# Remember that weird album cover that had... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004 "2007-02-20T19:22:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/21 "2007-02-20T20:36:32Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] I think it was a lot harder to see on the differently colored [American](http://donmarko99.free.fr/PF/PFCovers/1967-1973/Meddle.jpg) LP cover design. [/QUOTE] 'Merican here… it really helped (if not necessary) to have the gatefold open. I never thought that the British import would have been easier to see. If so, that somewhat diminishes the umph of it all, but still… I can’t imagine it being too much less subtle. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/22 "2007-02-20T20:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] **Miller** , I’m not seein’ it. It’s pretty small… does it not say “Peace”? Actually, it kinda looks like “Taco”. [/QUOTE] If the word were “taco,” it wouldn’t be so unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/23 "2007-02-20T20:39:53Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] **Miller** , I’m not seein’ it. It’s pretty small… does it not say “Peace”? Actually, it kinda looks like “Taco”. [/QUOTE] How many letters in ‘peace?’ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/24 "2007-02-20T20:42:36Z")
Ah… boy, that punch is gonna hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/25 "2007-02-20T20:50:29Z")
[This](http://cgi.ebay.com/Classic-NAUGHTY-Cover-LP-MOMS-APPLE-PIE-1972-Original_W0QQitemZ330032885136QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting) one, the eponymous debut by Mom’s Apple Pie. For those who don’t know, and don’t have a magnifying glass, let’s just say that the pie filling is rather unique. Does anyone have a link to a bigger picture? ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/26 "2007-02-20T21:18:58Z")
First one I thought of was **Queen’s** \* A Night at the Opera\* since I have parts of it tattoed on my arm. **Pink Floyd’s** _Wish You Were Here_ I absolutely love the **Marillion** artwork that was done by Mark Wilkinson which, I believe, were the first four albums plus many singles and EP’s.Seen here [Welcome the-masque.com - Justhost.com](http://www.the-masque.com/marillionindex1.html.Check) it out,it’s neat stuff. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/27 "2007-02-20T21:29:45Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] I remember that. There was that, the windows on Physical Graffiti and the Stones did it with Some Girls. [/QUOTE] Only some? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/28 "2007-02-20T21:40:36Z")
One of my favorites, in content and packaging, was Jethro Tull’s Stand Up (vinyl) album; It was a beautiful wood cut, and when you opened up the cover, the band popped-up (duh.) Still have that one. [Stand Up](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Up_(Jethro_Tull_album)) ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/29 "2007-02-20T21:47:08Z")
On a side note, speaking of album covers, I am looking for an example of one that has one picture or design spread out over the front and back of the album, but is **not** a gatefold. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/30 "2007-02-20T21:56:09Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] On a side note, speaking of album covers, I am looking for an example of one that has one picture or design spread out over the front and back of the album, but is **not** a gatefold. Anyone? [/QUOTE] May not qualify but what my mind’s eye saw when reading your post: _Dark Side Of The Moon_ ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/31 "2007-02-20T22:00:19Z")
When I was 5 years old my older sister got Elton John’s [Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Fantastic_%26_the_Brown_Dirt_Cowboy) album on vinyl. I just remember studying the thing intensely at age 5 trying to figure out what the hell it all meant. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/32 "2007-02-20T22:42:39Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] On a side note, speaking of album covers, I am looking for an example of one that has one picture or design spread out over the front and back of the album, but is **not** a gatefold. Anyone? [/QUOTE] I think Rush’s “Fly By Night” might fit the bill here. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/33 "2007-02-20T23:09:56Z")
Looking through my old album collection, the only other one I could find like this is Moody Blues “A Question of Balance”. And as far as the OP goes, when I stumbled across my Blood Sweat & Tears “Child Is Father To The Man” LP, I remembered how much those adult heads on the little kid bodies used to freak me out. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/34 "2007-02-20T23:21:31Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] Who’s Next, with the band members pissing on the whatever-it-is. [/QUOTE] The monolith. _“My god, it’s full of pee!”_ ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/35 "2007-02-21T00:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Absolutely on the _Sticky Fingers_. I almost mentioned it but decided to see how long it would take for somebody else to mention it. Not too long, it seems. [/QUOTE] Andy Warhol’s voyeuristic view of Joe Dallesandro’s crotch!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/36 "2007-02-21T01:58:36Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] [This](http://cgi.ebay.com/Classic-NAUGHTY-Cover-LP-MOMS-APPLE-PIE-1972-Original_W0QQitemZ330032885136QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting) one, the eponymous debut by Mom’s Apple Pie. For those who don’t know, and don’t have a magnifying glass, let’s just say that the pie filling is rather unique. Does anyone have a link to a bigger picture? [/QUOTE] [You mean this?](http://friends.s5.net/mazzini/plosce/) (Note: in order to adhere to the two-click rule, to see the actual cover is #5 on the list) Flash and the Pan’s first album was a Hypgnosis photo of people sitting in chaises on the beach with their hands behind their heads and with with frisbees floating all around them. [If you look closely](http://www.crabsodyinblue.com/flashandthepanflashandthepan.jpg), there’s an atomic mushroom cloud in the background. Their second, “Lights in the Night” was [a black cover](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Flash_And_The_Pan_-_Lights_In_The_Night_CD_album_cover.jpg/225px-Flash_And_The_Pan_-_Lights_In_The_Night_CD_album_cover.jpg) with a picture of three boys watching a die going past them. But take a look at that scratch on the front: you can see the cover of their first album peeking through, ing and the original LP the black was a wash over the album cover of the first. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/37 "2007-02-21T02:00:23Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] On a side note, speaking of album covers, I am looking for an example of one that has one picture or design spread out over the front and back of the album, but is **not** a gatefold. Anyone? [/QUOTE] The best example I can think of is the first Emerson, Lake & Palmer album. Jethro Tull’s _Stormwatch_ also qualifies, although it is not at all obvious that the image is continuous unless you scrutinize it. There are also the Island-era albums by Jade Warrior, _Floating World, Waves, Kites,_ and I believe _Way of the Sun_, though I no longer have the vinyl of the last to verify. _Dark Side of the Moon_ and _A Question of Balance_, already suggested, actually are gatefold covers. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/38 "2007-02-21T02:03:36Z")
“Thick As A Brick” - Jethro Tull [http://www.j-tull.com/discography/thickasabrick/](http://www.j-tull.com/discography/thickasabrick/) The album opened up into a newspaper that is absolutely hilarious in a Monty Python way (the same man is engaged to one woman & then a birth announcement gives him as father in another column of the paper). Really funny stuff (better than I describe here) VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/39 "2007-02-21T02:09:18Z")
Alice Cooper’s _“School’s Out”_, with it’s opening desk gatefold and paper panties on the LP was interesting. [Toe Fat](http://www.alexgitlin.com/tf.html) had a couple of pretty bizzare covers, one of them by Hipgnosis. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004/40 "2007-02-21T05:29:18Z")
One we enjoyed before was Les Dudek’s [Say No More](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Saynomore.jpg). I’m going to be flored if anyone recognizes it but the jam and cover both were pretty titillating. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-weird-album-cover-that-had/393004.md?page=3)