Favorite Album Cover (picture or art on the cover)


As a follow up to my discussion about your favorite cover album since some posters asked or posted about the artwork or picture on the cover of the album.

Mine is the cover art on the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson.  The stuff of nightmares.  

What is your favorite album cover?

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The ease in which you express details related to your favorite album covers and how you describe your system, which is awfully impressive is admirable.

 

One thing we lost in going from Albums to CDs and then streaming was the artistic, interesting, and sometimes shocking cover art. It just doesn’t have the same impact for me on a CD disc.

I agree with that 100%. I completely sold out to digital and the makers of CDs try to emulate LP covers, but it is not the same. And besides that, you can not use a CD jewel case to clean the stems and seeds so you can roll a joint..

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So many cool album covers.  Like Robin Trower’s “Twice Removed From Yesterday”.  Some of the “Earth, Wind and Fire” album covers.  Santana “Abraxas”. Then this obscure offering, Savoy Brown “Looking In”.  Used to scare my young nephew by telling him the little goblin went looking in windows of houses in search of young children — decades later, he still remembers that. 


https://images.app.goo.gl/ixtNLDdCkJBLHpLZ6

 

Alice Cooper - DaDa

I didn't even see the "Dali-esque" hidden picture in this until a few years ago when I pulled it back out to listen to it. I set it down in front of the record player, and walked back to my chair, an WHOA! Had it since the 80's and had never seen it!

"From the Inside" is a good one too. It brings you in with the artwork / doors to open and look at etc.

Dio -last in line 

Rival sons - pressure and time 

Led Zeppelin III 

And many more...

Lots of great mentions a few more here

Jethro Tull Stand Up with pop up figures in center section

Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick with news paper

Led Zeppelin lll with spinner

Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request - Original 3D cover.

                          Through the Past Darkly - Hexagon Cover.