[Music] Vintage album covers which perhaps might not now be so acceptable.

[Gwylan]

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The story doesn't end there however and gets even weirder. A couple of years ago someone decided to launch a change.org petition called "Justice for Mariora Goschen and child pornography victims".

The person who started the petition is so enraged by child pornography and the sexual exploitation of young Mariora that on the petition's web page he has posted a fully uncensored photo of the original Blind Faith album cover showing young Mariora in all her topless glory, presumably for the benefit of those who might not be quite sure what child pornography actually is.

The petition goes on to state that it is now time to take action against Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Bob Seidemann, and all the execs at Polydor Records....

It appears that Baker may have chosen to shuffle off this mortal coil just in the nick of time.

Grech, of course, died nearly 30 years ago, he made sure he was safe.

I was interested to read that story, I've actually had some massages at Natureworks but I'm pretty sure she wasn't the masseuse.

I was never a BF fan so I didn't have the album but I do have vinyl versions of Electric Ladyland and Cut ... just don't call me a perv

 

[pasty]

Jazz by Queen, the main album cover is fine but open up the gatefold and it is spread of 100 naked women on bikes.

Which as a 13 year old when it came out, I bloody loved

 

[Brother Sid]

Most Controversial LP Cover Of 1975.


Its erotic cover, which depicted a nude model covered In honey, was protested by feminists when it was alleged that the model had become stuck to the floor during the photo shoot.
Not that this was out of the ordinary , you can check out some of their other 70s album covers here

https://dangerousminds.net/comments...io_players_owned_the_album_cover_game_back_in

 

[marlowe]

Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience would cause a furore today

As alreaydy mentioned Blind Faith and Hendrix’s original Electric Lady land. If you have a copy they are with a lot of money in good condition.

.....and you only got to see the cover of Electric Ladyland when you had bought it and it was put in a bag for you - it wasn't displayed on the shelves)

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........but I do have vinyl versions of Electric Ladyland and Cut ... just don't call me a perv

Electric Ladyland isn't the Hendrix album cover which caused the most controversy and opprobrium elsewhwhere and exemplifies that what is perceived as offensive is defined by the cultures and beliefs of the person, community or country making that judgement.

In 2014 The Jimi Hendrix Experience album "Axis: Bold As Love" was banned in Malaysia – 47 years after it was first released.

The nation’s censors seized copies of the work after deciding that the cover, which shows Hendrix and his bandmates as Hindu deity Vishnu, could offend religious beliefs.

I'm not sure why it took them nearly 50 years to come to that decision. The fact that they came to it at all is also a little surprising given that the official state religion is Islam, with Hindus only representing 6% of the population.

Apparently even Hendrix disapproved of the album cover art saying it would have been more appropriate had it highlighted his American Indian heritage.

https://www.loudersound.com/news/hendrix-album-banned-50-years-after-release

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

I know this is not that vintage but christ it is the pretty gross....

 

[jakarta]

Is that the Japanese market one? I didn’t think it was released in the UK with that sleeve?

Yes, my copy has a totally different cover, a wonderful album by the way.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNKxauE5V5Q
regards
DF

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just wondering if any dimwit has posted something that isn't an album cover. Asking for a friend, like.

 

[marlowe]

Type O Negative's 1992 album "The Origin of the Feces" featured a close up of lead singer Peter Steele's anal sphincter (allegedly). This was changed for the re-issue two years later to a version of a 1493 painting "The Dance of Death".

I've no idea why but because this is an obviously male sphincter it seems acceptable to post

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Type O Negative's 1992 album "The Origin of the Feces" featured a close up of lead singer Peter Steele's anal sphincter (allegedly). This was changed for the re-issue two years later to a version of a 1493 painting "The Dance of Death".

I've no idea why but because this is an obviously male sphincter it seems acceptable to post

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Do you keep your record collection in a dungeon? ;-)

I should add, anything by 'anal c*nt' probably hits the mark. I posted a link to one of their songs once, and it was immediately pulled by a mod and I was threatened with a ban. Rightly so, I would imagine.

 

[studio150]

Just wondering if any dimwit has posted something that isn't an album cover. Asking for a friend, like.

There's always one, and usually the same person.

 

[fork me]

Punk/Blues band Boss Hog have some sleeves that fit here. The model is their vocalist Cristina Martinez



80s metal band, Bitch, again the vocalist on the sleeve.



Fortunately, Japan still manages to find interesting outfits for its female bands.

 

[fork me]

The story doesn't end there however and gets even weirder. A couple of years ago someone decided to launch a change.org petition called "Justice for Mariora Goschen and child pornography victims".

The person who started the petition is so enraged by child pornography and the sexual exploitation of young Mariora that on the petition's web page he has posted a fully uncensored photo of the original Blind Faith album cover showing young Mariora in all her topless glory, presumably for the benefit of those who might not be quite sure what child pornography actually is.

The petition goes on to state that it is now time to take action against Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Bob Seidemann, and all the execs at Polydor Records....

It appears that Baker may have chosen to shuffle off this mortal coil just in the nick of time.

https://www.change.org/p/the-nation...mariora-goschen-and-child-pornography-victims

Historical "child porn" is a weird one. The first Samantha Fox pics in The Sun are child porn under today's laws, but in the 80s were considered OK for a newspaper.

 

[fork me]

One more from my collection:

 

[marlowe]

Sometimes it's something as innocuous as a finger that causes offence and here are two examples.

The first is Alice Cooper's 1971 album "Love it to Death". In the original release of the album's cover Alice was doing the old finger through a hole in the cape knob gag. The album cover was later censored with Alice's right arm, to which the offending finger was attached, airbrushed out.





With Moby Grape's debut album it wasn't only a finger which caused problems. The album was released in 1967 at the height of opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam war amongst America's counter culture, so the US flag was airbrushed red in later versions of the cover. But that in itself raised further issues because of the pervasive paranoia regarding anything suggestive of communism in the US at that time, so the flag was airbrushed a second time to black.





But in the meantime it had been noticed that the band's drummer Don Stevenson appeared to be giving the middle finger over the washboard which was considered an obscene gesture, so the offending finger was also airbrushed out. Prior to airbrushing the finger they had tried to solve the problem with a strategically placed sticker.

 

[fork me]

Religious imagery always makes for a nice controversial sleeve.

This is actually a 7" and plays at 45 rpm but as it has 17 (albeit very short) tracks, I think it counts as an album.

 

[fork me]

With Moby Grape's debut album it wasn't only a finger which caused problems. The album was released in 1967 at the height of opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam war amongst America's counter culture, so the US flag was airbrushed red in later versions of the cover. But that in itself raised further issues because of the pervasive paranoia regarding anything suggestive of communism in the US at that time, so the flag was airbrushed a second time to black.

I take it that nobody realised that the anarchist flag is black...

 

[zefarelly]

With Moby Grape's debut album it wasn't only a finger which caused problems. The album was released in 1967 at the height of opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam war amongst America's counter culture, so the US flag was airbrushed red in later versions of the cover. But that in itself raised further issues because of the pervasive paranoia regarding anything suggestive of communism in the US at that time, so the flag was airbrushed a second time to black.

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But in the meantime it had been noticed that the band's drummer Don Stevenson appeared to be giving the middle finger over the washboard which was considered an obscene gestureCH]

My copy (from Dave/Sian when borderline was upstairs in the old Tesco on Gardner St!) Is a red flag and finger copy. A bloody good album it is too.

They had the poster framed in the shop, until they retired. I'm sure they have them and all the others still at home!

 

[studio150]

Religious imagery always makes for a nice controversial sleeve.

This is actually a 7" and plays at 45 rpm but as it has 17 (albeit very short) tracks, I think it counts as an album.

It's an EP

 

[fork me]

It's an EP

So what? The two are not mutually exclusive.

EP just means extended play, and isn't clearly defined, although for a 7" it's normally used when it plays at 33, which this does.
Album is used for a collection of music put together at the same time and released as a collection together (as opposed to a compilation, which contains previosuly released material).

If we look at the only two official definitions this qualifies for both:

US Recording Academy rules (used for the Grammys): "an album must comprise a minimum total playing time of 15 minutes with at least five distinct tracks or a minimum total playing time of 30 minutes with no minimum track requirement". This has 26 tracks and a playing time of more than 15 minutes.

UK Album Chart criteria: "a recording counts as an "album" if it either has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes". This clearly has more than 4 tracks.

HTH. (BTW,as an owner of a few thousand CDs, former DJ and current Discogs contributor, don't try and out pedant me on format terms, you'll lose every time).