Unintentionally Homoerotic Album Covers

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http://discographies.ucoz.net/letteraljarreau/hotstreets.jpg

lolford brimley (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/af124/zavala-javier/Album%20Covers/Rammstein-Herzeleid.jpg

the three stigmata of a (Viceroy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:44 (fourteen years ago)

pretty sure that's not unintentional

jed_, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:55 (fourteen years ago)

Accept: Balls to the Wall.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F5DgCMA-L._SS500_.jpg

Probably not unintentional - but I include it here because the homoerotic nature of the cover was pretty totally lost on teenage midwestern metal fans in the '80s. This is called the Judas Priest Syndrome.

thirdalternative, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 23:57 (fourteen years ago)

God, I remember buying that cd and slapping that cover down on the counter...

lolford brimley (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 23:58 (fourteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JCv0g65NL._SS500_.jpg

thirdalternative, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.drewbarnard.com/Audio/Media/Images/Classic%20Pop/Hall%20&%20Oates/1982-H2O/albumArt.jpg

27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:02 (fourteen years ago)

itt: sweaty men

free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:03 (fourteen years ago)

Rammstein have never done anything unintentional in their entire careers.

that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZJXUYi0hQIg/TXO6SYd4syI/AAAAAAAAAdM/Snf9cYFukew/s1600/paulrevere.jpg

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://allancole.com/themes/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/moments1.jpg

Beggar On A Beach Of Shite. (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://991.com/newGallery/Orleans-Waking-And-Dreami-445326.jpg

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:10 (fourteen years ago)

wish i could find a better version of this:

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/jefferson_airplane/freedomgf.jpg

inner gatefold to:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-zrzoYeY6K1Bk2qzZNRVUeq7ceEBsdhzXzErKVlU8j7nqWdMYxQ&t=1

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/phpwzGmIlAM.jpg

thistle supporter (mcoll), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

OK none of these are unintentional, especially the Paul Revere one.

Doctoral Who (Leee), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 04:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://991.com/NewGallery/Emerson-Lake--Palmer-Love-Beach-531462.jpg

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 04:03 (fourteen years ago)

xpost Elaborate, Mr. Pussycat Pond.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 04:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/3086393712_13bffb7baa.jpg

Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:14 (fourteen years ago)

noting is unintentional, really

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:16 (fourteen years ago)

^ h

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:16 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.wikia.com/lyricwiki/images/1/15/Prince_-_Lovesexy.jpg

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/rugby.jpg

Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:24 (fourteen years ago)

Kinda want to hear "The Sterilised Heiress" to be honest.

Star Trek II: Sweater Guy Goes to Tennis Planet (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:08 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Kelly/Poison-Look-What-the-Cat-Dragged-In.jpg

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:32 (fourteen years ago)

OK none of these are unintentional

― Doctoral Who (Leee), Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^ still going with

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:34 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ especially the Prince cover.

got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 10:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_at3VqM5FeoY/SwRSly1smeI/AAAAAAAAAbo/8M5d_m0Os1w/s320/2010_den_hvite_guden.jpg

Priceless. Funny how homophobes sometimes make the most homoerotic art.

Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 10:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.backtotheeighties.net/images/the-boss-born-in-the-usa.jpg

immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 10:10 (fourteen years ago)

Erotic but not homoerotic... unless we're anthropomorphizing the American flag or whatever's in his pocket

The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 10:38 (fourteen years ago)

as unintentional as anything else itt

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uZDOOOADL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Ernold Sock (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 10:57 (fourteen years ago)

Erotic but not homoerotic... unless we're anthropomorphizing the American flag or whatever's in his pocket

Maybe NickB was referring to the gay back pocket handkerchief code (even though that's a baseball cap in Springsteen's pocket).

As for the Birdman & Lil' Wayne cover, I don't think it's particularly homoerotic in itself, you have to know the background - and if you do, any pic of those two would then be homoerotic.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 11:19 (fourteen years ago)

Saw this in a charity shop this morning...

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/a/angel/album-white-hot.jpg

Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 11:39 (fourteen years ago)

Good lord.

Ernold Sock (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 11:40 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edh2JLCdcas

that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 12:43 (fourteen years ago)

the entire visual oeuvre of Manowar
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5tY-XfbgJe0/SZ4JQiFuUEI/AAAAAAAACNA/gcPwzG2jMLM/s400/manowar.jpg

got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 12:47 (fourteen years ago)

Maybe NickB was referring to the gay back pocket handkerchief code (even though that's a baseball cap in Springsteen's pocket).
My mistake, I didn't know about the handkerchief code. So apparently red, right pocket = receptive partner of fisting....

The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:10 (fourteen years ago)

I don't understand what's homoerotic about that Paul Revere cover.

gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:13 (fourteen years ago)

I don't understand what's intentional about it.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

Xpost look at the positioning of the guitar

lolford brimley (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:19 (fourteen years ago)

Maybe NickB was referring to the gay back pocket handkerchief code (even though that's a baseball cap in Springsteen's pocket).
My mistake, I didn't know about the handkerchief code. So apparently red, right pocket = receptive partner of fisting....

Accept that it's a hat not a hankie. This means he wants his house painted red. In the left pocket, it would mean he wants to paint your house red.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:21 (fourteen years ago)

xpost Actually I never noticed that! There's another reason why even apart from the Here They Come! title. But I'm too shy to say it.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:25 (fourteen years ago)

Erotic but not homoerotic...

Yeah, you're probably right. Was posted under the unsubstantiated assumption that fixating on someone's bottom (of whatever gender) was mostly a male thing.

immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:25 (fourteen years ago)

Re Paul Revere: You've never heard the term "Midnight Ride"?

a "goaty"-style beard (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://991.com/NewGallery/Rush-Hemispheres---Red-1189.jpg

a "goaty"-style beard (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:27 (fourteen years ago)

(Sorry if Unperson's already posted that one; can't see the image)

a "goaty"-style beard (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:28 (fourteen years ago)

Not an album cover, but....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knVbfhmME1g

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:28 (fourteen years ago)

look at the positioning of the guitar

seems like a natural way to hold a guitar if you're sitting cross-legged. you may as well argue that all guitars held at waist level look like penises. even through my pervy 21st century eyes, I just don't see it, and I don't think I'm being willfully naive.

gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:30 (fourteen years ago)

Maybe you just have to be gay to get it.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

Prince's ejaculating guitar to thread

Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

was Paul Revere gay?

gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:34 (fourteen years ago)

one if by hand two if by sea (men)

dayo, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:34 (fourteen years ago)

xpost No but I've heard rumors that Mark Lindsay is. Still not IT, though. Just be gay for a minute and you'll figure it out.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uFzt9nVRO20/S9Y-MUrj-4I/AAAAAAAAARo/mMqQgJODNGY/s1600/100_1633.jpg

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

ok I think I get it now

http://i56.tinypic.com/2rqdbv4.jpg

gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:44 (fourteen years ago)

Also, every boyband cover ever to thread (although they may of course have been very much aware of the fact that the gay market was partly what they were aiming at, besides the pre-teen/teen girl market).

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

xpost No (but sheesh - a lot of phallic imagery/titling on their albums). Don't make me say it!

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.hulu.com/watch/124882/saturday-night-live-1920s-party

Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

Xpost Raiders rhymes with Gayders? Revere rhymes with queer?

Paul rhymes with buttmaul?

lolford brimley (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:14 (fourteen years ago)

lol

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:24 (fourteen years ago)

so is this homoerotic?

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/03/05/bond460.jpg

if not, how are groups of naked guys intrinsically homoerotic? seems to me that there's a secret presumption that there's something "homo" about eroticizing men (accepting, for the moment, that nude = erotic). why not assume that the gaze is female or not specifically gendered? i mean, i get it if they're explicitly identified with queerness and/or femininity, or seem to be engaged in some sort of hanky pank, but naked guys hanging out doesn't necessarily = homoerotic. or does it?

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:24 (fourteen years ago)

damn, wish i could find the booklet art for that me phi me album...

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/61Pha99TnIL._SS400_.jpg

nuclear power, jet propulsion, radar, laser beams, cordless phone (abanana), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

haha that's awesome!

but naked guys hanging out doesn't necessarily = homoerotic. or does it?

yes, it does.

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:24 (fourteen years ago)

Jay Leno got alot of mileage out of making fun about the "subtext" of Kevin Eubanks' 80s lp covers:

http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae8/pere1109/f.jpg

http://www.tomajazz.com/perfiles/horrojazz/kevin_eubanks_promise_and_tomorrow.jpg

Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://cdn.hmvdigital.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/118/0000111897_500.jpg

The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Thursday, 2 June 2011 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/camron/album-confessions-of-fire.jpg

EDB, Thursday, 2 June 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

This thread could use a little (only don't tell elmo argonaut I dropped this):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity

Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:04 (fourteen years ago)

I admit I LOLed at the Ghostface Killah. Looks like a morning after scene.

Uses Ragefaces To Reflect Her Dissatisfaction (MintIce), Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:06 (fourteen years ago)

Exactly! Never thought of that but waaay otm!

Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://website.lineone.net/~jean.cheesman/ngrs1.jpg

Paul, Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/media/blogs/rth/colortheory.jpg

corey, Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:51 (fourteen years ago)

seems to me that there's a secret presumption that there's something "homo" about eroticizing men (accepting, for the moment, that nude = erotic).

Isn't there a genereal stereotype that males are more interested in erotization (or downright porn for that matter) of whatever they are into than females are? Thus, naked males are seen as more "gay" than naked females, because one assumes that males (gay or straight) are more into nude or semi-nude images of whatever sex they are into than females are?

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 2 June 2011 08:25 (fourteen years ago)

please don't do this

Ernold Sock (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 June 2011 08:42 (fourteen years ago)

thanks Geir, love what you've brought to this thread, any others you want to bring to a grinding halt?

lolford brimley (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2011 23:32 (fourteen years ago)

Getting ready for reacharounds:

http://www.philcollins-fr.com/Genesis/albums/18shorts.jpg

Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 June 2011 01:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjjMlgSalPE/S78coBQwqvI/AAAAAAAAANo/tkAyflismVc/s1600/pj+ten.jpg

a http://bit.ly/kv895M (some dude), Friday, 3 June 2011 01:53 (fourteen years ago)

Somebody can grab this image if they want (not finding it anywhere else):

http://www.blujay.com/item/CHRISTMAS-IN-A-MONASTERY-THE-SONS-OF-ST-FRANCIS-SING-LP-13040900-3026766

xhuxk, Friday, 3 June 2011 02:08 (fourteen years ago)

kinda miss this lady killing look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SIO-Wmeo34

scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2011 02:28 (fourteen years ago)


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