Abandoned album covers

http://www.afgrant.com/images/kiss/alive4_cover.jpg

If I recall correctly?

ihttp://www.aboutthebeatles.com/img/altcov-thebeatles.jpg

http://brian67smile.tripod.com/ladycover.jpg

http://www.sleazeroxx.com/censored/slippery1.jpg

And the original Diamond DOgs cover was altered by RCA to not show the canine genitalia:

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

Unused art for The White Album when it was going to be called A Doll's House.

(of course, the cover itself didn't change size... there just wasn't two the same size I could image-google for)

http://brian67smile.tripod.com/firstaltsmilecov.jpg
The Beach Boys lawsuit with Capitol pretty much killed the original Smile, so a new album cover concept was designed. Mike Love remembered a photo session from 1966 (during the group’s tour of England) in which the band re-created the Beatles pose on their first album. Beach Boys fanatics will no doubt point out that Brian and Van Dyke Parks were in the photo, and they were supposedly never in England at the time. Well, it is a little known fact that the two flew to England to play the Beach Boys (and the Beatles) some preliminary tapes of Smile. At Mike’s urging, the photo was used in redesign of the Smile cover. Mike saw the new cover as a hidden message to the Beatles, “you copied our music on Pepper, so we’ve copied your first album cover…” Brian liked the humor of the new cover, which seemed to fit the happy “smile” theme.

But the legal question of having Van Dyke Parks on the cover made Capitol nervous. Van Dyke was singed to Warner Brothers and Capitol feared lawsuits from the label. So, this cover was scrapped and the album "Smiley Smile" was created, becoming serial number Brother 9001 on the Beach Boys newly created Brother Records.

But what about the quote on the album, “Heroes & Villains with 12 other songs”? There were only 12 songs listed on Brian’s original songlist, supplied to Capitol in December of 1966. What is the elusive extra track? “Barnyard”? “Good News”? “Hawaiin Song”? “Good Time Mama”? Or, is it some yet unnamed title?

In a Capitol memo dated July 25, 1967, Capitol A&R director, Karl Engemann stated that he “agreed with Brian that the best course of action would be to NOT include Van Dyke Parks on the cover of the upcoming new Smile album, assigned the number Brother 9002. But, the original booklet should be included…” So, Van Dyke’s image was airbrushed out.

http://brian67smile.tripod.com/altsmilecov.jpg

However, the dismal sales of “Smiley Smile” made Capitol nervous. Was psychedelic music now passe? Most of the Smile music had been recorded almost a year previously. The Beach Boys had already started “Wild Honey”. This is pure speculation, as the memos relating to the third cancellation of Smile have not surfaced.

one trick is to copy a url and then append "?somecrap" to the end to let you see an image that is coming up as blocked.