The Pet Sounds jab got me , classic Robert

that "reconsider war" joke at the end had me rolling. well done

“Roadie for the Bay City Rollers.” Goddamnit, Rob 😂😂😂😂😂

I’ll still never forget Throbbing Gristle’s album entitled “20 Jazz Funk Greats” with them casually standing in a picturesque field. Meanwhile the album was anything but jazz. Early experimental, industrial noise explosion. Imagine being an Oscar Peterson fan …picking that up not knowing what was in store. Hilarious!

Great commentary on that Bowie album cover.

That was the funniest & most surprising use of c*** I've heard in a while!

I absolutely laugh my head off every time you knock that Pet Sounds l.p. Its got to the point that I'm actually 'willing' you to bring it up in every video you post. As crap as Pet Sounds is, I'm glad its exists purely for the sake of your sense of humour. Bless you Robert. You're a star x

"official coke dealer to the stars" 😄 How has that never been a t-shirt?!

Very good point regarding matching covers art with music.

The Beatles gatefold also doubles as a reflective distress device when stranded on a desert island. 🏝️

The moment you got the Lennon live in Toronto record out I knew you'd be talking about the amazing Yoko performance. What a voice...

Just can't wait for your videos. It's music knowledge meets comedy

I listened once to side two of the Live Peace album 30 plus years ago and I remember exactly as you describe it.

Back when I bought records based on the cover art I was fooled once by the awesome Frazetta illustration. Damn you, Molly Hatchet.

Loved it. Great fun especially the Pet Sound part!You brightened my day.

I’ve always imagined the Charlie album would sound like Roxy Music. The 1982 Uriah Heep album, “Abominog” has possibly their most overtly metal looking album cover with a big slimy red devil face. Finally gave it a listen. The first song’s a bit rockin’ but the rest of it sounds like Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow. Expecting Stone Cold to be the next song.

Yeah, I too had expected The Grateful Dead to be a Hard 'n Heavy band already when I wasn't even a teenager - and then I saw and heard them during a live 'Rockpalast' TV/radio simulcast in 1981 and was rather underwhelmed. I rewatched that same show about a year ago, without having listened to them ever again meanwhile, and I *still* wasn't able to get into them and actually was feeling kinda confused at times 😅 And this video's great topic also reminds me of the international 'glove' cover of The Strokes' debut album 'Is This It', which differs from the US version😀

This was absolutely hilarious. Great video

Meatloaf Bat out of Hell

Axe was another southern rock band with extremely metal album covers. I feel like bands and record companies figured out that a metal cover in the 80s have you a bump in sales.

I've always been a fan of the album covers of the band Charlie but have never heard a note of their music. Nice to know , I'm not alone.

4:47 (In a sing-song manner) I know what you mentioned and then edited. (Regular speech pattern) Wise, because those of us who know, already know. Great topic, Robert. Every time you post a new video, I watch and then get inspired to make some VC videos of my own. One day... lol In the meantime - thanks!

This was a fun watch. Your commentary on the "Sabotage" cover was hilarious! Another that I consider misleading: Gene Simmons' 1978 solo album. Shows a "demon" with blood dripping from his mouth, and then has songs with Cher and Helen Reddy as backup singers and a cover of "When You Wish Upon A Star". 😄 Also - speaking of Molly Hatchet (whose early albums I loved, but I get your point), the cover of their fourth album "Take No Prisoners" always made me laugh. Not because they downgraded from Frank Frazetta's art to Boris Vallejo, but just look at the muscular studs on that cover . . . and compare that to how the band really looked! 😄

Charlie "Watching TV" is brilliant satire (at least it sounded that way to me when I was 12 and first heard it) Pre-dates Black Flag's TV Party by a couple years lol. no coke on my copy :(

Your Trillion take cracked me up. I bought that when it was released, thinking this is gonna rock!! .... umm not really lol but I still revisit it once in a long while. Still love that cover though.

You take a look at ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery", and you cannot be blamed for thinking the music on it might be a little heavier than it actually is.

A cautionary tale thank you for your service

Great video Robert. I think the first album that comes to mind is The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane. The actual title more than the cover I guess. It's really a Best Of Compilation, meant to be amusing by calling it that. The word "Worst" is even a bright hellish red orange as opposed to the black color of the rest of the cover. As some people will find out some day. Hell is the Worst. Can you imagine all the cussing that goes on down there in the nether regions on New Arrival Forever Day? Other covers that springs to mind are a lot of the Steely Dan albums. What are those white things with eyes on the Countdown To Ecstasy album? A blurred close up of a bug on Katy Lied? Such an overtly smooth slick group musically, but they really had trouble coming up with anything slick for the covers; maybe except for Can't Buy A Thrill, which was at least colorful, and had Charles Atlas and a big pair of red lips. He made a fortune off me when I was a 99 pound weakling in the 1960s. Another album that would have to be mentioned is 90125 by Yes. Is that the right number/album? Again, such a slick group with such complex sophisticated instrumentation, and a good album; but it looks like someone designed the album cover during a tv commercial break. Same with Frank Zappa's album Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch. Didn't they know anyone who could draw? Here are some other album covers that I feel are out of sorts with the musical artist. The Alfred Alpaca album where he is not wearing a Hawaiin shirt. The Ray Conniff & "The Singers" album cover where they only show Ray Conniff and not "The Singers". The Lawrence Welk album where there is not one flying bubble in sight, and instead of a conductors stick in his right hand, there is a violin bow. Way back in ancient times, conductors conducted the symphony with a violin bow instead of a stick. That must be his first album. The Norman Luboff Choir. I don't recall ever seeing a picture of Norm Luboff or his choir on the cover. What did he look like? Neil Diamond Christmas albums never had a picture of a Menora. If it's spelled wrong I'm not Jewish. If not a Menorah, you'd think at least a candleabra. Any heavy metal rock group with an album cover where they are just sitting there.Maybe someday they'll make classical musicians stand during a concert, except for the cello player who could be bent over or maybe sitting.

Brilliant video.

My next Zepp video series address this. Thank you for bringing this up. I have a form of synesthesia and i see colors in music so album cover colors HAVE TO MATCH! Spot On Presence. A weird choice that one.

Another fun video. You could easily do a part 2.

My Bruh, never stop pokin' fun at Pet Sounds! Great Video.

Great video as always! And you should be aware by now that if you quote people correctly online, you take it all out of context ;) "...oh my God, The Beach Boys Pet Sounds is the best album ever..." - Robert Fithen, 2023

Charlie's No Second Chance is an awesome album. Give it a try.

Another fantastic video, love your shit man! but I KNOW that wasn't an original 'butcher' that dropped on the floor! LOL. Sidenote, I finally pulled the trigger on an og Helmet Betty (2 10" lp version)

So funny, my dude! I was guilty of thinking the Grateful Dead were a metal band before I heard them. Molly Hatchet as well. Lizzy Borden actually gets alot of respect in the rock world but IMO he gets hotter in the late 90's and early 00's. Trust me, listen to his "Abnormal" record and you'll hear something radically different than his 80's output. Cool idea for a video, loved it!

Nothing confuses my dog more than Don’t Worry Kyoko 😂

KISS' entire look and aesthetic never matched their music. As for an intentionally misleading cover, Throbbing Gristle's '20 Jazz Funk Greats' is one of the great misdirections in graphic design.

The incredible Rick Griffin piece that's the cover of the Grateful Dead AOXOMOXOA record belongs on an album that delivers a brain melting lysergic experience...it's damn near an ordinary country rock album.

Another hilarious video! I agree with your opinion of Michelle Shocked. A lot of music resellers have been burned by her bogus copyright attacks.

I love Pet Sounds but it's still hilarious when you piss all over it. Lol

Great video. I showed a copy of The Zombies ‘Odeyssy & Oracle’ in my last video. It’s an 80’s pressing & the sleeve looks like it should be by a German doom metal band called Stench Trench! I always thought ‘Surfs Up’ by the Beach Boys had a holy inappropriate sleeve..or Maybye it’s the album title that throws things off course!

good show. Agree with the Pet Sounds comments. Never got it..... thanks Robert

I never realized that the guitar riff in Don't Worry Kyoko was taken from Wake Up Little Susie. I will never listen to either song the same way again again!

I was there at the Toronto Rock'n'Roll Revival on September 13, 1969. I left before John and Yoko, tho;,

Storm Thorgerson wrote that the obelisk represented the power of Led Zeppelin, saying they were "so powerful, they didn't need to be there" I've read all kinda crazy shit about that cover😂

Love Yer Blues!

Short Sharp Shock is an album by punk band Chaos UK. The Michelle Shocked album title and cover art are an homage.

LOVE IT

I never thought of that before: Why does every Molly Hatchett album cover look like it was originally designed for a Norwegian power metal group? IIRC, the weird drawing on the US Man Who Sold The World depicts the mental hospital where Bowie's half-brother stayed. Of course, that could very well be an old urban legend. I do know that those two Uriah Heep albums had different covers in the UK. Not sure why Mercury in the US went with those weird covers. And of course I couldn't wait to hear what the Pet Sounds joke would be when I saw it come out!

I guess the whole skull fck thing was just to mess with the suits at Warner bros. This was a band that would take every opportunity they got to dose one of those guys by spiking the coffee or whenever they could. They thought if everyone in charge of running the world was on acid it would change things for the better lol can’t blame them for trying.

The weird cover matches Sabotage‘s title though since the band totally sabotaged the photo shooting. 😂

Why I bought most of the Uriah LP's I don't know. I think Demons and Wizards was good. Keep up the great work always a good program!

Hilarious 😂 Baby you can dive my car, beep beep n beep beep Yeahhhhhh! We would drive down the road singing that song our senior year in high school. Usually stoned to the bone.☺️ I could never figure out why Molly Hatchet used Frank Frazetta on their covers, totally mismatch for the music on the vinyl.

Laughed my ass off! Thank u!

The first time I saw the cover of the best of Humble Pie I figured it was a comedy record...lol

The man with the gun cartoon on the "Man Who Sold the World" is obviously a nod to the album's song "Running Gun Blues", while the mansion in the background is for "All the Mad Men". I can't come up with an explanation for the back cover of Marilyn Monroe and the blue collar guy saying "Oh by Jingo". Although, I was forced to look up that saying, so who says rock'n roll isn't educational? Wait! I'll take that back! "Oh by Jingo" is turning the tin pan alley song into "by Jesus", who Bowie is dissing as the "Man Who Sold the World". Ok, ok obtuse for sure...

Great video! I always thought Molly Hatchet was Heavy Metal too. Frankenchrist rules. Plastic Surgery Disasters is my favorite though. The Sabotage cover has always confused me…it is my favorite Sabbath though.

PET SOUNDS IS BACK BABY!!!

Nuevo folkie shit ! 😂. I thought for sure you’d show Dire Straits “ Brothers in arms or Money for Nothing” . Great video as always.

I seen a clip of John Lennon and chuck berry doing Johnny b goode and Yoko started screaming in the background. Berry looked like he was ready to shit a brick. It was pretty weird stuff. I think they shut her mike off after a minute of so.

Bought Flirtin With Disaster when it came out thinking it was gonna be heavy. Fortunately I ended up becoming a fan but yeah, I was pretty shocked when I put it on.

The Beach Boys , Pet Sounds. Not like the jacket or name. But leave sniff n the tears alone. I love Drivers Seat. Love the video!

That Trillion album cover reminded me of the national emblem of India... three growling 🦁🦁🦁

The Sabotage album cover is by far the most perplexing rock album cover ever. Lol

That was fun! How about band NAMES that don't match the music?

I buy because of the cover and the music - if not, who would by Roxy Music, Robert Palmer, most any Yes or Prog group records.

the gratefull dead had a lot of covers with this type of design ,it represented their style, Death Metal ,what?is this for real

We have to talk about Meat Loaf

Perfect example is Maynard Ferguson primal scream. Cool funky disco type music. Not what I got from the cover

5:02... LOVE HEEP! There's actually one song on that album called Come Away Melinda that's a bit of a tear jerker.

Great video BUT that michelle shocked album is great! thrombin gristles 20 jazz funk greats is an excellent example for this video.

You should listen to Lizzy Borden's Master of Disguise album. I'm not a big Lizzy Borden fan but that album is a masterpiece.

When you said Trillion sounded a bit like the Sweet it made me wonder which phase. With them you get 4 bands in one. They started as bubblegum (because they were made to), then glam, then hard rock, then "regular" rock. Their forte and love was always hard rock though, and they did it well.

Molly Hatchet is a great band. Their album covers do resemble Manowar though. I'll take Lizzy Borden over Faster Pussycat and GNR. any day. Love the Uriah Heep debut. The album art looks like it's from the old Centipede arcade game.

Yoko Ono should play at subway stations, zoos,. Superbowl Half Time shows.

Approximately Infinite Universe is actually pretty good! Yoko actually SINGS on it too!

To each his own, I played the Michelle Shocked album to death. Also have every Charlie album.

Sonic Youth's "Silver Sessions"

I gasped loudly at 9:29. Hope nothing happened to the corners!

😂 carful with that Y&T album falling off the jukebox. That had to be a repress (slick)right?

sorry to say, when i was younger i was fooled by cool looking covers to find the music within in SUCKED big time

The album _Errol Flynn_ by *Dogs D'Amour* sounds less heavy than its cover suggests. Yes it's hard rock, but it's very melodic.

I saw meatloaf bat out of hell, and was expecting some evil metal... i was very dissapointed.

Lizzy Borden's earlier albums were heavier than Visual Lies and probably more in line with what you expected from them

Hey Robert, warch your butcher sleeve… thx for another great video😊

Hatchet and Frazetta kick ass together!

That Michelle Shocked album is a parody of Chaos UK's Short Sharp Shock. If you want fucking insane punk rock, that's your band.

Extremely accurate haha. Especially the Trillion and Molly Hatchet albums. Trillion has it's place amongst those mid-era softer prog rock fans..... along with bands like Shooting Star and shit. Now here's one for you..... album covers that you'd think don't fit the album until you smoke a bone and listen to the album. Savoy Brown "Looking In".... Nazareth had some album covers that kind of don't fit..... Hair Of The Dog, Expect No Mercy, and No Mean City.... even Loud and Proud.

Man, I forgot all about trillion. I came across that album years ago and bought it just for the cover. I remember thinking it was ok but that was about it. I’ll tell ya an album that fooled me was Firefall’s debut album. I remember like it was yesterday browsing my local goodwill and seeing that album cover and thinking man, this looks like it is going to be some killer prog rock. Needless to say, I was very disappointed 😂

Haha! Well done.

Unfortunately I do have the DK's poster lol. My girlfriend will not let me display it.

Always enjoy your vids brother glad U included DK and I have the poster penis landscape it's in very crappy condition but it is original I'm so glad I never bought Michelle shocked cus the cover got me to peace and love lloydy

Deftones-White Pony should be on here

I had forgotten how atrocious the cover of the US version of The Man Who Sold The World was 😂

It's kind of off topic. But Public Image Limited had a release called "Album" The cassette version was simply called "cassette" compact disc version. Well you get the point. I've always been appreciative of that concept for some reason

Uriah Heep's Abominog..Demon on the cover, Aor music on the record!

Mr Fithen you would appreciate this. Galaxie 500 did an unbelievable cover of "Listen The Snow is Falling" written by yoko. Dean Wareham is an amazing guitar player. Check it out. One of my favorite songs all time.

Correction: Lizzy was acquitted...haha

A major example of shite cover art had to be 'Going For The One'. What were Yes thinking when they approved this? 'Okay, this is our last major prog statement and 'Awaken' is our final prog opus. Let's have some nude guy's butt on the cover and some soulless architecture.' Hipgnosis did some striking covers (10cc's 'How Dare You'; Pink Floyd 'Wish You Were Here'), but they were the wrong choice for Yes.