# Your Favorite Beatles Album Cover? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697 "2012-01-26T10:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/1 "2012-01-26T10:46:26Z")
Here’s mine: [![](https://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/rubsoul.jpg) ](https://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/rubsoul.jpg) 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 Q ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/2 "2012-01-26T11:45:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SeamusMcCool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@SeamusMcCool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeamusMcCool)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/3 "2012-01-26T12:11:21Z")
A Hard Day’s Night. The original British Parlophone release print. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/4 "2012-01-26T14:30:02Z")
Hmm no poll? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/5 "2012-01-26T15:20:57Z")
I’d probably have to go with Abbey Road. Iconic and benefitting from the association with so much extraordinary music. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/6 "2012-01-26T15:44:00Z")
+1 Abby Road Paul is barefoot and that started all those crazy Paul is dead rumors. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/7 "2012-01-26T15:44:22Z")
[Revolver](http://covers.a-go.in/max/the_beatles_-_1966_revolver.jpg). Although George’s lips make him look creepy. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/8 "2012-01-26T15:52:28Z")
The White Album. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/9 "2012-01-26T16:12:20Z")
Not sure I have a favorite, but I got a kick out of the [original cover for “Yesterday and Today”](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_full_width/hash/6f/c8/6fc89f7fee82a9f6982bde40cd0b4543.jpg) (the “butcher cover”). A friend of mine had a copy that had the [second design](http://www.hollywoodmemorabilia.com/files/cache/paul-mccartney-beatles-yesterday-today-signed-album-cover-w-vinyl-psa-q00477_306a2d957aaba7f66990913447acdb67.jpg) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/10 "2012-01-26T16:13:20Z")
Actually Let It be… is really shows four different people looking in four different directions… I somehow grasped this at 14 pretty easily… ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/11 "2012-01-26T16:28:02Z")
[Simplicity is always the best.](http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/10WHITEALBUM.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/12 "2012-01-26T17:14:57Z")
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](http://www.getvinyl.com/img/original/R-2431327-12836932581.jpeg). 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. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/13 "2012-01-26T17:30:10Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > As a point of interest, here’s the cover that was [originally intended for what later became the White Album](http://www.getvinyl.com/img/original/R-2431327-12836932581.jpeg). 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](http://www.paintinghere.com/painting/The_Dream_5958.html) (link to a poster website showing Rousseau’s The Dream)… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/14 "2012-01-26T17:34:08Z")
Rousseau, I was racking my brain trying to think of what his name was. Good call. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/15 "2012-01-26T18:01:03Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > can you provide any more background on what played out with that painting? The art is by [Patrick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrne_(playwright)), 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. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/16 "2012-01-26T18:16:21Z")
Rubber Soul. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/17 "2012-01-26T19:13:59Z")
[Beatles 1967-1970](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lMRIjoHyp-4/TVGpdLOFehI/AAAAAAAAEOI/2je9EJ4yvmU/s1600/beatles%2B1966%2B70.jpg), because of the way it references **[Please Please Me](http://images.wikia.com/beatles/images/8/86/Please_please_me.jpg)**. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/18 "2012-01-26T19:23:08Z")
Sgt. Pepper ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/19 "2012-01-26T20:19:01Z")
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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zappamoney2.jpg)_. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697/20 "2012-01-26T20:19:47Z")
If someone wants to do a poll, please feel free. I don’t have a lot of luck w/ that these days. Q [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatles-album-cover/610697.md?page=2)