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I don't think this has been done, but I might be wrong. Incidentally, there's no need for Beatles trivia here, please. That's its own thread.

But otherwise.....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KMY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Some maintain that the word "Ozzy" appears below the artist's signature on the botton left.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KZ1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Some maintain that the Dio logo, when viewed upside-down, spells out "devil" (it kinda works)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000E2PY3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

In Bill Drummond's book, 45, it is suggested that the image here -- however possibly unintentionally -- displays the head of Echo the Bunny God (note trees as ears). It should be remembered that Drummond has a tenuous hold on sanity.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024JN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

An ancient one. Hold this in the mirror and the letters and numbers on the tail spell out EAT ME. Har.

http://www.styxnet.com/styxlyrics/images/gib.jpg

On this, the back cover of Styx's Grand Illusion, it's been suggested that the reflection of a goat's head can been seen in the water (look just below the fine print where it reads A&M Records). It should be remembered that Styx is the river that purportedly runs through Hell.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LIX.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Ya can't really make it out on this scan, but on the left hand side, I believe, there's a little piece of paper with the words "POSITIVE" printed on it. Many folks with too much time on their hands interpretted this as an admission by Perry Farrel that he was HIV positive. Turns out that wasn't the case, I guess.

http://website.lineone.net/~craig.p/roses/roseslyrics/rosealbum3.gif

There's at least one pic of a cock'n'balls buried herein, the most prominent being right under the word, "ROSES".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.rockreviews.net/albums/skeletonsfromthecloset.jpg

It's always seemed pretty obvious to me, but lots of folks miss the fact that the skeleton here is flippin' the bird.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I didn't search too hard for an image, but the cover to Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity" single had a sideways image of a face reflecting in water with ripples. I think it's the kind of image that some would see immediately, but I wasn't one of them. It just looked like some weird arty picture. One day months after I got it, I happened to see the case sideways and was really surprised.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 31 May 2004 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

spot the inverted cross:

http://home.planetinternet.be/~bliek/drew-page/lpbkacksb2.jpg

from the booklet to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

― tod (tod), Monday, 31 May 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

And what's happening with that right hand, anyway?

― jazz odysseus (jazz odysseus), Monday, 31 May 2004 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 31 May 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

you have a dirty mind

― tod (tod), Monday, 31 May 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The cover of Sgt. Pepper has a mirror trick as well. If you hold one up horizontally and cut the "Lonely Hearts" bit in half it says something silly to do with the Paul is Dead hoax. I think there's an arrow pointing at Paul and the words "he die" spelled out!

― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 31 May 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Given the LP's title, I have always believed that that's actually a stylized chastity belt on the cover:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LPD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 31 May 2004 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

For King Kobra, with love.

http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~bigoleg/queensryche/sleeves/silluc1.jpg

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

That face seems prettty obvious, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The cover of Phish's Rift has... oh nevermind.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the cover of "songs for drella" has a black on black print of andy warhols face that you can only see by the light catching it a certain way - and i didn't for months.

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

take the gatefold of zeppelin IV if you hold it next to the mirror...

spooky!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Some maintain that the word "Ozzy" appears below the artist's signature on the botton left.

http://www.black-sabbath.com/images/covers/killozzy.jpg

― tod (tod), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

from here

― tod (tod), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool, Tod, thanks for the link!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure how entirely legit this is, but I remember a grade school friend of mine pointing it out, and it's puzzled me ever since. On the gatefold to The Wall, if you hold Gerald Scarfe's artwork (see below) upside down, the figure of "the Mother" has another face that looks like a guy with shades smiling (notice an upturned curve -- this other face's nose -- where her neck would be). Anyone else see it?

http://membres.lycos.fr/coucoulina/wall.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Also, on Licensed to Ill, if you look at the entire wrecked airplane without its tail, it looks like a joint.

http://m1.freeshare.us/148fs980782.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 2 June 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Based on the title, I expected this to be a super interesting thread, but I guess not (except for that Jane's Addiction example).

― Tape Store, Sunday, 3 June 2007 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for your super interesting observation, Tape Store!

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

Any time! And thx for wasting five seconds of my life with your intelligent sarcasm! Have any more witticisms you'd like to share?

― Tape Store, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

No sarcasm here, but did you really think that the Jane's Addiction thing was that much more interesting than all the others?

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I think I'm attributing its appeal to my Google search for "Perry Farrell HIV," which led me to a piece about one of the Osbournes being HIV Positive.

― Tape Store, Sunday, 3 June 2007 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget Mom's Apple Pie! (NSFW)

http://friends.s5.net/mazzini/plosce/images/pie.jpg
http://friends.s5.net/mazzini/plosce/images/pie2.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, no 'Paul is dead' stuff yet.

― chap, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, I'd never seen that Mom's Apple Pie cover so close up! Damn, there's even a clitoris and everything.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jane's Addiction putting "positive" on their album sleeve just seems to be a part of Perry's whole annoying keep-smilin'-free-hugs-free flapjacks bang a bongo and buy pepsi at lollapalooza thing.

― filthy dylan, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Santana one with the faces.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

ew xxxxpost

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

hoosteen otm, someone had to say it

― Just got offed, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

vagina pomada

― Just got offed, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of ew, if you open up the inside of Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking and look in Perry's glasses, you can see a closeup of his naked crotch!

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A9ibyGaS9GJGrRoAAgGJzbkF?p=nothing%27s+shocking+inside&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

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