what's your favorite album cover?

Tom Waits, "Mule Variations" (I love Matt Mahurin's photography, illustration and film)

For graphic design:

Filter, "Short Bus"

Marco

Be Bop Deluxe "Sunburst Finish". A naked woman in a glass cylinder holding a flaming guitar above her head. Ahhh...the memories!

Earl Hooker, Theres a Fungus Among Us. Forgot the artist but thtis increases the value of the album.

No doubt about it..."Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother & the Holding Co. Great R. Crumb artwork and fun to look at in any state of mind.

Great Thread! Santana Lotus has got to take the cake IMHO.
King Crimson "Lizard" "Wake of Posideon"
Also Moody Blues "Seventh Sojourn"
How about all of the very artistic graphic designs of the ECM jazz label during the 70's? very avante garde modernism.
Joe Jackson trying to look like Sonny Rollins on "Body and Soul"
The solo recordings of Anthony Phillips "private parts and pieces I,II,III" if not for the music, certainly for the covers.