Favorite Album Art (this may load slowly, sorry, i can make the images smaller if it is necessary)
Submitted by Feif Umgotnn on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 12:57
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- This is not a list of iconic covers. Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon, Spiderland, London Calling, Nevermind, Nevermind the Bollocks, A Love Supreme, Pet Sounds, etc. but those are all boring to me. Then there are some neat ones like On the beach, Endtroducing...but the ones i listed are some that have impressed me over the years. There may be some others that could make this list, but the list really stops after Double Nickels on the Dime. Suggestions are always welcome.
- King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson (1969)
- Outside
- Inside
- The Residents: Meet The Residents (1973)
- Front Cover - d's froots will malk all uver uoy!
- The Honeymoon Killers: Love American Style (1985)
- Front Cover - where was Zappa for this genius cover idea? where were The Residents? Minutemen? any other punk rockers before The Honeymoon Killers time should have snatched this brilliant cover!
- Bob Marley & the Wailers: Catch A Fire (1973)
- Original Zippo style cover - powerful shit! “hey slave driver / … / Catch A Fire!”
- Butthole Surfers: Psychic…Powerless…Another Man’s Sac (1984)
- Front Cover
- Faust: Faust (1971)
- Entire product: Clear cover, liner notes, and vinyl with a sinister x-ray of a FAUST
- T. Rex: Electric Warrior (1971)
- Front Cover - the music does not do the cover justice, though i do like the music, but this cover should have been reserved for a Hendrix, Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Keiji Haino, or Helios Creed (Chrome) album; nevertheless the cover is amazing, and one of the COOLest of all-time.
- Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
- Front Cover
- Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
- Front Cover
- The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (1971)
- Front Cover (Andy Warhol) – I own the original vinyl and it has an actual zipper to unzip! – the guy in the picture was one of Warhol’s boytoys, not anyone in The Rolling Stones
- Original Cover (probably Andy Warhol) – and this was banned by the label, but they allowed the hard-on? go figure….
- Shit and Shine: Cunts With Roses (2006)
- Front Cover - sexism baby—this is much classier than the Electric Ladyland cover, or is it the other way around?
- Gastr del Sol: Upgrade & Afterlife (1996)
- Front Cover
- The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)
- Front Cover (Andy Warhol) – just fucking classic
- PJ Harvey: Rid of Me (1993)
- Front Cover
- Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (1977)
- All Art Work
- Comus: First Utterance (1971)
- Front Cover - the top half is the outside cover unfolded
- Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
- Front Cover
- Jim O’Rourke: Eureka (1999)
- Front Cover
- Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1969)
- Front Cover
- Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick (1972)
- UNFOLDED - ALL ART WORK: the complete edition of “that day’s” newspaper
- Pink Floyd: Ummagumma (1969)
- Front Cover
- Henry Cow: Leg End/Unrest/In Praise of Learning (1973-75)
- Leg End Front Cover - any fo the socks would do
- Unrest Front Cover
- In Praise of Learning Front Cover
- Mercury Rev: Yerself Is Steam (1991)
- Mercury Rev: Boces
- Sunny Day Real Estate: Diary (1994)
- Front Cover
- The Velvet Underground: 1969: The Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed (1969, cover released 1974)
- Front Cover
- The Mothers of Invention: We’re Only In It For The Money (1967)
- ORIGINAL Front Cover
- Dogbowl: Tit! (An Opera) (1989)
- Front Cover
- Klaus Schulze: Irrlicht (1972)
- Front Cover
- The Mothers of Inventions: Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
- Front Cover
- The Mothers of Inventions: Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)
- Front Cover
- The Mothers of Inventions: 2 Originals From The Mothers (1975)
- Unfolded Cover - this is the two previous albums released a few years later as a 2xLP
- The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat (1967)
- Front Cover (Andy Warhol) – you have to look hard to see the image of someone’s arm with a skull tatoo
- Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (1978)
- Front Cover
- Big Brother & the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (1968)
- Front Cover
- The Beatles: Revolver (1966)
- Front Cover
Can't forget much of the Ohio Players discography, or Kool Keith.
I'm also a big fan of Cheap Thrills, Out to Lunch, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, gone, just like a train, Spiritual Unity, Unit Structures, Daydream Nation, Geek the Girl and The Indestructible Beat of Soweto.
& word to the Sun Ra comment. Nice top selection and I've always loved that Faust cover.
Roxy Music has some covers that can top the Ohio Players, and Kool Keith is good, but the Shit and Shine cover kills it.
all the others are great. Sun Ra was a force like no other, sonically, visually, and, can i say, in personality (he always said he was from Saturn, and i may be wrong, but he died a virgin because he did not want to waste his life force on pitiful earthlings...i am sure i am piecing together different lies, but i like that lie).
also, a cover like the Butthole Surfers one has to do somewhat with the music, as do all the others, in that they are vandalizing the ancient statues/older versions of Rock music, like The Residents did to Pop music with their debut.
thanks, send any others that you come across anytime in the future.
Ignore every other suggestion I made, there is only one towering, unparalleled achievement in terms of cover art.
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