The Black Crowes: Amorica
How can you go past a cover like this and not do a double take? The photo was taken from the 1975 Hustler issue seen below.
It was the pubic hair that caused offence and this cover was later censored to a friendly version seen here below. They even went to the trouble to preserve as much of the flag as possible by digitally removing the pubes. Heaps of fun for that designer.
Similar Sleeves:
Thanks to Carlo’s comments which sparked me to do more research on similar covers. Here’s two more covers featuring close ups of womens bits in bikinis.
Here’s Brazil’s answer to Barbara Streisand Costa Gal’s India album from 1973. Her hands seem a lot older than her body?
And then there’s Montrose’s Jump On It from 1976. This is another Hipgnosis cover.
And here’s the cover sans text. The way the designer would have envisaged it.
There’s also Lords of Acid’s aptly titled “Pussy”.
I dare to ask but are there any other covers out there like this?
carlos lunetta:
Hey
In 1973 there was this cover from a Brazilian Popular Music artist Gal Costa:
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/costa_gal~~_india~~~~_101b.jpg
# 22 Aug 07 at 2:29 am
Ash:
Hey Carlos that’s a good find. I also found a hipgnosis cover aswell I should add to this list.
I’ll have to update the post.
# 22 Aug 07 at 4:12 pm
Fernando:
hi. the erotic lounge collection has some similar covers, my favorite is the first one, in the deluxe edition
# 24 Aug 07 at 10:17 am
Jeb:
Yeah. Lords of Acid, PUSSY.
http://www.blog.mediaprojekte.de/wp-content/wp-filez/lords_of_acid_pussy.jpg
# 04 Nov 07 at 4:39 pm
WraX:
I heard a story about this, which I’m not sure about:
So, loads of young men bought the album (and accompanying poster) thinking it was cool to have a woman’s pubes on their wall. Then it later emerged that the photo was in fact a man with his knackers tucked between his legs?
After reading this, I guess that can’t be true as it’s the same pic from the hustler mag, and I doubt very much that they’d pull that trick on their readers :)
# 08 Jan 08 at 7:37 am