New Order? Cocteau Twins? Not hip and happening, given,but hardly dinosaurs…
Although I feel you about how these music threads bring out the fogies.
That’s because the fogies’ era has so much great music to bring out. 
Driving last night to a restaurant to meet friends for dinner, “Blinded by the Light” – the Manfred Mann version (which makes my list of Songs That Have a Cover Version Better than the Original) – came on the radio. Which got us wondering who played guitar for Manfred Mann, which led us to members of that group, which led us to Klaus Voormann.
Voormann not only was the bassist for Manfred Mann (replacing Jack Bruce), but he did the cover art for the Beatles album Revolver, which I’ve always liked.
I brought up that cover (and Cream’s Disraeli Gears) and told my class “Keep in mind that before Photoshop, a Cut ‘n’ Paste collage meant literally reprinting photos at the size you want, then… see where this is going?.. cutting and pasting.”
That’s certainly *an *opinion.
** Traffic** had the iconic album cover for “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys”, with the corners cut out to enforce the 3-D cube effect. Then they used the same effect for the “Shootout At The Fantasy Factory” album. I’d always wished they would have had more album covers with the same format.
Mom’s Apple Pie.
(Sorry, no link. You will have to look this one up on your own.)
Raymond Pettibon’s work for Black Flag (featuring his brother Greg Ginn on guitar) and other bands has a rawness perfectly in keeping with the music: