Record covers that look innocent, until you pay closer attention to them.

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I've owned this record for some time, and I always thought the cover was goofy but innocent. Then, recently, I had a closer look...

Just look at those "mountains"!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://users.rcn.com/rschrade/bufvol.jpg

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't find the image, but Psychic TV's "Dreams Less Sweet" has a slavering dog dimly visible somewhere on the cover. Oooh, scary!!!

Also, Bill Drummond, in 45, mentions how he freaked out about about Echo, the mystical rabbit, accidentally appearing on the tree branches of Echo and The bunnymen's first album Crocodiles. I've squinted at that cover from multiple angles but still can't see it. Is it his over-fertile imagination or can anyone else see it?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, wasn't there a highly symbolic Frankie Goes to Hollywood record sleeve, where there was a phallic building sided by two domes? Can't find the picture anywhere, though.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

you look at it and you go, geez, how cute. they're cartoons. but then you look closer and HELLO! why didn't i see that before?

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, no really, this one is more of a you have to open it up to see that the pretty little chick on the cover has a (it rhymes with chick)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d128/d1288406o47.jpg

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

and no i don't really find her/him/it pretty

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Diamond. what they hell is that. it looks like a big shitty mountain of molten ass

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.aardsy.com/pics/pic262.jpg
Mom's Apple Pie.

― beaty (beaty), Friday, 16 May 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Echo, the mystical rabbit...."

I thought Echo was the name of the drum machine they used when they first started?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 16 May 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025ZQ6.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

the tree at the front with the two trunks looks like a rabbit's ears.

I thought Echo was the name of the drum machine they used when they first started?

Bill Drummond KNEW that Echo, the mystical rabbit, was the real owner of the band, and the others were its servant, the Bunnymen.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Really think about it...

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc300/c352/c352090m83t.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FW9.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it's a bit more obvious there. Usually, the bottom part (the original LP art sleeve folds out) is disguised as a piece of fruit.

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 16 May 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tigersushi.com/site/content/disc/cover/2334_2.jpg

― f, Friday, 16 May 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lyrics.com/b/beach.boys,_the/pet.sounds.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.snappermusic.com/gong/images/live2infinitea_cover.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pearl-jam.com/toriamos/tapig.gif

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

*so sorry, cannot find it in a google image search + have no scanner, but...*

Ben Folds' Fear of Pop's back cover, you kinda gotta look a few times before you realize what that cowboy is doing. Ew.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I once gave my mom a record of medieval songs. I wish I remembered the title, because it was a good collection. Anyway, only a long time after I gave it to her did I realize that the picture on the cover portrayed a man sticking his hand under a woman's dress. (This was secular medieval music, obv.)

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 16 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c474/c47445x7q89.jpg

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 16 May 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: Drummond and the Bunnymen

Bill Drummond was a master of making things like that up, he thought up a whole story behind the Bunnygod that it was supposed to have originated from Inuit myths but it was all a nonsense story.
Yes, Echo was the name of the drum machine. The band's name fitted in the Liverpudlian weird names tradition of the time.

― Tijn, Friday, 16 May 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Dirty Vicar, I totally see a rabbit head there. It's almost a 3/4 angle. The hole look like it's eye. The man to the right appears to be looking right into it's eye. Also, if you see it this way, the treebark really does a good job of simulating colored patches of fur. The bunny has a white nose and brownish forehead and ears. That really looks like a rabbit!

― Scaredy Cat, Friday, 16 May 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

How come European import CDs sometimes have those exclamation mark stickers?

― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Those stickers originate from record companies owned by Warner Bros, and mean that they're being sold at mid-price (or at least they are in the country of origin).

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 16 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc70.jpg

PLUSH more you becomes you CD
CHeck whats reaches up form the ground

― Jens (brighter), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f229/f22961lzd3w.jpg

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god i never noticed that about the MBV cover until now. wow. i can't believe i never noticed that.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I only noticed that knife for the first time this year (thanks to ILM). Always wondered: is that woman Kim Deal? Looks like her, don't it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't believe no one's mentioned this yet....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UB3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f588/f58884zhvt1.jpg

Are these robots fighting or......

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Another classic of this variety....

http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Albums/DD/cover_ryko-small.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i never noticed that MBV thing either. i feel strange!

― stolenbus (stolenbus), Friday, 16 May 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It took me a while to really see that MBV thing too first time through -- very much a case of musical and visual content in perfect alignment, though. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 May 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.myscreens.com/wcpieux.jpg

Doesn't take long to figure it out, about 100 milliseconds, but still qualifies, I think.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 16 May 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.audiogalaxy.com/reviews/beck/beckcover2.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's hear it for electric dick.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 16 May 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

(That's what my girlfriend said.)

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 16 May 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That Midnite Vultures disc cover is censored at the local K-Mart...the left pair of vinyl pants os totally gone, as is the lightning bolt. It's just the creepy masked man.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 16 May 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hollywoodhangover.com/mobygrap.JPG

This is what was release later:

http://classicsdelrock.dreamers.com/imatges/MOBY-omaha.JPG

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 May 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

just wanted to add that the midnight vultures cover is taken from an art book by eYe yamatanka, and is very similar to the cover of the first Shock City Shockers compilation.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 16 May 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e705/e70578l0pkv.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001EGA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

There's all sorts of crazy, sexual and scatalogical stuff hidden in this cover.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/4643/sc.gif

There's a penis or two on this cover, in surprisingly prominent places. Also, it's been suggested there's a similar priapic fixation here:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000W9Z.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KZ1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Who is winning in the struggle? Did the demon's chain break on purpose and is the priest the victor? Hard to say....on, and if you turn the logo upside down, it reads: D E V I L

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This may vanish, `cos it's a Tripod image, but from the back cover of Styx's Grand Illusion, note the silhoette of the GOAT'S HEAD reflected in the water right under the bottem line where it reads All Rights Reserved

http://members.tripod.com/~Man_of_Miracles/COVERS/gi-back.gif

Styx being the river in hell, of course.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn! Above the Bowie Outside album was a pic of Second Coming by the Stone Roses.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d856/d85693nui64.jpg

that little picture near the bottom has a woman pissing in it. people have said that's what warm jets are, but i've also heard it refers to heroin?

― JasonD (JasonD), Saturday, 17 May 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LIX.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

As if the image itself wasn't shocking (pardon the pun), there is a little note hidden in the presentatin with the word POSITIVE written on it in bold type face, a mcguffin which spawned rumours that Perry Farrell had been diagnosed as HIV positive.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/beatlesworld/Images/9mmtiatw.jpg

From the inside booklet of Magical Mystery Tour, this relatively innocuous pic of the fabs (playing "I Am the Walrus," taken from the film) looks innocent enough....until you notice Paul's not wearing shoes, and there's a slight red tint on the shoes just in front of the bass drum (blood?) Log this under the whole "Paul is Dead" phenom.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

A slight variation of above...

http://www.beatlesbeats.com/pics/pics_beatles/images/bwalrus.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

check out the flower...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f614/f61458f9n0i.jpg

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The other one that springs to mind is the Bad Manners album with a cute little dog on the cover, sitting on a cushion (can't find a pic for it unfortunately). A closer look at the cushion reveals a brown semi-liquid stain on it.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What's wrong with the Abbey Road cover, I can't notice anything weird.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 22 May 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What's wrong with the Stone Roses Second Coming album?

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf800/f863/f86386aap9e.jpg

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Who knew Robin Guthrie was such a pervo!?!?!

What's wrong with the Abbey Road cover, I can't notice anything weird.

Surely you've heard of the myriad "Paul is Dead" clues, no? It's not just four gents walking across the street, it's gravedigger, corpse, mourner, priest, the license plate on the VW beetles reads "28IF, LMW," meaning to some: he'd have been 28 if he hadn't died, Linda McCartney Widow. Oh, and Paul is out of step with the others.

Geddit?

What's wrong with the Stone Roses Second Coming album?

I already explained it above, but ridrectly under the word "Roses" is a picture of a flaccid penis.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~neilh/s-dis1.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX loves vagina.

― Ian Johnson, Friday, 23 May 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

cocks too

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

can i ask what's wrong with the pet sounds cover?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.scorps.ru/lirika/al/virginkiller.jpg

― electric sun, Friday, 23 May 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

erm it doesn't really look that innocent

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I have the toned-down Dubstar cover; had heard about, but never seen, the original one!

Here's my all-time favorites for this thread:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c007/c007625ukj1.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c649/c649716bu76.jpg

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 23 May 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely you've heard of the myriad "Paul is Dead" clues, no? It's not just four gents walking across the street, it's gravedigger, corpse, mourner, priest, the license plate on the VW beetles reads "28IF, LMW," meaning to some: he'd have been 28 if he hadn't died, Linda McCartney Widow. Oh, and Paul is out of step with the others.

Yeah, I've heard this story, but since the whole thing is a myth, I thought you meant something that actually is in the Abbey Road cover.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 23 May 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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