The Dickies - Nights in White Satin
Punk cover of the popular song, released as a single.
I remember reading that the single was pulled from stores due to controversy and replaced with another cover. This is a good thing.
This banned cover can be found with an image search. You will know when you see it.
It seems a joke in very bad taste…
RATM - RATM
Death metal ones are usually pretty brutal.
One of my favs is Tomb of the Mutilated by Cannibal Corpse.
nsfw
Yeah, Cannibal Corpse came to my mind too. It was Butchered at birth, to be precise.
Man beat me to it… 🤣
Yeah. Grind specifically.
Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Thrifts stores are littered with them. I think people got it just for the cover.
Also Spiritual Healing
Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
The censored cover for the Beatles White Album:
(NSFW?)
spoiler
I had to look that up, it’s not The White Album but Yesterday and Today as stated on the cover, nevertheless an interesting fact, thanks
Came here to post this. But it’s not the White Album (so called; it had no title) but rather Yesterday and Today . It’s known as the “butcher cover,” and the only printed a couple thousand of them.
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Mayhem - The Dawn of the Black Hearts,
Look up at your own peril, this comes with trigger warnings
Mayhem really lived up to their name
I told my wife about that one a while ago, she was not impressed
Great thread idea - you might also enjoy [email protected], which has some pretty out-there covers.
I’ll nominate Abraxas by Santana which has a lot to take in!
I just learned about the original album artwork for Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction which goes pretty hard
That’s in the inner liner.
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.
There was a version with a working zipper on the cover, but it was expensive to produce and scratched the record.
If that were released today there would be a Culture War Discourse about it.
Its funny how “decency” changes. Mamas and papas first album just 5 years prior to sticky fingers had to be censored because there was a toilet in the picture.
I prefer the simple classics:
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering. The original album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been sawed in half by Joel-Peter Witkin)
The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. Probably the darkest record ever made, and it starts with the striking cover design. From the Wikipedia article:
"The album cover, designed by Richey Edwards while hospitalised, features a triptych by Jenny Saville depicting three perspectives on the body of an obese woman in her underwear, and is titled Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face). Saville gave her permission for use of her work for free after a discussion with Edwards in which he described each song on the album. The back cover features a photo of the band in military uniforms and a quote taken from Octave Mirbeau’s book The Torture Garden …
… The lyrics booklet features various images including Christian iconography, photographs of the gate at Dachau concentration camp and a plan of the gas chambers at Belsen concentration camp, a photograph of Lenin’s corpse, an engraving depicting an execution by guillotine in Revolutionary France, a picture of an apple, a photograph of a woman with a parasitic twin, photographs of each of the Manic Street Preachers as children and a photograph of a group of British policemen in gas-masks"
Image here
Big fan of that album. It’s made much darker if you know the whole story of Richey and his disappearance.
Fresh White Reeboks Kickin Your Ass by Nigel Pepper Cock is a very visibly hard album cover
