what's your favorite album cover?

Osibisa by Osibisa -- flying elephants in a forest. I bought it for the cover and got hooked. Osibisa may not be the best African "rock" band, though they are quite good, but they introduced me to a new world of music.

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"In Search of the Lost Chord" by the Moody Blues. The depiction of the "life cycle" is VERY cool! Another favorite cover, again by the Moody Blues, is "A Question of Balance" - Einstein's cigar smoke morphing into clouds - gotta love it!

The original cover to the mono release of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (Munch/BSO) on RCA. Reproduced once again on the Classic Records 45rpm reissue.
http://www.classicrecords.com/images/all/ACF69.jpg (picture)
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For some reason I like Supertramp album covers. "Crime of the Century" was cool, "Crisis, What Crisis" was somewhat tongue in cheek, and of course "Even in the Quietest Moments" is a classic. I love the piano sitting on a mountain top, with the sheet music open to Fool's Overture. Liked it so much I got the album cover tatooed on my shoulder!

Yes did some pretty interesting album covers, all followed a common look and feel to them. My all time favourite album cover artist was Cal Shenkel, he did some great work on Zappa's albums. Anyone going to nominate Dark Side?