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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 912 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers Kurt! Nirvana - Nevermind Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats New Order - Power Corruption and Lies | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 840 Registered: 04-2005 |
Well, now that you've started the topic, I can't think of any. I'll have to flip through my collection when I get home. 20 Jazz Funk Greats might be the winner, though. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1084 Registered: 03-2006 |
That's a tough one, Spence. I think it's because our minds are so adaptive, over time you inevitably associate the music with the cover, so it comes to seem a match, whether it was initially or not. That said, I can think of one that was censored, that would not have been a match to the music inside. I forget the exact title: was it "Yesterday and Today" ? Kurt probably knows - but it's the Beatles album that featured them in white coats holding big chunks of bloody meat with baby dolls all around them. The implication was that they had been hacking up the babies. Needless to say, even in the 60's there were those who found that offensive and the cover ended up being censored. The original covers were supposedly pasted over with a more benign cover, and are worth tons of moola. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 842 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's the one, LK. The funny thing was that "Yesterday and Today" was a U.S.-only comp featuring songs from the UK editions of "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver." How anybody thought for a second that the original cover was going to fly with conservative U.S. record buyers, I don't know. Another cover/music mismatch would be "Betty" by Helmet. Now I have to admit I haven't heard this album, but I know Helmet is some sort of noisy head-banging math rock, so the cover photo of a fresh-faced, innocent-looking blonde woman holding a basket of flowers has got to be inappropriate. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 70 Registered: 09-2006 |
Actually the "Yesterday and Today" cover wasn't wholly inappropriate, as I believe the lads did that cover partly as a form of complaint about how the track listing and running order of their albums up to that point had been "butchered" by Capitol in the US. |