Hidden images on classic album covers - and some are freaky

[@matycee]

haha.... you never ever had to invert the Boston cover to see that the ships were guitars. good heavens!

[@patgalvez4563]

i caught that the second or third time I looked at at...

[@benedictdonald4338]

“Live Evil” is Easily my fav album art of all time. It’s so menacing, yet majestic. And the cues to Sab history just bring it on home.

[@zodiac6968]

Mine also.

[@mvader7188]

Nice palindrome...

[@AbigailJrney-1]

The remixed songs sound fantastic! Almost like new songs! I was blown away!

[@junkandcrapamen]

Spent hours as a teen staring at that cover.

[@MetalHeart8787]

mine also, back in 1985 when i first heard it the opening for iron man was so different, an older kid said that's Not OZZY it's DIo and i already had the Last in line tape I just didn't know about the Ozzy/Dio Sabbath thing, I was new to Metal at the time. something I mentioned on one of my DIO Videos.

[@17nussbaumroad]

Half the fun of buying an album was liner notes and imagery ! Something that generation Z and Y don`t understand ! GEN X ROCKS !

[@ellisgarbutt1925]

I'm gen Z & totally understand liner notes love collecting vinyl

[@a.champagne6238]

Plenty of millennials and zoomers buy physical albums. I frequent record shops and see them in there all the time.

[@jukii.mp3]

🤔

[@corneliusbrandy2557]

No we definitely understand the liner notes and imagery, cassette tapes and vhs were still the main forms of buyable media you could get when I was a kid in the 90s and I still have a huge collection of cd's and vinyl and cassettes. I also think you're forgetting half of gen y was born in in the 80s. Yeah you're old but you aren't that old. You might as well claim that you were alive when they built the pyramids.

[@deadman9393]

Nah because we definitely can't buy albums. They don't exist anymore🤓🤓I definitely don't have over 200 cds and 100 records

[@Philtration]

I just assumed that EVERYONE knew the spaceships were guitars. I knew it the first time I saw the album in the stores.

[@PassengersMusic777]

No way. My mind is still blown away 20 minutes after watching the vid

[@ryanlenihan427]

I study the sleeves and inners of my Iron Maiden records more than another. Derek Riggs was a master designer.

[@Channel33RPM]

Yes, he was. I agree 100%

[@p.d.l7023]

Somewhere in Time has got lots of weird shit in it.

[@hardrockinmofo9742]

There was a band called Klaatu way back in the day. Everyone thought it was the Beatles reformed under a new name. The band really played it up by having a lot of Beatles things integrated into the album cover artwork.

[@ericodijk]

Their album was called Sir Army Suit, the Beatleseque single was A Routine Day b/w Older. Great songs!

[@ArturdeSousaRocha]

The whole cover of "Somewhere in Time" by Iron Maiden. Not necessarily hidden messages but you can spend the length of the album looking for new stuff.

[@Channel33RPM]

I love that one.

[@DragonGrafx-16]

Perhaps my favorite album of theirs... and yeah it's really fun looking for all the references on the cover. Sadly, I only have a CD copy of the album so it's hard to see everything but still cool.

[@waltuh11121]

It's one of the best album covers ever

[@JimmyV1530]

BOSTON debut blew my mind and I only found out last year 😅 Great video Frank!

[@JeffMcCormack777]

Those artists probably had a great time with those little hidden things. Probably most went unnoticed, making them sad :)

[@jimb2416]

Great video Frank! Wow!! I remember well enough the controversy over all the "hidden images." Most I thought were the byproduct of listeners smoking a wee too much weed. Lol. But all in all, it's very cool. Keep on spinning Frank 👍

[@lenwennerberg1631]

I must've looked at that Stones cover a thousand times and never knew, I found out just recently. Great stuff!! 👍

[@ivantheterrible2796]

Fun video Frank. Would love to see more like this one. Cheers

[@curtisbrown5939]

It's amazing how spot-on some old Rock and roll songs are with current events.

[@daviddequasie6816]

Check out the upper left side Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards album cover. It isn't just a waterfall coming out of a rock. I still can't believe Roger Dean did this without telling anyone.

[@BigBaller-he1dz]

What does it show dude?

[@daviddequasie6816]

@@BigBaller-he1dz A penis about to enter a vagina.

[@justsmitty1709]

Phallus

[@justsmitty1709]

Fun story. I was on stage crew 72 73 in high school. Guess what was incorporated into every backdrop or larger prop? Thank you. Roger Dean and Uriah Heep. 😊

[@SaintMartins]

I've owned Iron Maiden Powerslave since 1984, never notice those hidden images. To this day i still find people never noticed The Who's "Who's Next" album cover where the band members appear to be zipping up their pants. Why ? Look at the concrete monolith behind them, there's "urine stains" on it. Yup the boys peed on it.

[@bobby666666]

It was a mock up. They didn't actually urinate on the monolith.

[@patbarr1351]

Thus the quote, "Who's next?" in line working also as "The Who's next LP!"

[@Polychrome1201]

3:21 I don't see a serpent there. I see a lady going up a stairway to the clouds...

[@booieaguilar4792]

On Michael Jackson's Dangerous cover, he has a picture of Allister Crowley and Allister Crowley is also on the Sergeant Pepper record also

[@matthewdrake4385]

Well don't forget. At one point who owned the Beatles catalog : Michael Jackson himself thanks to some advice from Paul McCartney. Coincidence?

[@booieaguilar4792]

@@matthewdrake4385 your right!!! I didn't even think about that at all lol🤯 I don't even know how I forgot something like that

[@matthewdrake4385]

It's all good. Its crazy how some things can be connected when you least expect it.

[@MJEvermore853]

This was such a fun video! I've had all these albums for decades but have not noticed half the stuff that you pointed out before now!! 👍 Please do more of these type of vids!!

[@Channel33RPM]

Thanks! If the video does well, I will definitely do more. Thanks for tuning in .

[@grahambiggs9822]

That was really interesting Frank. Had no idea about the gatefold picture on Led Zeppelin 4…. But I’m off to get a mirror now 👍👍👍

[@timbaldwin6283]

We've spent days with a mirror and the Led Zep 4 cover. Both gatefold and outside cover. Double the fun when dosing.

[@davidcurry8440]

Going back to the Boston debut, when the cover is upside down it looks like a joint is being fired up 😎

[@felipecardoza9967]

I bought the Mob Rules album but did not see the devil face until later. I never knew it was based on a previous work. The Led Zeppelin mirror image is HIGHLY subjective; just like the "reverse messages" in Stairway to Heaven; once someone tells you what to see ( or hear) then you will usually see/ hear that suggestion. I remember Pink Floyd coming full circle on the hidden message gag by inserting backwards talking into the intro to Dirty Woman ( Empty Spaces). The message? CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE FOUND THE SECRET MESSAGE

[@glenbellefonte9620]

Then it says something about sending something to the funny farm in care of old pink.

[@BigCraig]

I always liked the Alice Cooper "DaDa" cover. They used a Salvador Dali painting, but substituted Alice's face in the eyes...it's either an old man or two Alice Coopers depending on how you look at it.

[@marvjohn6311]

I spent hrs looking and eventually drawing 1973 album Sabbath, bloody Sabbath. One side of cover person is surrounded by demons, other side seems like a bad dream. Classic album!

[@johntiggleman4686]

The first time I saw the Boston album, I saw the guitars. Other album covers may not have hidden things, but are interesting. The album "Ptoof!" by The Deviants, "One Fine Morning" by Lighthouse, for examples. Great video, Frank.

[@danieldaniels7571]

Same here. And I didn’t have to turn it upside down

[@johntiggleman4686]

@@danieldaniels7571 Just saw your name...was a guy in my school in the 1960s named Daniel Daniels.

[@daviddanglis7135]

It took me a ridiculous number of YEARS to figure out that Police cover! It's kind of funny that Sting's LED symbol got the highest hair and the biggest mouth. Another fun album cover to explore is 10cc's How Dare You, designed by those crazy Hipgnosis guys. The outside of the cover features two diagonally split screens, like you'd see on occasion in TV shows of the era. Each image has a different "scene," but in each scene you'll find the same couple -- in the background, on a TV screen, in a framed photograph, etc. Then, all the people featured on the outside cover are included in the inner gatefold image, in a crowd at a party. The four 10cc band members are in the crowd as well. It's interesting these days to see how prescient the photo is, since everyone at the party is on a phone!

[@TWayneD1020]

Satanic people run the music industry so they will one way or another project evil at the mindless sheep !!!

[@evilchaosboy]

Neat! The "demon" head on "Mob Rules" immediately made me think of "Murray"! A kind of raw prototype, but that made me pull out "Mob Rules" dusted of my Mickey Mouse record player (hey, I said in previous comments that my brother is the "vinyl nut" with the old and very sought after turntable) and am listening to "My" Black Sabbath" in glorious Mono sound! Some of those others were very clever and a few were "tried too hard". I really liked Boston's because of it's simplicity and how many times I've looked at that cover...oddly enough never upsidedown. As far as your question goes I'm drawing a complete blank. Boring answer, but honest! Keep on Grillin'...I mean Spinnin'! \m/

[@Channel33RPM]

I never thought about it... but yeah, I totally see the Murray similarity.

[@happyhippythevinylguy]

This is funny cuz I was just showing my son-in-law the Beastie boys album yesterday..lol great video Frank

[@Alpha67Wolf]

Dude , when you flip the Boston album upside down, the space ship is ginormous and the flames are cooking planet Earth causing it to explode!!~

[@AbigailJrney-1]

I love the The Beatle's Sgt. Peppers album. So innovative and unique. Nothing and I mean NOTHING sounds like that album!❤❤

[@kk-om5zm]

💙💙💙💙

[@jaimealvarezmd7245]

Yawn festival

[@Thefatmexican912]

That's their worst album

[@dawnwar2105]

I love watching you shows but enjoyed this one immensely. It really hit upon a subject I have always loved on vinyl, artwork. The creativity of the two have always been linked. You could probably do a whole video on the "Paul is Dead" artwork alone. Thanks for giving me something to think about all day!

[@killrmillr]

There are a lot of references to Iron Maiden's history on the Somewhere In Time cover.

[@ivantheterrible2796]

That is my fav maiden cover. Spent hours combing over it.

[@jesseserna8424]

😮wow I had the Boston,Live Evil and Led Zeppelin..Didn’t know about the Zeppelin . Thanks

[@melprophet1936]

Fun video! The Santana cover was done by Lee Conklin, who is one of the major psychedelic poster artists from the 60's. His work is all sorts of crazy, but in a really good way.

[@PurpleNonIntelligent]

I feel like the devil in the Live Evil logo could also represent The lucifer in the song N.I.B .

[@tomfurgas2844]

Lots of fun facts in this video. Thanks Frank! The cover for The Grateful Dead's album "American Beauty" can also be read as "American Reality". The cover for "20 Jazz Funk Greats" by Throbbing Gristle has the band dressed as preppies standing by a seaside cliff. That cliff, known as Beachy Head, is a notorious suicide spot.

[@MrJones-qk4nh]

Also ,aoxomoxoa supposedly says "we ate the acid", and Mars hotel held upside down in a mirror says "ugly rumors". Always loved that!

[@glenbellefonte9620]

There was also a body on the ground air brushed out.

[@ScottBrooks-jl9cy]

You completely failed to mention the goat head in the ocean on the Black Sabbath Live Evil cover.

[@tiborosz1825]

I just revently noticed on the back of Piece of Mind that the cloud formation is half of Eddie's face looking at me.

[@adventureawaits3646]

didn't know about the hidden beatles on the Stones album, fun "pay back"! I'm not much of a fan of either band, down own the albums, but next time I see one I'll have to take a closer look!

[@sandyfader4649]

A fun video Frank, keep ‘‘em coming.

[@Channel33RPM]

Thanks! These are fun to make.

[@ProgrammedForDamage]

My dad had that Santana album and he pointed the heads out to me.

[@jpaleologos1]

You forgot to mention that if you hold the Police album cover in front of a mirror you can see 666.

[@DrTomoculus]

In the Sgt Pepper segment, you missed a golden opportunity to show the Walrus.

[@TPeterse]

Just like the guitar on the Boston record, it took me years to finally spot the guitar on the first Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow albumcover

[@hatednyc]

Please make this a series. Wonderful video.

[@AndyX]

look at the clouds on black sabbaths - never say die most people dont see the war scenes

[@eddy820]

I have most of the those LPs, and I never thought to turn any of them upside down. Back when music was on an LP, you bought an LP and you read the liner notes and looked at the pictures while listening to the music.

[@raggeragnar]

I didn’t know about the fab 4 being hidden on the stones album. That’s one of the cool things about vinyl ; you’ll never know what you’re gonna learn next.

[@MegaMkmiller]

Bet you didn't know that Mick, Keith and Brian were doing acid when the picture was taken either. That's according to Mick Jagger, not me. Bill and Charlie were NOT doing acid as they were not into drugs. Not even pot.

[@raggeragnar]

@@MegaMkmiller : You’re right ! I didn’t know that either.

[@daBEAGLE1017]

The best hidden message on an album was Spinal Taps "Smell the Glove". The album is so black you cant even see the vixen submitting.

[@leonyetman8700]

Always found the Easter eggs in iron maiden albums interesting. Somewhere in time has a bunch.

[@millopguy]

Didn't know that about Santana or Zep. Cool intel!

[@jodywoodruff6473]

I absolutely love these videos. 👍☺️

[@Channel33RPM]

Glad you dug the vid!

[@patbarr1351]

I like the cover of Hawkwind's *Warrior on the Edge of Time.* On a planet with 2 red suns we see two cliffs with a gap in between with a warrior on horseback waiting on one. It can also be seen as a sinister face staring at the viewer. (I think that's by Barney Bubbles.)

[@barkingstarz4730]

Beastie Boys… “eat me” & a lit joint..no surprises there! 😂 c’mon Frank, do your kids know?!?

[@HighFiveGhost50]

I love hidden images. The first time I saw the Chicago Bulls logo upside down being an alien reading a book blew my mind.

[@user-hr8vp7rx5l]

tool : 1996 AEnima - tons of hidden imagery : "custom lenticular jewel case (called a "Multi-Image CD case" in the liner notes) for the cover and interior disc tray. The cover art and other images in the liner notes can be set behind the lenticular "lens" to create an effect of sequential animation. " ( *We found out that the image on the cover could be moved back and forth and gave the effect of the 'hospital patient" servicing him/herself. ) sure enough ---all these years later --- WIKI : The special images used for the lenticular effect are: *A photo of contortionist Alana Cain with her legs wrapped behind her head in what appears to be performing cunnilingus on herself . Cam de Leon's painting Smoke Box,with animated smoke and encompassing eyes. Shown sitting on a couch to the right are Danny Carey (nude) and Justin Chancellor. Adam Jones is squatting next to them while Maynard James Keenan, also nude, gets up to throw a single rose on the ground in front of Cain with his left hand covering his genitals. Another image of the contortionist can be seen on the disc itself. An image of California before and after a major earthquake is shown in the tray behind where the disc lies - a reference to the song "Ænema" and the Arizona Bay sketch by Bill Hicks. The inlay image of the US incorrectly depicts the Oklahoma Panhandle with Cimarron County being in the state of Texas. It is unknown whether or not this was intentional.

[@mrmxyzptlk-imp]

The Beatles faces are hidden on the cover of Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding album (in the trees)

[@eternalhalloween1]

"Indiana Jones was here in 1941." That was a great one!

[@fishdude666ify]

How about Hotel California? The demon in the shadows upstairs on the inside spread where the janitor is sweeping downstairs.

[@kevin2400]

When i was a kid .....I was scared of bostons debut album cover but thanks for showing the upside down album that shows guitars.... kinda cool

[@MacedoinaChoirs]

Brah, you gotta do some of the crazy Funkadelic LP Covers.

[@curtisbrown5939]

"Outside in the cold distance a wildcat sits and growls, two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl"

[@johnpeace971]

On Zeppelin IV you missed that the mountain itself is the profile of a bearded man, and there are a ton of things hidden in the peeling wallpaper, also requiring a mirror to see

[@greglamm5986]

Devo's debut album in 1978 was supposed to be a picture of golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez. It eventually was morphed with a picture of President's JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon and Ford. What they ended up with on the cover looks exactly like Tom Brady to me. Brady was 1 year old at the time the album was released.

[@theflipside-vinylcommunity]

Awesome video brother

[@JohnAnthony0857]

Read the back of the chair that Kieth Moon is setting on for the cover of "Who are we".... kinda chilling.

[@sudicalwig]

Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards. Top left. ;)

[@futuretrunks5795]

I never gave Boston's self titled album much thought with the images coming from the guitars in the air there on the album there!

[@buzz1daddy]

Ok sorry but U2 actually has some interesting art for their album POP. There is a song on the record called The Playboy Mansion. If you look at Larry on the cover you will notice that one of his eyes appears to be that of the Playboy bunny logo! See even U2 does this stuff. Isn’t that neat😁

[@Raypirri]

I have owned that Santana album since it was released and NEVER seen those images. What about the Fab 4 and the Stones?--Fabulous! Thanks for sharing.

[@Channel33RPM]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@presto709]

Super Tramp's "Breakfast In America" album has a lot of clues that seem to point to the 911 terrorist attack even though the album came out years before the attack..

[@jefffox2010]

April Wine's album cover seen under a black light is crazy

[@robertholston4708]

Regarding Beastie Boys they made a callback to the Lisenced To Ill cover on the Check Your Head cover. I never noticed this until the book came out. Check Your Head has the 3 guys sitting on a curb with guitar cases. On one of the cases you can see a sticker of the LTI era Beastie Boys font that is half torn off. Almost if to signify that Lisenced To Ill is some distant memory for them at that point.

[@JJones-cl4dm]

The Boston cover also looks like a gas stove burner cooking the earth. Flames are even blue. Surely I'm not the only one that caught that

[@TycoVai]

Sgt Pepper’s. On the back cover George is pointing at the lyric “Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock as the day begins.” Apparently there was a phone number hidden in the flowers and if you called on that day at that time The Walrus would answer.

[@Stirling62]

I recall the Beatles' faces hidden in the trees of a Bob Dylan album, I think it was 'John Wesley Harding'.

[@folginator]

The Sweet’s 1977 album “Off The Record” has a really cool painting of a stylus in the grooves of a record. But look closely and the tone arm is actually a spoon. A subtle hint at drug use I believe. Also their “Give Us A Wink” album has “Queen are a bunch of Winkers!” As the band (quite rightly) believed Queen ripped of their sound.

[@derradune6722]

A couple more Beatle related, in the booklet that came with Magical Mystery Tour, is a photo of Paul sitting at a desk and the name plate says “I was”. And he is wearing a black carnation when the other guys are red in the photo of them in their white tuxedos. All part of the Paul is dead thing. Another one, Aladdin Sane - If you look at the water droplet below Bowie’s shoulder on the cover, it has a little grinning genie in it.

[@bavarianvanlife5709]

I had no clue…..thx buddy!!!

[@danieldaniels7571]

Happy Father’s Day, Frank!

[@travismiles5885]

The yellow flowers in the bottom right-hand corner of Sergeant Pepper's in the shape of a guitar kind of looks like it says Paul with a question mark. It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to if Paul was dead.

[@kevinmcc3147]

The dio logo upside down spells devil

[@tonymusolino2369]

Actually when you flip the boston cover upside down you can only see 4 tuning pegs, not 6 as you stated. There are 3 pegs on one side and 1 peg on the other, totalling 4 in the pic.

[@lansesteiner3563]

I was listening to the 1982 Fleetwood Mac album “Mirage” and I noticed something I’ve never seen before on the cover art. Do you see the old hag’s face made out of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks hands? Wow! Clever

[@Mattteus]

Right above where it says “wot no Guinness” is Kilroy. Usually under him it says “Kilroy was here”

[@familydogg1234]

Paul and John sang on Stones We Love You mid 1967- but isnt on the LP. I never noticed George and Ringo as I have the 3D holographic cover

[@Darrell9000]

The Santana cover was really cool.

[@JulioLopez-qv8fp]

The back cover of AC/DC Highway to Hell where Bon is standing there is smoke next to him that looks like some small figure kind of eerie

[@p.d.l7023]

I love this kind of shit. As an artist, this is never an accident.

[@TLA1014]

Loved this video, Frank! Would love for you to do these every so often. This never gets old!!!

[@Channel33RPM]

Thanks. More to come!

[@caveman3021]

Great video! In the 80s I saw a rare pressing of the Sgt Pepper album that still had Ghandis' face on it in Toronto, and Im still kicking myself for not getting it🙄 They also used to say that inside the gatefold of The Eagles' LP "Hotel California" , that the person standing on the balcony surveying the party going on below was Anton LaVey. I think its been established since that it is not, but the urban legend adds more lore to the cover art.🤷‍♂

[@cwaynehauck3593]

I always heard it was Alistair Crowley overlooking the room.... 🤔

[@caveman3021]

@@cwaynehauck3593 Fascinating! I've never heard that one🤔

[@CandiceGates-cc3rs]

My favorite would b the Santana 1 so so cool. Makes me think of Octavio Ocampo. An absolutely stunning artist. My personal favorite.

[@larryoneill7432]

You missed it on Boston. Each ship (guitar) is a city escaping an exploding earth. On Don’t Look Back you see the city of Boston arriving at a new planet

[@kevinmcc3147]

On the who album quadrophenia the four band members pictures are on the four mirrors on the bike.

[@Lizard-of-Oz]

That pope in the Led Zeppeling inner-cover could also be Mr Alister Crawley

[@kirklarson1316]

I'm sure you didn't forget the HOTEL CALIFORNIA inner art w/""satan" himself front and center

[@Channel33RPM]

I had it in my hand and was going to include it... I love that gatefold image... but I figured I had enough for this video. There's always part 2....

[@mvader7188]

Spinal Taps "Smell the glove" has a lot of imagery and hidden messages 😅

[@Channel33RPM]

😁

[@colerieger7300]

You should have seen the cover they wanted to do!!

[@scytaleghola5969]

Jethro Tull, Stormwatch, on the back cover there is a faint image of an "old ghost". Not exactly the same thing but the logo for the band Angel is an ambigram - it looks identical when rotated 180 degrees.

[@tompatchak8706]

I don’t know man I’m pretty interesting things on there not there, but the Led Zeppelin one in this video is totally getting me because I did not see a dog or a goat or a serpent or anything. I just saw a pile of rocks. Although the Orioles record for the upside down, look like guitars is pretty cool now I can’t like you said can’t on see it.

[@thegillman777]

Prince’s “Around the World in a Day” has a bunch of hidden images, but the one many miss is that the mountain range behind the characters is the profile of a nude woman laying down.

[@curtisbrown5939]

" I see a line of cars and they're all painted black"