# Favorite album covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573 "2006-04-13T20:57:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/41 "2006-04-16T00:09:39Z")
> [@Mr. Goob](#): > > For sheer simplicity my fav is [sip arriving too late to save a drowning witch](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_To_Save_A_Drowning_Witch/) by Frank Zappa. I’m partial to [Weasels Ripped My Flesh](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/files/jpg/Weasels_Ripped_My_Flesh.jpg). I especially like the “RZZZZZ!” part. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/42 "2006-04-16T00:20:35Z")
[Blind Faith.](http://www.angelfire.com/wi/blindfaith/vvcov69.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/43 "2006-04-16T00:26:19Z")
Probably not a very pc response considering this is Easter weekend, but **Camel’s** [I Can See Your House From Here](http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=cam-icsyhfh) has always been one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/44 "2006-04-16T00:51:22Z")
I’ve always been a Roger Dean fan, but one of my earliest memorys is of Herb Alpert’s Whipped Cream and some real creepy artwork on a copy of Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The Pixie’s Trompe le Monde is disgustingly fascinating however. (Would someone in touch with the 20th century please link) I’m gonna find a copy of Whipped Cream and leave it laying around to see how my 4 year old boy reacts to it… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/45 "2006-04-16T10:54:00Z")
KISS [Rock And Roll Over](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rock_and_roll_over_cover.jpg) The first [Black Sabbath](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Black_Sabbath_debut_album.jpg) Judas Priest [Sad Wings Of Destiny](http://www.robhalford.de/Lyrics/Lyrics.htm#sadwingsofdestiny) Motörhead [Orgasmatron](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Orgasmatron.jpg)-I actually have this tattooed on my shoulderblade. And too many by [Iron Maiden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_discography) to list, especially the [singles](http://www.maidenfans.com/imc/?link=singles&url=index&lang=eng) ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/46 "2006-04-16T14:11:52Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > The Pixie’s Trompe le Monde is disgustingly fascinating however. (Would someone in touch with the 20th century please link) [Trompe le Monde](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Trompe_le_monde_cover.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/47 "2006-04-16T15:00:37Z")
This [pair](http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~eneman/MUSIC/obaka/obakapict/soul.html) of album covers always made me chuckle: _Whipped Cream and Other Delights_, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass _Clam Dip and Other Delights_, Soul Asylum I’m also a sucker for comics artists doing album covers. I believe this Miles Davis cover by [Don Martin](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/miles_davis_horns.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/quiz_miles.html&h=300&w=301&sz=63&tbnid=ePSuqR0G3eAVuM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=112&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddon%2Bmartin%2Bmiles%2Bdavis%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN) was among the first. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/48 "2006-04-16T15:41:08Z")
_The Grand Illusion_ by Styx is good and trippy. Or how about _Hemipheres_ by Rush. A guy in a convervative english suit and a naked guy in a balet pose squaring off atop a huge brain repesenting the left-brain/right-brain dichotomy. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/49 "2006-04-16T16:56:13Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > The Pixie’s Trompe le Monde is disgustingly fascinating however. (Would someone in touch with the 20th century please link) Someone else has linked, but I’d just like to point out that that’s one of the examples of V23/23-Envelope’s work that I really like. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/50 "2006-04-16T21:31:27Z")
“Stan Freberg with the Original Cast”. It’s a photo of Freberg and his foot is apparently broken because it’s encased in plaster. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/51 "2006-04-17T01:57:00Z")
Rush’s [Hold Your Fire](http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/wallpaper/HYFcov.jpg). It’s just perfect in its perfection. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/52 "2006-04-17T02:37:44Z")
**U2’s** [All That You Can’t Leave Behind](http://digilander.libero.it/u2island/cover_file/ATYCLB_fronte.jpg) is a personal favorite, mainly because it matches the music of the album fantastically. It’s a simple, beautiful shot, just like the songs inside. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/53 "2006-04-17T06:18:16Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The cover to [Thick as a Brick](http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/Photos/thick_as_a_brick.jpg) was great – not much to look out, but originally it folded up into newspaper size, with a newspaper inside. That was going to be my nomination. I had the LP, and even my CD version still has all the pages and text of the original. I like the album covers for the British band The Beautiful South. The cover of their [first album](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000024K12.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) drew criticism because it paired a picture of a guy smoking with a picture of a woman putting a gun in her mouth. In response, later printings of the [cover](http://www.xmission.com/~dking/images/welc1.jpg) had a teddy bear and a rabbit. There was also some controversy over the cover of their later album [Miaow](http://www.universalmusic.pl/photo/plyty/0042282850720_l.jpg). Apparently, HMV asked for the cover to be changed because it mocked their trademark dog and gramophone, so the old cover was replaced with a [different one](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006STW.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/54 "2006-04-17T06:34:05Z")
An artist named “Hip Gnosis” used to do Al Stewart’s album covers back in the 70s. He snuck images of Dr. Strange into two of them, Modern Times and [Past, Present and Future](http://alstewart.famousfolk.com/albums/74-past-present.shtml). _Modern Times_\* was reissued with different artwork, though. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/55 "2006-04-17T07:32:04Z")
I kind of suprised that no one has mentioned Black Sabbaths ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ yet. It is probably my favorite [cover](http://www.connollyco.com/discography/black_sabbath/bloody.html). I had many discussions about this cover back when I was a stoned teenager. Nothing like getting stoned\* and debating what the Sabbath cover meant. Slee \*Of coarse, we were stoned so the discussions weren’t exactly coherent. Man I am glad I stopped dong that kind of crap. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/56 "2006-04-17T12:34:15Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > An artist named “Hip Gnosis” used to do Al Stewart’s album covers back in the 70s. He snuck images of Dr. Strange into two of them, Modern Times and [Past, Present and Future](http://alstewart.famousfolk.com/albums/74-past-present.shtml)… Hypgnosis was the working name for Storm Thorgerson and Aubury Powell, who were probably the premier cover artists ever. They did nearly all of Pink Floyd’s covers, and covers for Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, 10cc, and many others. If it’s the album has a striking photographic image, there’s a good chance Hypgnosis was involved. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573/57 "2006-04-18T01:25:17Z")
It’s worth mentioning that the late comedian [Phil Hartman](http://www.boxoff.com/sneakoct96.html) was once a commercial artist who designed album covers for the cream of the lightweight 70s bands and others back in the days of vinyl LPs (Poco, America, CSN, Firesign Theatre). None of these covers are anybody’s favorites, but hey, it’s Phil Hartman! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-covers/352573.md?page=2)