5. Metro Cross
On a conceptual level and in terms of basic artistic design, pretty much everything that could be wrong with this cover is wrong, from the eye-sore that is the beguiling, grainy yellow-and-black border, to the fact that it wraps itself around a black-and-white checker-board because, you know, showing us a skate park or something actually
related to the sport of skateboarding was apparently too much effort. Still, this is to ignore the white elephant in the room, the worst - if funniest - element of this cover; the spandex-clad dweeb in the middle, fully kitted out in the protective gear his mother surely made him wear before leaving the house. Further still, his distracting facial expression gives us insight into what the young man would probably look like mid-coitus, you know, if you're interested in that sort of thing. Still, the guy can skate better than I can, so I'm tragically jealous of him in a way.