favourite album covers

[Flying_Monkey]

To take this ever so slightly seriously, I really love this cover of an album that also happens to be one of my favourites musically:

 

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[threebikesmcginty]

JIm Flora's 100th birthday yesterday, or would have been. Jazzers like @theclaud will know his stuff, cool graphic designs from the 40s to the 60s for RCA Victor and Columbia Records.

 

[Hitchington]

The album covers of Crass by artist Gee Vaucher

 

[ufkacbln]

I also love the background behind the covers

Alestorm have "Scurvy Steve" the zombie rat

Meanwhile another (rival) band Swashbuckle have a parrot:

Allegedly the rivalry goes into the artwork with the parrot eating Alestorm's rat on the cover of the Swashbuckle album.

Alestorm got their own back by barbequing the parrot on the sleeve of thei next cover!


Anyway ....Pirate Rock

 

[ufkacbln]

... and the other things that used to go with he album sense of theatre

The Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers, with a working zip and belt that you could open!

 

[Fnaar]

Not sure if they've been mentioned yet, but Blue Note coves were/are usually visually striking and stylish (and a lot of the music is top-notch too )

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=blue note album cover collage&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5fnkUtWqKJSShQeczICQDw&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=845#q=blue note album covers&tbm=isch

 

[AndyRM]

Anything by Dwarves, but this is a highlight:

http://www.thoseoldrecords.co.uk/We.../F2A0/FD7E/0A0A/33EA/AD67/IMG_3985_edited.jpg

I love most of the NIN covers, this is my favourite:

http://crypticrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nin.jpg

And this is probably my favourite album of all time:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/The_Cutter_And_The_Clan.jpeg

This I like for the weird spidery looking thing coming out his mouth:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/CelticFrost_Monotheist.jpg

I will continue later...

 

[ufkacbln]

They also became legal documents!

Manfred Mann's "The Good Earth" was in fact the deeds to a small 1 foot square of a mountain in the Brecon Beacons. - All you needed to do was register your claim.

 

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@Cunobelin not forgetting

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

 

[TVC]

Excellent thread resurection

 

[roadrash]

one of my favourites by yazoo

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The blue note ones are generally fab....

Not sure if they've been mentioned yet, but Blue Note coves were/are usually visually striking and stylish...

Aaaah bless.