Got a favorite album cover?

dclafleur said:

That album is soooooooooooo good.  Banditos is a easy top 5 of all time song. 

Always thought this was a cool look.  Fu Manchu albums are generally muscle cars or vans so they are all pretty cool. 

For the autocrossers out there.

Here's a handful of mine

ODB's Return to the 36 Chambers

MF DOOM's MM..FOOD

Deafheaven's Sunbather

Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition

Death Grips' Government Plates 

There is an artist who has collected over 800 used copies of the Beatles self-titled White Album and displays the unique and idiosyncratic ways that they have been personalized, worn, damaged, etc.

Sort of a meditation on how people have made each copy *theirs*.

ShawnG said:

Coolest thing about the Division Bell cover is that it's a photograph.

Somebody is selling tabletop recreations of the Division Bell heads.

Some great ones here, but I think the best is missing

MOAR!



This one looks a little on the cheesy side, but it reminds me of being a kid in the 80's and playing Pole Position in the arcade, and for that reason, I love it. 



The incomparable Paul's Boutique. This one folds out into an entire city scene. And they recently renamed the area depicted on this album cover Beastie Boys Square!



Back before the interwebs and listening to whatever music you can imagine, a cool album cover would lure people in to buy a record. That's what happened here: I saw this in a local shop and said, "Yup, that's coming home with me" Band is Dommengang, and they play jammy Blues Rock. I was not disappointed.



All of the early Death albums have really cool album covers. This one is a favorite. 



Dio generally had great covers, and they started off on the right foot with Holy Diver. 



The Stones had a lot of gimmicky covers (like Led Zeppelin) and this is one of them. A lot like Physical Graffiti, the insert can be flipped around for fun!

Yes, Paul’s Boutique. (And they’re in Brooklyn, even though that was shot in Manhattan.)

If you’re truly a punk, then you likely have/know this shirt.

In reply to tuna55 :

I had Enema of the State on page 2, admittedly hidden in a deluge of other album covers.

I have a hard time separating my love for the album from the appreciation of the cover art. There are some covers that I adore but probably aren't great artistically but I know what they represent to my ears

However this one holds up on all accounts

This one freaked me out a bit when I was younger when I learned that everyone that had flames over their heads died in the crash (not entirely true but)...   

mtn said:

In reply to tuna55 :

I had Enema of the State on page 2, admittedly hidden in a deluge of other album covers.

Weird I don't see it!

Well, hotlink issues aside, great minds...

My favorite back cover. Not because it's the best or anything. Just because three gangly white dudes, dressed up like space wizards, looking totally serious is just Peak Prog.

In reply to Beer Baron :

Currently reading Geddy’s book, and he talks about their, um, fashion sense. (I guess it took many years until they were confident to just wear their normal clothes on stage.)

tuna55 said:

mtn said:

In reply to tuna55 :

I had Enema of the State on page 2, admittedly hidden in a deluge of other album covers.

Weird I don't see it!

 

Well, hotlink issues aside, great minds...

I was shuffling CDs and my daughter picked that and the next out of the pile and read it out loud to which my wife said "Chandler!" Haha, "Take Off your pants and jacket"

David S. Wallens said:

In reply to Beer Baron :

Currently reading Geddy’s book, and he talks about their, um, fashion sense. (I guess it took many years until they were confident to just wear their normal clothes on stage.)

Fun!  My son saw Geddy last month up in DC on his book tour and he brought a copy back.  I leafed through it, and it looks interesting enough to read.  It's next on my list.

I would do Spinal Tap, but...

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

I’m 200+ pages into it, and it’s very much not what I expected. 

And another album cover that seemed to stop everything at the moment:

Because it's so over the top. 

Because less is more.

codrus (Forum Supporter) said:

For a consistent style I really like KMFDM's covers (by Aidan Hughes, who also did a GRM t-shirt design!). 

Wait, WHAT?

BRUTE! did a GRM T-shirt?!