best/worst album cover/inlay ever?

sinus

best
deftones - around the fur (i dont know why...but its pleasing!!)
radiohead - kid a
pearl jam - vitology/yield/binaural/no code
poisin the well - cant think of name of album
ah back in black!

i cant think of anymore....it will come to me...(why did i start this thread)

worst?

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by sinus
why did i start this thread

Because the rock/metal board obviously didn't have enough "Best so and so" threads!? :rolleyes:

mike65

Best cover - Yes 90125, perfect design




Worst - anything by Manowar and similair.



Mike.

niallith

worst st. anger - metallica
best hmmm i dono rust in peace - megadeth

the_obsolete

Ah come on the manowar covers show them in their best gay attire! Which is so stupid it's funny!
I dunno, I've always liked the front cover for Demanufacture by Fear Factory

And the cover for Rage Against The Machine


One of the worst at any rate HAS to be Busted's album cover...VERY gay...

Tommy Vercetti

best - any Darkthrone album, best inlay - Carcass, Necroticism

worst - ....hmm....there's a lot of dodgy looking covers from the 80s around...

nosmo

Anything and everything to do with Manowar sucks.

What's good?
Carcass - everything
Nailbomb's "Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide" and "Point Blank"
Most stuff by Nine Inch Nails
Bongzilla - Gateway
Iron Monkey - Our Problem <- The cover is drawn by the first artist to ever be jailed for obscenity.
Anything by Eyehategod

Doctor J

I dig Voivod's stuff immensly, Michel usually does individual art pieces for every song on the album, thier inlay's alwyas kick ass

Placebo

Placebo - WYIN
One of britneys was very good, white with her with different alpha coloured shadows,
Placebo - special needs single.

A Perfect CIRCLE - mER de noms.

blah

Hanza

I have to say that AMENs we have come for your children is very good. The art work is NOICE! Aswell as Reroute to Remain by In Flames. Lovley Art, especially the hand with the stars in it... NOICE touch!

Fav cover is probally still Cruelty and the beast, by COF. I just love that cover. Dunno why!



Worst... hmmm, there is soooo many! Anything that just has words on white in a plain black font. That really anoys me.
Godless Savage Garden by Dimmu Borgir is very disapointing. Its the same image over and over again. They usually have steller inlays. This one was pittyful.

Hanza

Gobblor

10 WORST Album Covers ever:

Pugsley

Gobblor wins :eek:

mike65

Pa!








Mike.

oh yes Look out below!

Doctor J

Actually, Pork Tornado wins...

nosmo

Originally posted by Gobblor

Classic

Hanza

LOL!

I love it

wiped

Originally posted by nosmo
Classic

You can listen here :eek:

http://www.io.com/~dork/records/pages/DrugsDave.html#

Buck Owens

I like the artwork from the pumpkins album Machina/the machine's of god, dreadful album but great artwork. Radiohead amesinac artwork is class, Slayer's Album cover's are cool as well.


Down-Nola. Crap cover but deadly artwork, and is it just me or has none mentioned Iron Maiden yet

byte

I used to like all the old Iron Maiden ones (before X Factor). Some went into great little detail, especially Somewhere In Time.

Obituary - Cause of Death

As for worst one, I think there are too many to mention

cournioni

Lads in all fairness, half of those aren't metal covers... Anyhoo...

Best...








Worst
Anthrax - Fistfull of Metal
Any ManOwaR

mr_angry

I'm pretty damn fond of Mansun's "Six", but the winner has to be Tool's "Lateralus". It doesn't even come out well in JPEG format, since it's layered over about 5 pages of translucent plastic.

Personally, I think the worst ever had to be Prince's eponymously-titled debut album. Riding a winged unicorn naked with a giant afro? What a load of bollocks...

Doctor J

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Worst
Anthrax - Fistfull of Metal
Any ManOwaR

the one Pantera ripped off

and of all the Manowar covers, I think Into Glory Ride is just head and shoulders above the rest, and it's a classic album too, I mean just check out the lyrics to Gloves Of Metal

'Leather, Metal, Spikes and Chains
Gloves of Metal raised to show the brave.
Into the darkness march the armies of the night.
Bound by metal we live the fight.
We wear leather, we wear spikes, we rule the night
With hands high fists fill the air
Against the world we stand.
Hands high forever we'll be there,
Gloves of Metal rule tonight. Yea'

Ronan|Raven

Less of the manowar bashing!

Doctor J

I'm not bashing Manowar, I fooking love them.

Doctor J

and a great album ruined by one of the worst covers ever...

cournioni

Originally posted by Doctor J
the one Pantera ripped off

Less of it!

Doctor J

but sir, the facts speak for themselves

nobodythere

Tool - Lateralus

nesthead

Lateralus is pretty good, as is all the Carcass albums (including Swansong!)

the Scorpions - Virgin Killer is pretty nasty



Manowar covers rule!!

gogul

Jaysus, I didn't think that any inlay could be as bad as Blind Faith's, but that Scorpian's one takes the biscuit..