Hi, guys! This is truly my favorite site. Keep it going forever, please! I have a Traumafession for you that I'd be surprised if no one else my age could relate to. When I was growing up in the 70's, my parents had an extensive album collection that I would browse through from time to time and one of their favorite bands was Three Dog Night. There was an album of theirs called Hard Labor with a really bizarre and horrifying cover. It was a picture of a hospital operating room with some kind of weird mannequin/alien being with bird-like feet giving birth to a record album with a roomful of attending medical staff crowded around. At least that was the original album cover before the record company made them cover the lower third of the album with a huge plastic Band-Aid…..which made the image even more mysterious and frightening!
That cover with the Band-Aid was the source of many a nightmare when I was a kid….but, of course, I still had to look at it when I felt particularly daring. The image on the back of the album wasn't much better, depicting the "mannequin/alien" thing on a carousel. Whoever thought that was a good image to slap on the band's cover was on some pretty good drugs! That cover has always stayed with me, I included here the original cover, the back cover, and the Band-Aid cover that scarred my fragile psyche.
Great traumafession Rob S.!!! I can't believe the record company thought that Band-Aid helped matters!
This is fascinating, never seen this album cover. Truly frightening, kind of like the Beatles "Butcher baby".
Good one Rob! Hiding the horror under a Band Aid never works – when will they learn? I did a 'Fession a while back on this very topic and can very much relate to the horror of 70's album covers. I suspect that we are in the same geenral age bracket (approaching "hoary").
https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-kinderpal-chuckles-on-70s-lp-covers/
Chuckles72: "Long-in-the-tooth" would be another apt description, unfortunately. I was born in '70. I read your 'Fession a while ago and it's what made me think of mine. I never found the Queen cover "scary" per se, but I did find it fascinating. Spent lots of time studying that one. I wasn't aware of the Sabbath and Funkadelic covers until I was in my teens. My parents didn't listen to anything THAT cool! I'm sure if I think on it, I could come up with some other relatively innocuous things from the 70's that frightened me. The 70's were pretty scary in general!