Got a favorite album cover?

I'll post some more of my favorites... No reasons other than I like them. 

 you could say it's a favorite

Another fave. I had this on a T-shirt. 

Steven Gillmore did a lot of art for Skinny Puppy with varying styles, but the art from HanDover predates the current trend of AI-generated hands looking unnaturally creepy and unsettling by over a decade. There's just something really uncomfortable about hands that look okay at a quick glance, but just get wronger and wronger the more you examine them.

And I've already seen a couple Yes albums on the list, but pretty much everything Roger Dean did was a solid banger. 

Don't forget the classics...

Licensed to Ill is tough to beat

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Spinal Tap's black album

Smell The Glove

The Netflix documentary about the guys that designed album covers back in the day is really good.

Another favorite, mostly because the actual album lifted up like a school desk, Alice Cooper.  One of the few vinyls I had as a kid (besides KISS).

In reply to JG Pasterjak :

Totally forgot about that Asia album. Another classic. 

In my old house, I used to have a wall with 4 record frames with some of my favorite covers:



A few other favorites from the collection:







And the one I most want airbrished on the side of a 1978 Dodge Street Van:

For a consistent style I really like KMFDM's covers (by Aidan Hughes, who also did a GRM t-shirt design!). 

Other favorites are Violator:

And, while not exactly a cover, I really liked the original packaging for the Pet Shop Boys "Very", which is plain orange by has raised bumps on it kind of like Lego.

Going through pics and finding more favorites from my collection, including this gem:



Pretty much all of Fu Manchu's covers are eligible for this thread, but this one is special to me. I got to see them play this album in its entirety and then buy this copy of it right from them after. And the date on the ticket is important: just up the street from this venue, the Boston Marathon bombers were going on their murderous rampage while attempting to escape from the law. This was all happening while we were getting our eardrums pounded by Fu Manchu. My friend and I had just driven down the road where it was happening just minutes before the insanity started. Just an insane juxtaposition of coincidental circumstance. 

aircooled said:

These guys certainly had a theme

"We're flirting with disaster, y'all damn sure know what I mean."

No, Mr. Hatchet, I don't know what you mean.

In reply to Tony Sestito :

I was walking down Hudson Pkwy/West St in Manhattan that day, just as we were getting close to WTC........literally hundreds of NYPD appeared out of nowhere. We had no idea what was happening, I stopped an officer and asked, he told us and said they thought the next stop was Manhattan.

I always liked Santana's "Abraxas."  Some insanely good music on there, too.

Supertramp-Breakfast in America
 

Growing up in the 70s and 80s (HS 86, college 90), going to the record store and looking through bins of albums was a treat.  Album art and liner notes really lost significance shortly after as CDs were the new norm by the late 80s and early 90s.  By the time streaming took over, the whole concept became lost on any subsequent generation of music listener.    That's unfrotunate...

Some favorites

FSP_ZX2 said:

Growing up in the 70s and 80s (HS 86, college 90), going to the record store and looking through bins of albums was a treat.  Album art and liner notes really lost significance shortly after as CDs were the new norm by the late 80s and early 90s.  By the time streaming took over, the whole concept became lost on any subsequent generation of music listener.    That's unfrotunate...

Yeah. Probably the gem of my collection is an original '75 pressing of Physical Graffiti in excellent condition. This is an incredible album case art design that did not translate when it was removed from its original intended LP format.

The windows on the building are cut outs. Both record sleeves and the inner sleeve are designed to line up with them, so depending on how you have them arranged, the front and back covers display different scenes.

No love for the Ohio Players?

Beer Baron said:

FSP_ZX2 said:

Growing up in the 70s and 80s (HS 86, college 90), going to the record store and looking through bins of albums was a treat.  Album art and liner notes really lost significance shortly after as CDs were the new norm by the late 80s and early 90s.  By the time streaming took over, the whole concept became lost on any subsequent generation of music listener.    That's unfrotunate...

Yeah. Probably the gem of my collection is an original '75 pressing of Physical Graffiti in excellent condition. This is an incredible album case art design that did not translate when it was removed from its original intended LP format.

The windows on the building are cut outs. Both record sleeves and the inner sleeve are designed to line up with them, so depending on how you have them arranged, the front and back covers display different scenes.

 

 

I lucked into a super clean OG pressing of this as well. The inserts are really cool. Also snagged the most recent reissue during the Walmart $15 sale last holiday season. I don't think I ever opened the thing, but it should have similar inserts. 

Also see Led Zeppelin III and the spinning disc insert inside the cover. That one is really cool as well. 

z31maniac said:

aircooled said:

These guys certainly had a theme

"We're flirting with disaster, y'all damn sure know what I mean."

No, Mr. Hatchet, I don't know what you mean.

it ain't for everybody!

Panic at the Disco:

Mac Miller: 

Thank You Scientist:

Macklemore: 

You all have missed the obvious answer here: