There's several covers with that Scott Baio & Michael Jackson pose, before and after those records. Here's a few of them: Teddy Pendergrass - It's Time For Love / Bunny Sigler - Keep Smilin' / Alice Dona - Vivre / Tino - Por Primera Vez / the inside gatefold of Lionel Richie's 1982 self-titled album / Adamo - Si J'Osais (this one is from the early 1960s)
It's a style of portrait photography that was in fashion at a certain time. Together with a similar looking font, which also has to do with fashion, it looks like someone took inspiration from the other. But it's just a tempory style of fashion in photography and graphic design. It's maybe the same with the avocado. There is a whole series of album covers from the classic Naxos Label "(Name of composer) for Meditation" which feature apart from the Name only a highly polished photo of a object from nature like a pine cone, a leaf, feather, chestnut... I see more similarities in the style of the photography to the avocado in the Pearl Jam cover, than between the two avocados.
It was a guy in the early 80s name Alfonso who even sounded like Michael his cover was almost like triller i think his album came out before triller maybe that's where they got idea for the triller cover
So many r&b albums feature pictures of the singer with that same pose. It's not copying nor stealing, it's just a marketing strategy that many artists used at the time including Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass and Lionel Richie.
I thought the same thing, the "I'm In You" album. But so many of these are likely coincidences, because if you want to show a solo artist on a cover, a "reclining figure" pose is one way that's cliche. The pose has a name because it's literally centuries old and you can commonly find it in paintings.
Dope video. I'm pretty sure that cover pose was common to do at the time, it's just that MJ's album became a global hit that people began to associate the pose with him.
Agreed. Just a similar setting - a bar - a very typical setting for a band. That's where many bands start out, and some never leave. The angle is different, the poses are different.
On the Michael Jackson/Scott Biao cover. Lionel Richie has one in that pose as well. I actually thought that was who you were going to say to begin with.Richie is also wearing a white suit.
These are not ripoffs, tributes, or coincidences at all - as a professional photographer I can state that these are simply "Normal" common poses used by most photographers for this type of photo session. The editors simply chose the photos in a line-up because they looked good and that's all. There is nothing more to it than that.
Deep Purple's "Burn" album from 1974 is heavily inspired by John Lee Hooker's 1961 album "Burnin'", not only in the fire theme but also the writing of the titles.
Would be interesting to explore album covers that have no graphics on the front cover, just an image. Such as Led Zeppelin's "IV" and "Houses Of The Holy", Bob Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde", The Beatles "Abbey Road", the original "Blind Faith", etc.
Meh, the Thriller album cover copycat thing is a stretch. because ALOT of albums feature artists posed like that. Before Thriller and After Thriller. It was a common pose for album covers of that time.
This is freaking awesome! I see this more as on influencing or inspiring the other, and in those cases at the end, they are clearly pointing directly to the other album cover. I think this is all cool however it's done. The Huey Lewis cover and the Dr Feel good cover don't really seem that similar to me. MAYBE a similar "vibe" but definitely not the same. The Lars thing, he could have very well had that experience that gave him the idea, and he could very well have had that other album somewhere in the back of his memory that helped connect the wedding photo to them doing the album that way, and not even be aware that he did that. Either way, while it is the same idea, it is done differently, and that is kind of the way art in general has always been. Art exists because as artists, we all borrow from each other, and get inspired by each other. Sometimes we know we are doing it, sometimes we don't realize it. If something is an exact ripoff, especially if it is the actual music itself, that tends to be cringy, but no matter what, all music as we know it, is inspired by and influenced by some other music. That is actually how it evolves.
I think Baio claiming his as the progeniter is silly. It's a look that became popular at the time. Jackson's cover, coming later, is still superior in layout, color and design. I sure that there were other albums even before Baio's that had the same basic blocking and position.
You're right about other albums existing. Teddy Pendergrass has an album with the same pose. I think it came out in 1975. Could be wrong about the date though.
Surprised that not included is the late photographer Herb Ritts using his cover photo of Madonna for True Blue as a “tribute” to his own previous photo of Olivia nearly five years earlier on the cover of Physical. (Incidentally, both are the best-selling studio albums of each of their careers, based on worldwide sales - although they each also had a mega selling greatest hits album and/or movie soundtrack that outsold them.)
Wow, Thriller definitely took some inspiration for the cover. I've never been a huge fan of the Hot Space album, but I do like that cover. Great video Frank.
Frank - when it comes to Queen's "Hot Space" album, check out 1987's self-titled album by New Monkees - clearly the Hot Space cover was the inspiration, because except for the white borders and the titling its similarity is striking, right down to the why the photos of the band are stylized and positioned...just my two cents, great video as always!
The poses of Scott and Michael are really typical body-poses of the 80-ies!! They really are....No kidding! I"m from that era and it looks very familiar to me....👍🏻 Greetings from Germany......🙋🏻♀️
6:15 - These would just be coincidences cos it was a popular 60's - 70's portrait studio style. We as do other people we know have family and multi shot photo styles sone this way.
This is my first video from you for me, so you might have mentioned this in another video before: In 1992 the Melvins copied not only the idea of a solo album (in their case it is only an e.p.) from each of their members but the cover style as well from Kiss.
Please check Physical by Olivia Newton John and the complete picture of Madonna’s True Blue covers. Both pictures were taken by Herb Ritts. And both have the exact same pose.
Dr Feelgood were tipped to be huge in the 70s but for some reason never took off as expected. My Dad used to rave over them and went to many of their early gigs. They are from SE Essex ,UK. There’s a documentary on a tour they did, here on RUclips.
More great content. Keep it up! I thought 'Hardwired' was so terrible that I made my own cover for it. It is an homage to the famous Sally Mann 'Candy Cigarette' photo. Yeah, I had some spare time that day LOL. Cheers!
Check out the final artwork showing Jackson in a red leather jacket. The original photo image has zipper tabs in a different position (open?). We moved the tabs on one of the first SciTex workstations just because we could.
Hey, I've got an example where I don't know if it's a copycat or not between Randy Newman's Faust and L'affaire Louis trio's (a french band) L'homme aux mille vies. They look clearly identical and they were the same year.
PiL’s “Album” from 1986 bore a strong resemblance to Flipper’s “Album-Generic Flipper” album in the early 80’s, to say the least. So they repaid them in kind by having an album called “Public Flipper Limited.”
On the topic of Danzig. LL Cool J’s album cover for Mama Said Knock You Out is the same as Danzig’s Lucifage album cover, both released in 1990, so I’m not sure who was first. I think the LL Cool J album was a few months before. I was probably the only kid who owned both.
The cover of hot space is very similar to the series of compilation albums ‘flyback’ from fly records in the early 70s featuring compilations of T rex, the move, and procol harum.
There are dozens of albums, with pictures "similar" to the Michael Jackson cover. That was the album cover every (wanna be) recording artist was putting out in the 80's.
I know the album covers are different, but this makes me think of Slayer’s live album Live Undead and how, in response, The Undead titled their live album Live Slayer. I always thought that was clever.
Re the Queen & Blur covers, I'd also put Talking Heads' Remain In Light with them. The cover for the single Cross-eyed And Painless, from that album, is also similar.
Leaning on your elbow on a cover is practically a trope. Like most cover art. There are many versions of a handful of basic concepts. Sometimes they even look alike.
The Album by the Mantors “Lust Muscle” an off shoot of the Mentors is a tribute to the KISS album “Love Gun” and a copy was hand delivered to the singer of GWAR 2 years prior to their release of “Lust in Space by the singer of the Mentors/Mantors and also GWAR members are fans of both bands. You can find the album if you google it. Mr Simmons and Ken Kelly both have prior knowledge of the album art work and had now problem of legal issues with it.
I'd never seen that parody of Sgt. Pepper before. Or is it a parody of The Mothers Of Invention's "We're Only In It For The Money"? A parody of a parody?
I have both. I'm a big Michael Jackson fan, yet these days I'd rather listen to Scott Baio. I have both his albums. My Michael Jackson fan music store coworker insisted I file the five CDs we had of him under Pop / Rock because he was called "King Of Pop." I protested they won't sell there, but did so anyway. For three months, none of them sold. I moved all five to the Soul section and they all sold within a month.
There's nothing strange about that. Jackson is completely overrated anyway and his personality was massively disturbed (no wonder given the family), to put it nicely. And about the other disc... Don't worry about it! Not everyone can have taste...
Mr Lordi himself has always been a huge Kiss fan, so there's a lot of intentional tributes to them in Lordi. They even made a full on "Kiss album" (with original music, not covers) as a part of their Lordiversity box set. I think it was named Skelectric Dinosaur.
love that Huey Lewis album, bought it way back when it came out in Germany, and incidentally just drove past the 2AM club today on the way home from Mt Tamalpais, fun coincidence, now I wanna check out that club! Too bad it's 1.5 hrs away from my home, clubbing and driving don't mix. But fun trivia!
I've often wondered if the cover for 'Weird Al' Yankovic's self-titled debut is supposed to intentionally be an homage to the art from Frank Zappa's Over-Nite Sensation, as they're oddly similar. Not a cover lookalike, but an album title tribute/spoof of sorts: Gang Green released the album I81B4U in response to Van Halen's OU812, which in itself was intended to be a sly reference to David Lee Roth's Eat 'em and Smile.
In addition to the Beast Loose in Paradise/Creatures of the Night similarity (07:35), the cover of Lordi's first album Get Heavy five years prior pays homage to KISS' Love Gun. Lordi are huge KISS fans and constantly make little allusions to them in their music, lyrics, costumes and artwork.
How did I not notice the MJ/Baio rip-off? I've had both albums for years! I guess I was more concerned with how when you remove the record from the Scott Baio inner sleeve, it becomes part of his hair.
The four faced image of queen first seen in Bohemian Rhapsody videos and its singles cover (with dark background) was also almost similar to the Beates album cover "With The Beatles".
I wonder if the New York Dolls Red Patent Leather cover was the inspiration for Devo's hats found on their cover of Freedom of Choice and Micheal Jackson's Thriller Jacket.
Most were either rip-offs or homages, but a couple of those were stretches. A typical rock band has 4 guys in it, so there's just naturally going to be album covers that are split into 4 sections with a face in each.
It's hard to imagine the lawfare that would happen if a sitting position were copyrightable. Or, common activities and types of scenes from ordinary life.
Judas Priest, 'Stained Class' (1978) A "rod" going through the head. Winger - Winger (1988) Again, A "rod" going through the head. At first I thought it was a light beam but the Winger album has a shadow cast by the "rod". Something solid?
If you get a Moment check out The Bar-Kays Freak show on the dance floor ... Theres alot of odd similarities to Michael Jackson Music Videos i.e Thriller , Rock With You, Beat It..., lead vocalist looks like Kate Williams Father,... The entire installmental sounds like a replayed element of Eddie Murphy's Song Called My Girl Wants To Party All The Time ( Produced By Rick James) Recording took place in Rick James basement....
It’s a font rather than a full cover, but I find it interesting that Nena, INXS, and *NSYNC all have covers that use Helvetica Black Oblique. Something about the band names all having a prominent “N”…
Wishbone Ash "Argus" and Roxy Music "Avalon", Wishbone Ash "Live from Memphis" and John Mayall "Jazz Blues Fusion", The Band "Second Album" and The Black Crowes "Southern Harmony and Musical Companion", Peter Frampton "Wind of Change" and Strawbs "Hero and Heroine".
Not sure if this counts, or it’s too obvious. Michael Jackson’s BAD album came out only a few months after LL Cool J’s BAD album. The album covers were similar, and both had lead singles called “I’m Bad.” Lenny Kravitz’ album Mama Said came out six months after LL Cool J’s album Mama Said Knock You Out. The back cover photo of Mama Said had a black and white photo of a bare chested Kravitz similar to the cover of Mama Said Knock You Out.
probably one of my favorites and the most direct I've seen is "Glad Music" by R. Stevie Moore (1986) and "A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles (1964). the cover of Glad Music is a direct pastiche of A Hard Day's Night, and considering just how much influence R. Stevie took from the Beatles... it's no surprise lol
When I saw the Queen album cover, the first thing I thought of was The Beatles' Let it Be, TBH (just because of the images of the members of the band, not the way in which it's done)
I don't remember if you've covered this one, but Dave Grohl's metal side project Probot had an album cover that took influence from the band The Robots' late 1990s album Day of the Robots. Like, it's incredibly obvious. I don't remember if it credits the inspiration or not or if it's by the same artist. Also a modern band called Hot Ram released an album with a cover that homages Houses of the Holy.
Love this video.. Apologies if you have covered this already but take a look at Herbie Hancock's Future Shock and Ryuichi Sakamoto's Favourite Visions both released in 1983 and the similarly is pretty clear.
More probably has to with art directors and which graphic artists are hired by which company during the time period. Why did you not mention the record companies and the artists actually responsible? Any album cover artist probably has decades of work in their portfolio and most likely are called on to design repeatedly especially if the covers sell.
There's several covers with that Scott Baio & Michael Jackson pose, before and after those records. Here's a few of them: Teddy Pendergrass - It's Time For Love / Bunny Sigler - Keep Smilin' / Alice Dona - Vivre / Tino - Por Primera Vez / the inside gatefold of Lionel Richie's 1982 self-titled album / Adamo - Si J'Osais (this one is from the early 1960s)
I read all about it on Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog.
It's a style of portrait photography that was in fashion at a certain time. Together with a similar looking font, which also has to do with fashion, it looks like someone took inspiration from the other. But it's just a tempory style of fashion in photography and graphic design.
It's maybe the same with the avocado. There is a whole series of album covers from the classic Naxos Label "(Name of composer) for Meditation" which feature apart from the Name only a highly polished photo of a object from nature like a pine cone, a leaf, feather, chestnut... I see more similarities in the style of the photography to the avocado in the Pearl Jam cover, than between the two avocados.
Lee Greenwood's I.O.U.
It was a guy in the early 80s name Alfonso who even sounded like Michael his cover was almost like triller i think his album came out before triller maybe that's where they got idea for the triller cover
Scott - Looks like one of my 1981 senior high school photos. Hmmmm.
So many r&b albums feature pictures of the singer with that same pose. It's not copying nor stealing, it's just a marketing strategy that many artists used at the time including Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass and Lionel Richie.
And all those albums were spectacular...
Yeah has everything to do with marketing and the era!
The photographer was a former High School Prom Director
Peter Frampton had a cover like Baio and Jackson before they did.
I thought the same thing, the "I'm In You" album. But so many of these are likely coincidences, because if you want to show a solo artist on a cover, a "reclining figure" pose is one way that's cliche. The pose has a name because it's literally centuries old and you can commonly find it in paintings.
That was the pose. Look at Teddy Pendergrass as well.
Lionel Richie tpp
Luther Vandross, too.
And Ice Spice is also reclined, -- except doggy style.
Common pose in showbiz.
Dope video. I'm pretty sure that cover pose was common to do at the time, it's just that MJ's album became a global hit that people began to associate the pose with him.
Thanks for the shoutout Frank. Dig this series! I've learned a lot!
I see very little similarity with the Huey Lewis cover and the other band.
two album covers with band members in bars - no similarity!!!!!!
Agreed. Could have included The Kinks "Muswell Hillbillies" cover among others.
Agreed. Just a similar setting - a bar - a very typical setting for a band. That's where many bands start out, and some never leave. The angle is different, the poses are different.
On the Michael Jackson/Scott Biao cover. Lionel Richie has one in that pose as well. I actually thought that was who you were going to say to begin with.Richie is also wearing a white suit.
I was going to say this but first wanted to check the comments to see if others made the connection. I agree, so I’ll just like your post!
Olivia Newton-John's "Physical"" (1981) and Madonna's "True Blue" (1986), both photographed by Herb Ritts, were similar.
These are not ripoffs, tributes, or coincidences at all - as a professional photographer I can state that these are simply "Normal" common poses used by most photographers for this type of photo session. The editors simply chose the photos in a line-up because they looked good and that's all. There is nothing more to it than that.
Good point but I would only consider that in the case of a photo, not another type of image, like a drawing, painting, graphic image, etc.
Or maybe they were taken by the same photographer.
Just what I was thinking, certain poses are pleasing so people will use them as a kind of standard
" Thriller:" -78 million copies and counting. "Scott Baio" : 117 copies . His mom bought 30 of them.
They make good coasters for your drinks.
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And Thriller is still famous 40 years later
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Tell me you've missed the point without telling me you've missed the point.
Deep Purple's "Burn" album from 1974 is heavily inspired by John Lee Hooker's 1961 album "Burnin'", not only in the fire theme but also the writing of the titles.
Huh? Please explain.
@@ediblehorse What do you mean "explain"? Look it up on Google. The 2 album covers definitely have similarities not only in the title.
Michael cover is better church ❤️❤️❤️🌹😊😅😮😮😮😮
Love the channel Frank! You are very good!!! Video/Audio editing - the content - always look forward to your releases! ⚡️⚡️
Much appreciated!
The Huey Lewis one is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. But some of these others are spot on homage.
I thought that as well.
their almost identical - bit of a stretch lol
Would be interesting to explore album covers that have no graphics on the front cover, just an image. Such as Led Zeppelin's "IV" and "Houses Of The Holy", Bob Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde", The Beatles "Abbey Road", the original "Blind Faith", etc.
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Hi Frank
Love your channel
Check out these album covers
BILL EVANS - UNDERCURRENT - 1962
GHOSTLY KISSES - HEAVEN, WAIT - 2022
Keep up the great videos
Peter frampton im in you predates Scott baio and Jackson
Lionel Richie is the latest one I believe.
The pose is totally different
@@mistertoyou1 think the concept was in mind.
That Peter Frampton album cover has always haunted me... what does he mean by "I'm In You"
@@LambentOrt I believe it’s about a bond beyond the physical. Soul mates . Lyrics should be available as well.
Meh, the Thriller album cover copycat thing is a stretch.
because ALOT of albums feature artists posed like that. Before Thriller and After Thriller.
It was a common pose for album covers of that time.
Wow that was interesting. I can't wait to see more of these. Awesome video 😊👍
Glad you enjoyed
This is freaking awesome! I see this more as on influencing or inspiring the other, and in those cases at the end, they are clearly pointing directly to the other album cover. I think this is all cool however it's done. The Huey Lewis cover and the Dr Feel good cover don't really seem that similar to me. MAYBE a similar "vibe" but definitely not the same. The Lars thing, he could have very well had that experience that gave him the idea, and he could very well have had that other album somewhere in the back of his memory that helped connect the wedding photo to them doing the album that way, and not even be aware that he did that. Either way, while it is the same idea, it is done differently, and that is kind of the way art in general has always been. Art exists because as artists, we all borrow from each other, and get inspired by each other. Sometimes we know we are doing it, sometimes we don't realize it. If something is an exact ripoff, especially if it is the actual music itself, that tends to be cringy, but no matter what, all music as we know it, is inspired by and influenced by some other music. That is actually how it evolves.
This series is so great bro
I keep thinking it's over... yet here we are again. Thanks JC!
I never even knew Scott Biao had made an Album.
Neither did a lot of people it seems 😂
@TayWoode 😅
I think Baio claiming his as the progeniter is silly. It's a look that became popular at the time. Jackson's cover, coming later, is still superior in layout, color and design. I sure that there were other albums even before Baio's that had the same basic blocking and position.
You're right about other albums existing. Teddy Pendergrass has an album with the same pose. I think it came out in 1975. Could be wrong about the date though.
Frank Zappa also made a parody of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" cover in 1968 with the album "We're Only In It For The Money".
Surprised that not included is the late photographer Herb Ritts using his cover photo of Madonna for True Blue as a “tribute” to his own previous photo of Olivia nearly five years earlier on the cover of Physical.
(Incidentally, both are the best-selling studio albums of each of their careers, based on worldwide sales - although they each also had a mega selling greatest hits album and/or movie soundtrack that outsold them.)
Wow, Thriller definitely took some inspiration for the cover. I've never been a huge fan of the Hot Space album, but I do like that cover. Great video Frank.
Pat benatar wtde awake in dreamland is quite like anthrax among the living
Maybe. However, this is a very common pose for teen magazines in the 80s.
@@jopp3786 Yeah, I'm sure Jacko stole his cover from Chachi
Elvis Presley's first self titled album and The Clash's London Calling. :)
I came here to check if anyone mentioned this.Well done
That was a tribute not a ripoff. They purposely modeled that after Elvis' album.
Frank - when it comes to Queen's "Hot Space" album, check out 1987's self-titled album by New Monkees - clearly the Hot Space cover was the inspiration, because except for the white borders and the titling its similarity is striking, right down to the why the photos of the band are stylized and positioned...just my two cents, great video as always!
I will definitely check that one out. Thanks!
@@Channel33RPMit is much better than the what the original Monkees were doing at the time!
I would even go further and cheekily claim that Queen was inspired by the album cover of "Let it be"...
The poses of Scott and Michael are really typical body-poses of the 80-ies!! They really are....No kidding!
I"m from that era and it looks very familiar to me....👍🏻
Greetings from Germany......🙋🏻♀️
6:15 - These would just be coincidences cos it was a popular 60's - 70's portrait studio style. We as do other people we know have family and multi shot photo styles sone this way.
i've always thought hardwired looked more like alice in chains' facelift.
Yep was gonna say the same!
And facelift looks like that king crimson album
Here's another to check out. The Moody Blues - The Present and Dali's Car - The Waking Hour.
Will do!
This is my first video from you for me, so you might have mentioned this in another video before: In 1992 the Melvins copied not only the idea of a solo album (in their case it is only an e.p.) from each of their members but the cover style as well from Kiss.
I think the most obvious VH one is OU812 which copies Meet the Beatles
Yes, that's a good one. I mention it in this video: ruclips.net/video/rpVX17iRZqw/видео.html
and the story behind it is funny too: just a reply to David Lee Roth´s "Eat ´em and smile" after the breakup, which reads: "Oh, you ate one too?"
Please check Physical by Olivia Newton John and the complete picture of Madonna’s True Blue covers. Both pictures were taken by Herb Ritts. And both have the exact same pose.
@4:35 another look-alike would be U2's 1997 album POP, also including the red-blue-yellow-green theme.
Dr Feelgood were tipped to be huge in the 70s but for some reason never took off as expected. My Dad used to rave over them and went to many of their early gigs. They are from SE Essex ,UK.
There’s a documentary on a tour they did, here on RUclips.
Loving this series.
Thank you
More great content. Keep it up!
I thought 'Hardwired' was so terrible that I made my own cover for it. It is an homage to the famous Sally Mann 'Candy Cigarette' photo. Yeah, I had some spare time that day LOL.
Cheers!
Check out the final artwork showing Jackson in a red leather jacket. The original photo image has zipper tabs in a different position (open?). We moved the tabs on one of the first SciTex workstations just because we could.
Hey, I've got an example where I don't know if it's a copycat or not between Randy Newman's Faust and L'affaire Louis trio's (a french band) L'homme aux mille vies. They look clearly identical and they were the same year.
PiL’s “Album” from 1986 bore a strong resemblance to Flipper’s “Album-Generic Flipper” album in the early 80’s, to say the least.
So they repaid them in kind by having an album called “Public Flipper Limited.”
You're pushing it!!!
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On the topic of Danzig. LL Cool J’s album cover for Mama Said Knock You Out is the same as Danzig’s Lucifage album cover, both released in 1990, so I’m not sure who was first. I think the LL Cool J album was a few months before. I was probably the only kid who owned both.
Both Scott Baio and John Phillips albums peaked at #181 that is kinda a story in itself.
The cover of hot space is very similar to the series of compilation albums ‘flyback’ from fly records in the early 70s featuring compilations of T rex, the move, and procol harum.
This Video is GOLD Frank just like your other ones too.
LOVE IT FRANK 🤘🏻🪙🪙🪙🤘🏻
Love how you displayed a few of these albums behind you! I had never seen that Kiss Creatures of The Night album cover.
Thanks for watching!
With the makeup that was the original cover.
Creatures of the Night cover is based on a children's book called i can read about creatures of the Night.
There are dozens of albums, with pictures "similar" to the Michael Jackson cover. That was the album cover every (wanna be) recording artist was putting out in the 80's.
The Metalica album cover looks more like the cover for Love's Forever Changes
I know the album covers are different, but this makes me think of Slayer’s live album Live Undead and how, in response, The Undead titled their live album Live Slayer. I always thought that was clever.
"Live Undead"...Jeezus, that takes me back!!
Re the Queen & Blur covers, I'd also put Talking Heads' Remain In Light with them. The cover for the single Cross-eyed And Painless, from that album, is also similar.
Leaning on your elbow on a cover is practically a trope. Like most cover art. There are many versions of a handful of basic concepts. Sometimes they even look alike.
The Album by the Mantors “Lust Muscle” an off shoot of the Mentors is a tribute to the KISS album “Love Gun” and a copy was hand delivered to the singer of GWAR 2 years prior to their release of “Lust in Space by the singer of the Mentors/Mantors and also GWAR members are fans of both bands. You can find the album if you google it. Mr Simmons and Ken Kelly both have prior knowledge of the album art work and had now problem of legal issues with it.
If I'm in MJ's camp, I may not even be aware that Scotty B even had an album out. I just found out today that he even released music.
Nah, that was a common album cover pose in the 70s ,80s and 90s.
MJ had no reason to copy friggin Scott Baio. LOL!!!😅😅😂😂😂
Never thought I'd see Macabre here. Good stuff :)
I'd never seen that parody of Sgt. Pepper before. Or is it a parody of The Mothers Of Invention's "We're Only In It For The Money"? A parody of a parody?
Yep Macabre is one of the best metal bands of all time. Other bands wish they could play that technical.
On your last entry don’t forget to include the Mother’s of Invention We’re Only In It For The Money
1:42 Hardwired and Crowbar...but didn't Def Leppard do it decades earlier on their Hysteria cover?
Scott Baio and Michael Jackson took it from Roger Voudouris. From the album "She's Too Cold (1981)".
Wow Frank, who would of thought that the king of Pop - MJ, would take inspiration from Chachi in happy days. The mind boggles ?? Keep on spinnin !!
I have both. I'm a big Michael Jackson fan, yet these days I'd rather listen to Scott Baio. I have both his albums. My Michael Jackson fan music store coworker insisted I file the five CDs we had of him under Pop / Rock because he was called "King Of Pop." I protested they won't sell there, but did so anyway. For three months, none of them sold. I moved all five to the Soul section and they all sold within a month.
@@bobdavis4848yeah because pop/rock is overwhelmingly white. We all know why it didn't sell there lmao
@@urmom777 Yes; I'd love to hear you debate my coworker.
Another one. John Lennon & yoko ono - double fantasy. vS Suede - animal nitrate vs depeche mode - question of lust.
Weird but true: I own the Scott Baio album, but not Thriller.
Bob Loblaw!
Why would anybody own either of them? Sad.
Yes, you are truly weird 😂
There's nothing strange about that. Jackson is completely overrated anyway and his personality was massively disturbed (no wonder given the family), to put it nicely. And about the other disc... Don't worry about it! Not everyone can have taste...
THAT'S BOB LOBLAW FROM THE BOB LOBLAW LAWBLOG??!
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Mr Lordi himself has always been a huge Kiss fan, so there's a lot of intentional tributes to them in Lordi.
They even made a full on "Kiss album" (with original music, not covers) as a part of their Lordiversity box set. I think it was named Skelectric Dinosaur.
Just how many ways can someone pose for an album cover photo?
Idk what the other album will be yet, but this one looks a lot like the New Monkees debut album cover 😅 4:25
I always thought Hazel O'Connor's Cover Plus was a rip off of Bowie's Scary Monsters
love that Huey Lewis album, bought it way back when it came out in Germany, and incidentally just drove past the 2AM club today on the way home from Mt Tamalpais, fun coincidence, now I wanna check out that club! Too bad it's 1.5 hrs away from my home, clubbing and driving don't mix. But fun trivia!
I've often wondered if the cover for 'Weird Al' Yankovic's self-titled debut is supposed to intentionally be an homage to the art from Frank Zappa's Over-Nite Sensation, as they're oddly similar.
Not a cover lookalike, but an album title tribute/spoof of sorts: Gang Green released the album I81B4U in response to Van Halen's OU812, which in itself was intended to be a sly reference to David Lee Roth's Eat 'em and Smile.
In addition to the Beast Loose in Paradise/Creatures of the Night similarity (07:35), the cover of Lordi's first album Get Heavy five years prior pays homage to KISS' Love Gun. Lordi are huge KISS fans and constantly make little allusions to them in their music, lyrics, costumes and artwork.
Lady Gagas album cover for "The cherry tree sessions" is a complete rip off of Missing Persons "Spring session M" album cover.
The cover style used in those three albums by the doors, Danzig and the stooges was also a little bit (not completely) present in Queen’s Queen II 😅
Pretty cool. Enjoyed watching!
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Thank you! Cheers!
How did I not notice the MJ/Baio rip-off? I've had both albums for years! I guess I was more concerned with how when you remove the record from the Scott Baio inner sleeve, it becomes part of his hair.
Haha, really? That's funny.
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The four faced image of queen first seen in Bohemian Rhapsody videos and its singles cover (with dark background) was also almost similar to the Beates album cover "With The Beatles".
I wonder if the New York Dolls Red Patent Leather cover was the inspiration for Devo's hats found on their cover of Freedom of Choice and Micheal Jackson's Thriller Jacket.
So did Scott Baio have a baby tiger cub laying on him too? Some how I doubt it.
Even if a million ppl did it before Michael Jackson, I guessing his is the most memorable. 😏
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This was a fun video; loved the last album cover. You mispronounced, "Rammstein," btw
How many poses do you think photographers have?
Most were either rip-offs or homages, but a couple of those were stretches. A typical rock band has 4 guys in it, so there's just naturally going to be album covers that are split into 4 sections with a face in each.
Olivia Newton-John Physical / Madonna - True Blue / Both covers photographed by Herb Ritts
About the Metallica/Crowbar album cover, I think you could have put "The Miracle" (Queen) album cover too.
Great video, Did you know huey lewis has 5:42 Tinnitus?
Another great one Frank!! \m/
Thanks, Brandon! BTW, it was good to see you on the Concert Buddy channel. That was awesome.
It's hard to imagine the lawfare that would happen if a sitting position were copyrightable. Or, common activities and types of scenes from ordinary life.
Judas Priest, 'Stained Class' (1978) A "rod" going through the head. Winger - Winger (1988) Again, A "rod" going through the head. At first I thought it was a light beam but the Winger album has a shadow cast by the "rod". Something solid?
If you get a Moment check out The Bar-Kays Freak show on the dance floor ... Theres alot of odd similarities to Michael Jackson Music Videos i.e Thriller , Rock With You, Beat It..., lead vocalist looks like Kate Williams Father,...
The entire installmental sounds like a replayed element of Eddie Murphy's Song Called My Girl Wants To Party All The Time ( Produced By Rick James) Recording took place in Rick James basement....
1:38 First thing I thought of was Forever Changes by Love album cover from the sixties.
It’s a font rather than a full cover, but I find it interesting that Nena, INXS, and *NSYNC all have covers that use Helvetica Black Oblique. Something about the band names all having a prominent “N”…
Wishbone Ash "Argus" and Roxy Music "Avalon", Wishbone Ash "Live from Memphis" and John Mayall "Jazz Blues Fusion", The Band "Second Album" and The Black Crowes "Southern Harmony and Musical Companion", Peter Frampton "Wind of Change" and Strawbs "Hero and Heroine".
Good video. What about The Mothers of Invention and their, We're Only In It For The Money album. It's a parody of the Sgt Peppers cover also.
15 seconds into the video I went back to see if that was "Reise Reise" I got a glimpse of behind you, then at 5:30, well...
Great video!
Not sure if this counts, or it’s too obvious. Michael Jackson’s BAD album came out only a few months after LL Cool J’s BAD album. The album covers were similar, and both had lead singles called “I’m Bad.”
Lenny Kravitz’ album Mama Said came out six months after LL Cool J’s album Mama Said Knock You Out. The back cover photo of Mama Said had a black and white photo of a bare chested Kravitz similar to the cover of Mama Said Knock You Out.
probably one of my favorites and the most direct I've seen is "Glad Music" by R. Stevie Moore (1986) and "A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles (1964). the cover of Glad Music is a direct pastiche of A Hard Day's Night, and considering just how much influence R. Stevie took from the Beatles... it's no surprise lol
When I saw the Queen album cover, the first thing I thought of was The Beatles' Let it Be, TBH (just because of the images of the members of the band, not the way in which it's done)
I don't remember if you've covered this one, but Dave Grohl's metal side project Probot had an album cover that took influence from the band The Robots' late 1990s album Day of the Robots. Like, it's incredibly obvious. I don't remember if it credits the inspiration or not or if it's by the same artist. Also a modern band called Hot Ram released an album with a cover that homages Houses of the Holy.
I haven't touched upon that one, but I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the info.
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Love this video.. Apologies if you have covered this already but take a look at Herbie Hancock's Future Shock and Ryuichi Sakamoto's Favourite Visions both released in 1983 and the similarly is pretty clear.
I will check those out. Cheers!
How about K.D. Lang - Angel with a Lariat VS. Crowded House. Mirror images...
That's a fun one. Thanks for the info.
More probably has to with art directors and which graphic artists are hired by which company during the time period. Why did you not mention the record companies and the artists actually responsible? Any album cover artist probably has decades of work in their portfolio and most likely are called on to design repeatedly especially if the covers sell.
Also check out the Lordiversity box set by Lordi. All 7 albums pay homage to an album cover.