Name some of your favorite album covers (1 Viewer)

[Blaine Skerry]

BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS - Child Is Father To The Man A simple idea but very effective
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KING CRIMSON - Lizard A beautiful gatefold
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KING CRIMSON - In The Court Of The Crimson King http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

 

[Ben_wood]

I've always thought that the Zep box set showing a shadow of a zeppelin over crop circles was cool!

 

[JordanS]

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - PULSE

 

[Alan_Horner]

Ahh!

Roxy Music Siren

 

[Jeff Kleinberg]

Afghan Whigs-Gentleman hands down

 

[Ricardo C]

That Iron Maiden cover definitely looks like it's made up of Poser figures. Yeesh. Not even the newer ones, which are astoundingly detailed, but the earlier models, like from version 3 or 4. Just... Yikes.

As for my own list:

Queen - Queen II
Queen - News of the World
Queen - Innuendo
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles Abbey Road
Nightnoise - Somthing of Time
Nightnoise - At the End of the Evening
Nightnoise - The White Horse Sessions
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

 

[Tom McDonald]

Big Bambu
Sticky Fingers
Santana
Thick As A Brick
E Pluribus Unum
Brain Salad Surgery

Of course these are all from a time that album art actually ment something

 

[Mike Broadman]

Nice call with Thick as a Brick! The faux-newspaper deal is classic.

I've always been partial to King Crimson's Discipline. The blinding red background with the Celtic-type knot looks pretty cool.

I also love Dream Theater's Images and Words cover. The little girl and the flaming barbed-wire heart are great images.

 

[TheLongshot]

...and just about anything else by the fabulous Northside label

Those are certainly a bunch of odd looking covers. I have a few Northside CDs...

Jason

 

[Todd Smigelski]

CARS - Candy-O

 

[MikeH1]

Midnight Oil - Red sails in the Sunset.

It shows Sydney Australia what I think is a nuclear attack. The picture is overlooking the city... the harbour bridge is no more, the Opera house is still intact but barely and downtown is in shambles. There are craters all over and the water in the harbour isn't there. Always spooked me.

 

[Randall Duncan]

• Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
• Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
• Rush - Moving Pictures
• Rush - Grace Under Pressure
• Rush - Test for Echo
• Rush - Vapor Trails
• Yes - Relayer

 

[Rob P S]

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[Kip Lackey]

Rush-Hold Your Fire
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Van Halen-5150

 

[Angelo.M]

Springsteen's Born to Run and the Beatles' Abbey Road...

 

[Peter Mazur]

My all time favorite is:

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

You just can't beat a cover of a girl playing croquet with chopped off heads.

My long list of favorites include:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Seal - Human Being
The Who - Who's Next
Y&T - Meanstreak
Asia - Asia
Asia - Astra
Dream Theater - Awake
Angel - White Hot
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie...
Pendragon - Not Of This World
Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
Kula Shaker - Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Def Leppard - Retro Active
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Elton John - Captain Fantastic
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Nirvana - Nevermind
Kiss - Destroyer
Kiss - Creatures Of The Night
Marillion - Fugazi
IQ - The Wake
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III
Strawbs - Deadlines
Supergrass - Supergrass

That's enough for now.

 

[Tony Stirling]

How about the album art from 23Envelope on many of the 80's and 90's 4AD releases like Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance? Great stuff.

tony

 

[Jeffrey Wiffen]

The best...

















The funniest...

 

[Angelo.M]

More faves...

• Joni Mitchell, Blue
• The Band, Music from Big Pink and The Band
• Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage
• Dave Brubeck, Time Out
• Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole
• Buena Vista Social Club

 

[Jeffrey Wiffen]

I almost forgot my all time favorite: