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A good album cover is a visual extension of what both album and artist are about. The best ones are instantly recognizable: four guys in suits crossing a street, the prism and the rainbow on black, the underwater baby chasing the dollar bill. Classic album covers become a part of us, forever ingrained our cultural DNA. The opposite -- the album covers so jumbled that they give us pause -- may not innately have the lasting power, but they shouldn't be passed by without acknowledgment. Thus, this list. Like any year, 2009 had its share of uncomely album covers (and [...]