Kurt Cobain put a naked kid on his Nevermind cover, yeah, but that kid was drowning in metaphorical poverty, trying to reach the money that would pull him out of his existence and capitalism, yeah yeah yeah, anger. Also why would you make everything just different shades of grey, so nothing's readable and everything just sort of blends together? Were Puddle of Mudd the original Fifty Shades of Grey? Can you imagine Wes Scantlin as Christian Grey? Can we get off this fucking album cover please? However, since it's the late 90s.Īs it stands, this looks like a shovelware Nintendo 64 marble racing game. I probably would have rated this higher if it looked a bit more polished. Not just promo shots of their faces at different levels of existential crises. You'd think if they wanted to make a decent collage, they'd insert photos of them actually, you know, doing stuff. Get it? It's a collage of the band members at various points of their lives, rendered so tiny that you don't know who it is and don't care, as long as the band can point and smugly chime in with a 'It's our LIFE ON DISPLAY' and chuckle with a hillbilly inflection. I just realised the Puddle of Mudd logo puts the Ds backwards in Mudd. What the fuck is happening in this cover?įor fuck's sake. Why are you sitting on tyres and toolboxes? Why does the guy on the far right look like he wants to slip a little something something in my drink? Does the other nondescript black-shirting-wearing man know there's a photo being taken? Why did you pick a fucking meth lab to sit outside? Why do you all look so blatantly photoshopped and fake looking? Are you robots? It's a change of pace, hopefully less gushy than lists about bands I actually like and care about and think are relevant. To celebrate having a somewhat decent work ethic in pumping out these cover-art-ranking lists, I decided to torture myself with Puddle of Mudd's kinda shitty cover art.

ArtBox's Art Box Week 10: Fucking Puddle of Mudd

Puddle of mudd album artwork