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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Snail of Doom on 04 Jun 2006, 12:30
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Post (links to) album covers that rock your socks. Add some info about the album if you wish
Busdriver - Temporary Forever (http://jacksonart.clickopolis.net/images/temporaryforever.gif)
Feaky-cool cover for an awesome freestyle rapper
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Ornette! (http://www.thebutterscotchthreshold.com/ornette%20-%20ornette.jpg)
by the Ornette Colman Quartet, 1961
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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)
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http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue4/images/summeroflove7.jpg
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/files/jpg/Weasels_Ripped_My_Flesh.jpg
Frank Zappa had some of the best album covers EVER.
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Definitely.
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Bathory - Blood on Ice (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/bloodonice.jpg)
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/sabbathbloodysabbath.jpg)
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/nightside.jpg)
Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/mooninthescorpio.jpg)
Ulver - Bergtatt (http://img.verycd.com/posts/0508/post-333017-1124274483.jpg)
I just really like album covers.
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me 2 its just to bad that the bands noone ever heard of makes the best covers
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Check (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/year2005/article-album_covers) it (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/year2004/article-album_covers).
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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
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I love the photography in most of Touch's catalogue (https://touchshop.org/index.php). I see Johnny C's second link includes two albums from this organisation.
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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.
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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 (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh100/h159/h15928r9k0d.jpg)
quintessential grainy old time picture. Wonderful.
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh000/h060/h06006x0nxs.jpg)
It is just so fragile, fits perfectly.
Einstürzende Neubauten - Hause der Lüge (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c607/c6071563677.jpg)
It is not my favourite Neubauten album but the cover art is just so out there and hilarious.
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd900/d913/d91301czaqp.jpg)
I am not all that crazy about the music but the cover art is excellent.
Borbetomagus - Buncha Hair that Long (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e971/e97187bg9ta.jpg)
I haven't hear their music but I will, I will start with this one.
Sonic Youth - Murray Street (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f347/f34732t4lmw.jpg)
Thurston and co. got plenty of good ones but this is just fantastic.
Low - Trust (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f476/f47678o6mny.jpg)
Low at their most depressing and also their best cover
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Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow (http://home.datacomm.ch/psychotic/progressive/psychoticwaltz/pw-everflow.jpg)
Jethro Tull - Broadsword & The Beast (http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/Photos/broadsword.jpg)
Peter Garbiel - Ovo (http://www.sdcd.com/B2B/jsp/app/images/Scans/328986.jpg)
Star One - Space Metal (http://sodki.org/imagens/capas_de_cds/star_one_-_space_metal.jpg)
Immortal - At the heart of winter (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/attheheartofwinter.jpg)
Therion - Lemuria (http://www.piercingmetal.com/graphics/therion_lemuria.jpg)
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Four Months of Darkness by Saxon Shore is my favorite album cover. (http://www.unmute.net/images/foto%20articoli/interviews/2005/saxon_shore3.jpg)
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Great cover. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/DynamiteKid156/Sigs/Unicycle1.jpg)
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(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00065MDRW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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The Arcade Fire-Funeral (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/TheArcadeFire-Funeral.jpg)
And a very,very awesome album,to boot.
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The Arcade Fire-Funeral (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/TheArcadeFire-Funeral.jpg)
And a very,very awesome album,to boot.
I DISAGREE! *drives away*
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Jesus Please-us..that was a REALLY fast response.
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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.
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So the audio isn't fucking awesome?
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Okay, they represent it in that way. But the music itself is different from a scary pig eating dinner with a crying man.
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(http://www.easternecho.com/images/2006/05/09/ae/tool2.jpg)
STFU LOL
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Check (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/year2005/article-album_covers) it (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/year2004/article-album_covers).
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 (http://platta.net/images/covers/170/11938-0.jpg)
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (http://www.oneposter.com/UserData/Poster/Poster_21627.jpg) (Crap picture)
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(http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/9/3/9/0/8950939-8950945-slarge.jpg)
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I vaguely recognize that cover, but cannot place it. What is it?
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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.
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Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain (http://angmab.canalblog.com/images/Sleep___Dragonaut_front22.jpg)
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/dopethrone.jpg)
Pretty (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/chronicleoftheblacksword.jpg) much (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/hallofthemountaingrill.jpg) any (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/spacebandits.jpg) Hawkwind (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/spaceritual.jpg) cover (http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/xenoncodex.jpg) ever. (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hawkwind/cover_spaceisdeep.gif)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (http://www.galeon.com/proyectobeck/parejas/funkadelic.gif)
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Dopethrooooone.
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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 (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd400/d468/d468113ge8u.jpg). However off the top of my head the best album cover ever is for Undercurrent (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f379/f37993gux2w.jpg) by Bill Evans and Jim Hall. (Unfortunately I'm in a rush and can only find tiny pictures of each.)
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I (http://www.zulurecords.com/discorder/graphics/oct2002/squarepusher.jpg) really (http://www.electroshot.com/autechre/envane.gif) like (http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/kisaragihoney/imgs/9/e/9e3f972e.jpg) minimalist (http://www.electroshot.com/autechre/anvil.jpg) album (http://xltronic.com/nostalgia/aphextwin.nu/v4/visuals/covers/saw_85-92.jpg) covers. (http://mindauzas.progressive.lt/mp3/electronic13/Wipeout%202097%20-%20The%20Soundtrack%20(1996).gif)
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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 (http://www.therapcella.com/images/releases/265.jpg) and also Zammuto's 'Willscher' (http://www.hauntedink.com/25/502.jpg).
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Actually, The Court of the Crimson King is the only King Crimson cover I really like. The rest range from 'okay' to 'fucking terrible'.
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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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If not for Genesis they'd be up for some big time YOU'RE SHIT award for most consistently bad album covers.
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008BXJF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
(http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/islands.gif)
(http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/KC-LTiA.jpg)
...I'm really not seeing the problem.
I mean, we're talking a good few hundred times better than, say
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001Y42.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
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(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005QJFX.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
(http://porktornado.diaryland.com/images/letmetouch1.jpg)
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(http://www.tgfa.org/other/images/Windowlicker.jpg)
(http://static.zed.cbc.ca/users/s/stumbleman/files/richard_d_james_album.jpg)
(http://allmusic.galeon.com/caratulas/a/Aphex_Twin_-_Come_To_Daddy._WAP94CDX_-_front.jpg)
Nuff' said.
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I like Jane Doe's cover better to be honest. The music is another can of worms.
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This topic cannot be considered complete without Mr. Loaf. (http://www.gothicrevue.com/meatloafbat.jpg)
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SKYCLAD! (http://212.227.152.5/pix_cdreviews/skyclad.jpg)
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some kind of crazy pterodactyl.
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ROFL NEVERENDING PARTY
(http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_w/300_80/075679263421.jpg)
The Mermen - A Glorious Lethal Euphoria
(http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSupplement/Images/ImagesDiscography/00-CoverTinHatTrio-helium.jpg)
Tin Hat Trio - Helium
(http://www.pastemagazine.com/images/articles/1278_image_1.jpg)
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tom Waits horse goggles for life.
PS. Glad to be back, glad to be back.
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La Creme:
(http://www.thefortunatesun.com/images/hatrad.png)
Wilco's design for A Ghost Is Born, outlined here (http://www.beadesigngroup.com/musicblog/archives/2004/06/a_ghost_is_born_by_wilco.html), is pretty amazing.
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(http://oslotelescopic1.free.fr/mugison.jpg)
Mugison - Mugimama is this monkey music?
(http://www.ipecac.com/images/071.jpg)
Mugison - Little Trip
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Der Golem are you the one who put Murr Murr in the forced listening way back when?
Cause I still love Mugison.
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Yep, that was me.
Also;
(http://themetalmatrix.com/covers/f0c14a6e_1.jpeg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/jesusvsthepolice/analphabetapolothology.gif)
I like this cover because it reminds me of my copy of Dr Zhivago that was printed in 1958.
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(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001SIEW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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.
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not exactly my taste in music, but i like the cover.
(http://eil.com/newGallery/Dinosaur-Jr-Green-Mind-294639.jpg)
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(http://graphics.ink19.com/issues/april1999/covers/smog.jpeg)
oh yeah
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Jean Leloup - Exit http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/9827/exitjeanleloup2mo.jpg
Malajube - Trompe L'oeil
http://malajube.com/images/pochettes/malajube_DTC023.jpg
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(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DJEMK.01._OU02._OU02_PIuk-r-fp-1299,BottomRight,10,10_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
It's not just the cover, it's the way it opens too.
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I can't believe we've got to page 2 and nobody's mentioned Cheap Thrills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cheapthrills.jpeg) by Big Brother and the Holding Company (that's Janis Joplin's band before she went solo, for those of you wondering). I'm embarassed for myself as much as I am for anyone else. I mean sure it's the obvious choice, but come on people! Robert Crumb!
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(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/Deadwing.jpg)
Porcupine Tree-Deadwing
The booklet to this album also has some AMAZING artwork. AMAZING. I will post some pictures if I can find some.
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(http://neutralmilkhotel.net/nmh5.jpg)
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The booklet to this album also has some AMAZING artwork. AMAZING. I will post some pictures if I can find some.
That cover shot looks beautiful! I don't like their music at all, but would love to see more of their art.
KharBevNor - anything that looks vaguely prog or metal gets a pretty much automatic thumbs down from me. I thought all those covers you linked to looked rubbish. Just not to my taste at all, although I quite like the squiggly pen styles of the Limp Bizkit cover, despite the shit content...
Anything with Gothic looking lettering, whether it's Snoop or Twilight, also gets the thumbs down.
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or you could just buy this book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2880467454/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-3580779-6791306?%5Fencoding=UTF8).
i was hypnotized by it last time i went to barnes & noble.
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GUYS
WISH YOU WERE HERE
SERIOUSLY
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KharBevNor - anything that looks vaguely prog or metal gets a pretty much automatic thumbs down from me. I thought all those covers you linked to looked rubbish. Just not to my taste at all, although I quite like the squiggly pen styles of the Limp Bizkit cover, despite the shit content...
Anything with Gothic looking lettering, whether it's Snoop or Twilight, also gets the thumbs down.
Why?
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I love this! I will MAKE love TO this!
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Why?
Mostly it just comes down to associations of images with what I consider to be bad music.
If you're meaning about Gothic fonts, I've always found them ugly, even when I was in primary school and I was reading the Germans' speech in Asterix comics, I remember not liking the look! :) On album art I guess they connote attempts at looking evil, menacing or somehow arch, none of which resonates with me in the slightest, nor tickles my brain either.
From what I've read I think we're almost diametrically opposed, taste-wise. :)
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i second sleep and porcupine tree and i'd like to add oceansize (http://www.beggars.com/us/artwork/thegoods/oceansize/big/OceansizeEffloresce.jpg).
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Mostly it just comes down to associations of images with what I consider to be bad music.
With those King Crimson albums though...what's 'proggy' about them? They could be for any band. Not to mention that loads of albums that aren't metal or prog bear similiar things.
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I'm going to un-nominate the Porcupine Tree cover, because Deadwing pales in comparison to its predecessor both musically and visually. I remember the first time I looked through the album art of Deadwing, I was pretty disgusted. Normally, when it comes to album art, I either like it or I don't care, but I felt a strong distaste for that album.
Now for one I do like, Popul Vuh's Einsjager & Siebenjager: (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001ZWKBQ.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
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With those King Crimson albums though...what's 'proggy' about them? They could be for any band. Not to mention that loads of albums that aren't metal or prog bear similiar things.
Yeah, fair call, my knowledge of whose music they're representing probably colours my opinions. I can explain what I don't like about each one, but not sure what the point is?
Semi-coincidentally had some friend recommend I check out the art of Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))))))))))), Southern Lord records) and was surprised that it's packed full of wireframe type geometric shapes, sans-serif fonts, super-saturated photos.. all the hallmarks of 90s electronica.. There was some Earth gatefold LP with beautiful close-ups of flower beds!
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I don't think covers necessarily have to represent a certain style at all.
That said, I absolutely adore a proper, overall use of the black metal aesthetic. Particularly the old unreadable logo and grim photo combo.
(http://www.metallibrary.ru/bands/discographies/images/darkthrone/pictures/95_panzerfaust.jpg)
*fap fap fap*
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Gojira - "From Mars To Sirius"
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BU9UO6.08._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/files/jpg/Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_To_Save_A_Drowning_Witch.jpg
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Interesting how quickly everyone ignored the 'links, not pictures' thing.
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i didn't!
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Always had a soft spot for this 'un
Curtis Mayfield- There's No Place Like America Today (http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/m/mayfie_curt_theresnop_101b.jpg)
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Interesting how quickly everyone ignored the 'links, not pictures' thing.
Not to be an ass when such a newbie...but I really didn't see the point of links. yeah, it's killer for dial up (does anyone have that anymore?) but it pretty much tripled the amount of time it took to get through the thread, just to realize most people were only posting metal covers.
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UI- Answers (http://www.southern.com/southern/band/UI000/18598.html)
Refused- The Shape of Punk to Come (http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/b1/33/287345-resized200.JPG)
Dillinger Escape Plan- Miss Machine (http://funkysouls.com/img/dep_mm.jpg)
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Autechre - Ep5 (http://i6.tinypic.com/13z992t.jpg)
I couldn't get a decent angle on it, but it's just black matt plastic with "autechre" engraved on the front and "ae" on engraved on the back. I thought it was pretty neat.
and i'd like to add oceansize.
Agree'd, the effloresce artwork is fab.
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You know, I am reflecting here that one of the central arguments of vinyl lovers is entirely correct. I mean, look at this:
(http://www.cdquest.com/images/album_art/sorted/5016/9580/5016958063726.jpg)
Doesn't seem like much, but I've got a version on a red vinyl 7" and it looks great. Which also brings me to the totality of the package as well. Someone needs to invent the CD equivalent of vinyl engravings.
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(http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/m83/dead_cities__red_seas_and_lost_ghosts/)
Sorry but this is the biggest picture I could find.......I fell in love with the nujabees cover- must......find.....immediately...
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^^^ I don't know what is going on with my Autechre cd, but the boxed looks seriously warped and out of proportion. It doesn't look straight. Gosh darn my camera skillz.
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What can I say...Autechre has *really* good album covers.
Also, Disconnected (http://geometrikrecords.com/bol125/covers/funkstorung.jpg) by Funkstorung has fantastic production...a heavy-gauge embossed plastic sleeve over an embossed jewel case, with day-glo print all over. Pictures cannot do it justice.
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Despite the fact a lot of them are pretty badly drawn, there is something awesome about Scientist covers.
Especially this one:
(http://www.rasrecords.com/culture/ras3257.jpg)
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Thelonious Monk - Underground (http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000AVHBO.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V66769841_.jpg)
Glenn Branca - The Ascension (http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00009EIPG.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
TOOG - 6633 (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001NFOE.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000032OY.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Todd Rundgren - A Capella (http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000348M.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
The Residents - Kettles of Fish on the Outskirts of Town (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000AN4HI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KBW.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
As well as all the King Crimson (and Projekct) cover art by PJ Crook (http://www.pjcrook.com)
And all of Jandek's cover pictures
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12k covers are pretty nice and so are the raster noton ones
12k (http://www.12k.com)
raster noton (http://www.raster-noton.de)
also the raster noton ones it's not just the cover, but the cd also...
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Shit, how did I go so long without posting
OOH CRIKEY IT'S...LAWNMOWER DETH! (http://www.truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/ohcrikeyitslawnmowerdeth.jpg)
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(http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4277/stadium060511090030431wideweb3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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Shit, how did I go so long without posting
OOH CRIKEY IT'S...LAWNMOWER DETH! (http://www.truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/ohcrikeyitslawnmowerdeth.jpg)
That.. is just... Wow!
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JOHNNY C MADE A FUNNY
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JOHNNY C MADE A FUNNY
Someone laughed and I missed it?
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Hmmm...Have to include Mr. McKean. a pile of which can be seen here:
http://www.dreamline.nu/cdcovers/
And what the heck, I'll add this. Why? Cause I did it (art) with the lead singer (typography and fudgings) and it's the closest I'll ever get to a "metal" sort of image. There are so many things wrong with it, but it's out and the first major I did. Call me biased.
(http://delitfrancais.com/media/images/i_2005-09-/CD_dook.jpg)
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Shit, how did I go so long without posting
OOH CRIKEY IT'S...LAWNMOWER DETH! (http://www.truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/ohcrikeyitslawnmowerdeth.jpg)
I love the Millenium Falcon impaled on the spike and the Enterprise crashing towards earth.