Favorite banned album cover?

[Beware the Beast Man]

Here's mine- "8-Way Santa" by Tad

If memory serves me correctly,that's a real photo somebody found in a photo album at a yard sale.
I guess the guy in the photo (Who is now born again) didn't appreciate Tad using his likeness and threatened legal action. They replaced the cover with a generic band photo.

[Zuni]

1. That is a fucking awesome pic

It is so....perfect! :rofl:

[ET Awful]

2. The original Hendrix Electric Ladyland cover

was pretty cool :)

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Apparently, Jimi hated that cover-

because they used a distorted fish-eye effect- he though it ruined the beauty of the ladies in the photo.

[catbert836]

54. I saw a video clip of that

indeed, he did hate that cover. It showed him biting it.

[seemunkee]

3. Roxy Music Country Life

How do you post a link to a picture and not the actual picture?
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[indy_azcat]

6. add a ? and a character after the link (e.g. /pic.jpg?x)

n/t

[mr blur]

19. I have that and the Hendrix

there wasn't a fuss in the UK.

[Lannes]

4. Damn havent seen that in years great find.

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. Even on line, it was tough finding an image.

[indy_azcat]

5. G N' R (Appetite) and Lords of Acid (Voodoo U)

i can see LOA... but the Guns one? :shrug:

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ETA: Blind Faith was a good one too (we only have the cover w/ the band shot).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Faith

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. I don't think GNR would have sold well,

with a Robt. Williams painting depicting violent cyber-rape on the cover. That's usually a career-killer. :)

[indy_azcat]

13. no - THIS is a career killer

[kick-ass-bob]

18. The GnR one was banned?

I thought that was the cover when I bought it.
:shrug:

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. They moved the original cover art to the inside cover.

[kick-ass-bob]

21. ahh.

I knew I had seen that pic.

thx.

[XNASA]

8. The Residents - The Third Reich & Roll

Dick Clark is a dick.

[seemunkee]

Capitol wasn't too happy about this one either

[asthmaticeog]

28. The Beatles themselves thought it was fuckin' HILARIOUS, though.

At least that's what I've read. :shrug:

[tigereye]

36. oh I like that

never seen that one.

[drm604]

10. Someone has to mention the Beatles' Butcher Cover

http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/butcher.html
http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/butcher.htm

Not exactly "banned" but withdrawn because of public disgust.

[Felix Mala]

31. A buddy in college found one at an antique store..

It had the new label glued over the butcher cover. He got special instructions to remove it - instant collector's item for just pennies!

[drm604]

32. Yes but I think the "peeled" ones aren't worth much.

Originals that were never glued over can be worth thousands.

[6000eliot]

48. A woman had an original on Antiques Roadshow

and she was told that it was worth 10,000 dollars!

[drm604]

52. Beatles' albums are antiques...

I feel old.

[6000eliot]

53. No kidding!

I was six when this LP came out. I just turned 46 last week. I guess that makes me an antique as well!

[drm604]

59. We're around the same age

so I guess we're both antiques, although I certainly don't feel like one. But I don't recognize half of the albums in this thread so I guess that tells me something. :)

[benny05]

60. I think most of us are

Because we remember vinyl...

About 10 years ago, my brother went over the hill 40. I got him a card that read (paraphrased)

For your 40th birthday, do something that reminds you of your wild youth...

(open the card)

Play an album.


And I added: or an 8-track tape. :hippie:

[drm604]

62. I remember

installing an 8 track player in my first car. :hippie:

[Maestro]

11. Banned in stores all across the Bible belt

and in some countries like the then dictatorial Spain under Franco.

[Zuni]

30. well, naked little girls is kind of raunchy

and considering Jimmy Page's record of sleeping with adolescent girls, a little disturbing

[Maestro]

33. True

But I doubt those that were calling for the banning actually knew this.

[LynneSin]

46. The girl is actually Robert Plant's daughter

I'm sure Jimmy Page wasn't fooling around with her. I think Plant's son is in the picture too

[6000eliot]

49. Plant's son and daughter are the only two in the picture

Their images are repeated. I don't see anything sexual about the picture.

[AntiCoup2K4]

50. Not to mention the last verse of "The Ocean"

Now I'm singin' all my songs to the girl who won my heart
She is only three years old, and it's a real fine way to start

Combined with the naked kids on the cover, it's open to serious misinterpretation, though I'm sure Plant had no such intentions.

[Zuni]

57. well, I would guess if he was talking about a 3 yr old

he was probably talking about his kid---just like Lennon is obviously talking about his son in "Beautiful Boy"

still, I think it is rather odd to put naked pics of children on an album cover---it is not something I would do

[Maestro]

61. Of course they didn't.

And all the Jimmy Page occult bull was blown out of proportion as well. John Paul Jones and Plant were actually pretty down to earth people and Bonham would have had it not been for his acoholism.

[tigereye]

37. huh

I have that one somewhere. Never understood what all the fuss was about.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

40. That picture is actually an homage

To a scene from the classic 1922 Danish horror/documentary Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/

[Strawman]

14. Help me Jack Pepsi!

I love that song.

[Maestro]

15. This one is from one of my favorite groups.

It's from Dream Theater's Live in New York album. It was a victim of incredibly poor timing after 9-11.

[AntiCoup2K4]

51. Speaking of 9-11-01 related banned album covers....

Here's the most obvious one....


The album was finished months before the WTC was attacked, and the artwork was purely a bizzare coincidence.

Or maybe Chimpy had a copy and was inspired?

[Maestro]

16. And one more.

Does anyone see a penis here? I mean really some people are just too prudish. This is from 1957 though.

[Richardo]

22. Later a Public Enemy release: "Fear of a Black Penis"

:rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

24. I didn't see a penis until you mentioned it

When I looked at it before reading, all I saw was hands.

[benny05]

17. Blindfaith

Wasn't exactly banned, but it was the UK (version, seen in the link). Sorry, I don't know how to post the image.

http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/cream/blindfaith/blind_faithrecordings.htm

[benny05]

23. One More: Beggar's Banquet

by the Stones

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=FROOGLE&wild=GML759615988

[Dukkha]

25. Jane's Addiction -Nothing's Shocking

Scorpions Virgin Killer is a tad disturbing

[Beware the Beast Man]

26. And "Ritual de lo Habitual"

I still remember that stupid white cover with the First Amendment printed on it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

42. I had the original Ritual album cover

and Nothing's Shocking and XXX (that's the live one's name, right?) in high school.

I remember my mother wondered who/why someone in that band had a fascination with putting nipples on all their album covers.

[Shell Beau]

39. Um yeah that is disturbing!

[Lannes]

27. Black Crowes/Amorica

Not really my favorite but I remember the uproar.


http://
image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2004/05/20/amorica.jpg

[mark414]

29. not the cover, but...Frankenchrist

"Penis Landscape" by HR Giger

http://www.fred-katrin.de /giger/land/ hr_giger_landscape_XX.jpg

(not going to post the pic here...just remove the spaces in the link)

[Felix Mala]

34. "Some Girls" Rolling Stones. I love that album, even Miss You

They had to stop using the pictures of Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe.

[Zuni]

35. Miss You is one of the few really good songs they put out

after Brian jones died

Love the 60s Stones, but in the 70s they became just another cock rock band

[Felix Mala]

44. Whip Comes Down, Shattered, Beast of Burden...

[benny05]

41. Wow--possible collector's item then

I think I still have the original.

[stlsaxman]

58. There were 5 or 6 different versions of the cover of "Some Girls"

After the first two made a stink about being on the cover, one by one the others followed siut.

That cover lost them so much money- it never recouped the assetts...

[tigereye]

38. hey fascinating thread

a lot of those I remember from the 70s. Don't remember there being much of a fuss at the time though. I have some of the ones that are mentioned.

I agree, though, the ones of preadolescent girls are really too much. :thumbsdown:

I was going to say, Smell the Glove...

[dubyaD40web]

43. LOL

[Spirochete]

45. Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors

had the cover changed because the original had people on fire. After the crash, they changed it to one without the flames.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

47. "Smell the Glove" of course.

[catbert836]

55. Yeah! Smell the Glove!

There we go!

[bbernardini]

56. Dream Theater - "Live Scenes From New York"

Okay, technically, it wasn't banned. However, the album was released on September 11, 2001 with this cover:

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Note the silhouettes in the flames. It was rereleased with this cover:

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Needless to say, I was one of the dorks that ran out and got one with the original cover before it was recalled.