Album Cover Art

Let's look at #47 on the Gigwise.com's look at the sexiest and dirtiest album covers:


47. RATT: ‘Invasion Of Your Privacy’ The band's second full-length album Invasion of Your Privacy was released July 1985. The album met mostly positive reactions from fans and critics. Allmusic.com has called it "another batch of solid pop-metal tunes". It contained the favorites " You're in Love" and "Lay It Down"(which made #40 on the Hot 100) that assured the band a presence on radio and MTV.

The model on the Invasion cover is Playboy Playmate Marianne Gravatte, who also made an appearance in the "Lay It Down" music video. Using a beautiful female model on an album cover later became a trend copied by many glam metal bands of the 1980s, such as Bon Jovi, Great White, and Slaughter. Invasion of Your Privacy was also one of the many albums that received the attention of the PMRC since the cover and the album title were an obvious reference to voyeurism. The Tipper Gore-led organization presented it at a U.S. Congressional hearing on September 19, 1985 dealing with parental advisory labels on albums that display "inappropriate" content.

This from the same generation that had hundreds of nude album covers used to sell music...hmmmm