Favorite Album art cover?

[s_morrison57]

Either the cover or the centre, whats your fave album cover?
Mines the centre of the Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach album.
Sorry no pic, maybe some can post it for me, I don't have that technology yet.
Finn

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Dead Kennedy's Frankenchrist. Mostly for the whole back-story behind it. Yes, I have a copy of the original on vinyl (and the re-issued "cleaned-up" version without the Geiger art on it and the shriners instead...)

[redstrosekNic]

The Cars Candy-O



Need I explain?

[cairns]

Blind Faith

[KFC911]

Beatles - The White Album

[Rot 911]

I bet this one is the most recognizable:

[Sarc]

"It originally came wrapped in an outer sleeve that looked like a plain brown paper bag. Inside the paper bag sleeve was one of six different pairs of album covers (one for the front and one for the back) each of which depicted the same bar scene, but from a different perspective. Because of the paper sleeve, the buyer never knew which cover artwork they were getting.

Finally, for the proverbial icing on the cake, each scene featured a lighter-colored brush stroke across its middle, as though the jacket were dust-covered and someone had wiped away a section of dust. If you moistened this brush stroke, it became suddenly colorized."




Not really a fan of the album itself, but the cover...



While recording Country Life, Ferry went to Portugal to write lyrics. There he met two German fans, Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald. Ferry had already decided to call the album Country Life -- after the British magazine for the gentry -- and he wanted the cover to contrast with "the usual Country Life magazine photography, where you normally have characters shooting ducks or jumping over fences in top hats." When he suggested a half-nude photo session on the beach, he says, the women "were very keen to do the job." They later translated the lyrics to "Bitter-Sweet" into German, which Ferry sings on the record.

[craigster59]

Pretty much anything designed by Hipgnosis...
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[craigster59]

Here's the gatefold for eat a peach, cleaned a few "lids" on this...

[craigster59]

And my favorite gatefold, ZZ Top "Tres Hombres"..

[pwd72s]

[BlueSkyJaunte]

[pwd72s]

The switch to digital has the downside of killing album cover art...

[nostatic]

The Tijuana Brass album taunted me as a kid

[herr_oberst]

Just off the top of my head, I'll say The Stones "Satanic Majesty" cover with the real working Lenticular was cool, as was the Stones "Sticky Fingers" Warhol cover with the real zipper that caused a lot of problems in shipping;

Wish You Were here was great, obviously,

But this was over the top, even in the seventies. My dad 'bout had a heart attack when he happened to spy this one:


Steppenwolf, "For Ladies Only"

[AirKuhl]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Here's the gatefold for eat a peach, cleaned a few "lids" on this...

+420, mine probably still has some vintage 80's vegetation down the middle.

I always liked the original cover of Hendrix's Electric Ladyland (not the US cover). Didn't link as it has boobies but it's easy enough to google.

[craigster59]

This one was cool with the 3D glasses....

[foxpaws]

Most anything by Roger Dean

[azasadny]

Spinal Tap "The Black Album"...

[LSA]

Can't decide, I love cool album art and heavy metal has always had some pretty wild stuff.




those are definitely up there.