The Album Cover Challenge

Cafe Society
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Challenge 3

13 White Stripes, Elephant
Challenge 4

04 Tricky, Maxinquaye
12 Eve, Olution
18 hm, thougt it was Liz Phair…
19 Eurythmics, Touch
21 Marilyn Manson, Portrait of an American Family
25 Duran Duran, Rio

Well, gotta go to work. Sorry if, in the time it took me to compile my answers, I’ve duplicated others. I also apologize for taking a lot of the easy ones. Later, taters!

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I know two of them:
54. is Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis
and never mind as I thought the second page was the next page but it’s the main page. I’ll look to see if I can see any more.

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Geez, I’m sorry. I’ve gotta steal some more of the easy ones:

Challenge 7

01 Nirvana, In Utero
03 Blues Traveller, Four
06 David Byrne, Uh-Oh
08 De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising
12 Tom Waits, Mule Variations
13 Everything But The Girl, Walking Wounded
14 Pixies, Doolittle
20 Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
28 Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffitti
29 Blink Melon, Self Titled
30 Beck, Odelay

Can’t… control urge… to I.D. more… sorry.

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Ok I can go back through them now:
1a:
5 REM Automatic for the People (I think)
8 Smashing Pumpkins (have no idea of the name)
9 Prodogy (again no idea)
15 is some sort of Janet Jackson

1b I’ve already done,

2:
10 looks like a John Coletran album but not more then 50% sure

3:
19 Evenesence Fallen
21 looks like 50 cent

4:
1 looks like Queen 2, though I don’t have any of their albums any more
19 is Eurrythmics

5:
22 Metallica though I don’t know, Master of Puppets maybe

7:
24 STP Facelift
29 Blind Mellon

These were done all off memory, and I think I own all of two of them.

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Can we have a new rule?

You can’t post for albums unless you know both the artist name and the name of the album. No half credit!

Agreed? :dubious:

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  1. is ELO - Out of the Blue
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Been a busy boy me.

challenge 7 then

  1. I think its 6 wheels on my Wagon by Fluke
  2. 3 feet high & rising - De La Soul, which conversely is playing at this very moment
  3. Kings of Leon
    10.Linkin fucking Park - Hybrid Theory
    12.Tom Waits - Mule variations
    13.Everything but the Girl
    14.Pixies - Doolittle
  4. Santana - Abraxa
  5. Paul Simon - Rhythmn of the Saints
  6. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
  7. Rage against the Machine - Evil Empire
  8. Audioslave - Audioslave
  9. A Tribe called Quest - People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
  10. Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
  11. Blind Lemon - ?

challenge 6

  1. Roxy Music - Country Life
  2. C & C Music factory - gonna make you sweat
  3. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
  4. U2 - Under a blood red sky
  5. Kriss Kross - Jump(??)
  6. Alice in Chains - Dirt
  7. Suzanne Vega - 99.9F
  8. Snow - 12 inches of Snow
  9. U2 - Boy
  10. Grace jones - Island Life
  11. Oasis - Whats the story?

I used AMG to remember the album titles on some of them, otherwise, all off the top of the dome.

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Oooooh, but this was fun!

There were about another dozen or two where I knew the artist but couldn’t think of the album name. So frustrating I could spit!
Part 1

  1. Get Born - Jet
  2. Automatic for the People - REM
  3. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? - The Cranberries
  4. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  5. Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
  6. Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
  7. Blur - Blur
  8. Morning View - Incubus
  9. Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
  10. The Masterplan - Oasis
  11. Absolution - Muse
  12. Vehicles and Animals - Athlete
  13. Room on Fire - The Strokes
  14. The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
  15. Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
  16. The Great Eastern - The Delgados
  17. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
  18. Nimrod - Green Day
  19. THis Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours - Manic Street Preachers
  20. Going Blank Again - Ride
  21. The Beatles - The Beatles
  22. Metallica - Metallica
  23. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
  24. Blowback - Tricky

Part 2.

  1. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
  2. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
  3. Big Calm - Morcheeba
  4. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
  5. Is This It - The Strokes
  6. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  7. OK Computer - Radiohead
  8. All That You Can’t Leave Behind - U2
  9. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
  10. Somthing To Remember - Madonna
  11. Invincible - Michael Jackson
  12. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
  13. Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf
  14. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
  15. DIfferent Class - Pulp
  16. The Great Escape - Blur
  17. American III - Johny Cash
  18. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Part 3.

  1. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
  2. Diva - Annie Lennox
  3. Make It Big - Wham!
  4. Blue - Jonie Mitchell
  5. Elephant - The White Stripes
  6. American Tune - Eva Cassidy
  7. Middle of Nowhere - Hanson (I can’t believe I know that. I am so ashamed!)
  8. Fallen - Evanescence
  9. Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
  10. The Datsuns - The Datsuns

Part 4

  1. Love Is Here - Starsailor
  2. Maxinquaye - Tricky
  3. Garbage - Garbage
  4. The Last Broadcast - Doves
  5. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
  6. Nocturama - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  7. Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle
  8. From Every Sphere - Ed Harcourt
  9. Under Rug Swept - Alanis Morisette
  10. Touch - Eurythmics
  11. Kaleidescope - Kelis
  12. Cast of Thousands - Elbow

Part 5

  1. Think Tank - Blur
  2. Ok Computer - Radiohead (again?)
  3. Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
  4. Frogstomp - silverchair (Go my hometown boys!)
  5. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
  6. Sha-Sha - Ben Kweller
  7. Like a Virgin - Madonna
  8. Winning Days - The Vines
  9. Parachutes - Coldplay
  10. Live Through This - Hole
  11. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
  12. A Secret History - The Divine Comedy
  13. Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
  14. Kylie Minogue - Kylie Minogue
  15. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays

Part 6

  1. Brainwashed - George Harrison
  2. Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars - Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
  3. Black Cherry - Goldfrappe
  4. Under a Blood Red Sky - U2
  5. 99.9 deg F - Suzanne Vega
  6. War - U2
  7. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis

Part 7

  1. In Utero - Nirvana
  2. White Ladders - David Gray
  3. In Theory - Linkin Park
  4. Walking Wounded - Everything But the Girl
  5. Doolittle - The Pixies
  6. Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon
  7. Comfort Eagle - Cake
  8. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
  9. Evil Empire - Rage Against The Machines
  10. Audioslave - Audioslave
  11. The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
  12. Odelay - Beck
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OMG. As OPer, OK. I will give an integrated thread of answers so far, suggest you add to it. I’ve taken Monkey Chew’s list and built on it. Haven’t checked em all - it’s easy to do so, since they’re all on Amazon.

Part 1

  1. Get Born - Jet
  2. Automatic for the People - REM
  3. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? - The Cranberries
  4. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  5. Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
  6. Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
  7. Beautiful Freak - Eels
  8. Blur - Blur
  9. Morning View - Incubus
  10. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
  11. Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson
  12. The Masterplan - Oasis
  13. Absolution - Muse
  14. Vehicles and Animals - Athlete
  15. Room on Fire - The Strokes
  16. The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
  17. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
  18. After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
  19. Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
  20. Out of the Blue - ELO
  21. The Great Eastern - The Delgados
  22. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
  23. Nimrod - Green Day
  24. THis Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours - Manic Street Preachers
  25. The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
  26. Music has the right to Children - Boards of Canada
  27. Going Blank Again - Ride
  28. Take That and Party - Take That
  29. Blind Man’s Zoo - 1000 Maniacs
  30. The Beatles - The Beatles
  31. Metallica - Metallica
  32. Ozzmosis - Ozzy Osbourne
  33. Vs - Pearl Jam
  34. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
  35. Things Fall Apart - The Roots
  36. London 0 Hull 4 - The Housemartins
  37. Blowback - Tricky

Part 2.

  1. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (Ry Cooder)

  2. Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane’s Addiction

  3. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye

  4. Big Calm - Morcheeba

  5. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

  6. Is This It - The Strokes

  7. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

  8. OK Computer - Radiohead

  9. All That You Can’t Leave Behind - U2

  10. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

  11. London Calling - The Clash

  12. Somthing To Remember - Madonna

  13. Invincible or History - Michael Jackson

  14. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

  15. Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf

  16. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

  17. DIfferent Class - Pulp

  18. The Great Escape - Blur

  19. American III or Solitary Man - Johnny Cash

  20. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
    Part 3.

  21. Mezzanine - Massive Attack

  22. Diva - Annie Lennox

  23. Make It Big - Wham!

  24. Blue - Jonie Mitchell

  25. Elephant - The White Stripes

  26. American Tune - Eva Cassidy

  27. Middle of Nowhere - Hanson (I can’t believe I know that. I am so ashamed!)

  28. Fallen - Evanescence

  29. Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie

  30. The Datsuns - The Datsuns

Part 4

  1. Love Is Here - Starsailor
  2. Maxinquaye - Tricky
  3. Garbage - Garbage
  4. The Last Broadcast - Doves
  5. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
  6. Nocturama - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  7. Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle
  8. From Every Sphere - Ed Harcourt
  9. Under Rug Swept - Alanis Morisette
  10. Touch - Eurythmics
  11. Kaleidescope - Kelis
  12. Cast of Thousands - Elbow

Part 5

  1. Think Tank - Blur
  2. Ok Computer - Radiohead (again?)
  3. God Shuffled His Feet - Crash Test Dummies
  4. Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
  5. Frogstomp - silverchair (Go my hometown boys!)
  6. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
  7. Sha-Sha - Ben Kweller
  8. Like a Virgin - Madonna
  9. Winning Days - The Vines
  10. Parachutes - Coldplay
  11. Harvest - Neil Young
  12. Live Through This - Hole
  13. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
  14. A Secret History - The Divine Comedy
  15. Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
  16. Kylie Minogue - Kylie Minogue
  17. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays

Part 6

  1. Brainwashed - George Harrison
  2. Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars - Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
  3. Country Life - Roxy Music
  4. Gonna Make You Sweat - C & C Miusic Factory
  5. Black Cherry - Goldfrappe
  6. Under a Blood Red Sky - U2
  7. Jump - Kriss Kross
  8. Dirt - Alice in Chains
  9. 99.9 deg F - Suzanne Vega
  10. 12 Inches of Snow - Snow
  11. War or Boy - U2
  12. Island Life - Grace Jones
  13. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis

Part 7

  1. In Utero - Nirvana
  2. Four - Blues Traveller
  3. Uh-Oh - David Byrne
  4. White Ladders - David Gray
  5. 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
  6. In Theory - Linkin Park
  7. Mule Variations - Tom Waits
  8. Walking Wounded - Everything But the Girl
  9. Doolittle - The Pixies
  10. Abraxa - Santana
  11. Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon
  12. Comfort Eagle - Cake
  13. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
  14. Evil Empire - Rage Against The Machines
  15. Audioslave - Audioslave
  16. People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest
  17. The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
  18. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
  19. Blind Melon - Blind Melon
  20. Odelay - Beck
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Part 1

  1. Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
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Did no one really get the Group 1 #23 is Pink Floyd’s The Wall?

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I’m not reading any of your responses, because I don’t want to be told any of the I.D.s, because I plan to do the total geek-out thing and try to pin down some of these later, using my collection.

(As Rummy famously said, there are “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”…)

Like probably most everyone, I’m a lot better about identifying the artist and letting the album title fall by the wayside, even with LPs in my own collection.

But, including LPs that I visually recognize and am pretty sure I can pin down the specifics of later (web searching is allowed, right?), and fractional credit for those I think I recognize but not to a great degree of certainty (unknown knowns?) my early tally is:

1a: 9
1b: 11 or 12
2: 13-15 (depending)
3: 10 1/2
4: 10
5: 9
6: 13 1/2
7: 12 1/2

Ooh, I just remembered what one of them was just now, so one of those fractions can be rounded up now… :smiley:

This contest would be a lot tougher if they included EPs and singles art…

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Challenge 6

13 Supertramp, Breakfast In America

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Ones I got that haven’t been named yet, per Waccoe’s update post:

Part 6:

  1. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - This Year’s Model
  2. Sonic Youth - Dirty
  3. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
  4. Don McLean - American Pie
  5. Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming

Part 5:
13) Sarah MacLachlan - Surfacing
16) Train - Drops of Jupiter
24) Shawn Mullins - Soul’s Core [kinda cheated for all three of these - I knew the artist but had to look up the album title]

Part 4:
14) Tom Waits - Small Change
25) Duran Duran - Rio
30) India.Aire - Acoustic Soul

Part 3:
07) Ludacris - Chicken ‘n’ Beer
08) Outkast - Stankonia
09) Lyle Lovett - The Road to Ensenada [another case of knowing the artist but not the title]
20) The Specials - The Specials
23) Madness - One Step Beyond
24) The Cure - Galore
26) Gary Jules - Trading Snake Oil for Wolf Tickets
27) Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
30) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

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List continued:

Part 2:
04) Gordon Lightfoot - Gord’s Gold
19) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Part 1:
40) Christina Aguilera - Stripped
48) Ani DiFranco - Evolve
51) Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner

Strangly enough, of all the albums I named in the last two posts, I only own 2: Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model and The Smiths’ The Queen is Dead.

There are a few others I recognize but can’t place, especially since very few of the album covers are coming up full-sized when I click on the thumbnails.

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The ones I know the title and artist of. Some I recognize, but can’t name the title.

Part 1a

8–Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins
10–Beautiful Freak by Eels
17–The Color and the Shape by the Foo Fighters

Part 1b

40–Stripped by Christina Aguilera
52–White Album by the Beatles

Part 2

13–Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
17–All That You Can’t Leave Behind by U2

Part 3

1–Mezzanine by Massive Attack
13–Elephant by the White Stripes
19–Fallen by Evanesence
21–Get Rich or Die Trying by 50 Cent
25–Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie
27–You Are the Quarry by Morrisey

Part 4

9–Chutes Too Narrow by the Shins
18–Under Rug Swept by Alanis Morissette
22–Born To Do It by Craig David

Part 5

2–OK Computer by Radiohead
16–Drops of Jupiter by Train

Part 6

29–Under the Table and Dreaming by the Dave Matthews Band

Part 7

1–In Utero by Nirvana
7–White Ladder by David Grey
10–Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
18–Comfort Eagle by Cake
20–Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins
22–Audioslave by Audioslave

Part 8

8–On the 6 by Jennifer Lopez

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Group 7
#4 Nursery Cryme - Genesis

Group 6
#11 Tommy - The Who

Group 4
#1 A Night At the Opera - Queen
#25 Rio - Duran Duran

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Sorry, but you’re wrong about #53. It’s Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap. (Metallica are just copycats.)

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I think Part 7, #24 is Alice in Chains’ first album.

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I was right, though I didn’t remember the title of the album, which is Facelift.