Favorite Album Cover (picture or art on the cover)


As a follow up to my discussion about your favorite cover album since some posters asked or posted about the artwork or picture on the cover of the album.

Mine is the cover art on the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson.  The stuff of nightmares.  

What is your favorite album cover?

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The cover of The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace Of Sin album was good for a laugh back in 1969. That’s the one with Gram Parsons wearing a Nudie Western Suit embroidered (by Manuel Cuevas) with marijuana leaves. Too bad Gram didn’t stick with just weed.

 

 

@rayd and @slaw: That original Mom's Apple Pie cover was a result of no one at the record company noticing the female genitalia hidden inside the pie. No pun intended. wink

 

 

@stuartk: Yep, I have Woodstock Vision, both the original 1994 edition by Continuum Publishing, and the 1996 edition that Landy published himself (LandyVision, Inc.). Both are 128 page paperbacks, with front covers different from each other and from the expanded hardcover edition you cite. I don’t need that version, as I have no interest in the Woodstock Festival.

 

I have two other Landy books I like much more:

 

- The Band Photographs, 1968-1969 (published by Backbeat Books in 2015). It is a 12-1/4" x 12-1/4" hardbound book containing 160 pages of B & W photos taken of The Band in and around the Big Pink house, as well as some color photos from the 1969 U.S.A. tour. Elliot provides copious details on the taking of the photos. Amazing! And essential.

- Dylan Woodstock (published by Genesis Publications Limited in 2000). This is a deluxe hardbound book (with leather trim) in a slipcase. 144 pages of Dylan and The Band, he in and around his home in Woodstock, they around the Big Pink house in nearby West Saugerties. Both B & W and color photos, all with detailed notes by Landy. Beautiful!

 

I also have some large prints of photos Elliot took of The Band, suitable for framing. I got them from Elliot himself.