10+ times famous bands ‘borrowed’ album artwork - oops!
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- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Check out these examples of bands that 'borrowed' album cover ideas from other bands. Are these tributes, parodies, or theft? Decide for yourself.
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S.O.D. also have a split 7" where their side is called Seasoning The Obese. Which of course looks just like the Slayer album cover.
Haha... brilliant!
Speak English Or Die is an all time classic🤘
Well. The cover in itself is Maiden
@@andrewklein5910That’s the fullength. This is the single.
Did you do Supertramp - Brother where you bound vs Genesis - The way we Walk?
The metal band Macabre also parodied the Sgt. Pepper album cover with their 1993 album, Sinister Slaughter. But the Macabre version would feature a collage mostly of serial killers, along with the band mixed in.
I had mentioned this on the previous video he made. Pretty cool.
Love that album cover. My favorite Macabre album along with Dahmer.
One of my favorite album covers.
There are several homages to Herb Alpert - "Whipped Cream and Other Delights", with Soul Asylum - "Clam Dip and Other Delights", Sweet Cream - "Sweet Cream, and other Delights" and Pat Cooper - "Spaghetti Sauce & Other Delights", that I know of. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more.
Believe it or not?! Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album cover (released Nov 1982) seems very familiar to actor/singer Scott Baio's debut album (released Oct 1982).
Just looked that one up. Damn, you are right!
Oh wow! You’re right. It actually reminds me of a kinkier version of that pose on the album cover “Por Primera Vez” by Tino. It’s a wider shot of the pose, but more come hither.
Ween's second record The Pod is a great parody of Leonard Cohen's first best of album.
The Beatles album was also parodied by a lesser known metal band called Macabre with their album Sinister Slaughter.
Good video, glad it showed up in my suggestions!
theres an album from the band the residents which has a parody of with the beatles. Its called Meet the residents 1974 (they are famous for here i come constantinople and hello skinny, strange band)
Primus wouldn’t be here without them, or wouldn’t be the same at least
Boris did a Nick Drake thing
Weezer blue album is Feelies first album
Smith Westerns first album had Nirvana Nevermind Updide down
And Foo Fighters There's Nothing Left To Lose is so Eurythmics
Do #3. Nice to see more Winnipegers out here.
The first volume of The Album Cover Album anthologized by Roger Dean and Storm Thorgerson had a section devoted to this kind of thing called Influence and Coincidence.
I got a couple albums in mind:
GWAR-Lust in Space (2009 album, rips off the artwork for Kiss's 1977 album Love Gun)
Body Count-Carnivore (2020 release, part of it rips off the band Carnivore's 1987 album RETALIATION)
by rip off you mean parodies
My buddy “Bohabb” made the GWAR spaceship that was used for video(s) and promotional artwork for that album. I saw it before he shipped it off - it was a pretty big model/prop.
Nirvana's Nevermind cover bears more than a passing resemblance to Paul Kantner & Grace Slick's 1971 album, Sunfighter.
I also hoped to see the parody of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine called “The Sunny Side of the Moon”. Cheese flipped Floyd’s prism and made it a martini glass.
There's a big difference between "rip off" and parody or tribute which most of these covers are.
Van Halen's OU812 is one of my favorite album covers. The cover looks really cool!
That's a great homage to the Beatles. They did not rip off their album cover at all. They only borrowed some of the ideas from Meet The Beatles, and came up with the rest of the ideas for their OU812 album cover. That was brilliant.
Thanks for another round of "Borrowed Artwork" Frank... but I couldnt stop laughing at the end with the track "If you love someone... set them on fire " !! KEEP ON SPINNIN !!
Thanks for tuning in, Graham!
Bob Dylan’s 2006 album Modern Times straight up used a Photo of a black & white blurry taxi at night. The group Luna put out a 7” single for their album Penthouse in 1995 and a EP promo with this image, also the album itself had this photo on the inside of the gatefold. So it was used in three different places by Luna first!
The band “E’Nuff Z’Nuff” used the same artwork for their album “Strength” on Van Halen’s “5150” and it was very similar.
Gee, Justin Timberlake didn't show originality? Whatta shock.
Sloppy Seconds Destroyed is one of my favorite albums of all time… I've been listening to it constantly since 1989! A masterpiece.
Frank, your insight into vinyl history is great infotainment. Thanks for keeping TH-cam interesting. Looking forward to future videos.
Glad you enjoyed it!
"Metaphysical Graffiti" is actually an excellent album. Well worth a listen.
Yeah had it since I was a kid on vinyl. Know it inside out. Probably their best.
Check the design company of each - for example Hignosis faithfully did this when they worked for many bands.
Got another one for you Frank. Kiss Creatures of the Night was parodied by Lordi on their single Beast Loose in Paradise.
Did I miss the Clash's "London Calling" -- an artful nod to Elvis Presley's iconic RCA debut?
It was in the previous episode: th-cam.com/video/gMWAUqO0GJo/w-d-xo.html
I got so excited when you mentioned the milkmen, they are my favorite band of all time
I never gave it much thought about Van Hagar LP. We're Only in it.......was a parody. Fun Fact- That Really Hendrix posing in the set! Not artwork and photoshop would be 40 yrs later
Hey frank I’ve been wondering what your thoughts are about 180 gram vinyl
I have no strong feelings one way or another, but generally prefer the good ol 140 gram. You?
I got an example of a famous video game borrowing my album art work.
The debut album by The Knack ("Get The Knack") also looks suspiciously similar to the "Meet The Beatles"/"With The Beatles" cover.
With regard to "We're Only In It For The Money", Paul McCartney wanted Zappa to meet him at his home, but Zappa didn't want to visit him face to face, mostly because he was afraid McCartney would spike his drink with LSD! Instead Zappa spoke with McCartney on the phone. Zappa asked if he could do the Sgt. Pepper cover parody and McCartney said "That's what business managers are for." Zappa replied "That's what artists are for, to tell the business managers what to do!"
Good info. Thanks Tom.
Hi Frank
Love this video and the album cover comparisons. Music... album covers are a passion that I have explored and indulged in oil painting with Sharpie markers on canvas. God bless youband your channel. Keep up the great work.
Cheers Tino!
@4:21 The cover of Gorillaz's Demon Days looks much more like the cover of Let It Be than it does Van Halen's.
I had the covers of my Physical Graffiti and MetaPhysical Graffiti hanging on my wall together in high school when the later was first released. My copy of the LZ was a hand me down from my mom's collection -- still have both!
think I will spin them for my little one when she comes over this weekend.
the bob seger album is a tribute to ooh mama i got them kosmic blues (janis joplin), right?
Hmmmmm... yeah, it does have that whole blurred image thing going on.
Stumbled across this similarity- Kings Of Leon " Only By The Night " and Sunn)))o " Kannon " albums.
Did wonder about that " Lorde " album when i first saw it as well!. Fun video Frank.
I contest that the Van Halen "wing" logo was a rip off of Aerosmith's that is featured on "Rocks".
As for bands ripping off the Beatles, most have, KISS "Dynasty" is a prime example
First Badlands album. Kiss Lick It Up
Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out is a homage to the Kinks’ “The Kink Kontroversy”
Yo La Tengo’s Today is the Day EP is a homage to “Something Else!” by Ornette Coleman
Another Yo La Tengo, their Compilation “Prisoners of Love” is an homage to The Beatles Second Album
Hell I've been looking for that Slave album cover for years. My dad played a song off it years ago and I forgot what the band or song was. Tried searching album covers similar to what I remembered but I kept getting Van Halen. Thank you for helping with that.
"Cross Purposes" by Black Sabbath and "Send me an Angel" by Scorpions. Literally the same picture.
Dimmu Borgir "Godless Savage Garden" looks similar to Blind Guardians "Nightfall in Middle Earth"
As for Van Halen/Steeler - I think it's not a rip off, just the same concept of band mambers photos located in square. A ton of 4-piece bands did that.
Paul McCartney’s All the Best looks a lot like Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Volumes 1&2.
I don’t know if that Lord album is a rip off maybe just happy coincidence
Blue (1971) by Joni Mitchell - Olivia Newton-John's 1972 album by Hipgnosis.
The San Francisco band The Residents (Ralph Records) Meet the Residents was one of the greatest knock off album covers ever. Just as the Beatles Meet the Beatles album shows the boys standing on the back cover with their names, Meet the Residents had the exact same picture but with crawfish heads in place of each Beatle head. Not many people have actually seen that cover because of a lawsuit. However, if you happen to know one of the band members such as Homer Flynn, I'm certain they would have a copy.
The cover of the 1986 album of the Macedonian rock band Leb i Sol called "Zvučni Zid - Muzika za Teatar, Film i TV" is a rip off of the 1983 album of The Police, "Synchronicity".
Check out the covers of Pearl Jam's self-titled album (2006) and indie band Circle The Cat's self-titled album (2000).
From a music forum:
- Both put band name on the top of the front cover
- Both use a thin font for the band name
- Both have a similar size for the band name
- Both have a lot of empty space on the cover
- Both have an avocado on the cover
- Both avocados are sliced
- Both avocado slices still have the pit inside
- Both avocados have a shadow
- Both avocados are in the bottom right corner of the cover
- Both albums are self-titled
Bands aren't always so in control of what is used for their album cover and a shocking amount don't even know the lyrics the other guy in the band is singing every night....so you could have designers that aren't mentioning where ideas come from and a lot of the time I assume its just a scenario of do something the old dirtbags at the label know from back in the day that makes them feel young and they'll give it the green light quick or you'll be stuck doing revisions until the cows come home and you won't get paid before the rent is due.
A fairly obscure example - the cover of the 2008 self-titled album by power electronics artist Mike Page is a close copy of the 1985 album More Beer by LA punk band Fear.
Just one suggestion springs to mind currently - there were a few debates about whether Foster The People’s EP ‘lll’ was a rip off of Every Time I Die’s ‘Low Teens’ album cover…
To go along with the Physical Graffiti, Metaphysical Graffiti, and the Jose Feliciano (from the previous video) album covers, you could add in Dubtribe Sound System's 1999 album 'Bryant Street' to the collection. It even has different images that can be displayed in the windows.
Cool - I will check that one out. Thanks for the info.
Just thought of another one, "London Calling" by The Clash copies an old Elvis Presley cover.
3:41 Which was a rip off of Def Leppard's Hysteria cover.
Van Halen stole their logo from Volks Bank in Germany.
Rancid 's Out Come The Wolfs is a tribute to Minor Threat's album cover.. They even used the same stairwell.
At least Lorde is exposing her own gluteus maximus. 😂 Not that I have the desire to see the guys from Free jumping in their swim shorts.
:)
There's another on including Van Halen. Their album "Diver Down" has quite some similarities with "Reise Reise" by Rammstein
Rancid's "...and out come the wolves" is a homage to Minor Threat's 1st self titled 7" EP cover (also used for the complete discography CD). There are loads of Beatles parodies / homages out there, Red Hot Chili Peppers "Socks on c**ks" Abbey Road EP springs to mind. NOFX's "Surfer" 7" EP parodies Bad Religion's "Suffer" album cover. The Hanson Brothers "Brad" 7" is a double parody as the cover and song are NoMeansNo's "Dad" (with different lyrics), the band was a side project of NoMeansNo though
Time Mark 4:33 - Also compare Jeff Pilson's short lived band "War and Peace" with their debut 'Time Capsule' - it also looks very similar to VH's 1st album cover (just like Steeler)
Idk. I think some are common motifs/tropes. A scratched desk, Atlas carrying the earth, the lenses (timberlake). Others are paying homage or making an obvious parody (Zappa). But some are def rip offs or were “inspired” (even if subconsciously) by other album covers.
Check out the covers to Locomotive's "We Are Everything You See" from 1970 and the Italian pop-compilation album "¡Todo Exitos! En Español", released in 1971.
Check out the original artwork for Meet the Residents from 1972!
The cover of Paul McCartney's "Egypt Station" is eerily similar to George Harrison"s "Gone Troppo".
I’m not surprised by the Kid Rock ripoff, the only reason I know he exists is because he ripped off Sweet Home Alabama.
That Saga album cover is also similar to the 2001 metal record Flybanger - Headtrip To Nowhere
Boy Meets Girl (Reel Life) and The Cages (Hometown) are basically the same album cover (both from Capitol Records).
Camel and Motörhead also used the same Locomotive artwok
Noah Kahan has multiple album covers that are blatant rip offs of older album covers. His album cover for stick season has a similar vibe with identical title font as All things Must Pass by George Harrison and his album Busy Head looks really similar to billy joel's album River of Dreams. Are these coincidence or is there something going on with this guy?
Here's an obscure one "The Waking Hour" by the group Dali's Car uses the exact same painting as the cover of "The Present" by The Moody Blues. The painting is "Daybreak" by Maxfield Parrish
Green Day has a live album called Bullet In A Bible, which prominently features the colour red and has the band's name and album title at an angle. I'm not saying there has to be a reference or an influence to Seger's album there... it may all be a coincidence, even both being live albums with "Bullet" in their title
Anthrax have done Artwork Tributes on another Album called Anthems
Thanks again for your videos Frank.
This on was pretty short though😂
4:03 - Technically it is the right side of the Beatles faces lit by light and the right side of Van Halen's faces lit by light...
Dylan's Desire (1976) is heavily indebted to John Phillip's The Wolf King of LA (1970).
I like this style of video and you do it well - it would be easy for them to have that 'Watch Mojo' style where it feels more like a narrated listical, but there's a bit more of a curation and opinion on here that makes them fun videos to watch.
Thank you!
Weezer’s first self titled record “the blue album” bares a very strong resemblance to the 1980 album Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
Great episode Frank.
Thanks!
The Clash: London Calling is borrowed from Elvis Presley's first album. The only difference being that Elvis is playing a guitar while a member of The Clash is destroying his.
Northern Irish rock duo Dea Matrona upcoming album For Your Sins (out May 3) was inspired at least partially by the Cranberries No Need to Argue. It was not so much a rip off but a tribute to the late Deloris O'Riordan and the Cranberries.
Paul McCartney did say he was fine with the cover. so long as there were no chicken pot pies shown.
Another amusing Sergeant Pepper cover parody is Macabre's 'Sinister Slaughter'
Have you ever seen the original cover to Meet the Residents? It's just a defaced Meet the Beatles.
Paul Simon's "Surprise" looks a whole lot like Men Without Hats "Pop Goes the World."
Another fun one Frank!
I found it interesting that Alex put himself in the Lennon spots and Michael in the Ringo spot lol
The album cover of "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" is very similar to Alice Cooper's "School's Out".
Nashville Pussy's compilation album Ten Years of Pussy! has a cover which is very clearly based on Ted Nugent album covers - it's perhaps closest to Weekend Warriors, but it isn't a direct copy of any particular Nugent cover, more just following the 'house style'.
Hardwired to Self Destruct by Metallica( which you showed)and Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest album are another example.
While I would never accuse Meshuggah of ripping off Distubed, you gotta admit there are striking similarities between the covers of Meshuggah's Immutable and Disturbed's Indestructable. Even the titles are similar
Compare Hot Tuna's Burgers (1972) with ZZ Top's Eliminator (mainly the latter's back cover). Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out is a clear homage to, not ripoff of, The Kink Kontroversy.
Hello from Greece Frank.
Check the Macabre - Sinister Slaughter cover.
Another rip-off / homage to Sgt. Pepper's.
UK new wave band Q Feel copied the album cover artwork of an album by jazz guitarist Earl Klugh
How about Elvis Presley debut and The Clash London Calling...also, Kiss Love Gun and The Mentors, album title i forget...Kiss debut and With The Beatles as well
Atlas is also referenced in the Led Zeppelin song Achilles Last Stand.
Zappa shouldn’t have been too critical of Paul for not talking business. Around that time there was a schism between the four between 67-69. Paul was acting manager in the the time of Brian Epstein’s passing and Allen Klein. It was smart for Paul to have let the record company to have the final say to avoid head butting with the other three in an already tense time in their career.
Lauryn Hill's Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill album featuring the cover song of Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You and their hit song of Doo Wop also looks like Alice Cooper's School's Out album.
Fun video Frank!! Thanks so much for the shoutout! \m/
Thanks for the 5150 tip!
Frank, maybe it’s already been noted, but you got your left and right mixed up on the Beatles and Van Halen comparison. It’s not your view but the right or left side of the persons in the photos. Their right or left. That’s how right and left are always referenced to for clarity. ☮️
Good point
United Nations, the powerviolence supergroup, has parodied Abbey Road by the Beatles, The First Four Years by Black Flag, and Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols, and they're all great.
The White Album (1968) - James Taylor's Greatest Hits (1976).
I don’t think the Solar Power cover was an intentional homage or anything like that. Unless Lorde explicitly addresses the similarity, I’m just assuming it was a coincidence
Cool idea man, i need to check out the of vid.
Kiss debut album was based on meet the Beatles cover