Muppet-themed art based on R. Crumb's "Cheap Thrills" cover

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, May 4, 2009 11:17 PM | permalink

Marc Palm, did a swell job with this muppet themed tribute to R. Crumb's cover for Janis Joplin's "Cheap Thrills" LP. (UPDATE: Here's a large version of the artwork.)

For this show [Muppet Rawk II group show at Ouch My Eye Gallery] artists had to take an existing rock album cover and re-image it with Jim Henson's Muppets. You could use any Muppet and it the art had to be 12" x 12".
When I got to join in on this I searched a little bit for some cool covers. The previous show had some gems in them see here. I knew that I had to do something really cool. So when I ran across Cheap Thrills over and over in lists of the "best rock covers ever". Someone had to do this cover with Muppets! I wasn't sure if I could really do it, but I thought I'd bite off more than I could chew and do it myself.

Cheap Thrills with Muppets Rawk

Previously:

Drew Friedman paints Robert Crumb presenting Cheap Thrills album cover to Janis Joplin

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#1 posted by Anonymous, May 5, 2009 3:25 AM

Ms Piggy with nipples!

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#2 posted by Mark Rowan, May 5, 2009 4:46 AM

That is indeed pretty, but I wish I could see it a leetle bit bigger.

And, believe it or not, there's an official version of this idea out there:
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Cheep_Thrills

It's a 1994 Sesame Street album called, yes, Cheep Thrills.

Just one more reason to love Sesame Street.

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#3 posted by Anonymous, May 5, 2009 5:09 AM

And some love for Big Brother and The Holding Company. It's not just Janis.

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#4 posted by Anonymous, May 5, 2009 5:43 AM

It's wonderful when all the psuedo-memories merge and come together in a fantasmagorical - uh - hmm - what was I saying?

If you can remember the sixties you weren't really there. And if you remember them like this then you were definitely there - or somewhere - man -

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#5 posted by Dan Crane, May 5, 2009 7:41 AM

Minor detail, but Cheap Thrills was an LP for Big Brother and the Holding Company, not a solo Joplin album.

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#6 posted by Tiggy, May 5, 2009 9:31 AM

I have the original (non-furry) album and cherish it.

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#7 posted by Tim Basham, May 5, 2009 9:45 AM

Great parody of a great cover!
PopMatters.com on the best albums of 1968, including "Cheap Thrills": http://tinyurl.com/6jfsz5

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#8 posted by Anonymous, May 5, 2009 11:02 AM

Here it is Bigger and with notes linking the refences to Youtube.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swellzombie/3501173369/in/photostream/

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#9 posted by Anonymous, May 5, 2009 3:25 PM

Oddly enough, I had this album around when I was a kid in the early 80s. I always thought it was weird the way Big Bird was laying there, or Miss Piggy's nipples. It was 15 years later that I dug my mom's copy of "Cheap Thrills" out of the closet and stared at it, thinking "why does this look familiar?" Yeah, my parent's were cooler as teenagers than I gave them credit for.