What is your favorite album cover?

Led Zeppelin IV

Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Rush - 2112

@russ69 
 +1
  Country Life!  And what a great album of tunes as well. 

Among the albums I own, one of my favorites is the cover to Wes Montgomery's "Road Songs."

https://www.allmusic.com/album/road-song-mw0000653406

The nice music is a bonus.

Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

Permanent Waves (original cover)

I will submit three from Santana. Santana(III), Caravanserai, and Havana Moon.

"The Yes Album" and most of the other Yes album covers.  Roger Dean is quite the artist.

I also concur with the majority of the albums posted here.  There have been so many awesome album covers over the years.

Gentle Giant Octopus & Low Spark...unusual shapes
Tull Thick As A Brick...funny!
Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love, Abraxis & Miles’ Live/Evil, Dead Blues For Allah...psychedelic 
Stones Some Girls...and Talking
Heads’ Remain In Light (b/c of what’s inside!)

The Zombies Odessey and Oracle 
Perfect for the times!

Rolling Stones-"Their Satanic Majesties Request"

tunehead, I know it's gotta be the back of 2112 .

"That picture of Alex Lifeson can still be found on Cameltoe.org"

 Dave Grohl..... Rush HOF induction speech

Nazareth “Hair of the Dog”

Sargent Pepper.....It shows how the Beatles shared their relevance among the historical pop Icons. They are officially a significant part of history.

@richopp What was it a copy off?

Led Zeppelin III  / Pink Floyd The Wall

I am still fascinated with both of these. 

Spinal Tap “Smell the Glove”

Jazz wins - Herbie Mann -PushPush 

Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
Cream- Disraeli Gears
Santana- (first, Lion/African Lady)

Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick road".                                                         Tijuana Brass album with the girl in the whipped cream. Just..........WOW at 10 years old.

@yyzsantabarbara  

Thanks for asking.  I assume (you know what that makes me!) that you all are fairly young,.so no big deal, but here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/Elvis-Presley-Legacy/dp/B0055IU3OU/ref=asc_df_B0055IU3OU/?tag=hyprod-20&l...

Great album, of course.  

The Clash were paying tribute...

https://www.retroavangarda.com/story-behind-the-london-calling-cover/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1YGxM6Q7cTKT02dZkcKYfBB/6-things-you-might-not-know-about-...


https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/clash-london-calling-album-facts-923232/

Blind Faith, Studio Album

It's a Beautiful Day   (the version with the girl) is definitely the most iconic cover

Captain Beyond's debut album with the 3D appliqué.

The Cars had great covers! Agree x10. Heartbeat City was cool too.

There are plenty to choose from but the first one the comes up is Queen, "The Miracle."
Amazing computer technology at the time. 

In order of preference:
1)  "Trout Mask Replica" by Captain Beefheart.

2)  The original 3-D of "Satanic Majesty's Request" by The Rolling Stones.

3) "It's a Beautiful Day" (first album)

4) "Electric Ladyland" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (original British pressing and cover, not released in the US per my recollection)

5) "Blind Faith" (original album cover)

6) Most of the Reid Miles "Blue Note" covers.

Yes - Relayer
Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
Linda Ronstadt - Livin' in the USA

@richopp Thanks for the history lesson. I was 11 when that album came out so not that young. I still have it on regular rotation. I never realized that the album cover was so iconic. I just loved that photo, it reminded me of some Pete Townsend photos of him playing live.

Way too many to list, but Maynard Ferguson's four impressionist covers of the 1960's were beaytiful.  Another interesting cover is Frank Zappa's Overnight Sensation, with its totally trashed hotel room, and a grapefruit on the floor with a hole in it, above which is penned "Roadie's Delight", whatever that might mean. 

The Original version of Sticky Fingers (with the zipper) -Rolling Stones

Triumph - Just a Game (the board game inside was entertaining)
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast (check out the figs along the bottom; front and back)

Led Zeppelin I (brand new re-mastered 180g) and then ZZ Top's DeGuello (pristine 1st pressing)

Dr Feelgood, Down at the Doctorshttps://degzys1thousand.wordpress.com/2020/09/28/475-o/

Nirvana "Nevermind"
The Beatles "Abbey Road"
Joe Jackson "Look Sharp"
Joni Mitchell "Blue"
Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers"
Al Stewart "Past, Present and Future"
David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust"
Johnny Cash "cash"
Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run"
Grace Jones "Island Life"
The Clash "London Calling" ( a tribute to Elvis Presley "Elvis Presley")
Cyndi Lauper "She's So Unusual"
Led Zeppelin "Houses Of The Holy"

AMON DUUL II- HighjackCapton Beyond- 3rd 
Ginger Baker's Air Force- liveS.O.D- Speak English or DieWAR- The World is a Ghetto
Alice Cooper- Mussel of Love                      - School's Out                     -Billion Dollar BabiesFrank Zappa- Weasel Ripped my Flesh                      -'Apostrophe                     -Thing FishUriah Heap- Magician's Birthday
                  - Demons and Wizards                - Look at Yourself

I second the original Stones Sticky Fingers, but would add the cover issued in Spain under the Franco regime just for the humor of it.

pinkard and bowden- live in front of a bunch of d!ckheads

DSOTM

Painted it (including heartbeat) running around my dorm room as a college freshman. It remained for several years.

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues 
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

Surprised at how few mentions of JJ and Big Brother Cheap Thrills

check it out! https://images.app.goo.gl/uTVDSuErjY6seyQv8

Moms Apple Pie. (Not the censored one even though, if you've seen the orignal, it's interesting what they did for the censors.)

Roger Waters The pros and cons of hitchhiking

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

For an album cover that is a spot-on visual representation of the music contained in the LP or CD, nothing beats The Band's s/t "brown" album.

Before that, I always liked the cover of The Beatles' Rubber Soul. Have you noticed their name is nowhere to be seen on that cover? First time in the history of LP's.

Bee Gees Odessa......Flocked

Dark Side of the Moon came out when I was in college, and I didn't think that the cover was very original or interesting even then.

AEwarren beat me to it,  but Electric Ladyland with all the topless girls in the early release (I have one from back in the day) and Cheap Thrills with all R. Crumb artwork do it for me!!

Zeppelin House of the Holy
Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

The flip side of The Faces 'A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse' and the front side isn't bad either.