# Album covers.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 19, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990 "2000-02-19T16:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Abner\_Normal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@Abner\_Normal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Normal)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/1 "2000-02-19T16:51:00Z")
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…\ Allman Brothers “Eat a Peach” Uriah Heep…“Look at yourself” (You actually could) The Beatles…“Yellow Submarine” Santana…“Santana”\ 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 ``` ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/2 "2000-02-19T17:23:00Z")
The Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah Yes - Fragile ---
**Author:** ![Rousseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Rousseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rousseau)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/3 "2000-02-19T17:49:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![spankboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@spankboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankboy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/4 "2000-02-19T17:50:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/5 "2000-02-20T06:28:00Z")
Supertramp – Indelibly Stamped I’m surprised this didn’t make them immediately popular. 🙂 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. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/6 "2000-02-19T20:20:00Z")
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/7 "2000-02-19T20:25:00Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/8 "2000-02-19T20:29:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/9 "2000-02-19T20:32:00Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/10 "2000-02-19T20:35:00Z")
"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. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/11 "2000-02-19T21:34:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/12 "2000-02-19T22:52:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/13 "2000-02-19T22:54:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/14 "2000-02-20T00:50:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/15 "2000-02-20T00:58:00Z")
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) * * * – “it’s all real” “I KNEW IT!!!” O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/16 "2000-02-20T02:07:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/17 "2000-02-20T02:16:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/18 "2000-02-20T02:16:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/19 "2000-02-20T02:39:00Z")
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…) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990/20 "2000-02-20T02:48:00Z")
Nu Vo, I’m only 32. But you just made me feel really, really old. :::hobbles off with her cane & shawl::: 😉 * * * Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-covers/13990.md?page=2)