Sexy Packaging / Music

• R&B and Hip-Hop covers often do this, like the main page's picture, for Trina's Diamond Princess album.
• 1970s funk band the Ohio Players became notorious for the scantily-clad female models on their album covers. The exceptions are their Observations In Time, First Impressions and Tenderness albums^note  The Observations In Time and First Impressions have no nude female models at all, and Tenderness has a clothed model in a pin-up pose
• Rolling Stone did a whole list: As Nasty as They Wanna Be: The 20 Dirtiest Album Covers of All Time. (might be NSFW)
• The cover of Bebop Deluxe’s Sunburst Finish featured a nude model, Nicki Howarth Dwek, clutching a burning guitar.
• The cover of the insanely long-titled debut album by Bow Wow Wow drew in some listeners by depicting female lead singer Anabella Lwin nude on its cover in an imitation of Édouard Manet's famous painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. It also drew controversy since Lwin was only 14 at the time of the photoshoot. Lwin's mother filed an investigation with London police for child pornography, but the investigation did not lead to any prosecutions, and McLaren continued to use nude photos of Lwin on the band's future album covers.
• The cover for Giulietta's 911: Code Pink.
• Ultra Records. Each installment in the Ultra.Trance and Ultra.Dance series feature a different bikini-clad girl on the cover.
• Most Roxy Music album covers are designed to resemble fashion magazines, and consequently feature a sexy pin-up girl or two. Notably, the cover of Country Life caused some controversy in the United States due to its cover depicting one of its two female models in translucent lingerie (thus making her nipples and pubic hair somewhat visible) and the other covering her breasts with her hands. As a result, the album was first released in the US packaged in a green nylon outer bag (something Pink Floyd would later replicate with the black outer bag for Wish You Were Here (1975)), and later with the back photograph of an evergreen tree branch moved to the front.
• Chromeo's Business Casual, and the single Hot Mess. Both feature a leggy secretary in pantyhose, and the latter has her bending over.
• A particular 60s album of Middle Eastern folk music was titled Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer and had a cover picture of the torso of a rather well-developed woman who was wearing absolutely nothing but a pair of tiny tassled pasties above the waist.
• Lit's Miserable had two. One from before the video came out with a tiny 60's style pinup model posing inside a martini glass. The other that was used for promotional poster's for the video that featured a giant Pamela Anderson posing in a bikini with the members of Lit standing on top of her butt.
• Lady Gaga's The Remix◊. Weirdly, while her videos/concerts are filled with fanservice, this is her only album cover with it (all others have just her face).
• The cover for the 1965 LP (that's the big black disk-like thing that makes sounds) Whipped Cream And Other Delights is literally the only reason anyone remembers that musical group. At least that album included a song named "Whipped Cream".
• Of particular note is Sugar Ray's Lemonade and Brownies, featuring Nicole Eggert from Baywatch.
• This cover◊ for R&B group Changing Faces, which is advertising something that's not on the album (i.e songs about sex).
• All of the Erotic Lounge album covers.
• The cover of Sky Ferreira's debut Night Time, My Time shows the singer topless in the showe. You know that'll get some second and third looks.
• Helena Iren Michaelsen, singer of symphonic metal band Imperia, is not a small-chested woman. The band's first album really wants you to remember that◊. Along with most of the promo material...
• The UK album cover of Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix showed a group of nude women. This was however done without Hendrix' permission and he was furious when he heard that the studio executives had ignored his idea.
• The cover of Songs About Fucking by Big Black shows an Animesque woman during intercourse.
• David Bowie:
  • The cover of Diamond Dogs shows a painting depicting Bowie and a bunch of dog/man hybrids. One provocative detail on the cover was Bowie's penis, which was airbrushed out on some of the copies.
  • Tin Machine II features a row of nude male statues, whose genitals were digitally scratched out on the American release, again to Bowie's distaste. At one point he considered setting up a mail-order offer for American buyers to receive stickers of the genitals as a way to manually de-censor the cover, only to drop this after learning that sending depictions of genitals through the mail was a serious legal offense.
• Nick Cave's shirtless pose on the cover of Let Love In.
• The cover of Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. So bad, it was wrapped in brown paper on initial release. They aren't even attractive nudes... which was kinda the point. Stripping away glamour and artifice in favor of honesty about the body was not only a hippie ideal, but something Yoko had done with her films for a long time, and John thought of nudity as representing innocence.
  "The picture was to prove that we are not a couple of demented freaks, that we are not deformed in any way and that our minds are healthy. If we can make society accept these kind of things without offense, without sniggering, then we shall be achieving our purpose."
• Madonna does this on most of her album covers, with Like a Virgin and Like a Prayer probably as the most blatant examples.
• The Smiths:
  • The album cover of their Self Title D Album shows a shot of a handsome boy with his shirt off.
  • Their debut single "Hand In Glove" featured an image of a naked man from behind, a licensed photograph by homoerotic photographer Jim French which was originally published long before the single's release. Morrissey chose the cover art and was deliberately courting controversy with the sleeve. Later on, The Smiths were trying to get vocalist Sandie Shaw to cover some of their material, and at one point they sent her a copy of the "Hand In Glove" single: She did cover the song, but the artwork didn't leave a good initial impression, as she reportedly exclaimed to her husband "he's started sending me pictures of naked men with their bums showing!".
• The album cover of The Pixies' Surfer Rosa features a bare-breasted flamenco dancer.
• A beautiful painting by Mati Klarwein shows a black nude woman. It was used as the album cover of Abraxas by Santana.
• Happens in classical music too: the Hallé Orchestra's recording of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique depicts a strikingly blonde topless woman with woodland flowers braided into her hair and a serpent twining itself around her.
• Many of Karento's Touhou Project arrangement albums have an almost naked Touhou Project character on the cover.
• The cover of the soundtrack album for Ron Harris's Aerobicise/20-Min Workout Workout Fanservice video series appropriately features a woman clad in a barely-visible leotard crouching in a lordotic pose, erotically gasping and throwing her head back.
• Red Hot Chili Peppers:
  • The Mother's Milk album cover features a topless model, with miniature versions of the band members lying on her arms and leaning against her breasts. It's even more ridiculous when considering that the model herself was offended by certain versions of the cover that featured her nipples exposed, and successfully sued the band for $50,000.
  • The band's Abbey Road E.P. features the band doing an Abbey Road Crossing only wearing their infamous wang-covering gym socks.
• Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville features Liz topless in a photo booth, with the cover cutting off her photo near the cleavage.
• The Black Crowes's third album Amorica shares its cover image with the bicentennial issue of Hustler Magazine. Before you jump to conclusions, no, there is no nudity. It's a close-up of a woman's bikini-clad crotch. In honor of America's bicentennial, she's wearing an American flag-print bikini. Oh, and there's some pubic hair sticking out from underneath the swimsuit, but who cares about a little pubic hair, right? Turns out, the religious right was pretty bored that week, and launched a boycott of any retailers that carried the album, resulting in Walmart and Target refusing to sell it. Eventually an edited version was released: everything except the bikini was blacked out. Yes, even the woman. What makes this really interesting is that the band predicted there would be controversy with the cover, but not from the pubic hair. They expected people to be offended by showing an American flag in a sexual context, and were utterly shocked when nobody even mentioned that aspect.
• Ween's cover for their digital-only album Craters of the Sac is a close-up of a scrotum.
• The cover of the Japanese electronic music duo capsule's "Sugarless Girl" album is a picture of a voluptuous naked woman covering herself.
• The LP release of Keith Moon's solo album, Two Sides of the Moon, showed Moon riding in a car on the cover. The window through which Moon is seen is cut through on the sleeve, so that the art varies depending on how the inner sleeve is inserted. Either he's looking out through the window while clutching a cane, or he's, appropriately enough, mooning the camera.
• Liars' "It Fit When I Was A Kid" single, which features the band members crudely photoshopped into gay porn. The censored version (probably deliberately) made it seem even worse than it actually was.
• Taken to entirely new levels by Heavenly, who in their later releases subtituted more traditional power metal album covers for lesbian fantasy softcore pornography.
• Some of the Manowar's album covers venture into this direction with all the shirtless barbarians and the topless succubi in them. Boris Vallejo must have been busy that week...
• Mala Madre by the Chilean rock and folk singer-songwriter Camila Moreno. She appears naked under transparent clothing. Her breasts and genitals are visible.
• The disc of tool's Ænima album had a picture of a naked contortionist (taken from behind) - it could still prove awkward if you, say, put the disc itself in a CD wallet and let someone flip through. This is from a picture that appeared in the album artwork. The album's lyrics do not have any sexual meaning. Their Undertow album's liner notes also contained some offensive pictures that do not relate to the songs. Admittedly, "Stinkfist" from Ænima was about, well, fisting.
• Bullet for My Valentine's album Fever. If you don't want to click the link, it's a profile photo of a pale, scantily clad woman.
• The cover for the 2010 vinyl remaster of XTC's album, Skylarking, which features a shot of female pubic hair with flowers. The cover was rejected by Virgin in 1986. Sometimes, meddling executives have a point.
• Supertramp's Indelibly Stamped consists of the arms and chest of a naked and heavily-tattooed woman.
• Roger Waters' The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking illustrates the album concept of a guy commiting adultery with a hitchhiker by having her bottomless in the cover. Releases often cover it with a Censor Box.
• Wolf Alice's official debut EP "Blush" makes you do precisely what the title says. The band wanted to invoke a feeling of awkwardness, one that would make awkward teenagers even more awkward. So how else could they do better than having a female's body from the waist up, with the head obscured. Oh, and she's naked, with breasts unashamedly on display?
• The Slits' Cut famously features the three female members of the band ^note male drummer Budgie doesn't appear anywhere in the artwork dressed only in topless loincloths and covered in mud. It was clearly intended to make them look tribal and confrontational instead of sexy though, and in that sense it did fit the content of the album.
• Experimental/industrial/alternative hip-hop group Death Grips promised two albums in 2012: the first one was The Money Store, which was released in April. The second album, No Love, was promised for a release in the Fall, with the band canceling an entire tour to work on it. However, on September 30th, the band revealed via their (now-defunct) Twitter account that their label, Epic Records, didn't want them to release the album, now titled No Love Deep Web, in 2012, pushing it back for a 2013 release. The band then put the full album up for streaming on their website, their Soundcloud, and their YouTube account, with their website also hosting the album for free download. Complementing this outburst against Epic was the album's cover: a picture of one of the band member's erect penis against a bathroom wall, with the album's name sharpied onto it.
• The cover to Sky Ferreira's Night Time, My Time is an artistic photograph of the artist nude in the shower from the waist up. Digital prints zoom in the picture so her nipples aren't seen.
• Basement Jaxx's Remedy depicts a quite abstract picture of several naked bodies lying together in really close positions.
• The early synth album Moog Plays the Beatles by Marty Gold has a pair of naked clay figurines (a man and a woman) on the cover. Not surprisingly, the iTunes download version has their naughty bits covered by a sticker.
• The album Alles ist Gut by Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft shows the upper body half of the sweat-covered Gabi Delgado-López.
• The outer booklet cover to Frankenchrist by Dead Kennedys wasn't all that bad, depicting shriners riding tiny cars at a parade. However, inside the booklet was a painting by the late H. R. Giger, showing self-sodomising penises and vulvae. Moral Guardians were majorly upset, and the resulting controversy nearly drove the band's label Alternative Tentacles to bankruptcy.
• Dum Dum Girls' Blissed Out has a cover featuring three nude women standing in front of fir trees. According to lead singer Dee Dee Penny, it's an image she found online while looking for potential album artwork, and was originally from a German soft-core pornography film; Because Blissed Out was a limited-run, cassette-only compilation, she figured it was the only way she'd get away with using it as an album cover. It's also been interpreted as a Shout-Out to Roxy Music's Country Life, which featured half-naked women in a very similar setting, but the band have never mentioned that being a motivation for choosing the photo.
• Autre Ne Veut's cover for their Body EP appears to be a close-up of a certain female part, though the artist has stated in interviews that it is in fact a closeup of oiled hands.
• Several of John Zorn's album covers are controversial, especially those recorded with his bands Naked City and Painkiller.
  • "Torture Garden" (1990) by Naked City shows a nude Asian woman with a whip.
  • "Heretic" (1992) by Naked City shows women photographed from the back in S&M outfits.
  • Radio (1993) by Naked City features a man in bondage costume holding on to a chain.
  • "Rituals: Live in Japan" (1991) by Painkiller shows a woman hitting a man in an S&M bondage situation.
  • "Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum" (2008) features a shot of a nude woman lying on her back in the grass.
• Muzak by Saturnia is literally a picture of a nipple.
• The sleeve for the single "Infected" by The The depicts the devil enjoying himself, so to speak.
• One of the Japanese covers for the soundtrack to Muramasa: The Demon Blade has one of Oodako's tentacles covering Momohime's otherwise exposed crotch and her breasts almost falling out of her kimono. Another cover shows Yuzuruha sitting in a seductive pose, lifting her kimono with her foot barely acting as a Scenery Censor, a third has Torahime naked in a Boobs-and-Butt Pose with one arm covering her breasts and her buttocks obscured by her flesh turning transparent, and a forth is of a naked Momohime seen from behind with her shoulders, back, and butt covered in tattoos, glaring over her shoulder while drawing a sword.
• The originally intended artwork to Rob Zombie's remix album Mondo Sex Head depicted a bottomless Sheri Moon Zombie from behind. After stores refused to carry the album, a new design featuring a kitten was used, and the photo of Sheri Moon was only used for the vinyl edition - Rob Zombie described the use of the alternate cover as replacing an "ass shot" with a "pussy shot".
• Synthwave artist Perturbator had a tendency to have these types of covers for his EPs and albums, especially due to them being based off of 80's slasher movies. Practically all of them have some sort of a scantily clad woman on there somewhere, sometimes with satanic imagery in tow; for example, The Uncanny Valley's sole figure is a nude succubus. He ditched this trope with New Model - whose cover is completely abstract; the follow-up Lustful Sacraments is also an aversion despite the album title, as it shows a lit archway with a group of people circling around on the other side.
• The original release of 8-Way Santa by Tad featured a photo the band had found in a thrift store - it depicted a shirtless man and a bikini-clad woman, both with '70s Hair, smiling at the camera as the man gropes the woman's breast. Later pressings substituted a photo of the band posing in front of a cow pasture, not because the original image was too risque, but because the people depicted on the cover found out about it and threatened to sue.
• The cover of S'Express's Original Soundtrack depicts one of the female band members provocatively posing in an Impossibly-Low Neckline dress.
• Brazilian singer Marisa Monte had one album with the art direction based on old pornographic comics known as "catechisms", including a topless woman in the cover. The international version put a Censor Box on her nipples to not be refused by big American distributors.
• The only album by Brazilian band Mamonas Assassinas had in its cover the drawing of a topless buxom woman, the only allusion to the band's Punny Name - while literally meaning "killer castor beans", 'mamona' was also meant to invoke a big mammary, to the point the band said the English translation for their name was "The Big Killer Breasts".
• Nation of Language's "Indignities" single cover features a nude woman reclining on a couch and displaying her unshaven armpit.
• Yung Bae's BAE 2 has a curvy topless model in a crotch-showing Boobs-and-Butt Pose.
• Robin Fox's "It's Gonna Be Okay" single cover pictures her in a cleavage-baring minidress and thigh-high boots, in contrast to the modest Sweater Girl cover of its parent album, I See Stars.
• Sade's Love Deluxe has Sade sensually embracing herself topless.
• Charli XCX embraces being Ms. Fanservice—she's naked on the cover of Charli with her breasts only barely covered by some futuristic pink wires, is in just white panties and a crop top on how i'm feeling now, and is in a bikini on the cover of CRASH. (Though that last one, being a Shout-Out to Crash by David Cronenberg, may cause some Fan Disservice since it's supposed to look like she's just been hit by a car).
• The Strokes original cover for Is This It is a close-up of a woman's butt/hip area with a leather glove placed on it, the model being one of the band member's girlfriends. When talking about the cover, they said that they weren't trying to go for anything in particular and just wanted to take a sexy picture.