| POLL RESULTS |
| Week: |
588 |
| Date: |
9/25/2017 |
| Question: |
What album cover banned or censored because of issues other than nudity, shouldn't been banned?(covers) |
| Your Vote |
Option |
Votes |
Percent |
| |
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears ('66) - Mamas and the Papas - Cover featured the 4 members in tub & shows a toilet in the corner. The inclusion of the toilet was controversial for 1966
 |
238 |
22.1% |
| |
Wish You Were Here ('75) - Pink Floyd – Artwork shows 2 men shaking hands, with one on fire. Some retailers deemed it 'too violent' and refused to sell the album
|
229 |
21.2% |
| |
Axis: Bold as Love ('67) - Jimi Hendrix – Hindu groups expressed anger at both the LP's cover & poster which shows Hendrix as the deity Vishnu
|
108 |
10% |
| |
To Hell with the Devil ('86) - Stryper – Album's original cover showed the devil being thrown into fiery pit by a group of long-haired angels, causing a major controversy
|
107 |
9.9% |
| |
Some Girls ('78) - Stones – Original cover featured an inner sleeve containing photos of celebrities (without their permission), all positioned to show through cut-out holes on the outer sleeve
|
105 |
9.7% |
| |
The Velvet Underground & Nico ('67) – The Velvet Underground - Band was threatened with a lawsuit by actor/singer Eric Emerson, whose image was projected upside-down on the back cover
|
103 |
9.5% |
| |
Pyromania ('83) - Def Leppard – Cover depicted an photo of a bullseye aimed at a massive flame emerging from the top floor of a skyscraper. After 9-11 took place, many stores banned the cover
|
88 |
8.2% |
| |
Yesterday and Today ('66) - The Beatles – The 'butcher cover' featured the band dressed in white smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of meat
|
40 |
3.7% |
| |
Nine Lives ('97) - Aerosmith – Original cover aroused anger in some Hindus who felt the artwork, taken from Hindu imagery, was offensive
|
36 |
3.3% |
| |
In Utero ('93) - Nirvana – Some retailers refused to sell the LP because of the back cover artwork which featuring model fetuses
|
10 |
0.9% |
| |
Street Survivors ('77) - Lynyrd Skynyrd – Original cover featured photo of the band, standing in a street engulfed in flames. 3 days after the LP's release, 3 band members were killed in plane crash
|
8 |
0.7% |
| |
Kill 'Em All ('83) - Metallica – LP was originally set to be titled Metal Up Your Ass, w/ the cover featuring a toilet bowl with a hand clutching a dagger emerging from it
|
6 |
0.6% |
| |
Christ Illusion ('06) - Slayer – Cover depicts a mutilated, stoned Christ in a sea of blood w/ mutilated heads, causing outrage from some Christians
|
1 |
0.1% |
| |
Fistful of Metal ('84) - Anthrax – Cover showed a metal-wrapped fist emerging from the throat of a man as his mouth explodes
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Kerplunk ('92) - Green Day – Cover shows photo of a teen girl holding a smoking gun. Back cover shows a boy lying on the ground with a gunshot wound on his back
|
0 |
0% |
| Totals: |
1079 |
100% |