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“What The Eff?” Wednesday: Ten Crazy Christmas Album Covers

Thembi Ford 23 December 2009 22 Comments

Everyone who is anyone has a Christmas album, but in a rush to take advantage of our holiday cheer (i.e. trick us into buying bad music just because its Christmas-y) some artists have to cut corners on the cover art. Here are 10 prime examples of such ridiculousness.

10. “Naughty or Nice” – 3LW

The gall of 3LW to release a Christmas album at all (let alone with only two members, one of which is wearing a Christmas fur bra top) can only exist in a capitalist country with a Christian majority. I’m just saying…besides, I can’t even tell which one is naughty and which one is nice. What a mess.

9.  ”Christmas” – Howard Hewett

I’m sure this album is filled with smooth grooves, but must the cover feature Howard swaddled in white satin with his shoes off? Also notice the hat on the bed in the corner of the album, I’m just confused by that.

8. “Christmas Jews” – 2 Live Jews


I figure if you’re going to start a group that parodies 2 Live Crew and name it 2 Live Jews, you may as well make a Christmas album with cover art of you surfing into the holiday season on a bagel.

7. “Christmas Reflections” – Paulette Ashe & Holy Vessels


I can’t sing and don’t have an album. But I DO have glamour shots from Sears. That is what Paulette Ashe and I have in common.

6. “A Holiday Celebration” – Rockin’ Sidney

Time has proven that the errant Creole curl on the forehead and the soulpatch go together like egg and nog. A holiday celebration, indeed.

5. “Rap Allstars” – Last Christmas


Rap Allstars? Don’t they mean Not Stars? I don’t recognize a single one of these people.

4. “Pull My Finger: Jingle Smells” – Various Artists

I maintain the sense of humor of a ten-year old child, but even I couldn’t stand ninety minutes of fart music, not even classics such as “Silent Butt Deadly Night,” and “We Wish You a Smelly Xmas (Unplugged).” Is it just me or is that Santa extra scary looking, like he’s a Killer Klown from Outerspace or something? What intrigues me most is that the album is credited to “Various Artists.” Think about that one for a while and get back to me.

3. “A Kimmy and Klassé Khristmas” – Kimmy and Klassé


I resent the butchering of the English language through the substitution of K’s for C’s, but I also have to side-eye the obvious problem with the title “Kimmy and Klassé Khristmas.” Who wants to buy an r&b album known as “KKK” for short?

2. “May Christmas Bring You Happiness” – Luther Vandross

Luther, we love you and we miss you and, on your behalf, are willing to hunt down and throat-chop the person responsible for this album cover.

1. “This Christmas Is To Be With You” – Last Edition

Wait, what? You mean to say there’s a singing group called Last Edition? Had they heard of the infinitely more popular group New Edition before choosing this name and causing what must be a lifelong Abbott & Costello routine for their fans? Try to recommend their music to a friend and they’ll inevitably say “Oh, you must mean New Edition,” and you’ll have to say “No, no, I mean LAST Edition. They’re new.” “Like I said, NEW Edition,” the friend says, and on and on. Meanwhile, just look at what all else is happening: the Daycare Center font, the layered Photoshop effects, the hats, the braids, the anemic tree…Bah Humbug!

Bonus: “Knockin’ Boots for Christmas”  - H-Town

Uncle Luke has had a few Christmas albums and “Christmas at Uncle Luke’s House” yielded this highly inappropriate and rather tragic single by H-Town.

Happy Holidays!

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22 Comments »

  • Tafari said:

    10 pieces of hot mess! I don’t even know which is worse.

    # 23 December 2009 at 2:01 pm
  • Bef from O Hell Nawl said:

    Thembi!!!!!!!!!!

    Where in the hell did you get these album covers?

    I can’t even deal

    # 23 December 2009 at 2:09 pm
  • Philippe said:

    Each and every one of these covers is a hot mess. It should be a list of 11 though, no bad Christmas album list is complete without B2K’s “Santa Hooked Me Up”.

    # 23 December 2009 at 2:17 pm
  • Ginneh said:

    this was the best christmas present ever

    # 23 December 2009 at 2:17 pm
  • Tafari said:

    @Philippe Hell no. LOL!!!!!! “Santa Hooked Me Up”

    # 23 December 2009 at 2:49 pm
  • DJStylus said:

    x_x

    Bury me under the yule log.

    # 23 December 2009 at 2:55 pm
  • Lakia said:

    OMG!!!
    All of them are a classy mess!!!lol

    # 24 December 2009 at 12:11 pm
  • invisiblewoman said:

    *retreats back under the covers* at rockin’ sidney, luther vandross, and knockin’ boots for christmas. just pass the egg nog and brandy…

    # 24 December 2009 at 12:41 pm
  • bklyn6 said:

    I think Thembi photoshopped them covers. Only thing missing from “A Kimmy and Klassé Khristmas” is a klansman.

    # 24 December 2009 at 2:57 pm
  • Tini said:

    *FLORIDA EVANS* DEAD!!! DEAD!!! DEAD!!! can’t.stop.laughing.

    # 24 December 2009 at 7:39 pm
  • Faith Liamano said:

    (Rolling)

    # 25 December 2009 at 12:08 am
  • Damali said:

    thanks for the Christmas comedy break – lol @ Last Edition and doesn’t the smoothie on the left resemble Johnny G ? this is how last minute Christmas shoppers get “took”. No words for the Luther madness – sign me up for the throat chop posse.

    # 25 December 2009 at 9:39 am
  • Ash said:

    “Knockin Boots for Christmas”…hot, hot, hot mess!!! I’m nineteen and I’ve never heard of mess like this. By the way, where is the third member 3LW?

    # 25 December 2009 at 3:05 pm
  • Luvvie said:

    These ALL jus bout kilt me ALL the way DEAD! iCan’t.

    # 25 December 2009 at 7:06 pm
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    # 27 December 2009 at 1:03 am
  • Da Smoking Ace said:

    Wow, Ole Luther look like he is drunk on that cover.

    # 27 December 2009 at 11:59 am
  • Naturally Alise said:

    Why on #5 the two dudes are called “Down Low”… my side-eye is in full effect, lol

    # 27 December 2009 at 3:52 pm
  • ill Mami said:

    Speechless.

    # 29 December 2009 at 1:53 pm
  • aaliyah said:

    two words:
    THANK YOU!

    # 29 December 2009 at 11:09 pm
  • jazzfan360 said:

    OMGOMGOMG I was gonna ask about the “Down Low” dudes. That is NOT okay.

    Also, Thembi, the Who’s On First routine you’re referencing is Abbott and Costello.

    Man, that Luther cover makes me laugh and cry at the same time LOL. Looks like he’s in the middle of a Randy “That’s My Mama” Watson impression.

    # 31 December 2009 at 12:04 pm
  • Thembi said:

    Jazzfan – good call! Now that I think about it I’m embarrassed to have made that mistake. Edited.

    # 31 December 2009 at 12:31 pm
  • Dara said:

    nooooo! i dont recognize nann one of them “rap all stars!” HAHAHAH

    # 20 January 2010 at 8:37 pm

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