Here’s mine:
Really can’t say why, unless it has to do with the “rustic-ness” (?) of it, combined with the unpluggedness (I seem to be making up words, don’t I?) of what’s on the album.
Anyway, that’s mine. Which one do you like?
Thanks
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I also like the cover of “Rubber Soul”, because its somehow sophisticated and pre-psychedelic (the lettering) touch fits perfectly to the musical development the boys showed on that album. But I like “Abbey Road” a lot, too.
A Hard Day’s Night. The original British Parlophone release print.
Hmm no poll?
I’d probably have to go with Abbey Road. Iconic and benefitting from the association with so much extraordinary music.
+1 Abby Road
Paul is barefoot and that started all those crazy Paul is dead rumors. 
Although George’s lips make him look creepy.
The White Album.
Not sure I have a favorite, but I got a kick out of the original cover for “Yesterday and Today” (the “butcher cover”). A friend of mine had a copy that had the second design pasted on top of it, a quick fix after the uproar the first one generated. You could peel it off to reveal the first design underneath.
Actually Let It be… is really shows four different people looking in four different directions… I somehow grasped this at 14 pretty easily…
I think I’ll go with Rubber Soul too, with Let It Be and Pepper as runners-up.
As a point of interest, here’s the cover that was originally intended for what later became the White Album. I wonder how we would feel about this image if it had been released in 1968 instead of getting relegated to a quick-buck compilation years later.
I had no idea - I have always understood The Beatles (aka The White Album) was a conscious effort to go in the opposite direction from Sgt. Pepper’s - from overly-complex, psychedelic cover to the ultimate simplicity; from an album packaged as a “concept album” to a looser collection of songs more obviously crafted by individual members. Consider my ignorance fought - can you provide any more background on what played out with that painting?
Interesting interpretation of the artist Henri Rousseau’s style (link to a poster website showing Rousseau’s The Dream)…
Rousseau, I was racking my brain trying to think of what his name was. Good call.
The art is by Patrick, and was created when the album was going to called A Doll’s House. Presumably both the painting and the title went by the wayside when the Beatles hit on the minimalism concept.
Rubber Soul.
Beatles 1967-1970, because of the way it references Please Please Me.
When it came out, though US audiences didn’t get the joke, though the other best of Album of the time Beatles 1963-1967 used the Please Please Me photo.
Sgt. Pepper
I liked the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cover best: colorful, complex, mysterious, and revolutionary.
Also, it inspired the parody cover of the Frank Zappa & The Mothers’ album We’re Only In It For The Money.
If someone wants to do a poll, please feel free. I don’t have a lot of luck w/ that these days.
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