BANNED!!! Album covers that were censored, banned, changed..

I have a copy of Appetite For Destruction with the robot rape scene cover.

the sentinel wrote:

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

I've actually read that Hendrix himself wanted the cover changed because he said he didn't need sex to sell his music.

Hey DC! The "IT" clown. Cool!

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Hey DC! The "IT" clown. Cool!

Yep Pennywise in the flesh, sort of. Happens to be my favorite book of all time. Tim Curry makes the whole movie worth watching

We all float down here Scotty.

The strange thing here is that this might be an American thing, as I am way more familiar with those alledgedly cencored covers. The G'n'R one is still pretty regular here, the Scorpions Lovedrive one is the only one I've ever seen here in Norway, and even the Bon Jovi one was quite regular in the vinyl days.

kmorg wrote:

The strange thing here is that this might be an American thing, as I am way more familiar with those alledgedly cencored covers. The G'n'R one is still pretty regular here, the Scorpions Lovedrive one is the only one I've ever seen here in Norway, and even the Bon Jovi one was quite regular in the vinyl days.

The only time I had actually seen the Bon Jovi one was when they put it out on CD.

I had a chance to buy Slippery When Wet on cassette when it came out. It had the original cover but I had friends with me who would joked me out of existence for buying a Bon Jovi album.

kmorg wrote:

The strange thing here is that this might be an American thing, as I am way more familiar with those alledgedly cencored covers. The G'n'R one is still pretty regular here, the Scorpions Lovedrive one is the only one I've ever seen here in Norway, and even the Bon Jovi one was quite regular in the vinyl days.

American kids would be ruined by the site of a nekked booby. It's obviously worked. America's youth has never been finer.

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The original cover of Dream Theater's Live Scenes From New York, which, ironically, was released on September 11, 2001. I was fortunate enough to find a used copy of the original version.

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Happens to be my favorite book of all time.

Top - 5 for me, too!


It only gets banned/altered if it's metal.

Have you seen Rap, Tejano, Dub, Reggae and some other album covers??

Slayer's God Hates Us All before:



and after:

I had that Beatle album back in the day. I just steamed off the pasted on cover. Too bad I don't have it anymore.

ultmetal wrote:

Never understood the Poison cover. It's bizarre, but what's so offensive about the tongue?

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Iron Maiden's No Prayer for the Dying has the guy on the far right being grabbed by Eddie removed for some reason.

get_the_firehouse wrote:

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The original cover of Dream Theater's Live Scenes From New York, which, ironically, was released on September 11, 2001. I was fortunate enough to find a used copy of the original version.

I also have that cover. I picked it up used for a few bucks.

I have the Bon Jovi original cover on a tour book from the SWW tour back in 1986. I never knew until a few years ago that that was the original cover. I also heard that it was pulled by the band because of the girl's pink nail polish and the pink outline around the cover, not for the fact that her large wet rack was featured prominently. But, I could be wrong. Peace.

Found this on the Beatles

When Capitol Records created a new Beatles album by assembling various leftover tracks and releasing them as a record entitled "Yesterday And Today" on June 15, 1966, the phenomenon was nothing new. In the 18-month period between January 1964 and June 1966, Capitol Records (and the United Artists record label) managed to release nearly twice as many Beatles albums in America as had been issued by Britain's EMI Parlophone, the Beatles' home label. Capitol (and UA) had accomplished this feat through a variety of means: issuing fewer songs per album (typically 11, as opposed to 14 on UK LPs), adding tracks released as singles (typically not included on UK albums), and padding film soundtracks with instrumental versions of songs

So the Beatles were protesting there lp's being butchered, meaning songs being removed, not the lp covers. Take 3 or 4 songs off back to back lp's add a single & presto a new Beatles lp.

ultmetal wrote:

The Beatles were tired of the record company "butchering" their album covers, and thus this cover was born.


Another, which I won't put up a picture of is
SCORPIONS - Virgin Killer
Has to be one the most tasteless covers EVER! What person in his right mind would say, "a naked child with cracked glass over her genitals, hey now that's good art"?

I read that it was not the band's idea. They said they simply wanted "something controversial", and that's what the record label executive used for the cover. At least two band members regret using that as the album cover, Klaus Meine and Ulrich Roth.

I know a number of Cannible Corpse album covers were cencored (probably for a good reason IMO). Also Deicide's Once Upon A Cross which origionally had a depiction of Jesus on an autopsy table had a cencored cover where a sheet was layed over the body (of course it didn't matter because I wouldn't buy it either way).

DeathCult wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Hey DC! The "IT" clown. Cool!

Yep Pennywise in the flesh, sort of. Happens to be my favorite book of all time. Tim Curry makes the whole movie worth watching

We all float down here Scotty.

He looks pretty damn harmless in that picture though.

Exodus' "Pleasures of the Flesh" had this for it's original cover



It appears on the picture disc, and this is the best image of it I've found. i've been looking for a decent version of this cover for years, and have never found anything other than a crappy picture of the picture disc. i guess it was deemed to graphic, but it's incredibly tame compared to other violent album covers. so they chose this

nevermind. i actually found one. unbelievable! although the bottom is cut off. you can't see the head boiling in the pot

[url=https://servimg.com/view/11838013/13][/urlHotter Than Hell

Well, the back cover of Hotter Than Hell for the "explict" images

For non-metal, 1999 by Prince - he might as well have called Sausagefest 1999

Deathrow had a name change and an album cover art change.

First it was "Riders of Doom" with this cover art


Then it was changed to "Satan's Gift with this cover art