Hidden images found on 10 more album covers - and secrets revealed!
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- Today we’re checking out hidden images and little Easter eggs on classic album covers.
Some of these are pretty clever… others are kinda cringey. But they’re all fun! This includes records from Iron Maiden, Fleetwood Mac, Warrant, Cher, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Loverboy and more.
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the loverboy one seems kinda creepy now. thanks for that.
totally
Sounds like the premise of an SVU episode today...!
Iron Maiden helped me pass English Lit in high school with Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Thanks, Bruce!
Haha, me too!
No doubt 🤘😎🤘
WoW! Me too! I just recited what Bruce spoke out in the quiet section. I allready read the book cause of Maiden before the class. That was my big report. Thanx Maiden!
Awesome Awesome Awesome song
Top track
I thought I was the only one that owned a Never say die album, so glad I'm not alone anymore.
With the ’Somwhere in Time’ cover, I really love how they have West Ham beating Arsenal by a significant margin.
They didn't want Cass Pennant, Bill Gardener, and the ICF looking for them.
Also on Somewhere in Time...they're in from of the Bradbury Towers, the building in which the end chase of Blade Runner takes, Blade Runner being the theme the cover was based upon
The Def Leppard album cover is a variation of "All Is Vanity" by Charles Allan Gilbert. My late Grand Mother had that picture hanging in her bedroom. As a kid I remember the day I realized that the mirror was a skull, it freaked me out.
Laudanum -The skull idea was also used as a pair in a picture on picture effect, with one of all girl group "Band Maid's" album covers called "Just Bring It"
The warrant album was created by Mark Ryden. He also did Michael Jackson’s Dangerous cover and red hot chili peppers One Hot Minute
At 1:39 under Charlotte there is the Ruskin Arms. A pub in East London, Maiden used to play there a lot in the early days.
My band played there once in the late 80's. We emptied the place. We were rubbish.
There is also a nod to the old Hammerjack's in Baltimore that I used to frequent many times in the 1980's and early 1990's. It was torn down to make room for a stadium.
But at least it was free entry😂
The Somewhere in Time album also has a portion of Eddie's face formed by the clouds and the moon is his eye. My favorite cover art and album by Maiden!
The angle of the building forms his nose. After seeing Eddie's face on this album, I notice his face on many of the other covers with his eye being the moon. Also, Doctor Who's Tardis is on one of the buildings.
I was hoping he was going to mention Batman. 😂
On the Somewhere in Time album cover, you can also see Batman standing on the roof of one building with cape blowing in the breeze. Great cover art! Every time I look at it I find another Easter Egg. I've loved it ever since purchasing my first copy back in 1986; I was 15 at the time. 👍🏼
Are you sure it’s not the phantom of the opera with the cape on?
Batman?! 🤣 It's the "Phantom of the Opera", dude.
@@eaglebauer944 He must still be high on wacky weed or tripping to see Batman!! 🤣
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That’s Superman!!!!!
The TARDIS in Somewhere In Time makes perfect sense given the album title.
The T.A.R.D.I.S. also appears on a poster where we are in the cockpit of Eddie's time ship looking through the windshield and ahead of his ship in the time vortex (which is another Doctor Who reference) we see the T.A.R.D.I.S..
The Iron Maiden somewhere in time album cover also has a message from Derek Riggs in it on the long thin white banner in the shop window by Eddies left knee as we look at it, which reads backwards"This is a very boring painting" not for getting the Tardis and Batman are also in there, with still many other things signs and phrases and symbols,👍 Up the IRONS 🤘🤘🤘🇬🇧
Love to see that scoreline ⚒️👍
It's not Batman, it's the "Phantom of the Opera".
Great stuff Frank. This is one of the best reasons for getting the vinyl back in the day.
The Loverboy one shook me, camera guys daughter's butt and it's all weird now.
I tried so hard to see the Fleetwood Mac cover woman, but I could never see it.
There is another, rather unexpected, reference to Charlotte the Harlot: The back cover of "Beauty and the Beat" by the Go-Go's includes a photo of Charlotte Caffey holding a book titled "The Harlot".
The Gogo's first album is really good and different for the time . I see you have loverboy in the foto😮I got dragged to a loverboy concert mid 80's and a fan female actually got on stage (backstage maybe didn't see her get in but actually ran and grabbed the singer before security nailed her.) Best part of the show. LOl
Iron Maiden's Powerslave album art also has a lot of fun things to find. Graffiti on the pyramids, etc.
Great album, and album cover.
Mickey mouse is in there!
I’m a huge fan of Iron Maiden and would sit and stare at the album covers for hours. But the Somewhere In Time cover was always my favourite because of how much detail is in it. My favourite version of Eddie too.
same thing dude!start to strum bass because jf Steve riffs in Killers))))\m/
West Ham 7, Arsenal 3...DEFINITELY THE IRONS!!!
Here's one more. Next to Bruce's leg you can see what appears to be a neon version of the "D" of Def Leppard. Even the colors are red and yellow.
It took me decades to figure out the digital thingies on Ghost in the Machine (The Police) were the band members. 😂😂
The "hidden skull" shtick seems to be pretty popular. Alice Cooper's Dada album pops immediately to mind. Mostly based around Dali's Disappearing Bust of Voltaire painting?
Yeah, that was a good one... I talk about it here: czcams.com/video/7sx1o1pAUYY/video.html
Ok now I'll never look at that Loverboy cover again without being completely creeped out 😲. What kind of dad would sexualize their 13 year old daughter for an album cover!!??
Right?! He didn't just use her butt on an album titled "Get Lucky" but also had some guy basically grope her! So wrong!
@@paisleybabeeI was born in '72, so I was a child/teen when Loverboy was popular. I never owned the Get Lucky album, so I never really looked at the cover that closely, but I liked quite a few of their songs off of a few different albums. Now that I look at the cover, I don't see that the male model is groping her. He is resting his hand on her lower back, and it is the back side of his arm - not like he is grabbing her ass. I think it's far more appalling that the father thought it was appropriate to use his 13 yr old daughter as the butt model to begin with. Surely, there was a male model he could have used? Or a different, older female model? I just don't see any groping involved. I do feel a bit bad for any young girls or women who looked at the cover longingly and thought about how cute the guy's butt looked, though, now that the truth is out. They must feel really creeped out now, knowing they were gawking at a 13 yr old girl's backside. Ewww.
Above my laptop screen as I type this is a pair of Somewhere In Time records placed spine to spine to show the front and back at the same time, framed and hung on my wall. I love looking at this as I have marveled at this cover since it came out. One funny bit is in the store behind the band members and Eddie, where a banner reads in reverse: "This is a very boring painting." Derek Riggs noted that this painting just about drove him nuts when he was making it, and how subsequent commissions were much simpler by design.
This is a classic example of why streaming, while convenient, sucks. With the introduction of the CD the time and effort on album art has pretty much been forgotten. If you get a chance, check out the documentary "Squaring the Circle (Story of Hipgnosis)".
If your talking albums you must put Hipgnosis at the top of the list.
I had their coffee table big book, which explains all the album covers and the subliminal pictures in the shadows.
Dark stuff, to say the least.
I haven't see their movie yet.
Their book left nothing to the imagination, they are very clear about their Satan worship.
You should check the RUSH albums. On Grace Under Pressure, there are drugs addict faces in the clouds. There is a internal cutaway of the face complete with teeth and blood in the clouds. All of Rush's albums had some type of subluminals. Hugh Syme did most of the artwork for RUSH.
Hugh Syme always did an amazing job of translating the Rush album title into visuals. I always imagined him working with Neil deeply
Hugh did something for Whitesnake as well.
You can’t say “cringe” when referencing these iconic album covers. The were created back in a time there wasn’t PC, woke, cringe, sus or we catered to pansy always offended little c**ksuckers. This was a golden time in US history which you were very fortunate to live through it.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get those days back. Like when Archie & Edith sang in the "all in the family" opening song ...Girls were girls & men were men. Those days were just better. IMHO 😊
I lived through it too, but I still sort of have a problem with a photographer snapping a pic of his 13 year old daughter's ass, complete with presumably an adult male model resting his hand against it. Not sure what the correct gen Z term would be..."sus" maybe.
The Loverboy cover was weird though 🤷♂️
Harry Nillson's d-rug-s is cringe as fuck
The inner sleeve of Pink floyd's " wish you were here" has a red scarf flowing in the wind in a field, in the scarf there is a nude women. It was on original pressings, re -releases it was removed.
Cool info. Thanks.
Bravo! Wish You Were Here, in my opinion, is the "King" of secret Easter eggs in the sleeve art albums. Total respect to you for mentioning it here. Although, (again, just my opinion), I don't think it's a scarf, but rather a small balloon, which was "rigged" to "burst" when you pull the inner sleeve out. You have to look long and hard at everything in that photo, AND keep the lyrics to "Wish You Were HERE" in mind. You're right about the woman standing in the tall grass, and there's much more than that. But as you said, only the earliest issues of the album featured ALL of the "eggs," so it's hard to search them out now, unless you can find online images from those, in high enough detail.
I think the Fleetwood Mac cover is a coincidence.
On Maiden’s Number Of The Beast….the people screwing in the flames is pretty funny.
Zappas ‘overnight sensation’ album has some fun stuff lol
That warrant album cover with the fat guy looks like the merchant in Resident Evil 8 with less hair lol
Band Maid has a really cool album cover (“Just Bring It”) with the skull motif as well.
I'm sorry but I couldn't see the lady's head for the Fleetwood Mac album. Kinda shocking to hear about the Loverboy cover, at least the girl wasn't nude like the one on the original cover art for Scorpions Virgin Killer. Speaking of album covers with a person's backside on it with leather pants, the 1985 re-issue of KISS' Creatures of The Night with the back cover art of someone's butt in leather pants, I thought it was Gene Simmons' backside but it actually belonged to a female model 😂
Kiss just copying someone else what a suprise
@@Duck_Dodgers Lol No doubt about it
I couldn't see the Fleetwood Mac one either.
Somewhere in Time is by far the coolest album cover Maiden ever did.
I believe power slave is right up there as well!!!
I once had the poster on my wall when i was a kid
@@abitoffblacksmithing9985 my runners up is Live after death
The devil head in Dave Edmunds' hair on the cover of his album titled Get It escaped me for over 40 years.
Not exactly a skull, but Alice Cooper's DaDa also has a picture-in-a-picture creepy face.
I have Somewhere in Time album on vinyl, and it's cool with all the details which you can't see as easy on small CD covers.
I remember getting the 2 minutes to midnight reference and feeling VERY clever! 😂
The back of the Gary Numan lp REPLICAS features Numan looking through a window at a street scene,night time.There is a smaller image of a man behind a cemetary gate.I know it isn't hidden from view,but it took a friend to point it out to me. He noticed it before I did. I can't see that ''woman'' on the Fleetwood Mac lp but find such things fascinating,intentional or not. I'll have to look through my collection now. lol.
I have Somewhere in Time on vinyl! Picked it up from a Good Will when I was a teenager. I absolutely fell in love with the artwork, and of course the huge format lets you see all the details unlike with the CD or cassette releases.
On GYBR by Elton John there's a tear on the poster of the yellow brick road and under it is the poster that was on his previous album, DSMIOTPM.
Anyone ever hold the 1986 Beastie Boys album License To Ill album up to a mirror? If you look closely, 3MTA3 is “EAT ME” in reverse… 🤣🤣🤣
There is one thing on the Maiden album I think most folk miss and that is the writting down the side of the building to the left of the "aces high" bar which is the tetragrammaton, basically the 4 letters of God's name. I guess the joke was that the band got so much flack for "Number Of The Beast" that they would have the Hebrew name of God on an album and see if the religious zealots who gave them a hard time before would notice and praise them for having "God" on their album instead.
i've stared at the Somewhere in Time album off and on for years but only a few years ago did I see Dr. Who's Tardis on the back cover..
These would be for the newcomers because us old oat heads didn't have internet or cell phones so we would browse the albums non-stop even with magnifying glasses and the iron Maiden the only one I didn't catch was the trash can I remember being 12 years old sitting in the living room and nobody's home with a magnifying glass listening to seventh son of a summit son I'm going over caught somewhere in times album cover
Nice. I like videos like this. I love finding secrets and Easter eggs in music. Growing up listening to bands like Marilyn Manson got me into looking for hidden stuff
I think the Fleetwood Mac Mirage old lady one is a huge stretch.
Very interesting. I never really looked so closely at an albums cover. I will have to go see what I can find.
"This is a very boring picture"~ up the irons
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thats not what i call hidden images when we can see them so easily lol
Photographing your child daughter’s butt with an unnamed man’s hand against it is really strange… except if you call it “art” then people think it’s fine.
Very interesting. Even as a kid, I always thought the Def Leppard one was pretty obvious, when seeing it in record stores. No less cool, though. I always find hilarious how Metallica's Black Album is one of the most sucessful albums in History (and all time number 1 in Metal) and it's just a pitch black cover lol. Yeah, there's the little snake, true. I will always respect the amount of self-confidence the Metallica team, by making such choice. "We're trying out a new sonar approach. Album cover is of utmost importance!" - "Nah. Just paint it all black, and we're good to go."
3:09 Kentucky boy here. That viper and the old UK Wildcat mascot would be a match made in heaven. The new logo for the Kentucky Wildcat has been updated to get rid of the "inappropriate tongue", but not until years later, when it was already on countless t-shirts and posters.
Banner reflected in the store front says "this is a very boring painting "
Santana’s self titled album has a cover like that. Appears as a lion but closer inspection reveals it’s made out of faces
It's incredible what creativity album cover artists used to have.
You should do Green Day’s insomniac There’s so many hidden things in that image
Happy Halloween Frank. To you and yours be safe. Hope ya get lots of treats!!! :)
Thanks - have a great Halloween as well. \m/
Nice video, one correction on whitesnake: actually, Adam and eve never eat an apple, lol
The Def Leppard picture showed upon a tv show I saw a few weeks ago.
Didn’t know that Loverboy one. Thought it was Paul Dean all this time LOL
One of my fave Canadians bands 🇨🇦:)
The Fleetwood Mac thing is really stretching it. It's not like that was done on purpose or is really even a thing. It's just some people saying it looked like something that doesn't really look so much like what they say it looks like.
Stevie Nicks is into black magick, it’s a reference to that, the black witch.
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I've heard that, but it sure doesn't look like they were posing there hands on purpose to try to make an old woman's face. It doesn't even look like an old woman's face really.
Maiden fans know all about the covers! You left out the reaper in other covers as well!
You missed the little image of Icarus on the "Somewhere In Time" album cover that pays a little homage to the song, "Flight Of Icarus".
On the reverse side you see a place called The Ruskin Arms which was a pub in London where Maiden and many other bands at that time played and cut their teeth (Saxon D Leppard etc) ... I think that Maiden's Soundhouse Tapes were recorded there live
I remember waiting on the next boc album to find their cross
Me too! The most hard to find was/is that on the airplane on the Cultosauros Erectus album...
Tarantinoesque, prethink jamming in Easter eggs, well done IM.
On the back of Somewhere In Time, West Ham is on the football score crawl. That’s Steve’s favorite team.
Loved Somewhere in Time as an album and as a fun game. Wonderful!
There were "hidden" skulls on the covers of Trouble's first two albums, with tracks that mentioned of the reason behind them....
Cool video! You missed the Kate Bush logo on the front of the Iron Maiden record. I don't know if that was a nod from the artist or the band, but either would make sense as I could see them being deep into weird art rock.
Very cool stuff , on DEF Leppard i also see a ship under the skull .. thanks for cool content !!!
I love the West Ham, Arsenal score on the back of the Somewhere in Time album. 😂
The Def Leppard album has an ace of spades for the skulls nose
Of all the hidden images that can be be found on a record cover the "Santana" debut black + white Lion drawing consists completely of subliminal creations to make up the actual Lion.
You are right about Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time album cover. There are so many more Easter Eggs. Looking at us dead in the face is a reference to 'Arry's favorite football club West Ham United on the ticker: West Ham 7 Arsenal 3. This is one of the best album covers ever.
And then there's the not so subtle "Mom's Apple Pie" pie slice album.
there's some excellent hidden heiroglyphics on the powerslave album... and also i think you should do a shoutout for the stooges funhouse album which only very recently i realised was iggy pops head turned sideways and not a burning flame
If you turn the Fleetwood Mac album upside down the illusion of the old woman turns into a young princess!
Def Leppard's new album that's got the song take what you want has got a lot of clues in it from other albums what exactly is the diver high and dry album cover😊
Look at the cover of Motörhead - Sacrifice, in the mouth of the dog:
there is a male and a female body part...
On Somewhere in Time there is also the "Ruskin Arms" where Maiden played their "pre fame" gigs.
Hey Frank, I may have mentioned this before but... I would love to see a video on "Dead Wax" messages and notations. It might be really interesting for beginning collectors to learn what the "Dead Wax" area is and what it might contain. It's also useful in determining what pressing of an album you have. THANKS!!
great idea, there's a lot of interesting things in deadwax, both informational and easter eggs
One of the nicest is the original pressing of Emmit Rhodes first album.
Forgot which Def Leppard album (OTTN, HnD, P) it was, but to this day I still remember the inscription, "If you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly.".
That would be cool!
if you look closely at the cover of Molly Hatchett's 1979 Flirtin With Disaster cover...which is an image/painting from the works of Frank Frazetta, one can clearly see the right gonad sticking out from under the kilt/tunic. I had been playing and looking at this album cover for over 40 years and never noticed it before someone on a rock forum mentioned it a few years ago.
The music industry REALLY likes that one-eye symbolism. 🤔
LOL... yup. Weird.
Look in the water and sky of the cover of the live album Live Evil of Black Sabbath. You will have fun. It is all clear yet not obvious.
The North American cover of Judas Priest's "Point of Entry' - it looks pretty silly with unravelling piece of computer paper, however, look closely and you'll see that it's actually the space between somebody's legs (the black items either side are the legs) and the pointy bit at the top just below the words "Point of Entry" is actually the risqué point of entry.
I have heard about this, but I have never been able to see it. I will check it our again. Cheers!
@@Channel33RPM it is strange, but once you see it, you can't unseen it. Just image the black sections are the thighs standing apart, and the computer is the space in-between. As I've said, once you see it, you can't unsee it, and the title makes sense!
.. and the upper landscape is the hem of the skirt / dress.
Led Zeppelin IV: Inside album cover when fully opened and held to a mirror shows the mountain as a black dog with a snake head resting on top
You missed to mention the ruskins bar. the place Maiden started their journy :)
Interesting loved my metal bands, but when you know what you know, this has such a different perspective now.
I spent hours looking for hidden things on Maiden covers.
Cliche I get it. But Iron Maiden rules.
Not seeing it in the Fleetwood Mac cover, not saying it's not there.
The dish on the Sabbath album looks more like a Calla lily.
My dad had an album called "Mom's Apple Pie". Hoo boy. Check that one out.
I knew Someone had to reference that... (Self titled album)... Course in America they censored The Mamas and the Papas album cover "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears".
How risqué... Don't look kids... its a ... Toilet... oh wait no ... now its a carefully placed sticker.
I always saw the images in the clouds on the Never Say Die cover but had no idea that there were different versions of them.
Pretty cool that they made those little changes...
@@Channel33RPM Yes, very. I have the US first print. It has landing gear and a single soldier on the front, and group of three soldiers (Asian perhaps?) a tank and crew and a bug head on the far right. Now I want one of each. 😁
Hilarious to see Ed crack. He wasn't expecting that one lol
4:44 isa Guitar there…and in the first one you’d hired I thought it resembled Mount Rushmore. Thanks. I used to magnify the Iron Maiden art and look… I think a friend had to tell me he was holding a brain, I just thought his hands were mangled. lol
Ummagumma from Pink Floyd in an interesting album cover too. It has the picture within a picture within a picture motif with variations.
Great content, interesting. I think the Warrent on in particular is great.
I remember that album cover for Somewhere in Time. It was very cleverly done to be honest.