Album Covers That Look Like Other Album Covers PART THREE

 Note: for Parts I and II, see :

https://fox-actors.blogspot.com/2011/10/album-covers-that-look-like-other-album.html

https://fox-actors.blogspot.com/2021/03/album-covers-that-look-like-other-album.html 

Here's some more album covers that look like oth album covers, a lot of them match very close by theme, if not by color palette, frame composition &c.:

Eminem's 'Kamikaze' art is a tribute/homage to the Beastie Boys' 'Licensed to Ill' :

Mark Knopfler's 'Privateering' cover is similar to the Black Keys' 'El Camino':

The Black Keys' 'Brothers' album also follows the format of this Howlin' Wolf album:

Here's 'Brothers' for comparison:

While we're mentioning Blues legends like Howlin' Wolf, how about some Keb' Mo? His 'Oklahoma' album, with the white background and colorful sort of collage objects remind me of Led Zeppelin III..

Collages, especially 'memorabilia' collages, were kinda a big idea for a lot of albums back then... 

('Ramones Mania', Pink Fairies 'What a Bunch of Sweeties', Bang  'Music' ...)

here's another big Blues guy, Big John Patton. He undoubtedly influenced garage punkers the Mono Men with his 'Let 'em Roll' album:

    

Stray's 'Stand and Be Counted' has the four band members in graves on the cover. The 'four dead guys' thing is also seen with Grand Funk Railroad's 'Born to Die' :

 The Stray alb also has a large graveyard full of white crosses, as with Scorpions 'Taken by Force'..and here you can see some of the greens, whites and reds match:

Finally, when thinking of rows and rows of white crosses, one can't forget Metallica's 'Master of Puppets':

Are you watching closely? Freak Scene's 'Psychedelic Psoul' is a lot like Nektar's 'Journey to the Centre of the Eye'. One might roll his/her eyes at some of these album comparisons, but this one is spot on you must admit, and both bands are quite psychedelic!

What next? This is not too close, but the style of Strawbs' 'Nomadness' reminds me of Pink Floyd or Syd Barrett cvr art:

There are probably a TON of albums with simple sparse blank backgrounds, and a few might have already been featured in these segments, but one notable example is the Beatles' 'White Album'  and Brian Eno's 'Music for Films':

Van Morrison's old group 'Them' have an album 'Time in Time out for Them' that reminds me of Cream's 'Disraeli Gears':

While we're still in some trippy territory, chk out Santana's 'Supernatural'.. it looks a lot like Steve Winwood's 'About Time':

Well this one's easy actually, that's because both covers are by the same artist, Michael Rios!

Going back to the sort of collage thing earlier, the Go! Team's 'Proof of Youth' is similar to Beck's 'The Information' in that they have a sort of white design grid background and collage art. Actually, 'The Information' was such a cool concept because the cover was blank, and it came with random stickers where you could design your own cover! This means that the example you see below could in theory be EVEN closer to the Go! Team's art than what is seen..

Steve Miller's 'Bingo' reminds me a lot of Pink Floyd's 'Delicate Sound of Thunder':

We mentioned Grand Funk Railroad earlier. Their live album 'Caught in the Act' is similar to Pearl Jam's 'No Code', mainly because both have white backgrounds with an array of square photos:

Fellow Seattleites to Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains had a funny joke of a Greatest Hits cover, which is similar to Pantera's 'Vulgar Display of Power' (also AIC guitarist Jerry Cantrell was buddies with Pantera's Dimebag Darrell)..

you'd be surprised how many albums have a poor bloke getting socked in the face! 

Well, let's go out with a WHAM then, and close of this article/post. MORE to come soon!

Album Covers That Look Like Other Album Covers PART TWO

 A lonnnnnng time back (wow I'm surprised I'm still deciding to write in this blog I've neglected it so long) I did a post about album covers that look like other album covers: 

(https://fox-actors.blogspot.com/2011/10/album-covers-that-look-like-other-album.html) 

Well, here's some more!

First, let's start with Chris Bell's solo album 'I Am the Cosmos':

Chris was a member of Big Star, and sadly became of 27 Club member when he died in sports car crash on Dec 27th, 1978. Anyway, great musician, and the far-out Himalayan scape reminded me a big of Throbbing Gristle's 'Endless Not':

Observe the Doors' debut album here:

Now check out Spirit's 'Clear' album cover, and this alb is very psychedelic like the Doors, and came out a mere few years after the Doors' debut:

It doesn't stop there. Next, Danzig's second album, 'Lucifuge':

Now, I vote this is a deliberate, albeit possibly subconscious nod to the Doors' ever-classic and immortal self-titled debut album

Further evidence is that Glenn Danzig's croon sounds SO much like Jim Morrison. It's like if Jim survived (himself a 27 Club member) and decided to make a more modern punk/metal band with Satanic sprinkles, that's a lot how Danzig sounds. Both cool groups though.

Speaking of Lucifer/Satan (in title only), chk out German Prog group Lucifer's Friend and their album 'Sumo Grip':

Kinda corny right? This album is nothing like the legendary debut from Lucifer's Friend. In any event, looks a lot like 90s Alternative band the Flys album 'Get Outta My Way':

Nothing like a half naked sumo wrestler to sell your latest album! Ha! While we're in the 90s, check out both Everclear's 'Slow Motion Daydream' and Corrosion of Conformity's 'America's Volume Dealer', respectively:

Sometimes bold black and white optical illusion-esque spiraling lines do the trick. This is all also reminiscent of the Vertigo Records label logo:

More 90s stuff.....the band Lit's 'A Place in the Sun' kinda reminded me of Vancouver band Pure's 'Generation 6 Pack':

Of course it's not so exact, but they both have that sunny citrusy color scheme with 50s style bathing beauty for each cover.

2000's British Indie Band Hard-Fi might have seemed cheeky and clever with this album cover:

But San Fran punk stalwarts Flipper did that sorta thing way back in the early 80s:

The Kings of Leon had a 2007 album called 'Because of the Times'. It featured a cool slow-mo looking shot of a lightbulb shattering over a black background. However, there was this variation of a cover, with the lightbulb a lot smaller, and a sort of head xray:

This reminded me of the much heavier (almost polar opposite genre) Ministry album 'The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste' (terrible indeed):

You know what else it looks like that IS similar musically (in terms of being heavy and dark at least)?

Rollins Band-Come In and Burn:

If you look closely you can also see a razorblade 'hovering' inside the skull. Badass.

Now that we've got crosshairs on Rollins Band, check out the cover of 'Nice', which is er, kinda nice:

I mean, getting a naked woman to roll around in money, that's gotta be one of the most attention grabbing album covers ever. Knowing Henry Rollins, it's not a sell-out moment, but rather a sort of ironic or witty jab at the true sellouts, and American consumer culture (this guy's one of the smartest heavy rockers on the planet). There's something about the human nude on a cover, and I don't mean it all in a pervy way, but thinking more artistically. It's just primal and speaks to the human soul on a deep level. Think of someone's first moments in this world, likely cradled to a naked mother's breast. How about the album 'Congregation' by the Afghan Whigs?

Pretty potent feeling behind it, and mystery even. While we're on a 'grungy' band (though the Whigs were from Cincinnati not Seattle)...how could we forget the astoundingly good and duly famous 'Nevermind' by Nirvana:

Something primitive and raw about nudity and money, and social commentary on materialism. Anyway, know what else kinda looks like 'Nevermind?' Ah...nevermind....ah ok...let's bring up UK classic rockers Argent with their album 'In Deep':

At least someone finally put some clothes on!

But wait, we're not done with the sinning, there's still partial nudity to go around, check out Sweet Apple's 'Love & Desperation':

Hella reminds me of Roxy Music's 'Country Life':

Thing is, a lot of the albums aren't just cheap eye-catchers with crap tunes, albums like 'Country Life' here and many of these others are some of the best you'll ever hear musically too.

So back to Sweet Apple. Who are they? Basically kinda an Indie supergroup orchestrated by J.Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. They play some power pop rock with retro stylings. I was thinking of their one 'Elected' single, which I think is an Alice Cooper song cover: 

Kinda reminds me of the Ramones' debut:

I think there might be closer matches to the Sweet Apple black and white in front of a brick wall cover, or even closer matches to the Ramones one but it all eludes me at the moment...

Let's keep going with some of this raunchy stuff (sorry) ... So take the band Pussy Galore. That's a name right there, named after a Bond girl with total innuendo in it. If you didn't know better, you think this concert vid of theirs was an actual porn tape:

Especially being called 'Maximum Penetration.' Anyway, the dirtiest thing about it is just gritty punky bluesy neo garage rock, to my knowledge you won't see a single nipple. But know where else I've seen that dame on the cover?

Yeah that's her! She gets around. Consequently, the Hellacopters are mucho excellent for garage/punk/blues sounds. Sooner or later if the conversation involves rock n' roll, you will HAVE to mention the Hellacopters. Anyway, a signed copy of the 'Soulseller' single, with a Dead Boys cover as the B side? Sign me up.

Going back to Pussy Galore, did you know they did an entire song-for-song cover album of the Rolling Stones' 'Exile on Main Street?' Of course, the art aptly looks similar too:

Love 'em or hate 'em (I pick both personally), the Stones were hugely influential. Chk out how they also inspired the Lyres with a copycat album cover, in the first 'Album Covers That Look Like...' article/post (re:link is above if you scroll up a ways).

Since we've mentioned some garagey greats like Pussy Galore and Hellacopters with plenty heart and soul, how about the Dirtbombs from Detroit? Their 2001 album 'Ultraglide in Black' is full of (mostly) Soul and R&B covers, and in addition to having one of the coolest album titles ever, the art is a nice homage to Stevie Wonder's 'I Was Made to Love Her':

Apologies for the shitty resolution for the Dirtbombs alb, some of these more underground groups don't get enough justice so that hi-res versions of their art can be found easily online.

Remember some of those Rollins Band albums earlier? What about 'Get Some Go Again', and then the Undertones, 'Get What You Need?'

Now, Henry Rollins was always into classic punk rock to an almost encyclopedic level, and no less I'd assume if his tastes includes the Undertones. Note even the similar themes, B&W photos, titles. 

BUT WAIT. The above Undertones album was a reformed, geezerly line-up sans original singer Feargal Sharkey, in came out in 2003! The Rollins album came out several years earlier! Interesting parallel either way.

What next? Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' looks like the Cars: 'The Elektra Years'  --

Simplistic connection I know, but still. It'd be interesting to track down some of these artists and find out how much of the similarities were deliberate homages/rip-offs or not.

Thinking of the title 'In Rainbows' just reminded me of the band Rainbow. Their album 'Long Live Rock n' Roll' with it's sketch style of a collectively messy haired band reminds me of Aerosmith's 'Draw the Line' (huh huh get it, draw the line?):

Rainbow's final album, hardly the most notable of their catalogue, nevertheless also reminded me of the cover of Sonic Youth's 'Bad Moon Rising', the whole 'scarecrow' kinda thing:

A bit of a vague connection, but when you look deep enough, you can connect almost ANY band to another through the mystic web of life, haha. For example, Bob Bert, the drummer on SY's 'Bad Moon Rising', he later joined Pussy Galore (re: scroll up for them). Also, SY visually did not copy anything from Creedence Clearwater Revival, but just imagine if they'd even have an album called 'Bad Moon Rising' if the Creedence song never existed? Hm. 

You got bad moons, and also black moons. ELP's 'Black Moon' cover reminds me of the Adicts' 'Sound of Music':

Now, taking Rainbow a hop or skip back, one might know that it's Ritchie Blackmore's band, Ritchie the famous guitarist from Deep Purple. Deep Purple's 'Abandon', though it doesn't look EXACTLY similar, has a very close cover art theme to Def Leppard's 'High and Dry':

Nothing like gleefully diving headfirst into an empty pool, or off of a tall skyscraper! Wheee!

Another Deep Purple 'theme match' is 'Stormbringer' and the Siouxsie & the Banshees album 'Tinderbox':

Once again not looking exactly too similar, but that bent angle tornado is pretty much exactly the same monster. I think it's a semi-famous photo, used in 'Tinderbox' and the painter of 'Stormbringer' used the photo as reference. 'Tinderbox' doesn't have the cool pegasus though, or as much color.

Siouxsie Sioux (aka Susan Ballion) was in another group besides the Banshees- The Creatures. The Creatures album cvr for 'Boomerang' kinda reminds me of Dead Can Dance's 'Anastasis':

Maybe I make the connection more because both bands are 'Goth'. Still, make the Creatures' album black and white, take out the people, and create more deep shadow, and it's very similar. Hm you could almost say the Creatures' album was 'day/life' and DCD's 'Anastasis' was the aftermath, the 'death/night'. Anyway, on that note, it nears midnight here so I'll leave this kind of long post be and bring it to a close. There are MANY other album covers to compare, perhaps I'll save them for a near- future post. Ciao.