Artwork Misinterpretation

Greetings, Fellow Metal Brothers

I have experienced a lot of times, that I have had/seen a picture of an album, and only getting a basic overview of the album cover (even though I am a sucker for album covers) - What album covers have you seen a billion times, but then one day you look at it, and see something that you never thought was there/thought was something else?

I have lots, but from the top of my head, I can think of :

Youthanasia (Megadeth) - I never saw the actual babies hanging down (I don't own the album, only seen pictures) - At first I didn't notice the lady either, I thought it was just some kind of weird land with odd figures.

Led Zeppelin (ST) - This was a misinterpretation from when I was very young (when I didn't know what a "zeppelin" was) - I thought it was some kind of large foot stomping down on something.

Queen (ST) - I had only seen pictures of the cover, and I always though it was some kind of rocket launch or something like that.

..and theres loads of others that are a lot more amusing, just can't think of any right now.

Not very observant huh?

Rexorcist wrote:

Not very observant huh?

Haha, well if I had the actual albums from start, of course I would notice, but a lot I have only seen small pictures of..is this thing just me? aww..

I used to think the cover of Black Sabbath - Paranoid was a blurry heart or something before I had seen it in person. I could never really figure out what it was from the pictures i had seen online.

Trial by Fire wrote:

I used to think the cover of Black Sabbath - Paranoid was a blurry heart or something before I had seen it in person. I could never really figure out what it was from the pictures i had seen online.

I thought the exact same! - Well, I just thought it was some kind of blurry painting or something, before seeing it in the stores where I saw the man with the sword - I remember being disappointed, as I thought it was such a stupid cover - haha

I know exactly what you mean, although no clear examples come to mind. I, however have always been bugged by Def Leppards "Retroactive" cover. I see both the intended photo of the lady at the mirror, and also a human skull framing the photo. Am I the only one who sees this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Def_Leppard_-_Retro_Active.jpg

the sentinel wrote:

I know exactly what you mean, although no clear examples come to mind. I, however have always been bugged by Def Leppards "Retroactive" cover. I see both the intended photo of the lady at the mirror, and also a human skull framing the photo. Am I the only one who sees this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Def_Leppard_-_Retro_Active.jpg

Nope, I see it the same way

DeathCult wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

I know exactly what you mean, although no clear examples come to mind. I, however have always been bugged by Def Leppards "Retroactive" cover. I see both the intended photo of the lady at the mirror, and also a human skull framing the photo. Am I the only one who sees this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Def_Leppard_-_Retro_Active.jpg

Nope, I see it the same way

Me three.

This was actually going to be my example for the thread as it's the one that always got me (and still does)

The Retro Active cover is based off this painting. The picture name is "All Is Vanity"

I'm suprised Eyesore hasn't chewed you out yet for not knowing Def Leppard history.

the sentinel wrote:

I know exactly what you mean, although no clear examples come to mind. I, however have always been bugged by Def Leppards "Retroactive" cover. I see both the intended photo of the lady at the mirror, and also a human skull framing the photo. Am I the only one who sees this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Def_Leppard_-_Retro_Active.jpg

Its supposed to be like that. So you saw/see it correctly.

Until recently, I didn't know that the character on Judas Priest's Hell Bent For Leather was a manequin. I actually thought it was Halford.

the first time i saw W H O R E's Unfinished Business album cover art, it looked like a guy pissing into the mouth of a fetus that was cut from the belly of a woman by the same guy. strange huh.

xyz wrote:

I'm suprised Eyesore hasn't chewed you out yet for not knowing Def Leppard history.

I'm a bit suprised myself.

mc666 wrote:

the first time i saw W H O R E's Unfinished Business album cover art, it looked like a guy pissing into the mouth of a fetus that was cut from the belly of a woman by the same guy. strange huh.

you're not very observant.

get_the_firehouse wrote:

Until recently, I didn't know that the character on Judas Priest's Hell Bent For Leather was a manequin. I actually thought it was Halford.

You learn something new every day.

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