Some of my personal favorites:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003S14.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/anothermelbournite/nevermind.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002B35.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://www.woundedbird.com/renaissance/allseasons.jpg

Yes had some real gems.Blindfaith west coast issue.

I alwys liked this one,

King Crimsons first is a classic but anything by Roger Dean rocks...Yes, Uriah Heap, Badger, ect.

The Nirvana "Nevermind" album cover is one of my favorites as well.

A prescient illustration of the obsession with, and lifelong chase after, money - depicted here as the almighty dollar.

Absolutely brilliant.

And the album ain't bad either.

This is a fave, along with Ohio players, the band Charlie has some sexy covers along with other Roxy music covers.

Don't have any images to throw up, but I've always liked the work that 23 envelope/v23 did for the 4AD label. Having a nice unified graphic design approach helped build the image of the record label -- Foe

Some few others I also like a lot:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000026NC.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000I0D.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000069HJI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000068FXR.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

:thmbsp:
Demetrio.

Roxy Music's "Country Life" (already shown)
Who's Next
Sgt. Pepper
We're Only in it for the Money (Zappa/Mothers)

There was a tlme when i bought an album just because of the cover.
But not this one. :naughty:

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42584

clint.

i'm kinda partial to this one, bonus points if you know what it is. wish i had the original concept work, it had a testical instead of the fireball.

One of my many favs...

King Crimsons first is a classic but anything by Roger Dean rocks...Yes, Uriah Heap, Badger, ect.

like these...

Another of my favorites. IIRC, the Lou Donaldson pic was actually someones avatar here for a while.

Here's one...

http://record.vis.ne.jp/pic2/02/awa/herb.jpg

And this...

http://homepage.mac.com/alex_rogowski/iblog/C507683950/E467100234/Media/JLon.jpg

I've always liked Blodwyn Pig, "Ahead Rings Out" and the Dead's "Blues for Allah". In fact, I've used both as avatars in the past.

They were just so kool back then (and now, too)

Always liked this one !!! :yes:

"Blues for Allah" is a good one I hadn't thought of!
Lots of interesting/good Dead covers.
Didn't know you (or remember) that you were a Dead fan, Andy.

I listened to some of "Blues for Allah" on the TQWT's Friday night (the Rhino CD). :-)

Tom Rapp/ Pearls Before Swine usually used classic paintings for the covers of their albums..classy covers for classy music.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/510/510341.jpg

http://www.fullofwishes.info/galaxie/dbimages/dan_constructive.jpg

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/p/pearlsbefor_balaklava_101b.jpg

This is an inner cover, but it is what I would want to have a frameable print of the most.

Carl

10cc "look hear?"
UB-40 "rat in the kitchen"
Terry Robb "next window"
Dean Gitter "ghost ballads"

Didn't know you (or remember) that you were a Dead fan, Andy.


I guess "remembering" is a common problem amongst Deadheads :lmao:

Yep, minor league though. Only saw about 10-20 shows, but my first one was a Pigpen show w/NRPS. Lots of "Skull and Roses" stuff that day

Not bad for a Wisconsin boy :yes:

I never saw 'em prior to about 1977, but did see a number of shows in college/grad school days.

I wish I could find the actual cover online to show you,but one of my favorites was always by the Laughing Dogs.It was called the Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers,and it was the band members on the cover,and some older women,obviously their mothers,hitting them with purses,etc.Always got a kick out of that one.
Jimmy

Here ya go, Jimmy:)
Tom

I wish I could find the actual cover online to show you,but one of my favorites was always by the Laughing Dogs.It was called the Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers,and it was the band members on the cover,and some older women,obviously their mothers,hitting them with purses,etc.Always got a kick out of that one.
Jimmy

Say no more:

Frank Zappa- "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" - Funny yet quite disturbing at the same time.-Sandy G.

Zappa had a lot of great covers.I love the Sci-Fi prog rock cover parody on "One Size Fits All".Oh,and Mark,and Tom,THATS the one!Thanks,guys :thmbsp:
Jimmy

Here it is:

Pfffft. Mark got COLOR! :thmbsp: And his avatar always puts a grin on my face:D
Tom

Some other favorites (especially the first):

http://alexgitlin.com/npp/alphat1.jpghttp://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006FN6I.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002VSX.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpghttp://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002VNU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Demétrio.

It's hard to pick just one, but I agree that Roger Dean's work is always among the best out there.

Here's one I have a poster of:

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/o19953.jpg


I'd love to find a way to get decent quality (i.e. worth framing), mass produced (i.e. CHEAP) prints of any Yes cover out there. Roger's site has just a few really expensive, limited edition posters, and other sites have just a few limited offerings.

http://www.eltonography.com/albums/captain_fantastic_and_the_brown_dirt_cowboy0.html

Here it is:

Did Frank Zappa ever do his own album artwork cause he was a pretty darn creative artist on canvas.

On the german 'autobahn' you can drive as fast as you can :thmbsp:
The album from Kraftwerk has a cult status nowadays.

i'm kinda partial to this one, bonus points if you know what it is. wish i had the original concept work, it had a testical instead of the fireball.


Dingus,

Midnight Oil, Red Sails in the Sunset, collage by Tsunehisa Kimura, who did alot of really interesting apocalyptic-type stuff.

This is one of my favorites too, I could look at it all day. And like everything else, it looks better on an LP rather than a CD.

God I miss album art...:sadwave:

I'd love to find a way to get decent quality (i.e. worth framing), mass produced (i.e. CHEAP) prints of any Yes cover out there. Roger's site has just a few really expensive, limited edition posters, and other sites have just a few limited offerings.

My local independent record shop sells these great frames with the matting already in them just for framing album covers.They look great in them,and they only charge $20 a piece for them.That might be a good alternative.
Jimmy

Dingus,

Midnight Oil, Red Sails in the Sunset, collage by Tsunehisa Kimura, who did alot of really interesting apocalyptic-type stuff.

This is one of my favorites too, I could look at it all day. And like everything else, it looks better on an LP rather than a CD.

God I miss album art...:sadwave:
winner! you get all the bonus points. i'm glad somebody recognized somthing Midnight Oil, imo the most overlooked body of work in rock history.

Ohio Players. I used to just stare at these in the record stores... :cool:
Tom
Yes Ohio Players! :thmbsp:

here are a few of my favorites, in no particular order.

I have hundreds of LPs but for this time i pic just this one.
There was a time when i bought an LP 'cause of the cover.

clint.

...And this one.

clint.

Rock'N'Roll Neil. :thmbsp:

clint.

Hello Tom. :thmbsp:

clint.

From back in my day's as an album rock jock, you can't make it out in this pic. but the android is breast plate says he's a Fender Cyborcaster and he's playing a gibson guitar.

From one of the Great...

One (1) of my favorites was from an old Yarbirds album.

Siren. :naughty:

Some Depeche Mode covers. :thmbsp:

Enjoy.
clint.

Here ya go...

http://www.gvny.com/columns/nichols/img/satan.gif

A great lp cover (best Moody Blues cover?):
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/mxblack/MoodyBluesEveryGoodBoyDeservesFavou.jpg

Siren. :naughty:
The american cover for this album is blue.Great cover.
Jimmy

Bob Marley_Confrontation.

Reggae nights. :thmbsp:

clint.

If The Undertones have had the same sucess has The Beatles... :D

clint.

The First Stone Roses - a Pop Masterpiece from the 90's. :thmbsp:

clint.

Another Roger Dean Yes cover. (Note not-so-obvious critter in foreground):

http://image03.webshots.com/3/8/4/55/10380455pUqOfRtKtl_ph.jpg

Perhaps the most obviously "suggestive" Moodies cover :naughty:

http://www.kaibab.org/moodies/mbpresnt.gif

Maybe the winner in the Really Bad Dream category (Kansas!):

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/69699853872.jpg

Looks like the Yes image didn't make it somehow. Try again...

http://image03.webshots.com/3/8/4/55/10380455pUqOfRtKtl_ph.jpg

Hmmmm. Let's try it as a link. (http://image03.webshots.com/3/8/4/55/10380455pUqOfRtKtl_ph.jpg)

I think this will work.

is it a rabbit?

Nope. It often eats rabbits.

Looks like a snake torso (do snakes have torsos?) on the bottom left... I remember there was the business end of a snake somewhere on or in the Relayer art, no?

I'll throw 3 up for consideration:

The English version of "Electric Ladyland" by Jimi Hendrix (the one with 20 nude women lying around);

"Their Satanic Majesties Request" (3D) cover by the Rolling Stones;

and "We're Only In It for the Money" by the Mothers; the inner gatefold, which is a parody of Sgt. Pepper's cover.

need jpgs? I ain't got no stinking jpgs!

Looks like a snake torso (do snakes have torsos?) on the bottom left... I remember there was the business end of a snake somewhere on or in the Relayer art, no?

Correct! Yes, you would probably only recognize it if you've seen the more obvious image of the snake elsewhere (I think on Relayer).

look at the bottom of the album cover, directly inline with the first horse's foreleg. :naughty:

No man,I think it's a rat. :D

clint.

Nah, definitely a wallaby.

Actually, it depends on how many beers you had before looking at the cover. :drunk:

Hey John,
i swer i saw Jon Anderson hidding behind those rocks,than later i did saw a pussycat.
I did ,i did saw a pussycat. :lmao:

clint.

Nah, definitely a wallaby

nope... perhaps a wallaby wannabe?

See http://www.rogerdean.com/upclose/relayer.htm for more speculation about this cover than you could ever want to read!

No mention of rabbits, wallabys, wallaby wannabes, pussycats, rats or Jon Anderson. Not even a unicorn.

"Oh there was green allie-gators and lo-ong necked geese
Some humpty-back camels and some chim-pan-zees
Some cats and rrrats and ellie-phants, but as sure as yer born,
Yer ne-ver gonna see no uni-corn!"

Sorry -- childhood flashback.

- jw

Hey JW,

:thmbsp: :thmbsp:

clint.

hmmm? :scratch2:

The first one from a long journey.

clint.

Bolly - Sorry, it's still not that clear to me. You must have had way more beer than me.

Must drink more beer!!! :beerchug: :beer: :beer: :beer:

Or maybe I'll switch to bourbon. :drunk: :drunk:

(Actually, I never drink all that much of either kind of rotgut.)


Clint - wish I could read the text on the 2nd pic. I can't quite make it out.

Yes, what would the rock industry do w/out Zappa? Without him, we'd be stuck with just Al Yankovich!

Hey John
here's the 2nd pic.

clint.

Thanks, Clint...

And Suzy. (Yes, thank you very much! :naughty: )

Still a great Album cover.

clint.

I was on a chemically induced bender and someone told me that you could see a girl in the shower in one of the windows. I spent the next 4 hours staring into the windows.
Presence is one of my favorite Zeppelin albums, and the Space Odyssee reference always fascinates me.
Open the pod bay doors HAL.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.

Here are a few of mine.

Scorpions: Lovedrive
Ozzy: The Ultimate Sin
Collective Soul: Dosage
Iron Maiden: Powerslave

:yes:

This thread caused me to buy this album which I promptly hung on the wall in my man cave.

Ska from the 80's.

clint.

Did anyone ever mention the Vargas cover for the Cars' second album, "Candy-O"?
That's a good one. Pretty good album, too. I like it as much as their first album, although it's a bit more... rarefied.

http://images.virgilio.it/n_canali/musica/gallery/Dischi_caldi_quasi_bollenti/409a01ba9412b_big.jpg

A simply great cover

Rzzzzz !

My parents had this album when I was a kid. It was my favorite long before I knew why.

:thmbsp:

I personally like this parody of that cover -- http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41453 -- Foe

My parents had this album when I was a kid. It was my favorite long before I knew why.

:thmbsp:

Wow...My folks had Herb Alpert when I was a kid too, but certainly not THAT one!!

As long as we're on that theme, Hendrix' Electric Ladyland deserves mention - but I'm not gonna display it. This is a family-friendly site, after all!

Regarding the Zep cover - isn't that from the famous "wall of windows" from the castle ruins in Heidelberg, Germany? I was just there a couple summers ago. And no, I can assure you there is no girl in the shower in any of those windows. :(

I guess the cover of Blind Faith's LP would also be considered in the same category as Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland"? Did not include it for that very same reason, concerned with the family status of the site. As I understand we are 9,000 members?, therefore will consider the opinions of others and that they may have kids that are also on the site.

Did anyone ever mention the Vargas cover for the Cars' second album, "Candy-O"?
That's a good one. Pretty good album, too. I like it as much as their first album, although it's a bit more... rarefied.


I allways liked The Cars and Ric Ocasek , and they allways have exciting covers.

clint.

Another great cover. :naughty:

clint.

The classical Pop-Cover,by Andy Warhol.

clint.

The Electric Prunes_Underground.

Electrifying. :thmbsp:

clint.

The Manic Street Preachers. :thmbsp:

Love's Sweet Exile
"Author: Nicky Wire / Richey James"

Between the billboard masturbation
Across highways of metallic isolation
There lies the deafening screaming of the millions
Wiping out the diseased pages of apathy that bleed our innocence...

clint.

Styx Grand Illusion and Molly Hatchet Flirtin' with Disaster. Also two of my all time favorite records.

Dwight Twilley.
Power-Pop come back. :thmbsp:

clint.

Wow...there are some great ones in there!

Look here for the other side of the best covers...how about some of the worst?

http://www.hotbot.com/default.asp?query=worst+album+covers&ps=&loc=searchbox&tab=web&provKey=Ask+Jeeves&prov=Google

Here's my favorite. This is the oil painting I had made of Kansas Point of Know Return when I was stationed in Korea in 1981. The music is as great as the album cover too!

Hey Texas,
you are an artist.
Beautiful painting.

clint.

Thanks...I wish I could take credit for it. But this is a painting I had made 'for me' by an artist named Paul Shin in Korea. I'll only take credit for bringing him the album cover...

OK, I admit I didn't read through all them pages so i don't know if these were mentioned, but I Loved the Molly Hatchet covers painted by Frank Frazetta.

The Rolling Stones : Some Girls. :thmbsp:
The Stones Pop-Art.

clint.

The "Stones" Sticky Fingers with the real zipper in it was pretty cool, if disturbing to a pre-teen male :yikes:
But, if anyone questions my orientation, here's my all-time favorite. It immediately came to mind when I read this thread title. (Sven, I had to post it so they could see a thumbnail.)
I was in love with her in 5th grade, and I still am today. :naughty: Glad my wife's in bed so she didn't see me taking a picture of an album cover. She would call the guys with the long-armed jackets for sure!! (Couldn't resist showing off that I have the vinyl that goes inside the cover, too.)
V

Rybeem:
Missed your post the first time through. Glad I wasn't alone!!
V

These.

Made in the shade.

clint.

Ah, album art. A lost art indeed.

Some of my favorites.

I just don't see most of these covers - they just don't load onto the webpage?
Anyone experience this?
Is there anything I can do?

:headscrat Looks like the whole thread got truncated and lost a lot of pics. :dunno:

I believe this thread predates The Great Server Crash, and most of these were hosted by AK.

P.S. If you want to make sure The Great Server Crash doesn't reoccur, send money to AK now (http://www.audiokarma.org/donation.html).

I believe this thread predates The Great Server Crash, and most of these were hosted by AK.

P.S. If you want to make sure The Great Server Crash doesn't reoccur, send money to AK now (http://www.audiokarma.org/donation.html).

Good point!

Yes, but there were quite a few additions to it since the Crash.

And good point about contributing. :thmbsp: