[starman]

[demograph68]

What's the one of Giger?

[starman]

Originally posted by demograph68:
What's the one of Giger?

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

Oh, and /SMACK!

[badidea]

[demograph68]

Originally posted by badidea:
...

I see a pattern...

[badidea]

Originally posted by demograph68:
I see a pattern...

how come...??

[lil'babykitten]

[SOLIDAge]

[voodoo]

No no no people the BEST covers

Kudos to badidea for good covers.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by voodoo:
No no no people the BEST covers

Yeah, that's wat I was thinking, too.

Some covers here really stink...

-t

[demograph68]

Pixies - Doolittle

[Zimphire]

[ThisGuy]

mnkj';

[Macfreak7]

...among others

[badidea]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Jane's Addicition cover

IMHO not a very good cover...

...but a GREAT ALBUM!!!

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by ThisGuy:
*snip*

post of the day�

[ThisGuy]

Hey-ooooooooooooooo!

[greenamp]

Pearl jam: riot act

[G4ME]

[sek929]

Not really my best,the only cool ones I could think of right now, good enough

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by badidea:
IMHO not a very good cover...

I've always liked it.

[d4nth3m4n]

still like this one-



and this one is just eerie-

[fhoubi]

[rozwado1]

Good album too.

[angaq0k]

[splatq]

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

[Lateralus]

[grayware]

Or this one:


















(The Beatles aka The White Album)

[grayware]

[CreepingDeth]

Weird Stuff:




^ Iron Maiden parody [see above posts]

Those are a few.

[Mr. Blur]

Originally posted by angaq0k:

wow...i thought i was the only one here that had ever heard of peter hammill


here's one i saw today....kind of cute....in a stupid sort of way

[MOTHERWELL]

Before this came along, no one really thought about having an artistic album cover.....

[drive-thru]

One of my favourties of the vinyl I own:


The inner sleeves also have some really good artwork, not sure if these are the same as on the CD, but couldn't find any pics online.

[ringo]

I can't find quality scans on the web, and my scanner isn't big enough to take on a whole album cover, but Sonic Youth's SYR series of albums had these really great looking line patterns on the front, if you look at them too long, they almost seem to move.

As a bonus, the vinyl for most of these albums is translucent, sometimes clear, sometimes with a nice tint.

You can see poor representations of the series at amazon

Here's the best scan I can find, but it's the CD cover, kind of beat up, and inferior to the album IMO.

[ambush]

[ajprice]

[Superchicken]

Well since we're just putting up the covers of our fave bands that aren't even good



Sadly I can't find Hangnail's Transparent Album cover

But the best cover ever is Squad Five O's Bombs Over Broadway... after 911 they had to sell it with a picture of the band above the cover in the case because otherwise people would get mad. It had two stealth bombers with the WTC in the BG... again I make the point it was put out a while before 911. The song it'self actually is more about the eventual fall of the american capitalist empire.

[nredman]

[daimoni]

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[daimoni]

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[wataru]

I don't know that this is such a great cover. It's just such a great album that I have to associate the cover with greatness.

[Captain Obvious]

Originally posted by wataru:

I don't know that this is such a great cover. It's just such a great album that I have to associate the cover with greatness.

Apparently some of you are dumber than I thought. Its not the music on the album but the COVER on its own. I don't care much for Blink but that was a good cover on their CD.
Pictures of Tupac... never going to qualify as imaginative or revolutionary artwork.

[Cipher13]

...more as I think of them.

[realitybath]

^^^great cover, better if it was all image.




^^^i still think this is one of the top 5 covers out there.





and finally,

any one with the guts to put potatoes on an album cover has my vote.

@CreepingDeath what album is that first cover you posted from?

[Hugi]

[MacGorilla]

[Fyre4ce]

SMELL THE GLOVE!!!!!!

[TheJoshu]

Less Than Art. Hyuk.

[funkboy]

Love him or not, this cover is extremely memorable and puts across his entire persona - his entire career! - perfectly.


Another pitch-perfect album cover that carries the album's idea

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by MOTHERWELL:
Before this came along, no one really thought about having an artistic album cover.....

*image of Sergeant Pepper cover*

Several decades of Prestige, Verve, and other jazz recordings disagree emphatically.



Also, one of my favorite album covers, though the music is completely lame:


Lemonbabies - porno

-s*