Albums Where the Artwork is Suddenly Altered to Include Some Kind of Clarifying Reference to a Song Title to Help Cluless Shoppers?

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I don't know if this has been covered before, but I couldn't figure out how to search for it. Anyway, I was in the record store today and noticed that copies of Interpol's "Antics" CD now have a sticker on them that says "contains 'Evil' ('Rosemary')."

I assume the idea is, people hear the song on the radio, and it doesn't say "Evil" in it, but the singer starts a couple verses with "Rosemary," so the label's thinking - hey, people come in and ask for 'that Rosemary' song, so let's put a sticker on there that helps everybody out.

Can anyone think of any other examples of this that don't have to deal with a commecial the song is used in (a'la "the song from the iPod commercial" or something)?

― Bent Over at the Arclight (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

the top sticker on led zeppelin IV CDs has ZOSO in parentheses.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

I always felt sorry for Frank Zappa's Apostrophe (') album.

Oh, and "Untitled" The Byrds.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh and the all-time:

"AUTOBAHN voss ein monster! Here she is, mit 7 others!" or something very similar, for "Exceller-8"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

i like how throwing muses have an untitled album and a self-titled album.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Me too, and for years most everyone thought the untitled was self-titled!

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

The thing that gets me is when stickers advertise the fact that the album has a hidden track, and then the sticker names the hidden track (examples being The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill and US editions of Travis' The Man Who).

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh, what about Travis' "Thirteen thingummies" which has 12 listed tracks?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/bells_flylittlewhitedovefly.jpg
Title cut was a (very) minor hit, but second single "Stay Awhile" was HUGE, so these Canadians retitled the LP (Stay Awhile, yawn) and gave it a brand new (very pedestrian) cover. (Wish I could've found a picture.)

And I dunno if this counts, but the retitling of "Frankenstein" as "Frankenstein (Orig.)" on the first New York Dolls LP was probably to avoid confusion with the Edgar Winter hit of the same name. (Stupid move: they mighta sold more records if many potential buyers bought it by accident.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

...uh, looks as though it's unreadable from the image, but the title is Fly Little White Dove, Fly

― Myonga Von Botched (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Didn't the execrable skunk anansie own this process? I think all their songs were listed with two titles, the title itself which probably rarely occurred in the song proper, and then the chourus in brackets.

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Mark, that Travis album actually is called 12 Memories, but I digress.

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 14 March 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

watch me care.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

"Includes the theme song from Father Ted!"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I was in Fopp the other day and Bleach now has this enormous sticker on the cover bearing the legend:

Bleach - Nirvana's First Album!

― Louie_Strychnine, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh...reminds me of how the Capitol Records Meet The Beatles! had a USA cover declaring "The first album by England's phenomenal pop combo!", which it was not.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Nick Drake's "way to blue: an introduction to nick drake" had a sticker on saying "contains the song 'Pink Moon', featured in a national ad campaign"

― Dot Dash, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Youth's "Master = Dik" 12" came with a sticker saying "Not as good as 'Atomizer' so don't get your hopes up, cheese!" I'm sure that saved them a bit of grief.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

the parenthetical title also helps callers/djs who have commnication issues.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

the top sticker on led zeppelin IV CDs has ZOSO in parentheses.

That's ironic, since didn't Plant say at one point that ZOSO was never the name of the album?

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Youth's "Master = Dik" 12" came with a sticker saying "Not as good as 'Atomizer' so don't get your hopes up, cheese!"
Big Black's Headache EP bore the same sticker.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

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