Ohio Players Honey was very contoversial when it first came out! In the early 70s European cover of The Real Suzi Quattro was a crotch shot close-up with her sitting on the floor. And to think I liked Shane MacAnally on his work on Songs About Trucks and Somewhere with You. A man after my own heart. By you dont have to insult a person WAY more talented than you in everything you write! No matter what shes singing, just that voice can carry me out of my own world and into one where life is either better than my own, or worse than my own, and either way is a break from my own life. The original cover of Alice Coopers LP Love it to Death on the Frank Zappa label Straight Records was censored because Alice was holding his hand in a suggestive fashion making it look like a penis. If ever there was a band equipped to challenge those characterizations, it's Old Dominion: singer Matthew Ramsey, guitarist and keyboardist Trevor Rosen, guitarist Brad Tursi, bassist Geoff Sprung and drummer Whit Sellers. The day after the incident, Candy takes part in the ongoing investigation into the murder of Betty Gore. Pure gold right there. It doesnt give a reason because it is subject to everyones interpretation. Virgin and Geffen both said no, but the original cover was restored in subsequent reissues. MuddyCreekAntiques. Howling moral outrage and a ban from US stores Walmart and Kmart greeted Holy Wood but then its sleeve does depict Manson portrayed as a crucified Christ with his jawbone hanging off. November 25, 2015 @ BLOODROCK- WITH THE GUN BLOWING OUT HIS BRAINS.NOT LISTED. Juicy Lucys first three album covers were natural shockers just check some of them out http://bit.ly/2xRM6sd. But who is the girl on the cover of this iconic album . December 1, 2015 @ Smoke for 2 hours and 15 minutes. The comments section here can sometimes be a real riot! November 25, 2015 @ It has great lyrics, great beat, and a video that pay tributes to a great movie Back to the Future The cover kept the cutesiness going, casting Paul and Linda McCartney and bandmate Denny Laine as escaped prisoners alongside actors James Coburn, Christopher Lee, and a few faces more familiar to . Butchered at Birth! Cover the smoker or grill and allow the pork belly to smoke between 225 degrees F and 250 degrees F for 4 hours, or until a nice reddish bark starts forming on the meat's surface and the temperature is about 160 degrees F. 21 Savage and Drake are preparing to release their joint album, Her Loss, after it was delayed from dropping last week. 4:06 pm, Tezca At home we had french edition with a multicoloured shell. 12:09 pm, Not to mention Carolina Can was just a tad too sentimental and nostalgic. Zack Elin The other is from Michigan. Theres a tune that makes use of the idiotic comeback said nobody, building it into the entire premise of the song. We heard on the radio that this American sanitized cover was just pasted over the dead babies cover, and that it could be steamed off to expose the controversial one. A glaring omission from a huge band (instead of the multiple obscure bands people mentioned) is the album cover for Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin, which is on almost every list of controversial album covers because it had a very processed picture of naked kids crawling up a stone structure, but it really wasnt controversial (unless youre a repressed Puritan) because all you see are a couple of butts that look cartoonish due to the processing. . December 1, 2015 @ Hotel California supported the whole Satanic influence angle. Old Dominion University ( Old Dominion or ODU) is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia. Also Whitesnakes Come an get it album with the slit tongue. November 25, 2015 @ Conspicuously absent is Roger Waters THE PROS AND CONS OF HITCHHIKING. November 25, 2015 @ 11:10 am, Smokey J. Candy Girl is the debut album of New Edition, released by Streetwise Records on July 19, 1983. Predictably, it caused outrage. 7:26 am. 9:16 pm. 9:11 pm. November 25, 2015 @ November 30, 2015 @ And second, your review was 90% comparing them to other artists instead of focusing on their music. Based on the concept that society was euthanizing its young people, the cover to Megadeths sixth album controversially depicted an elderly woman hanging babies by their feet on a washing line. On the plus side, this song doesnt rhyme Bacardi with Party or mention pink umbrellas or dirt roads or tailgatessmall victories. November 25, 2015 @ November 30, 2015 @ Quite surprised it wasnt mentioned in the article. Produced by the Grammy-winning (and current multiple CMA Award Nominee) Shane McAnally, the album features 11 tracks, four from the previously-released EP and seven new songs. No, that makes it worse. 11:49 am. please visit, Album Review: Dierks Bentley - Gravel & Gold, Album Review: Channing Wilson - Dead Man, Brad Paisley Signs Deal With UMG Nashvilles EMI Records Nashville Label, Old Dominion Meat And Candy Tracklist & Cover Art, Snapback (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Brad Tursi), Half Empty (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Matt Jenkins), Wrong Turns (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Matt Jenkins), Said Nobody (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Brad Tursi), Crazy Beautiful Sexy (Matthew Ramsey/Josh Osborne/Ross Copperman), Nowhere Fast (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Matt Jenkins), Beer Can in a Truck Bed (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Matt Jenkins), Break Up with Him (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Brad Tursi/Geoff Sprung/Whit Sellers), Song for Another Time (Matthew Ramsey/Trevor Rosen/Brad Tursi/Matt Jenkins), Til' It's Over (Matthew Ramsey/Shane McAnally/Jimmy Robbins), We Got It Right (Matthew Ramsey/Shane McAnally/Ross Copperman). I know. 7:52 am, Melanie What an absolute embarrassment this thing is for anyone and everyone involved. 10:10 am. Melissa 'Snapback' - Written by Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, and Brad Tursi. Yasuka then continued her dancing career to afford her bills. Please do some research before publishing stories like this. 12:01 pm. Enema of the State only came out 16 years ago. That's the lineage Old Dominion wants to claim. However, while all manner of excess-fuelled misadventures feed the media machine in the short term, a provocatively-designed record sleeve can make the most lasting impact when it comes to riling the moral majority and lasting notoriety is especially assured if the album cover gets banned. Oh, it was an x-ray. The fourth LP from hard-rockin German outfit Scorpions featured an image of a nude pubescent girl, apparently intended to reflect time as the killer of innocence, but it ended up on the receiving end of moral outrage. Bob DylanDesign by Don Hunstein. RCA Nashville Old Dominion is breaking new ground with their self-titled, third album -- simply by appearing on its cover.. Break Up With Him makes my head hurt and it also bothers me that their cover and album name is dumb. Note: NPR's audio for First Listens comes down after the album is released. If you dont like it our think its country thats fine. 9:07 pm. On further review, this might be the all time best comments section of any review on SCM. I mean thats a joke right? As iconic as the album itself is the artwork that accompanies it . November 25, 2015 @ Douche-bros are a scourge on humanity. Oh, and nice album cover. In one of the funnier censorship stories, this cover came about when the Seattle grunge band happened upon a suitably ridiculous, thrift-store photo of a random couple: Hes got his hand perched on her bikini top and they both wear the silliest of grins. This famous cover is only controversial due to tragic coincidence: The Skynyrd plane crash happened only days after the albums release, so the cover image of the band engulfed in flames was now dramatic in all the wrong ways. Youre afraid that Ill pull out a turd. Writers Brad Tursi, George Geoffrey Sprung, Jimmy Robbins & 7 more. Aggressive mediocrity. 1:10 pm, This album is a mixed bag. pure fucking retardedthis is coming from a Cerebral Pasly guy, who is 23a ideal demo for this crap.. Herb Alfred and the Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream! Fans are wondering "Who is the mystery girl?". Zack Frontman Ronnie James Dio, however, argued that appearances are misleading, and that it could just as easily be a priest killing a devil. Ohio Players-Pain November 25, 2015 @ The 100 Best Albums of 2022. For reasons known only to himself, Dexys Midnight Runners frontman Kevin Rowland appeared on his much-trumpeted covers album, My Beauty, dressed in drag and heavy make-up. Ron Jeff 6:05 pm. Toss a dry wood chunk or a handful of dry chips onto the hot coals. The meat is found in the first-rate craftsmanship that these guys bring to one of popular music's abiding themes: savoring fleeting pleasures. -__-, Pete Marshall More Old Dominion albums. We did it. Thats an essential part of countrys evolution. From deliberate provocation to accidental insult, the most controversial album covers of all time is an eye-popping gallery covering some startling imagery. November 25, 2015 @ And boom, here comes Old Dominion, made up of two professional songwriters in Trevor Rosen and Matthew Ramsey whove previously written bullshit songs for Sam Hunt and Luke Bryan, a few spare part musicians thrown in there so they can qualify for group distinction come awards show time, and hook them up with who else but puppetmaster extraordinaire Shane McAnally, who once was lauded for his songwriting work with Kacey Musgraves and Brandy Clark, but in the last couple of years has become the singlemost driver of the urban shitrification of country music in its 75-year existence. Reflecting the innuendo-laden title, the image featured a close-up of a jeans-clad male crotch and the original vinyl pressing even featured a working zipper. Produced by the Grammy-winning (and current multiple CMA Award Nominee) Shane McAnally, the album features 11 tracks, four from the previously-released EP and seven new songs. "We Got It Right," "Till It's Over" and "Wrong Turns" all celebrate ephemeral moments, emphasizing sensuality over sentimentality, but the band really makes its point with "Song For Another Time," an anthemic number that name-checks generations of popular odes to getting caught up in the moment; it's a songbook populated by Neil Diamond and Tom Petty, Van Morrison and John Mellencamp, George Strait and Katy Perry. Nobody knew what it was at the time. Smell The Glove by Spinal Tap. Nadia Lockheart Because the original cover features a bunch of dogs looking a gramaphone player. I read all your stuff this days, but it was your This is How We Roll rant that got me to check out SCM for the first time. Im going to committ sacrilege and admit that even Dolly wasnt my cup of tea, liked the early stuff and the bluegrass album, but the handwriting was on the wall early with her, wanting to go pop, be relevant to the mainstream, etc) and and it certainly wouldnt now. The album's cover photo is quite unusual.It is a picture of a girl dressed in a 50s waitress outfit surrounded by a table covered in meat and candy. I absolutely hate that Break Up With Him song and the wretched guitar hook so I changed the lyrics to the following: Hey girl. Pamela Castillo Medvedeva, Nataliya Nataliya Medvedeva, a Russian-born model, singer, writer, and journalist, was the cover model. The original cover art for the album depicted a naked prepubescent girl. In 1987, the trio consisted of Dominican-American Louise Sabater (who is also known as Angel Clivills), Caroline Jackson and Sunshine Wright. First Jana Kramers earworm-from-hell Said No One Ever, now this. Come on Old Dominion, put some synthesizers in there! Killer live album. Smokey J. Nirvanas stellar second album features four-month-old Spencer Elden swimming in a pool for babies. 7:32 pm, Why the fuck you giving this amazing-ass album a terrible review Perhaps unsurprisingly, its just one of several controversial album covers created by Marilyn Manson. 90s folks, ya feel me right? 5 on the Top Country Albums, selling 20,500 copies in its first week. Shane McAnally is quickly becoming our generations Billy Sherrill, if Billy Sherrill was like a goddamn mechanized force of EDM/R&B/hip-hop crop dusting saturation that shoots carcinogenic root-deteriorating agents indiscriminately over the country masses until there isnt a single green blade of interest in true country music left over the entirety of the dead, cracked earth. 10:55 am. [CDATA[ The cover art features a striking young woman with two braids in her hair, one at the front and one at the back. Mike November 27, 2015 @ Trigger ParisTexas-RomeGeorgia-and Athens Tennessee boing boing boing boing. Meanwhile, John Lennon quipped: "My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul." It cost Capitol $250,000, around $2million (1.44m) in today's money, to replace the album cover and promotional materials. The Editor of Roughstock since 2008, Matt Bjorke also enjoys a sip of good whiskey, watching and discussing films, a good vinyl LP and road trips. Lil Jon. All Rights reserved. Patti Russo is Meat Loaf's backing singer who sang the vocals live in concert with him, and in the video for the song, the model Dana Patrick is lip-synching to Lorraine's voice. This truly grisly cover features a Jesus figure in rather bad shape, crossing a sea of dismembered body parts. See, totally worth itespecially for the poop face sneer. The stripper you refer to was too much for some prudes. Plus, in Ramsey they have a singer whose conversational phrasing and witty inflections can split the difference between flirtatious and flip. Some Leftist carpetbaggers that I know, who live in the suburban DC/Virginia area, mockingly refer to the state, the increasing irrelevance and subjugation of its historic population, and the states descent into the abyss, as The New Dominion., Trigger The Cars Vinyl Vintage Album Candy-O Vargas Girl Cover Elektra 5E-507 year 1979 Vintage Record Seventies Eighties Music Ad vertisement by MuddyCreekAntiques. When people see public funding it is generally misunderstood to mean tax payer dollars. Beautiful Souths 0898. While some skew artsy most recently, the contemplative black-and-white Luke Bryan on Kill the Lights; a gauzy Carrie Underwood on Storytellerthe bulk are staid, even boring affairs, photos of bands in fields or leaning against split-rail fences. At least Sam Hunt presents himself as some softy loser with little game club hopping for love. One of my favorites is Lets face it, Florida Georgia Line is Tyler Hubbard. As musicians and songwriters, we are very proud of every song on the album. Long time ago. Fuzzy 'Fuzzington" TwoShirts by I expected a crunk-infused drinking song romp Chase, dammit! November 25, 2015 @ November 25, 2015 @ Im not sure if these metro-bro quasi-country Sam Hunt wannabe douchebags have any real connection with the great Commonwealth of Virginia, but I assure you we do not claim them. Meet Suki. 1 at country radio. Why? come to mind.) Rihanna: Unapologetic. Stringbuzz I like old country and I made a mistake by getting Old Dominion cd. Michelle Valentine. 4:48 pm. 6:12 pm, Mike Granted, it is hardly country save the slight twang and bro-country meaningless topics, but it doesnt pretend to be anything more than fun, lighthearted, upbeat music. It was at the center of an obscenity-related UK court case after a Nottingham-based record retailer was arrested for showcasing the sleeve (which prominently displayed the word Bollocks) in his shop window. It appears you currently do not have javascript enabled while browsing our site. Geffen were worried, as the babys genitals were clearly visible in the picture. Live Or Die. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. Brandon Ferry sought out Marilyn Coles, Playboy 's January 1972 Playmate of the Month, for the album cover. Drake and 21 Savage pushed back their joint album, Her Loss to November 4th. Acca Dacca 8:33 am. The album includes the single "Break Up with Him", which has charted No. November 25, 2015 @ like Alice Coopers first album. its BAD in CTall you hear is this crap! Nadia Lockheart 12:51 pm. dukes Thanks for the advice Heyday, but I will go back and listen to my George Strait, Reba McEntire, Alabama, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelsons cds. Arrange wrapped sausages into prepared baking dish. streetwalkers album red cover, girl showing camel toe. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. I had this Album . And of my 5 sisters (square wives and mothers, even some grandmothers now-oh how time flies, my baby sisters, grandmothers!) The name makes me think of an entirely different type of music, actually. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Kanye West deliberately set out to create an artwork that would rank alongside the most controversial album covers, allegedly wanting his fifth album to be housed in a sleeve that would be banned. The five songwriters that make-up Old Dominion include lead singer Matthew Ramsey, multi-instrumentalist Trevor Rosen, drummer Whit Sellers, bassist Geoff Sprung and lead guitarist Brad Tursi. The Hey girl, wasup at the beginning helps the draw in the youths by incorporating the delightful urban metro culture. 2:16 pm, I second that, at least for this instance! I felt like NPR in this case was doing everything they could to find the beauty in a cowpie, and it wasnt appropriate to either their demo, or their format. Brett 9:57 am. !~. I love this blog almost all the time but I have to completely disagree with this assessment. She is very active on OnlyFans and Twitch! Provocatively titled Meat Is Murder, it was the follow-up to the band's eponymous debut, released the previous year. Though based on painter Edouard Manets 19th-century piece Le Djeuner Sur lHerbe, the sleeve to Bow Wow Wows debut LP still featured singer Anabella Lwin (then aged 14) posing nude. November 25, 2015 @ But Cooper poked his finger through his shirt to give the impression he was showing his genitalia. Hey babe, I just wanna get down with you Copy. Old Dominion is all about misogynistic machismo and denigrating women to objects that offer no value to life aside from satiating voracious patriarchal appetites. 3:40 pm, PETE MARSHALL Ever since Elvis Presley first shook his hips, controversy has dogged rocknrolls every move. Theres really not a single redeeming thing about this album in any form. It was eventually sold in sealed black plastic in some territories. These are helpful reference points, too, considering that the five members of Old Dominion one of country music's few current, self-contained bands write clever songs, work in various combinations and sometimes with outside collaborators, flesh out their own taut and tuneful arrangements, and attack their parts with playful precision. Can anybody post a pic of Santanas Abraxis nude cover? Hey there, Im middle-aged (or older), bored a lot (rather stuck at home taking care of sick DH-stage 4 cancer- 6 dogs, and now a wayward 30 yo manchild delinquent nephew-by marriage-my family are all squares-with a good heart who makes it impossible for me to say no to letting him stay here) and I HATE this kind of drivel and always did! Spencer Elden, now 30,. November 30, 2015 @ November 29, 2015 @ They dont really give any good reason. 12:02 pm. :p What next, Is ___ Still a Thing? or Stop Trying to Make ___ Happen? 11:58 am. This album has been one of the worst of the year, and also in country music. Maybe another factor is that controversial album covers were quickly pulled off the shelves. The nude burlesque dancer on the cover was pictured holding a playing card in Spain and replaced by an ear in the USA. Best Sellers. Shane McAnally is quickly becoming our generation's Billy Sherrill, if Billy Sherrill was like a goddamn mechanized force of EDM/R&B/hip-hop crop dusting saturation that shoots carcinogenic root-deteriorating agents indiscriminately over the country masses until there isn't a single green blade of interest in true country music left over the January 22, 2017 @ I place next to no value in their reviews anymore. Strait Country 81 November 27, 2015 @ *Facepalm*. It was never put out in the states with that cover. (She likes it dog.) If you don't count her decade-defining debut on Meat Loaf's huge-in-every-way album Bat Out Of Hell - that's the one where she sang on a handful . Initially, the album came out in an almost plain white sleeve designed like an invitation card. This garbage wouldnt pass as elevator music. The artwork for OD's 2015 debut, Meat & Candy, is reminiscent of a heavy metal cover, showing a hot girl dressed as a waitress, surrounded by, well, meat and candy. David Bowies eighth studio LP featured a gatefold sleeve which, when when seen in full literally depicted the star with dogs bollocks. November 25, 2015 @ Tough lovin'. 7:15 pm. Looks like it so far, anyway. Metal, of course, has plenty of controversial covers in its history, from Cannibal Corpse to Alice Cooper. Francis . Shane McAnally going from Kacey Musgraves to this crap is kind of like Celtic Frost releasing their Cherry Orchards wannabe hair metal album in 1993. albert Maybe thats why Tool has sold so many albums, Jake W 3:43 pm. Impression: If you have gotten to see one of Old Dominion shows, whether it be at Boston's Royale or the Marshfield Fair, you most likely have seen them perform 'Snapback.' 5 out of 5 stars (446) Sale Price $31.50 $ 31.50 $ 35.00 Original Price $35.00 . Contemporary country music has gotten an especially bad rap in recent years, routinely dismissed by outside observers as mindless, artless, suburban party fare. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until bacon is cooked through and crispy. A far cry from the Mamas and the Papas indecent album cover for If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, which seemed to generate controversy because a bathroom had a toilet in it, this Beatles compilation album featured a bizarre sleeve shot of the Fab Four clad in butchers coats, draped in slabs of meat and dismembered doll parts. Tom Ze The Asshole cover. Its equal parts T&A and gross-out humor like a country take on Blink 182s Enema of the State. The original Yesterday and Today record cover, taken by photographer Robert Whitaker, featured The Beatles wearing butchers' coats and holding baby doll parts and meat. The primary job of an album cover is to sell records so who could possibly resist a cover photo of a power drill going up somebodys butt? The candid sleeve artwork for Roxy Music 's acclaimed fourth album featured two scantily-clad models, one of whom was the cousin of Can guitarist Michael Karoli. It wasnt nice and wasnt intended to be, since the lyrics largely concerned the wave of terrorism that included 9/11, and questioned the role of organized religion. 6:11 pm, PETE MARSHALL They were the read more Convict Charlie Brett Milano. There also may be support groups you could attend. Handbasket. You should go read the NPR review. Qui Yasuka who goes by Suki Baby is a racially ambiguous adult entertainer. Ahead of the highly-anticipated albums release set for tomorrow, the two posted the cover art, revealing a stunning young model. November 25, 2015 @ I hated wasting my money on buying this for my girlfriend. The song Break Up with Him is the reason why this great album exists. This is a HUGE moment for us! But the chain stores demanded an alternate, and Farrell provided it: A plain white cover with the First Amendment quoted on the front and a few words about creeping fascism on the back. But compared to the numbers being hurt every time this crapfest hits the airwaves ?? Sound familiar? If there is, Shane McAnally is behind it. Big Black Songs About F*#ing and Chumbawumba Anarchy nuff said. The cover art a pinup girl displaying a surreal array of gumdrops and marshmallows, ham and meatloaf at a vintage candy counter calls to mind late-'90s pop-rock irony and impishness, the. But just give me the go ahead and girl well get it on. These ass-clowns pander to the drunken escapist fantasies of bored middle-aged women with their simplistic melodies and shirtless lyrics, its mindless background music for cleaning the grill or rounding up your husbands empties after a day spent drinking in the backyard. I mean what is even the reason they have for the girl to break up with her boyfriend. 4:28 pm, I hated wasting my money on buying this for my girlfriend., Derek E. Sullivan Theres a reason we enjoy freedom as much as we do. It featured a totally nude woman covered in honey.. Funkadelic ELECTRIC SPANKING OF WAR BABIES. 11/03/22 3:14 PM, Drake and 21 Savage have been gearing up for their joint album Her Loss. Courtesy of the artist. kevin Youre just so funny! Pete Marshall The songs within it? Lash Blast Volume Mascara. Eric Can we talk about that album cover and name? FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the agency's conclusion that the COVID pandemic was probably the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China.. I know Ive commented in here a lot but I had to get one more in. =(, Fuzzy 'Fuzzington" TwoShirts November 27, 2015 @ It was released on November 6, 2015 via RCA Records Nashville. Now: Currently, Amanda is an International Justice Mission Ambassador and a loving mother of four. Kind of an aside regarding the myth of NPRs public funding.