Give the people what they want. Or as the wonderfully named Roman, Juvenal, put it: give ’em “bread and circuses”. Good advice for popularist leaders everywhere.
A couple of requests arose from the last cover pairs post. So today we have doctors and naughty bits.
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Three Dog Night “Hard Labour” [Dunhill/ABC 1974]
National Health “National Health” [Esoteric 1977]
Rant: A big round of applause for national health systems. Because every citizen deserves access to quality medical services. That such a basic human right could be framed as ‘political’ is sickening.
Trivia: the cover above (from the VC collection) is the censored version. Here is the original. Any diagnostic comments?
The bottom line: if you were giving birth to an LP, you’d want experts on hand, surely?
Now, talking of bottoms…
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Roger Waters “The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking” [EMI 1984]
Thirsty Moon “You’ll Never Come Back” [Brain 1974]
For aficionados of the derrière, everywhere (but especially in Wales and Ontario).
Factoid: The Waters cover was censored in some territories (Good Morning, Home of the Free!).
Bottom line Bonus: The feature image from the original post.
Brand X – The Plot Thins: A History of Brand X [Virgin 1992]
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Apple “An Apple a Day” [1969]
The Jeff Beck Group “Beck-Ola” [EMI 1969]
What was that dietary advice?
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That Blink 182 cover has always caused a decidedly queasy feeling.
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Queasy and uneasy!
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Yikes, that Three Dog Night cover is c-r-e-e-p-y! What’s with those feet (and the face, for that matter) on the female ‘creature’ birthing the album? And is the scrub nurse on the left holding a microphone?
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Utterly creepy. And yes, it is a mic. I reckon the dude fainted against the back wall has the right idea. So, are you glad your requested a medical theme? 😉
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These are all fantastic! Buttsbuttsbuttsbuttsbuttsbutts…
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Wow that Three Dog Night cover is a splendid WTF? masterpiece. Love it!
Also like that Brand X bum bird thing.
My surgery pick would be Autopsy’s Severed Survival. And for bums you can’t go wrong with Whitesnake’s Lovehunter.
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Thanks for those enlightening contributions, HMO. Wish I hadn’t checked out the Autopsy cover so soon after dinner. 😦
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The Whitesnake one is more palatable certainly!
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The snake, you mean? (titter)
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Yeah, good bush tucker that!
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I do like a good display of bonkersness on an album cover… and that Three Dog Night certainly receives considerable bonus bonkers credits.
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Massive. (I like to picture the ‘pitch’ meeting…’Guys, I have an idea for the cover of the new album…’)
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Stretching it with the apple a day line but Beck-ola a good choice.
Thanks.
DD
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More corn than fruit? 🙂
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Bottoms!! Brilliant. I’ll look at this again in the morning and like it all over again.
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