Album Cover Art - Which Is Your Favorite?

[Intelsucks]

The quality of the music within is irrelevant.


I always liked PINK FLOYD - WISH YOU WERE HERE with the two men shaking hands and one of them is on fire. :crazy:

[AWD]

1. Smell The Glove

...and the answer is "None". None more black.

[BigMcLargehuge]

64. I liked the sexy cover

what's wrong with sexy?

[scottcsmith]

2. Both Joy Division albums

Unknown Pleasures


Closer

[roxdog]

3. The Band

The Band- Music From Big Pink

[xJlM]

4. Abraxas

Santana's second album, and my favorite choice when listening to old stoner music from the seventies. Although their third album (the one with no name) was pretty good, too.

[supernova]

5. Beat me to it

went someone mentions cover art, Abraxis always comes to mind.

[woofless]

40. The blue one?

With the butterfly? I have always called that one "Borboletto" but can't remember why right now and the album is in exile down in MO.

[sendero]

49. ah yes...

... a great recording and an album cover that provided a great deal of "inspiration" in my youth :)

61. this artist also did

the cover to Bitches Brew & Live Evil by Miles Davis, the cover to Holy Terror by the last poets -- if I'm remembering correctly. Even if I'm not they are some cool covers on their own.
I also like a lot of reggae covers, one example is superape

[madrchsod]

6. wheels of fire

cream`s double album.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Don't have a favorite - but some of the more memorables

were those done by Hypgnosis who also did the Pink Floyd cover:

Stones: Made in the Shade
Blind Faith
Jackson Browne's- Saturate Before Using
Stones Sticky Fingers
Most of Styx

I'll probably think of more

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Allman Bros Eat a Peach

And all of Joni Mitchell's that include her own art

[Zomby Woof]

10. I believe Warhol did Sticky Fingers

And he designed the famous tounge and lips logo.

Hipgnosis also did lots of Zeppelin covers - like the infamous Houses of the Holy.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Correct.

In Through the Out Door had great art too!

[Zomby Woof]

12. I still have my vinyl copy!

A CD can't replicate the rumpled brown paper wrapping. It was also a cool gimmick to release the cover "pic" from 5 different angles, which would induce more sales for the hardest of hardcores.

Buying LP's back then was more an event, had to save my allowance or lawn mowing money - they came with posters and had a lot of work put into the art.

</ old fogey off

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. CD art sucks for the most part

I fail to see the necessity of the jewel case. It ruined a genre.

[Zomby Woof]

9. Anything painted by Frank Frazetta

From Molly Hatchet's 1978 debut.

[Scurrilous]

13. Roxy Music Country Life

Needless to say, this particular album cover was quickly censored upon release in the states.

[treefrogjohn]

14. Anything by Roger Dean

His covers for Yes, for Rameses, and so many more. Very sci-fi influenced.

[ldoolin]

15. a few...

Hawkwind: Zones



Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining




Don't laugh but I always thought this was a good cover:

[Old and In the Way]

16. Some of mine

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. Sweethearts! Had it on this morning!

Also NRPS Panama Red cover was cool!

[Old and In the Way]

19. Did I ever tell you, you have great taste?

Musically speaking, that is?

Another classic-

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Well yeah but more than musically!

I like you don't I? :D

[corarose]

18. I like the Rolling Stones album cover with the Zipper

When I was a kid I would keep unzipping it hoping to find out what was underneath.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

22. Yessongs

[NoPasaran]

23. ZZ Top Tres Hombres

That bodacious Mexican dinner on the inside of the album. MMM mmm!!!

[leftist_rebel1569]

24. Rage Against The Machine and Tool

With the exception of one of each of their albums, they have really really good cover art

[oustemnow]

30. I used to work with the person who designed the Lateralus package

I hope that's not the one you don't like.

[TheMightyFavog]

25. ELP

Brain Salad Surgery

[mitchum]

26. The "Fotomaker" album with the tarted-up 8 yr old

[blockhead]

27. meatloaf

Bat out of hell. Also cheech and chongs Big Bambu , mostly because of the giant rolling paper that came inside of it.

[muchacho]

28. Zappa

Overnight Sensation

[Zomby Woof]

34. brilliant cover

All kinds of hidden goodies. :-)

[trackfan]

29. Whipped Cream and Other Delights by Herb Alpert

and the Tijuana Brass. I recently got a new needle, and have been playing some of my vinyl. I wasn't even sure I had this one, and I ran across it tonight. Both the album itself, and the cover, are classics.

[oustemnow]

43. have you ever seen the Soul Asylum parody cover?

It's a hoot; it was an EP called Clam Dip and other Delights, featuring their bass player in a great mound of clam dip, with a poptato chip stuck in his hair.

Bonus info on the HA &TB album (which is indeed great); the cover model was very pregnant at the time of the photo session.

[markses]

31. Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard

Aw, ok, the cover fucking sucks, but that's the point, yeah. I just love this monstrously stupid album!

[moz4prez]

51. the Dead Milkmen got me through Junior High

"You know what? I like you, Stewart. YOu're not like the other boys . . . here . . . in the trailer park . . . they don't know WHAT THE QUEERS ARE DOING TO OUR SOIL!!!!"

or, another personal fave, Methodist Coloring Book:

"God wears cotton, God wears rayon
He can mend a broken crayon
God is honest, he don't like payola
LET'S ALL THANK HIM FOR OUR CRAYOLAS!!!!!!!!"

[markses]

32. How about The Clash - London Calling

[Zomby Woof]

33. they stole it

[markses]

37. Huh?

I would call that ironic citation, in the true "punk" tradition (I know, I know, punk purity argument forthcoming:eyes:).

The contrast with the tradition is part of its ironic beauty, IMHO. This is not really stealing, however.

[Zomby Woof]

38. you simultaneously missed

...and got the point of my word choice at the same time. :-)

[markses]

39. My bad

I've seen so many bullshit arguments against "sampling" on this board that I can't tell a sarcastic one when I see one. Sorry!

[Zomby Woof]

42. no prob

Sometimes I am too subtle for my own good.

Fact is, I love London Calling, and have since it came out.

The Clash was making a purism statement, so their intent was not as ironic as my moronic post. :-)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

35. One I designed

Actually, this is just a fractal art piece I did a while back. It's not on the cover of anything, but I believe it SHOULD be! (Any bidders?)



Whaddaya think?

[ComerPerro]

36. Rift

by Phish



On the cover, you can find a reference to every track on the album.

[Catholic Sensation]

41. The Boston Album

with "More than a Feeling" and "Piece of Mind"

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. Genesis in the Peter Gabriel era

Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.

OK, so the music inside MAY be influencing me a little. Sue me.

[Zomby Woof]

45. or how about Gabriel's solo efforts?

In particular, his 3rd one, with his melting face.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

67. Not familiar. (gogling...) WOW!

CREEPY! This HAS to be drug-induced (like The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway).

[Bushfire]

46. Just a few

the later taken so I've been told from a real haunted house

I'm sure I'm leaving out some great covers, but was glad someone posted the superb GP SHFTR cover.

[Nihil]

47. Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection

This was the one with the cylindrical projection of the image that
looked really distorted until you curled up the bit of mirror film
provided in the cover and viewed the reflection.

Haven't got a scanner handy but pretend the signatures weren't on
the following front cover image:


(IMO the back cover was better but haven't found an image so far.)

Also ...

Magnum: "Chase the Dragon"

Hawkwind: "Hall of the Mountain Grill"

(+ support for many earlier mentions - "Bat Out of Hell" and
"Brain Salad Surgery" in particular.)

Nihil

[T_i_B]

48. Somwhere in Time - Iron Maiden

Eddie rules!

[psychopomp]

50. Bad Brains-Roir Sessions

[moz4prez]

52. I always thought the Smiths' cover art was gorgeous

[Bridget Burke]

53. Neon Park did some good ones

Here's one of several for Little Feat:



You may remember "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" for Zappa. (No, I'm NOT going to link that one.)

Neon Park died in 1993 from ALS ("Lou Gehrig's Disease"):

www.littlefeat.net/_Band/_Neon/

[grannylib]

54. Always liked the Physical Graffiti album cover

[Screaming Lord Byron]

55. Satan is Real - The Louvin Brothers. The perennial classic. n/t

[Bridget Burke]

57. Old style Country music has produced some fine cover art.

* Porter Wagoner as a derelict: "The Cold Hard Facts of Life"

* Moe Bandy sitting at the table in the beer joint, having just thrown his last bottle at the juke box: "I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today".

* Finally "Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West." Probably done before he cleaned up his act.




PS: I actually own all of these...

[bif]

56. Any of the Yes albums

done by Roger Dean.

[SiouxJ]

58. Supertramp had some classic ones

probably more than their share: "Breakfast in America," "Even in the Quietest Moments," "Crisis? What Crisis?," and even "Crime of the Century" was cool.

[okieinpain]

59. the ohio players covers, and I'm also partial to the black crowes

cover with the american flag bikini. I think that one sums up america in more ways than one.

[AlabamaYankee]

60. Court of the Crimson King

Do NOT look at that album if you have ingested mind altering pharmaceuticals.

Steppenwolf's Monster album comes in second.

[RandomKoolzip]

62. Firesign Theater: "How can You be in Two Places at Once...."

check it out, cuz.

63. I'm a marxist/lennonist

appropriate for today also,

[TopesJunkie]

65. The original art on Sun Ra's "Jazz in Silhouette" -- awesome!

[Swede]

66. Blue Oyster Cult had a few.

Agents of Fortune,Mirrors,etc.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

68. I like Santana's Shaman and Supernatural albums

They are really cool.