Best & Worst Artwork of 2017 Forum User Poll

[woweezowee]

Some great contributions to the Best & Worst Artwork of 2017 threads over the last year, ranging from the beautiful and the creative to the plain rubbish and the eye-gougingly ugly. So, who was ultimately the worst of the worst and the best of the best?

I’ve made a shortlist of twenty from each category and thumbnails for reference (expand if too small) . These are largely taken from those two threads, but given that we were happier mining the shitty seam, I’ve also added a few other good ones (imho) from last year to the best shortlist.

One vote for each. Votes are not intended to be a reflection of the quality of the music within, just a skin-deep assessment of the artwork. Polls to run for a couple of weeks or until voting dries up.

A winner will then be declared from each category.

[woweezowee]

2017 Worst Artwork: Nominations

• Cabbage Young, Dumb & Full Of
• Drynx – Horse Matrix
• GBV – August By Cake
• Great White - Full Circle
• Jesus & Mary Chain– Damage & Joy
• Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
• Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud
• LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
• Liars - TFCF
• Maroon 5 – Red Pill Blues
• Nickelback – Feed The Machine
• Paramore - After Laughter
• Pharmakon – Contact
• Ringo Starr – Give More Love
• Take That - Wonderland
• The Horrors - V
• The Knife – Live At Terminal 5
• The White West – Riff Raff
• Terror Jr – Bop City 3: The Girl Who Cried Purple
• Wyclef Jean - Inspired By

[woweezowee]

2017 Best Artwork: Nominations

• Aaron Dilloway – The Gag File
• Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
• Besnard Lakes – Are The Divine Wind
• Chaos Moon - Eschaton Memoire
• Christian Fitness – Slap Bass Hunks
• DVNE – Asheran
• From The Mouth of the Sun – Hymn Binding
• Half Japanese – Hear The Lions Roar
• Horsebeach – Beauty & Sadness
• Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
• Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
• Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun
• Moon Duo – Occult Architecture - Vol 1
• Novella – Change of State
• Phoebe Bridges – Stranger In The Alps
• Reflections of a Floating World – Elder
• Richard Dawson - Peasant
• The National – Sleep Well Beast
• Thundercat – Drunk
• WaqWaq Kingdom – Shinsekai

[gonad]

How do I vote for kasabian for best?

[woweezowee]

It just missed out in the shortlisting I’m afraid, but please rest assured that it occupied all of the positions between 21-100 on the long list.

[woweezowee]

Bump! Any more votes for the best & worst artwork of 2017 poll?

Rubbish is clearly winning out in the battle between rubbish and grotesque for the worst cover art currently. Credit to Cabbage & JAMC for demonstrating just how easily one can become the other.

On the best artwork poll, Thundercat curently leading with his cover channeling his inner Colonel Kurtz (Thunderkurtz?) with a possibly unassailable lead of three votes.

There’s a particularly strong run between Jesca Hoop and Phoebe Bridgers - any would be worthy winners imo. Jesca Hoop’s jpeg has a cool animation thing going on somehow. No idea how this works, but it’s pretty great huh?

I’ll give it all a couple more days.