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Freaking Awesome Album Covers
Inlander:
--- Quote from: E. Spaceman ---Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
The woman on the cover is Candy Darling, a transvestite who is the inspiration for the song "Candy Says" by the Velvet Underground.
--- End quote ---
And also the Candy referred to in the second verse of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side:
Candy came from out on the island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side."
A favourite album cover has always been Palace Music's Viva Last Blues. However off the top of my head the best album cover ever is for Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall. (Unfortunately I'm in a rush and can only find tiny pictures of each.)
Bunnyman:
I really like minimalist album covers.
nuisance:
I think you meant to say you like album covers designed by The Designer's Republic.
Did you realise all those covers were designed by the same people? Actually, maybe the Squarepusher one isn't.
The cover of 'Amber' is really fucking beautiful... I was sitting on the IDM mailing list at the time it came out and someone said the photo is off some mountains near their house, in Utah!? And 'Tri Repetae' is great "in the flesh", the way it's different bits of card, rather than a booklet, so it can be rearranged to make different covers. Oh wait, I think you chose 'Anvil Vapre'. Oh well.
Actually, another, very different cover that does a similar rearrangeable thing to 'Tri Repetae' is Pulp's 'Different Class'. That's bloody tasty.
And sorry to Kai, but I really fucking hate King Crimson's album covers. If not for Genesis they'd be up for some big time YOU'RE SHIT award for most consistently bad album covers. Maybe 'Starless and Bible Black' was OK? Their 90s comeback rubbish was bloody ugly.
As well as the Touch stuff I mentioned above, I really like Old Dirty Bastard's Return to the 36 Chambers and also Zammuto's 'Willscher'.
Kai:
Actually, The Court of the Crimson King is the only King Crimson cover I really like. The rest range from 'okay' to 'fucking terrible'.
McTaggart:
A cover that stands out for me (as in I've seen it once in the hiphop section somewhere years ago and I can still remember it) is theCulture of Kings #3 cover. 'coz I've used those damn spirax notebook for the last 7 or so years of my life and I don't see my self stopping for at least another four.
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