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18 Of The Riskiest Album Covers That Ever Existed

9. Spinal Tap, ‘Smell the Glove’ (1982)

Fictional but classic: in the movie This Is Spinal Tap, one of England’s loudest bands has its album cover rejected by the record company and replaced with a plain black cover. The original vision? “A greased, naked woman on all four with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash and a man’s arm extended out up to here holding onto the leash and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it.”

10. Roger Waters, ‘The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking’ (1984)

Old-school censorship for the first solo album by the former Pink Floydster: If people are offended by the rear view of a blonde hitching a ride, naked except for red shoes and a red backpack, then just slap a black box over her butt.

Guns and Roses sang about ‘Paradise City’, although this next album cover wasn’t seen as quite that…

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