What were some album covers that were REALLY controversial when they came out.

The two I can think of is Guns nRoses "Appetite For destruction." The first printed album cover for:"appetite" was a picture of a robot raping a woman. It was only in stores for about a month, until it was pulled and then replaced with a picture of the Cross with the members faces on it.(If you own the original cover, it is worth a TON of Dough!)

The Second album cover that was really controversial was Lynard Skynards last album.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's sixth album, Street Survivors was released on October 17, 1977. It would be the final album by the "classic" line-up, and featured an image of the band members surrounded by flames.

On Thursday, October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of Street Survivors, and three dates into their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 developed mechanical difficulties near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Though the pilots attempted an emergency landing on a small airstrip, the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in a forest near McComb, Mississippi, just short of its goal. Singer/songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray were all killed on impact. Other band members were injured, some seriously. Drummer Artimus Pyle crawled out of the plane wreckage with several broken ribs, but was ambulatory, as were road crew members Kenneth Peden Jr. and Mark Frank. The three injured men hiked some distance from the crash site, through swampy woods, and finally flagged down farmer Johnny Mote, who had come to investigate. Varying accounts have Mote either firing a warning shot into the air or actually shooting Pyle in the shoulder — no report is completely reliable. Pyle claimed in a February 2007 appearance on Howard Stern's Sirius radio program that Mote had shot him; Mote has always denied shooting the drummer. Video of a barechested Pyle at the 1979 Volunteer Jam does not show

I don't think the album cover was baned, BUT it sure was erie. Its very bizzare that Skynards album showed a picture of a plane coverd in flames, THAN 3 days later after the album was released, members of Skynard died in a plane crash.
What are some controversial album covers that YOU remember?

Blind Faith's self titled album cover was pretty controversial when it was released in 1969.

See here for a picture; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Faith_%28album%29

Dead Kennedy's -- Holiday in Cambodia.

Black Crowes "amorica" album cover was banned because it showed PUBIC HAIR!!! OH MY GOD, NOT PUBIC HAIR!!!
Later they released the album cover without the pubic hair showing. Thank you Tipper Gore for keeping our kids safe from the views of Pubic hair!
Here is the original cover that caused such an uproar.
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theblackcrowes/albums/album/272343/review/6067716/amorica

Van Halen 1984
Def Leppard Pyromania

Smell The Glove

Roxy Music

"Lemonade and Brownies" by Sugar Ray

Easy:

Scorpions Virgin Killer - 1976

How's this one add up?

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/A/Alpert/herb_alpert.html

The Beatles' "Yesterday and Today"

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

Andrew

Moby Grape first album. One band member was flipping the bird (sort of). So they changed it by basically cutting off his middle finger.

Inside the altered cover, you got a poster, with the offending finger restored!

That's what I displayed on my bedroom wall.

Two Virgins/John & Yoko

take a looksie here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TwoVCover.jpg


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She doesn't look any better with her clothes off than she does with them on!!

Some other sexy covers were:

Roxy Music / Country Life

http://www.radio3net.ro/db_artisti/2020.jpg

Deliverance / Space

http://www.spiralvinyl.com/imagelarge.php?id=12347203

Montrose / Jump On It

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/310M4PXCY6L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Sad Cafe / Fanx Ta-Ra

http://991.com/newgallery//Sad-Cafe-Fanx-Ta-Ra-314878.jpg

Golden Earring / Moontan

http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-11-09/Golden_Earring_Moontan.png

The Cars / Candy-O

http://bluegirlredstate.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/candyo.jpg

The Residents, Third Reich 'n Roll

The Coup, Party Music

The Dwarves, Blood, Guts & Pussy

Now, scroll back up to Craig's fine bevy of beauties to cleanse your brain.

Has anyone else noticed that creative album covers in general seem to be a thing of the past? Most CD covers today are simply a photo of the artist.