Good Lord Dottie! Where did you find those? They sure are UGLY!! :laugh:
That one with the toilet almost makes me SICK!! :P
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Please excuse me ya'll while I go gouge out my eyes. :P
I don't have a picture of it at hand, but any of you guys remember the LP cover to 'News of the World' by Queen? That seriously traumatized this eleven-year-old kid when a classmate of mine brought her new album to school for everyone to look at (this would have been back in 1978).
Yeah, that's it all right, Dot...uh...thanks(?). I admit I do have a stronger constitution at age forty.
This was one of those albums that opened up to reveal a large picture within, and I remember the picture showing the giant android peering into what seemed to be an enormous cavern, with hordes of terrified people running away from the metallic monster, those in the front of the picture shown with large, horribly expressive eyes.
Yeah, this one gave me a few bad nights back in the day.
(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3254/handsomebeasts2ct0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)Now who is that handsome beast with the glasses and long, manly mustache? Considering that he looks pretty good even on this dreadful cover, one imagines he would look even better outside of it!
Yep, those are truly tasteless. The Scorpions one wouldn't even be released today, with the high anxiety in our culture right now about the exploitation and abuse of children...similar issues now haunt the cover to Led Zeppelin's 'Houses of the Holy' (designed by Hipgnosis), and there is that one cover (for Traffic[?]--a band featuring Steve Winwood) that was controversial even in 1969/1970 and suppressed, though the design itself is rather interesting.
Yep, those are truly tasteless. The Scorpions one wouldn't even be released today, with the high anxiety in our culture right now about the exploitation and abuse of children...similar issues now haunt the cover to Led Zeppelin's 'Houses of the Holy' (designed by Hipgnosis), and there is that one cover (for Traffic[?]--a band featuring Steve Winwood) that was controversial even in 1969/1970 and suppressed, though the design itself is rather interesting.
I think the album you are referring to is Blind Faith's brilliant album featuring recently departed members from Cream and Traffic, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. It was denied major retail placement because the album cover picture displayed a prepubescent nude female.Yes, thank you for reminding me of the band's name (I knew Steve Winwood was in there somewhere). That LP's controversial, suppressed cover has been reproduced in books about album cover art, and, whatever one may say about the use of the young model for the image, the image itself is not tasteless and is actually rather interesting in design.