Topic: Freaking Awesome Album Covers (Read 34372 times)

Snail of Doom · « **on:** 04 Jun 2006, 12:30 »

Post (links to) album covers that rock your socks. Add some info about the album if you wish

Busdriver - Temporary Forever
Feaky-cool cover for an awesome freestyle rapper

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #1 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 13:51 »

Ornette!

by the Ornette Colman Quartet, 1961

papercutsuicide · « **Reply #2 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 13:53 »

well for me its a hard choise between

madness: the rise and fall
(would post a link to a cover pic but i couldnt find any big enough)

rainbow: straight between the eyes
http://cdcovers.iespana.es/cdcovers/coversr/rainbow-straight_between_the_eyes-front.jpg

the rumors: purity of essence
(would post a link here but i couldnt find any)

Aneurhythmia · « **Reply #3 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 14:00 »

http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue4/images/summeroflove7.jpg

roint · « **Reply #4 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 14:15 »

http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/files/jpg/Weasels_Ripped_My_Flesh.jpg

Frank Zappa had some of the best album covers EVER.

Kai · « **Reply #5 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 14:16 »

Definitely.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #6 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 14:33 »

Bathory - Blood on Ice

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio

Ulver - Bergtatt

I just really like album covers.

papercutsuicide · « **Reply #7 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 14:37 »

me 2 its just to bad that the bands noone ever heard of makes the best covers

Johnny C · « **Reply #8 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 15:09 »

Check it.

papercutsuicide · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 15:17 »

okay the best one to me was the number 3 2004 Muslimgauze but thats just me i thought the number 1's wherent that good

nuisance · « **Reply #10 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 15:18 »

I love the photography in most of Touch's catalogue. I see Johnny C's second link includes two albums from this organisation.

Kai · « **Reply #11 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 15:40 »

Quote from: papercutsuicide

okay the best one to me was the number 3 2004 Muslimgauze but thats just me i thought the number 1's wherent that good

The Nurse With Wound one? Yeah. That's cause NWW are ace.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #12 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 15:47 »

Well you could suggest Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. But I think it might get you banned. Bondage and that, great cover though.

Sibylle Baier - Colour Green

quintessential grainy old time picture. Wonderful.

Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

It is just so fragile, fits perfectly.

Einstürzende Neubauten - Hause der Lüge

It is not my favourite Neubauten album but the cover art is just so out there and hilarious.

Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante

I am not all that crazy about the music but the cover art is excellent.

Borbetomagus - Buncha Hair that Long

I haven't hear their music but I will, I will start with this one.

Sonic Youth - Murray Street

Thurston and co. got plenty of good ones but this is just fantastic.

Low - Trust

Low at their most depressing and also their best cover

Der Turm, der Leute frass · « **Reply #13 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 15:50 »

Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow

Jethro Tull - Broadsword & The Beast

Peter Garbiel - Ovo

Star One - Space Metal

Immortal - At the heart of winter

Therion - Lemuria

Staralfur · « **Reply #14 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 16:09 »

Four Months of Darkness by Saxon Shore is my favorite album cover.

Thrillho · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 16:11 »

Great cover.

Kai · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 16:12 »

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 16:27 »

The Arcade Fire-Funeral

And a very,very awesome album,to boot.

Thrillho · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 16:28 »

Quote from: hey_there_fatty

The Arcade Fire-Funeral

And a very,very awesome album,to boot.

I DISAGREE! *drives away*

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #19 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 16:29 »

Jesus Please-us..that was a REALLY fast response.

Johnny C · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 16:56 »

Quote from: Spinless

Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy/w Appendix Note: Not looking at these and buying the albums just for the artwork inside will result in me kicking your ass.
http://www.tagteammedia.com/pressphotos/okkervilriver/jag80hires.jpg
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/press/okkervilriver/jag89hires.jpg

Note: these images in no way represent the audio on said records.

Kai · « **Reply #21 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 17:09 »

So the audio isn't fucking awesome?

Johnny C · « **Reply #22 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 17:14 »

Okay, they represent it in that way. But the music itself is different from a scary pig eating dinner with a crying man.

BillyxRansom · « **Reply #23 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 17:43 »

STFU LOL

KharBevNor · « **Reply #24 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 18:15 »

Quote from: Johnny C

Check it.

Shit, I'm pretty impressed they chose that Twilight and that Velvet Cacoon album. Those covers are wonderful. I love that sort of simple atmospheric feel. Proper black metal.

Actually, on that note...

Agalloch - Pale Folklore

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (Crap picture)

Merkava · « **Reply #25 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 19:24 »

penpen17 · « **Reply #26 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 21:37 »

I vaguely recognize that cover, but cannot place it. What is it?

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #27 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 21:46 »

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.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #28 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 22:23 »

Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Pretty much any Hawkwind cover ever.

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Storm Rider · « **Reply #29 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 22:28 »

Dopethrooooone.

Inlander · « **Reply #30 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 22:59 »

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.

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 · « **Reply #31 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 00:25 »

I really like minimalist album covers.

nuisance · « **Reply #32 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 07:00 »

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 · « **Reply #33 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 07:31 »

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 · « **Reply #34 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 07:47 »

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 thehttp://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/culture3.jpg">Culture 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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #35 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 07:54 »

Quote from: nuisance

If not for Genesis they'd be up for some big time YOU'RE SHIT award for most consistently bad album covers.

...I'm really not seeing the problem.

I mean, we're talking a good few hundred times better than, say

Ravenbomb · « **Reply #36 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 08:49 »

Misereatur · « **Reply #37 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 09:12 »

Nuff' said.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #38 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 09:13 »

I like Jane Doe's cover better to be honest. The music is another can of worms.

redbeardjim · « **Reply #39 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 10:28 »

This topic cannot be considered complete without Mr. Loaf.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #40 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 11:42 »

SKYCLAD!

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #41 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 13:06 »

some kind of crazy pterodactyl.

http://revhq.com/images/covers/250/af10.jpg">

La Creme · « **Reply #42 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 17:39 »

ROFL NEVERENDING PARTY

The Mermen - A Glorious Lethal Euphoria

Tin Hat Trio - Helium

Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tom Waits horse goggles for life.

PS. Glad to be back, glad to be back.

Johnny C · « **Reply #43 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 18:18 »

La Creme:

Wilco's design for A Ghost Is Born, outlined here, is pretty amazing.

Der Golem · « **Reply #44 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 19:08 »

Mugison - Mugimama is this monkey music?

Mugison - Little Trip

La Creme · « **Reply #45 on:** 05 Jun 2006, 20:15 »

Der Golem are you the one who put Murr Murr in the forced listening way back when?

Cause I still love Mugison.

Der Golem · « **Reply #46 on:** 06 Jun 2006, 01:41 »

Yep, that was me.

Also;

rive gauche · « **Reply #47 on:** 06 Jun 2006, 09:12 »

I like this cover because it reminds me of my copy of Dr Zhivago that was printed in 1958.

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #48 on:** 06 Jun 2006, 09:27 »

I think that's the only cd case I ever kept just because of the cover. (I normally keep my cd's in an album.) I love the monotone.

ruyi · « **Reply #49 on:** 06 Jun 2006, 13:53 »

not exactly my taste in music, but i like the cover.

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Staralfur

Merkava

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