Favoriite Album Covers

[mudshark]

[stobro]

Speaking of chili peppers, does a gatefold count as an album cover?

 

[veatch]

Front

Back

Inside

[JGale]

Seer Dolby was a great comfort during the worst of times. PSB Stratus Golds @200W a side. Who needs Martinis to unwind?

 

[DaveH]

[Dave Scepter]

Probably my favorite album of all time~

[stobro]

[butcher]

[kizanski]

[ArnieZ]

Loved CTI cover art

 

 

 

 

 

[Jakeboy]

Rumor has it this chick wanted to strip off all the way and was disappointed when the band said “ not needed.” 

[mudshark]

[tommy p]

I'm lousy at picking something I would call my "favorite" but here's a few I really liked.

 

[kizanski]

Eight year old me saw this album at the local record store and, based on nothing other than the album cover, begged my step-dad to buy it for me.  

I had no idea who or what ELP was. 

Fifty years later it's still one of my favorite records of all time.  

THAT'S a great album cover.  

[Biz Prof]

Hard to beat any of the classic-era Iron Maiden covers, but I always found this one appropriately strange and irreverent:

Typical of Zappa tomfoolery, the concept was a mash-up of the old Schick magazine ad and this story from a pulp mag:  

[alantig]

Some favorite Zappa covers...

 

[Willie G. Moseley]

Artist Neon Park did the Weasels Ripped My Flash cover, as well as Sailin' Shoes and other Little Feat album covers

[Brooks]

On 8/12/2023 at 5:32 PM, Willie G. Moseley said:

I personally don't consider the Sabs to be among the founders of heavy metal

C'mon. Don't start that silly shit again.

 

[Brooks]

2 hours ago, kizanski said:

...based on nothing other than the album cover ...I had no idea who or what...

 

[mathman]

3 hours ago, kizanski said:

Eight year old me saw this album at the local record store and, based on nothing other than the album cover, begged my step-dad to buy it for me.  

I had no idea who or what ELP was. 

Fifty years later it's still one of my favorite records of all time.  

THAT'S a great album cover.  

I had a similar experience with my first album at a young age.   but it was this one.

I am sure this set me on my path of loving funk based rock.

ELP was my very first concert in 1976 but that came later.

[soli'd]

 

[DaveH]

[cmatthes]

Still one of my favorite albums of all time:

 

[shankyboy]

The Virgin Killer Album Cover by itself was perhaps a little too creepy so these 4 albums fall under the same category as being hard to find since they were not deemed appropriate for release in America. I was a total Scorpions nut in the Eighties.

[cynic]

On 8/16/2023 at 4:42 PM, shankyboy said:

It took many years for me to find this one. 

Congrats?