After the popular What is for you the best album ever ? and the even more popular What are you listening to right now ? ... threads, here's another music related thread.

I'm just curious to know what you favourite album cover(s) is/are?

//remark
I'm not asking just which Pink Floyd album cover is your favourite, though theirs are surely among the best.

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

the cover star is French famous actor Alain Delon.

The Velvet Underground and Nico

Designed by A.Warhol himself.
Does someone own the original edition with the peelable banana? The latest Cd reissue featues th peelable banana. And so does the 5CD boxset Peel Slowly and See.

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

A new Krafwerk album with new material will be out soon.

Paradise Lost: One Second:



(on the back of the cover the eyes are open!)

My favourite album cover is the one I chose for my avatar: Rage Against The Machine - Renegades.

Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin.



Possibly not my all time favorite, but definitely one of 'em.

Arena - Contagion



The Cover is only a foretaste to what's inside the booklet - amazing artwork by David Wyatt

This Mortal Coil - Blood

i love the deep dark eyes of this girl and the atmosphere of the picture
Did anybody know her name ?


and this one

Bigger Pic

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

cover taken from cduniverse.com

edit: doesn't seem to work. Try this link (scroll down)

I've never been a 4AD addict (I mean concerning their album covers) but I have to admit that one is a really beautiful one. And moreover, it's an excellent album that I am happy to own.

// To all Pink Floyd fans: a Syd Barrett song is covered in that album: "Late Night" sung by Caroline Crawley.

That's gorgeous.

nice Idea starting these threads, but i am scared anybody starts to much at the same time. Its an amousing Gimmick only HA offers, it wastes no time to follow 2 or 3 of those Threads per Month.

HA also needs

Your favourite Cover-Version of ...
Your favourite Picture disc
Your favourite Artist Homepage
Your favourite Forum Avatar
Your favourite WebRadioStation
Your favourite Bonus Gimmick find on a CD
Your favourite B-Side Tracks on LP/maxi-CD ...

Dig this one! From way back in "groovy" 1970 (when else?)



The music is even "trippier" than the cover...

Very guilty pleasure.
But this cover hipnotized me when I it originally came out.



And of course, you just gotta love the sheer promise and hope of this cover. Back when people tought that computers would make us happier (wait, they have!)

Scorpions - Blackout

Although I could draw an entirely different set of "art" covers from my collection, some of my favorites (and the covers which sprang to mind first, this evening) are photographic:

Koerner, Ray & Glover's Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers (1964)


John Coltrane's Blue Train (1957)


the Byrds' Byrdmaniax (1971)


- M.

A fun thread for a change

Radiohead - OK Computer


The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadeness

Pink Floyd - Shine On
http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/ShineOn.jpg
(image not embedded because it's huge)

Not really a CD cover, rather, a Boxed Set cover.

A classic. There's also this one cover that i can't find right now; it looks like a cheap CD-R cover with a handwritten title. Looked quite funny in the store.

Though I don't own the album, when we had a thread about extraordinary/moving/extreme/impressive covers in the local music newsgroup, this came up.



Not a favourite cover, but a moving one.

Ahh, plastic surgery disaters. Great cover, but bad album, marking the beginning of the downhill slide for DK.

I'm surprised no one mentioned this one yet (regarding guilty pleasures har har)





mobius

Favorite...




Second favorite...

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

Devo's Greatest Misses (and similar, 'Greatest Hits') definately gets my vote:



As for worst album cover, it goes to Chick Corea. He designed it himself!! (guess he's only an artist in one sense of the word)

Could it be this?
Because the only other CD cover that looked like a CD-R was by the Mexican band Titan, which I highly doubt ever saw the light in...Germany? (since the flags are gone I have trouble remembering were everybody is from)



By the way, I also thought of the Blind Faith cover but I guess that my selection pretty much proved the point that I am a horny SOB with no class

It also could be this one:


Which looks much more like a real CDR.

Yes dev0, that was it. But AtaqueEG's is also a good example.

There were some crazy covers back in the days, for example, one had a blinking LED inside (i don't remember the artist... U2.. Prince.. Bowie?). Or the experiments with different materials (Pearl Jam - Vitalogy)...

"pink floyd - pulse" had a blinking led insinde (on the side, not on the front cover IIRC).

regards; ilikedirt

Yes, it was on the side. That must be at least 5 or 6 years ago. I remember how some LEDs were already out of power, it was a pretty amusing sight in the shelf.

One of my favorites is this one:


Nektar was a british band, but famous almost only in Germany during the Krautrock era

This is my all time favourite cover:



Next is Pink Floyd's "Shine ON" box set cover as mentioned by rjamorim.

@rc55: That's funny! I guess my whole encoded collection would belong under that cover, since it's all in --alt-preset insane...

@Floydian Slip: I have to agree about the Shine On box cover as well. rjamorim introduced me to this cover image, and it's definitely among the best I've ever seen...Storm's a genious!

I'have a lot of prefered ones...
A couple that shocked my firts time I saw them...
(ADVICE: Hi voltage sexual content ahead) :-)

Dimitry From Paris [ Disco Forever ]


The Strokes [ Is This It ]


And one of the heviest I saw ever...
This is hardcore!


If I remenber more I'll come back.
Great thread!

Best regards to all.
b:.

My favorite album covers and (booklet art) are mostly drawn by Travis Smith, whose work is quite fine indeed and should be checked out by all connoisseurs of album art:

http://www.seempieces.com/

You may know Travis Smith via his CD covers for Katatonia, Death, Control Denied, Iced Earth, Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad, and many others.

I've always been partial to The King
Also, the cover of Paul Desmond/Jim Hall's Glad to Be Unhappy, which I might end up scanning because the link quality is poor.

Of course it's Violator

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King



Great music too.

SUNSPRING - poppy

the inside is impressive as well - both pictures taken in my apartment with a canon G2 and scaled down to a much smaller version for posting on another forum


and the full outer LP jacket:

Play Homeworld, listen to YES...



an this one too...

Wow! Some pretty cool covers here.
Let me add some more of my favourites:

alexisonfire / alexisonfire


a static lullaby / and don't forget to breath


And one of my recent favourites:
converge / hellchild / deeper the wound
cover:

inside:


I generally admire all of Derek Hess' work.

dev0

Rather than tick off all the dial-uppers, I created a small gallery of some I like.

You can see them here.

I thought about an entire cover art collection. But when Photoshop got done it amounted to 45 pages and over 25+ MB's!

Eh, maybe some other time.

Iron Maiden-Fear Of The Dark