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.

Hustler Cover 75

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.

Amorica Censored

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?

Costa Gal India

And then there’s Montrose’s Jump On It from 1976. This is another Hipgnosis cover.

Montrose Jump On It

And here’s the cover sans text. The way the designer would have envisaged it.

Montrose Jump On It

There’s also Lords of Acid’s aptly titled “Pussy”.

Lords of Acid Pussy

I dare to ask but are there any other covers out there like this?

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The Black Crowes: Amorica

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.

Hustler Cover 75

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.

Amorica Censored

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?

Costa Gal India

And then there’s Montrose’s Jump On It from 1976. This is another Hipgnosis cover.

Montrose Jump On It

And here’s the cover sans text. The way the designer would have envisaged it.

Montrose Jump On It

There’s also Lords of Acid’s aptly titled “Pussy”.

Lords of Acid Pussy

I dare to ask but are there any other covers out there like this?

Posted by Ash on 2 June, 2007
Album: Amorica
Artist: The Black Crowes
Cover Artist: Janet Levinson, Chris Robinson
Record Label: American Recordings
Year: 1994
90s, Album Art, Photography, Rock




  • 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

  • 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.

  • Fernando

    hi. the erotic lounge collection has some similar covers, my favorite is the first one, in the deluxe edition

  • http://amishpornstar.livejournal.com Jeb
  • 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 :)

  • unimportantbob

    NEW DEVELOPMENTS!

    A band called Yuppie Pricks just came out with an album apparently saluting Amorica called “Balls.” I only know about this because Blender listed it as their “CD We Didn’t Even Unwrap”

  • aguanteflema

    mexican rock-blues-punk band Yokozuna, just realeased a similar cd cover:

    http://spedr.com/5jwfy
    (Fuck, it looks sexy, to me)

    believe it or not, it was banned in some cd stores; so it got censured with an ugly black banner..

  • xpez

    dont forget Ween chocolate an cheese

  • itamar

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

    see whats behind the flag …
    this cover pop uped in my head

    PIL (public image limited) – that what is not

  • http://www.myspace.com/youngkilla509 pierre-richard colas

    oh mama

  • Meow
  • Julia
  • Julia

    Queens Of The Stone Age – ”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_of_the_Stone_Age_(album)

    Obviously a very popular Cover-Objekt :-)

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  • http://daveavenue.com/category/musical/ dave

    as a gayboy loving this record during my formative years, i would look at the cover and wonder “do guys really think this is sexy?” i always wished that the woman would just pull her bottom up.

    but i still love the record.

  • Jonny

    The Twilight Singers have an album called “She Loves You”. Its cover would have fit nicely into this post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Loves_You_(Twi…)

  • Fred

    go to google images and search for John Greaves The caretaker.

  • http://www.theslipperytruffle.com mrtruffle

    Oh nice find.

  • thaere

    GOOD

  • big t

    nice

  • big t

    nice

  • djdeth

    Jorge Santana's album cover has a close up of pink panties

  • guest

    see also the self-titled queens of the stone age CD… with the same 'strange hands' predicament as the costa gal cover.

  • Brennanw

    Peaches – The Teaches of Peaches

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    Secx

  • Don

    motherfucker….

  • Don

    remove the name of all the country from the pics u motherfucker..
    bastard respect your country…

  • Elspilster

    check out flaming lips hit to the future head. pic of legs and knickers on the disk

  • Adrian

    ‘Geometry of Love’ by Jean-Michel Jarre and the naughty version of ‘Country Life’ by Roxy Music

  • Adrian

    ‘Geometry of Love’ by Jean-Michel Jarre and the naughty version of ‘Country Life’ by Roxy Music

  • nguyen hung

    good

  • Khkj

    lol

  • Khalidaryan 009

    I wish I would be the cat. Aman.

  • Stjsbrown

    I am looking for the original Amorica album. Will pay good $. Anybody?

  • Bongolia

    What are you on about Don? The country which is represented by the stars and stripes flag? Is it Amorica that you’re talking about?

  • Henk

    the two versions of Uncle Sam’s “Heaven or Hollywood” come to mind

  • Bill

    The original “Mom’s Apple Pie”

  • http://www.facebook.com/steven.annan.3 Steven Annan

    Yeah, Dickhead Don,
    what are you referring to?