Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted - Controversial Album Cover

Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted - Controversial Album Cover

Posted by Matt Lehman on Aug 2nd 2023

Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted - Released September 8, 1992

This is their debut album.

The artwork was done by Moist Brennan who is Whitfield Crane's High School Friend.  Brennan does all the art for UKJ and is now the Lead Designer for Mighty Play, a mobile gaming company.

This album has never been released on vinyl in the United States.

The original cover has the 'Joe' posing as the Statue of Liberty while flipping the bird.  This, of course, caused some issues in the US, so they reissued it with the "Joe' bound and gagged as a finger to censorship, which was actually the artwork for the back of the uncensored version.  It's actually pretty hard to find the censored version, because it was only used for select vendors. 

It went double platinum in 1995.