Best Album Covers

[Adam]

Well, what are they? I think Tool has the best ones, especially Lateralus, with the diagram on the back and the layered human insert.

Radiohead also has some great covers, especially Kid A.

[Basszilla]

A few of my favorites are:

Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous - King's X
Zooma - John Paul Jones
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
In The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment

I could name a lot more, but I'll keep it short.

[Scott]

Sgt Peppers is a cool cover

[Adam]

Really? What is it?

[LWatford]

I really like anything by Roger Dean
-Here is an example:
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~sgest/Roger_Dean/rd2.gif

I think Rush has had some interesting album art,not really their covers, but the inside art .


I can't look at Tool's album art

And of course we can't forget Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap!

[XxBaTmaNxX]

i like linkin park's hybrid theory cover

[Scott]

sgt peppers? are you kidding? if not, it's a beatles album, where they pretend to be a band called sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band. it's cool. the cover has loads of famous people on the front.

[Scott]

just seen that spinal tap reference. Is that film big in america?

[Travis]

Tool - Ænima

[Brent]

Originally posted by scottyboy
just seen that spinal tap reference. Is that film big in america? These amps all go to eleven. Eleven is one louder...it gives you just that extra bit to push you over the edge. Well why not just make 10 one louder instead? These amps all go to eleven...

Can you hear that sustain? I don't hear anything. Well of course not, that's because I'm not playing it, but if I were....you'd hear it.

[Strider]

Of the few secular albums I have, I would have to say Creed's Human Clay is my favorite. That or Megadeth's Risk.

[Jfreak]

P.O.D. -Fundemental Elements of Southtown
311-From Chaos


O and you can't forget blink182 cover on enema of the state
...just joking

[CynicalRepose]

Originally posted by The Philosopher
Radiohead also has some great covers, especially Kid A.


Amen, OK computer is pretty awesome, too.

[Scott]

spinal tap rules, I've got the script in my room, very funny.

[Nathanael]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002AGE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[disarmzero]

Pink Floyd-The Wall
Nirvana-Nevermind and In Utro
Led Zeppelin-4(zoso)
The Beatles- Abby Road

[Danny]

<img src="http://www.aperfectcircle.us/thirteenth_step.jpg">

[Sean]

Blind Faith - Blind Faith


....some would say that makes me a pervert

[Art]

I'd say that Nirvana's "Nevermind" has the most recognizable cover I can think of. I like the cover of The Smashing Pumpkins' - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness a bunch. Weird Al's "Poodle Hat" is a current favorite. And I'm definitely digging the art, inside and out, of Five Iron Frenzy's "The End Is Near"

[Mr.Zachcore]

indeed the end is near has some of the coolest art i've ever seen

and i like Further Seems Forever-How to Start A Fire

and the cover of Minor Threat-Complete Discography

[thelitguy]

Blind Faith - Blind Faith


....some would say that makes me a pervert

haha...indeed.


Before I make my post, I would like to clarify. Does this thread speak of just covers, or the entire sleeve/packaging?

[Danny]

Blind Faith - Blind Faith


....some would say that makes me a pervert
I made the mistake of looking it up, out of curiosity.

I now have to agree (about the pervert part, not about it being a good cover :p). ;)

["BrooksB"]

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc200/c264/c26452g73j8.jpg

[Pete_H]

The Beatles-White Album

[thelitguy]

The Beatles-White Album

Either it or Sunny Day Real Estate's "LP2" album...brilliance at work, my friends.

[CynicalRepose]

i've barely even heard the band, but for some reason i think this has to be one of the coolest album covers i've ever seen. I dont know why, really. It just strikes me as..."cool"

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f427/f42799sehi4.jpg

[Travis]

Tool - Ænima. No contest.

[Danny]

Tool - Ænima. No contest.
<i>Ænima</i> had a neato special effect with the whole hologram image thing, but I'm not sure I'd call it the best. Once the nostalgia of swaying it back and forth to see all the green eyes move around wears off, it's just not <i>that</i> impressive anymore. It's a great cover, no doubt, but there are better. :)

<i>Edit:</i> By the way, it's nice to see that the "Coming Soon" in your signature actually links to something again, though you people seem to have a very loose definition of "soon." ;)

[Zooropa]

Tool - Ænima. No contest.
I don't know. Don't you find Lateralus to have a better album cover? I think I do.

[Danny]

I don't know. Don't you find Lateralus to have a better album cover? I think I do.
Definitely. I've barely touched my <i>Lateralus</i> case since I bought it (I keep the actual CD in a different case) because it's so amazing looking. I dare not risk smudging the sleeve with my fingerprints.

[Art]

This reminds me... Sugur Ros - ()

[Danny]

This reminds me... Sugur Ros - ()
YES! Definitely. Amazing cover art.

[Zooropa]

Sgt Peppers is a cool cover
Really, what is it?
Wow, this statement was made 1 1/2 years ago. You must have been new to rock music. But STILL, Sgt Peppers is a cultural icon! Did you live in a cabin in Montana all of your life before you found CGR??? Even then, how could you not have known about Sgt Peppers? I never give people flack for statements they made over a year ago, but this takes the cake *shakes head*.

Yeah, it's the cliche answer, but usually cliche answers contain truth. Especially when they involve The Beatles. The best album cover ever:



http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UAU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

["BrooksB"]

You know that little doll or something with the red and white stripes on it on the right side, near the 's' in "Beatles"? That shirt says "Rolling Stones" on it. I wonder what that's supposed to mean...

[MisterAgreeable]

You know that little doll or something with the red and white stripes on it on the right side, near the 's' in "Beatles"? That shirt says "Rolling Stones" on it. I wonder what that's supposed to mean...It's a Shirley Temple doll. I've never read anything conclusive about the significance of the shirt. I'm sure it wasn't anything negative. Perhaps they just liked the Rolling Stones and wanted a reference, but having another rock 'n' roll band on the cover would seem out of place.

[Mr.Zachcore]

it means that the Stones were Media Dolls just like Shirley Temple....hello guys cmon now












seriously though i have no ide

[Zooropa]

You know that little doll or something with the red and white stripes on it on the right side, near the 's' in "Beatles"? That shirt says "Rolling Stones" on it. I wonder what that's supposed to mean...
Don't read too much into it. When they were putting the album cover together, they just threw that Stones shirt on the Shirley Temple doll as a way of paying respects.

[slap_j]

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002OX7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg">

The Who - Who's Next

[RhythmicAndy]

Sigur Ros- () is awesome!

Colplay- A Rush of to the Head