Your Favourite Album Covers...

[Satchwood]

I just loved carrying this Aerosmith album around when I was a kid.  Not much artwork, but I felt so cool owning it:

[Satchwood]

Hey this is fun.....memory lane cruising....GnR....Crue....

 

[Ferryman]

And an interesting question... do we love the cover more because we love the music within?

Yes, I'm afraid I think Gentleman Take Polaroids is a pretty weak album cover - look at that tacky lightning bolt! But it's a gem inside. My wife has a theory that what we view as "great music" tends to coincide with important phases of our lives (which are generally when we are younger). I think the same's true of album covers - the "great" ones will more likely be what we think are "great" albums.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Sprocket]

One of my favorite Yes album covers:

Isnt that a Phil Hartman cover???(you know, the SNL comedian...)

This is one of my favs:



[edit]seems I cant find anything to confirm the Phil Hartman thing...

[Ted]

This isn't one of my favorites, but it's intriguing because it so amateurish.  I mean, this was released by Mercury Records, Universal Records, and Polydor Records.  But it looks like a cheap DIY cover that you'd buy from someone playing at a coffee house.  Was it intentional?

Was it...

(a) "Hey, how about we only spend about $25 on the cover art? More money for us!"

(b) "Hey, let's go for the cheap DIY look.  That'll be edgy."

(c) "Hey, the CEO of Mercury let his 12-year-old daughter do the art.  Nobody say anything."

[SharksDontSleep]

Hmmm ... The ones which come to mind are the iconic & the quirky:

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[Kody]

I was thinking about posting Nevermind....

Appetite for Destruction....Good call, Satchwood!

[SharksDontSleep]

Other that come to mind are:

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division




Three Imaginary Boys by The Cure

[Satchwood]

Appetite for Destruction....Good call, Satchwood!

Definitely my favorite GnR album - I learned to play every dang tune on the album and even sang to some of the stuff!

[Oldrottenhead]

good call gingerjack , unknown pleasure was a great album with a distinctive cover.

someone said earlier you have an age and era you associate with, in early 70s it was prog , late 70s punk and krautrock, 80s post punk etc etc but think late 70s early 90s was best period so here is another selection.