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Harvey Dented: 6 Terrible Two-Faced Album Covers

Sheek Louch's "Don Gorilla" is the latest LP to attempt this ill-fated cover art concept.

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If you're reading these words then you've undoubtedly noticed the bizarre artwork above them. No, the artwork above is not commentary on some controversial topic like evolution or race or even the endangered silverback gorilla. It's actually the artwork to Sheek Louch's new album which drops tomorrow, Donnie G: Don Gorilla. We're not even going to attempt to guess why Sheek thought it was a good idea for his album cover to be half-man and half-gorilla (although Sheek did say his alternative cover was a gorilla arm with a bunch of monkeys kissing it [yes, really]), but we sure went apeshit laughing at it. The controversial cover art got us thinking, are there any other split-faced album covers as awful as Sheek's? In our opinion, no. But some of these sure come close! That's why we put together Harvey Dented: 6 Terrible Two-Faced Album Covers.

Erasure, Chorus (1991)

Complex says: If only we could erase this cover from existence.

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Lil 1/2 Dead, The Dead Has Arisen (1994)

Complex says: Lil 1/2 Dead's album cover was much like his career: Half-dead on arrival.

Birdman, Birdman (2002)

Complex says: For a guy who prides himself on being the #1 Stunna and owns a shitload of chains, we can't for the life of us figure out why he thought transforming into a bird would look cool. Couldn't he just have thrown on a million dollars' worth of ice and called it a day?

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Master P, Good Side, Bad Side (2004)

Complex says: Although we love how Master P's good side and bad side are exactly the same, minus a ski mask, the truth is this cover has no good side. It's bad all the way around.

50 Cent, Before I Self Destruct (2009)

Complex says: Okay, fine—technically it isn't half of 50's face, but it's close enough for us to include it. Props to 50 for coming as close as anyone to making the two-faced album cover concept work, but damn, homie still looks like a bootleg Terminator.

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Christina Aguilera, Bionic (2010)

Complex says: How many ways did Xtina fail in 2010? Let's see...she had a failed movie, a failed marriage, and a fail of an album cover. Trifecta!

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