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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Jeff Beck - "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop"

Dr. John: "City Lights"

Echo & The Bunnymen - "Heaven Up Here"

Mannfred Mann's Earth Band - "Watch"

Oregon - "Out of the Woods"

Jean - Pierre Rampal & Claude Bolling - "Suite For Flute & Jazz Piano Trio"

Weather Report - "Heavy Weather"

As BassBuyer said above, how do you paste the images of these covers on here? Do you just paste the image into the text box or does something link to something? 

for me, looked the album up on amazon, clicked on it to see larger image.

Right click oncover image and select 'copy'. Then in the audiogon reply box click cntl+V (to paste the image you copied)

@bdp24

Hah! Yes you would!

I’m a fan of The Band, too, but one not need be to enjoy a fine photograph.

In fact, I own a book of Landy’s photographs from that era: "Woodstock Vision".

Mine's an older version. It's since been updated, expanded:

https://www.elliottlandy.com/product/woodstock-vision-hardcover-book-signed-by-elliott/

 

 

Golden Earring >Moontan. 

Joni Mitchell >Hissing of the Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell

Santana >Moonflower

Herb Albert >Whipped Cream and Other Delights. (sorry)
 

@larsman @bassbuyer there is an icon on the toolbar ribbon above the reply text box that has a picture of a landscape in it, sixth from the left.  Find a jpg or other image file on the web and copy the url for the image.  Click the icon on the toolbar and paste the url into the url text box.  Click ok and this will load the image into your post.

@bassbuyer - When 'Wish You Were Here' first came out, you couldn't even see the cover - there was a dark blue or purple wrapping around it, with a sticker saying what it was on the dark wrapper. 

There are so many that are so cool.  I used to really like the album cover of my Nazareth/Hair Of The Dog LP.  I always thought Who's Next had a classic album cover.

Probably The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame.

Dark Side Of The Moon would be my second choice.

Yes "Close To The Edge" inside the two piece jacket

 ZZ Top " Tres Hombres" inside the two piece jacket. I know a lucky dog who got to eat at the restaurant pictured in the photo years ago. That is my dream Mexican restaurant.

 

@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.

 

The Clash, London Calling - so raw, but more for what it represented to me at the time. Still a go-to LP.


Bloody Pig Ahead rings out is not bad but it’s hard to pick a best. There are too many good ones!

https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/2766198
 

Larsman yes I tried posting pictures of both but I guess I need the URL code.  I tried copy and paste.  It showed when I initially pasted them but disappeared when  clicked post your response.  

Some old albums I have hanging in my garage as picture art..

Slaughter - Stick It To Ya 

Ratt - Out of the Cellar (Twany Kitaen on the cover) 

Reo SpeedWagon - Hi Infidelity

Honeymoon Suite - debut album 

 

As mentioned, anything by Roger Dean, especially "Fragile" and "Close To the Edge" by Yes.

Hipgnosis created a very cool cover for "Elegy" by The Nice and for those of you who are old enough, please look at the cover of "Mom's Apple Pie" (same group),  I can't believe this was ever printed! 

 

@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

 

For anyone interested in cover art, I can highly recommend Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis's compendium of their work - fabulous artwork and a great read as well.

Though I’ve never heard it from beginning to end I’ve always loved the cover of the first Black Sabbath LP - I’ve been on the lookout for a cheap copy but seems like Black Sabbath fans rarely give them up!

Disraeli Gears, Abraxas, anything from Little Feat, and of course the one right above.