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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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......🙋🏻♀️
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Hi Frank. There is a funny and strange simularity between the cover of the first album of Imiskoumbria, a Greek hip hop band, that came out on 1996 and the Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty album cover that came out on 1998. (Τα Ημισκούμπρια - 30 Χρόνια Επιτυχίες)
Before they were Huey Lewis and the News, some of the members were in Clover. They moved to London in the early 70s. They were in the same pub rock scene as Dr.Feelgood. Dr.Feelgood’s tour manager was Jake Riviera. Dr.Feelgood was on tour in the US in 1976 with Jake Riviera and Nick Lowe was opening for Feelgood. They saw Clover playing a show, Nick Lowe and Clover were friends and had been on the same label previously. Dr.Feelgood’s lead singer Lee Brilleaux sang a few onstage with Clover that night. At the time Jake Riviera cofounded Stiff Records with Dave Robinson who was manager of Elvis Costello. The rumor is Dave borrowed money from Dr.Feelgoods lead singer Lee to start Stiff. Clover returned to London and was the backing band for Costello’s first record on Stiff. The Dr. Feelgood record was produced by Nick Lowe and released in 1977. The Costello record with Clover was also produced by Nick Lowe and released in 1977.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@Wilboe66 out of morbid curiosity, I looked up Bao in Apple Music. Good god, it was horrid. Back then they didn’t have auto tune and he’s off key a lot. It’s obvious they mixed the music to play louder than his vocals to try to cover for his singing. I’d rather listen to Corey Feldman than this and that’s saying a lot.
@@JamminOnThe1 oh my oh my , you’re a really brave soul for going down that rabbit hole. I would sue Bao for a free month of that online therapy service (BetterHelp). I’ll testify in court on your behalf. 😉
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
" 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.
Thanks for the shoutout Frank. Dig this series! I've learned a lot!
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
Love the channel Frank! You are very good!!! Video/Audio editing - the content - always look forward to your releases! ⚡️⚡️
Much appreciated!
Olivia Newton-John's "Physical"" (1981) and Madonna's "True Blue" (1986), both photographed by Herb Ritts, were similar.
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!
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.
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.
Wow that was interesting. I can't wait to see more of these. Awesome video 😊👍
Glad you enjoyed
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 ❤️❤️❤️🌹😊😅😮😮😮😮
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
This series is so great bro
I keep thinking it's over... yet here we are again. Thanks JC!
Even if a million ppl did it before Michael Jackson, I guessing his is the most memorable. 😏
Real
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.
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!
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......🙋🏻♀️
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 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
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.
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
I never even knew Scott Biao had made an Album.
Neither did a lot of people it seems 😂
@TayWoode 😅
Nah, that was a common album cover pose in the 70s ,80s and 90s.
MJ had no reason to copy friggin Scott Baio. LOL!!!😅😅😂😂😂
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Loving this series.
Thank you
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".
Love that one
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.
Lady Gagas album cover for "The cherry tree sessions" is a complete rip off of Missing Persons "Spring session M" album cover.
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
You're pushing it!!!
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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??!
@@chercurry You, sir, are a mouthful.
The Metalica album cover looks more like the cover for Love's Forever Changes
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.
Here's another to check out. The Moody Blues - The Present and Dali's Car - The Waking Hour.
Will do!
This was a fun video; loved the last album cover. You mispronounced, "Rammstein," btw
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?"
Another one. John Lennon & yoko ono - double fantasy. vS Suede - animal nitrate vs depeche mode - question of lust.
How many poses do you think photographers have?
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.
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.
Pretty cool. Enjoyed watching!
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Thank you! Cheers!
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.
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.)
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!
Both Scott Baio and John Phillips albums peaked at #181 that is kinda a story in itself.
Another great one Frank!! \m/
Thanks, Brandon! BTW, it was good to see you on the Concert Buddy channel. That was awesome.
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.
Just how many ways can someone pose for an album cover photo?
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.
You truly have an eye for detail..
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.
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!
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.
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.
Scott baio or george harrison?
1:42 Hardwired and Crowbar...but didn't Def Leppard do it decades earlier on their Hysteria cover?
Love this channel! Shout out from North Kildonan. Go Jets!
Go Jets!
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!!
Bjork’s debut album cover and britney spears’ baby one more time.
😂😂😂
This Video is GOLD Frank just like your other ones too.
LOVE IT FRANK 🤘🏻🪙🪙🪙🤘🏻
"Heaven And Hell" and "1984" have angels smoking cigarettes.
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.
as for the Scott Baio/Michael Jackson cover, Peter Frampton struck that pose in the 70's
So did Elton John.
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.
Scott who?
Great video!
Great video, Did you know huey lewis has 5:42 Tinnitus?
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.”
Hi Frank. There is a funny and strange simularity between the cover of the first album of Imiskoumbria, a Greek hip hop band, that came out on 1996 and the Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty album cover that came out on 1998.
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Before they were Huey Lewis and the News, some of the members were in Clover. They moved to London in the early 70s. They were in the same pub rock scene as Dr.Feelgood. Dr.Feelgood’s tour manager was Jake Riviera. Dr.Feelgood was on tour in the US in 1976 with Jake Riviera and Nick Lowe was opening for Feelgood. They saw Clover playing a show, Nick Lowe and Clover were friends and had been on the same label previously. Dr.Feelgood’s lead singer Lee Brilleaux sang a few onstage with Clover that night. At the time Jake Riviera cofounded Stiff Records with Dave Robinson who was manager of Elvis Costello. The rumor is Dave borrowed money from Dr.Feelgoods lead singer Lee to start Stiff. Clover returned to London and was the backing band for Costello’s first record on Stiff. The Dr. Feelgood record was produced by Nick Lowe and released in 1977. The Costello record with Clover was also produced by Nick Lowe and released in 1977.
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.
Give it a shot@@Channel33RPM
So did Scott Baio have a baby tiger cub laying on him too? Some how I doubt it.
I think album cover styles trend like anything else. There isn't any copying, ripoffs or anything else. It's just trends.
How about the album Bowi by Nick Lowe?
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.
I always thought Hazel O'Connor's Cover Plus was a rip off of Bowie's Scary Monsters
@4:35 another look-alike would be U2's 1997 album POP, also including the red-blue-yellow-green theme.
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.
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.
About the Metallica/Crowbar album cover, I think you could have put "The Miracle" (Queen) album cover too.
There’s always the ubiquitous peacock chair covers.
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.
Scott Bao taking credit for one of the best albums of all time.
The jokes write themselves. 😂
@@Wilboe66 out of morbid curiosity, I looked up Bao in Apple Music. Good god, it was horrid. Back then they didn’t have auto tune and he’s off key a lot. It’s obvious they mixed the music to play louder than his vocals to try to cover for his singing. I’d rather listen to Corey Feldman than this and that’s saying a lot.
@@JamminOnThe1 oh my oh my , you’re a really brave soul for going down that rabbit hole. I would sue Bao for a free month of that online therapy service (BetterHelp). I’ll testify in court on your behalf. 😉
Motley Crue’s shout at the devil’s back cover was totally a tribute to The Beatles Let it be cover.
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.
That may be but only on was a superstar the other was a joke!
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.
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)
The Texas chainsaw massacre 2 poster looks the same as The breakfast club poster
The Metallica album looks more like the Hysteria album cover
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.
Billy Joel - "Piano Man"
Phil Collins - every bloody album he ever made.😲