DaveH Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 There are so many, but I’ll throw a couple up that are fresh on my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Disturber Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 This is one of my all time favourites. Just so bloody weird. So many classics from Hipgnosis.... The classic Pedro Bell covers And of course.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM OF HAMER Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Here is a rare one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steve Haynie Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 What? No Alice Cooper? The first album was a fold out even though it had only one disc. From there they were all special. School's Out was actually a desk that flipped open, and there were panties over the record. Billion Dollar Babies was a wallet with photos and money. Muscle Of Love came in a cardboard box like a shipping container. From The Inside had it's cutout windows inside the album cover. Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door had a sleeve with watercolor paint in tiny dots printed on it. Wet a paintbrush and you can finish the inside sleeve in color. Physical Graffiti was a cool album cover with cutouts, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Willie G. Moseley Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I think there was a thread on here a few years ago about album cover gimmicks, like the lenticular gizmo on the Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request that revealed the Beatles, the mirror on Uriah Heep's Look At Yourself, etc. Presuming that the "gimmick" facet is inapplicable to this list (dynamic artwork only), one could probably safely submit: Almost any Roger Dean-illstrated cover Almost any Storm Thorgerson-illustrated cover Almost any Globe Propaganda-illustrated cover Black Sabbath's first album cover looked like a marketing image from American International Pictures Disraeli Gears "Chrome" albums like If's first album and Wheels of Fire (although those may be close to the "gimmick" category) Iron Butterfly: Heavy Steve Miller Band: Children of the Future Mom's Apple Pie, first edition (Uh-oh!) Triumvirat: Illusions on a Double Dimple Emerson Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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princeofdarkness56 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Steve Haynie said: What? No Alice Cooper? The first album was a fold out even though it had only one disc. From there they were all special. School's Out was actually a desk that flipped open, and there were panties over the record. Billion Dollar Babies was a wallet with photos and money. Muscle Of Love came in a cardboard box like a shipping container. From The Inside had it's cutout windows inside the album cover. Pretty sure all that Alice cover stuff was done by Pacific Eye and Ear. They worked with a lot of rock bands and most of the albums they did were eye catchers. I always thought the photo on the back of the Love it to Death album by Alice Cooper should have been on the front. Talk about cool. Just looking at that picture you knew these guys were going to rock. I’d post the picture but I just updated my phone and haven’t figured out how yet. When my granddaughter gets home from school I’ll have her show me. You can’t believe how much I dislike this twenty first century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veatch Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 So many.... Start with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Moses Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Well I had to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cmatthes Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 4 hours ago, mudshark said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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