Reply With QuoteIf you look closely you'll see she's smiling so it was another case on Non meaning Oui. Things were like that a lot during the 70's. No-one paid much attention.
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I don't know what you think of this vinyl cover of a young girl starting to be raped by 3 other persons, but I find this photo of Love & Kisses album to be inappropriate. I wonder if it ever came out to be controversial at the time.
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If you look closely you'll see she's smiling so it was another case on Non meaning Oui. Things were like that a lot during the 70's. No-one paid much attention.
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I agree, I don't think that there is any suggestion that she is about to be 'raped'.
There were numerous Album covers, 12" single covers and Posters available in the late 70's, that had similar covers. I think that it was just a way of selling the whole 'Disco Image' at the time, by promoting the female form as very sexy on the dance floor and that males were attracted to it.
I also agree that in today's totally OTT Political Correctness environment, it would have Woman's Aid groups staging mass demos of outrage.
In 1978, I was 30 years younger, everything that you said, or did, wasn't scutinized for fear of offending someone and, of course, the music was sooooo much better. Ah, The Good Old Days. :icon_smile:
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I don't think she's being raped in that photo, and none of my female friends ever had a problem with the cover of the LP. I think you're correct in saying that if released today it probably would raise some sort of protest, or have those ridiculous stickers slapped all over it. Bring back the glorious 70's and it's unabashed boldness, and get rid of today's so-called political correctness.
The actual music of the LP speaks of finding love...how wonderful is that!
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I never took the pic to imply she was being raped but rather the hands are trying to pull off her t-shirt. But I always laughed at these kind of album covers because as a gay man who was buying this kind of music I just found these types of covers silly as they were obviously trying to market the music to the straight male and I wasn't interested in seeing naked or scantily covered woman on album covers.
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Funny, When i first bought that record, my first thought was i would be the guy on the bottom... he got a HEAD START on the other guys
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Two that I find semi-controversial (although I love both):
Lime Images for Lime (2) - Your Love
Richie Images for Richie (6) - Trying It On
"Make me believe in you....show me that love can be true...."
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It's my absolute, all-time favourite Album cover!:icon_lol:
And When Casablanca put the red border on it, it was perfection.
The one that holds a strong 2nd place, is the Malligator cover for "Cerrone 2 - Cerrone's Paradise"
thanks to TDK for catching my numerical faux pax
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Of course, there's always the cover of one of the funniest disco records ever that tried to be provocative: Sado Maso Disco on Epic France by MUST.Originally Written by STEPHEN L FREEMAN
I could never get enough courage to play it, but it was hilarious and had an interesting cover to boot...
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Vince I have that 12" as well, and ONLY for the cover!
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The song is just like the cover: PURE CAMP!
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Of course most of the older heads know that the Ohio Players had the most controversial record covers, 'cause almost all of them had pictures of real naked women on them!!!
Parlaiment/Funkadelics album covers were controversial too because George Clinton was a controversial cat. Has anyone ever taken the time to read those little comic strips on the backs of them? They have a very deep and significant meaning, if you can understand what in the hell George Clinton is trying to say!!!
I can't forget to mention the Rufus & Chaka Khan album, (can't remember the title right now), where she's sitting on that plush red couch with her legs spread wide open. Although she's got on pants, can you imagine what was going through the mind of a teenager back in the 70's?
And last but not least, there's Donna Summer with that imfamous Marylin Monroe pose with her white dress flowing up in the air!!! Classic!!!:icon_cool:
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When the horned toads at Rolling Stone Magazine chose the Love And Kisses album cover as their favorite of the year for 1977 ( the cover .... not the music found inside....) , they got a lot of negative readership feedback for choosing one that so objectified women ...
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A long time ago I did one post here about record covers censored in Argentina at the time. Love & Kisses was one of them. They basically covered all the men's arms with black arrows pointing at the girl; the arrows read "love & kisses". These were not re-printed but STAMPED on every one of the covers... must have been a last-minute change.
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Oy vey...I remember the feminazis getting their steel drawers in a bunch over Linda Ronstadt's spread in one of their 1976-1977 issues (not sure which year). BTW, I loved Love And Kisses' eponymous album cover, along with Miss Donna's Marilyn pose on Four Seasons Of Love (although I think I liked the front a lot better
"Everyone knows the real reason why you got that part it was the time you spent on that casting couch"--Antoine Merriwether
"Excuse me, Miss Thing, but both of us spent time on that couch"--Blaine Edwards
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Didn't Rolling Stone pick L&K as the "worst" cover of the year for '77?
I recall the subtext as : "...thought-up by a bunch of horny studio musicians at Casablanca."
I've been trying to find that list on the web for years, just for that quote.
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Funny, but true...
The poor girl who modeled for the cover of "HONEY" (the best OP LP, in my opinion...)
The studio lights were so hot that they heated-up the honey and it started to harden on her!!!Seriously! Paint-scrapers to pry the hardened honey, loose and get her thighs off the table.:icon_lol:
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Back in 1977/78 that Love & Kisses LP cover WAS controversial enough to draw a one-day picket in front of Bondy's Records in NYC (down the street from J&R Music World- as it was then called- on Park Row, across from CITY HALL). Bondys records, like other NYC record shops often displayed albums in the front window. Love & Kisses was front and center. So was a NYC bus-stop. All those people waiting for the bus who did NOT know records or covers, DID think the image was appalling...and a group of women picketed the store~!! Someone later came from City Hall and asked the (then) owner to take the offending cover down. It was quite the deal at the time....for a day or two anyway.
I personally never interpreted the cover as rape, I always thought a sexual scene with multiple partners was about to go down (It was the 70's you know? No real diseases, free love....). The sort of things that happened to musicians in the 70's (and now).
Or, put it this way....what do you think Grace Jones was implying in all those photos of her caressing groups of muscle bound men. What do you think was supposed to happen AFTER the moment in the photo? Why, she F'D THEM ALL and LEFT THEM LAYING.
I see the Love & Kisses cover....it's the same thing.
Sometimes you might consider the image is depicting the WOMAN in control.
Exercising HER sexuality, the way SHE wants to.
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[quote=STEPHEN L FREEMAN;149041]Didn't Rolling Stone pick L&K as the "worst" cover of the year for '77?
I recall the subtext as : "...thought-up by a bunch of horny studio musicians at Casablanca." quote]
Studio musicans at Casablanca? Shows how much they knew about disco at Rolling Stone, not to mention disco made in France.
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Steve, you've got me cryin' over here man!!!:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:Funny, but true...
The poor girl who modeled for the cover of "HONEY" (the best OP LP, in my opinion...)
The studio lights were so hot that they heated-up the honey and it started to harden on her!!!
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Hey Salsoul1975, that's the one: "Four Seasons Of Love"!!!:icon_razz: With "Spring Affair" on it. By the way, what part of Jersey are you from? I grew up in East Orange.Oy vey...I remember the feminazis getting their steel drawers in a bunch over Linda Ronstadt's spread in one of their 1976-1977 issues (not sure which year). BTW, I loved Love And Kisses' eponymous album cover, along with Miss Donna's Marilyn pose on Four Seasons Of Love (although I think I liked the front a lot better
But does anybody remember that Rufus & Chaka Kahn album that I've mentioned? I know that the red couch that she was sitting on was shaped like a big pair of Mick Jagger's lips!!!
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Hey KBallenger53! I grew up in Queens, NY but have been a New Jerseyan since I was 9. I live in Bergen County now, right near Rockland County, NY (home of the famous "Great American Disco Concert" that took place in the fall of 1975).
I think the Rufus/Chaka Khan album in question is "Rufusized", from 1975. It's the one that has the back cover of Chaka on a couch, spread-eagled.
I love "Four Seasons Of Love", one of my favorite Donna albums ever!
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Sounds painful...Funny, but painful.Funny, but true...
The poor girl who modeled for the cover of "HONEY" (the best OP LP, in my opinion...)
The studio lights were so hot that they heated-up the honey and it started to harden on her!!!
Too bad the Ohio Players didn't record for Casablanca - the bunch of horny studio musicians would have found a way to get all that honey off of her.
Wrong label,wrong bunch...
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Spring Valley High School, Class of '77 here!:icon_biggrin:
The Comeback in Piermont (now a Quickie-Mart on the big curve of Route 9W) and The Candlight, in Nyack, (now called KLUBZ, I think? Just up Route 9W from the Hospital) were where my career started, back in 1976.
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[quote=kdavid13;149084]Sounds painful...Funny, but painful.
Too bad the Ohio Players didn't record for Casablanca - the bunch of horny studio musicians would have found a way to get all that honey off of her.
Wrong label,wrong bunch...
KDavid, you're crazy man!!!:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:
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