NSFW- Album Covers _ NSFW
 

You remember record albums, don't you? They were big, over a foot square, which meant they had lot's of room for art work.
Hundreds of thousands of albums were released so with all that competition the artwork had to grab your eye. It had to say "Pick Me" out of a rack of others saying the same thing.
Sometimes the quest to standout was outrageous and sometimes in questionable taste.
Even big stars were not immune.

Some made me think, man, this is desperate.

One of my father's favorite stories is how he bought the censored version of the Beatles album on the left, and went home and steamed off the new picture they'd pasted over the front so he could see what all the fuss was about. He was very proud that he'd done it so carefully, there was only slight browning on one corner from the heat.

Some were risque but made me laugh.

But my vote for #1 in bad taste goes to RCA.

Those were the days.

The Lords of Acid have quite a few winners in their catalog.

I have the album bruce noted above, as well as a few others. Scrolling through their discography I discovered that a couple of their albums and EPs have both censored and uncensored versions. The cover of Rough Sex was unremarkable, but I also have this one ...

I don't understand... how did the Scorpions get away with that cover? Tweren't no photoshop back then...

Nothing's shocking.

http://www.streamwaves.com/images/artwork/6325.jpg

Photoshop just brought graphic arts to the unwashed. The pros could do things like that for a long time.

BUT the question I have is regardless of how the picture was produced, even if the girl is a cartoon and not a real person, how'd they get away with it. Isn't Sailor Moon still porn? :confused:

Predating that Scorpions album by about 8 years was Blind Faith. :eek:
This is how it came about.

one man's "art" is another man's kiddie porn.

Bah, only a woman would say that. Men don't think like that. :lol:

How about some Van Halen?

What are the goals of the absurd covers?