Album Covers: Post up your favorites

[JohnSinVA]

We buy music to listen to but part of the experience is the cover artwork. So, if you have an album cover you appreciate for the cover art, whether or not you're a fan of the music underneath, post it up.

This is one of my favorites - Supertramp, "Breakfast in America"

 

[Sox_Fan]

 

[Sox_Fan]

Always was fascintated by Journey's album covers.

Escape

 

[blugold]

Whose going to put up the cover of "Blind Faith"?

 

[ranger1989]

Kiss Destroyer album.

 

[Trout Bum]

Kiss Destroyer album.

Same for me, awesome album too.

 

[NullNomad]

So many good ones in my mind... going to have to post one at a time

 

[Smallville]

I like this one because it's a piece of artwork from my favorite artist who is not my mother, Jim Warren.

 

[JRod]

 

[dhartmann34]

Just always pleased my eye...

 

[JohnSinVA]

Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune

 

[Smallville]

The original Some Girls cover. My manager at Pizza Hut had this one. Several celebs threatened legal action about their pictures being used without permission so they recalled all they could and re-issued with an edited cover. The one I bought is the re-designed cover.

From Wikipedia:

The album cover for Some Girls was conceived and designed by Peter Corriston, who would design the next three album covers. [2] with Illustrations by Hubert Kretzschmar[7] An elaborate die-cut design, with the colours on the sleeves varying in different markets, it featured the Rolling Stones' faces alongside those of select female celebrities inserted into a copy of an old Valmor Products Corporation advertisement. The cover design was challenged legally when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe threatened to sue for the use of their likenesses without permission.[2] Similarly, Valmor did take legal action and were given a monetary award for the use of their design.[8]

The album was quickly re-issued with a redesigned cover that removed all the celebrities, whether they had complained or not. The celebrity images were replaced with black and punk style garish colours with the phrase Pardon our appearance - cover under re-construction. Jagger later apologised to Minnelli when he encountered her during a party at the famous discothèque Studio 54. The only celebrity whose face was not removed was ex-Beatle George Harrison. As with the original design, the colour schemes on the redesigned sleeves varied in different markets.

A third version of the album cover with hand-drawn women was found on the 1986 CD reissue.

 

[NoLine]

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[brianmk24]

I remember that this one used to creep me out when I was little.

 

[Slammin'SAM]

 

[NoLine]

I remember that this one used to creep me out when I was little.

It still freaks me out but that's because Faithfully is one of the tracks.


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[Wakit300]

So many to choose from but I always loved the cover (front and back) for Cheap Trick - In Color

 

[RadRob]

 

[Northerner]

Prince- Lovesexy

Hahaha...Prince was a real piece of work. Always going for utter shock value. But he was IMO one of the truly great artists in American history. Truly the "Jimi Hendrix" of his era.

 

[baylrballa]

 

[Lou W]

Any albums by Yes that were done by Rodger Dean

 

[OldeDude]

 

[MichiganGripRip]

 

[OldeDude]