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It seems that a significant store in the U.S. wields a lot of power and influence. When John Cougar Mellencamp launched his 1996 album called Mr. Happy Go Lucky, a photo on the cover of Jesus and the devil needed to be changed. Since the music wasn't affected by it and he did not design the cover, Mellencamp obliged and changed the cover to improve the previously n...

In our last of a series about album cover art, lets again examine a few questionable album covers.

It would appear that a significant dealer in the U.S. wields lots of influence and power. When John Cougar Mellencamp introduced his 1996 album named Mr. Happy Go Lucky, a photo on the cover of Jesus and the devil must be changed. Since the music wasn't affected by it and he did not design the cover, Mellencamp obliged and changed the cover to improve the previously named major dealer.

Rapper Ice-T joined the venture together with his critically acclaimed 1991 album release called Death Certificate. It seems new indie music reviews an album cover exhibiting Uncle Sam on a mortuary slab as well as Ice-Ts violent words, encouraged one state (Oregon) to implement a statewide ban on showing the rappers image in retail stores.

Alternative rockers Janes Addiction performer Perry Farrell caused quite a stir in 1991 as well. These were not happy, when he published his original art for the bands sophomore record, Ritual de lo Habitual, to his report label (Warner Brothers). They introduced it and the sparks flew, and under corporate pressure, the party relented and exchanged Farrells art with a plain white cover and text from the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech.

In 1997, Aerosmith launched their new record called Nine Lives which featured a figure with a cats mind. The artwork, obtained from Hindu image, aroused the anger of some Hindus and the group and record business apologized, and then changed the artwork.

Alternate grunge giants, Nirvana raised the ire of two retail giants (Wal Mart and K Mart) in a song on the album and 1993 with their album cover art In Utero. The back cover of the release was changed to see Waif Me, in place of the real name of the track Rape Me. Regardless of the companies insistence that the words for the music were, in reality anti-rape, these aforementioned retail giants insisted on the text change. The retail giants also refused to share the record due to the art (which included an anatomical figure and design fetuses), so a doctored version of the trunk cover was made for them.

The band Beautiful South produced an album in 1989 named Welcome To The Beautiful South, and the initial release pictured a picture of a girl with a weapon in her mouth and an image of a person who was smoking a cigarette. This album cover was restricted by the merchant Woolworths since, within their reasoning, it will cause people to start smoking. The album cover was replaced by pictures of a and a teddy bear.

The band was also got by smoking the Arctic Monkeys in some trouble with the censors in 2006, due to the cover due to their release Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What Im Not. The cover sleeve showing a pal of the group smoking a was criticized by the NHS in Scotland. They stated that the band was reinforcing the concept that smoking is OK, a charge that the band problematic. In fact, the image on the CD itself is a picture of a complete ashtray and the bands solution manger reported, You can view from the image smoking is not doing him the entire world of good.

In a sad story of irony, the band Lynyrd Skynrd had their recording named Street Survivors (1977) pulled by executives after three band members were unfortunately killed in a plane crash. You see, the first album cover featured an image of the group surrounded by flames. The album premiered a week ahead of the airplane crash that killed singer Ronnie Van Zant, musician Steve Gaines and backup performer Cassie Gaines. The cover was quickly pulled and the replacement cover, a photo of the group minus the fires, was quickly launched. The original cover has been restored by cd reissues.

With an increase in the income of vinyl record albums and a renewed interest in album cover art, we ought to, and can expect more censorship, controversial album cover art in addition to renowned album cover art to again become part of roll and rock lore.