Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Thrifts stores are littered with them. I think people got it just for the cover.

Also Spiritual Healing

The Dickies - Nights in White Satin

Punk cover of the popular song, released as a single.

I remember reading that the single was pulled from stores due to controversy and replaced with another cover. This is a good thing.

This banned cover can be found with an image search. You will know when you see it.

It seems a joke in very bad taste…

Great thread idea - you might also enjoy !albumartporn@lemmy.world, which has some pretty out-there covers.

I’ll nominate Abraxas by Santana which has a lot to take in!

I prefer the simple classics:

I just learned about the original album artwork for Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction which goes pretty hard

Fresh White Reeboks Kickin Your Ass by Nigel Pepper Cock is a very visibly hard album cover

Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering. The original album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been sawed in half by Joel-Peter Witkin)

The uncensored version of Spinal Tap - Smell the Glove.

Thelonius Monk, Underground

Its hard not to love aqualung especially the text but especially the art but especially the way it relates to all the songs.

The Small Faces’ Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake goes pretty hard if you roll it down a hill.

IYKYK.

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The original cover for The Coup’s Party Music. Go ahead, look it up.

RATM - RATM

Death metal ones are usually pretty brutal.

One of my favs is Tomb of the Mutilated by Cannibal Corpse.