"Very ´eavy..... Very ´umble". Great late David Byron behind cobweb. In a way the best of all gothic/heavy rock album covers. RIP David you are the best. "Demons and Wizards", "The Magicians Birthday" & "Tales from Topographic Oceans" by Roger Dean his very finest "Tormato" by Hipgnosis, their most clever cover & great inner sleeve. Cool. "Ummagumma" outside, inside & back side. Perfection by Hipgnosis. "Alphataurus" heavy stuff from Italy 1973, stunning triple fold out
The album cover for the first Santana album featured an unbelievable pen and ink drawing of a lion's head that actually had many faces imbedded within it (i.e. the lion's eyes were the faces of screaming women, etc.). This album cover so freaked me out as a kid that I had dreams about it. It's still my favorite album cover, and one of my absolute favorite records.
The original Beatles - Rubber Soul with the butcher jackets and dolls - before Capitol pulled it and changed to a more tame cover. Oh and John & Yoko's naked cover (front & back ;-) I liked the Stones 3D cover - was it " THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIC REQUEST" can't remember.
The Human Sexual Response retro-looking album cover with the two kids poking their fingers into the green jello mold...
Seriously, I think some mag just did a reader's poll on this, and Whipped Cream was #1 of all time according to that. Pehar--I'm assuming you mean the non-US version of Country Life. The edited US domestic release was just the trees. No people. Total thumbs down.
I'll also nominate the limited edition Robert Rauschenberg album cover the Talking Heads used for Remain in Light...
The original cover of Pink Floyds Ummagumma with the Gigi LP. With all the new technology things like that are pretty easy, but for the time it was cool, and well executed.
Rainbow 'Rising' is a cool picture too. The hand coming out of the water holding a rainbow along with all the other little things in there that a person really has to look for to find.
How about Paul McCartney's 'Band on the Run' LP with the stars mixed in the band?
The original LP cover for 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake' by Small Faces, which was a round tobacco tin affair. It unfolded like a paper doll into eight illustrated sides. The later pressings were a standard album sleeve...
Call me shallow, but I've been partial to Bran Van 3000's Discosis, simply because they use this drawing from Boris Vallejo as the cover. Album's a huge dissapointement (although their first is actually good), but can't argue with their choice for cover art....
Abraxas - Santana Bitches Brew - Miles Davis Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones Sgt. Peppers - The Beatles Aqualung - Jethro Tull and John and Yoko's first album. (gotta be a collector's item)
Great Thread! Santana Lotus has got to take the cake IMHO. King Crimson "Lizard" "Wake of Posideon" Also Moody Blues "Seventh Sojourn" How about all of the very artistic graphic designs of the ECM jazz label during the 70's? very avante garde modernism. Joe Jackson trying to look like Sonny Rollins on "Body and Soul" The solo recordings of Anthony Phillips "private parts and pieces I,II,III" if not for the music, certainly for the covers.
Physical Grafitti by Led Zep was always the coolest cause you have 6 different sets of window seens. One brownstone was in The Village (NYC) and the other in London but they looked like they belonged next door to one another.
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