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On amazon it lists the new remixed version of Destroyer as having a new cover. It says: Issued with the originally intended cover art thought too controversial for the time.
When I look at the new cover it seems the same as the original one. The palette is more peach and there is no rock pile and their outfits are different too. But I dont see anything that would be shocking about it. The poses are the same. Love Gun seems more risque to me than either Destroyer cover. Does anyone know what this statement is referring to?

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If I remember it it's to do with the burning city behind them, the original release just had rubble.

I don't really buy it though, as if they were going to put out an album cover with their old costumes.

The first was clearly a draft.
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So showing the Beatles butchering baby dolls is OK, but Kiss leveling a (no doubt communist) town is bad.. Gotcha ;)
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Genebaby wrote:If I remember it it's to do with the burning city behind them, the original release just had rubble.

I don't really buy it though, as if they were going to put out an album cover with their old costumes.

The first was clearly a draft.
Vic, You are correct about them running from the burning city as if they did it.It WAS too risky for a band that was starting to build momentum. It was also changed because of the new costumes.

As for the Beatles album cover, it wasn't released to the masses.
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Yes I have the Paul in a casket version. I always wondered if the other cover was underneath. One of the covers that scared me the most as a kid was the Queen News of the World cover, both the outer cover and the gatefold gave me supreme nightmares.. I wasnt scared of robots until I saw that.. Thanks Queen guys.. :/
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I have that Queen gatefold (outside and inside) framed on my living room wall. That has always stuck with me as an incredible album cover.
It seems that no one puts as much effort into album art anymore as the artists did in the 1970s.
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poserboy71 wrote:I have that Queen gatefold (outside and inside) framed on my living room wall. That has always stuck with me as an incredible album cover.
It seems that no one puts as much effort into album art anymore as the artists did in the 1970s.
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My sister had the actual album of this and I always thought it was cool.
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Could be worse! You could have been Dream Theater and release a double live CD that featured New York on fire......on September 11 2001!!!!!!

Album was recalled that day and released with a new cover a few weeks later but albums were sold that day with the original cover!
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WOW. I didn't know that about DT.
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