On June 18th, OTTO’s 4th birthday, we revealed the three winners of the OTTO Rocks! record cover mash-up contest. (In case you missed it, you can view them here.)

Each of the 42 entries were pretty wonderful, and the caliber of the work was beyond anything we could have imagined.

Because there were so many deserving entries, we wanted to highlight several honorable mentions — entries that were very close to making it to the final three. And because so many of you appreciated seeing the winning entries alongside the covers on which they were based, we wanted to do the same for these.

Thanks again to all of our contestants. It was a great birthday present.

The Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

Drew Donley – based on Van Halen’s 1984

Jeff Swanson – Based on The Beastie Boys’ License To Ill

Kory Demers – Based on Green Day’s American Idiot

Ryan Schenk – Based on Iggy & the Stooges’ Raw Power

Nathan Laxague – Based on Led Zeppelin’s Mothership

Erich Pobatschnig – Based on The Beatles’ With the Beatles

Phil Tepfer – Based on Nirvana’s Nevermind

Colby Knight – Based on Rush’s Moving Pictures

Corey Templeton – Based on Simon & Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence

Jim Roberts – Based on The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Alex Dorsk – Based on 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me

View all entries in our Facebook gallery.