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The Best Album Covers

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The Best Album Covers

Postby golfer » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:38 pm

There is so much that can be said about album covers, some like them plain, some with band on the cover, some where it tells a story.

Roger Dean cover fron the progressive era show a lot of artistic flair and imagination , see--->
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/Y/yes.html

There was also the Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell, with thier simple masterpiece Dark Side Of The Moon,
http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/johnnymoped ... s_art.html

For shock appeal what about Grand Funk's Survival http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/G/ ... vival.html

The New Wave has some classics Joy Divisions Closer, The 3D of The Stranglers' The Raven, Midnight Oils Red Sails In The Sunset.

The above are favourites of mine what are yours? Can you supply links?
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Postby oneno » Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:40 pm

Blancmange "Happy Families" one of my fav's
<img src="http://www.pedes.net/covers_cd/happy_families.jpg">
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Postby Glen » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:51 am

The Damned's "Phantasmagoria" is probably my favorite.
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Postby i_like_lectric_motors » Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:07 am

[quote]Originally posted by golfer


There was also the Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell,

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Postby Frank_Chickens » Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:55 am

"From the Tearooms of Mars...To The Hell Holes of Uranus" by Landscape.
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Postby design_femme » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:37 am

4AD put out some of my favorites. Go to http://www.fedge.net/~desiderata/4ad20.html and soak it all in.
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Postby Jimbo L » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:03 am

I've always liked the cvoer for Echo and the B-Men's "Ocean Rain":

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200 ... 1cf3zd.jpg
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Postby C86ERIC » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:31 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br>4AD put out some of my favorites. Go to http://www.fedge.net/~desiderata/4ad20.html and
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Postby medication881 » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:17 am

Definitely Midnight Oil's "Red Sails In the Sunset"
Very striking depiction of Sydney Harbor after being hit by meteors.
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Postby middlesexnj » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:21 am

sorry, it's not new wave, but the best album cover ever is this muddy waters one:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002 ... ZZZZZ_.jpg
Check out the look on his face, and the name of the album: "Hard again"
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Postby EchoBeachBunnyBoy » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:55 am

IAM SIAM's "She Went Pop"
Total 80's decadence, glitz & glam...[:X]
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Postby KYYX4ever » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:05 am

oh god, those 4AD covers were always so striking, gorgeous eye candy...mmmmm.....
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Postby randy » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:36 am

Flash and the Pan's frisbee cover was always one I thought was cool.
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Postby manekineko » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:09 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by randy[/i]
<br>Flash and the Pan's frisbee cover was always one I thought was cool.
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Postby I. M. He » Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:43 am

this is an easy one for me...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: A Kiss in the Dreamhouse!

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