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Who knew that one of the major pitfalls of making a faith album in the 60s, 70s, and 80s was that the language and art would age into being a creepy, un-self-aware album cover? It's stilted, awkward, and there is an uncomfortable amount of talk regarding "being touched by him." Maybe the hair doesn't help.

You can't blame an artist for putting their heart and soul out there and doing their best. But you can totally laugh at weird and awkward album covers that use extremely tacky imagery or have become a straight up double entendre over time. There's no way of knowing if your band name is gonna become a synonym for a sex act, but hey, it happens.

Every artist has their own idea of what people will like. Whether or not these people were successful in their day, it's clear that their album art has not aged well with the passage of time. Some of these unfortunate covers look like mugshots. Here are more creepy and weird album covers of the past.

Since music is a primarily auditory experience, many artists don't seem to be too skilled when it comes to developing their image. Low budgets, awkward photoshoots and the swift and crushing passage of time have left many artists of the past in a whirling eddy of unrelatable creepiness that in retrospect, is fun to gawk at. In a similar vein of weird stuff people made, here are strange how-to books.