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unusual facts about album art



Damious McDreary: A Boy and His Bat

Martin, known for being a talented illustrator and painter, designed and created the album art for Good Charlotte's third album, The Chronicles of Life and Death.


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A Collection of Great Dance Songs

This is perhaps evidenced by the album art, which featured a photograph of ballroom dancers guyed to the ground so they cannot move.

Alone in the Endzone

The album art features a heavily armed and apparently on-edge Deniz Tek in his Detroit apartment.

Are You Being Served?

The theme song has also been covered by Australian band Regurgitator on their 1999 album ...art.

Around the Fur

A poster of the album art can be seen in the film Universal Soldier: The Return.

Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump

The Japanese version of the album featured album art by celebrity hip hop-inspired manga artist Santa Inoue, owner of Santastic!

I Ran: The Best of A Flock of Seagulls

The album art is an homage to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which included the song I Ran (So Far Away).

In the Future

The album art was designed by keyboardist Jeremy Schmidt, who was influenced by Storm Thorgerson's work.

Jeff Soto

Soto created illustrations to be the album art of releases by two post-hardcore bands; Finch's Say Hello To Sunshine in 2005 and Halifax's The Inevitability of a Strange World in 2006.

Raise!

The album art was designed by Roger Carpenter and Raise! was illustrated by Shusei Nagaoka.

Rarities/B-Sides

The album art contains various photographs and a poster by contemporary artist and photographer Todd Hido.

Santa Monica State Beach

The beach is the one Baywatch was filmed at and also the beach the album art for Umbrella Beach by Owl City features.

Stand for Something

The video is mostly CGI animated in the fashion of the album art, and portrays Benji Webbe and Mikeydemus running speeches in a Hitler-esque fashion, while a Dogfight ensues between Benji's army and Mikey's army.

Support Your Local Record Store

The album art shows similarities to the album art for the album Shorter, Faster, Louder by Kid Dynamite.

The Manson Family Album

The Gacy painting was used as album art by the band Acid Bath for the album When the Kite String Pops in 1994.

The Pious Bird of Good Omen

Its use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross."

Todd Loren

Appearing in the film are Alice Cooper, publishers Gary Groth (Fantagraphics) and Denis Kitchen (Kitchen Sink Press), famed groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster, underground painter and RevCom cover artist Robert Williams (known for his controversial album art for the first Guns N' Roses LP), RnR Comics co-creator Jay Allen Sanford, Gene Simmons (audio only), and more.

Westin Seattle

This set of buildings is featured as the album art for the Modest Mouse album The Lonesome Crowded West.

Who Cares a Lot?

The album art for the American release was the red question mark on black background, while the UK, European, Argentine, and Oceanian releases featured the Benny Hill art.