Really awesome album covers

Clandestine

What are your favorites?

rednik

These were the two first albums I bought and they are still my favourites out of all the records/cds I have bought in the last 30 odd years.

smokedeels

This, and most Tony McDermott designed cover art.

Nolanger

Nailz

John Zorn's Painkiller, of the EP "Guts of a Virgin".



Pretty much all Painkiller, and even Naked City album covers are cool, and most of them are violent! This one here is a genuine picture of a murdered woman who was pregent, and was cut open to take a view of the semi-developed fetus. This was usual in postmortem in Thailand. John Zorn was asked about these on a late night BBC radio programme for underground Avant Garde and progressive Jazz artists and to the interviewers shock he gave a very straight faced reaction in saying "Oh yes, I have a great interest in those types of photos." When asked about how he gets them he said "I seek them out, and I pay a lot of money for them."

Clandestine

Nailz wrote: »

John Zorn's Painkiller, of the EP "Guts of a Virgin".



Pretty much all Painkiller, and even Naked City album covers are cool, and most of them are violent! This one here is a genuine picture of a murdered woman who was pregent, and was cut open to take a view of the semi-developed fetus. This was usual in postmortem in Thailand. John Zorn was asked about these on a late night BBC radio programme for underground Avant Garde and progressive Jazz artists and to the interviewers shock he gave a very straight faced reaction in saying "Oh yes, I have a great interest in those types of photos." When asked about how he gets them he said "I seek them out, and I pay a lot of money for them."

Sorry, I dont find this awesome, I find it disgusting and in bad taste

Nailz

Mayoman911 wrote: »

Sorry, I dont find this awesome, I find it disgusting and in bad taste

Well that's fine, it's a matter of opinion my friend. I for one find it interesting. I never found an understanding relationship with the term "bad taste", probably because what is considered bad taste doesn't really catch me as to why.

padma

Loveless

I love the cover of My Bloody's Valentine's "Loveless" even though it's only a blurry screenshot from one of their videos. It's more what it represents..

Really like the cover to Weezer's second album "Pinkerton".

KeanSeenan

Loveless wrote: »

I love the cover of My Bloody's Valentine's "Loveless" even though it's only a blurry screenshot from one of their videos. It's more what it represents..

Yeah I always found that cover as a great way of describing their sound.

figarofigaro

One of my favourite album covers ever.

Setun

I love album cover design


New Eno album, the cover perfectly captures the mood of the record.


This is a retro classic from Supertramp.


Another strong album cover reflecting the psychedelic musical content

Also any Blue Note Records album cover designed by Reid Miles.

Malice

Mayoman911 wrote: »

Sorry, I dont find this awesome, I find it disgusting and in bad taste

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Malice

Two albums covers done by Michael Whelan that I really like:

Chaos A.D. by Sepultura


Arise by Sepultura

Nailz

Malice_ wrote: »

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Come on, Malice... You can't censor art, censorship is a dreadful tool of the ignorant.

Malice_ wrote: »

Two albums covers done by Michael Whelan that I really like:

Always like his Sepultura covers, Beneath The Remains is a really cool one too, only one thing to look at (the Rose scull) but it's a really cool idea, and the detail is serious.

Didn't know he done Cause Of Death though, that's another cool one!

Malice

Nailz wrote: »

Come on, Malice... You can't censor art, censorship is a dreadful tool of the ignorant.

I wasn't saying I'd censor anything. I just want the thread to remain a collection of pictures without having to scroll past posts arguing over the merits of certain pictures and I hope everyone else feels the same way.

Rubik.

Kevin Bacon

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain.

Great indication of what to expect inside as well.

SilverScreen

Some of my favourites:



Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex

It really just looks as cool as f**k. I'm a big fan of black and white artwork and this is certainly one of the best.



Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92.

I don't know what it is about that symbol on the cover, but when i'm listening to this album i can't help but stare at it. And no i don't do drugs.



Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#oo

The album cover really sums up the mood of the music. Dark, weary, and feels like it's the end of the world.

mikom

King Crimson » In the Court of the Crimson King

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Rubik. wrote: »

Bog

Similar to Zero's post on Aphex Twin, this cover just captures the mood of the album.

Irish Guitarist

The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett


Never For Ever by Kate Bush


American Beauty by The Grateful Dead (it also spells out American Reality)


Axis Bold As Love by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

KnifeWRENCH

Sonic Youth have been mentioned already. I've always loved the cover of Daydream Nation. The painting is really poignant and beautiful


Velvet Underground & Nico is another classic. I really like Warhol, but I guess if you don't like his stuff you won't like the cover. "Peel Slowly and See"


I've also always loved the cover of Screamadelica - the perfect visual accompaniment to what that music sounds like.


There are a lot more that I love but those are the first three that always come to mind.

Setun

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Sonic Youth have been mentioned already. I've always loved the cover of Daydream Nation. The painting is really poignant and beautiful.

That painting is by Gerhard Richter - wonderful painter, he's one of my favourites.

Some Blue Note classic album covers - the first is an Eric Dolphy album, easily one of my favourite jazz records for its fine balance of experimentality and still being able to retain an intense musicality.


And this one with an illustration by a young pre-Velvet Underground and Nico Andy Warhol.

thecraic

I'ma leave this here!

KeanSeenan

Looks like the same font that Nokia uses.

Loveless

Bog wrote: »

Similar to Zero's post on Aphex Twin, this cover just captures the mood of the album.

Didn't Will Oldham take that picture on the cover of Slint's album?