Best Album Covers

[anon71769209]

I nominate:

 

 

 

NB I have the special edition of this one: It comes in a pop-up book version of the cover. It's awesome.

 

 

 

And from a couple of groups few will have heard of

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sameolds2010]

Sorry peeto

[Disinterested_Handjo]

or...

 

[wimmera1]

[mrjez]

Wolf Parade. Nice. I nominate Joy Division.

[wimmera1]

Your t-shirt's better than your band.

[mrjez]

Not an album, but New Order’s Blue Monday 12" is the best sleeve ever.

[wimmera1]

[mrjez]

[Rocky_IV]

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[McQuade]

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[Disinterested_Handjo]

I'm quite partial to this one too...

 

[McQuade]

[ledzep]

Jethro Tull ,thick as a brick.cant show you the cover because that would require basic computer skills and my son isn’t home.but the cover is a local English news paper with quite a few pages.its all fictional but not a bad read

[McQuade]

[Blummers32]

Arguably the most iconic album cover of the last twenty five years…

[Albert_Thurgood]

IMHO the best album cover of all time, without any doubt is:

 

 

Up till then, there really was no such thing as cover art - covers just had some photo of the band/singer.

 

It was revolutionary.

 

What other band could afford not to have their own name on the cover?

 

Who else would have the chutzpah to feature on their album cover the only group who could claim to rival them?

 

Having their own "Fab Four" images - with which they became world famous - in B&W looking on also emphasises the quantum leap that this album made. Before the Beatles, popular music was indeed monochrome. They gave that generation and those to come the license to be inventive.

 

Quite simply, if not for the Beatles, the modern world would not be as it is.