15 album covers that aimed for seductive but landed on cringeworthy

Album covers feature a wealth of cool, creepy and cringeworthy stuff, with some covers becoming iconic, including the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club album, and others becoming notorious, such as David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs full spread.

Over at sadanduseless.com, where they’re neither of those things, they’ve been looking at album covers that tried that little bit too hard to be sexy and ended up as cringeworthy AF.

These are our favourites.

1. We’re so grateful for those undies

2. His mum’s going to go mad when she finds out her favourite throw is missing

3. Leave, mate. Nobody’s stopping you

4. Burt Reynolds: the desperate years

5. When you’ve got sexy LP modelling at 4, but tennis training at 6:30

6. “I swear to God, Pete …if you don’t move your foot …”

7. One of the many eye-watering accordion injuries seen in A&E each week

8. What business would that be, Gary?