Album cover art that references other album cover art

[RealityChuck]

@CalMeacham

I’d say the cover of Another Monty Python Album, but I think that the “real” album cover underneath is a hack*. At any rate, I can’t find it anywhere:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/ANOTHER_MONTY_PYTHON_RECORD.jpg

Too bad, in a way. The Pieter Brueghel painting would make a great Beethoven album sleeve.
*Especially because the “notes” on the back are clearly a joke.

A classical music expert pointed out to me that the second symphony doesn’t have a solo part.

[Ludovic]

@CalMeacham

I’d say the cover of Another Monty Python Album, but I think that the “real” album cover underneath is a hack*. At any rate, I can’t find it anywhere:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/ANOTHER_MONTY_PYTHON_RECORD.jpg

Too bad, in a way. The Pieter Brueghel painting would make a great Beethoven album sleeve.

One of them has been used by Fleet Foxes.

[Treppenwitz]

In interviews I’ve seen Nile Rogers state that the album cover of Chic was taken from one or several Roxy Music album covers (which he denied at the time).

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[Lucas_Jackson]

@Snowboarder_Bo

In metal, Black Sabbath is not just a baseline but a benchmark. Their cover for Master Of Reality, arguably one of the worst album covers of all time, has been copied/parodied/satired/respected over the years by numerous other bands.

For instance:

Al Jourgenson and Paul Barker (both of Ministry, etc.) did a one-off project called 1000 Homo DJs that not only gave us one of the best Sabbath covers ever with their version of Sweet Leaf, they copied this cover art too for the 12" release.

Mister Bones was a Canadian stoner/doom band that released a couple of albums in the Oughts; their second long player, Monster Burn and the Power Seekers, used the MoR concept. They were a pretty good band but they changed their name to The Georgian Skull (terrible band name, btw) and then that band broke up 2 years later; check out Road Saw.

A rapper that goes by the name Blacastan copped the concept a couple of years ago, too, for his album The Master of Reality. Here’s a track from him, too: Crac-A-Stan which makes me laugh because that song has a sample from the era and even the genre, kinda, but it’s not Black Sabbath. Bonus points for anyone who recognizes it :D, but if you don’tIt’s the opening keyboard riff from Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Prolly my favorite tho, is from a band called Church of Misery. They’re a doom band from Japan. For those who don’t know, doom metal is a genre that specifically cites Black Sabbath as the start of and the epitome of what it’s all about, both musically and lyrically. Church of Misery is a “theme” band tho, in that all their songs are about serial killers. And they basically copied/paid respect to/one-upped Sabbath with their cover for Master of Brutality. Here’s a track from them, too: Megalomania (Herbert Mullin).

Crac-a-Stan is awesome! COM ain’t bad either.

[Shakester]

The cover of Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan features several album covers, including;
The Impressions (Keep on Pushing)
Robert Johnson (King of the Delta Blues Singers)
Ravi Shankar (India’s Master Musician)
Lotte Lenya (Sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill)
Eric Von Schmidt (The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt).

[EinsteinsHund]

One more:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (spoilered for extensive nudity):

Electric Ladyland

Die Toten Hosen - Reich und Sexy (spoilered for extensive nudity):

Reich und Sexy

[MickNickMaggies]

Paul McCartney’s Ram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_(album)#/media/File%3ARamMcCartneyalbumcover.jpg

And the back of John Lennon’s *Imagine *https://www.allmusic.com/album/imagine-mw0000198860 clicking on the large image on the left will give you front and back.

[dalej42]

The cover of Paul is Live is an obvious reference to Abbey Road.

[Baal_Houtham]

@MickNickMaggies

And the back of John Lennon’s *Imagine *https://www.allmusic.com/album/imagine-mw0000198860 clicking on the large image on the left will give you front and back.

The guy was a dick.
(Largely ameliorated by Rain, Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows, Across the Universe, She Said She Said, Julia, In My Life, Dear Prudence, All You Need is Love, Come Together, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution, Sun King, Don’t Let Me Down, Hey Bulldog, Please Please Me.)

[jaycat]

@Baal_Houtham

The guy was a dick.
(Largely ameliorated by Rain, Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows, Across the Universe, She Said She Said, Julia, In My Life, Dear Prudence, All You Need is Love, Come Together, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution, Sun King, Don’t Let Me Down, Hey Bulldog, Please Please Me.)

That’s not the original rear cover of the Imagine album. That image of John with the pig was on a postcard included with the record. Just saying that I don’t think it was his intention to put it out on the cover.

[LLCoolL]

@kaylasdad99

'Nuff sed.

Does anyone know if Weird Al gets approval from the artists he, ahem, “covers”, before he does his thing?

[nightshadea]

yes he normally asked except for one song …….Coolio was a self important dick so al’s studio told al to put amish paradise on the album anyway

Coolio later apologized for being that way

Of course the supreme court later decided the matter once and for all ……

[da_pope]

4 times + Gigi!

Pink Floyd Ummagumma (Vinyl Records, LP, CD) on CDandLP

[RealityChuck]

@LLCoolL

Does anyone know if Weird Al gets approval from the artists he, ahem, “covers”, before he does his thing?

He asked, but he has never been required to. As long as you pay royalties, you can change the lyrics any way you want.

This was a principle long before Campbell v. Acuff-Rose. The court case just affirmed it.

[Gatopescado]

@solost

Wasn’t the Rolling Stones’ “Her Satanic Majesties Request” cover meant to be a sarcastic take on the Beatles’ Sargeant Pepper’s album?

Wikipedia says it was thought to be similar
Their Satanic Majesties Request - Wikipedia

And Golden Throats did another version:

golden throats cover - Bing

[campp]

Does this count? If Monty Python
counts, this counts:

[JKellyMap]

@installLSC

Sesame Street was a big fan of that album too.

And of Saturday Night Fever: Sesame Street Fever - Wikipedia

[Guest-starring_Id]

AxCx references the Bee Gees (don’t worry - mild oi version)

@Baal_Houtham

…Rain, Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows, Across the Universe, She Said She Said, Julia, In My Life, Dear Prudence, All You Need is Love, Come Together, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution, Sun King, Don’t Let Me Down, Hey Bulldog, Please Please Me.)[/SIZE]

Thank-you for spotting “Bulldog”. I’d also throw in there “It’s Only Love”, “Sexy Sadie”, “Norwegian Wood”, “Lucy…”, “Glass Onion”, (which, heh, “references” other Beatles tunes), “I Am the Walrus”, “I’m Only Sleeping” (LOVE that song), “Everybody…Monkey”, “I’m So Tired”, (some consider those last two as confections; I think they’re great little numbers), “If I Fell”, “Ticket to Ride”, “You’re Going to Lose that Girl”. /derail

ETA - heh - somewhat ninja’ed by JKellyMap

[Guest-starring_Id]

Missed edit window

Doggy Style does Zep

[thelurkinghorror]

Bad Religion - Suffer (album) - Wikipedia

NOFX - Surfer (EP) - Wikipedia

Iron Maiden - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IronMaiden_NumberOfBeast.jpgNumber of the Beast

Stormtroopers of Death - Bigger than the Devil - Wikipedia Than the Devil

Screwed that up but can’t fix it that fast