’s Jedi-look hurts, but I like the design of the rest of that cover. Blake’s, however, threatns us with Blake clones…IN SPACE…and that will not stand.

i voted for common because i feel like a) he probably has a way bigger budget and/or ability to not have a stupid album cover and b) the cranberries circa no need to argue handwriting font that finding forever is written in.

I’d like the Common cover a lot more if his hood didn’t look like pimp hair.

I think Common could take the whole competition. The weird hood and beard and Ming the Merciless thing going on, plus the album title is heinous and they put it in an even worse font. I can’t even imagine having to LISTEN to it… Blake’s is just harmless and funny, relatively.

I’d say that this is a close one, but I’m going with Blake just so that he might get to go head-to-head to head-to-head with double J. Lo later in the tournament.

@rhythmchyc: Exactly. Common’s a good looking guy, how hard is it to make him look decent? Whereas with wotshisdoubleface, there’s an air of ‘what the hell, we can’t make him look that much more douchier’ to the whole enterprise, which is kinda admirable.

Even though Common is channeling the Jedi and Ming the Merciless, my vote goes to Blake for finally admitting he is The Last Starfighter. [www.amazon.com]

@bcapirigi: It was the font that decided it for me too, but I went with Blake Lewis. Vote for (against?) the dot matrix.

I can’t believe some of you think that the Common record looks ok or even not as bad as the Blake Lewis. That Common cover makes no sense.

Geniuses: the Blake Lewis has the word daydream in it. Hence the crappy stare and stupid swirly effects. Common has no excuse for looking like a shit stain.

Blake gives album art a bad b-b-b-bad-errr-wikkiwikki-bad name.

@PrinceHal: That is funny.