what's your favorite album cover?

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - don't remember the title, but definitely remember a beautiful woman covered in whipped cream!

In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson.
Flamin Groovies - Flamin Groovies.
Any album by Julie London.
London Calling - The Clash.
They Say I'm Different - Betty Davis (Miles' ex old lady)
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart.
House On The Hill - Audience.
Any album by Fausto Pepetti.
Any album by Martin Denny (almost any album).
No Way Out - Chocolate Watch Band.

Miles Davis Bitch's Brew, for the Klarwien art work.

I've always enjoyed most of Eloy's especially "Metromania" and "Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes". Very 70's prog - lots of great ones in that genre. On the YES theme - "Olias of Sunhillow" by Jon Anderson. Killer gatefold.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Interesting and cluttered. Like much of the music on it.

For some reason I like Supertramp album covers. "Crime of the Century" was cool, "Crisis, What Crisis" was somewhat tongue in cheek, and of course "Even in the Quietest Moments" is a classic. I love the piano sitting on a mountain top, with the sheet music open to Fool's Overture. Liked it so much I got the album cover tatooed on my shoulder!

Yes did some pretty interesting album covers, all followed a common look and feel to them. My all time favourite album cover artist was Cal Shenkel, he did some great work on Zappa's albums. Anyone going to nominate Dark Side?

The original cover to the mono release of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (Munch/BSO) on RCA. Reproduced once again on the Classic Records 45rpm reissue.
http://www.classicrecords.com/images/all/ACF69.jpg (picture)
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"In Search of the Lost Chord" by the Moody Blues. The depiction of the "life cycle" is VERY cool! Another favorite cover, again by the Moody Blues, is "A Question of Balance" - Einstein's cigar smoke morphing into clouds - gotta love it!

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Osibisa by Osibisa -- flying elephants in a forest. I bought it for the cover and got hooked. Osibisa may not be the best African "rock" band, though they are quite good, but they introduced me to a new world of music.

"Blues For Allah" Love the concept and the colors...