History Main / AlternateAlbumCover

** The CD releases comprising sets of Stages 1-3 and Stages 4-6 feature none of the main artworks for the albums, instead featuring one new painting for the one-disc set of Stages 1-3, and one per disc for the 4-disc set of Stages 4-6 (which is divided up that way due to space limitations on the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format).

** The Japanese release of the ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' soundtrack album depicts the game's Japanese box art, with some of the accompanying logos changed to reflect the fact that it's a music CD rather than a UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 cartridge. The US release of the soundtrack, meanwhile, depicts renders of Mario posing, punching, kicking, and swinging Bowser around. Furthermore, the German release repurposes a render depicting Metal Mario standing in Hazy Maze Cave.

** The ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'' soundtrack features three different album covers depending on the region. The Japanese release depicts a render of Yoshi crossing his arms in front of aluminum foil balloons bearing the game name, the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 logo, the health meter, and Yoshi eggs, all atop a white backdrop. The US release, ''Music to Pound the Ground To'', depicts Yoshi flashing a peace sign atop a denim pocket with the N64 logo embroidered in the corner. The German release, ''Love, Peace & Happiness'', features a mirrored recreation of the game's box art.

** ''Iowa'' had a version of its standard cover art with a reddish-orange tint made for CD reissues of the album. Meanwhile, its 10th Anniversary Edition uses a completely different photo for the cover.
** The CD and digital-exclusive Special Edition of ''Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)'' has a heavily edited photo of the band's members at the time of release as the cover art (previously used for one of the sleeves of the album's vinyl release), in contrast to the standard edition's "Maggot Mask" photo. In the CD version, the Special Edition cover takes the form of a slipcase over the standard cover.
** The cover art for the 10th Anniversary Edition of ''All Hope Is Gone'' is a rendition of the standard one, with the band members wearing large statue-like masks (again, these masks were featured in internal photos of the album) and a yellow sky.

* The cover art of the original edition of Tad's ''8-Way Santa'' featured a shirtless man with very [[TheSeventies 70s facial hair]] groping a bikini-clad woman as both smiled for the camera. The picture had been found in a photo album donated to a thrift store, and when the people depicted in the photo threatened legal action, it was reissued with a photo of the band posing in front of a cattle field.

** The cover art for ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'' was designed as an unflattering, yet very thorough SgtPeppersShoutOut, which Music/PaulMcCartney reportedly approved of. However, Creator/VerveRecords changed the cover at the last minute to swap the outer art with the gatefold photo, which depicts a plain image of the Mothers of Invention against a yellow background (as a riff on the ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' gatefold photo). When Zappa regained the rights to his back-catalog in TheEighties, he had the inner and outer art swapped back to match his original intentions.

** While all the formats ''One More Time...'' was released on share the MinimalisticCoverArt with the band's name, the album's title, and a new version of the band's smiley logo, each format has a different background color: cyan for CD, bright pink for vinyl, and lime green for casette. The album's digital release, on the other hand, uses a plain white cover featuring three black-and-white photos of the members alongside the band name and album title.

** While all the formats ''One More Time...'' was released on share the MinimalisticCoverArt with the band's name, the album's title, and a new version of the band's smiley logo, each format has a different background color: cyan for CD, bright pink for vinyl, and lime green for casette.

** The original 1992 release of ''Music/AmusedToDeath'' depicts a photo of a chimpanzee staring at an eyeball on a CRT television. For the 2015 remaster, this was replaced with a new photo that recreates the original, but with a baby starting at an LED television instead.

* ''Operation: Doomsday'' by Music/MFDoom has ''three'' album covers. Two of them are of a hooded DOOM (with a [[Franchise/FantasticFour Doctor Doom]]-esque appearance) holding a microphone. They differ somewhat in appearance despite their similarities -- the 2011 re-release cover more clearly resembles DOOM. Another cover features DOOM's hand using a knife as a record needle. This cover was used for the 2011 deluxe remastered edition. The later two covers were created due to licensing issues with the original artwork that created problems with reissuing the album.

** The artwork used for ''Music/StickyFingers'' features the crotch of jeans close up. On the original release, the zipper worked and would expose briefs. Later releases would not use the working zipper, such as the Mobile Fidelity Half Speed Master, which used a shiny embossing to represent the missing zipper. In Spain, the Franco Regime censored the artwork so it was replaced with a can of treacle with a hand reaching out of it.

** While all the formats ''One More Time...'' was released on share the MinimalisticCoverArt with the band's name, the album's title, and a new version of the band's smiley logo, each format has a different background color: cyan for CD, bright pink for vinyl and lime green for casette.

** ''AudioPlay/TheMontyPythonMatchingTieAndHandkerchief'': Both the original artwork and the alternate feature a gift box that holds the inner sleeve. The alternate is just a redesign of the outer sleeve. CD releases combine the outer and inner sleeve for the information booklet.

** ''Baby'' features a cover photo of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier posing against an elaborate drawing by Ernst Gamper. While the cover used in most regions depicts the pair leaning down and staring into the camera, with Meier on the left and Blank on the right, the initial UK release features and alternate photo depicting Blank on the left, standing upright and crossing his arms, and Meier on the right, still leaning down. Later UK editions switch to the international cover.