About Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers-takes a deep dive into the history of iconic album cover art. Images and additional information on Rolling Stones albums may be found at https://iorr.org/albums/. Find album art images at discogs.com by searching the album title. Look for a new episode each Friday.
Goo--Sonic Youth | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
Send us Fan Mail he cool-looking couple on the cover of Sonic Youth’s Goo look like killers on the run—and the caption says they murdered her parents. There’s just one problem. They weren’t killers. They were on their way to court to help put two of Britain’s most notorious serial murderers behind bars. Raymond Pettibon had no idea who they were when he drew them. Add an album that was almost called Blowjob, a fictional punk-rock girlfriend named Goo, a record company begging the band to reco...
9 Oct 2026
Vitalogy--Pearl Jam
Send us Fan Mail Eddie Vedder spent a few bucks at a garage sale and came home with a battered 1920s medical book that may have ended up costing Pearl Jam $2 million. It warned that masturbation could cause epilepsy, insanity and “moral imbecility”—so naturally the band decided it would make a great album package. They borrowed its name, its illustrations, its bizarre advice and even turned the CD into a miniature book. The result was Vitalogy, one of the strangest and most expensive packagin...
2 Oct 2026
Trout Mask Replica--Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band | The Story Behind the Making of the Cover Art
Send us Fan Mail What do you get when an album called Trout Mask Replica needs a cover and the art director goes to a fish market and buys a carp? You hollow out the head, convince Captain Beefheart to hold the stinking thing over his face for a couple of hours, add an enormous black hat and a blazing pink-red background—and create one of the strangest album covers ever made. Why a carp instead of a trout? Whose idea was this anyway? And what happened as that fish got warmer? Grab a copy and ...
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