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Gerinski 
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 Posted: June 08 2013 at 06:45 |
Not really Prog but a famous case of censored cover was Mom's Apple Pie self-titled album. The original cover depicted an apparently innocent farmer woman showing a pie missing a slice and licking her lip. Close inspection though revealed that the inside of the pie clearly resembled female genitalia, and furthermore dripping white juice.
The cover was banned and an alternative was released, in which the missing slice was sealed with bricks and barbed wire, topped with an American flag and two policemen watching from the window.
Original cover
Original cover close-up
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Posted: June 08 2013 at 05:59 |
Why did the Italian Earthbound have Wetton and Bruford on the cover when didn't play on the album? 
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 21:43 |
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John Wetton on Earthbound has David Bowie's haircut.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 13:19 |
And Bowie's Diamond Dogs, the original showing the dogs genitals and later editions just dark shadow
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 13:13 |
Maybe the original Earthbound cover was not very attactive but that Italian one is dreadful 
Of course we have also the well known cases of Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Scorpions Virgin Killer, or Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World, I guess they are well enough known so I'm not bothering to paste pictures.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:51 |
I always wished there was a Yes cover band named "No".
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:25 |
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^^ That Earthbound cover (the top one) is the first one I remember seeing. Makes it look like a budget-line cheapo label release like K-Tel or something.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:02 |
Italy   UK  I have this Italian release of Earthbound. What a bizarre cover. The picture is obviously the wrong lineup. The cutouts around their heads is so wrong. And the graphic design in general is just about as bad as it gets.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 11:52 |
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^ I think it's worse. The ciggy cover isn't great either, but I thought it was it was kinda clever at the time. I have a certain disdain for bad airbrush art. There was so much of it back in the '70's. Today's equivalent is bad Photoshop art, of which there is also an abundance.
I found that Mirage LP at my local library when I was about 14 and even then I thought it was awful. Never heard of them at the time. But I checked it out and was amazed.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 11:36 |
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^not sure how it is worse than a replica of a cigarette logo.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 10:38 |
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The alternative Mirage posted is so awful aha
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 09:22 |
These ones are well known but OK here they go:
Gentle Giant's Three Friends USA cover was actually the cover of their debut album, with the problem that the drummer in the picture (Martin Smith) had been replaced by Malcolm Mortimore but they did not notice or did not care to adjust the picture
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And the cover of Octopus was different too
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 08:34 |
a
 Knobby wrote:
You mean there is another cover for "Moonmadness"? (I never saw the orig UK) |
Yeah, the one commonly available now on CD is a kind of soft blue/white design. I don't see the one with the Camel space suit very often any more.
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 08:28 |
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You mean there is another cover for "Moonmadness"? (I never saw the orig UK)
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Posted: June 07 2013 at 08:16 |
I had this album cover for Moonmadness growing up. Pretty corny, really. I think these were the original American versions of the Camel albums.  As well as this cover for Mirage. 
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Posted: June 06 2013 at 17:45 |
Lps pressed in countries other than the country of origion often used different coverart on the jackets.
Also reissues may have had different art.
THAT is what this thread is concerned with.
Lps only.
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Posted: June 06 2013 at 13:05 |
Van der Graaf Generator - Prawn Hearts 
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