Did you know that the cover of Eric Clapton’s supergroup Blind Melon’s debut album featured a nude child and that Nirvana’s Nevermind had to be slapped with a sticker to censor its notorious cover?
▬Contents of this video▬ 00:00 - Intro 00:16 - Yesterday and Today – The Beatles 01:07 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland 01:32 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Two Virgins 02:01 - Guns N’Roses – Appetite For Destruction 02:25 - David Bowie – Diamond Dogs 02:50 - The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet 03:23 - Nirvana – Nevermind 03:52 - Blind Faith – Blind Faith 04:35 - The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers 05:02 - Roxy Music – Country Life 05:28 - Scorpions: Virgin Killer 05:48 - The Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks 06:23 - Dio – Holy Diver 06:45 - The Mamas And The Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears 07:27 - Outro
Who doesn’t love a good controversy? In this day and age most musicians, stars, actors, and filmmakers strive to be as politically correct as possible so as to not step on any toes and end up getting canceled. But back in the day, artists were a lot freer to express themselves in whatever manner they pleased. Sure, they stirred up controversy and scandal, but instead of getting canceled, this just brought them more publicity and fame.
Like two peas in a pod, controversy and music have always gone together hand in hand. Especially in the genre of Rock ‘n Roll, there has always been this prevailing attitude that rockers are given a free pass when it comes to scandal. They’re expected to be free-thinking artists who push the boundaries of what’s deemed to be societally acceptable. Rockers are provocative, lewd, and often over-the-top both in their art and in their personal lives.
Nowhere has this been more apparent then in the realm of controversial album covers. Be it objectifying depictions of women, gratuitous violence, or occult imagery, it’s clear that many album covers were intentionally designed to challenge the bourgeois social mores held by the masses. Many of the most controversial album covers of all time have been the subject of much criticism by conservative, middle-class critics – and isn’t that really precisely what the bands were intending? In this video, you’ll hear what album covers we think are the most controversial of all time.
The Most Controversial Album Covers of All Time
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