FULL STORY: Walmart has banned its share of albums over the years. UltimateClassicRock.com put out a list of 20 of the most famous ones. Here are 10 examples:
1. “Nevermind”, Nirvana. Obviously, for the naked baby on the cover. Nirvana refused to alter it, and Walmart eventually gave in because the album was such a big hit.
2. Walmart also banned Nirvana’s “In Utero”, because the back cover included fetuses and the song title “Rape Me”. This time, Nirvana made changes to get it on the shelves, supposedly because it wasn’t selling as well as they’d hoped.
3. “Mr. Happy Go Lucky”, John Mellencamp. Seriously??? John Mellencamp??? The original cover had Jesus and the Devil on it. So John got rid of them.
4. “Sheryl Crow”, Sheryl Crow. The song “Love Is a Good Thing” had a line about kids killing each other with guns they bought at Walmart. Sheryl refused to change the lyric, and probably lost hundreds of thousands of album sales
5. (Careful) “God Damn Evil”, Stryper. These guys do Christian metal, and the title is obviously ANTI-evil. But Walmart objected to the “G-D”.
6. “The Fat of the Land”, Prodigy. Remember the song “Smack My [B-word] Up”? Yeah, it was that.
7. “Dookie”, Green Day. Poop bombs, monkeys throwing feces, an atomic mushroom cloud, and an angel with a harp happily watching it all? What’s not to love? Walmart ended up selling it with a slightly altered cover.
8. “Countryman”, Willie Nelson. Wally World objected to the pot leaves on the cover. The record label made an alternate version for them.
9. “Undertow”, Tool. The inside of the album included male and female nudity, a cow licking itself, and members of the band with pins in their heads. Tool issued a censored version, but it included a form you could fill out to receive the missing artwork for free.
10. “Suck It and See”, Arctic Monkeys. Walmart objected simply because of the title . . . even though it’s a British expression meaning “give it a try.”
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