Yeah, I'm not 100% convinced that there won't be Lady Stonheart at some point. All they really need right now is a hooded figure and a gurgling sound. Stick that at the end of this season, and get Michelle Fairley back the following season for a couple of appearances. She doesn't need to be a main character, but…

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. Either way, he didn't kill them. In Sansa's situation, that counts for something. Even if it's just hope that she'll see her brothers again.

That actually makes sense. I mean, I'm still a little burned about the omission of Lady Stoneheart, but I can see the logic there.

Let's just say that she's relieved. Plus, that Theon found a way to spare her brothers, even if it resulted in the murder of other innocents, probably says to Sansa that there still exists a shred of the person she once knew.

Considering Melisandre seems to have started to see Jon as the personification/avatar of Azor Ahai, I feel like she's got some mojo working to resurrect him. The shadow queef of immortality or something.

Incredible episode, made even better because of some of the, shall we say, less popular storylines that preceded it. It's always nice to get a reorientation on what's really at stake for these characters, and nothing does that better than a White Walker attack. My only very minor gripe is that the battle at Hardhome…

Mudcrutch. First off, the name. When you say it out loud it just feels offensive. Like, if you said it in front of your mother she would smack you. Secondly, the album cover is a monstrosity: a faceless man with an enormous beard, rendered in rainbow gradient that seems to scream "I am an off-brand Jimmy Buffett…

Those Weezer covers are both absolutely horrible. But I think they're supposed to be hideous in a funny, post-Tumblr, way, and failing miserably.

What do you mean? Whenever I think of Guns N' Roses I automatically think of The Old Masters. Something about the subtlety and grace of their music conjures up the mastery of form and structure that was the hallmark of great Renaissance art. It's easy to see why Axl Rose chose to align himself with his artistic…

I'm pretty sure at that point, at least in the UK, Robbie Williams was basically a money-printer for the record company, so sure, why not let him peel off his own skin at a roller disco?

Well, when you're a teen you have to take what you can get: Ween album covers, that sultry Native American woman on the Land O'Lakes butter packaging, that oddly fascinating sweater spread in the Land's End catalog.

Totally 100% agree about Kanye's first three album covers. Graduation, in particular, is really dire, despite/because? of being done by a famous artist whose name escapes me: it's garish in all the wrong ways. 808s and Heartbreak was really where he started to take his image a little more seriously, you know, slightly…

I mean, there's nothing inherently weird about the image. It's not provocative, really. There is something about the sad, haunted look on his face, though. It looks like he really doesn't want to be photographed, and to some I think that conjures up certain scenarios (which probably say more about them than the…

Use Your Illusion I: hideous. Use Your Illusion II: classic.

Every time I see Boy, War, the first Greatest Hits, I think about Peter Rowan and wonder how he felt being plastered all over a bunch of album covers. (Rowan did give an interview in 2011 about this very topic, but it's not particularly informative. He was a photographer's subject, now he's a photographer himself!…

I'd say worst hairstyle by a major artist that should probably know better. Like, it doesn't hold a candle to Billy Ray Cyrus's mullet/rat-tail hybrid monstrosity, but Billy Ray Cyrus wasn't married to Laurie Anderson and didn't used to hang with Andy Warhol and David Bowie. So he gets a pass.

Considering some of Lou's more questionable fashion choices throughout his career (the Sally Can't Dance bleach job, the Magic & Loss super mullet) I kind of figure he didn't put a ton of thought into his album covers. He even manages to have the single ugliest box set I've ever seen.

It's just an uncomfortable image. Either you don't know it's Larry's son and you wonder why he's tenderly embracing a shirtless young gentleman, or you know it's Larry's son, and you just kind of feel bad for the kid.

The original cover to Warm Leatherette (not the blue CD cover of just Grace's head) is amazing and totally threatening. She looks like some kind of murderous Buddha and it's fantastic. I'd say giving you nightmares was probably the intended effect.

Yeah, but Tim is an ugly piece of actual art by a respected actual artist, so I guess it sort of makes sense. Cashing in on cache, something like that. I actually prefer it to Let It Be, which is totally iconic but just seems lazy to me.