CRISCO DISCO; Disco's tackiest cover art ever??

[tastyvinyl]

I must admit this is in my collection: the album by singer/songwriter Rod Mc Kuen called 'Slide easy in', which contains a discofied version of 'Amor'. The cover depicts a photograph of a masculine hairy arm with a balded fist covered with CRISCO; well, the logo on the pot of grease says so...and surely this is not an advertisement for cooking fat!
I wonder if this CRISCO DISCO cover is the most disgusting, tacky, filthy work of art in the world of Disco cover art??? Or does anybody knows any worse?? :oops:

tastyvinyl

[neonlights]

lol, I thought the "Slide..Easy In" cover was brilliant! A little filthy perhaps, but I saw it as more brash and cheeky than tacky though..

As far as tacky goes, my pick would go to the D.D. Sound "Cafe" album cover. To me, it's just more amusing than sexy... Some gratuitous topless girl with a false smile next to a cup of coffee.. whatever.. :roll: :P

Oh and not to mention the European cover of the "Slide...Easy In" album.. Not filthy or anything, just a little blah.. I think I'll take the greasy fist over the hot pants :P

[jam master jay]

http://www.unpopart.org/music/slide_easy_in.html

I had to go find this, as I did not remember it. Can you imagine such a thing today? No way!

[Nano]

what's that white thing? butter? shaving cream?

don't know what Crisco is. :roll:

[JussiK]

Being a fan and avid collector of tasteless record sleeves, I'd like to bring a few to your attention. The funk disco lp HOT BUSH has quite a cover, a black, steaming form in the shape of a woman's lower body with it's legs apart, and two flaming bush-like things attached right to where the supposed legs meet. And this was from America, not from Europe. From our continent, the sleeve for ZIGGY THE DISCO MAN is equally wonderful: a photograph of a skinny, near naked grinning man wearing a Davy Crockett fur hat, a vest over a bony chest, and a loincloth with a party-size foxtail hanging out in front. The Euro realese of JUMBO 76: Turn On To Love featured an unretouched foto of a nude woman laying on wet sand, showing pubic hair. From Canada we got the Mother F album with it's cover photo showing a dungeon scene with dominatrix observing the bleeding back of her female slave. This is significant for depicting actual "blood" in connection with an s/m theme. What did casual shoppers think when they came across these images in stores, such as those mentioned above or others: emotionless-looking young women paraded around in dog collars (Silver Blue), a model gagged and bound with wire (Gregg Diamond) , a woman about to be hit by a stone thrown through a sheet of glass ( the back sleeve of Peter Jacques Band), wet underpants ( Fatback Band) - probably most did not blink an eyelid as lurid/sexist/disgusting imagery was far more common in advertising etc than it is today.

[all*that*glitters*]

Originally Posted by JussiK

probably most did not blink an eyelid as lurid/sexist/disgusting imagery was far more common in advertising etc than it is today.

Jussik, we live in a totally different world these days than in the Gay 70's. How naive and suggestive the records you name are in 2006.
Gregg Diamond shocking?? Come on, that cover is merely a bad fashion statement.
Rod McKuen's 'Slide...easy in' album was (and still is) biting satire and very provocative, if one knows a bit about gay culture. The cover art was made to shock, not to seduce or to make you smile.

Besides, the Crisco Disco album cover could never have been released in our Politically Correct days of today. Even in the 70's the cover was being considered as too shocking for European release! Nowadays sex and HIV/Aids issues are rather more seriously viewed than in the early days of 70's Disco.

But I do love tasteless covers just as you do.
My favourite 'tacky', 'sexist' Disco albumcover is 'Penthouse presents The Love Symphony Orchestra'; 'let's make love in public places' and 'let me be your fantasy' . And the original release of 1978 has a full colour 12" & 24" Penthouse Pet inside!!! all*that*glitters*8)

[JussiK]

Originally Posted by all*that*glitters*

Gregg Diamond shocking?? Come on, that cover is merely a bad fashion statement.
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Even in the 70's the cover was being considered as too shocking for European release! all*that*glitters*8)

The Gregg Diamond thing sure did not shock me or anybody I know, but that particular album sleeve was picked out as one of the main offenders by a women-against-violence brigade in Great Britain. The Rod McKuen album was realesed here and in some other European countries with the fist ion the cover, in many cases the images changed from "boring/incomprehensible" to "more skin!", depending on the company with the rights. For example THP Ork's "Two Hot For Love" was out with 2 different covers in Europe, as was Cristina's first album. With Rod McKuen I don't really believe most people including ad men saw anything "wrong" with it at all, Crisco not being a brand people are familiar with outside Anglosaxon territories, and fisting as such is too an outré idea to pop into most heads upon seeing the image. I bet the cover art being changed for some countries was more like a case of "Bring on a hot pair of pants, that'll sell the damn thing better than some jerk moisturising his hand in a jar of grease"....

[discorecordplayer]

I saw in a store once a Christmas album with a picture of a lady putting little disco balls on the Christmas tree. I wish I had bought it, but I didnt because I figured I have enough of that kind of stuff with my MistleToe Disco band stuff with a picture of a blond Santa lady on the front