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Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Charlie and Adam Yoe
156 episodes
4 days ago
Send us a text What happens when a band known for raw, straight-ahead rock hands a surrealist design outfit a title borrowed from a cartoon villain? You get a cover that looks like a crime scene assembled by people who weren’t entirely sure what crimes actually look like. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is equal parts menace, mischief, and make-believe — a stitched-together fever dream that shouldn’t work, but absolutely does. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendat...
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Send us a text What happens when a band known for raw, straight-ahead rock hands a surrealist design outfit a title borrowed from a cartoon villain? You get a cover that looks like a crime scene assembled by people who weren’t entirely sure what crimes actually look like. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is equal parts menace, mischief, and make-believe — a stitched-together fever dream that shouldn’t work, but absolutely does. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendat...
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Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap--AC/DC | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text What happens when a band known for raw, straight-ahead rock hands a surrealist design outfit a title borrowed from a cartoon villain? You get a cover that looks like a crime scene assembled by people who weren’t entirely sure what crimes actually look like. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is equal parts menace, mischief, and make-believe — a stitched-together fever dream that shouldn’t work, but absolutely does. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendat...
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5 days ago
33 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Absolutely Do Not Lick This Album-The Pom Poms | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text What do you get when four Wyoming college kids mix Moog synthesizers, LSD blotter paper, a vending machine that hasn’t stocked Pom Poms since 1959, and a design studio they made up on the spot? You get the only album in history that sparked campus “lick parties,” triggered health-department warnings, and shipped with a tongueprint no one can agree on. This is Absolutely Do Not Lick This Album—the psychedelic hoax that tasted like freedom and regret at the same time. Grab a copy...
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1 week ago
44 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Born to Run--Bruce Springsteen | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text A scribbled phrase. A wooden crate. A shy kid from Jersey and a sax man with a fedora. In two hours and just 600 photographs, they created one of the most recognizable images in rock history—Bruce leaning into Clarence, the sound and soul of Born to Run frozen in time. It’s the story of a chance meeting, a hustling photographer, and a shot that defined the American dream. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from yo...
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2 weeks ago
40 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Brain Salad Surgery--Emerson, Lake, and Palmer | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text It’s part cathedral, part nightmare—a human face trapped in alien machinery, born from the mind of the man who would create Alien. Emerson, Lake & Palmer wanted shock value; H.R. Giger gave them something eternal. What began as a joke about a sexual euphemism turned into a biomechanical love letter—and a curse. Their artist’s muse would die by her own hand, his paintings would vanish into myth, and what’s left is a gatefold to the underworld of 1970s prog rock. Grab ...
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3 weeks ago
42 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Virgin Killer--Scorpions | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text The Scorpions’ Virgin Killer didn’t just cross the line—it set it on fire. A ten-year-old model, a cracked-glass cover, and a title that dared you to look away. The band said it was “about time as the killer of innocence.” Critics called it exploitation. The label called it good publicity. The fallout spanned decades—from banned pressings and FBI inquiries to a Wikipedia blackout. What happens when “art” becomes evidence in a cultural trial? Grab a copy and listen along with us...
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1 month ago
32 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Cut--The Slits | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text When you name your band The Slits, you’ve already kicked the door in. But when you strip down, smear on mud, and glare into the camera for your debut album Cut, you’ve declared war on the male gaze itself. The Slits said it was art, defiance, and freedom. A lot of men just saw boobs. Was it a feminist triumph—or a message lost in translation? Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@g...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Alice's Restaurant--Arlo Guthrie | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text Who knew that an empty plate, a bowler hat, and a naked twenty-year-old could rewrite Thanksgiving in America? Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant cover looks like a joke—and it is—but it’s also a generational x-ray: Rockwell’s perfect turkey meets a counterculture kid staring down a nonsensical war, a hilarious arrest record, and a country arguing at its own dinner table. This is the album where a simple holiday meal became a cultural fork in the road. Grab a copy and listen alo...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Toys in the Attic--Aerosmith | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text A teddy bear with a spyglass, a frog in oversized shoes, and an attic full of secrets—on this cover Aerosmith turns childhood whimsy into absolute creepy. From cocaine-fueled brainstorms at the Riot House to Ingrid Haenke’s uncanny illustrations, this story brings you chaos, creativity, and a toy chest you may not want to open. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or che...
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1 month ago
46 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
The Singing Nun--Soeur Sourire | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text A Belgian nun with a guitar, a convent storybook that was mostly fiction, and a song so pure it pushed Elvis and Motown off the charts—until four lads from Liverpool showed up. Dominique made Sister Smile an unlikely global star, but the story behind the album cover and her life after fame is anything but simple. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or check our Spotify Song ...
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2 months ago
51 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Layla and Assorted Love Songs--Derek and the Dominoes | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text This is an album inspired by a Persian love tragedy that makes Romeo and Juliet read like a sitcom. It resonated with the unrequited love of a slow-handed rock guitar god in love with the wife of his Beatles bestie. The painting on the cover was never meant for an album but it matched the intense feelings that burned inside Eric Clapton when he saw and had to have the painting. and that is about half the story. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, commen...
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2 months ago
44 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
The Original Monster Mash--Bobby "Boris" Picket and the Crypt Kickers | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text It took two hours, a $300 studio bill, and a Boris Karloff impression to make a Halloween song that just won’t die. From Hollywood wannabes to a bubbling beaker of sound effects, The Original Monster Mash rose from the lab in 1962 and never went back in the grave. The album cover? A cartoony graveyard party so cheap it’s scary. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com  ...
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2 months ago
42 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Forever Changes--Love | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text A psychedelic heart shaped like Africa, stitched together from five fractured faces, became the symbol of a 60s album that may have inadvertently launched the Doors. Forever Changes was Love at their breaking point—poetry tangled with paranoia, unity drawn from disarray, and a title that promised everything and nothing at once. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or check ou...
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2 months ago
41 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Crack the Skye--Mastodon | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text What do a Russian mystic, astral travel, and a teenage tragedy have in common? Mastodon’s Crack the Skye. Behind the energy-enfused face of Rasputin on the cover is a story of grief, transcendence, and cosmic odyssey — a record that cracked open the sky itself. Artist Paul Romano turned the band’s most personal album into a surreal relic, equal parts Orthodox icon and psychedelic vision. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to he...
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2 months ago
47 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Brothers in Arms--Dire Straits | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text Raise your hand if you know the first album to sell a million CDs and outsell its vinyl twin. Okay, hands down—it was Brothers in Arms. But the cover? That dreamy blue sky with a floating steel guitar wasn’t planned at all. A jazz photographer snapped it on a whim while waiting for Mark Knopfler and a German painter obsessed with shiny objects slipped his own guitar fantasy onto the back cover, he’s still waiting on his £1 payment for the work, by the way. One guitar, two artis...
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3 months ago
36 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Frankenchrist--Dead Kennedys | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text Who could be offended by a bunch of old white guys driving miniature cars in a 4th of July parade on an album cover? Nobody, right? So, how did this album end up with criminal charges for its art and a $45 million lawsuit by some of the guys on the cover? Well, there was a poster inside that album . It was a landscape and it started a cultural fistfight over art, censorship, and who gets to decide what’s “too far.” Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, reco...
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3 months ago
49 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan--Bob Dylan | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text Two kids in love, freezing their butts off in Greenwich Village, accidentally make one of the most famous album covers of all time. Bob’s grinning, Suze is clinging, and Columbia Records is loving every snow-slushed step of it. One roll of color film, zero Photoshop, no plan and a side order of romance that didn’t last as long as the legend. We’ve got the backstory on the walk. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear f...
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3 months ago
33 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Metamorphosis & Made in the Shade-The Rolling Stones | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text What do you get when two Rolling Stones compilation albums go head-to-head—both released within days of each other, both claiming the band’s legacy, and neither fully endorsed by the band itself? Metamorphosis may be the weirdest Rolling Stones album ever released. It wasn’t their idea. It wasn’t their design. And it wasn’t their payday. It was, essentially, Allen Klein’s revenge—a stitched-together patchwork of demos, castoffs, and curiosities, released without the band's bles...
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3 months ago
40 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Straight Outta Compton--N.W.A. | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text A busted alley. A borrowed gun. A camera pointed skyward at six young men who were about to scare the hell out of America. No budget, no entourage, no Hipgnosis, no Photoshop—just a raw shoot that captured the exact moment gangsta rap was born. Straight Outta Compton isthe debut album that rewrote the rules of hip hop and delivered a cover photo that dared you not to look away. It turned a forgotten L.A. suburb into a brand, a battleground, and a badge of honor. Grab a copy and...
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4 months ago
29 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful--Lovin' Spoonful | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text Three rock stars walk into a Baltimore pharmacy looking for a soda fountain goddess. No, it's not a setup for a joke—it’s how The Best of the Lovin’ Spoonful got burned into my teenage brain. The cover’s all charm, the band’s all hits, and the illustrator? She drew a coloring book for The Association. Seriously. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or check our Spotify S...
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4 months ago
32 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Killers--Iron Maiden | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us a text Meet Eddie: punk-born, axe-wielding, and metal to the bone. On Iron Maiden’s Killers, the band’s infamous mascot came into his own—bloody, maniacal, and unforgettable. But Eddie didn’t start on a cover—he started as a joke… and a mask… and maybe propaganda? From papier-mâché pub gigs to pesticide-soaked North London flats, the birth of Eddie is as outrageous as the art itself. This week, we dig into the mayhem, the making, and the metaphors behind Killers—the album where Eddie ...
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4 months ago
41 minutes

Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Send us a text What happens when a band known for raw, straight-ahead rock hands a surrealist design outfit a title borrowed from a cartoon villain? You get a cover that looks like a crime scene assembled by people who weren’t entirely sure what crimes actually look like. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is equal parts menace, mischief, and make-believe — a stitched-together fever dream that shouldn’t work, but absolutely does. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendat...