![]() ![]() He fought to liberate Sudanese slaves, and physically extracted debris from post-Katrina New Orleans. Jane’s Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990) Not to mention, the would-be censors just don’t understand-if you’re gonna criticize something, criticize the actual art! It’s in that spirit that we examine the original and censored versions of five heavy album covers, and ask that most important of sartorial questions: Who wore it best? Luckily, the record industry is dead, so worries going forward! ![]() Plenty of those covers have frequently been subject to surgery from nervous record companies and big box retailers. While the majority of this unfortunate era produced a far less amusing, deeply unnecessary war between art and politics, it was hardly the first (or last) time that popular music has borne the brunt of the real world’s suckage-be it redneck radio refusing to play the Beatles after John Lennon boasted that his band was “bigger than Jesus,” a chorus of premium cable cretins scapegoating Marilyn Manson for Columbine, or even our current tendency to dub any art remotely divorced from a nebulous progressive doctrine “problematic.Īlbum covers have long been interpreted as the face of a musician’s intent, which is just part of the reason we extol the best of the best in our Monsters of Ink series. Rage Against the Machine showing Philly a fistful of steel in 1993 And it prompted all four members of Rage Against the Machine to expose their “pockets full of shells” as part of an unforgettable silent protest at Philadelphia’s 1993 Lollapalooza stop. In heretofore polar opposites Dee Snider and John Denver, the PMRC gave us a superteam more powerful and impactful than anything in the MCU. Señores y señoras have overwhelmingly pegged the PMRC as a bad thing, when in actually pleased the Gods of Irony by turning Tipper Gore-the former drummer of an all-girl band who happens to have one of the most metal surnames ever-into the face of modern censorship. In addition to demonizing such occult anthems as “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper and Def Leppard’s “High ‘n’ Dry,” the PMRC went on to eventually start demanding that any album containing naughty words adorn one of those lame parental advisory stickers (which only made us kids want that album more). This was after she divorced her second husband and the embarrassment had faded a little.In 1985, Tipper Gore, her husband Al, and a handful of their fellow human buzzkills that made up the Parents Music Resource Center declared a handful of current pop songs the Filthy Fifteen, because they were simply too lewd for radio airplay. Patricia's sister, Linda Faccone believes before her death in 2016 that Patricia may have wanted a copy of the album for her own enjoyment. Because of her religious believes at the time, she took the $2500 payment which was dolled out in monthly checks of $25! one can only imagine what that ownership stake would have been worth now! She won and was offered a $2.500 settlement or an ownership stake in the indy label. She Sued the band and Sub-Pop, a virtually unknown record label at the time. She argued that it was stolen from a garage sale. There seems to be some discrepancies as to how picture made it to a thrift store. As you can imagine, she was none too happy to see this pop up in her magazine and the concern that her new group of friend might judge her, including her new husband! That Good Samaritan was her ex-husband, Kimball Webber and Patricia says she saw the album cover when she was reading reviews in Spin magazine.Īfter they divorced, Patricia became a born again Christian about a year before this album was released. ![]() Unfortunately, in this particular instance, someone did give a crap and that person was Patricia Rogers, the woman in the photo resting a tired boob in the good samaritans hand. As Tad's front man, Tad Doyle told Vice Magazine in 2016, " We had a friend who had gotten a photo album at a thrift store and we were at a party with her and we said, Hey, can we look at those? Kurt Danielson and I started looking through these photos of these people's lives and that one in particular was pretty cool, so we asked if we could have a couple of them? However, when you get photos at a thrift store in an album, you're not going to consider that somebody's really going to give a crap about them." Well the problem is that Tad and Subpop did not secure the rights to the image. Tad - 8-way Santa - Released February 15, 1991Īt first glance, this is a fairly innocuous album cover, maybe a little crude, but it would appear that the couple is married and if she's fine with a casual grope for posterity then we should be too, right? ![]()
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