Album Cover Scavenger Hunt!

Here's how it works:

- A poster gives a description of characteristics or traits to locate on an album cover or covers
- The first person to post a successful response gets to make the next request
- you may ask for up to three album covers featuring a trait (responses preferably posted in same post)
- be reasonable - don't make up stuff that is unlikely to exist on any album cover anywhere (winston churchill in drag on a unicorn, etc.) or ask for three covers featuring something exceedingly unusual

Ok first one:

Two album covers featuring people in bathrobes

http://cover7.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/superd_7286599.jpghttp://nobrasil.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/0238.jpg

ok, mine:

Three album covers featuring black & white checkered tile floors.

http://www.imbaha.com/images/blood_on_the_dance_floor_cover.jpg
http://funnyartpictures.com/pics-funny-stuff/?images/midsize/music-covers-posters/millie-jackson-album.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CZ61GWHWL._SS400_.jpg

Okay mine: three NON-hip-hop artist albums featuring dogs

http://991.com/newGallery/Kate-Bush-Hounds-Of-Love---18250.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/ScorpionsAnimalMagnetism.jpg
http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/r/e/replacements188080.jpg

Right - four albums with razor blades?

Limit of three - cf rules.

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/judas2.jpg
Onheil "Razor"
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Nf3Va3MvL._SS400_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fIqxyUo3L._SS400_.jpg

^that was really hard for me.

Next one: Three cover featuring the po-lice.

xpost - The police as in law & order/serve protect NOT Sting's former band

http://i50.tinypic.com/bhf7l1.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/b8sorr.jpg

http://i47.tinypic.com/25heulj.jpg

my request would be dragons

AWESOME DRAGONS

Ha! Too easy!

http://www.dio.net/pictures_cd/killing_the_dragon_front_big.jpg

http://www.dio.net/pictures_cd/killing_the_dragon_front_big.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/WTCL/wwwbombtheinto.jpg

whoops! should have included:

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/asia/asia_hi.jpg

okay, imma stop playing for a while to give someone else a go.

Next up: 3 albums featuring Exotic Fruit

hey there are double dio dragons. i didn't specify 3, i suppose, but did i miss one?

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1105/cover_4820122292009.jpg
http://www.gigacrate.com/images/album_art/8172Large.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MTruc7EmL.jpg

Asia - Asia dragon below the Bomb The Bass dragon below the double Dio dragon

Next: 3 albums featuring rocket launches (can be actual or fantasy)

this was hard.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51phFl9LYRL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
http://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/upc06/5907785035768.jpg
http://www.hobbyspace.com/AAdmin/Images/Music/SpaceAge/goodwinMusicInOrbit_md.jpg

next up, three album covers showing weddings. or two, if no-one can find three.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CWS5FH4RL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517yzea4fFL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415RRZ45NDL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Next: 3 albums featuring crabs (one is easy)

hmm i think soundtrack albums are a bit of a cheat but i'll let it pass in this case :)

http://www.mortesubita.org/sinfonias/artigos/The%20Fat%20of%20The%20Land.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZNPLfbw0gtg/SeSmg4_pT0I/AAAAAAAACnA/UE-alAC510I/s320/Soft-Boys,-Portland.jpg

http://www.acatunes.com/images/albumcovers/369.jpg

I can't think of a good goal for the next one, though.
So if anyone has one, please feel free to share.

ok, my second choice then: three album covers with domestic cats.

http://img3.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/5/e/c/f/7/5ecf76a1799734a41857850c30a3b5cc_full.jpg

http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/1184513805_songs_about_my_cats.jpeg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ilP9dPpvL._SS500_.jpg

Next: 3 X doctors or nurses

http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/news/2004oct/blink_150.gif
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s88scOGAg14/Sj52Rvi8M7I/AAAAAAAABAk/OGn8TiyAtxs/s400/intensive+therapy.jpg
http://www.recordstore.co.uk/images/covers/sonic-nurse.jpg

Right, 3 album covers with CAKE!!!

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/Let-it-bleed.jpg

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/Little-Feat-Sailin-Shoes-473470.jpg

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/TheBirthdayPartyJunkyardlp.jpg

next: three in 3-D

http://991.com/newGallery/The-Cult-Sonic-TempleHolo-60496.jpg
http://991.com/newGallery/Rolling-Stones-Their-Satanic-Maj-422011.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2907217703_1242e2130a.jpg

You have to wear the special glasses (not supplied) with the last one.

right, 3 albums with one band member replaced with "something else" ....

Would you accept 1 album with 3 band members replaced?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh200/h253/h25316fzop0.jpg

No? Carry on...

OK, how about 2?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1943214-1254038465.jpeg

Okay, we may need an arbiter on this one, but I think I've done it.

First -- Herbie Hancock is replaced by a weird mechanical tribal mask thing:
http://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/herbie-hancock-head_hunters_album.jpg

Second -- Linda Thompson is replaced by a photograph (albeit a photo of Linda Thompson)
http://images.jamsbio.com/images/thompson/thompsonA.jpg

Third -- Chris Funk is repalced by a tree (albeit with Chris Funk's face poking out...)
http://leeraloo.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/album-picaresque.jpg

I will await a ruling before I post my challenge.

I reckon that's as close as anyone is going to get: well done on Headhunters and Rich&Linda Thompson - they totally qualify as far as I can see.

Your request, sir?

Three covers where the artists have been replaced by dolls (or other such "avatars") that resemble the artists. Drawings don't count, so the Who By Numers or Aerosmith's Draw the Line, as examples, will be disqualified.

On your marks, get set, go.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SNYN82PZL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WNK542RAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://funkysouls.com/img/Kraftwerk-Electric_Cafe.jpg

Thinking about it some more, I don't reckon that the W&G album counts, because Peter Sallis doesn't look much like Wallice. So I'm swapping it for this...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Pepper%27s.jpg
The Beatles have been replaced with wax dummies of themselves, while the real Beatles in the picture are pretending to be members of Sgt Pepper's band.

Hats off to you, mottdeterre. (re: one band member replaced)

The only one I had thought of was: http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%20Pages/Ballora/INART55/images/notoriousbyrds.jpg

yeah but I don't think having two Kraftwerk albums is really in the spirit of this thing

not that I could do any better xp

Well I need to get some sleep now, so mottdeterre, if my three ('werk/Beatles'werk) are acceptable, then my pick is "3 covers with photographs of eagles on them, but not albums by the US band The Eagles". Otherwise, keep on.

Avatar/dolls:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_z6nXq7pcaco/SsLI1YbXXrI/AAAAAAAADrk/eBk0adiXT78/s320/Talking+Heads+-+More+Songs+About+Buildings+And+Food+-+Front.jpg

Three Eagles, with nary a trace of Henley:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61QNF7R%2BiBL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B001CVCBLW/sr=1-1/qid=1264481388/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1264481388&sr=1-1
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZKFAEKMYL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Whoops just noticed that it specified "photographs" so I guess none of those would count.

Also just noticed that the middle one wasn't showing up.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rFm%2Bq7sIL._SS500_.jpg

(Still doesn't count either way as it's a painting.)

first one came instantly (though it's a falcon yes!)
http://www.connollyco.com/discography/pat_metheny/falcon_hi.jpg

then it took some serious searching
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/newsletter/2009-10/cd-1.jpg

stretching it...
http://991.com/newGallery/Robin-Trower-Day-Of-The-Eagle-432913.jpg

over to the jury

Falcons and eagles are different species, but they're both classified as Falconiformes, so I'll accept the first cover. The third album is probably a Photoshop, but it's based on a real photo and it's clever, so you win!

yay!
alright... two album covers on which the same person is depicted twice, without the use of mirror(image)s

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tTSbbO5tzv8/Sw2iyAu6RBI/AAAAAAAAAQo/FrYuRL0Dd_w/s400/music+is+the.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/The_Many_Moods_of_Belafonte.jpg

(in the second, harry is depicted twice, and then once more)

assuming those are acceptable, three albums featuring cyborgs or similar techno-organic (wo)man/machine hybrids, if you will.

http://newsroom.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/humanoid_500.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jXMIsK3dV50/SOJfhUixMtI/AAAAAAAABXc/lww4H7kzmMc/s400/51ZNWNlUDqL._SS500_.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land.jpg

Three albums with band members eating!

Janelle Monae may just be a robot in human form... If so I give you the Forrie Ackerman cyborg

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/frank_coe/forrest_j__ackerman_presents_music_for_robots//buy

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s540318.jpg

okay, not actual bands but the artist is eating, or in Arlo's case about to start. Also MF Doom is a
cartoon. I'll let the antexit pass judgement

http://www.netweed.com/prohiphop/graf/doomfood.jpg
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4429/cover_32762152009.jpg
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant.jpg

xpost obv. Jimi is also drawn

I think that the Hendrix drawing is an airbrushed photo. Couldn't find the original but did come across this which made me chuckle...
http://www.giftsandfreeadvice.com/free_advice/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/hendrix.jpg

That Bobby Hill is a tough interviewer.

Way back to my dolls/avatar thing: I say take out Kraftwerk the Mix mostly becuase it's only one member and add one of these:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zhcTSKqlk0A/SP8IoBRJ2qI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/5BYMT4zHbIE/s320/mini-Cover.jpg

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6037/57005163mr7.jpg

Eating:

http://www.thewho.com/images/media/albums_large/03-67-the_who_sell_out.jpg

Next: album covers designed as newspapers

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jwGzNLGIwj0/SxmpUrF2nJI/AAAAAAAAAgA/_uMC7fvfG3o/s320/Guns_and_Roses_GNR_Lies.jpg
http://homepage1.nifty.com/marbow/funfun/TOCP3092.jpg

and, of course
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/cov200/drd600/d600/d6008574837.jpg

Now can we have 2 or 3 covers with people standing on or near railroad tracks in forlorn areas, preferably with windswept hair?

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/b/bob-seger-the-silver-bullet-band/album-bob-seger-greatest-hits.jpg

http://www.billlyerly.com/graphics/RailroadStationBlues_album_medium.jpg

Forgive the baldness.

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/r/randy-travis/album-glory-train.jpg

How about 3 albums that feature someone looking into the camera in a mirror's reflection.

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Leonard-Cohen-The-Best-of-Leonard-Cohen-0.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/bdozmc.jpg

First thought for doll/avatar cover

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Deep_Purple_-_Burn.jpeg

Don't know if this really counts as someone looking into the camera from a mirror's refleciton or not....

http://minutohm.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/black_sabbath_sabotage.jpg

Also, love the Deep Purple doll/avatar cover!

^^ i immediately though of that cover earlier today, checked it and decided it didn't count :)
also, leonard isn't really looking into the cam is he? unless he's crosseyed

First one's a window, but hey.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_68wkl2XsVXU/SmDzbnLdSwI/AAAAAAAACao/O09i3vbhdcA/s400/tubeway+army+(1979)+replicas.jpg

http://www.securecrazydiamond.com/dizq/50511.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Eyx9m0YsL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Do I win?

OK next: 3 album covers that feature a musician who is not on the record and has never been in the band.

NB - I'm ruling Sgt Pepper as ineligible as it's already featured once on the thread.

Hokay:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K0spfqbw8ck/SMLS168ZNqI/AAAAAAAAAlM/vJ1OOLb34Tg/s320/FoldYourHandsChildCover-724644.jpg

http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2007/03/280px-Roxy_Music_-_For_Your_Pleasure.jpg

http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/1/2/8/7/0/webimg/1248581.jpg

Are those musicians?

OK next: 3 album covers that feature a musician who is not on the record and has never been in the band.

#1 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/SatanicRS.jpg

One more mirror...

http://z.about.com/d/punkmusic/1/0/j/A/-/-/doublenickels.jpg

Are those musicians?

Amanda Lear (the Roxy model) was

Regretfully, Elvis Presley was never in the Mekons.

http://www.1000recordings.com/images/artist-m/mekons-555-l.jpg

mmm, Brian Jones *was* in the Rolling Stones.

He wasn't in the Band of Gypsies tho.

Amanda Lear (the Roxy model) was

Ditto the two women from Mum on the B&S cover.

mmm, Brian Jones *was* in the Rolling Stones.

Wasn't what I was thinking. The 3D lenticular cover to Satanic Majesties has each of the Beatles' heads in with the flowers.

Well done everybody, thanks for the info.

Resisted impulse to say "Mike Watt *was* in The Minutemen."

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51j5o88L4yL._SS500_.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-music-2006/1624-1.jpg

http://www.kingbeerecords.co.uk/pics/large/sheet_music-the_beatles-roll_over_beethoven.jpg

In a no doubt controversial move (especially since one of these isn't even an album cover) I'm declaring myself the winner here because I have a scavenger hunt I'm dying to suggest. (See next post.)

Find three "misleading" album covers: covers that would suggest the music inside is one thing when in fact it's something else. Here's an example:

http://www.hallandoates.de/Covers_Albums/1975%20Daryl%20Hall%20and%20John%20Oates.jpg

The cover shot suggest glam when in fact it's singer/songwriter blue-eyed soul/pop

^Oops. Forgot to code the url as an image. http://www.hallandoates.de/Covers_Albums/1975%20Daryl%20Hall%20and%20John%20Oates.jpg