Album Covers that might've Gotten (or did get) You in trouble if spotted in your collection:

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I was fourteen when I brought this record home in `81. My step-father saw it and furrowed his brow as if to represent the veritable depth of confusion and dissapointment. Ridicule may be nothing to be scared of, but it was still tough to defend it.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d810/d81030ppo35.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

A girl actually broke up with me after she stumbled upon this handsome sleeve whilst thumbing through my record collection (she had a bit of a hang-up when it came to blasphemy.) In retrospect, I should probably send a 'thank you' letter to Tom Warrior.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c534/c534774h978.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

my dad expressed displeasure, circa '93: http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d857/d85773ev92y.jpg

― Aaron A., Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd900/d946/d94698m66xv.jpg

― ---, Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Wife expressed her poor opinion of:
http://www.theczars.net/media/cover_small.jpg
which i find to be not only not objectionable but completely great. Homage to:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c632/c632667qr2p.jpg

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The cover of Pop by Tones on Tail earned my mother's disdain after she browsed my collection in high school. My mother also found The Power of Pussy by Bongwater to be distasteful. Thank goodness I graduated from high school before I bought Unrest's Animal Park 7" (which mercifully had stickers covering the naughty bits, placed on the plastic sleeve by the music store).

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 4 January 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000256K7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

In case you weren't aware, Irish Catholic mothers don't approve of this kind of thing.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 4 January 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fgth.nl/FGTH-ORG-UK/ZTAS1.jpg

― Matthew R., Saturday, 4 January 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Dad really liked the artwork on 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' and 'Reign in Blood', Mom didn't mind 'Country Life' ("nothing I haven't seen in fashion mags"), but 'Highway to Hell' really bothered them - I suspect because the picture radiated so much snottiness, attitood, whatever, and as such 'attitood' was graphically straightforward enough to be emulated (unlike the usual HM fantasy nonsense - Dad on 'Number of the Beast', "This is what schoolkids draw on their notebooks, right?") I think they really feared it in a "Oh my god the kid wants to emulate these fucking animals" - yet another great reason to have bought it when I was 10!

― dave q, Saturday, 4 January 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The cover of Ozzy's live album, SPEAK OF THE DEVIL (featuing his Ozzness sporting fangs and dripping what looks like strawberry preserves out of his mouth) was not warmly received by my mother....nor was the music contained therein, but alas.....

I remember back in high school running into a girl from my class I secretly had a massive crush on right after I inexplicably bought this album.....

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e306/e30622i0jlc.jpg

Spotting the record store bag, she insisted on seeing what album I'd just purchased. I remember practically cramping to an acute angle with abject embarassment as she spied the cover, raised her eyebrows and did her best to laugh derisively. This was the painful beginning of my slow awareness that, "gee, Heavy Metal may not be the coolest way to go after all!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops, that should be "did her best NOT to laugh derisively," which is to say, her best wasn't quite good enough. To have seen/heard her reaction, you'd think I'd just been caught with a stack of porn mags and a box of kleenex.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The Scorpions VIRGIN KILLER:
[NOT SAFE FOR WORK]

― Pink Elvis, Saturday, 4 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

not again..... moderator to thread ASAP please.

― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 4 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread so belongs to Cannibal Corpse

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 4 January 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one ex-g/f actually found this one to be pretty funny (in a disgusting way, she was quick to point out):

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c508/c50894s6ic0.jpg

interestingly enough, though, this one didn't go over so well:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d174/d17494ut241.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 4 January 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

These are also a tad tasteless:

http://www.belphegor.at/belphegor_thelastsupperuncensored.jpg http://column.daum.net/Column-bin/Bbs.cgi/ssalad/dwn/zka/B2-kBYRo/qqfdnum/11/qqsubno/16/qqfname/visceralevisceration.jpg

(too bad I don't actually have the Belphegor one in my collection, as the reissue has a different cover). But considering that most people browsing my CDs will know I'm a metalhead, I actually think that they'd find this one very offensive:

http://www.cd-top100.nl/img/CoverT/alanis-jagged.jpg

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 4 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Now that we've covered sex and gore...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e763/e76355zyt6i.jpg

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 4 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

got some ribbing about this one when I was a teen:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e951/e95123g6mum.jpg

― tylero, Saturday, 4 January 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

sophie hates my playboy bunny disco records.....nude girls, faked orgasms over disco beats, her loss, obviously.

― doom-e, Saturday, 4 January 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I had to hide my copy of Big Black's "Songs About Fucking" from my parents. Also the cover of Nirvana's "In Utero" freaked out my dad a bit.

ITV CHART SHOW FACT! - While everyone knows that the "London" Suede cover art above is actually an airbrushed photo of two women kissing, not so many know that one of the women is in a wheelchair.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 4 January 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This ain't pretty.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000004ATA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Saturday, 4 January 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually owned this as well. my mum didn't want it in the house.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e328/e32854e52jo.jpg

― masonicboom, Saturday, 4 January 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

how could i have forgotten sex & drugs & jesus christ? i had it, too, though it was when i was an undergrad and i made damn sure that my parents (strict catholics) never saw it. which turned out to not be such a problem after all, because the music thereon sucked & on that basis i got rid of it not long after buying it.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 4 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

So... we only have one album cover that has been nixed by the moderator?

― Randy Farang (TOOTHFANGCLAW), Sunday, 5 January 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

REVIVE!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NNMJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.therefrigerator.net/music/images/armandcd.jpg

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom was not a fan of this:

http://manics.rawkstar.net/disc/holybible.jpg

or this (can only find it in small):

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/4120000/4122582.gif

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody mentioned

Plastikman's LSD-blotter perforated album cover yet? It got at least one guy arrested on drugcharges. :))

― dab, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.vh1.com/shared/media/images/covers/170/410/416563.jpg http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/8f/6c/249488-resized200.JPG

What's funny is that these same two album covers what have gotten "ew, what is THIS?" responses from more than one lady were "gifts" from my son's momma (aka I stole 'em from her)...these are two of her favorite albums!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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