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Best Album Cover?

35 votes
? by MrScagdenSir

The ying to 'worst album cover's yang.

For me: 'Ocean Songs' by the Dirty 3 - cover painted by the guitarist I believe. Beautiful anyway.

MrScagdenSir | 05 Apr '08, 22:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I really like

EVOL's cover, it just seems to sum up Sonic Youth for me. I also really like The Shape of Punk to Come's cover, it's pretty swanky.

maximuso | 5 Apr '08, 22:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Joy Division - both of them

Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs
London Calling
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oceanRain | 5 Apr '08, 22:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

FUN HOUSE

douchebag | 5 Apr '08, 22:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

NOW

that how good album covers should aim to be.

walkingwithwolves | 5 Apr '08, 22:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

awesome

i want to put it on a t-shirt

poptimusgrime | 5 Apr '08, 22:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

or a t shirt

but i call them rishts.
because, im cool.

theriseofenglish | 5 Apr '08, 23:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i can haz rishts 2?

that your username is 'theriseofenglish' is full of delicious ironing.

poptimusgrime | 5 Apr '08, 23:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Rye shirt.

Edible advertisement.

JayPe | 5 Apr '08, 23:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

hahahahahahahahaha

hahahahahahahahahahah

ashstreath85 | 6 Apr '08, 21:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

come on die young

pretty creepy, but i think it actually reflects a lot of the sound of the album. y'know, not just a face, but something looming out of the darkness...? i'm probably talking pish now.

poptimusgrime | 5 Apr '08, 22:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I know what you mean

I love it when an album cover accurately reflects the colour of the album itself.

Y'know - synaesthesia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia

MrScagdenSir | 5 Apr '08, 22:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I'm changing my vote to

Mastodon 'Leviathan'. It's a great painting and it sums up the whole 'Does Exactly what it says on the tin' element of that album.

It should come bundled in a special edition with a copy of Moby Dick with the identical copy. That would be ace.

MrScagdenSir | 6 Apr '08, 09:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

roxy music?

.

Cloudberries | 6 Apr '08, 10:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

it has to be some filthy death metal cover

such as exhumed, or cannibal corpse. theyre always colourful

explosionsunderwater | 6 Apr '08, 11:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

voila. beat this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Butcheredatbirth%D0%94P.JPG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thewretchedspawn%D0%94P.JPG

the top one is surely unbeatable

explosionsunderwater | 6 Apr '08, 11:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The cover for Goo

Or Gulag Orkestar, because I like old photos of people I don't know.

jakam0 | 6 Apr '08, 11:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Loveless

it's quite mesmerising and reflects the music.

harman_kardon | 6 Apr '08, 11:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Burial

dont know, there's some enigma about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BurialUntrue.jpg

silent88 | 6 Apr '08, 11:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Good call

I love the art on that, again, sums up what the music sounds like.

TheSoundofBastards | 6 Apr '08, 12:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

wow

that's really not even close to being the best album cover

willma | 6 Apr '08, 12:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Madvillain

Madvillainy

brap

Vayar | 6 Apr '08, 12:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^^^

I bought the album purely on the cover...

hoppergrass | 6 Apr '08, 12:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

What? That Mermaid is beautiful!

I concede my spelling of 'yin' however. Thus you get to be right about one thing.

MrScagdenSir | 6 Apr '08, 12:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

the mermaid is drab, clumsy and appallingly laid out

and the capital of Uruguay is Montevideo

willma | 6 Apr '08, 12:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The Mermaid pisses all over the appalling daub that graces the

front of 'Whatever you love you are'and the South African unit of Currency is the Rand.

MrScagdenSir | 6 Apr '08, 12:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

OK

Mick Turner's artwork for 'Ocean Songs' is beautiful and it is snowing round my way. There.

MrScagdenSir | 6 Apr '08, 12:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

another vote for Unknown Pleasures

stunningly conceived and complements the music perfectly

willma | 6 Apr '08, 12:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

pinkerton

or surfs up

ThingsThatFly | 6 Apr '08, 12:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Low- Things We Lost in the Fire

Sparks- Kimono my House (can't believe nobody mentioned them yet)
Blonde Redhead- Misery is a Butterfly
Olivia Tremor Control- Both albums
Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Antony and the Johnsons- I am a Bird Now

hoppergrass | 6 Apr '08, 12:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Everything by the legendary Peter Saville!

the man in a genius.

JohnnyZaza | 6 Apr '08, 20:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i like...

...that 'low' one as well.

tim_westw00d | 7 Apr '08, 08:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Regular Urban Survivors by Terrorvision

Silver Sun's debut
Radiator and Guerrilla by SFA

DaveTheEverliving | 6 Apr '08, 21:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

rolling stones

Get yer ya ya's out is awesome :)

ladymelody | 6 Apr '08, 21:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I bought this:

http://www.decoymusic.com/images/trackingthetrends/choose.jpg
based on the artwork. Well, that, and loving the Iris EP... but it was still the artwork that won out over the other possible purchase of the day (long since forgotten).

Also, I like this:
http://www.music-dash.co.uk/siteimages/covers/minatormaritime.jpg

-dan- | 6 Apr '08, 22:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

thelonius monk underground

without a doubt the best album cover, the stuffed nazi on the chair makes it
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/4900/coverxl8.jpg

skellywager | 7 Apr '08, 01:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Doves

Last Broadcast

MadeOfStone | 7 Apr '08, 01:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Album's ok

but the artwork to Lemonjelly's "Lost Horizons" is great.

Also second Leviathan.

Corpsey | 7 Apr '08, 01:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I've always appreciated

Echo Park. Feeder's one and only worthwhile sleeve, but what a spectacle it is. Such scale.

JayPe | 7 Apr '08, 07:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Menomena

Friend and Foe is very good

TastySoup | 7 Apr '08, 08:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Horse of the Dog - 80s Matchbox B-line Disaster

Either that or Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, so many pwity colours. :)

GalacticStar3ruption | 7 Apr '08, 09:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Menomena - Friend & Foe

Beck - The Information (home-made covers FTW!)

Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium (reverse cover, e.g. man/Portuguese man of war above/below water Stomer Thorgerson effort)

medulla | 7 Apr '08, 09:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Mars Volta

The lp sleeves have got progressively better (apart from the latest) and the music more bland. :P

stumbeleine04 | 7 Apr '08, 10:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Amputechture cover

is no way better than FTM or DitC

medulla | 7 Apr '08, 10:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I like it

It's got a Street Fighter II nostalgia to it. I like it! The new LP art is so poor. As is the music really.

stumbeleine04 | 7 Apr '08, 10:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The Mars Volta cover art heirarchy.

1) Deloused In The Commatorium
2) The Bedlam In Goliath
3) Amputechre
4) Frances The Mute

GalacticStar3ruption | 7 Apr '08, 12:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply