10 Most Controversial Album Covers Of All Time
10. Electric Ladyland- The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
Unlike the other entries on this list, there is not an ounce of artistic integrity or visual intention behind this alternate cover of the super groups final album. Or if there is, it certainly did not come from the minds of Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding or Mitch Mitchell. Ignoring Hendrixs concept designs, Reprise pushed on and decided to wrap this magnificent double LP inside a gang of women flaunting their corporeal finery.
We've not done you the liberty of supplying the image, as it's quite literally just a load of ladies sat around with all their bits out. That's what SafeSearch is for.
It may have reflected the decades relaxed attitude to sex and nudity but Hendrix, a legendary artistic perfectionist, expressed much disdain for the covers fleshy feast and menagerie of mammary glands. Even the models look embarrassed at the studios attempts to feed off the zeitgeist. A cold, hard cash-in.