[UA] [OT] Do you like... classical music?

[Joe Murphy]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bailey Watts" <didi_mau at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] [OT] Do you like... classical music?


> >--- WingedCoyote at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > There's a norwegian (i think) black metal band with
> > > a worse cover than that.
> > > See, their lead singer killed himself. When they
> > > found him, first thing they
> > > did was take a polaroid. Later, they made it an
> > > album cover. If the stories
> > > are to be believed, they also made necklaces out of
> > > bits of his skull and
> > > cooked and ate a chunk of his brain. Wholesome.
> > >
> >
> >Well, I guess somebody had to trump 'em. Except I
> >don't know if anyone is gonna trump that.
> >
> >I wonder what his family thought.
> >
> >Steve
>
> Well it doesn't have the gross out factor, but there was that Corrosion of
> Conformity single from 1990 that had a picture of George Bush Sr. waving
in
> a crosshairs.  All the record stores in my area refused to carry it.  When
I
> finally found a place that had it the CD was in a plain brown wrapper.

How tame. =)

Mind you, it was 1990. Puritanical days indeed.

Chumbawamba had a controversial album cover in the mid-90s, of a baby coming
out of a vagina. He didn't look cheerful about it, either.

Joe.





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