The Fab Faux: A Collection of Beatles Parody Album Covers
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Once another band parodies your album cover, you know you've arrived. Once tens, even hundreds of other bands have done it, you know you're ... well, the Beatles. The Fab Four's iconographic legacy is so deeply ingrained in our collective unconscious that musicians old and new (and even the Beatles themselves) can't resist the urge to "cover" their covers. Here are just a few of our favorite Beatles album-art homages.
The Beatles
'With the Beatles' (1963)
The Residents
'Meet the Residents' (1974)
Genesis
'Land of Confusion' (1986)
The Stone City Band
'Meet the Stone City Band: Out From the Shadow' (1983)
Young Black Teenagers
'Young Black Teenagers' (1991)
The Smithereens
'Meet the Smithereens' (2007)
The Beatles
'A Hard Day's Night' (1964)
Original Soundtrack
'High Fidelity' (2000)
The Damned
'Marvellous: The Best of the Damned' (2000)
Nick Heyward
'A Hard Day's Nick' (1996)
R. Stevie Moore
'Glad Music' (1986)
The Beatles
'Help!' (1965)
Tater Totz
'Mono Stereo!' (1990)
Charta 77
'Hel!'(1994)
The Beatles
'Rubber Soul' (1965)
Superdrag
'Señorita' EP (1999)
The Monkees
'More of the Monkees' (1967)
The Beatles
'Revolver' (1966)
Cathy Berberian
'Revolution' (1969)
Mina
'Mina Canta I Beatles' (1993)
The Bartlebees
'What Is It All About' (1994)
The Beatles
'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967)
The Mothers of Invention
'We're Only in It for the Money' [Inner Gatefold] (1968)
Def Leppard
'Songs From the Sparkle Lounge' (2008)
Devendra Banhart
'Cripple Crow' (2005)
The Rolling Stones
'Their Satanic Majesty's Request' (1967)
The Beatles
'Magical Mystery Tour' (1967)
Beatallica
'Masterful Mystery Tour' (2009)
The Beatles
'The Beatles' (The White Album) (1968)
Metallica
'The Black Album' (1991)
Prince
'Black Album' (1994)
Spinal Tap
'This Is Spinal Tap' (1984)
Danger Mouse
'The Grey Album' (2004)
Dennis Miller
'The Off-White Album' (1988)
Lewis Black
'The White Album' (2000)
The Beatles
'Yellow Submarine' (1969)
The Canadian Brass
'All You Need Is Love' (1998)
PPT
'Denglish: A State of Mind' (2008)
Tater Totz
'Alien Sleestacks from Brazil' (1988)
The Beatles
'Abbey Road' (1969)
Booker T & the MGs
'McLemore Avenue' (1970)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
'The Abbey Road EP' (1988)
Paul McCartney
'Paul is Live' (1993)
Chubb Rock
'The Mind' (1997)
Kanye West
'Late Orchestration' (2006)
The Beatles
'Let It Be' (1970)
The Buzzcocks
'Singles Going Steady' [Back Cover] (1979)
Caetano Veloso
'Qualquer Coisa' (1975)
Gorillaz
'Demon Days' (2005)
Laibach
'Let It Be' (1988)
The Geto Boys
'The Geto Boys' (1995)
U2
'Pop' (1997)
The Beatles
'Please Please Me' (1963)
The Beatles
'1967-1970' (The Blue Album) (1973)
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the truthat 9-20-2009
You geniuses forgot The Simpsons' "Yellow Album" cover.
Jessat 1-24-2010
also SpongeBob's yellow album
trainwrexxxxat 9-28-2009
a lot of these were simly similar not anywhere close to parody,
the monkees and rubber sould? no, the stones and sgt peppers, no
in fact most of the entries on let it be just happen to be 4 pictures, i doubt with any concious or subconcious attempt to parody or copy
Jeffat 2-01-2010
Wrong. Everyone knows that Satanic Majesty is not only an album cover rip off, they ripped off the whole Sgt. Pepper album.
ikkeat 10-01-2009
I think you missed the infamous "Sinister slaughter" by the similarly infamous band Macabre: a bad taste parody of Sergent Pepper composed of maniacs and serial killers...
xorcystat 1-05-2010
You beat me to it, Sinister Slaughter should be on this list.
Williamat 10-03-2009
Hmmm ... I wonder if the Beatles were receiving royalties on these parodies covers. And what about the lawyers?
maggieat 10-17-2009
what about Jet's "Get Born" album? totally like the revolver album.
Kagomeat 10-22-2009
You forgot The Rutles A parody of The Beatles
Venusgrnysat 10-27-2009
What about The Rutles....how could you possibly forget that one......????
Muffinat 10-25-2009
See, what a lot of people don't get is that Metallica's so-called 'Black Album' is actually self-titled. It's called 'Metallica', NOT the 'Black Album'.
morleyat 10-27-2009
and the ""White Album" was called that colloquilly- the actual title of the album is "The Beatles"... clearly Metallica copied...
frizzleat 12-11-2009
I'm with ya on that, The 'Black Album' is just an easy representation..or may i say lazy title..I bought it on vinyl because it was first released that way, on vinyl....then the cassette and cd came later it's title is Metallica youngins.........cliff'em all
fuzzpedalsat 11-06-2009
utopia...
Hondoat 11-09-2009
Respectfully; the list is not complete without The intire "Rutles" catalouge. Neil Innes is a genius! (not to mention Eric Idle).
ziggy22at 11-22-2009
What about Ringo's "Ringo" LP ('73 or so) as a Sgt. Pepper parody?
Aaronat 11-29-2009
I remember seeing more parodies of "Abbey Road" elsewhere; there was a t-shirt that replaced them with Looney Tunes characters and called it "Looney Road". There were also two versions of it made with a fictional band from the Japanese animated show K-On! Mio Akiyama, the bassist in the group, even plays bass left-handed like Paul.
Nickat 12-03-2009
You forgot to include Weezer's red, green, and blue albums and I think one of Sonic Youth's albums for "Let It Be"
frizzleat 12-11-2009
fun stuff........Primus' "brown album"
Thank you
Richat 12-16-2009
Todd Rundgren's Utopia "Deface the Music" parody of "Meet the Beatles" or as they say in the UK "With the Beatles".