B&W Covers a Multitude of Mediocre Music

Here are a couple of my favorite albums, for reasons having absolutely nothing to do with the music on the records. I love me a good B&W cover.

U2's War (1983)-- music could be better. Cover conveys the violence-innocence dichotomy:






Peter Gabriel: II ("Scratch") (1978): Fun if unremarkable music, rather unlike later material. To be honest, I only bought it for the cover. So superficial.

I wish I could have 1/8 of the cool. And the 3/4 sleeve-length dickies jacket.




This *should* be the cover of a bad-ass hard-hitting barnstormer of an album. But one takes what one gets.