Most Metal Album Cover

Jim Garten wrote:   [/thread]

I don't know about that, in my opinion the Danzig cover I posted simply screams 'metal!', while the Sabbath cover says something along the lines of 'this is what Mona Lisa would look like if she had been painted in the 1970's outside an English country cottage in the autumn'.

Jim Garten wrote: Yes there is - in my world, the women on the Electric Ladyland cover aren't being pawed over by Jimi Hendrix

ExittheLemming wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Yes there is - in my world, the women on the Electric Ladyland cover aren't being pawed over by Jimi Hendrix That cover is like anti porn. Shows the women in a very harsh unerotic way. You mean they look like real women do when naked i.e. vulnerable, flawed, beautiful, emotive? (I think most people have a resistance to the voyeuristic cartoon sexuality that some metal graphics portray)

Obviously, the most metal album cover has to be the Spinal Tap soundtrack.  None more black, as they say.

zappaholic wrote: And for the record, this is the ORIGINAL Electric Ladyland sleeve.  No, the one with the nekid girlies was not the original.

^Was it? In that case I am in error.

I know you're not supposed to rely on Wikipedia as a source, but it has the following:

"The original North American-only Reprise release album cover featured a "fiery" photo of Hendrix' head. The slightly later Track/Polydor International album release cover, controversially, was a photo of a group of nude women, which was only replaced after Experience Hendrix took control of Hendrix' recordings."

Unfortunately it doesn't list dates other than the original release date.  If anyone has any further info, do tell.

zappaholic wrote: I know you're not supposed to rely on Wikipedia as a source, but it has the following: "The original North American-only Reprise release album cover featured a "fiery" photo of Hendrix' head. The slightly later Track/Polydor International album release cover, controversially, was a photo of a group of nude women, which was only replaced after Experience Hendrix took control of Hendrix' recordings." Unfortunately it doesn't list dates other than the original release date.  If anyone has any further info, do tell.

It's messy. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was signed to a British label (Track Records) that had a distribution deal with Reprise in the USA. Hendrix's choice for the cover was the Linda Eastman (aka Linda McCartney) picture of the the Experience with some children by the Alice In Wonderland sculpture in Central Park, NY - Track rejected that and commisioned the Montgomery nudes picture and release the album in the UK and the rest of the World with that cover; Reprise rejected that and chose the Ferris picture and released the album in the USA with that cover 9 days earlier than the UK release (I have to take the person who told me that's word for that as I cannot find the actual release dates). Our policy here is to use "the earliest front cover as released in the artist's home country" - this caused arguments here because while Hendrix was American, the Hendrix Experience was 2/3 British, signed to a British label and managed by a Brit, Chas Chandler -  Wikipedia gives the origin for The Jimi Hendrix Experience as London, England - I maintain that is why we should have used the Montgomery nudes, but I was over-ruled because Hendrix was an American and Reprise jumped the gun on release dates (apparently).

Dean wrote: zappaholic wrote: I know you're not supposed to rely on Wikipedia as a source, but it has the following: "The original North American-only Reprise release album cover featured a "fiery" photo of Hendrix' head. The slightly later Track/Polydor International album release cover, controversially, was a photo of a group of nude women, which was only replaced after Experience Hendrix took control of Hendrix' recordings." Unfortunately it doesn't list dates other than the original release date.  If anyone has any further info, do tell. It's messy. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was signed to a British label (Track Records) that had a distribution deal with Reprise in the USA. Hendrix's choice for the cover was the Linda Eastman (aka Linda McCartney) picture of the the Experience with some children by the Alice In Wonderland sculpture in Central Park, NY - Track rejected that and commisioned the Montgomery nudes picture and release the album in the UK and the rest of the World with that cover; Reprise rejected that and chose the Ferris picture and released the album in the USA with that cover 9 days earlier than the UK release (I have to take the person who told me that's word for that as I cannot find the actual release dates). Our policy here is to use "the earliest front cover as released in the artist's home country" - this caused arguments here because while Hendrix was American, the Hendrix Experience was 2/3 British, signed to a British label and managed by a Brit, Chas Chandler -  Wikipedia gives the origin for The Jimi Hendrix Experience as London, England - I maintain that is why we should have used the Montgomery nudes, but I was over-ruled because Hendrix was an American and Reprise jumped the gun on release dates (apparently).

Dean wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Not just you Dean. There were many of us in favour of the nudes cover. I still very much am. Any other cover looks completely wrong to me. I will never agree with current PA policy on this. *shrug* it doesn't make a whole heap of difference to me - I will treasure my original UK gate-fold vinyl copy regardless of what the PA or the Hendrix Foundation (hawk...spit!) think is the "original".