Your Favorite Album Covers?

[bowiestation]

Some of the old Punk albums had great cover art !

[LadyLazarus]

Tubeway Army - Replicas
Magazine - Real Life
Adam and the Antz - Dirk Wears White Sox (NOT the 83 Epic reissue with the dodgy cover change, the original on Do-It)
The Cure - Pornography
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

[golfer]

THE WHITE ABLUM...THE BEATLES
BLACK IN BLACK...AC/DC
BUT REALLY
SURVIVAL...GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
LOOK AT YOURSELF...URIAH HEEP
LED ZEPPELIN 3
TOE FAT...TOE FAT
TALES FROM TOPGRAPHIC OCEANS...YES

NEW WAVE
LONDON CALLING...THE CLASH
DAZZLE SHIPS ...O.M.I.T.D
RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET...MIDNIGHT OIL
CLOSER...JOY DIVISION
DALI'S CAR

[oneno]

Of Cabbages and Kings-Face http://www.godflesh.com/related/ocak/face.jpg
Fripp and Eno-No pussyfooting
Wilding Bonus-Pleasure signals-http://rateyourmusic.com/view_album_details/album_id_is_50603
Fotomaker-Vis a Vis http://services.windowsmedia.com/cover/ ... 4peqc7.jpg
David Sylvian-Gone to Earth

[WoodlandParkPunk]

Spinal Tap - Smell the Glove

[LadyLazarus]

LOL. [:D]

[Surly]

The Fixx - "Reach The Beach" and "Walkabout"
Big Country - "The Crossing"
Simple Minds - "New Gold Dream" (despite the religious overtones)
ABC - "The Lexicon Of Love"
Yello - "You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess"
New Order - "Power, Corruption and Lies"
Duran Duran - "Rio"
A Flock Of Seagulls - "Listening" (cheesy, yes, but a perfect example of the times)

[Blitz Boy]

Loads!!!!! Though is difficult to compare a 80's cover with present ones...

Anyway, although I don't like the band especially, I propose "Tusk" from Fleetwood Mac for the "Best Ever LP Cover & Package Award"

[randy]

Original Mirrors (surprise)--look at the cover looking at you. It SCREAMS new wave.

[Bowie_Banshee]

I have loads of favorite album covers, by artists like Cocteau Twins, Echo&The Bunnymen, Siouxsie, Joy Division, The Smiths, Patti Smith, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, Wire, Bauhaus, Pixies, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, Tuxedomoon, The The, Simple Minds, Sisters of Mercy, Durutti Column, Magazine, DAF, Psychedelic Furs, Comsat Angels, Raincoats, Talking Heads, Kate Bush, Bowie, Eno, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Suicide, Stranglers, Jesus&Mary Chain, Chameleons, The Fall, REM, David Sylvian, Waterboys, The Sound, Au Pairs, Nico, Fad Gadget, Virgin Prunes, Nina Hagen, Young Marble Giants, This Mortal Coil, John Foxx, Eurythmics, Portishead, Lamb, Tricky, Radiohead, Björk and so much similar kind of artists...

[Sean]

Some of my favs:

Icehouse - Icehouse
Bite - Altered Images
Forever Running - B-Movie
Autumnal Park - Pseudo Echo
Afternoons In Utopia - Alphaville
Hunting High & Low - A-Ha

Sean

[whistledog]

Ones that I really like:

"Spring Session M" by Missing Persons
<img src="http://www.addreviews.com/images/albums/2002-09-10-22-07-43.jpg">

"Stand Back" by The Arrows
<img src="http://www.canadianbands.com/arrowsstandback.jpg">

"Streets of Fire Soundtrack"
<img src="http://martin.ntf.ne.jp/disco/StreetsOfFire.jpg">

"Footloose" by Footloose (Tim Feehan and Footloose)
<img src="http://www.canadianbands.com/footloose.gif">

[Panorama]

Naked Eyes first album cover was pretty great.

[DavidRavenMoon]

XTC - Drums and Wires

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hyaena

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox

Missing Persons - Spring Session M

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food

The Cars (first album)

[jaybag]

Not NW maybe, but two of my favorite album covers were by 80's pop-rocker Martin Briley for his albums "One Night With a Stranger" (anyone remember the song "The Salt In My Tears"?) and "Dangerous Moments". I can't figure out how to attach pictures to these posts (how do you do that anyway?) so I just provided a link to a page that has both covers. It's too bad the pictures aren't larger, I have both LP's and the covers are really cool. The "Dangerous Moments" one is almost like one of those Escher optical illusions though it's hard to tell from such a small picture...

http://www.martinbriley.com/the_art.htm