Here are my personal favourites.

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Relayer - Yes
The Night Watch - King Crimson
Heaven & Hell - Black Sabbath
Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin

Originally posted by Lickszz
Here are my personal favourites.

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Relayer - Yes
The Night Watch - King Crimson
Heaven & Hell - Black Sabbath
Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin

Off the top of my head:

Sergeant Pepper - the Beatles
Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
Diamond Dogs - Dave Bowie

Nomme

Rush 2112
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Led Zep - The funny symbol one

1. Santana – Santana (the magnificent Lion/Black Woman optical illusion)

2. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew

3. Santana - Abraxas

anything by roger dean

e.g tales from topographical oceans - by Yes.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
anything by roger dean

e.g tales from topographical oceans - by Yes.

He also did excellent covers for Osibisa.

Add: Martin Klarwein, (Abraxas, Bitches Brew), Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse and Allan Kelley, Shusei Nagaoka and Andy Warhol to the list of great album cover artists.

Then, there’s Salvador Dali and M C Escher.
:cool:

Rainbow Rising

CD Covers are just not the same are they?

Album covers were works of art and you used to be really proud of them:thumbsup:

Originally posted by mikey
CD Covers are just not the same are they?

Album covers were works of art and you used to be really proud of them:thumbsup:

Aye. I bet if asked Fletch what a gatefold sleeve was his eyes would glaze over.
I wonder how many people here still have a vinyl collection and a record player? I do.

Nomme

Originally posted by nomme
Aye. I bet if asked Fletch what a gatefold sleeve was his eyes would glaze over.
I wonder how many people here still have a vinyl collection and a record player? I do.

Nomme

Nomme - I've got 78s and 45s as well as my first tape recordings (mono, on an old Grundig reel-to-reel when I was fifteen in 1953), before even 'HiFi' came out, never mind stereo.

Originally posted by Carlwarker
Nomme - I've got 78s and 45s as well as my first tape recordings (mono, on an old Grundig reel-to-reel when I was fifteen in 1953), before even 'HiFi' came out, never mind stereo.

I've still got some 45s. Have you still got the equipment to play all those media?

Nomme

I have loads of albums and singles on Vinyl but nothing to play them on, just get them out occasionaly and look at my gatefold sleeves :thumbsup:

Originally posted by nomme
I've still got some 45s. Have you still got the equipment to play all those media?

Nomme

I can play the 45s and my reel-to-reels, but I left my old Dual 1215 turntable (which played 78s, 45s and 33+ rpm) got damaged on my return to England. I have a Stanton turntable now. I did record many of my 78s, though, on to tape. Unfortunately, many of my 78s were damaged during the 32 years of travel – but some have survived.:)

Just thought - I also have a couple of the 16+ rpm 7 inch records - they were used for the early book-readings etc.

Originally posted by mikey
I have loads of albums and singles on Vinyl but nothing to play them on, just get them out occasionaly and look at my gatefold sleeves :thumbsup:
Hey, me too! I've been thinking about buying a record player so I can actually play them again though rather than just looking at them!

I could not live without my vinyls, so I only ever bought stacking systems with turntables on top

I rather liked the Bow Wow Wow album cover that was a skit on an old master, I forget the name of it just now.

And I like the Elvis Costello one that is all folded over too

and I have a great Bob Marley one, double album, called Babylon by Bus, and it is a bus on the front with holes where the windows would go, and depending on how you insert the sleeves you see a different view of the band or the countryside, through the windows.......okay you probably have to see it for yourself

and Relics is very funky

Hey folks,
You guys mentioned some of my favorite covers.When I opened the threadI thought nobody would think of Tales from Topo'(r.dean).
Some healthy listening there folks.Mostly music that I listen to and based my guitar playing on.
I have long been an audiophile and amassed quite a collection over the years and was thinking that for me the best covers have a beautiful timeless appeal to them.
i.e. Remembering standing outside Virgin records at the bottom of the moor in the freezing rain as a ten year old and marveling at "Nursery Cryme" by Genesis,catching the 51 bus home longing to play the record on my little bedroom record player.

Anyway,how about With the Beatles,Beatles For Sale,Rubber Soul and Revolver.Looking at the faces of the Beatles and the style that they achieved with these albums,could you ever imagine different covers?

This is a great thread,thanks guys.
Mop

How about the worst. http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/000302.html

Julie's Sixteenth Birthday is a cracker!

Mop

Dimond Dogs :banana: or St.Peppers

Sex Pistols = Never Mind the ******
Nirvanna = nevermind (linguistic theme)

Physical grafitti. Loads going on in there.

Santana Abraxas. Always liked that one.

Doesn't seem to be quite so good when reduced from the original 12in version to CD-size though.

Emerson Lake & Palmer. The first album.

Threads merged.

Dangerous - Michael Jackson.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/lestatt209/dangerous.jpg

Everytime you look at it you spot something new.

Originally posted by Belle

I rather liked the Bow Wow Wow album cover that was a skit on an old master, I forget the name of it just now.

And I like the Elvis Costello one that is all folded over too



The Bow Wow Wow album has the rather silly title See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy!

The sleeve is a parody of French Impressionist painter Manet's 1863 masterpiece "Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe" (Lunch on the Grass).

I presume the Elvis Costello LP you refer to is Armed Forces

My own personal fave LP sleeve is In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson from 1969.

I think the cover of TNT by tortoise is inspired.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://mc.clintock.com/first_floor/living_room/sun_porch/cabinet_built-in/audio_cds/ICON-images/tortoise_-_tnt.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mc.clintock.com/first_floor/living_room/sun_porch/cabinet_built-in/audio_cds/tortoise_-_tnt.php&h=300&w=298&sz=25&tbnid=bijwfC78QD4J:&tbnh=110&tbnw=110&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtortoise%2BTNT%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

Country Life by Roxy Music, for the obvious reasons.

lovedrive THE SCORPIONS:thumbsup: :help: :help: http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/lovedrive.jpg

Originally posted by mojoworking
TMy own personal fave LP sleeve is In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson from 1969.

Thats a good thing inside the sleeve too. (sticks PhanFM on and cues up an evening of KC)

mine is MJ's Dangerous for best.

http://www.hkedcity.net/article/culture_e+e/cd/album_cover/week11/gillian10.jpg

The worst is the Fabio one! Check out his poses!!
http://www.fabioifc.com/fabio/afterdark.html



:hihi:

My favourites are the cover of Dr Feelgood's 'Be Seeing You'. I want to step into that photograph! I also love the cover of 'Songs For Swinging Sellers' by Peter Sellers - grim but very funny. I have both framed on the wall above my pianoforte, you know.

I'm with Timo regarding Roxy Music LP covers - I think they are all great, especially 'Stranded' - surely their masterpiece (the songs I mean, not the cover)?