Album covers..

Does anyone still remember the great and not so great album covers from the past? You could listen to the music and get lost in the art. A few of my favorites…<hr>

Allman Brothers “Eat a Peach”

Uriah Heep…“Look at yourself” (You actually could)

The Beatles…“Yellow Submarine”

Santana…“Santana”<hr>
You have any favs or hates?


In history they will not fill their heads with battles, nor in geography with fortresses, for it becomes them just as little to reek of
gunpowder as it does the males to reek of musk.

                     - Immanuel Kant

The Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah

Yes - Fragile

Bruce Sprinsteen–“Born to Run.” Best album cover EVER.

The Rolling Stones–“Sticky Fingers.” Only the ones with the real zipper on 'em, and only the vinyls, not the CD’s (which, on account of their attempts to put on zippers, have ended up in really funky packages).


“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” -Winston Churchill

Black Oak Arkansas’ First Album.

Satanic Majesties’ Request, The Stones.

Candy-O, The Cars.

For its elegant simplicity,

Aerosmith’s ‘Rocks’.

-sb

They say the Lord loves drunks, fools and little children.
Two out of three ain’t bad.

Supertramp – Indelibly Stamped I’m surprised this didn’t make them immediately popular. :slight_smile:

Pink Floyd – Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon, and Wish You Were Here. Hypgnosis rules!

Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed

The Who – either The Who Sell Out or Who’s Next (once you realize what it portrays).

Beatles – The White Album (original version)

Blind Faith – the alternate cover, not the one with the picture of the band.

Flash and the Pan – Lights in the Night, especially when you realize that the cover of their previous album can be seen beneath it.

Another Monty Python Album


“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.

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Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell

Sgt. Pepper. Love staring at it, and trying to decide whether or not Paul was dead at the time they made that album.

Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy has some rather unique cover art, too.

Another vote for Her Satanic Majesty’s Request. Love trying to find the Beatles on that one.


Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.

I just bought a copy of Blood, Sweat, & Tears’ CHILD IS THE FATHER TO THE MAN after reading about it in the “Underappreciated Rock Music” thread.

Got a BIG kick out of the cover art…each band member is sitting with a small boy on his lap, and photos of each musician’s face have been laid over the kids’ heads.

Grotesque, yet witty.


Uke

A guy by the name of Gary Smith used to do the covers for Savatage albums (and one Omen album that I’m aware of). They appear to be airbrushed. Great covers–lots of detail. The skin tones are unreal (meaning very real).

"Sgt. Pepper. Love staring at it, and trying to decide whether or not Paul was dead at
the time they made that album. "
Don’t you mean Abbey Road Cristi? I do believe that that was the one that gave rise to the whole “Paul is dead” theory…

And(for sheer simplicity) I’d have to add that Spinal Tap’s Album “Smell The Glove” has a pretty cool cover as well.

Faces – Peter Gabriel
Houses of the Holy – Zep (also great for de-seeding pot)
Cap’n Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy – Sir Elton John (Not only the cover, but the album sleeves were cool too)

[Robert Plant]Does anyone remember album sleeves?![/Robert Plant]


“Though I hate 'em, I’ll defend to my death your right to use smilies.”
Forward deployed until 18AUG00

I have a record by a band called Jo Jo Gunne. the cover art (it’s a fold-out!) features an obese woman completely nude. On the outside, she’s flying through the air above the band, who are in bed. Inside she’s laying on the floor, and a piglet is sniffing her. The liner notes to the album are scrawled onto her body in hadwritten letters (they’re writtin onto the PHOTO of her body, that is.)
To me, this is at once the most fascinating and disgusting and most humorous album cover I’ve ever seen!
The band isn’t that great (to me) and I have to admit that this is the only album I’ve ever bought just for the cover. Look it up sometime if possible!

Also- I have a question. I remember well the ‘Sticky Fingers’ albums, but could never bring myself to unzip one, because, well, I didn’t wanna look, uh, well, like I was interested in finding out what was, er, behind the zipper. Now that I’m so much more comfortable with myself, uh, what’s behind it???

Sweet Basil

Oh, I forgot…

That Blind Faith album totally answers the question: “What did pedaphiles get off on before the internet?”

What a great record too…

Sweet Basil

My favorite album cover is “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” but I also like “The Velvet Underground and Nico.” Speaking of, what is that Leonard Cohen album where he’s holding a banana on the cover? I like that one, too.

Jethro Tull:

Thick as a Brick (the original long foldout one)
Living in the Past (the original 10+ page booklet one)
A Passion Play (the original with the play program in the middle)
Broadsword and the Beast
Stand Up (with the popup in the middle)



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I agree with RealityChuck - Hypgnosis rules !

I second Wish You Were Here and add Nektar - Recycled.


A point in every direction is like no point at all

How can all you hip people forget the Big Brother & Holding Co. album (I forget its name, but it has “Summertime” and “Peice of My Heart”) whose cover was done by R. Crumb?

THAT is classic art.

Nu Vo: The “Paul is dead” stuff started well before Abbey Road. There are a few hints on Sgt. Pepper, on the cover and in at least one of the songs, “Tomorrow Never Knows.”


Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.

Oh, sorry about that then. (guess I’m just not knowledgeable enough about the Beatles. Thats what I get for waiting so long to be born…)

Nu Vo, I’m only 32.

But you just made me feel really, really old.

:::hobbles off with her cane & shawl:::

:wink:


Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.