Hello Everyone
Raintown boy has raised an interesting question on the Vinyl vs CD post I think with regards to album covers: what are your favorite ones in the rock'n'roll/pop/contemporary music history?
Strictly from an artistic point of view based on sleeve design layout, concept, colours, etc and not the content itself (music), mine are:
- Odgen's Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces
- Disraeli Gears by Cream
- Abbey Road by The Beatles
- Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
- Never Mind The *****cks by The Sex Pistols
- Nevermind by Nirvana
- 1984 by Van Halen
- The Runaways by The Runaways
- In Blissful Company by Quintessence
- Aerial by Kate Bush
- But Seriously Folks by Joe Walsh
...and I better stop here as I could go on till summertime!
:-)
Lory
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God lory i have so many.but off the top of my
head hear are a few.
1.Def leppard-hystera
2.beatles-sgt.peppers
3.lynyrd skynyrd-second helping
4.runaways-queens of noise
5.pink floyd-the wall
6.david bowie-diamond dogs
7.ac-dc-dirty deeds
8.iron maiden-power slave
9.kiss-unmasked
10.elo-discovery
The Beatles - Abbey Road
John Lennon = Walls And Bridges
Blondie - Blondie
The Runaways - The Runaways
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Eric Burdon Band - STOP
The B-52's - Whammy
Devo - Oh No! It's Devo
That's but a few, that I love!
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Gus
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night
Fleetwood Mac - Penguin
Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me
U2 - War
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles - Revolver
The Who - Who's Next
The Who - Tommy (Original Cover)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
Joan Jett - I Love Rock & ROll
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
Stevie Nicks - The Other Side Of The Mirror
More to come.....
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I like 'YES' album covers because they felt more like posters than covers, and they just about all became posters too! CD covers are too small and low-resolution to feel like anything you'd ever want to tack-up on the wall.
Now that you mention it, reved, I used to have a 'Relayer' poster on my wall. I atill own a copy of Roger Dean's book, 'Views'.
Lp covers that pop into my feeble mind are;
Byrds - Sweethearts Of The Rodeo
Plasmatics 1st lp or Butcher baby 12"
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Sex Pistols - The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (OST)
I'll try to give this a bit more thought & jot down a few titles as I remember them.
rog
How could I have frogotten....
Whipped Cream And Other Delights by The Tijuana Brass!
I think we discussed that one on a similar topic once, didn't we Rog?!?!
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Gus
Oh How Could I have forgotten that Classic Cover, Mr Danger.
A few more memoriable covers;
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land
John & Yoko - Two Virgins
Velvet Underground - Bananna
David Peel & The Lower East Side - Have A marijuana
Mothers Of Invention - Freak out
Chech & Chong - Big Bambo (with rolling paper)
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">A tasty little piece of art for sure! [img]tongue.gif[/img]Originally posted by ellanoize:
Oh How Could I have forgotten that Classic Cover, Mr Danger.
I like your new list there Rog! I keep thinking of The Beatles because every cover from Rubber Soul on, was classic cover art!
The Stones too! Who can forget Let It Bleed or Through The Past Darkly or Sticky Fingers!
Rock on!
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Gus
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