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"Fag for the corporal...!"
Posted by skirky on 13 November 2009 - 12:38am.
I have the honour and privelige to host a small radio programme and during the course of our discussions this evening we wondered if we could do a whole show based around music from albums which have people smoking on the covers of them. So far we're down with Rickie Lee Jones, Bowie's Young Americans and Marianne Faithful and Broken English. Any more?
Minus points for anyone who flags up that 'Smoke, Smoke, Smoke' country album that regularly crops up in weird LP cover threads.
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Hip hop & reggae
There are a tonne of hip-hop albums with 'bloods' 'blunting' (if that is a verb) on them. Like wise reggae.
Album covers featuring smoking
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
Tom Waits - Early Years Vol. 2
Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Viv Stanshall - Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Freddie McGregor - Bobby Babylon
Lee Perry - Voodooism
Gis' A Tab
"At Studio One" - Sugar Minott
"Both Sides Now" - Joni Mitchell
"Bringing It All Back Home" - Dylan
"Wavelength" - Van Morrison
"Pink Cadillac" - John Prine
"Another Time, Another Place" - Byron Ferrari
"Buena Vista Social Club" (first)
"Let's Get Lost" - Chet Baker
"The Nightfly" - Donald Fagen
"Nightclubbing" - Grace Jones
"A Little Touch of Schmilsson.." - Harry Nilsson
"Two Bit Monsters" - John Hiatt
"The Convincer" - Nick Lowe
"Streets" - Ralph McTell
"Heartbreaker" - Ryan Adams
If paintings are allowed
then there has to be "In the wee small hours"..
There's also David and David's "Boomtown", but the fag in David Baerwald's hand is just out of shot
Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say... Not only smoking on the cover but with a lovely ash tray pic on the CD.
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
Original copies were in a sleeve that was shaped like a zippo lighter, flip top and all - I think the point is pretty clear. Later sleeves have Mr Marley smoking a thumping great roll-up. I assume it's just tobacco...
Cheech & Chong
There's a smoking
Tortoise on the Robert Crumb drawn cover of Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company. In fact it's smoking a cigar!
Superking of rock 'n' roll smoking
Talk Is Cheap - Keith Richards
Political correctness gone mad
How about Drag by kd lang - of course you need to get the right version, the cigarette has been airbrushed out in some countries!
Peel Sessions
by Kevin Coyne
A Hard Day's Night & Abbey Road
Ha!
Van Halen 1984
Good excuse to play Jump!
Rickie Lee Jones
Her first one.
Edit: Oops. Didn't read post properly. Bit stoned.
A few more
Nina Hagen Band
Don Henley - End of the Innocence
Joe Jackson - Body and Soul, which itself is a homage to
Sonny Rollins - Volume 2