# What's Your Favorite Album Cover? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037 "2017-09-23T13:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/61 "2017-09-25T19:44:54Z")
Either [Crown of Creation](http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/652/MI0003652966.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) or [Bless It’s Pointed Little Head](https://img.discogs.com/nWrMBSp1i0qmJ7YkhYv-XuKCK5M=/fit-in/400x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1899160-1275422032.jpeg.jpg) by Jefferson Airplane The minimalist cover for Patti Smith’s [Horses](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/PattiSmithHorses.jpg) is a literal work of art by photographer (and Smith’s soulmate) Robert Mapplethorpe. and here’s the obligatory link to the infamous [Mom’s Apple Pie](http://img.wennermedia.com/920-width/rs-179897-momsapplepie.jpg) cover that must be included in every roundup of ‘best album covers’ ever. (Fair warning: It is definitely NSFW, though the picture is subtle enough that the offensiveness may be missed by a casual glance.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/62 "2017-09-25T19:54:52Z")
[Donovan-“Cosmic Wheels”](https://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/1-5-15-4/144609.jpg), especially if [the inside of the jacket](http://www.zeroto180.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Donovans-Cosmic-Wheels-aa.jpg) hasn’t already been [colored in by somebody else.](http://www.zeroto180.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Donovans-Cosmic-Wheels-bb.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/63 "2017-09-25T20:38:15Z")
A couple faves: Good Rats [Birth Comes To Us All](https://goo.gl/images/sKMjXy) Frank Zappa [The Man From Utopia](https://goo.gl/images/r7G2i7) Front and [Back](https://goo.gl/images/NyJC4y) ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/64 "2017-09-25T21:13:23Z")
Kiss - Destroyer & Rock-N-Roll Over ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/65 "2017-09-25T21:15:15Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > [Bless It’s Pointed Little Head](https://img.discogs.com/nWrMBSp1i0qmJ7YkhYv-XuKCK5M=/fit-in/400x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1899160-1275422032.jpeg.jpg) by Jefferson Airplane Good one. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/66 "2017-09-26T12:18:34Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > [Whipped Cream and Other Delights](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3552/5708065765_baf446ae60.jpg) by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. This also inspired the following Pat Cooper album cover: [http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/BigImg/cooper.jpg](http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/BigImg/cooper.jpg) Actually, I have a great fondness for the album covers Westminster Gold came up with. Their art team must’ve been high, or at least thoroughly unconcerned abiout public opinion, because their covers in the 1970s were wild. Here’s _Julian Bream Plays Bach_, taken literally. [![](https://media2.wnyc.org/i/521/521/l/80/1/bream-bach.jpg) ](https://media2.wnyc.org/i/521/521/l/80/1/bream-bach.jpg) And Gustav Holt’s The Planets: [http://www.velvetglass.com/Etcetera/artofthealbum/art%20of%20the%20album%20Albums/space/DSC\_5857.jpg](http://www.velvetglass.com/Etcetera/artofthealbum/art%20of%20the%20album%20Albums/space/DSC_5857.jpg) Opera Without Words (It’s over – The Fat Lady Can’t Sing): [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fb/4d/a9/fb4da9bf7aa892bc3cc44f6e34998d03.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fb/4d/a9/fb4da9bf7aa892bc3cc44f6e34998d03.jpg) Mozart’s _Eine Leine Nachitmusik_. Well represented by a cast-off bra: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cc/f4/53/ccf4531c9b7d1a35d68f26ac7dcd73f2.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cc/f4/53/ccf4531c9b7d1a35d68f26ac7dcd73f2.jpg) Julian Bream’s Greatest Hits: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3f/20/dd/3f20dd9048df03df33a1a63871d79b48.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3f/20/dd/3f20dd9048df03df33a1a63871d79b48.jpg) and Virgil Fox’s Greatest Hits: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/7b/3e/587b3e93b164b662ddae3772343afa8c.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/7b/3e/587b3e93b164b662ddae3772343afa8c.jpg) Flute and Harpsichord Sonatas. If you don’t get it, stare at it for a while and let the title sink in: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a9/ab/07/a9ab074e1552ee7e3a33194d175b6afd.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a9/ab/07/a9ab074e1552ee7e3a33194d175b6afd.jpg) Airs (“Ayres”) for Four Voices: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/54/43/73/5443737bed1ca3b0a7f5d8752d8b3b10.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/54/43/73/5443737bed1ca3b0a7f5d8752d8b3b10.jpg) Handel Arias. This one might take a minute, too: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/a3/f9/b2a3f9802f5ba07ce0ede8c3c1d853fc.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/a3/f9/b2a3f9802f5ba07ce0ede8c3c1d853fc.jpg) And, of couse, Die Walkurie: [![](https://placowkapostepu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wagner-volkswagen1.jpg) ](https://placowkapostepu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wagner-volkswagen1.jpg) Here are several more: > **[westminster gold record album covers - Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=westminster%2Bgold%2Brecord%2Balbum%2Bcovers&qpvt=Westminster%2BGold%2Brecord%2Balbum%2Bcovers)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/67 "2017-09-26T12:27:53Z")
I realize that they’re not the kind of album that the OP had in mind, but I really like the hyperdramatic comic-book-style renderings of the covers of the albums put out by High Camp Records: [http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wonderland-Records-20-000-Leagues-Under-The-Sea-lp-RARE-1973-FIRST-PRESS-EX-12-/282634602644?hash=item41ce55c894:g:3wQAAOSws5pZLJ7i](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wonderland-Records-20-000-Leagues-Under-The-Sea-lp-RARE-1973-FIRST-PRESS-EX-12-/282634602644?hash=item41ce55c894:g:3wQAAOSws5pZLJ7i) > **[HIGH CAMP ADVENTURE Record the First Man in the - Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/listing/259870674/high-camp-adventure-record-the-first-man)** > > Bell Records released a series by long playing, vinyl records in the late 1960s featuring science fiction themes based on works of authors like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells...basic materials for a good B movie. The spoken series was called High Camp... > **[LP: HIGH CAMP ADVENTURE: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS | #31266469](https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/lp-high-camp-adventure-around-the-world-in-80)** > > You are buying a HIGH CAMP ADVENTURE: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS LP record.T is no date listed on the album cover.I believe this series began in the late sixties,probably as a way to capture the inte ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/68 "2017-09-26T12:30:48Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Black Sabbath While perhaps not my all time favorite, this does the best combination of pure art and telling you what’s inside the tin. Having seen the cover for years, having heard it, it was exactly what I expected from the cover: slightly psychedelic, slightly folky metal. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/69 "2017-09-26T14:56:29Z")
**David Stone Martin** did some of the greatest jazz album design ever in the 1950s, mainly for the Verve label. Just scroll down this image list… [https://www.google.com/search?q=david+stone+martin+art&rlz=1C9BKJA\_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhjKnNjcPWAhXCKCYKHfPWACkQ\_AUIESgB](https://www.google.com/search?q=david+stone+martin+art&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS620US620&hl=en-US&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhjKnNjcPWAhXCKCYKHfPWACkQ_AUIESgB) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/70 "2017-09-26T15:01:46Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Good one. I’ve always loved this one, too. Supposedly the album got the title when Gracie saw the photo of Casady passed out on the banquet table and said “awwww…bless its pointed little head.” Great performance, too. _The Jefferson Airplane Live at Fillmore West_ proves just how awful the Airplane could be on an off night. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/71 "2017-09-26T21:24:25Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I’ve always loved this one, too. Supposedly the album got the title when Gracie saw the photo of Casady passed out on the banquet table and said “awwww…bless its pointed little head.” In fact, Casady desrved to have that cover to himself, as his performance on _The Other Side Of This Life_ has been my favorite by any bass guitarist for 47 years now, with _It’s No Secret_ and _Plastic Fantastic Lover_ tied for second favorites. The man was amazing. I was surprised to learn recently that he’s a little guy, always imagined him being seven feet tall. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Great performance, too. _The Jefferson Airplane Live at Fillmore West_ proves just how awful the Airplane could be on an off night. God yes. Hard to believe it’s the same band. BTW, I like your name. Just the other night we were playing cards with my wife’s (much) younger cousin. She’s 24, has wonderfully catholic taste in music, and also happens to be an aficiando of Disney movies old and new. With that in mind, I put on a cd of Ukulele Ike singing and playing solo. After a while she asked who he was, and I told her and added that she’s heard his voice before. She agreed that his voice was familiar but couldn’t quite place him. When I finally clued her in, she got a kick out of it, and was impressed by my store of old fart trivia. (For you eavesdroppers… Ukulele Ike was the voice of Jiminy Cricket.) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/72 "2017-09-27T00:27:49Z")
I have a context-based [fondness for this portrait of Yvonne Minton](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91dl8QiNcoL._SY355_.jpg), on the cover of an album of Mahler songs. It was this picture, of a lovely singer, that persuaded my mother (who had been traumatized by Ernestine Schumann-Heink at a tender age) that vocal works might be worth listening to. (Yeah, judging by appearances, that’s me mum!) ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/73 "2017-09-27T02:10:43Z")
Jack Casady is a huge talent. I would put him up there with Steve Swallow. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/74 "2017-09-28T19:26:02Z")
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood. Its a photorealistic painting. Apparently, there was much debate as to whether it was a photo or painting when it was released. The detail is incredible. This image isn’t so good. BTW, a great album. [![](https://i.imgur.com/lUxr2.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/lUxr2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/75 "2017-09-28T20:32:50Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > and here’s the obligatory link to the infamous [Mom’s Apple Pie](http://img.wennermedia.com/920-width/rs-179897-momsapplepie.jpg) cover that must be included in every roundup of ‘best album covers’ ever. (Fair warning: It is definitely NSFW, though the picture is subtle enough that the offensiveness may be missed by a casual glance.) Help me out here, what makes this NSFW? ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037/76 "2017-09-28T21:00:49Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > Help me out here, what makes this NSFW? Those aren’t apples … and that ain’t apple juice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-album-cover/797037.md?page=3)