11. Guns N’ Roses, ‘Appetite for Destruction’ (1987)
The album got its title from the Robert Williams painting that originally served as its cover: a robotic rapist about to get its comeuppance from a much larger robot predator. After complaints, the band replaced it with an image of its five members rendered as skull heads. The controversy could have been worse: Axl Rose originally wanted the cover to be a photo of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
12. Poison, ‘Open Up and Say…Ahh!’ (1988)
The original cover to Poison’s second album: a red-skinned female demon with big hair and an even bigger tongue. It was more odd than sexual or Satanic, but under pressure, the band changed it, covering up most of the image so you couldn’t see much more than the eyes.
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