8 Bizarre Reasons Famous Album Covers Were Rejected

5. Guns N' Roses Wanted To Comment On Society Through Robot Rape

Holy crap this one is bizarre. Ever wanted to see a robotic rapist about to get minced by a flying monster with a dozen limbs and a big metal tongue? Okay, so when you put it like that, it sounds pretty awesome, but the whole concept is just...strange.

As usual, retailers didn't want anything to do with the original cover for Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction, and the art was replaced with the familiar image of the cross with skulls. The band described the original artwork as being "a symbolic social statement, with the robot representing the industrial system that's raping and polluting our environment." Hearing that, it's probably for the best things got switched around, because it sounds like something a teenager would pencil-sketch onto a notepad during a politics class. In a 2011 interview with That Metal Show, Axl Rose claimed that even before all that he had hoped to go with a photograph of the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding, but that was rejected too for being in bad taste.