Sebadoh - Bakesale (1994)

I can't really fault Mrs. Barlow for taking this photo of her one year old son. She probably had no idea that, years later, he'd decide to use this candid photo as the cover to one of his albums. If anything, this just proves a point about baby photos; if you thought they were embarassing stashed in an old photo album in your mother's house, they don't become any less embarassing when you put them on the cover of a mass-produced album so that the whole world can see it.

Fortran 5 - Avocado Suite (1995)

Not content to merely show someone using the toilet, Fortran 5 decided to go that tasteful extra mile and provided us with a nude man taking a bath. What the album title has to do with either of these things is something I'd rather not think about too hard.

Various Artists - Music for Half-Assed Friends

Hahaha, get it, there is half a toilet on the album cover because the friends are HALF-assed! Ha ha ha! oh god somebody kill me

A good question would be why the hell a compilation like this even exists.

The Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992)

I think it should understood as an unspoken rule that if your album cover has a toilet on it, it's automatically bad. The Flaming Lips gamely try to get around this rule by dressing up their toilet in pretty pastel colors, but it's wasted effort.

Royal Trux - Sweet 16 (1997)

You have to wonder who in their right mind thought this was a good idea. "Hey, let's have our music be connected to decomposing fecal matter and pretty pastel colors! People are going to love it!"

A good word of advice: when your album cover brings up unpleasant ideas about what it might smell like, you probably shouldn't go through with it.