10 controversial album covers - some of these were banned!
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- Recently I did a video on 10 banned album covers. You weighed in with your favorite controversial album cover. In this video, I run through 10 of those, including releases from John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Panera, Roxy Music, and MORE.
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That Roxy Music cover rules. Always has.
Yes it does!
In Australia in 1996, the original Cannibal Corpse covers were banned and replaced with plain black and white covers stating the band and album name. They also carry a message "The artwork for this album has been altered to conform with Australian censorship laws". The ban has since been lifted.
I was just thinking about Cannibal Corpse! I have Butchered at Birth on vinyl, guessing it's a UK pressing. It's a plain red sleeve with the band name and label but I think it's the original artwork on the inner sleeve...
I remember wearing a slayer t-shirt in elementary school and getting comments but not any trouble, but got sent home for a junkhouse t-shirt with the name on a Labatt 50 logo in grade 9. Apparently my mom told the principal that I probably don't even know that it's a beer label, which was actually true. She was like, what 15 yr old drinks Labatt 50 lol.
Golden Earring's 'Moontan' had both the small (regular sleeve) naked woman and gatefold version which presented the blonde gal in a larger centerfold style display, later replaced with the bland gold ring on a dark gray cover design. German prog band Virgo had a fully naked redhead posing on the cover, though it was never banned to my knowledge. Rock band Wicked Lady had a roaring 20's b/w topless gal posing on their 'The Axeman Cometh' and another naked gal on their 'Blow Your Mind!' album cover, sporting only long black latex gloves and a black guitar.
My favorite banned/controversial cover is The Beatles first one of “Yesterday and Today”. My mono pressing on cost me $100 in 1981
type o negative has an album cover no one should ever witness
The Origin of the Feces
From what I have read, the shot on the original cover of Far beyond Driven is Phil. He likes to swing both ways so it wasn't a stretch (no pun intended) for him to do the photo shoot.
Three Dog Night's Hard Labor album cover had the alien chicken lady giving birth to a record. They had to put a band aid over it to sell it in record stores.
bro this cover image will give me nightmares
That Black Crowes album cover was from a 1976 issue of "Hustl3r" magazine. Foreigner had a controversial album cover for "Head Games."
Great show Frank - good to see some risky album covers here that I was not aware of !! keep on spinnin !!
Thanks for persevering getting this released
Knew most but some interesting ones I didn't know about
The Polydor issue of Electric Ladyland was changed….at the demand of Jimi Hendrix, who thought that the first cover was one of those “sex sells” covers, which he really disapproved of.
Come and Get It by Whitesnake. Look at the snake’s tongue on the front cover. Pretty sure it was censored in the US.
This is probably more controversial to a smaller group of people (but I thought it was worth mentioning because of how funny it is), but the Australian band TISM released an EP called 'Australia The Lucky C**t' with a cover that has a koala sucking on a syringe. The issue was the koala art was very similar to a family friendly Australian painter named Ken Done, so it got pulled due to legal action. They then re-released the same EP and retitled it 'Censored Due To Legal Advice', but replaced the cover with Sinead O'Connor on tearing up the picture of the Pope from SNL, except the picture being torn up has been replaced with a censored version of the album art with merely just text.
Like I said, not controversial to the public per se (in fact, highly collectible as it's never been reissued in any capacity), but it's still quite a unique story!
Scorpions - Lovedrive and Virgin Killer
I have the original Roger Waters LP. Always thought it was a great album cover.
Thankfully, I found an uncensored copy and, frankly, I don't see anything wrong with a bare ass.
@@farrellmcnulty909 glad you found one. They are out there. It’s just a nice looking ass. 🤘🏼
Moontan by Golden Earring has nude art on the OG cover which I have
Bloodhound gang' Hefty Fine and Hard Off album covers are quite dangerous as well.
hi Frank! the album Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined, 2021, also has an alternative sleeve!😀
"Country Life" by Roxy Music was also issued with the original cover but with a dark green opaque shrink wrap.
One cover that got past the censors at the record label was James Gangs' "Yer Album". The inside gatefold had a minutely detailed cartoon with one character holding a magazine or book with the phrase "Keep a tight ***hole" on the cover.
Surprisingly, Big Black's "Songs About ****ing" with the title right there on the cover was never censored as far as I know.
I think Zito have a CD with the tits on it
Probably because it was on Tesco Vee's Touch and Go records. The art, by the way, is from the manga that Steve Albini's next band was named after.
The catalogs of Victoria's Secret used to look like The Roxy Music album cover. Lots of transparent panties & bras modeled by A List models & ..it was free. Oh the 70's ..
Hi Frank, Great show you need to add SLAYER GOD HATES US ALL. The cover when you buy it in stores came with a white sleeve over the front of the album. That said, slayer and gold. God hates us all 4 crosses going around it. Then when you remove that, it's a picture of the bible thrown in a bucket of blood. I have and love this album it is one of my favorites. Looking forward to the next video. Keep on spinning 🤘😎
Here's one peeps seemed to have missed. UK copy of Boxer - Below The Belt. A classic record with an even more classic album cover. Love and Peace.
Don’t forget about Appetite for Destruction from Guns n Roses.
Good one. I did not forget it.... here is part 1: czcams.com/video/DS6JWZ28Ek8/video.html
UFO - Force It. The censored version has Genesis P. Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti opaqued. They were from the Industrial Band Throbbing Gristle.
Did not realize that's who was on the cover. Wonder how that came to be.
@@kevintrjohnson Probably through an Agency.
The ‘hairy’ model for the ‘Amorica’ cover was actually a friend of my uncle. He was a photographer and worked with her a few times. He said she was a lovely lady!
Great input from the viewers, Frank...I find it absolutely hilarious that Danish band Lukas Graham's album covers - all have used the same artwork of a topless woman seated on the floor surrounded by empty booze bottles, each with a different color tint - have been shunned in the States - their original album (2006) has the cover as art in a museum being pawed by a teenager, while the others have always come with convenient CD slip covers showing the face of the woman and the tint of the cover (brown, blue, purple, and pink for the albums in order of release). People need to get square with the female breast- it's not like we haven't all seen one at one time or another, you know, LOL! It's just silly, and it's artwork, not an actual photograph. Hilarious overreaction, IMHO! :-0 Cheers!
Objects of desire - Michael Franks. Album was censored here in South Africa. Great channel.
Regards
Johan
That chumbawamba cover with the picture of the baby…being born is pretty graphic too
Lana Del Rey - Ocean Blvd Webstore second altcover
I have the Poison Open Up And Say Ahh where it shows the full tongue they blacked out the tongue on newer copies
I always find the cover of Go Out And Love The People by Benny Zen great. I'm glad I live in the Netherlands instead of the prudish (North) America!
On the Roxy Music cover the brunette is Constance Karoli, sister of Michael Karoli of Can.
Also can't forget self-titled Blind Faith
All this does is confirm North American mainstream is still a petrified of a naked human as they were like 100 years ago. I wasn't bothered in the least. The only one (oddly enough) is "Far Beyond Driven" (That is one of the "Divine" records of the "Metalhead" religion) I preferred the "Alternate" (although I "get" the original...I mean that's the Pantera way....Crude, Blunt and True!) but, I'm a "skully" kinda guy and not so much a fan of "rear-enders" The Drill still does it's damage in both cases, so its' good. I think the biggest mistake, to this day, was the Bon Jovi "Slippery when Wet" cover. I don't think there was anything especially worth banning. I'd bet you "Dollars to Doughnuts" had the "suits" not had a pole up their asses and just well enough alone, the original cover would have increased the sales of an already massively sold album (30 Mil!) And just the simple fact that the cover we got, was the _exact OPPOSITE_ !! A cover that was finished in it's entirety in
3 minutes and 27 seconds!....oh! The Mom's Apple Pie one was a shame they ruined it just based on the cleverness. chaos, the subscriber, who doesn't collect vinyl, but loves to see and hear about it! (actually, the guy that doesn't know exactly what form he wants his tunes on, in or otherwise) I'm kinda scared digital is starting to seem like the most convenient option and that makes me sad. Oh well. Thanks for a swell show, Frank! Hey! Thats the name of my new Kitten!! lol! \m/
Dam! I didn't realize there were so many risky album covers out there . I discovering new ones every day 😂
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@@markfx12 my bad grammar police.
It's especially common in metal. Baroness has nude women on just about every cover (drawn by the founder/lead singer of the band). Mercyful Fate had a particularly scandalous one with their first EP (sometimes called Nuns Have No Fun, the title of one of the songs), which depicts a topless woman being simultaneously crucified and burned at the stake (or at least it looks like she's being burned, that might just be a bonfire in front that the cult members are circling).
Awesome video bro
Glad you liked it!
I'm amazed that you didn't mention Bow Wow Wow's album cover for "Last of the Mohicans". It features a nude shot of the under-aged lead singer (Annabella)) recreating Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet. These days, it would be considered kiddie porn. BTW, it is an all time classic bit of new wave music!
Thank you for not including Virgin Killer by Scorpions, because there is nothing wrong with that cover at all. It's perfectly fine.
Have you seen the ORIGINAL cover for Virgin Killer? It’s NOT a group photo, I can tell you that much.
...and don't forget "Smell the Glove" by Spinal Tap
What about…”smell the glove”??😂😂😂
Mentioned at the very end, but sorta in passing.
Does this count? The original U2 Achtung Baby. Adam Clayton full frontal shot, later X'd out.
Scorpions Virgin Killer, Europe/UK release. I think that’s the one that inspired Spinal Tap’s “Smell the Glove”.
And the original "Lovedrive"
Blind Faith, Houses Of The Holy (which they covered with a horizontal OBI strip), The Beatles Yesterday & Today. Alice Cooper Love It To Death with Alice's finger sticking out his zipper.
America's Least Wanted by Ugly Kid Joe. One of my favourite records and a really cool cover. But apparently the band's mascot depicted as the Statue of Liberty with middle finger raised, holding a topshelf mag in the other hand, was a little too much for some retail execs in corporate America, the losers!
THE THE original cover for 'Infected'.
I bought the Great White on Cd when I was stationed in Germany so I have the original nude cover! Score!
Michael Stanley band "backstage pass" album cover.
U2's Achtung Baby with naked Adam Clayton comes to mind, as well as Body Count's Cop Killer.
The Strokes debut album Is This It has a different album cover in the UK and Europe than the covers with the American version
I had a question regarding the topic of this video. The album "9 Lives" by the band "Areosmith" has 2 different covers. I had the original on CD when it first came out but have since lost it. I repurchased it again on cassette a few weeks ago & it arrived with a diffraction cover!?! The same album, mind you, just a totally different cover! I don't know why. 🤷🏼♂️
The original cover was inspired by a painting of Lord Krishna from Hinduism. Krishna's face was instead replaced by a cat's head and breasts were added. The band however, were not aware of the source of the cover at the time of its release. When the Hindu community protested, the band changed the cover to the "knife throwing" one.
I have the original cd. Good for Aerosmith, the cover was done, they heard it was offending some people and so they changed it.
@samuraix73 Well, umm...actually the risqué cover you're talking about is the one I'd just bought on Cassette! I had (and thought was the original cover) the CD with the knife throwing wheel. I don't have that one anymore but I do have the dancing cat cover on cassette now...brand new old stock even!
The Bowie is crazy money
That black crowes pic is from a issue of hustler I do believe ...
It is. From 1976 I think.
Ween's compilation album "Craters of the Sac" wasn't banned for some reason lol
Artistic merit my ass..🤣 keep rocking Frank
-Blind faith album cover
- GNR Lies
You could easily make a series of this topic…
Check out the original uncensored cover of the Infected 12" single by The The which depicts a masturbating devil ejeculating. Quite how Epic records allowed this to even go to print, let alone get released is totally beyond me - but it did! It was hastily withdrawn of course and replaced with a cover that showed only a partial section of the original artwork thus hiding all the offensive parts. The original cover is a real shocker!
Um I’d rather stream my music lossless it’s all digital, but I have to play vinyl only analog. Hey, buy those records keep them sealed sit on em then flip em 🎉😂
The picture sleeve for the 45 for Fat Bottomed Girls and Bicycle Race by Queen featuring a naked woman riding a bike depicted from the back. The record company insisted on a painted on bikini bottom added after release
Of all the album covers that freaked me, Mom's Apple Pie cover with the Vulva as a slice of pie surprised me the most
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
Good one. I talk about that one here: czcams.com/video/DS6JWZ28Ek8/video.html
Bet youtube wouldn't have any issues with all the nude artwork on some Deutch Gramophone albums. As for which ones, well theres a bunch. But since they are usually some artwork from 1538. No one cares. So i wonder if YT does at all?
Yeah, I'm still waiting for YT to render its final verdict on this one and (hopefully) reinstate monetization, so it gets recommended more, and more people see it.
Alice Cooper's 1974 Muscle Of Love
Slayyytar - Star*ucker alt cover and standard cover
Blind Faith
Good one: czcams.com/video/DS6JWZ28Ek8/video.html
Pig Destroyer--Terrifyer often had an oversized sticker covering probably a quarter of the cover (nude drawing of a woman)
I'm not certain about this one, but I've seen versions of Black Flag's Damaged that were so dark that it was hard to tell what was going on in the picture (Henry Rollins punching a mirror). Newer versions show the picture in black and white. I don't know if the older versions were a form of censorship or just bad production, but I do remember it being controversial.
Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills album was controversial, not just because of the R. Crumb art (originally intended to be the back cover) but the original intended title, "Sex, Dope, and Cheap Thrills." Also, the intended cover was supposed to be a photo of the band naked in bed together.
Gal Costa's India and XTC's Skylarking.
Kevin Blechdom--I *heart* Presets EP has a drawing of a woman with her hand in her panties, presumably masturbating.
Hurricane - Slave to the Thrill
Steppenwolf for ladies only inside cover has a vehicle depicting a male sex organ.
Scorpions “Virgin Killers”
Another good example, for sure. I touched upon it last time: czcams.com/video/DS6JWZ28Ek8/video.html
XTC's amazing *Skylarking* album's original cover concept featured a woman's "naughty area" with tiny flowers entangled in her pubic hair. I'm not surprised that Virgin Records replaced the image.
America has always been rather prudish when it comes to any nudity. Really is hard to understand. UFO had a rather harmless girl with her bare butt that was censored here. I do have both copies. But, when it comes to this topic… I always have to mention Uncle Sam…“Heaven or Hollywood”
The diamond dogs album, if you do find a copy with the dogs nuts 🥜 on show, that’s worth several hundred pounds..!!
Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
Moby Grape?
I have never had a problem with any of the so called "controversial" album sleeves, I own/have owned many of them.
uhhh, you stole my comment by mentioning Spinal Tap's iconic "Smell The Glove"! Otherwise, this one goes to eleven!
:) Thanks for watching to the end!
NOFX - Heavy petting zoo
Gotta love the US. A big no-no to sex, but guns are a-ok!
The only album original cover I wish I had was Diamond Dogs - I have Two Virgins (still naked on CD) and the rest of the covers were cool to look at but I wouldn't have bought the albums no matter what image was boasted.
I totally agree with you. You can't curse or show a nipple on TV, but you can show unlimited violence...
I seem to remember Walmart pulling a Marilyn Manson album in the 90s following a high school shooting (it's very sad that that is collocation that is almost normalised today).
I just couldn't get my little teenage British mind around this, 'wtf MM is cool, guns kill people, why don't they pull the guns instead?!'
(P.s. I don't want to make the thread political, I just don't get the gun thing)
@@nickvickers3486 Sadly it's been made political, when it's really just common sense.
Blind Faith’s self-titled debut?
Yes, good one. I talk about it in the original video: czcams.com/video/DS6JWZ28Ek8/video.html
I love the irony of "executives" being offended and saving us poor sap customers from being "offended," yet the higher ups rip off the artist left and right while they up their pay---but that's ok I guess....
one more banned/edited album cover that made no sense. poison flesh and blood.
Virgin Killer..Scorpions was the worst
Not rock 'n roll, but this is a recent controversial one. Halsey's album "If I Can't Have Love I Want Power" shows a pregnant Halsey sitting on a regal throne with crown holding an infant with an exposed bare breast. Of course it has been censored everywhere and has caused much argument and debate.
In the U.S., maybe Capitol rejected it, so it was distributed by Bill Cosby's record label Tetragrammaton. It's sad to see that John Lennon was lacking and deformed, but Yoko would have never known the difference. lol
The "Mom's Apple Pie" album is pretty cool, I'm gonna have to display it on my wall of records.
EMI worldwide balked at the Two Virgins cover, with certain countries actually refusing to let EMI issue the album at all. A few RSD’s back, surprisingly, Secretly Canadian released the album as a picture disc! Uncensored, of course…..
Surprisingly Scorpions “Virgin Distorter” did not make this list
Virgin Killer? It made this list czcams.com/video/DS6JWZ28Ek8/video.html
@@Channel33RPM
So I do have an original sit the young girl. I am understanding that is is rare but not sought after. Understanding why of course. Any female I show this to is immediately offended 😏 well okay. It is art and yes in Europe that is looked as art.
My pressing came from Ansbach Germany. I was fortunate to get it as albums were shipped to stores then yanked before the release date. That was mostly because a the Western Culture had a temper tantrum about the cover.
Later that year while on TDY assignment with the US Army I meet the lead singer of Scorpions in a bar in Stuttgart Germany. Talk about cool I am understanding he may have lived there! We talked and he was going to get my album signed by the group but due to duty assignments I never made it back to Stuttgart 🥺 stuff happens I guess.
Many bars or PUBs in Europe are a great place to run into famous band members of many groups to include Def Leopard I never got an opportunity to meet any of them .
Thanks for your reply Frank as always love your channel
Given the puritanical nature of North American society, I wonder if The Cars’ Candy-O cover was banned.
Blurred hair...damn!
And the CZcams censors STILL didn't like the video!
No need to see John dong. No matter how amazing he thought it was.
The joke is it never really went out of print - they were still naked underneath the blron paper cover on vinyl AND cd reissues. I tell you, America needs to grow up.
Between the pair of them, there’s enough to make anyone go screaming into the night.
John dong ... Haha, yup, never needed to see that.
@@jjquinn2004 YES!
(North-)Americans and the fear of nakedness :-D
In fairness, some of these were banned/revised in Australia and parts of Europe as well.
Blind Faith’s S/T LP
Yes: czcams.com/video/DS6JWZ28Ek8/video.html
2:41 Dear "lord".....Even YOU yourself play the silly game of "oh boy....I don't want to see this".....What are you people ??? A bunch of 6 year olds???
GROW UP people.....
I didn't think there was anything offensive about your last video. I do not create vinyl community videos. I simply comment on videos that I find interesting. Sometimes, I notice my comments will get flagged. I've had comments flagged for mentioning the band Suicide and for mentioning smoking. I was not encouraging suicide (good grief!) or smoking. You used the words "banned" and "controversial" in the description of your video. Could that alert CZcams that your video should be flagged? The problem is people are getting flagged and don't know why. CZcams should be careful how it polices its site. Frustrated users could end up going somewhere else. Peace out.
Scorpions - Virgin Killer