What are some examples of great album covers you've liked?
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February 17th, 2011
Whether you owned the album or not. I mean, it’s not the quality of the music i’m talking about. Just the covers are what’s relevant here. Good old vinyl & cd’s, some great artwork & imaginative designs have adorned those records over the years. Which are some you remember that deserve credit?
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Santana Abraxis probably more than any other!
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is for me,the most easliy recognised one.Simple and effective design:)
Here is a fine selection of stunning covers for you…
;)
Meat Loaf’s Bat out of hell….... :-/
Iron Maidens, Number of the beast …..
Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! @ucme
Just do a search for worst album covers and see what pops up! Do it
@VS—LOL!—
Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones (gatefold version)
7Songs by 23Skidoo
The Beatles by The Beatles (popularly known as The White Album)
Blue Monday 12” by New Order
Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
London Calling by The Clash
Yeah, Pink Floyd’s, triangular , prismatic dark side of the moon was iconic.
Jethro Tull Aqua Lung
There was a homeless man in our town that looked like this album cover so he earned the name Aqua Lung. He was quite popular for at least 25 years around town. Everyone knew of him.
U2 the Joshia Tree, Nirvana’s swimming baby.
Tool – Aenima was a cool cover, with the rotating eye and the picture of L.A. disappearing and re-appearing. You need to own the actual CD to appreciate it
I’ve always been fond of this one.
All of the Pink Floyd album covers are brilliant.
Queens, News of the world, album cover always fascinated me as a kid….. I think we were reading the iron giant at school about the time of it’s release.. :-/
I was Ten……..
All good stuff, thanks all. Some of my particular faves in there somewhere too.
Depeche Mode : Violator
Grace Jones : Slave to the Rhythm
New Order : Blue Monday
Have loved & owned all three at some point.
I have always loved this even though I don’t know anything about the band. The picture just appeals to me in some way.
Just checking out more recent interviews with Grace Jones. Damn, that woman still looks good.
never mind the bollocks, The Beatles Abbey road
Paradise Theatre. On the other end, the worst album cover was The White Album.
Molly Hatchet’s first three album covers were art by Frank Frazetta. Groups like Dust and Nazareth also used Frazetta’s art. RIP Frank Frazetta.
Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell. I own it on picture disk. And yes, I know it was mentioned before.
@lucillelucillelucille – That was hysterical!
@absalom are those aliens behind the abstract of leaves? :D
@AmWiser
“Cindi Lauper beautiful”
Have you noticed that the soles of the shoes on the back cover of ‘She’s So Unusual’, are covered with parts of Vincent van Gogh’s, “The Starry Night”?
@blueiiznh AND the Tijuana Brass
Lawrence Welk Baby Elephant Walk.. (Close your eyes guys! Just listen!) I can’t find the album cover, but my Mom painted an Acrylic of it, and sold it in the 70’s. It’s floating around in Wichita some where…
Well, in doing my recent research, Henry Mancini wrote it The Baby Elephant Walk. He also wrote the ”The Pink Panther Theme (Never mind the commercial.)
Also I liked, Jim Steinmans ‘Bad for good’ album cover… :-/
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans
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