A fine game for the whole family! Find a pic of an album cover you admire and post a link to it here. After ten or so links appear, rate each cover in the order you like them.
Please only link to one album cover per day, to allow as many players as possible.
Remember that an album cover can be very cool and the music can be crap. We’re just looking at the covers here, not your personal feelings about any band or the merits of the music.
To start off, I have always liked King Crimson’s Court of the Crimson King:
I always loved the Peter Gabriel “car” cover - Curses, 404!
I like the composition, the raindrops, the slight tinge of creepiness. And the car itself looks like a cool car. I always wanted to know what kind of car it is. A BMW perhaps? One of those NSUs?
A thread I started 02-20-2007, 01:22 PM with the title Remember that weird album cover that had… has 60 posts’ worth of ideas that may be worth looking at for triggers to others.
Flash and the Pan. The cover to their second album Lights in the Night was even greater, but you need to see the actual cover, not a picture of it Here’s a photo. Look closely at that diagonal “scratch off” toward the right and realize that you could actually see the rest.
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. That tiny image doesn’t do it justice, but was the best I could find that showed the complete image. The album opened like a (ETA: vinyl) double album would, so you could see the entire image. It also had a post of the cover image. Here’s a better image of the front, but I can’t find a high-def complete image.
My local classic rock station was interviewing Peter Framton (or maybe someone that had a triple album) and one of the things they said was “Your album was so important to college kids, do you have any idea how much weed was cleaned on it?”
Maybe that’s why they started developing weed that didn’t have seeds. It’s a lot harder to do it on a CD case.
Derek Riggs’ work for Iron Maiden should be considered as a body. If I had to pick one, perhaps Powerslave.
There’s also Hipgnosis, notable for much more than Pink Floyd.