13 famous look-alike album covers - ripoffs, tributes, or coincidences?
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- Just when I thought I was done doing videos about look-alike album covers, viewers reeled me in with some more examples (Michael Jackson, Metallica, Van Halen, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam and more). Keep in mind, some of these are parodies… other similarities may be purely coincidental…. Or not. Decide for yourself.
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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!
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.
" 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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I see very little similarity with the Huey Lewis cover and the other band.
two album covers with band members in bars - no similarity!!!!!!
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.
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!
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 ❤️❤️❤️🌹😊😅😮😮😮😮
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......🙋🏻♀️
Thanks for the shoutout Frank. Dig this series! I've learned a lot!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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
Wow that was interesting. I can't wait to see more of these. Awesome video 😊👍
Glad you enjoyed
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
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!
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"...
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.
Here's another to check out. The Moody Blues - The Present and Dali's Car - The Waking Hour.
Will do!
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.
"Heaven And Hell" and "1984" have angels smoking cigarettes.
I never even knew Scott Biao had made an Album.
Even if a million ppl did it before Michael Jackson, I guessing his is the most memorable. 😏
Real
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?"
This series is so great bro
I keep thinking it's over... yet here we are again. Thanks JC!
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.
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.
Elvis Presley's first self titled album and The Clash's London Calling. :)
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.)
Loving this series.
Thank you
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!!
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.
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.
Nah, that was a common album cover pose in the 70s ,80s and 90s.
MJ had no reason to copy friggin Scott Baio. LOL!!!😅😅😂😂😂
Pretty cool. Enjoyed watching!
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Thank you! Cheers!
Lady Gagas album cover for "The cherry tree sessions" is a complete rip off of Missing Persons "Spring session M" album cover.
Scott Baio is nuts. Your so-called album cover looks nothing like Michael Jackson's Thriller...you dreaming
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.
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!
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.
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.
How many poses do you think photographers have?
Another great one Frank!! \m/
Thanks, Brandon! BTW, it was good to see you on the Concert Buddy channel. That was awesome.
as for the Scott Baio/Michael Jackson cover, Peter Frampton struck that pose in the 70's
So did Elton John.
Love this channel! Shout out from North Kildonan. Go Jets!
Go Jets!
Another one. John Lennon & yoko ono - double fantasy. vS Suede - animal nitrate vs depeche mode - question of lust.
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.
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.
Its like this in the comic book industry. I guess that's the way it is in all the arts.
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.
This was a fun video; loved the last album cover. You mispronounced, "Rammstein," btw
The Metalica album cover looks more like the cover for Love's Forever Changes
Great video!
You're pushing it!!!
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Just how many ways can someone pose for an album cover photo?
I'm not an M.J fan. But fair dues. It's a common pose.
In case anyone doesn't know, the industry uses the same graphic designers and photographers to do promotional materials for many different artists. Plus, every designer and photographer "borrows" hot trends of the current times they are in.
I always thought Hazel O'Connor's Cover Plus was a rip off of Bowie's Scary Monsters
Scott Baio and Michael Jackson took it from Roger Voudouris. From the album "She's Too Cold (1981)".
1:42 Hardwired and Crowbar...but didn't Def Leppard do it decades earlier on their Hysteria cover?
James Taylor's Apple album was well before baio.
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
Madonna's Greatest Hits Vol #2 looks EXACTLY Like Kylie Minogue's Greatest Remix Hits Vol 1-4
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.
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.
Yeah but they had a hardcore cult following.
Jeff Goldlum "hold my beer..."
On your last entry don’t forget to include the Mother’s of Invention We’re Only In It For The Money
My favorite album cover of all time would be Linkin Park's Meteora. I don't think that there are any other album similarities on that cover. Unique on its own!
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.
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!
There’s always the ubiquitous peacock chair covers.
Probably all three. As someone who worked as a graphic artist, I have seen a lot of “serendipity.”
Frank Zappa and the Mothers did their own “homage” to the Beatles ‘Sgt Peppers” with the album “In it for the money”
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".
Similar covers of men leaning: ruclips.net/video/WnZvcwrSjgc/видео.html
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)
Madonna repeated the pose on the cover of her iconic bestselling "True Blue" from Olivia Newton John's "Physical" album!
Its photographer Herb Ritts recycled the same pose!
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.
@@MrBdiddypop 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. 😉
Nothing weird about it: that standard protocol to sell to the masses.
Exactly, they copy themselves actually.
On the copy of The Doors album cover with Danzig & The Stooges, you could put the The Black Crowes first album too.
That is a generic male pose. I am sure they did that pose in magazines and other male photos. It's that 'I am chill' look. Nothing original about it so no one stole it in the first place.
I always thought 1984 by Van Halen was heavily influenced by Black Sabbath's Heaven & Hell.
You forgot Frank Zappa and the Mothers," we're only in it for the money" that was a great parody of Sgt Pepper.
Nobody has a patent on this iconic pose but only MJ's is memorable❤
Mariah Carey Emancipation of Mimi album cover was amazing. I don't blame Kelly Rowland Talk A Good Game and Vivian Green Vivid for copying it💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
If an album cover has the faces of the band members on it, the album cover is unique in it's own right and CAN'T be a "rip off". Each person has their own distinctive look and unique face. There really are no 2 human beings who look exactly alike. They would have to use the face of exactly the SAME person found on another album cover to be considered a "rip-off" album cover.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers also did a parody of the Sgt. Pepper album cover with the cover of We're Only In It For The Money.
I'm probably the only one who noticed this one: Aaliyah self titled album and HIM's Razorblade Romance. Came about near the same time.
R.I.P To The King Of Music Michael Jackson Still Miss You Always 😢😢😢,Gone To Soon
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.
All those last three were glorious. I’m gonna have to listen to Lordy now, and Guire looks great and I think I have that macabre CD down in my basement somewhere.
My friends are weirdos. They were into serial killer stuff for a long time either that or listen to music that no one else knew so we listen to that a lot
Also check out the Lordiversity box set by Lordi. All 7 albums pay homage to an album cover.
Thelonius Monk - Underground (1968) / Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes (1975)