This album cover features a green-tinged cream-coloured background which centrally frames a copper-tinted photo of part of the bronze sculpture La Foule (The Crowd), by Raymond Mason. The sculpture depicts dozens of roughly-hewn figures, most facing the viewer, most with vague facial features. The band name, in all caps, appears in a modest-sized, dark brown, formal typeface just outside of the top of the photo, flush with its left side. The album title appears inside the photo at the very bottom-right. Same size and typeface as the band name, but the colour is the green-tinged cream colour of the background/frame. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Participant
Album: The Saddest Faction

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Well, this album cover is basically a photographic head-and-shoulders portrait of a chicken, specifically a rooster, facing to the right. But there’s a vaguely brick-textured layer in front of it that renders the rooster in various bright heavily-saturated colours. I’m sorry, I wish I could describe it more vividly. The band name appears large, in the upper left, in a capitalized, bold, futuristic typeface with a black with a white outline. The album title is in the lower right, with “GLITCHICKEN” in the same typeface (but white with a black outline) located immediately above “THE QUICKSUCK SESSIONS” which is done in a blocky serif typeface, and is also white with a black outline. Both lines are flush at each end with each other. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Extereo
Album: GLITCHICKEN: The Quicksuck Sessions

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Album cover is a photo looking down the a dark green nave of the interior of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, rotated 90° right. Across the top fifth of the cover is a light sage-green column. The band name appears on the left side of the column in a classic-looking narrow black san serif typeface (Aboreto). The album title appears immediately below the band name in the same typeface, but smaller in order to be flush at both ends with the band name. The bottom half of the photo is dominated by several streaks of white and near-white light that descend toward the right at about 15°. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Naphthalene
Album: Mistakes God Did Not Make

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Album cover is a mottled, Manila-envelope beige. The rightmost three-quarters, save for a bit of the beige for a border, is taken up by a high-contrast red-and-grey duotone featuring two plush toys: red Teletubby Po’s head and right arm appears at the bottom right, and he is sitting on Bugs Bunny’s lap. Inside the left quarter: the band name, in a red, informal, all-caps typeface (Boogaloo), appears above the grey album title, which is in the same typeface. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Squelch
Album: Boning Up On My Baby

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Album cover is a darkish red background, and the design is broken roughly into thirds, horizontally. A row of three five-pointed stars, truncated at each end, takes up the top third, coloured purple, orange, and purple from left to right. The bottom third is the same, except that the respective colours are orange, purple, and orange. The middle of the middle row is taken up by the word “ART” in a lighter green, all caps, in a chunky serif typeface, somewhat reminiscent of circus and carnival advertising. Talking up almost all of the remaining area to the left of “ART” are the letters E and P, the former in lifeless yellow on top of the latter in dark blue. Talking up almost all of the remaining area to the right of “ART” are the letters H and Y, the former in the same yellow on top of the latter in the same blue. By arranging all the letters this way, the band name Earth Party can be distinguished. A thin lifeless yellow line runs behind “EARTH” and a thin dark blue line runs behind “PARTY”. The album cover’s edges are slightly vignetted, and a filter has been applied that scatters hundreds of translucent ovals of various smaller sizes all over the cover. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Earth Party
Album: Art

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Album cover’s top half, above the horizon, is sky blue. The bottom half, below the horizon, is an intense pink. The left half of the cover is dominated by a full-length cut-out black-and-white image of Marilyn Monroe with a wide smile—or is it a grimace?—with arms outstretched. She is wearing jeans and short-sleeved top, and is leaning forward, positioned as if crucified, on a yellow cross. Cartoony nails pierce her hands and feet which gush cartoony blood. She wears a black halo of sorts, made up of 14 narrow black wedges that emanate from behind her head. Album title is a vintage video game style of typeface in chartreuse, taking up the entire top-right and appearing to recede in the distance as it meets the horizon. The band name takes up almost all of the bottom-right, beginning at the horizon in white-on-black DYMO styled typeface. It appears to get larger as it approaches the bottom edge of the cover. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Unconscious Pilate and the Dead Sexies
Album: The Dame Thought Fame Would Be a Pedestal

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Album cover is a black-and-white photo of some pavement with a painted horizontal white line near the bottom edge of the cover. Some liquid appears to have dropped and splattered just above the white line, fanning and radiating out at about 90°. Almost like someone drove away, forgetting that their slushie was on the roof of their car. There is a wide red border around the perimeter the cover. “Ripping Starts” is rendered in red, a reverse-stencil typeface, as though capital letters had been cut into construction paper. “THE” is rendered quite tinily in the same typeface, but in black, and abuts with the rest of the band name, above the I and P. The album title uses the same typeface, but in black. It fits nicely in the painted white line at the bottom. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: The Ripping Starts
Album: Cool and Unusual Punishment!!

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Album cover: The top quarter is white, the bottom three-quarters is a darkish sky blue evoking water, with a water-wave line of many crests separating it from the white. Submerged to her shoulders, we have the Venus de Milo with her feet just beyond the bottom left, and her plaster-white head positioned at the top-middle. Under the water, Venus’s submerged part is a robin’s-egg blue, except for most of her torso, from her breasts and abdomen to her left thigh, which are bright yellow behind a large, red square rotated about 35°so that one corner touches the bottom of the album cover, and its opposite corner touches the surface of the water. A black bar covers Venus’s eyes. The word “THE” is situated along one side of the red box, ending at the amputation of her right shoulder. It’s a simple, heavy non-serif font in capital white letters, and the top quarter has been cut off so that the word is a little less easy to discern. Rendered the same way, the word “AMPUTATIONS” extends from her amputated left shoulder, along another side of the red box. Situated on the right, near Venus’s head, the album title is in a small, black faux hand-lettered font, all in capital letters. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: The Amputations
Album: Woke Up This Morning

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Album cover featuring a charred, paint-blistered back-alley mason-brick wall after something evidently burned against it. Band name is in large, thick, adobe-coloured typeface across the top fifth of the cover. Album title is a simulated white-on-black DYMO label about two-thirds of the way down, flush with right edge. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Flomp
Album: Devastruction

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Album cover background is roughly diagonally-bisected black in the top-left and deep sky blue in the bottom-right. The right third of the cover is dominated by a chunky and squared-off, exclamation point-inspired graphic. The colour of the top part of this stylized punctuation mark is medium red-violet and it straddles the diagonal black/blue background border fairly evenly. The band name is near the top half of this part of the exclamation mark, flush with the left and right sides, in a chunky black typeface, blending in with its background. The album title is in the bottom of this part of the exclamation mark, same typeface but in deep sky blue, blending in with its own background. Each word of the title is on its own line and is flush as possible with the left, right, and bottom edges. The “dot” of the exclamation mark is a black square overlaid with several concentric circles of gold: some solid, some of dots, or dashes, or diamond shapes. The entire left side is taken up by a duotone (medium red-violet for the shadows and deep sky blue for the highlights) stone angel in three-quarter view looking to her left, head bent forward, with the arc of her right wing grazing the left edge of the cover. Her right arm is bent, covering her abdomen and her left hand touches her right shoulder. She wears a huge yellow halo echoing the design of the dot of the exclamation point. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Gnum
Album: Never Not Near

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Album cover background is a yellowing reproduction of Piet Mondrian’s “Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue”. Except that the blue here is more of a muted cyan than the navy blue of the original. Nuclear fallout like snowfall is depicted in the coloured squares The silhouette of two young ladies, as if cut out of a navy blue colour filter gel, walking closely together in 1940’s winter coats and boots is overlaid on the left, taking up most of the height. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Trinity Test
Album: Fallout of Favour

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Black and white album cover with a slight dark green shade. The left quarter is a solid almost-black, with four vertical light-grey art deco lines starting at the top and ending in shorter lengths from left to right, taking up this section’s left half. The right three-quarters is dominated by a vintage photo of a full-length, fully-nude woman in 3/4 view with a bob hairstyle, situated at the far right. Her left leg is slightly bent at the knee, and her right hand is extended toward the centre of the album cover. She is illuminated by a bright light from the bottom right, and on the wall immediately behind her is a dance of dramatic dark shadows and bright reflected light. The album title is ivory-white in narrow sans serif capital letters, situated across the bottom of the cover. The band name is a mid-tone grey in a similar typeface. It is rendered in a quarter-circle arc beginning at the lower left of the cover and ending near the woman’s face. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Hector’s Helter-Skelter
Album: Dancing in Each Other’s Dreams

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Album cover featuring a back-alley door taking up most of the left half. Both the door and the wall it’s part of have evidently been hit with graffiti’s number of times, as they’ve been roller-painted over several times in dark red, army green, and a few shades of beige. In the door is a small picture of Louis Armstrong, beneath which the words “Club Louie” are crudely painted in yellow. Painted in army green on the wall to the right, at the same height, are the words “BE BOP•TIZED”. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Club Louie
Album: Be Bop-Tized

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Album cover with a starry black sky overlayed by a yin-yang symbol of saturated green and red. Inside each half of the symbol is a cartoon skeleton outlined in black Each skull occupies its respective dot of the yin-yang while the rest of each skeleton lies outside of it. One skeleton is wearing a space helmet with a radio antenna, and the other is sporting two alien antennae. There is a small back dot in the centre of the symbol, something like a hole in the centre of a vinyl record. The album title is centred near the top in a futuristic typeface reminiscent of the original Star Trek TV series’ logo. The album title is centred beat the bottom in a simple non-serif typeface. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: The Rudest Buddhist and The Hostile Apostle featuring The Raciest Atheist
Album: My Heaven's Not Your Heaven and Our Hells Are Not the Same

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Album cover of the sun as it disappears behind the horizon. The view is from the edge of a lagoon, looking out toward the ocean. The sky changes from a very dark blue-grey to intense orange to a thin strip of bright yellow, all reflected back in the water. The photo is glitched such that there are many short, narrow horizontal bars whose colours and values contrast greatly with their surroundings. The picture is still recognizable as a sunset, though. Man, I suck at alt text but I’ll persevere. Artist’s name is rendered in a futuristic typeface in the top left in bright yellow against the dark sky. The album title is in the bottom right, same typeface in orange. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Artist: Sam diSuarre
Album: Unset

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Album cover with a deep blue background. In the middle, we have a large white lily with purple edges and buds facing to your right, if you will. There’s an apparent semicircle in this arrangement, and the band’s name is arranged in an arc in order to complete a full circle. It’s rendered in capital yellow letters with a thin red outline. The album title appears small and centred near the bottom in a regular italic typeface, same purple as the lily. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: The Lingering Torsos
Album: by default

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Album Cover background features many translucent, overlapping circles of different colours and sizes. They are broken up by dozens of equally-spaced, narrow horizontal lines that change in colour from left to right. The band name and album title are rendered in a capitalized pink psychedelic font and outlined with a dark blue. They are curved in arcs in order to align in a circle: the band name centred approximately at the top left, and the album title centred approximately at the bottom right. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: The Bloomin’ Be-ins
Album: Psychedelic Like a Relic

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Album cover of a square 2x2 grid of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreens, separated by narrow white margins. Each is heavily glitched with horizontal distortion lines. Top left: brightly colored image with warped upper-right corner. Top right: darkened, greenish version with strong horizontal striping. Bottom left: darker, red-toned image with a thick glitch bar obscuring the eyes. Bottom right: pale pastel version with a large rectangular glitch cutting through the face. Band name in a simple capitalized typeface is squeezed into the margin at top right, and album title is in the bottom right. DR logo in the bottom left. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Santas Más Nuevas
Album: Goddam the Glam

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Album cover of a calm shoreline under a blue sky. On the right side, from behind, sits a middle-aged couple on a rust-coloured park bench, dressed as though they’ve just been to church. The band name is rendered just left of centre near the top in a fun, informal typeface, in the same colour as the bench. A green loogie is situated immediately above the letter “I”. The album title is located in the bottom right, in the same blur as the sky. DR logo in the bottom left. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere

Band: The Spitballs
Album: A Pharmacist Near M’Cyst

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A heavily-saturated dark blue background with an orange-pink spotlight overtaking the foreground. In the spotlight are the two halves of a sliced strawberry just touching each other at the cheek, if you will, innards facing the dear viewer. The title is in a white script typeface near the top left, and the band name is set in a similar script typeface near the bottom left in pink, outlined in black. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Frisquée
Album: Hit Me With Your Selfie Stick

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An album cover with a bright, solid red background. The band name is depicted in the top right in a white Copper Black typeface, and is repeated immediately beneath itself several times, a slightly darker gray with each iteration. After about a dozen reiterations, the title is the final line near the bottom, a light grey. A large yellow circle oriented above the title and toward the right tells us in an off-centred basic black typeface: “Everything The SUDDEN ever recorded on 1LP!”. Underneath that, we see the album’s catalogue number, TSR-0000001. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: The SUDDEN
Album: All of The SUDDEN

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Album cover featuring a three-port mechanic’s garage during closed hours. On each white garage door is a sign calling out one of its services: “AIR CONDITIONING”, “BRAKES & EXHAUST”, and “TRANSMISSIONS”. Each door has been vandalized with red spray paint by someone with shaky coordination apparently tagging outlined letters for the first time ever. Above and behind the garage, taking up about the top third of the cover, is a blue sky with puffy white clouds. This is where the band name is rendered in red, in a large typeface made up of what seems like cut-out capital letters. In front of the garage, taking up about the bottom quarter, are the clouds artificially reflected. This is where the title is rendered in white in the same typeface. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Fant’sy or Fant ‘54
Album: Nights in Nathan’s Service Station

So obscure, no one knows for sure what their name actually was.

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Album cover of an old window comprised of four panes across, three down. The framing is of wood, painted white. Inside each pane, there is a capital letter in a typewriter typeface. The letters spell out the band name: “FOUR” in cyan, “LTTR” in magenta, and “WRDS” in Yellow. Just above the sill, in a spaced-apart grey semitransparent cursive typeface is the album title, all in lower case. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.

Band: Four Lttr Wrds
Album: Son of a Bitch

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The main image of this album cover is reminiscent of the countdown leaders from old movies, freeze-framed at number 2. The design is offset, slightly blurred, and superimposed on itself three times in low opacity. The band name is rendered in three lines of red DYMO tape: &/AND/THE AMPERSANDS, and its base just barely touches the top of the main “2”. The album title is rendered in black DYMO tape, centred near the bottom. DR logo in the bottom right.

Band: & and the Ampersands
Album: TU(TU)

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Black and white photos of both sides of a 7-inch single in a generic black paper sleeve with a hole exposing the record’s label (and the DR logo), by unsigned punk upstarts named Buckingham Phallus (according to what it says on side one), or The Buckingham Phalluses (as it reads on side two). The hole for the spindle is decidedly off-centre. “Made in Canada” is rendered in tiny white print at the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also in there somewhere.

Black and white photos of both sides of a 7-inch single in a generic black paper sleeve with a hole exposing the record’s label (and the DR logo), by unsigned punk upstarts named Buckingham Phallus (according to what it says on side one), or The Buckingham Phalluses (as it reads on side two). The hole for the spindle is decidedly off-centre. “Made in Canada” is rendered in tiny white print at the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also in there somewhere.

Band: Buckingham Phallus aka The Buckingham Phalluses
7” single: Yer Heinous b/w Off a Cough

(Which band name is correct depends on whether you ask the lead singer or the rest of the band.)

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Album cover photo taken from below features electric work affixed to a white ceiling that helps to form a resemblance of a face: two unlit light fixtures are the eyes, bright fluorescent tubes make for a very illuminated nose, and the album title in teeny black type makes a line that looks like a slit for a mouth. The band name is near the top of the cover rendered in a pleasant serif font, as is the album title. DR logo in the bottom right. WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords

Band: Sombreros Make the Softest Daggers
Album: Sombreros Make the Softest Daggers

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Album cover of a terracotta-coloured public wall for handbills that has been recently “refreshed”, leaving a multitude of staples and bits of paper announcements behind. A straight, well-defined shadow’s edge is cast from the top left to the bottom middle, so that the area to the left of the edge is in sunlight and the area to the right is in the shade. The band name, Aftermath, appears near the top of the album cover, almost entirely in the shade, in a typewriter-style font. The album title, “Home Economics” appears in the same font, though much smaller, toward the bottom. “Home” is situated in the sunlight and “Economics”, in the shade. “Warren Opheim/Dubious Records” is hidden in there somewhere, too.

Band: Aftermath
Album: Home Economics

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