Oct 06
As we all know around this table. There comes a time in every mans life when he just has to, pick up a flute and shake his ass at a redheaded troll figure. So if we have that on there with the troll pointing and shouting angrily at the dudes bottom. Is he jealous? Is he pointing out the guys ass shaking might destroy the fabric of reality? We’ll let the viewer decide.
Published 2005
October 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
So shiny….
This one actually made me laugh aloud, the dancing guy looks so camp.
And the troll thing in the leather… just awsome
October 6th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
It is a lovely cover! So shiny….
He really is pointing at that mans behind!
October 6th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I’m struggling to decide which is worse: the cover or the title.
I’ll get back to you on that one.
October 6th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
The title does look a little clipart 🙂
October 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
You have posted many fine covers on this site, sir, and I have enjoyed them all. But this is by far the worst book cover I have ever laid eyes upon.
October 12th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Haha yea you are right there. It really is an awful cover. I have to say the Lackey, seems to have absolutely great covers. There’s another couple sitting around and I would say at least one of them matches this one in… epicness!
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:16 am
Fantastic! Stumbled across this site this morning and loved every one of them, but this one! Wow! I have a chest infection which makes it hurt to laugh- as a consequence I nearly passed out with the pain.
December 24th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Welcome to the site!
Sorry about the chest infection though.
This cover is definatly special. The picture itself only takes note of one side of it. In person the cover is also very shiny and sparkles. And knowing my family I’ll probably get this for Christmas haha
March 9th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
I never knew they made a novelization of “The Safety Dance” video?
March 10th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Its a Tim Burton style interpretation of the video and instead of midgets, they used ginger trollmen dressed in alot of leather, or as i like to call then Glaswegians.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Hey, isn’t that Lion-O?
November 29th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
So that’s where Jethro Tull got started…
December 18th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Stonehenge!
Where a man’s a man
and the children dance to the pipes of Pan…
June 28th, 2011 at 3:45 am
I was at a bookstore last week that had this gem on the shelves…wow. This picture just does not do the reality justice. It is soooo shiny-shiny, and the overall color is this weird orange-pink shade that you wonder where they found it on the colorwheel. Even Rumplestiltskin and the renfaire escapee are shiny. Holding it in my hands, I just couldn’t get over the sheer random awfulness of thing, nor could I bring myself to buy it…
February 5th, 2013 at 3:51 pm
Oh oh i have seen that look before (on the troll).
I was in my local LuLuLemon store when one lady had on the “2013 astro pant regular in brandy beige” (98$ retail) and the other tro….i mean lady had on the “2012 astro pant regular in andalusia blue” , she HOWLED in horror at her out of date fashion and a fight of epic arousal insued to which i filmed and placed on youtube…..
June 3rd, 2014 at 2:10 pm
“Hey look at me! Who am I? Hahaha toot! Toot toot!”
“STOP COPYING ME!!!”
August 19th, 2016 at 5:21 am
Remember ‘Kids In The Hall’?
“I’m crushing your head! I’m crushing your head!”
Also: how is the Dirk Benedict-a-like staying in that position?
August 19th, 2016 at 5:41 am
You’re looking at one huge twerk-off here.
Maybe two.
August 19th, 2016 at 6:24 am
The troll seems unaware that someone has connected his flute to a Tesla coil.
August 19th, 2016 at 8:09 am
The most 70s cover ever published in the 21st century and that is in no way a good thing.
August 19th, 2016 at 10:47 am
Watch and learn, James Galway…
August 19th, 2016 at 11:28 am
The troll is pointing at where the fellow has stuck a second flute…
August 19th, 2016 at 12:03 pm
Hard rock fan wanting to kill the folksinger?
August 19th, 2016 at 1:24 pm
You have to cut through all that shine to see what is going on here.
Jethro Troll is fronting a band and holding a mic. Or maybe a dildo.
August 19th, 2016 at 1:49 pm
@B’mancer: you must be a powerful magician indeed to scry through the shiny!
It took me a moment to realize that the fellow in the back has a drum kit, not a very, very awkward posture.
August 19th, 2016 at 2:12 pm
It’s as if the “Mercedes Lackey” text is trying to fade into the background, trying avoid any association with this cover.
August 19th, 2016 at 4:11 pm
GI Joe, this song’s for you.
January 21st, 2017 at 7:06 am
Those are some remarkably pert buttocks. Practically the definition of pert buttocks.
I wonder how much royalties Rosemary Edgehill had to give up to get her name barely legible on the cover? Is this how BAEN! keeps their costs down — authors with no sense of shame and/or no sense of design get to keep more money?
May 30th, 2017 at 10:33 pm
‘Do not use it!’
‘Fool! Doctor Leatherpants does as he pleases!’
*TOOT*
October 24th, 2017 at 10:44 pm
Just taking a brief look at the Top Ten and noticed that this has the “busting out of the frame within the cover” so beloved of so many bad books here. That has a tag, right?
The band in the background appears to be a trio of Vincent from 90s Beauty and the Beast cosplayers (possibly they should yiff in hell like Myrr).
Singing pointing troll is definitely holding a dildo and is in most of a gimp suit.
Chap on left doesn’t have enough of his right foot on the rocks to hold him in that awkward position; is troll pointing and saying “Look out, you’re going to fall over”? Plus he apparently has no intestines, given how tight his belt is.
October 25th, 2017 at 7:28 am
To me, dude on the left does not seem to have his foot on the rock. I believe he is supposed to be gamboling, like merrye minstrels of olde. I took the cover to depict a duel between modern, electrified music and ye honourable and antient musick of yore.
Right about his belt, though. It’s like one of those waist-binding women you see on the internet.
December 19th, 2021 at 5:10 am
Jethro Tull: Unplugged.
December 19th, 2021 at 4:43 pm
This year’s Elf on a Shelf isn’t going so well.
December 19th, 2021 at 7:53 pm
Dio powers up to Super Saiyan God, Galway is unimpressed.
December 19th, 2021 at 11:54 pm
Not that it needs it — it’s (literally) blindingly obvious — but this doesn’t have the publisher name.
I looked at this cover, to my sorrow.
So does the title mean the music is as terrible as the art, and will make you sad?
I’m as rock and roll as the next gal, but in this case I’m Team Mr. Jethro Dirk Galway and his flute.
December 20th, 2021 at 4:48 am
Raket: My gosh, Skibet, what do they call the sounds coming from those strange, ill-dressed men?
Skibet: Music, to my sorrow.