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KickTheBobo

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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2013, 03:13:21 PM »
Just the thought if this album cover would turn my stomach for years after first seeing it. The fact that it's not blood but some kind of weird jelly really, really upset me.



A related little story:

So I was about 10yo in 1983, and had a brother two years older. This was probably the starting point in the "Satanic Panic" era in American culture. My family was only kind of religious (Xmas and Easter Catholics), but we still had to go to CCD (Catechism class or 'CCD', basically Sunday School).

Well my brother comes home from CCD one night and tells me that they had a special program that night. An "expert" came in and put on a presentation called "Pandora's Box". It was all about Satanic and Occult themes in rock n' roll. He would show how if you turned the Dio logo upside-down (OF COURSE) it would spell out DEVIL. He played records backwards and basically scared every 12 year old in the room.

I couldn't wait until my class got to see the same presentation because it sounded AWESOME.
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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2013, 11:31:44 PM »
My friend and I were talking today about how we were hearing Ozzy Osbourne ("Crazy Train") in a chain restaurant and how hilarious it is that Ozzy made it to the mainstream.
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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2013, 07:36:02 PM »


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not that clay

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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2013, 11:03:21 PM »
Not exactly album covers, but I remember being in third grade and most of the other kids were really into Kiss. I thought it was for grownups and I just wanted to be a kid and read Peanuts and Garfield (this the early 1980s). What I didn't know then and what I know now (via the Best Show) is that Kiss is so dumb it actually is for children.
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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2013, 10:41:49 AM »
Quote from: not that clay on March 31, 2013, 11:03:21 PM
Not exactly album covers, but I remember being in third grade and most of the other kids were really into Kiss. I thought it was for grownups and I just wanted to be a kid and read Peanuts and Garfield (this the early 1980s). What I didn't know then and what I know now (via the Best Show) is that Kiss is so dumb it actually is for children.


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mike a

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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #20 on: April 08, 2013, 02:41:48 PM »


The album itself gave me the creeps, too.
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« Reply #21 on: April 08, 2013, 02:47:17 PM »
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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2013, 10:41:17 PM »
Quote from: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 31, 2013, 07:36:02 PM


Oh my god, Jason. You just made some shivering neurons fire for the first time in decades. I was truly terrified by that cover.
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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #23 on: April 11, 2013, 04:05:22 AM »
Pretty much all of the covers from the Iron Maiden albums that my older brother owned.
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Re: Album covers that gave you nightmares as a child.
« Reply #24 on: April 11, 2013, 07:36:38 PM »
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« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2013, 01:08:43 AM »
Oh, so now this is *bands* that gave you nightmares as a child.
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Album covers that contained things you don't notice for ages.
« Reply #26 on: April 24, 2013, 10:56:14 AM »


This is the inside sleeve of the Madness LP One Step Beyond.  When we were young we used to point and laugh at the picture in the middle which shows someone taking a shower.

Bear with me now.

Because my dad worked outdoors he always had a great tan however because he tended to keep his pants on (as was the tradition of the time) he often had a white bum.  While pointing and laughing we used to say 'That's dad in the shower!'.

It was only about a year ago that I noticed that the person in the shower was in fact a woman.
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