Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request - Original 3D cover.
Through the Past Darkly - Hexagon Cover.
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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Command Records had great covers |
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. |
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. |
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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.. |
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/roxy-music-country-life-feature/ Hopefully this one opens for you... |
It is the 'Andy Warhol real zipper cover/ title of the album', combination, that launches 'Sticky Fingers' over the top. Very few could resist unzipping that zipper with their sticky little fingers to have a peek inside. That is why it is rare to find a pristine "real zipper" cover existing in someone's collection. |
@tonyrox |
A Very Special Christmas, Various Artists done by Keith Haring. This album, for me anyway, is synonymous with the holidays and the massive Christmas parities I used to throw back in the 80's. All the album's proceeds went to Special Olympics which is so great. Just speaks Christmas to me and gets played in my house a ton around the holidays. Best of times; this is iconic album art for certain. |
A couple of great covers I have loved. Nudes are often used in art, but in album covers, they also work to encapsulate the themes and tones of the music. I have loved this album by Kenny Burrell, but the cover by Andy Warhol is exquisite. His first of several. This cover from an EP by Wolf Alice is also beautifully evocative. Blush. A great set of tunes. |
I am not sure if you are being contrarian or not, @sweiss1590 , but it appears as if The White Album was already mentioned. |
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