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Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Topper on 05 Oct 2005, 16:37
I'm currently listening to Blood Money by Tom Waits, and I absoloutely adore the album cover. It's sinister, stylish and lets you know exactly what you're in for musically when you put it on. Just wondering what everyone elses favourite album covers are and why? Sorry if this thread has already been done, which I imagine it has many times.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: El Opium on 05 Oct 2005, 16:47
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: soak on 05 Oct 2005, 16:47
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004NJL4.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg)

Is probably my favourite. It comes off really sinister and quaint at the same time.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Oct 2005, 16:51
Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio

(http://www.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/muzic/black-1120449435_i_9017.jpg)

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/BiGz108/Dopethrone.jpg)

Yes - Fragile

(http://donmarko99.free.fr/Yes/Fragile.jpg)

All Yes albums have insane artwork. It really doesn't work without the gatefolds.

Skyclad - Folkemon

(http://image.furima.rakuten.co.jp/image/item/61/84/37966184-1.jpg)

Wonderful booklet and CD art as well.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: sjbrot on 05 Oct 2005, 16:53
Weezer - Pinkerton is pretty damn cool. And the fact that it has a black backing with a picture underneath is just too cool.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Oct 2005, 16:55
^ Isn't it a Hokusai print?
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 05 Oct 2005, 16:57
(http://img.towerrecords.co.jp/images/jacket/4988/4988064118243.jpg)
that is just a really cool picture.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: soak on 05 Oct 2005, 17:02
Quote from: KharBevNor
^ Isn't it a Hokusai print?


Quote from: Wikipedia
The artwork used for the album's cover is Kambara yoru no yuki ("Night Snow at Kambara"), a print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Oct 2005, 17:05
Damn, I guessed wrong.

Seriously, you try and tell Ukiyo-e artists apart! Hiroshige or Hokusai is normally right though. Hokusai was more prolific so I normally go for him first, if I don't know the piece.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Merkava on 05 Oct 2005, 17:11
(http://fusionanomaly.net/dismembermentplanemergencyandi.jpg)

The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000042O1H.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

(http://www.openingbands.com/reviews/images/cursive.jpg)

Cursive - The Ugly Organ

(http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/d7/59/368662-music-resized200.JPG)

Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes

---

These are just some.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: soak on 05 Oct 2005, 17:13
Trust Weezer to choose the more obscure of the two
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: StrikeThePostman on 05 Oct 2005, 17:16
(http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/~sanderso/music/pinkmoon.gif)

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

(http://homepage.mac.com/john_kruper/artwork/beck/odelay.jpg)

Beck - Odelay

(http://img97.exs.cx/img97/3998/talkingheadsstopmaking7oq.jpg)

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense  

(http://www.music-on-tnt.com/jpg/andrew_bird.jpg)

Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: La Creme on 05 Oct 2005, 17:17
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Brian Salad Surgery
(http://mitkadem.homestead.com/files/ELP/Brain_Salad_Front.jpg)

GWAR - Violence Has Arrived
(http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drf100/f119/f1192612u80.jpg)

The Sugarplastic - Resin
(http://covers.cdbaby.com/s/u/sugarplastic.jpg)

It's a Magritte painting! It means 'this here is not a pipe'. Basically he was fucking with folks, y'know, cause it's NOT a pipe; it's a picture of a pipe. BLAM! SURREAL'D!

E - A Man Called "E"
(http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/a2/d8/99049-music-resized200.JPG)

aaaaaaaand...

Madvillain* - Madvillainy
(http://www.stonesthrow.com/records/covers/madvillainy.jpg)


*Basically, MF Doom.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: soak on 05 Oct 2005, 17:20
This is a great book about albums covers - http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/078944951X/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-7900904-7372066#reader-page
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: La Creme on 05 Oct 2005, 17:29
Also, Blood Money ftw! Alice too.

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005YX3K.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

(http://www.concertlivewire.com/jpegs/cds/waits.jpg)

And hell, here's Rain Dogs while I'm at it!

(http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/reviews/C_waits4.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Inlander on 05 Oct 2005, 17:40
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003JE3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

Also, any number of gorgeous monochrome Blue Note Records covers.  The vintage Verve Records album covers are generally pretty nice too, come to that.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: sjbrot on 05 Oct 2005, 18:44
I love that Madvillain cover. It's classic.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: sp2 on 05 Oct 2005, 18:46
(http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/pictures/gallery1/animals.jpg)

(http://212.227.152.5/pix_cdreviews/fla.jpg)

Among others.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: nickb285 on 05 Oct 2005, 18:50
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: oceansaway on 05 Oct 2005, 18:50
Dark Side of the Moon is, of course, a classic.

I like this one.
(http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/42/ad/cf017220eca088027eab4010.L.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Inlander on 05 Oct 2005, 19:07
Quote from: Inlander
Also, any number of gorgeous monochrome Blue Note Records covers.


Had to post this one, just as a great example:

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005HCL.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

EDIT: and of course, an absolute classic (fortunately my Mum has the L.P. - C.D.-size just doesn't do it justice):

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005QVHB.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Oct 2005, 19:16
Good old Crumb.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: La Creme on 05 Oct 2005, 20:31
Better grant green cover (in my eyes anywho):

(http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/g/green_grant_bluebreak_101b.jpg)

But, the bestest jazz cover ever!

(http://www.milesdavis.com/images/covers/114%20Aura.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: tania on 05 Oct 2005, 20:48
Not the best, just the most hilariously stereotypical emo album cover I've ever seen:

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000094C27.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

a robot holding his heart in his hand? thinking, no doubt,
"what is love? i do not understand, because i am a machine and i was not programmed to feel emotion."

IT IS TOTALLY ORIGINAL AND NO ONE'S EVER THOUGHT OF IT BEFORE
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: McTaggart on 05 Oct 2005, 20:48
Quote from: StrikeThePostman
Beck - Odelay

That was the first thing that came to my mind. And it's actually a real dog.

(http://www.parisetudiant.com/images/19-17Ugly%20Duckling%20-%20Taste%20The%20Secret.jpg)
Ugly Duckling - Taste The Secret

(http://www.jamrecordings.com.au/lyricsborn/images/cover.jpg)
Lyrics Born - Later That Day


Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: ComfortEagle on 05 Oct 2005, 21:51
(http://photos1.blogger.com/img/292/1100/1024/Our%20Newest%20Album%20Ever!%20album%20cover2.jpg)
Five Iron Frenzy: Our Newest Album Ever!
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: andyscout42 on 05 Oct 2005, 22:43
sorry, don't have a picture, but one of my favorites is "We're not happy til you're not happy" by Reel Big Fish. the instruments on fire are just cool.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: sp2 on 05 Oct 2005, 22:48
Quote from: ephemere
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000094C27.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

a robot holding his heart in his hand? thinking, no doubt,
"what is love? baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me...no more.."


Fixed.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: andyscout42 on 05 Oct 2005, 22:57
found it!
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007VCZDC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: elcapitan on 06 Oct 2005, 02:21
It's not amazing, but I quite like it:

(http://www.thewrit.org/reviews/vast.jpg)
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theatre
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Martin on 06 Oct 2005, 02:26
(http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/77244.jpg)
Converge - Jane Doe

(http://www.levykauppax.fi/cover/normal/9/98/9875.jpg)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

(http://www.uttertrash.net/godspeed.jpg)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O

(http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/83232.jpg)
Orchid - Orchid Gatefold

And also this, of some reason:
(http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/105382.gif)
Orchid - Totality
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Grumpus on 06 Oct 2005, 04:04
Quote from: soak
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004NJL4.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg)

Is probably my favourite. It comes off really sinister and quaint at the same time.


I was putting that cd on my Ipod when I read that post... Creepy Wooooooooo.....
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Inlander on 06 Oct 2005, 04:28
Quote from: La Creme
Fair to middling Miles Davis cover


This one's better, I reckon:

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000YLS.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

Also, this is one of my all-time favourites for some reason:

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002AH6.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Tinjessla on 06 Oct 2005, 05:16
Good ol' Yoshimi

(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000068PQ0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

Bjork - Homogenic.

(http://pochettescd.ifrance.com/bjork_homogenic_1.jpg)

DJ Shadow - The Private Press. Though the cover to 'Endtroducing..' is awesome also.

(http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-06-14/music_phases2-1.jpg)

Super Furry Animals  - Rings Around The World. But really, all of SFA's album covers are great.

(http://www.graciouslyimpatient.co.uk/disco/rings.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: TrueNeutral on 06 Oct 2005, 06:11
I like the Hammerfall covers that were done by the guy who does the concept art for WarCraft, but only because I like his work(not too fond of Hammerfall).

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/personal_samwise002c.html#gallery
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Not An Addict on 06 Oct 2005, 07:59
Damn, someone beat me to Homogenic.

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00007KK7V.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Massive Attack, 100th Window

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000C23H1.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Party Monster soundtrack

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005J6T0.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Madonna, True Blue

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006F7S3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Peter Gabriel, Up

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000024D4S.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LRJ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Skibas_clavicle on 06 Oct 2005, 08:12
Quote from: Not An Addict
Party Monster soundtrack


YES! I love the cover almost as much as I love the actual movie/soundtrack. For me though....John Vanderslice's Life and Death of an American Foretracker.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: saturnine1979 on 06 Oct 2005, 11:29
No Smiths love?

(http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B00005HGQU.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

Or The Clash?

(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00002MVQO.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: sjbrot on 06 Oct 2005, 11:33
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006TL9C8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

Give credit where credit is due.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 06 Oct 2005, 11:35
The cover of Fantomas -Suspended Animation, Big Black - Songs About Fucking, Dr. Octogon, McLusky -McLusky Does Dallas, and Clutch - Blast Tyrant.

(http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/i/covers/6581874.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: zmeiat_joro on 06 Oct 2005, 11:42
Quote from: soak
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004NJL4.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg)

Is probably my favourite. It comes off really sinister and quaint at the same time.


What's sinister about it? (I googled for a bigger version too)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: sjbrot on 06 Oct 2005, 11:43
Because it is an Eels cover that features a quaint picture of children.

And you just know, without even hearing the album, that those children will be commiting suicide or getting cancer in the near future.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 06 Oct 2005, 11:45
I really like the one for Under Byen's Det er Mig Der Holder Træerne Sammen:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/Santhsynth/cover-determig.jpg)

and inside the cover:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/Santhsynth/UB014.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/Santhsynth/UB016.jpg)

and the music is even better :)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: saturnine1979 on 06 Oct 2005, 12:23
i don't think the text neccessarily makes that Clash album cover ubiquitous, although it is iconic in a sense; i think what's more powerful is the tension in the mid-smash of the guitar.

pretty brilliant, in my opinion.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Gryff on 06 Oct 2005, 13:51
Try and tell me this is not the coolest cover of all time…



…and I will say "well ok, but i respectfully disagree with you."
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: MilkmanDan on 06 Oct 2005, 14:07
(http://www.jpophelp.com/cdscans/JPN-AICT-25_frontM.jpg)

Ignore the writing at the side, that's just some sticker rubbish. The actual cover has nothing but white there.
It's just seriously kickass minimalism. It also really needs to be 12" size, to get the full vibe.

Also:
(http://logarhythm.static3.state51.co.uk/85/35/1510054_xl57/260x260.jpeg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Jimcando on 06 Oct 2005, 14:12
Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up
I think it's scary!

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000068QVK.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

I don't know why though.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: StrikeThePostman on 06 Oct 2005, 14:26
Quote from: McTaggart
Quote from: StrikeThePostman
Beck - Odelay

That was the first thing that came to my mind. And it's actually a real dog.


Yeah!  That took me a while to figure out.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: soak on 06 Oct 2005, 14:54
Quote from: zmeiat_joro
What's sinister about it? (I googled for a bigger version too)


It kinda reminds me of Norman Rockwell which I also find creepy. To innocent, too perfect, to wholesome middle class America. That stuff is more sinister than all your demonology and bloody corpses combined.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Oct 2005, 15:57
Quote from: sp2
(http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/pictures/gallery1/animals.jpg)

Among others.


Now THAT is a cover. It's just a thing of utter iconicism, if that's a word. I have a t-shirt of that cover because it's such a brilliant image.

Pink Floyd have assloads of great album covers:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Pink_Floyd_Meddle.jpg)
The extended version was better.

(http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PFArchives/yUSWYWH.jpg)

(http://open-site.org/img/richlen/pf_17.jpg)
Not one of their best, but the imagery is perfection for The Final Cut.

(http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dscheehl/Images/division.jpg)
I have this as a t-shirt as well, it's such a fantastic image, and done live as well; it's just perfect!
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Gryff on 06 Oct 2005, 16:35
all the covers done by hipgnosis were awesome.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: soak on 06 Oct 2005, 17:00
The book I linked to earlier was compiled by people from hipgnosis, it goes into great depth about several pink floyd covers.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: ObsoleteDonkey on 06 Oct 2005, 17:03
Music that is Musically Challenged - After the Sky Falls...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/ObsoleteDonkey/cover-sized.jpg)

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

(http://www.imusic.dk/gfx/item/reference/727/0075679343727.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 06 Oct 2005, 17:10
(http://martin.splitmonkeys.de/burmese_men.jpg)
Simple and effective. The back art makes it even better, but I have no scanner and I can't find an image of it online.

(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005ONM7.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
That comic idea is good, especially since the comic on the cover is messed up and only shown in a sensible manner on the inside.
And note: The Safety Margin thing - I have no idea where that comes from. The version I have does not have it and it looks better.

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000060LU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Though actually all Shellac albums have excellent art. But the art of 1000 Hurts and At Action Park has to be actually seen, whereas Terraform also works with images.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Decemberling on 06 Oct 2005, 19:46
http://coverart.last.fm/300x300/1416535.jpg

Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 06 Oct 2005, 21:50
Watain - Casus Luciferi

(http://www.himnosrituales.com/espanol/666/casus.jpg)

Manowar - Kings of Metal

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002INJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Gryff on 06 Oct 2005, 22:07
metal is amusing.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 06 Oct 2005, 23:49
Quote from: Gryff
metal is awesome.


That's better
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: McTaggart on 07 Oct 2005, 07:55
One you have to see in real life (because scans don't show the actual effect): Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.

You have to see the inside as well. It gets my overall best packaging I've seen award.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: timbabwe on 07 Oct 2005, 08:54
(http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/hook/images/never.jpg)
I May Never Get Out of the Blues Alive.

Look closely at John Lee Hooker sitting up front on an inner city bus.
The stenciled sign reads No Dancin', with an apostrophe!


(http://www.kotiposti.net/v0431/images/HatfieldAndTheNorth2.jpg)
The Rotter's Club - Hatfield and the North

This is my all-time favorite album.  It inspired me on a decade-long investigation of Canterbury progressive music.  I can report back that it's
all really boring, repetitious, pretentious, except for this album and some of
Robert Wyatt's stuff.    I think this is bette davis signing fan photos,
with Hatfield's first album patched in.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Rauko on 07 Oct 2005, 10:05
Monotome blue?  How about this:
(http://www.dischord.com/images/012.jpg)

Aquabats of course!
(http://theaquabats.com/news/charge_253.jpg)

(http://www.victoryrecords.com/Images/Albums300/VR073.jpg)[/url]
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: La Creme on 09 Oct 2005, 12:08
Savoy Brown - Looking In
(http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/S/Savoy_Brown/savoy_lookf.jpg)

Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream
(http://members.tripod.com/sstWordSmith2/music/MoodyBlues/covers/ths-c.jpg)

and...

Michael Franti & Spearhead - Stay Human
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005I44T.03._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Oct 2005, 16:04
One of my favourite intensely 'metal' covers:

Horna - Perima Vihassa Ja Verikostossa

(Full art, I can't find a copy of the album cover bigger than 200X200)

(http://home.tiscali.be/krisverwimp/Horna/horna.9.jpg)

Also, I feel it is wrong in the extreme that no-one has yet mentioned:

(http://www.musikmarkt-wiesbaden.de/images/Iron-Maiden-Aces-High--235110.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Kai on 09 Oct 2005, 17:13
If Top Gun hadn't sucked ass, that song alone would have been the soundtrack. but it did suck. And so it wasn't the soundtrack.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Storm Rider on 09 Oct 2005, 20:25
Aces High was my gateway to Iron Maiden, and I still fucking love it.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Inlander on 09 Oct 2005, 20:43
http://www.spazoutny.com/ironmaiden.htm
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Storm Rider on 09 Oct 2005, 20:58
Quote from: Inlander
http://www.spazoutny.com/ironmaiden.htm


Terrible formatting... burning my EYES.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: monkeyboy on 09 Oct 2005, 22:43
http://www.epinions.com/musc_mu-184195/display_~reviews

best album of all time also has best cover!!!!
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: KharBevNor on 10 Oct 2005, 00:49
Quote from: Storm Rider
Quote from: Inlander
http://www.spazoutny.com/ironmaiden.htm


Terrible formatting... burning my EYES.


'tis one of those fabled, accursed pages that work only in internet explorer! AIEEEEE!
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Cpt.Fantastic on 10 Oct 2005, 11:24
DARNZ! I forgot Argus for a moment there;
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Teh_Captain/CopyofArgus.jpg)

Also... P*U*L*S*E
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Teh_Captain/Pulse.jpg)

+inside
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Teh_Captain/PulseInside.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: La Creme on 10 Oct 2005, 17:27
ROXY MUSIC THEME!!!

Roxy Music - Best Of Roxy Music
(http://www.sdcd.com/B2B/jsp/app/images/Scans/521992.jpg)

Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
(http://eil.com/newgallery/Brian-Eno-Taking-Tiger-Moun-211309.jpg)

801 - Live
(http://bunbunbass.seesaa.net/image/82W82O82P.jpg)

Phil Manzenara - K-scope
(http://kochiken.hp.infoseek.co.jp/simon/images/pmanza_kscope.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Inlander on 10 Oct 2005, 17:59
Simple, elegant, classic:

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000GB7W.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Gryff on 10 Oct 2005, 18:12

The Mint Chicks - Octagon, Octagon, Octagon


The Mint Chicks - Anti-Tiger

Made awesomer by the fact that the guitarist drew them!
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: mizaktik on 10 Oct 2005, 19:58
Cheer up was a pretty good cover, though not a great CD....

(http://byroncrawford.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/dangerdoom.jpg)

or how about:

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00082IJ08.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Unosuke on 10 Oct 2005, 20:02
I like how Nine Inch Nails has done interesting things not with just the covers, but the cases themselves.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: soak on 10 Oct 2005, 20:05
Quote from: Unosuke
I like how Nine Inch Nails has done interesting things not with just the covers, but the cases themselves.


Yeah but the cover for With Teeth just sucks.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: La Creme on 10 Oct 2005, 21:45
DANGERDOOM!
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Chymes on 11 Oct 2005, 06:29
Definitely something from Factory Records, sleek is the word that springs to mind. Blue Monday just cos it cost more to produce than they sold it for. Of course, the eventual re-release was cheaper but equally smooth.
Title: Favourite Album Cover
Post by: Thrillho on 11 Oct 2005, 09:59
Quote from: Cpt.Fantastic
Also... P*U*L*S*E
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Teh_Captain/Pulse.jpg)

+inside
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Teh_Captain/PulseInside.jpg)


Actually I thought that was one of their worst front covers. But that bit from the inside of it is amazing.
Title: Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
Post by: timbabwe on 11 Oct 2005, 10:35
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003S26.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

Fripp and Eno, in a Hall of Mirrors.
 Eno plays solitaire with a deck of pornographic playing cards.

Vintage Frippertronics, repetitious tape loops.

I used to listen to it on my friend's big ol' family stereo,
usually at 33 1/3, sometimes at 78 and even at 16 2/3 RPM.

The quality of the music was consistent, only the duration and pitch changed.