Post your all-time favorite album covers.

[slj0101]

Here's a few of mine.





Actually, any of the late 80's to early 90's Sub-Pop single covers. This is just a representation of one of the better ones.

[tk2kewl]

1. One of my all-time favorite bands had some cool album covers

[GenDem]

24. The Good Rats are one of my "Valentine's" very favorites.

They used to play here in Rochester in the mid-70's, and he saw them, live, many times.:hi:

[tk2kewl]

27. They're a lot of fun...

They still get together once in a while (every couple of years or so). We saw them about this time two years ago.

My wife does a lot of work with Joe Franco, the drummer. He runs a recoding studio in NYC now.

[GenDem]

29. Unfortunately, I never saw them

I was a little young when they were coming up to Rochester to play...but I did listen to their albums. I love the lead singers voice

[asthmaticeog]

2. self-delete

Gotta find another source for images - none of mine worked!

[Richardo]

21. Amazon's usually pretty accessible

But yours are probably so obscure....

[Burma Jones]

3. One of my Favs, obscure too

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[slj0101]

4. More:

Not very good for a Melvins album, but Frank Kozik's cover art is the shit.




When you saw Raymond Pettibon's artwork, you knew it was an SST album:

[Forkboy]

66. Still my favorite Melvins cover

Sums them up well.

[speedoo]

5. Two of my favorites...

Dylan has a lot of props in this one, designed, IMO, to tell his critics: "I'm going to play the music I want to play (searing rock), not what you think I should play (folky-protest)."



Love the album, love the photo. RIP, Duane and Berry.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Jazz album covers are my favorites.

[slj0101]

7. Without a doubt.

There was a definite science to the old jazz album covers.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. There are several books that feature these album covers.

Also, Francis Wolff's jazz photography was amazing.

[Richardo]

8. In my collection...

[slj0101]

10. Which brings me to one of my all-time favorite album cover parodies:

[Richardo]

12. .

:cry:

[Rhythm]

52. my mom has all of those old Herb Alpert albums...

i used to 'borrow' them and play them in my room all the time.

[Art_from_Ark]

76. That Firesign Theater album is with Nick Danger, right?

And the Herb Alpert cover was a classic, as was this one

[Tikki]

9. When I see these albums covers....

I dust off the turn table cover and warm up the amp...






Tikki

[johnnie]

13. Here are a few

The Vapors "Magnets". Their 2nd album. I liked the concept




Elvis Country. It reminds be of when I was a young kid




Herb Alpert. Not a favorite now, but as a 6 year old little boy, I looooooooved this cover :)




And The Stones Sticky Fingers. Warhol's Idea that is really pretty funny.

[speedoo]

14. Some old Fleetwood Mac covers were unusual...

And then there's...

[RandomKoolzip]

15. My favorite of all time: Butthole Surfers, Double Live Bootleg, 1989

[GenDem]

16. Going back to my high school days

[Fenris]

17. Just a few

Two from a band whose covers were interchangeable:

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Some of mine:

[Goblinmonger]

28. Who is the lonliest Monk?

Not sure if you remember that Tabitha Soren gaff.

[gbate]

19. Here are a few of mine.

[hellbound-liberal]

20. Here are three that come to mind:

[tk2kewl]

22. I always liked the back cover of Nick Lowes "Nick the Knife"

Front:


Back:

[tk2kewl]

23. And I always got a laugh from the back cover of "Pure Pop for Now People"

Front:


Back:

[Strawman]

25. Let them Eat Jellybeans

[Rhythm]

53. ah yes... on red 'jellybean' vinyl!

i LOVED that album...

[Touchdown]

26. Always liked this one. The age thing I guess

A few others I'm attracted to for some reason...

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Let's see here...

The Mars Volta - "Frances The Mute" (Among many others by Storm Thorgerson.)


The Blood Brothers - "Young Machetes"


Alexisonfire - "Crisis"

[Omphaloskepsis]

31. Hot Water Music covers usually rock..

[ghostsofgiants]

42. But nowhere near as much as the music itself.

[Stevendsmith]

32. Here are mine

[LaraMN]

33. I was fascinated by this one, when I was a kid:

(King Crimson)

[darkstar]

36. Me too! Maybe no a fave, but certainly among

the most memorable.
Hi:

[darkstar]

34. Toddster's schizo study

[otherlander]

35. Okay. : )

A Love Supreme


and...

Aoxomoxoa


:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[GenDem]

37. All favorites of mine from the 70's.

[idgiehkt]

38. a couple

that's the biggest I can find, I think it's funny because the Diet Coke label in the middle of the shot has been changed to "Die, Ok?" which I thought was clever since the song is about bulimia.

[DrZeeLit]

39. Look at Mine! Look at Mine!

Hey! Don't give me any sass... I'm havin'
A Snow Day! (nyer nyer nyer)

Here are mine... from the depths of my youth... ah (big sigh)

I was soooo in love with John Lennon. And here, he looks rather pudgy, eh?

I think this one is in a box somewhere in a garage in California.

Clyde.

Oh well, so much for this thread.
But who cares?!

I'm havin' a SNOW DAY!

[ironflange]

40. I have two

[soleft]

41. I spent the summer of my 13th year looking at Barry Gibb's face

[Bake]

43. Little Feat, "Sailin' Shoes" and Layla are two of my faves

Can't post pics from here, maybe somebody can dig those up ...

Album covers used to be so cool.

Bake

[Phillycat]

57. Here ya go...

[Xipe Totec]

44. Santana - Abraxas

and of course,

[Poiuyt]

45. Here are some strange ones:

more at:
http://ebaumsworld.com/tags/album-covers/

[electprogdems]

46. Shark Sandwich

also known as Shit Sandwich



Every guy that i grew up with in the Seventies will swear this is the best cover ever

[ThaSickness1979]

80. Spinal Tap is great

I've been a fan of theirs since I saw This Is Spinal Tap when I was 13.

Anyways, if we're talking album covers here...

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I know it's not one specific one, but still. :)

[Crabby Appleton]

47. Carly Simon

[slj0101]

48. Oh yeah- and since it's Valentine's Day:

I almost forgot about this one.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

49. A few for your consideration

Great album. Great cover.



I like the sparseness. Air's best recording, IMHO.



Its covers like this that built a mythology around these guys.



I love all the absurdly combined images on this cover: flames, devil sign, American flag... Good stuff!

Oh yeah. Also the one in my sigline.

[hellbound-liberal]

51. I almost posted Secret Treaties. That's my favorite BOC album!

I was also looking for Tyranny and Mutation but I couldn't find it on Amazon.

[pintobean]

50. A few

[Rhythm]

54. 3 of my favorites....

[silvermachine]

55. Brainticket...

Yes, it sounds as freaky as it looks.

[Phillycat]

56. I'm sorry, but this is sexy:

And this one makes me laugh:


Double Plaidinum! HAHAHAHA!!!!!

[NoGOPZone]

58. A great album and cover from the Sixties

[silvermachine]

59. One of the best...

...for sure.

[LynneSin]

60. It'll always be this....

[jus_the_facts]

61. .....

[gbate]

62. I can't believe I forgot about this one!

[Blue-Jay]

63. I can't believe that nobody else posted this!

[Dinger]

64. Johnny Cash At San Quentin:

[sweetheart]

65. here's 2

The number of times i've wiped this one off..:

[mr blur]

67. Has to be this one

[lakercub]

68. Depressing...but I like it

[Tyrone Slothrop]

69. Here are some of mine

(painting by Gerhard Richter)

[rhino47]

70. This is mine.

[fudge stripe cookays]

71. One of the best....

Go2 by XTC

[Bzzzz]

72. Zappa...

Over-Nite-Sensation...

I'm The Slime

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks . . .
Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor

I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor

I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

[Meshuga]

73. Here are mine

[TroubleMan]

78. LOL....forgot about that Rudy Ray Moore one!

nt.

[ok_cpu]

74. ...

[slj0101]

75. Man. I forgot about the Sunny Day Real Estate cover.

I was never a huge fan, but I loved the Little People motif.

[TroubleMan]

77. Some of mine:

and just for fun:

[dysfunctional press]

79. Moose generally has GREAT album covers.

and the music is FANTASTIC.