Favorite Album Cover

[Jusstickinaround]

Ahhhh...... this is what I'm talking about.
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9210/sgtpeppersj3.jpg

[DestinationDrumming]

Abominog - Uriah heep!

Ace graphics

[cnw60]

Roxy Music - 'Country Life'

[GRUNTERSDAD]

Sergeant Pepper.....Beatles

[That Guy]

TOOL's - Aenima

Its really neat and I haven't seen anything like it before.

[fourstringdrums]

Subject + Anyone like Baseball? = Confused.

[stasz]

Subject + Anyone like Baseball? = Confused.

That's what I was thinking... seems very strange.

Well I was never really into baseball but I am partial to the cover of Phish's Story Of The Ghost.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DD25.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I just noticed that Justickingaround's reason is "no reason".

The mystery continues...

[jangus]

Anyone like Baseball? I love it, only my team doesn't know how to win anymore.

Sounds like my Detroit Tigers to me. I love it myself.

[ablethevoice]

I always got a chuckle from Supertramp's "Crisis? What Crisis?" album because it was so indicative of their dry sense of humor. For just plain cool graphics, Blue Oyster Cult's "Cultasaurus Erectus". ELP's Brain Salad Surgery with that bizarre H.R. Geiger painting is also up there with me. And Triumvirat's "Sparticus" is probably the most creative- the band mascot (as it were), the little white rat which appeared on almost all of their album covers was inside of a light bulb...a lit one! with the little rat's tiny feet grabbing the white hot filament.

[That Guy]

Subject + Anyone like Baseball? = Confused.

I think it was that nobody responded to the thread for awhile so he just edited the post. I gotta kick out of it and found it humorous. We all have started threads that nobody responded to... for whatever reason. He just put it back on top.

[zappafan]

Joe's Garage. Love that one.

Cheers.

[gusty]

Dookie - green day is a good one

[Jusstickinaround]

Let us not forget The White Album, can you find it here? Look very closely.









The
Beatles

[Bossa Nova]

http://www.foryourpleasure.jp/weblog/rock/_img/Bold_As_Love.jpg

[rockinrider]

Ahhhh...... this is what I'm talking about.
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9210/sgtpeppersj3.jpg

Of course, Zappa had to try it...

[nebula821]

Rage Against the Machine's first album, with the man burning himself alive.

[PineyplayParadiddles]

Pendulum Hold your Colour cool graphic

[King Crimson]

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

[jonathanstrange]

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[Ozzy Biz]

10,000 Days by Tool because of the 3d viewing of the booklet with inbuilt lenses on the cover. Seriously cool sh*t.
Not to mention the tribal design on the front is pretty damn cool.

I also like the primus plasticine covers, like frizzle fry.

[Bossa Nova]

Rage Against the Machine's first album, with the man burning himself alive.

Here, here!! Yeah, a great cover. I am pretty sure that's a pulitzer prize winning photograph.

[Ozzy Biz]

Rage Against the Machine's first album, with the man burning himself alive.

It's a monk doing it as a protest. They had a large copy of that pic at my old school. Nasty stuff...

[Bossa Nova]

It's a Tibetan Monk protesting the Chinese occupancy of Tibet.

[Bossa Nova]

Errr... not quite, but I was right about the Pulitzer. Here's exactly what it is:

Thích Quảng Ðức (born Lâm Văn Tức in 1897 – June 11, 1963) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. Thích Quảng Ðức was protesting the persecution of Buddhism by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration. Photos of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought world attention to the policies of the Diem regime. Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of the burning, while David Halberstam's written account achieved the same feat. The act increased international pressure on Diem and led him to announce some reforms with the intention of mollifying Buddhist opinion. However, the delayed implementation of the reforms saw the situation deteriorate. The heart of Thich Quang Duc remained intact after his cremation, leading Buddhists to revere him as a bodhisattva. With protests continuing, the Special Forces loyal to Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu launched nationwide raids on Buddhist pagodas, inflicting widespread damage and killing, in addition to seizing the holy heart. Several more Buddhist monks followed the lead of Thich Quang Duc and eventually, an ARVN coup toppled and killed Diem in November. The self-immolation is widely seen as the turning point of the Buddhist crisis which led to the change in regime.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Burningmonk.jpg

[aydee]

Goat's Head Soup- Rolling Stones

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Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson

14514

Disraeli Gears- Cream

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Bitches Brew- Miles Davis

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[Mediocrefunkybeat]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B5KR2A.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Having bought this yesterday (but being a casual listener for a while) I felt this was a good one.

[fourstringdrums]

No one has mentioned Spinal Tap "Smell the Glove"? It's none more black..

[Mediocrefunkybeat]

No one has mentioned Spinal Tap "Smell the Glove"? It's none more black..

'It's like a black mirror...'

[volume_3]

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

[Citizen Insane]

These album covers never get old:


Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s56332.jpg (http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/radiohead/hail_to_the_thief/)

Radiohead- OK Computer
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s45.jpg (http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/radiohead/ok_computer/)

Rage Against the Machine - Self titled album
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s933.jpg (http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/rage_against_the_machine/rage_against_the_machine/)

Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here

[Mr. Pasquini]

Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
http://www.tipos.com.br/media/12/20050221-ship_arriving_zappa.jpg

[Tom Sawyer]

http://www.ecovegetal.kit.net/images/in%20the%20court%20of%20crimson%20king.jpg

Gotta love this one, although I wouldn't say it's my favourite, too many great covers out there.

[KLittle123]

You guys named the ones I was gonna say. I was gonna bring up the Spinal tap album, haha, that movie...

that and the pink floyd album with the burning man, i love that'un.

[FourOnSix]

Sigur Ros has soom cool artwork but my alltime favorite is definately the Pros and cons of hitch hiking. I'd post a picture but i'd probly get in trouble ha.

[Big Chris]

http://www.southern.net/southern/band/NEURO/pics/NEU04M.jpg


Neurosis's - Enemy of the Sun has always been a fave of mine.

I don't know who the artist is, but the exact same picture is seen in the opening credits of the Johnny Depp film 'The Ninth Gate'.

[aydee]

Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
http://www.tipos.com.br/media/12/20050221-ship_arriving_zappa.jpg

I had'nt seen this before.............awesome!

[slingerland755]

Abe,
Always loved that one.


This one always brings back memories of my youth.

[Deltadrummer]

This was always a good one, I don't know about 'my favorite,' but there was some great drumming esp on the outtakes: Title Track and Windmills . . There's a transcription of the opening of "Brain Salad Surgery" in MD Drum Gods. good stuff. . Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery.

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[Skeemer118]

"Portable Sounds" by tobyMac

I just completely dig these colors, the radio waves... :)

[bonzolead]

I always liked the first Santana album the all the faces making up a Lion's head and Led Zeppelin III with the pinwheel you turn(I read Zeppelin got a 1 Million advance for that album) and probably Rolling Stones "Stickey Fingers" with the pants and real zipper.I always liked the Album art of the late 60's early 70's.

Bonzolead

[FourOnSix]

Errr... not quite, but I was right about the Pulitzer. Here's exactly what it is:

Thích Quảng Ðức (born Lâm Văn Tức in 1897 – June 11, 1963) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. Thích Quảng Ðức was protesting the persecution of Buddhism by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration. Photos of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought world attention to the policies of the Diem regime. Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of the burning, while David Halberstam's written account achieved the same feat. The act increased international pressure on Diem and led him to announce some reforms with the intention of mollifying Buddhist opinion. However, the delayed implementation of the reforms saw the situation deteriorate. The heart of Thich Quang Duc remained intact after his cremation, leading Buddhists to revere him as a bodhisattva. With protests continuing, the Special Forces loyal to Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu launched nationwide raids on Buddhist pagodas, inflicting widespread damage and killing, in addition to seizing the holy heart. Several more Buddhist monks followed the lead of Thich Quang Duc and eventually, an ARVN coup toppled and killed Diem in November. The self-immolation is widely seen as the turning point of the Buddhist crisis which led to the change in regime.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Burningmonk.jpg



you really have to admire that man's commitment, as insane as it was.

[aydee]

I always liked the first Santana album the all the faces making up a Lion's head and Led Zeppelin III with the pinwheel you turn(I read Zeppelin got a 1 Million advance for that album) and probably Rolling Stones "Stickey Fingers" with the pants and real zipper.I always liked the Album art of the late 60's early 70's.

Bonzolead

I remember that!

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[Joe P]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Fear_of_a_blank_planet.jpg

Out of the hundreds of albums I have, I like Porcupine Tree's "Fear of a Blank Planet" album art most of all. I'm not exactly sure why, but whilst I listen to the songs on my iPod, I can't help but stare at this album art. It's chilling I guess you could say.

[Citizen Insane]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Fear_of_a_blank_planet.jpg

Out of the hundreds of albums I have, I like Porcupine Tree's "Fear of a Blank Planet" album art most of all. I'm not exactly sure why, but whilst I listen to the songs on my iPod, I can't help but stare at this album art. It's chilling I guess you could say.

That is indeed a powerful and mysterious picture...

[Deltadrummer]

Who could forget this one?

18409

This is a cute one.
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[katman]

Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
http://www.tipos.com.br/media/12/20050221-ship_arriving_zappa.jpg

I may be mistaken, but I think this album featured Steve Vai together with Zappa. Which is why the ship and the witches hat form a Z and an upside down V.

Personally I like most of the 4AD label stuff - specially The Pixies and The Breeders covers. Like these two.

[Jackpunk3]

yeah green day has some pretty cool album covers.

[Clubdrums]

I like a lot of phish's album covers. Just like youenjoyyourself's example of story of the ghost. I also like rift and slip, stitch, and pass.

[Mr. Pasquini]

I may be mistaken, but I think this album featured Steve Vai together with Zappa. Which is why the ship and the witches hat form a Z and an upside down V.


Though Vai worked on the album him being in it had nothing to do with the doodle, someone else had drawn that and Zappa liked it because it looked like a Z and an A (notice how the As on the cover are Triangles)

[rhydianjlewis]

Just a few... Also, i agree that the Rage cover is one of the best. And the Zappa one, hadn't seen that before.

[nhzoso]

First one I remember as a kid and I always like was Queens news of the world.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/nhzoso/newsoftheworld.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/nhzoso/IMG_2432.jpg

[Mr. Pasquini]

Another two, Mastodon's Remission and Leviathan

http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Mast-Rem.jpg
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9536/mastodoncd6b935eiy0.jpg

[bonzolead]

I remember that!

18404
Nice attachment brings back a lot of memorys well sort of...........LOL

Bonzolead

[bonzolead]

First one I remember as a kid and I always like was Queens news of the world.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/nhzoso/newsoftheworld.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/nhzoso/IMG_2432.jpg

I always liked that album cover also, the robot reminded me of "Jonny Socko & the Flying Robot" when I was a kid. the album came out when the show was popular.Oh too be a kid again.

Bonzolead

[druid]

my favorite....when I was 10.....
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2007/01/kiss_destroyer.jpg

[druid]

my favorite when I was 14 or 15.....
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/R/rush_movingf.jpg

[MykeyInChains]

http://www.universalmusic.no/images/280x280/Nine_Inch_Nails_Year_Zero_300CMYK.jpg
Nine Inch Nails "Year Zero"

http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/_images/pochettes/1179_2947.jpg
Primus "Brown Album"

http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/1170957128_kornfollowtheleader_280__80025099749122 123_20.jpg
Korn "Follow The Leader"

http://www.tastyatom.com/images/covers/soundgarden-superunknown.jpg
Soundgarden "Superunknown"

http://stores.that1guystore.com/catalog/38-SIK-color.jpg
That One Guy "Songs in the Key of Biotch."

[Mediocrefunkybeat]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/NickDrakePinkMoon.jpg

Says it all I think. This is a truly amazing album.

[2Three]

I don't have a picture unfortunately, but my pick would be Korn's Take a Look in the Mirror cover art. It's cool looking and has a bit of a dark, gothic feel. Very cool in my opinion.

[michael drums]

my favorite when I was 14 or 15.....
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/R/rush_movingf.jpg

I'll second that, druid.


Though...it's STILL my favorite cover to this day! ;-)

[muzzdrums]

How about Sugar Ray's "Lemonade and Brownies" featuring the sublimely proportioned Nicole Eggert.

[slingerland755]

I'll second that, druid.

I'll third that Druid.