Naked Album Art

Posted 1 December, 2007 in Music |

And in case that didn’t get your attention, here’s a link to an exhaustive list (complete with images, you pervs) of phonographic recordings that feature nudity in their cover/interior art.

A quick scan of the first 150 listings (there are over 1,400 in total) displays a surprising range of titles, from the mainstream (Led Zep’s Houses of the Holy, the Wings single “Jet/Let Me Roll It”), to the essential (the first album by The Slits — pictured at left — the post-punk band that along with Buzzcocks and Subway Sect accompanied The Clash on their White Riot tour), to the obscure (a disc by someone named Kenny Dino called Love Songs for Seka, addressed to the vintage porn star).

Unsurprisingly, Madonna features prominently, with seven entries, outstripped (sorry) only by eighties vixen Samantha Fox with eight (Marilyn Monroe has four). Also unsurprisingly, female nudity dominates almost exclusively; the only male image I could find (and a pretty tame one at that) is from an album by Pablo Cruise called Lifeline (1976).

My hat — but only my hat — is off to whomever spent the time compiling this list. (via Ed)

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