When you walked into a record store, you could see this album clear across the room. The White Album is a good cover, but come on, man, its a blank page. But also the more Adult Art-Photo and Graphics Covers of the ECM- Label had som great Covers in the 70s and 80s. No LIVE cover for GFR? Hatfield & The North The Rotters Club Fear and Surreal apprehension in an English Country Garden. She looks like she can see everything thats going to happen to her in the next 40 years. Davis Is a Bonkers Vision of Our AI-Controlled Future, You Killer Joe Goldberg Channels Willy Wonka in For You and Only You. Edgar Froese: Macula Transfer A rawer demo version of Just What I Needed a song Ocasek apparently wrote in the basement of a commune he was living in broke the Cars in the first place when Boston radio started playing it in 1977. Start the wiki Similar Albums Greatest Hits Thompson Twins For her debut solo album, Courtney Love took the Cars concept a step further by enlisting the younger, edgier pin-up artist (known professionally as Olivia) to paint her. Cool list. I forgot City To City (Jerry Rafferty). Since people were already using LPs to store and clean marijuana, the Airplane gave you a cardboard box holder for it, along with the pot, or at least a realistic-looking photo. what about Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers? Jefferson Airplanes Long John Silver hails from the golden age of elaborate album covers. Deceptive Bends and Kansas Left Overture to name a few.. The Rolling Stones always had cool, attention-grabbing album covers. Tubular Bells should be on here.. A lot of good covers here from good albums. An ultimate Nudie back patch with intricate stitching as befits the Dandy 60s Combo. Agree! jethro tull a passion play. The Art work on Powerslave is so incredibly detailed, it should in the top ten. The Who Quadrophenia Santana Lotus What? I could make a list of a hundred by myself, in which many of the listed ones here would be as well. $11.55. Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream and Other Delights. I would have liked to see some European covers, for instance: Can think of twenty more pieces of art that deserve to be here. The Doors Full Circle (great cover, crappy album. Tubeway Army Replicas. Wheres Rock and Rolling with Fats Domino? You should know better to dare put together a list like this and call it Greatest.no one is ever happy or appreciates the work put into it. Whatever. Pretty iconic. Credits adapted from the liner notes of Complete Greatest Hits.[4]. Select a genre and a sub-genre, let the winners of the fight decide which artists should be included in that genre/sub-genre and THEN pick the top 100 album covers for each might be a way to be a bit more fair all around, but it would still leave so many deserving visual artists out of the final mix it would be pointless. Metlica : Ride The Ligthning This album cover was more of a multimedia assemblage, incorporating the die-cut edges and the marble-swirled disc into the overall design and giving an instant visual image to the top-hatted Dave Mason. Sometimes good time can be the hook itself, Ocasek told Rolling Stone in July, explaining why he insisted on Weezer using a click track on 1994s Blue Album, which he produced. Frank Zappa wrapped his skewering of hippie culture Were Only In It for the Money in an equally vicious parody of the famous Sgt. Start the wiki. ?..or .exile on main street,,,,,,or maybe..atom hearth mother? That wasnt what he wanted at all! Deep Purples In Rock Mount Rushmore- Covers Truly Is a Unique Record Cover and on of Rock and Rolls most Famous ones. for me. And no Never mind the Bollocks by the REAL pure punk band The Sex Pistols? It is difficult because it might be 101 on the list, but it should be up there, and arguably better than some in the top 100 I would say (1/7.4 billion isnt much of an opinion I know) sorry the rest of you geezers, I forgot to mention, Def Leppard, High and dry, this ought to be on this list, And come to think of it, Def Leppard. Its simply a great illustrated picture of Jeff in 70s hippie attire with his Les Paul guitar! But how could they leave off the album of one of the most iconic and longest playing bands of the late 20th century with perhaps their most identifiable icon on it,s cover,The Grateful Dead,s Steal your face? Nazareth: Hair of the Dog hands down the best album cover of all time. Shes actually carefully draped in a lot of cotton batting. They had some of the best album cover art And although they had other great album covers,I will submit Quicksilver Messenger Service and Happy Trails. The toilet on the original cover of If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears also proved to be a no-no in 1966. LOSE -. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. John Cale Walking on Locusts No Uriah Heep? You could also see Yeezus as the last celebration of the physical CD before it disappeared. It won NMEs award for best album artwork in 1969. Modern death metal bands got nothing on country duo The Louvin Brothers, who went to the inferno in 1959 and looked great in white suits while doing it. Have a mono and a stereo copy. The album cover for Hsker Ds final studio album is one of those cases where a cover is exactly like the album: vivid, colorful and jarring in a welcoming way. Not every band would fly a pig over Battersea Power Station, but few other bands would make an album that absolutely called for it. U2 Achtung Baby Its since gone done as one of the greatest of all time. One really missing is Deep Purple In rock. arc of a diver? As a Personal request, Id say that Roy Harpers Lifemask, with its split centre -and-fold-back Definitelys got a place amongst the 100 most Unique Record-Covers. This burst of Storm Thorgerson / Hipgnosis imagination features four versions of the same photo (except that the band rotates one position in each), matching their sense of surrealism. Nico The Marble Index Ocasek and the Cars walked a fascinating line between shiny power pop and total weirdness; Youre All Ive Got Tonight is in both places at once, with a whole lot going on in its four minutes and 14 seconds, from the Queen-ly backing vocals (thanks, no doubt, to a shared producer in Roy Thomas Baker), a flanged drum intro, a freaky harpsichord-like keyboard part in the first verse, and a monster chorus. An iconic cover and album . Rush Moving Pictures One has to consider The Prodigy Fat of the land surely? It was creativity to the nth degree, man! P-funks wild fusion of funk, surrealism, and pop art extended beyond music, resulting in some of the most provocative LP covers of the era. Some of Eltons greatest album covers were a bit splashy, others a little somber. Gone Fishin Flipper If you look past the Fab Four walking across the zebra crossing you will see a white VW Beetle,. Disturbed has some rather good album covers (e.g. Some good ones did get missed as pointed out in here. Ian Dury New Boots and Panties (how the hell did you miss this ?) My bad. But, album covers are another thing, and I dont think that every single shit the Beatles ever took needs to be lionized as genius. America Homecoming Ya know people today dont even understand the concept of an album cover. Blown Pig,pigs head,headphones,sunglasses,a smoke,hilarious. The band's biggest songs were still several albums and years away, and its actual Greatest Hits compilation wound up charting higher than The Cars. The Cars - "Candy-O" - LP, Vargas Cover vinyl album. Fool, You wish you were ignorant enough to have $450 billion dollars. Seriously why was this omitted? From the lightning bolt on Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust, its hard to pick. A nod to how Thelonious Monk mustve felt as a pioneering jazz artist, Underground casts the pianist as a French Resistance fighter in WWII. I think Adam Ant (and the Ants) should be included as well. Complete Greatest Hits was a fairly credible claim for The Cars' semi-canonical 20-track 2002 best-of, which did include the great majority of the band's most winning singles. And a great album too. The Cars Candy-O lp in Shrink STERLING 5E-507 Monarch . It could have just as easily been Born in the USA, with its Annie Liebovitz photo and Bruce in a white t-shirt and blue jeans in front of an American flag. Agreed! There are a lot great suggestions, but my list would have included Blind Faith, The Who By Numbers, Alice Coopers Schools Out, Iron Maiden Killers, Dio, Iggy Pop Raw Power, Ted Nugent Cat Scratch Fever, Leon Russell Live, Cream Wheels of Fire. ?.maybe dark side of the moon? Sweet Moments With The Blue Velvet Band for the Eric Von Schmidt designed board game on the INSIDE of the fold out cover. Arriving one year after his milestone album The Payback, Brown delivered the double-album Hell, which called out societal ills both on record and on the elaborately illustrated cover. You guys must have never seen TLCS FANMAIL CD COVER IN 3D! R.S. Troublegum Paul McCartney Press to Play. Ultra-cool Elvis (in his shiny gold Nudie suit) gets multiplied in one of the most enduring early 60s images and greatest album covers. yessongs, blind faith, bustin` out. Whats with the Ramones cover?!? Required fields are marked *. It took a German painter schooled in surrealism to create its mix of African folk art and psychedelia. Not much of a list! Wheres the Jefferson Airplane, Spooky Tooth, Aorta, the Dead 72,.good stuff , but please dont put a number on them. would probably add some Scorpions, Iron Maiden (Powerslave/Aces high), Zappa, Axis:Bold As Love. Looking for more? If The Beatles could do a double White Album, the Bee Gees could do a fuzzy red one. Served its purpose no doubt in keeping a hungover intern busy for an afternoon copying and pasting images and not otherwise effing up an important (sic) project. Sorry. Not one Iron Maiden album? or Reggae artists: There are better Zeppelin covers, and I would think at least 1 from the Moody Blues would be on here! Mountain Twin Peaks Kansass Leftoverture. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. nearly 1/2 of these covers dont deserve to be on this lista lot of much better covers arent even represented here, from bands represented here and from lesser known bands. Be Good To Yourself by Man Too many dumb (actually sad) choices to call out. One big picture. Spare and pretty, with an openheartedly soulful vocal, its a tender, unguarded ballad in which he pledges thanks and devotion to a new love. The Moody Blues had at least six or seven albums that were better than most everything on this list! Seriously no Rodney Matthews in there. Spirits in the Material World by The Police No mention by anyone of Family! ACCEPT Breaker ? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Classic. The effortlessly cool album cover image of bassist Paul Simonon smashing his guitar practically screams rocknroll, just like the music inside. But, I would rank that, Sgt Peppers and Revolver over the White Album both in terms of the quality and impression of the Album covers and the significance of the albums in the history of popular music as well as with their musical content. And also, Eels, Daisie of the galaxy, Gong, Flying Teapot and Camembert Electrique, Zappa Hot Rats, Christophe, Pas vu pas pris (the kitchiest one ! Einstrzende Neubauten Strategies Against Architecture Who made this list obviously never saw a Uriah jeep album cover smh, Missing from list: Taste On The Boards Sadly, the artist passed away only months afterwards. Both used a few of Frank Frazetta art. Disappointed but not surprised to see no Iron Maiden or Megadeth covers in there. As it turns out, The Beatles were just too lazy to go to Mt. It doesnt really matter what sort of adjective you want to put it in front of the words album cover, because lists of this sort of are always incredibly subjective. Blondie may have had a string of number one hits and Talking Heads may have won the hearts of the critics, but the Cars were the most successful American new wave band to emerge in the late '70s. Of course, it got an extra dimension by playing with Loves own image at the time. Bad Company Straight Shooter I think Supertramps Crime of the Century belongs here, more than Breakfast in America. I did eventually see some covers that should be in a Top 100 list otherwise it looks like you were intending a Most Banal or Bland & Uninspired list. I obviously was a huge fan of Dylan, but my other favorite band was the Velvet Underground. Not a bad selection,but how could you leave out Axis Bold as love or several of the Moody Blues lp covers? Id suggest the cover with the red/yellow profile picture of Hendrix which was used in North America. See all customer images Top reviews. Features the band's biggest hits plus the . And what about Neutral Milk Hotels In the Aeroplane Over the Sea? No they are not. Highway to Hell by AC/DC. Wendy Waldman Strange Company 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. The most interesting development in Cover Art through the 20th century on the other hand; happened in the Classical genre, where either photo of Performer in Penguin-Suit / Evening Dress or a Romantic Landscape Painting were the strict code, definitely loosened up by the late 80s and forward up to our time. On a throwback-themed album, Taylor Swift presents an old Polaroid of herself, but incomplete and out of focus. Well, I dont agree. The worst Top Album Cover list Ive ever seen, My top 5: The Smiths The Smiths, Thats not the original Ramones cover -_-, Brothers In Arms Dire Straits best cover Not Cyril Jordan. Number 21 or 22. School s Out Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Blvd Ocaseks keen grasp of pop-music architecture sometimes gave him pause. I think Sakis Gouzoniss first album, First Contact, belongs here as well. Savoy Brown,Outside Looking in.. My opinion the Best Cover art ever, Be Bop Deluxe Axe Victim and Sunburst Finish Neil Young on the beach. Steppenwolf: 7 Definitely Stand Up with the woodcut popup gatefold. Whenever hip-hop started to take itself too seriously, ODB was there to disrupt, agitate, and give the middle finger to convention. Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha. Paul Simon Graceland As always, his daughter Ninas name was hidden a few times in this famous album cover. You are not being serious here. Justin Bieber Shares Heartfelt Message to Frank Ocean After Coachella Set Pump by Aerosmith It looked right to me and how I felt, said Jones. The Argus cover stuck with me through all these years. Lets be honest, there is no other album cover as famous as Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon. The Cars Greatest Hits Play album More actions Listeners 170.9K Scrobbles 966.3K Join others and track this album Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account Sign Up to Last.fm Length 12 tracks Release Date 28 November 1985 Do you know any background info about this album? Album covers that give me good feelings besides quite a few in the presented list: Allman Brothers Band -Brothers ans Sisters;Emerson Lake And Palmer first album; Fairport Convention- What we did on our holidays;Gram Parsons-GP;J.J.Cale-Naturally;Jefferson Airplane-Volunteers;The Kinks-Percy ,and Lola versus Powerman & Money go round; The Mamas & The Papas-Deliver;Neil Young-Everybody knows this is Nowhere; The Lovin Spoonful -Best of the Lovin Spoonful (with the cartoon immages);Dylan -Blonde on Blonde; Doug Sahm-Doug Sahm and Band. Any of the First 3 Waterboys album covers. Everest yes, that was the original plan so they came up with something just as memorable by leaving the studio and crossing the street, resulting in the famous Abbey Road album cover. . Blue Train by John Coltrane was designed by Reid Miles with a photograph by Francis Wolfe. And their album absolutely free as well. Genesis-Nursery Cryme. I do like the Beatles but unfortunately they are rammed down peoples throats. It was an art-school friend of Jimmy Pages who created this mythic cover by superimposing the bandmembers over a famous shot of WWI German fighter pilot the Red Baron and his crew. A rare case where a parody (of the above Elvis cover) becomes a work of art in itself. I thought the first Bad Company had a very iconic look to itthe large logo against the stark black background. I would suggest Vangelis Heaven and Hell , Manfred Mann Angle Station , and Alan Parsons Project I Robot. should be in the top 10 The Jam All Mod Cons and Sound Affects, The Style Council Our Favourite Shop, Paul Weller Stanley Road, The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus should all be on the list, but all far too English for this list, Santanas first album, Deja Vu, Blue Oyster Cult such as Extraterrestrial or Agents of Fortune, Primal Scream Screamadelica served notice that Eilish was here to mess with your head. And when I hear people bitch that their MUSIC is no better or worse than, say, Sammy Hagar or Sublime, I dont even enter that conversation, cuz thats stupid, if you have EARS and you dont like ANYTHING the Beatles did, youre just a Mary Mary quite contrary. NRBQ At Yankee Stadium is a classic cover and album. Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors. Where are any of those incredible Yes covers like Yessongs? Dire Straits Love Over Gold One of the psych eras great hallucinations, the famous album cover for Moby Grapes 1968 double LP Wow showed an otherworldly landscape with the worlds largest bunch of grapes. Greatest Hits of the 50S Medley 1: Oh Carol! It should, however, have been pictured with the Belly-Belt. Thanks for letting us know! A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. ), JJ Cale Shades and so many others. The cover of Joy Divisions 1979 debut record is an actual depiction of radio waves. One of the most famous funk album covers ever. Diamanda Gals The Divine Punishment But the talking heads black cover is in there. Too much british and not enough America, Captain Beyond- Captain Beyond (3D cover). Not a single Cannibal Corpse cover. Thanks for letting us know, Timothy! And the people are good. While Ocasek scored hit after hit with the Cars, he explored a darker, more personal vibe on his first (and best) solo album, Beatitude. Many great covers here, but The Polices Ghost in the Machine should have been included. One of the greatest joke album covers, the boxer was already a perfect image for the Pogues, but dont miss the subtle bit of play here. Their debut album pictured Oasis in the worlds coolest crash pad, showing every band of the era how it ought to be living. Despite its daring appearance, if you looked closely, the whipped-cream clad model was actually wearing a wedding dress. Benjamin Orr sang the lounge-lizardy vocals, but Ocasek (who wrote it with keyboardist Greg Hawkes, which made it the only song on the Cars debut not solely written by Ocasek) took over in live performances after Orrs death. Howard Finsters uniquely Southern folk art was a perfect match for Talking Heads back-to-roots album (and for R.E.M.s Reckoning around the same time). Are you kidding me? Bjrk Homogenic The one for Dont Shoot Me Im Only the Piano Player was just right, drawing from his soon-to-be-legendary love of movies. Bandolier belongs on this list. Playing Possum Carly Simon Here are just a few of the ones you forgot. We started out wanting to be electric and straight-ahead rock, and it kind of turned into an artier kind of thing, Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes once said of the way the band fine-tuned its sound in the early days. Close to the Edge by Yes To pick one single Cover; is Impossible, plain and simple. That was my song about what the good times in rock & roll really mean, instead of what theyre supposed to be, he once said. Many Americans wondered what Lucille Ball was doing there but it was actually French actress Delphine Seyrig. / Dream Lover / Livin' Doll / Unchained Melody /. So, without further ado, here is our pick of just 100 of the greatest record covers of all-time. finally someone brought up Argus by Wishbone Ash. What is it wit all the Beatles albums???? My taste was to always go for that mix, even back in the Sixties, Ocasek told Vanity Fairs Marc Spitz. Robin Trowers BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Come on people ? One of the greatest metal covers ever designed, designer Larry Carroll packed a thousand nightmares into this Bosch-like painting for Slayers thrash masterpiece Reign in Blood, which influenced metal imagery for decades to come. I loved the Velvet Underground and the Carpenters. Im Not the One also made a memorable appearance in the Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison, in the scene where he gets a valentine from his principal. Ten Years After SSSSH, Stonehenge, and Cricklewood Green Adam created some of the most iconic visuals in musical history. Bridge of Sighs Robin Trower Whatever your views are on this stuff he was Walter when it was recorded. But its so cheerful that you still have to love it. Even at this early stage in the Cars career, Ocasek was already committed to puncturing as many pop clichs as he could. The track listing was the same although the running order was altered. Bob Dylans Self Portrait is among the 100 best covers of all time? This cover is Roger Dean at his most vivid. Images in this review Reviews with images. Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous Iron Maiden :Somewhere in Time It was a commercial success, going six-times platinum. Others missing pixar vinyl. It was weird, it was witty, it was Warhol. The James Ganga Myriad of othersThe Moody Blues alone should have at least 2 of their awesome art on this display.. Althoughyou have captured many. Led Zeppelin 111, Grand Funk E Pluribus Funk a nd Survivors, Alice Cooper Schools Out and Billion Dollar Babies, A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Only 3 left in stock - order soon. A good cover became a great one the moment when a bored Johnny Ramone decided to give the photographer the finger. Of course, this a personal preference. Where is Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert???? Or how about Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division? UFO Phenomenon Ok, not bad. Captain Beyond: Sufficiently Breathless I do not know where you culled the images for this article, but whoever was responsible is clearly a dunderhead. Patto Hold Your Fire come on, nobody noticed? Great Selection, with a bit of a bias for British and U. S. Productions. The album was released in Europe as "The Definitive". Black Flags trailblazing punk-metal wouldnt have been the same without Pettibons grisly comic images, though in this case, not quite as grisly as the album itself. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour. Psychedelic album covers were an art form in themselves, and the explosion of color (with the band looking suitably avuncular) made Creams Disraeli Gears one of the definitive ones. While the album made an instant star out of Springsteen, the cover did the same for E Street Bands sax man Clarence Clemons. There are quite a few Arguably, not to mention Questionable choices here. This iconic album cover said it all about coy mid-60s sexuality, bachelor-pad style. Golden Earring Moontan The perfect cover for a cool, sensual and futuristic concept album, this captures Janelle Mones depth and mystery and is a beautiful piece of art in its own right. Published on March 22, 2022 By Brett Milano Illustration:. Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (front & back), Black Sabbath-Heaven & Hell, Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You, Slade-Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Bad Company-Run with the Pack, Bad Company-Straight Shooter, Frank Zappa-Joes Garage, Roger Glover & Friends-Butterfly Ball, to name a few, Greenslade Time and Tide Basically no female artists and the women that appear on the covers of the albums of the male artists are all showing their tits. I framed it and hung it on my wall. Bleeker & McDougal-Fred Neil No Peter Saville or Vaughan Oliver works? Animals by Pink Floyd Are you kidding me? There were so many great covers that could replace all of these, in my opinion! Live and Dangerous Thin Lizzy (The word peace of course has five letters.). Or any Molly Hatchet cover? ELO Out of the Blue I would have like to see Jethro Tulls STAND UP album, Spot on re Tulls Stand Up-well at least the version with the pop up, What no Alice Cooper? 2 great Hipgnosis-designed covers. Confused by t rexs the slider over electric warrior which is clearly the superior cover. How could Music From Big Pink by the Band not be on here? The Rolling Stones probably couldnt beat the Beatles for a psychedelic album in 1967, but they arguably had the cooler album cover, the first 3D sleeve in rock. None of ABBA albums is listed in 100 which is not right, I wonder why this is on Agnethas Face Book. All of Marvin Gayes cool album covers are works of art in a way, but Ernie Barness Sugar Shack, which graces the cover of I Want You, is the only one currently hanging in a museum. Definitely Ziggy cover Peppers with the cover to the White Album and vice versa.) E Pluribus Funk (a da moeda): Grand Funk Railroad, Good selection. Neil Young Harvest or After the Goldrush Candy-O is one of the two best uses of pin-up art on a rock record, along with. Agreed! Peppers famous album changed record covers forever, and kept many of us occupied for weeks trying to identify everybody at the ceremony. Yardbirds Roger The Engineer Anyone who was or is a fan of Supertramp needs to see Rogers show its fantastic his voice is incredible and what a band he has. Oh, I forgot to note that all covers done by Neon Park for all Little Feat albums. ELOs Out of the Blue i didnt see that herb alpert one with the girl in the whipped cream. VAN HALEN VAN HALEN OR 1984 SHOULD HAVE SURELY MADE THE LIST. 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