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| Barbra Streisand The Way We Were LP |
About 15 years or so ago, I was in Tower Reocrd with some friends and was looking through their Barbra Streisand Albums. At the time I was looking to possibly pick up a Greatest Hits from her (I never did til her ESSENTIALS collection years later, but I digress) but as I picked up her album THE WAY WE WERE and flipped over the cover, I was struck by the silhouette of a woman in red framed in black. There was something really familiar about this image.
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| Barbra Streisand The Way We Were Back Cover |
Then it hit me, and from of ALL PLACES…the back cover of her LP looked like a dead ringer for…................................The cover of Metallica’s “Kill ‘Em All” album! WHAT THE HECK…?
Excitedly, I ran to my friends and said, “Hey, Look, Check it out, guys, doesn’t it look like the Metallica cover was meant to be spoofing this Barbra Streisand album?”, to which they took a quick glance over at the LPs and offered a weak, “I doubt it”.
Whaaaa! They didn’t think it was anything more than a coincidence. I looked at both albums in my hands and thought they better get their eyes checked! I decided the only way I was gonna find any information on this was to go onto the internet, and went home with a strong resolve to get some proof to show my friends that I was right!
Sadly, the internet didn’t bring up ANYTHING to connect the artwork from the albums to each other in even the most vague of ways! I was surprised that NO ONE besides me had ever noticed the similarity… Man, were they right? Was it really just coincidence, or was it simply that fans of either artist wouldn’t have any idea about the other’s existence?? I mean, It’s not like you’d see Metallica fans going in to buy the latest Babs album or Streisand aficionados strolling over to pick up Master Of Puppets, right?
