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Who knew that an empty plate, a bowler hat, and a naked twenty-year-old could rewrite Thanksgiving in America? Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant cover looks like a joke—and it is—but it’s also a generational x-ray: Rockwell’s perfect turkey meets a counterculture kid staring down a nonsensical war, a hilarious arrest record, and a country arguing at its own dinner table. This is the album where a simple holiday meal became a cultural fork in the road. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
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A teddy bear with a spyglass, a frog in oversized shoes, and an attic full of secrets—on this cover Aerosmith turns childhood whimsy into absolute creepy. From cocaine-fueled brainstorms at the Riot House to Ingrid Haenke’s uncanny illustrations, this story brings you chaos, creativity, and a toy chest you may not want to open. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or check our Spotify Song List with a song from each album we’ve covered: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NrDU39yE9CJcHU6YJT8jj?si=Y1JAE4LWTDmKEDE9QGlB2A&pi=ly2xwE-ERRu-2

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A Belgian nun with a guitar, a convent storybook that was mostly fiction, and a song so pure it pushed Elvis and Motown off the charts—until four lads from Liverpool showed up. Dominique made Sister Smile an unlikely global star, but the story behind the album cover and her life after fame is anything but simple. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
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This is an album inspired by a Persian love tragedy that makes Romeo and Juliet read like a sitcom. It resonated with the unrequited love of a slow-handed rock guitar god in love with the wife of his Beatles bestie. The painting on the cover was never meant for an album but it matched the intense feelings that burned inside Eric Clapton when he saw and had to have the painting. and that is about half the story. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or check our Spotify Song List with a song from each album we’ve covered: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NrDU39yE9CJcHU6YJT8jj?si=Y1JAE4LWTDmKEDE9QGlB2A&pi=ly2xwE-ERRu-2

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It took two hours, a $300 studio bill, and a Boris Karloff impression to make a Halloween song that just won’t die. From Hollywood wannabes to a bubbling beaker of sound effects, The Original Monster Mash rose from the lab in 1962 and never went back in the grave. The album cover? A cartoony graveyard party so cheap it’s scary. Grab a copy and listen along with us.
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A psychedelic heart shaped like Africa, stitched together from five fractured faces, became the symbol of a 60s album that may have inadvertently launched the Doors. Forever Changes was Love at their breaking point—poetry tangled with paranoia, unity drawn from disarray, and a title that promised everything and nothing at once. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
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What do a Russian mystic, astral travel, and a teenage tragedy have in common? Mastodon’s Crack the Skye. Behind the energy-enfused face of Rasputin on the cover is a story of grief, transcendence, and cosmic odyssey — a record that cracked open the sky itself. Artist Paul Romano turned the band’s most personal album into a surreal relic, equal parts Orthodox icon and psychedelic vision. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or check our Spotify Song List with a song from each album we’ve covered:
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Raise your hand if you know the first album to sell a million CDs and outsell its vinyl twin. Okay, hands down—it was Brothers in Arms. But the cover? That dreamy blue sky with a floating steel guitar wasn’t planned at all. A jazz photographer snapped it on a whim while waiting for Mark Knopfler and a German painter obsessed with shiny objects slipped his own guitar fantasy onto the back cover, he’s still waiting on his £1 payment for the work, by the way. One guitar, two artists, and one of the biggest albums of the ’80s. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com or check our Spotify Song List with a song from each album we’ve covered:
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