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.

@AntonXul

4 ай бұрын

I had mentioned this on the previous video he made. Pretty cool.

@SuperStrik9

4 ай бұрын

Love that album cover. My favorite Macabre album along with Dahmer.

@zombiTrout

4 ай бұрын

One of my favorite album covers.

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.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Haha... brilliant!

@SuperStrik9

4 ай бұрын

Speak English Or Die is an all time classic🤘

@andrewklein5910

4 ай бұрын

Well. The cover in itself is Maiden

@TheWelhaven

4 ай бұрын

@@andrewklein5910That’s the fullength. This is the single.

@TheWelhaven

4 ай бұрын

Did you do Supertramp - Brother where you bound vs Genesis - The way we Walk?

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.

Ween's second record The Pod is a great parody of Leonard Cohen's first best of album.

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).

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Just looked that one up. Damn, you are right!

@AntonXul

4 ай бұрын

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.

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)

@wyattcole5452

4 ай бұрын

Primus wouldn’t be here without them, or wouldn’t be the same at least

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 !!

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for tuning in, Graham!

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)

@putridabomination

4 ай бұрын

by rip off you mean parodies

@mattskustomkreations

3 ай бұрын

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.

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 band “E’Nuff Z’Nuff” used the same artwork for their album “Strength” on Van Halen’s “5150” and it was very similar.

Nirvana's Nevermind cover bears more than a passing resemblance to Paul Kantner & Grace Slick's 1971 album, Sunfighter.

Frank, your insight into vinyl history is great infotainment. Thanks for keeping KZread interesting. Looking forward to future videos.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

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.

I got an example of a famous video game borrowing my album art work.

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!

Sloppy Seconds Destroyed is one of my favorite albums of all time… I've been listening to it constantly since 1989! A masterpiece.

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.

"Metaphysical Graffiti" is actually an excellent album. Well worth a listen.

@thomasclarke2880

4 ай бұрын

Yeah had it since I was a kid on vinyl. Know it inside out. Probably their best.

Another fun one Frank!

Thanks again for your videos Frank. This on was pretty short though😂

There's a big difference between "rip off" and parody or tribute which most of these covers are.

This is an awesome video! Enjoyed watching this.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

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.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Cheers Tino!

Check out the original artwork for Meet the Residents from 1972!

I got so excited when you mentioned the milkmen, they are my favorite band of all time

Check out Wilding /Bonus - Pleasure Signals, the guys names are Wilding and Bonus(!) i read about a while back. That is a sort of Jazz Fusion duo who took the artwork for their album from a LP called Lucrethia And The Azoto 14,008 - Dance Skinsation and manipulated it a bit. It is a drawing of several naked woman sunbathing where they added little figures of themselves.

Did I miss the Clash's "London Calling" -- an artful nod to Elvis Presley's iconic RCA debut?

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

It was in the previous episode: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYGLo7eqf5OtetI.html

Got another one for you Frank. Kiss Creatures of the Night was parodied by Lordi on their single Beast Loose in Paradise.

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.

Cool idea man, i need to check out the of vid.

Fun video Frank!! Thanks so much for the shoutout! \m/

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the 5150 tip!

I love these videos 😊👍

@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.

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.

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.

Great episode Frank.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

That Saga album cover is also similar to the 2001 metal record Flybanger - Headtrip To Nowhere

Check the design company of each - for example Hignosis faithfully did this when they worked for many bands.

The cover of Paul McCartney's "Egypt Station" is eerily similar to George Harrison"s "Gone Troppo".

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.

Weezer’s first self titled record “the blue album” bares a very strong resemblance to the 1980 album Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies

Thank you for introducing me to sloppy seconds

Dylan's Desire (1976) is heavily indebted to John Phillip's The Wolf King of LA (1970).

And first time seeing your channel. Cool.. I just subscribed

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Awesome. Welcome aboard!

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!"

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Good info. Thanks Tom.

What about the 1978 Rainbow LP Long Live Rock 'n' Roll, that is a reversed photo from a Rush concert?

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…

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

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.

Gee, Justin Timberlake didn't show originality? Whatta shock.

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

Blue (1971) by Joni Mitchell - Olivia Newton-John's 1972 album by Hipgnosis.

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.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Cool - I will check that one out. Thanks for the info.

Paul McCartney’s All the Best looks a lot like Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Volumes 1&2.

Suede - Dogmanstar and Headleaders - What It Means To Me

Hey frank I’ve been wondering what your thoughts are about 180 gram vinyl

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

I have no strong feelings one way or another, but generally prefer the good ol 140 gram. You?

The uncensored Lorde cover was nice.

Just thought of another one, "London Calling" by The Clash copies an old Elvis Presley cover.

Camel and Motörhead also used the same Locomotive artwok

I don’t know if that Lord album is a rip off maybe just happy coincidence

Paul McCartney did say he was fine with the cover. so long as there were no chicken pot pies shown.

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".

John Phillips: John Phillips (1970) and Bob Dylan: Desire (1976).

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...

the bob seger album is a tribute to ooh mama i got them kosmic blues (janis joplin), right?

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Hmmmmm... yeah, it does have that whole blurred image thing going on.

Yeah, "We're Only in It for the Money" was intentional

I love the S.O.D. bigger than the devil cover, its great.

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.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Awesome video

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.

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)

Did you do Spinal Tap and Mettalica?

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

I have been tempted to do that one.

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

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

There's another on including Van Halen. Their album "Diver Down" has quite some similarities with "Reise Reise" by Rammstein

The album cover of "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" is very similar to Alice Cooper's "School's Out".

I found it interesting that Alex put himself in the Lennon spots and Michael in the Ringo spot lol

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.

@Channel33RPM

4 ай бұрын

:)

Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody is homaged by Band-Maid : Bubble

"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.

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.

First Badlands album. Kiss Lick It Up

Rancid 's Out Come The Wolfs is a tribute to Minor Threat's album cover.. They even used the same stairwell.

The Black album and Back in Black

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.

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

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.

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 Resident's parody/ripoff of Meet the Beatles was great!

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

Trout Mask Replica (1969) - Nothing Is (1966) by Sun Ra. Inspired.

The White Album (1968) - James Taylor's Greatest Hits (1976).

oops...didn't see that was already mentioned. For a real adventure, give it a listen!

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

Another amusing Sergeant Pepper cover parody is Macabre's 'Sinister Slaughter'

Anthrax have done Artwork Tributes on another Album called Anthems

Boy Meets Girl (Reel Life) and The Cages (Hometown) are basically the same album cover (both from Capitol Records).

The Doors - s/t -> Danzig - Lucifuge/Danzig II