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In today’s second battle in the Southeast Bracket of our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament–the last battle of the tournament’s first round!–we pit the minimalist scrawls of be-helmeted prog-metal guitar freakazoid Buckethead against the Lady And The Tramp-meets-industrial Photoshoppery of Italian electro-goth duo Helalyn Flowers. Personally, I’m voting for the latter, if only because a month later I still can’t figure out what’s with the metal contraption they’re sucking on, but decide for yourselves (and offer your own explanations!) after the jump.
The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Bites The Bucket
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Not fair! These are easily 2 of my favorites to win this race… how can I choose just one?!
Buckethead’s work resembles an old Beat Happening record and infantile scribblings always warm many hearts. The Flowers cover is just heinous – that object is either elephant dung or a pencil sharpener.
Not to quibble, but Helalyn Flowers are Norelco-Goth and they’re clearly eating an electric razor.
Did Helalyn Flowers ask CBS’ Amazing Trainwreck to pose for their cover?
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And the comment above should’ve read ..ask that incredibly lame Goth couple from…
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They kind of look like car wheels and tires with circular saws coming out of the middle.
(I definitely voted for the latter as well)
Clearly, they’re disassembling rotary phones with their teeth.
The one on the right looks like a cover for a bad Cleopatra goth compilation.
The Buckethead cover is kinda cute, plus that fucker can play! The latter one is making me ill.
When I can’t tell what it is you are fellating, you win by default.
So, essentially, I agree with everyone here.
I vote for the 2girls1cup one. Buckethead is supposed to have shitty album covers.
Did Simon Trife illustrate the Buckethead album cover?
is helalyn a word? and, if it is, how do you pronounce it?
@Nicolars: No fat bees.
Perhaps if they were more ravenous, it’d be a better cover.
But I voted for Buckethead because he’s the underdog.
@FionaScrapple: I am a huge Buckethead fan too, but I voted against him. I am trying to divorce my feelings about the artist in this competition from the covers themselves.
The goth band is fine, the girl is kinda cute, the whole thing is playful. Buckethead, who has a history of great design on his covers, is all “fuck these kids and their ipods and their pac man. They expect nothing and will get it in spades.”
They’re both so goddam awful, but I have to give it to the Norelco-goth kids. Buckethead’s cover is bad, but it’s a lazy sort of bad. The other one is a clearly more aggressive strain of terrible.
I like the Buckethead cover. It’s something I could draw with my terrible artistic skills. It speaks to me. Helalyn Flowers, on the other hand, disturbs me. It looks like the dude is barfing a tentacle into the girl’s mouth. No thanks.
@El-Zilcho: I agree, its aggressively repulsive. Plus, their album title is just mega-horrific. A voluntary coincidence? Looks, its kind of like an oxymoron! Why not stop the pretension of being clever and just call it jumbo shrimp?
Hey, this guy’s name is Buckethead…and here’s a crappy drawing of someone with a bucket upon their head! Clarity!
Goth incest (yes) gets the vote due to confusing creepiness.
Since Helalyn Flowers are Italian, I assume they’re chewing on a couple of Futurist sprocketburgers. I give them extra points for the obscure art-movement reference.
Buckethead’s real identity is Weird Al Yankovic. Those curly locks tell no lies. How else could Weird Al be taken seriously as a virtuoso guitarist than by wearing a fried chicken bucket on his head.