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We’ve taken 15 of the biggest-selling, most iconic album covers in history and created one heck of a quiz! Can you spot the originals from the ones we’ve craftily altered? Click here to prove your music mettle.
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you should include why they were wrong. what was altered?
posted by Mpyre9 on 5-29-2007 at 8:08 am
The photo/image on the cover of the “wrong” ones are reversed. It says so in the instructions.
Of course, I’m not the type to read instructions either…
posted by Sandy on 5-29-2007 at 8:14 am
ah. i see what they did there…
posted by Mpyre9 on 5-29-2007 at 10:15 am
The Joshua Tree cover is bogus. The original album cover is almost entirely black with just a thin landscape photograph about 1/3 from the top. the band members are in the picture but are offset to the left with a large canyon behind them. The example you’ve used is from a CD or cassette re-release.
posted by John on 5-29-2007 at 10:47 am
John — you’re right. The image is still the same orientation, though, and that’s what the whole “bogus” thing is about. We’ve replaced the image with the correct original one, though. Thanks for the heads up!
posted by Sandy on 5-29-2007 at 10:53 am
73 % Bang on.
Keep them coming.
posted by The Dude on 5-29-2007 at 12:08 pm
That was pretty cool! I hadn’t seen some of them before, but I hit about 60% of them right. :)
posted by Stephen on 5-29-2007 at 1:04 pm
10/15 This is bad, I have most of these.
posted by walrusboy on 5-29-2007 at 1:09 pm
I’ll consider my 40% score pretty good considering I guessed on 13 of them.
I knew the Bruce Springsteen and the Nirvana ones, but that was it.
posted by sporkk on 5-29-2007 at 2:50 pm
I have an almost pathological inability to distinguish which are which, even though I’ve seen all these album covers multiple times. I never even notice when someone is left- or right-handed unless it’s pointed out to me. I think has something to do with being left-handed and adapting to a right-handed world. For instance, when I was learning to play guitar, I watched other players and had no trouble distinguishing what they were playing, something that couldn’t be said for all the right-handed players I’ve tried to teach. I have to tell them it’s like playing in front of a mirror.
posted by Daylightrambler on 5-29-2007 at 4:37 pm
Sandy, The Joshua Tree is still wrong. The image you have has all the members squished in one half of the image, the actual cover is not like that. I want my score fixed! BOO!!! :)
posted by LiquidHeaven on 5-30-2007 at 12:17 pm
12/15 suckas!
posted by julio on 5-30-2007 at 12:18 pm
Okay, I got the right one this time. The first one was a rerelease; the second was an EP. But they all three have the same photo in the same orientation, so I’m gonna say “no do-overs” on that one!
posted by Sandy on 5-30-2007 at 2:44 pm
67%. Wow, that’s like, almost 2 out of 3.
posted by nffcnnr on 6-2-2007 at 1:32 pm
13 out of 15!! Hells yeah!! I’m a very visual person. Honestly, though, I did a lot of guessing on this.
posted by Abbasmurf on 10-5-2007 at 9:07 am
This was really fun, I haven’t seen some of these for so long it was kind of hard to remember.
posted by Rena on 10-25-2007 at 8:41 am
I got 60% and I guessed at all of them.
posted by Iris on 11-10-2007 at 5:20 pm
I enjoyed this quiz (9/15); took me back a few years. Had to rack my brain as it’s been a long time since I’ve seen these covers.
Hammer, don’t hurt ‘em……
posted by D on 12-10-2007 at 6:20 pm
I thought you cheated on the Aerosmith cover by substituting the Aero portion of the name!
posted by Nona on 12-26-2007 at 2:34 pm
The Michael Jackson Album cover is bogus because my brother has that album and i looked at it and he is holding a tiger on the cover ok and u marked me and my mom wrong
posted by Jennifer on 1-12-2008 at 9:53 pm
How many people from the “younger” generation are even going to know what an album cover is? Or a CD for that matter. It’s a lost art form.
posted by Val on 2-20-2008 at 11:37 am
This was a lot harder than it sounded!
i agree the album/cd cover is a lost art form. I do miss having most of music digitally with nothing to look at.
posted by starr01 on 2-29-2008 at 5:09 pm
i too miss album covers. i did not do well though i’ve seen and own most of these.
posted by c.j. on 6-18-2008 at 2:49 pm
I agree with Mpyre9. How were they different?
posted by Sara on 8-24-2008 at 5:33 pm
fun quiz. great site.
posted by Carolyn on 11-26-2008 at 9:17 pm
You’re completely wrong on the aerosmith cover. I have the album right beside me as I write this. Why would they put the “smith” part of aerosmith on the front? Get copies of the actual albums before you try something like this instead of doing internet searches. I notice others are pointing out errors too. That’s the problem with the internet, it’s a nice resource, but easily led astray by hoaxers.
posted by Robert on 3-1-2009 at 11:12 am
The only ones I got wrong was Stranger and Steve Miller Band. :D
posted by Freedom McGee on 7-15-2009 at 3:55 pm
I object to the fact that your quiz would not allow me to skip the Garth Brooks question. I have gone to great lengths to ignore this man’s career, and now you’re asking me to care about it, even for five seconds?
btw, what’s an album?
posted by Obsequious Jones on 8-19-2009 at 6:55 am