Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Music Album Covers with the American Flag on Them - Part II

Composite image of 25 album covers with the American Flag on them - part II
Composite image of 25 album covers featuring the American flag on them - part 2.

The American flag is a powerful visual cue representing patriotism. More often, and as seen in the covers here, it is used to raise questions about American identity and politics.

We cover the flag theme in 2 posts. The first post (here) has album covers mostly before the year 2000. The second post (this one) has album covers mostly after the year 2000. A few of the album covers after 2000 deal with the 9/11 attacks, whether as tribute albums or against the American policies that were a response to the attack. 

The 25 albums in this post with “Old Glory” are arranged more or less by date:

1998 David Lee Roth - DLR Band
1999 Anti-Flag - A New Kind of Army
1999 Various - Sing America
2000 Everclear - Songs from an American Movie Vol 2
2000 Jello Biafra - Become the Media

2000 Outkast - Stankonia
2000 Richard Davies - Barbarians
2001 Ryan Adams - Gold
2001 Tortoise - Standards
2001 Various - America - A Tribute to Heroes

2001 Various - God Bless America
2002 Suicide - American Supreme
2003 Dolly Parton - For God and Country
2003 Local H - The No Fun EP
2003 NOFX - The War on Errorism

2003 Philip Glass - The Fog of War Soundtrack
2004 NERD - Fly or Die
2004 Popa Chubby - Peace Love & Respect
2004 Zeke - 'Til the Livin End
2005 Dope - American Apathy

2009 Akron-Family - Set 'Em Wild / Set 'Em Free
2009 The Reerend John Delore - Ode to an American Urn
2012 Brother Ali - Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color
2015 Fall Out Boy - American Beauty /American Psycho
2017 Eminem - Revival


Music Album Covers with the American Flag on Them - Part I

Composite image of 25 album covers with the American Flag on them
Composite image of 25 album covers featuring the American flag on them.

The American flag is a powerful visual cue representing patriotism. More often, and as seen in the covers here, it is used to raise questions about American identity and politics.

We cover the flag theme in 2 posts. The first post (this) has album covers mostly before the year 2000. The second post (here) has album covers mostly after the year 2000. 

The 25 albums in the post with “Old Glory” are arranged more or less by date:

1968 Richard Pryor - The Anthology 1968 - 1992 1969 Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers 1970 Canned Heat - Future Blues 1970 Edwin Starr - War and Peace / Involved 1971 Don McLean - American Pie

1971 Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On 1972 Johnny Cash - America 1974 Johnny Cash - Ragged Old Flag 1975 Premiata Forniera Marconi - Chocolate Kings 1976 Gil Scott Heron - It's Your World

1980 Husker Du - Land Speed Record 1981 Randy Newman - Ragtime - Soundtrack 1982 Motley Crue - Red, White and Crue 1984 Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA 1985 Various - Farm Aid

1989 Garth Brooks - The Hits 1990 2 Live Crew - Banned in the USA 1991 Ice Cube - Death Certificate 1994 Black Crowes - Amorica 1994 Various - Kiss My Ass - Classic Kiss Regrooved

1995 Gov't Mule - Gov't Mule 1995 Various - United DJs of America Vol 4 1996 Anti-Flag - Die for the Government 1996 Ministry - Filth Pig 1997 Motley Crue - Generation Swine