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?

bassbuyer

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.

Probably The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame.

Dark Side Of The Moon would be my second choice.

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.

@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. 

@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.

Golden Earring >Moontan. 

Joni Mitchell >Hissing of the Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell

Santana >Moonflower

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

@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/

 

 

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)

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? 

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"

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The cover of Muddy Waters’ Fathers & Sons, with a Black Jehovah touching the finger of a white man wearing wraparound shades, parodying Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel ceiling.

 

Jane’s Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual


 

Al Stewart Year of the Cat


 

ELO Face The Music

@bassbuyer - In my college dorm back in 1970, some art students painted the inside of the elevator doors so that when the doors closed, you got the entire cover of the first King Crimson album looking at you!! Especially fun for the psychedelicized students, of which there were many of us. It was still there when I left in 1973.... 

The most unique album cover I’ve seen is the original Sticky Fingers with a real functioning zipper on the front. Andy Warhol (a friend of Jagger) took the cover photo.

Roger Dean’s artwork on Yes LPs was great, especially when accompanied with hallucinogens of the day while listening to the music.

For pure cheese, Raspberries released an LP with a "Scratch & Sniff" sticker that smelled like...wait for it.... Raspberries!

 

U2- War

Ramones (debut album)

Elvis Costello (American cover of Armed Forces, but all the early ones)

Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland - Original cover with topless ladies, I have the original, played once to record on R2R.

R Crumb's Cheap Thrills artwork for thise of a certain age who read his comics

Thanks for posting the pictures.  Great stuff.  How do you post pictures on this site?  I just see the option to include a URL code or link. 

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get

Big Brother and The Hold Company - Cheap Thrills

Savoy Brown - Street Corner Talking

Head East - Get Yourself Lit Up

That I own?

James Brown - Live at the Apollo Theater. 
the Black Keys - Delta Kream

Howlin’ Wolf - The London Sessions 

Fleetwood Mac Rumours

Led Zeppelin  1

Iron  Butterfly   In-a-gadda- da- vida

Frank Sinatra    in the wee small hours

Steppenwolf     Live 

Willie Nelson    Last leaf on the tree,

This is up there with shocking covers. 1974. The EMI staff refused to print the original so it was censored.