AllBum.Art - Alternative Art-Work for Album and Single Covers

Nothing represents a Flame more accurately than someone wearing a long sweater and a plant pot on their head standing next to a partially opened door with red Lego on the floor behind it. At least that is what we are led to believe if the original single front cover artwork published by Sebadoh means. Oh, and it has to be blurry and indistinct. On the remix is a nice big flame caused by an open fire. The view of the flame would be almost perfect if it wasn't being obscured by some chick in stockings and heels prostrating herself on a rug. Some people!

We're not really sure whether Dead End Street by The Kinks qualifies as a Halloween Hit, but as it involves the word 'dead', we're going to include it. On the original single front cover artwork, we can see a dreadful montage of the band members holding umbrellas. On the remix we see a babe standing at the end of a street, the dead end that is. She had better be careful wearing nothing but a scarf, stockings and heels as there is no escape from a dead end street. Undead!

We have to hand it to Roger Waters, the cover of his album The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking ably demonstrates some of the pros. It is, of course, perfectly normal to find a naked babe standing by the side of the street with her thumb out trying to flag down a vehicle to give her a lift. So much so that on the remix we have not really changed anything other than the perspective of the camera. Roll on!

Nothing says Dare Me (Stupidisco) better than a fuzzy picture of a babe in a boxing rung. That is what we are led to believe by Junior Jack Featuring Shena on the original front cover artwork of their single. On the remix we find a babe who has been dared. The dare appears to involve her pole-dancing naked on a street light n a city at night. The extent of daringness would depend on how busy the street is and how late at night it is. Neither things are clear. Legend!

We always like to bring you something special for Halloween. This year it is the turn of Whodini and his spooky song, Freaks Come Out At Night. The original single cover artwork is lackluster, with the only indication of anything spooky being the fact that the words Whodini appears to have been written in blood, perhaps. On the remix we find a babe who is very freaky, and who has come out at night, out of her dress that is. Dark!

Bob Geldof deserves some points for the original front cover artwork of his album Sex, Age & Death, as it seems to depict someone potentially in the throes of sex. At it is a person, they must have an age, so two out of three. On the remix we find a babe who is in a graveyard and so fulfills the death part. As a person she also has an age, so that's also two out of three. She is sexy, so maybe that makes two and a half out of three. Match AllBum.Art!

You might not immediately associate Undercover Of The Night by The Rolling Stones to be a Halloween Hit but then if you think about it, being undercover of the night is exactly where ghouls and spooks hang out. On the original single front cover there is not much more than the famed logo of the tongue and lips. On the remix we find two vampire babes using the cover of the night to eat each other while resting in a coffin. Obviously!

The term Drop Dead Gorgeous, as sung for us here by Republica could mean many things. It could mean that a girl is so good looking that one look at her beauty would make you drop dead, such as the supposed beauty of Helen of Troy. Alternatively it could be a babe who is gorgeous, but has dropped dead - a kind of hot, sexy vampire if you like. Then again, vampires were meant to be attractive so as to lure their victims to their blood-curdling fate. And the drop dead gorgeous babe on the cover meets these requirements so you better be careful. Suck!

A Touch Of Grey, that is what Grateful Dead are singing about. To illustrate this, the original single front cover artwork has 6 skulls on it, though, oddly, not all of them are grey (some are a shade of brown). On the remix we have a mature lady whose hair has turned grey. She is covering up an area of her body which in many cases is renowned for being hairy, and if this was also grey, she would be touching grey. A touch of grey. You see how that works? Gray!

The 1970s were funny days. Hilarious in fact. The cover from (Don't Fear) The Reaper by the Blue Öyster Cult demonstrates this perfectly. What the hell is going on there then? Don't even begin to try and analyze it. Instead, use the remixed version in which we see two helpless girls who are sat in front of a grave with the reaper in the background. Do they fear him. It does not appear so. How do we know this? They are smiling (even perhaps giggling), are topless, are wearing silly outfits and one girl appears to be pulling the other's panties down. Fear. Nada.