Albums that look a bit strange with a Parental Advisory label

Moby Grape's Vintage: The Best of Moby Grape. You don't want that falling into the arms of impressionable 1993 youngsters.

https://i.discogs.com/r7xcIWA9NQ9MF4Axj-4eKySTJNkxI36pQ2o144FnEnA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:525/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyMDQw/OTE3LTE3NjI1MzIx/ODgtMjg5My5qcGVn.jpeg

Devo's Greatest Misses (although the sleeve is a bit resonance-free and militant so maybe it works in a roundabout way)

https://cdn.sonemic.net/i/600/w/0fbcdd96aeb6911a0fed34dbf9cf943e/11545253/devo-greatest-misses-Cover-Art.jpg

The Best Club Anthems 2004 and The Best Club Anthems 2005 (had these when I was a kid still and thought nothing of it, but knowingly letting the bad words stay in wasn't in the mainstream Virgin/EMI market's nature until around this point)

https://cdn.sonemic.net/i/600/w/9e156431e84faec654b1ce33033efa79/13368440/various-artists-the-best-club-anthems-2004-Cover-Art.png

Coldplay's Everyday Life (Iirc in the UK the PA label is a tiny mark on the hype sticker but here's the Australian version, for some buried lyrics in Arabesque listeners likely won't catch)

https://cdn.sonemic.net/i/600/w/9e3c66428a13c5db82965997a81fc5fb/7899271/coldplay-everyday-life-Cover-Art.jpg

Film equivalent of this (in the UK) is DVDs that look strange with an 18: Sweet Sixteen, The End of the Affair, 1 Giant Leap, the various Duran Duran ones

Can't find an image of it now but Now That's What I Call Music! 49 (UK) fell into bother once Virgin realised it wasn't the clean edit of blink-182's "The Rock Show" they'd included, so they re-released it with that version instead, and stickered some of the unclean vulgar filthy copies left on the shelves with a meek PA label, and that is probably the most dissonant-looking example I can think of.

the US CD release of Joy Division’s Still had one!

Never knew that but oh wow yeah, there it is.

Maybe Hallucination Engine by Material? Because of the Burroughs bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hallucination_Engine.jpg

In the UK, the Pet Shop Boys' Montage DVD got a PG rating - apparently because of a backing dancer's backside (their numerous '15's are for similar reasons) - but in the US where this is apparently more of a problem it got the PA label.

https://cdn.sonemic.net/i/600/w/95be0a572839e4fe2eb92fe25e49f87b/1361971/pet-shop-boys-montage-the-nightlife-tour-Cover-Art.jpg

Moby Grape got one because of the profanity in the in-between tracks studio chat ("INTRODUCTION SHIT!").

Devo got one because of "Penetration In The Centerfold" which was also carried over to the deluxe Duty Now...

I knew about Devo but wasn't at all sure about Moby Grape.

There's a 2000s Bucks Fizz rarities compilation with the label because (says Wikipedia) Andy Hill's sweary demo of Now Those Days Are Gone as a hidden track

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2736e7a4c195b4a47e060082fb0

How about Shave 'Em Dry: The Best of Lucille Bogan? It's not often you see the label on a collection of recordings from the 1930s, although the lyrics really, really earn it.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SCgAAeSw~eppYlu-/s-l300.jpg

So proud to be from Bogan’s hometown

Great example!

Fell down a short rabbit hole yesterday off the back of this thread and discovered the Baltimore Consort's The Art of the Bawdy Song from '92, containing rude 17th century songs from Henry Purcell and others, had a parental advisory sticker on it, which attracted notices for being the first classical album to feature the sticker. Tho I think 'first historical classical' album is more accurate as John Moran's Manson Family opera was released earlier that year.

Also remembered Menomena's instrumental Under an Hour has the label put on as a joke. Which in turn reminds me MX-80's ditto voiceless Das Love Boat apparently has it too though I don't know the circumstances there.

Frank Zappa's entirely instrumental Jazz From Hell didn't get an official industry sticker, but apparently one retail chain applied a warning label to it because of its title and the title of the piece "G-Spot Tornado."

In that vein—if I recall correctly, John Zorn's wordless Naked City used to have an "Explicit" tag on iTunes (though not the Parental Advisory label). Probably due to the song title "Fuck the Facts" (and maybe "Igneous Ejaculation").