The 50 Worst Band Photos Ever

Okay, this would be just another ordinary late 80s, early 90s hair band promo photo, replete with horrible haircuts and worse outfits, if it wasn't for a special note: the redhead is Danny Cooksey, aka Budnick from Salute Your Shorts. It looks like the rest of the band was going for a Hanson vibe.

Some of these "bands" you look at and you just know that their music is so fundamentally repugnant that no human being should ever listen to it. Close your eyes and try to transform the look of White Chocolate here into sound. Hurts, doesn't it?

With a name like Unforgyvn, I'm not terribly surprised that they'd couple the classic "pose on the train tracks" gambit with cowboy hats, devil horn haircuts, pirate shirts and JNCOs.

Oh, look, it's the Slipknot Girl Scouts. I always wanted to listen to a redneck Spice Girls with worse choreography. Cross that one off my bucket list.

Just in case you think that we reserve our scorn for nobodies, even the biggest names in music can give us a crappy promo picture. How about this shot of Diddy, reclining lazily in a chair that looks like solid steel origami. What does this tell you about Puffy as an artist? He likes to sit but doesn't want it to be too comfortable, so he still feels "street?"

Okay, so first the whole spandex thing was to show off the outline of your junk to groupies in the audience. And then something happened (might have been Twisted Sister) and things just got ridiculous.

Apparently the reason so many Norwegian bands had ass-crazy outfits is that, under tax laws, you could write off your costumes, but only if they were too absurd to wear anyplace but on stage. Obviously the Gert Jonnys had no such compunctions.

Somewhere, three kids with cancer are shivering, their heads exposed to the elements, just so these three Cousin Its can maintain their rockin' look.

Okay, these guys are from Estonia, maybe that's just how they do things over there. We pose in front of brick walls, they stack themselves up in hay bales. The guy on the bottom looks like he has some emotions about being in this band.