35 Beautiful Music Album Covers
Album cover art is often considered to be one of the “extincted” fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores. That’s a pity because album covers can be extremely expressive and convey the message of the album in a number of creative ways. This post attempts to prove exactly that.
Music and art go hand in hand. And the best way to get a potential buyers’ attention is with an eye catching album cover. We all know you can’t just judge a book by it’s cover but it doesn’t hurt to give a CD a spin based off a sexy piece of art.
Below we present 35 excellent examples of beautiful, creative and impressive album covers that will certainly inspire you to head down to the local record shop and start browsing through records and labels. We have tried to address various cover designs and present both CD covers and LP covers from 60s to 2000s, however some excellent album covers are definitely missing. Please let us know about them in the comments to the post!
This post was updated. Thank you for the comments!
Album Covers
The Mars Volta “Frances the Mute”
Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask
Michael Jackson: Dangerous by Mark Ryden
Devil’s Gun – Raising The Beast
Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist by Shepard Fairey
Keane: Under The Iron Sea by Sanna Annukka
Kisschasy: United Paper People by Debaser
Editors: The End Has a Start by Idris Khan
Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
Ground Components: An Eye for a Brow, A Tooth for a Pick by Jonathan Zawada
Arcade Fire: Funeral
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon 1973
Gallows: In The Belly of a Shark by Dan Mumford
Muse – Origin of Symmetry (thanks, Paul)
Lemon Jelly: Lost Horizons by Airside
Tool: 10,000 Days
Circa Survive: On Letting Go
The Last Goodnight – Poison Kiss
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell
Thom Yorke: The Eraser by Stanley Donwood
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (thanks, yaara)
Architecture in Helsinki: Places Like This by Will Sweeney
The Chemical Brothers: Push the Button by Tappin Gofton
Rafale: Rock It, Don’t Stop It by Akroe
Dream Theater – Scenes from the memory (thanks, OverZero.it)
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
Designed by one of today’s most influential designers Peter Saville (thanks, Shaun)
The Police – Ghost In The Machine
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Genji Siraisi: Censorsh!t by Razauno
VHS Orbeta – Bring On The Comets
Fort-Minor – The Rising Tied Front
The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
Elton John – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Queens Of The Stone Age: Era Vulgaris by Morning Breath Inc
Beck: The Information by Big Active and you
“The album was issued with a blank sleeve and booklet and one of four different sheets of stickers for fans to make their own album art. Beck explained to Wired magazine he wanted no two copies of the CD cover to be the same: “The artwork is going to be customizable. The idea is to provide something that calls for interactivity.” However, because the unique album art concept was seen as a gimmick to bolster retail sales, The Information was deemed ineligible to enter the UK Albums Chart.”
Merzbow – Frog: Remixed and Revisited
Last Click
The World’s First Album Cover
Alex Steinwess, a then 23 years old designer, convinced Columbia’s suits to create the first true album cover. Until then, 78s were sold in generic sleeves. Please notice that there is the word “smash” on the cover.
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yaph
August 4th, 2008 9:15 amMissing this Exploited cover:
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l282/fabriciothrasher/The%20Exploited/TheExploited-DeathBeforeDishonour1-.jpg
Steven Sergio
August 4th, 2008 9:16 amDefinitely a bad compilation. Some of them are so ugly – what the hell Tool: 10,000 Days and Elton John – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy are doing here? :(
OcasoProtal
August 4th, 2008 9:28 amUhhm, the G’N'R cover is the censored one,the original looks much
Missing ones: , one of the best photographies ever and
OcasoProtal
August 4th, 2008 9:30 amUhhm, the G’N'R cover is the censored one,the original looks much better
Missing ones: London Calling, one of the best photographies ever and Sticky Fingers
Gershon
August 4th, 2008 9:39 amwoops, thats to the “red album” by Baroness…
Nick
August 4th, 2008 9:46 amYou left out Massive Attack – Mezzanine. To get the full effect, you need to get the CD. The cover folds out, so you can see the whole bug, with cool robotic details.
German
August 4th, 2008 9:58 amI think you missed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band here…
Germán
http://www.iccc.es
Cameron
August 4th, 2008 10:04 amI love that you included the ELO album “Out of the Blue”. I see that the CD version of the LP pictured there. I happen to own the original LP album and what you don’t get out of that album picture is that the front and back were one continuous picture and the inside also had a very neat picture. I actually took photos of it (forgive my bad photoshop skewing skills) just for SM. Not that they’re worthy of posting, but here they are. (Outside) http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/9673/elooutsidedy3.png and (Inside) http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2024/eloinsidevl8.png
Doug S.
August 4th, 2008 10:09 amCould we not have just said the name Storm Thorgerson and been done with it? Some of the best album covers of all time (including three here that I noticed) were created by this man including every Pink Floyd cover.
Gerardo
August 4th, 2008 10:11 amNice covers. I would like to add : Ultra Zone (Steve Vai)
Mike
August 4th, 2008 10:11 amSoulwax – Nite Versions
Very lame, look like gift wrap
Christine
August 4th, 2008 10:27 amThis one, Make Up The Breakdown by Hot Hot Heat, is my absolute favorite. IMO, it’s so much better than most of the covers here.
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Make_Up_the_Breakdown-Hot_Hot_Heat_480.jpg
Their other album, Elevator, is also really good.
http://support.novell.com/nscradio/list/img/Hot%20Hot%20Heat%20Elevator.jpg
seld
August 4th, 2008 10:34 amwhat about mt. eerie’s haunting images and picture disc?
http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/book
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/images/mounteerie.jpg
crabby
August 4th, 2008 10:39 amperhaps # 36 Tres Hombres – ZZ Top
I don’t care for ZZ top, all that much. The album cover is iconic, if nothing else. But the inside picture of the meal – that is an all-time classic. What do you call that? Inside the fold?
Nice list.
sunil
August 4th, 2008 11:11 amThe Motley Crew album is the worst … a trite image. Sargent peppers is an iconic cover that is missing. Although I suspect this collection has more to do with musical taste than album covers. You may as well add Andy Warhol’s cover for the velvet underground’s albums if we are going by that.
DRM
August 4th, 2008 11:39 am@ 99: Clearly, you don’t know much about music. That album cover is DEFINITIVE of a sound, a style, and a generation of music listeners. Just looking at that “bad photo” — as you so brazenly put it — gives me chills when I think about what’s on that album.
You should probably do some homework before you open your mouth about things you’ve proven to be uneducated about.
The Soulwax cover, on the other hand, atrocious. Not exactly amazing design there.
DRM
August 4th, 2008 11:43 amWhat exactly is beautiful about the new Smashing Pumpkins cover? Not trying to be negative here, but there’s something strangely un-inspiring about it…
Redfood
August 4th, 2008 12:07 pmMy favorite cover has always been A Broken Frame by Depeche Mode (1982). Its a beautiful photo.
Nosredna
August 4th, 2008 12:11 pmNone of those have Bob Dylan in drag, so what good are they?
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/D/Dylan/dylan_homef.jpg
Also, too much color! where is Klaus Voormann’s incredible cover for Beatles Revolver?
And why show Out of the Blue CD when the original LP was so much better looking?
Nosredna
August 4th, 2008 12:12 pmyeah, should have been Sticky Fingers, obviously.
Gregory
August 4th, 2008 12:36 pmOne of my best is the cover of the album “Romantic Warrior” by the group Return To Forever. Have a look here:
Romantic Warrior
Benjamin
August 4th, 2008 12:37 pmGood post. Designing Record cover is my favorite thing.
I agree with the comment 55. Reid Miles work is to important in Record cover artwork to not be in this list. But maybe Reid Miles would diserve an entire post of his own. The book about blue note records covers is a must have.
If some one is curious and want to peep my record cover artwork here. peace
dak
August 4th, 2008 12:47 pmThese are all great picks. I would have liked to see any of William Schaff’s covers for Okkervil River make the list, but I understand there’s more great artwork than there is time and energy to catalog it in a blog post.
For those interested, Schaff has a Flickr page which includes his his (embroidered) artwork for “The Stage Names” and its forthcoming follow-up “The Stand Ins”.
steve
August 4th, 2008 12:47 pmvery cool idea and collection.
my favourite ones are missing: makossa & megablast – kunuaka , jon hassel – earthquake island . .. .
Blair Millen
August 4th, 2008 12:54 pmGreat selection of album covers, and like most commenters I could think of a few you could add (and subtract).
I did start thinking about how we perceive about album art, especially if the album has been around for years; I wonder, if we see an album cover regularly does this impact our objective appreciation of the artwork? Do we even appreciate the artwork even more when we love appreciate the music? I wonder this because I feel the Guns and Roses “Appetite for Destruction” cover is nothing special (even though I rate this album very highly).
Mr Truffle
August 4th, 2008 12:59 pmAs I’ve said it was meant to be a collection of 35 illustrated covers and their illustrators. This is easier to condense down to 35.
When you start talking iconic vs beautiful vs well designed then it’s a whole different ball game as seen by the comments here. No one can agree on anything.
Mr Truffle
August 4th, 2008 1:00 pmYou need to squint to see the cover. Or take 3 steps back formyou computer. See it?…. ahhhh now I see. Imagine that in a record shop
Mr Truffle
August 4th, 2008 1:02 pmMr Truffle here:
1: Soul Wax cover: Take a step back from your computer. Ahh now you see.
2: The list started out as “25 illustrated covers” so that was easier to contain and choose. Now as you can see we’ve opened up a can of worms as what makes a good cover vs what makes a iconic cover vs what makes somethign beautiful are all different things.
There would need to be 50 lists to cover all the different types of covers.
McFly
August 4th, 2008 1:13 pmThis compilation is shoddy at best. I think you need to separate best album covers into illustration & photo based. Some great ones in here but also some really lame ones.
What about?
or Yoshimi of course but I lean to these colors more.
If you’ve never seen the vinyl of this you have to try to get your hands on it – circular cutouts in the cover & rotating elements: so nice!
AND HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OUT???? SHAME ON YOU!
Saw this @ The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, all the real polaroids up on a wall – it blew my mind.
Ok computer musta been taken off cause I see everybody complaining that it was the wrong cover but its not in their anywhere – man, how could they mess that one up?
McFly
August 4th, 2008 1:15 pmi effed up the links in my comment – just delete it, whatever. poop
Andre
August 4th, 2008 1:16 pmvery bad list. Nothing special with half of them.
Kevin
August 4th, 2008 1:36 pmMaybe not a definitive list, I can think of a lot of other great ones. But overall, some very nice album artwork, including some of my favorites.
There’s only one that I disagree with. Coldplay’s Viva La Vida. Doesn’t do much for me. Just some words scribbled over a famous painting. I think the others are a lot more creative personally. Just my opinion. All the others are great.
Tito
August 4th, 2008 1:45 pmAny Earth Wind & Fire album, really now.
James Madson
August 4th, 2008 1:54 pmThese are exactly what I would have picked!
Eddy munn
August 4th, 2008 2:05 pmDark side of the moon, greatest album ever.
Matthijn
August 4th, 2008 2:07 pmNice list, though some of them aren’t that nice. I think this is the most beutifull Cover I know.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Xz1nq0ENL._SS500_.jpg
Its From ‘Kids in the Way’ and the Album is entitled ‘A love hate masquerade’.
Martin
August 4th, 2008 2:08 pmDefinitely the most inspiring cover of all time is Joy Division´s “Unknown Pleasures” by Peter Saville. When I saw this cover for the first time, I realised that I would be a graphic designer. The most iconic album cover design, ever!
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-marketing-services/peter-saville%92s-%E2%80%98unknown-pleasures%92-voted-most-%27iconic%27-album-cover-design–200803062082/
Rose
August 4th, 2008 2:32 pmSitting here looking over all the Beautiful Music Album Covers, makes me stop and think of what might be going throw each person mind when they came up with their idea. Some you can see just do it on a idea that pops up in there head. Others take time to really think hard and long an what they want to say. Why others do a play on ideas of other albums. All are great no matter how each one came up with the idea. Helps the rest of us to get motivated to do better. Thanks
Rose
WEBARMY
August 4th, 2008 2:50 pmWhere is The Flaming Lips, Amon Tobin, August Burns Red, Burial, Chevelle, Pinback, and several others that have some great album covers. Others to mention are Peter Bjorn and John and Gnarls Barkley. Fujiya and Miyagi and Deftones [White Horse] both have good examples of minimalist design. And several others that deserve recognition more than some of those.
Mabbys
August 4th, 2008 4:34 pmWhat about ALL of Stefan Sagmeister covers?
J. Rangel
August 4th, 2008 5:10 pmWhat about the first two albums by Santana?
http://www.amazon.com/Santana/dp/B0000062FJ/ref=pd_bbs_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1217898589&sr=8-6
http://www.amazon.com/Abraxas-Santana/dp/B0000062FL/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1217898589&sr=8-5
P78
August 4th, 2008 5:28 pmCheck Solomon Burke’s I Wish I Knew. That’s a truly awesome cover.
AkBk
August 4th, 2008 5:37 pmhey, how about UnkleJam?? their covers are unique…
Chris
August 4th, 2008 5:51 pmSure, you knew this would get a ton of comments as it becomes a musical preference vs. a design preference. Some nice choices, however, I would’ve liked to see some efforts from Hugh Syme. He does Rush album artwork and others.
Tamar Weinberg
August 4th, 2008 5:54 pmI own some of these albums. You have some good taste in music :)
Laurence
August 4th, 2008 5:59 pmIt’s great to see some australian bands up there. Speaking of which – The Grate’s new album, Teeth Lost, Hearts Won is quite addictive.
Little Birdy’s artwork for Hollywood was created by a employee of the the clothing shop Nobody (I believe there are stores all over the world). From what the employee was mention, Nobody releases a book every where which their employee’s make. The guys from Little birdy loved it and got the guy to do all the artwork for the album. The jacket is more impressive than the album artwork.
And then you can’t go far from Interpol’s Our Live to Admire for a cheeky laugh.
BeStMaker
August 4th, 2008 7:14 pm63. Bruno Aleman (August 4th, 2008, 4:53 am)
:) yeah, nevermind cover is the best!
bryan
August 4th, 2008 9:06 pmThese are pretty good. Deloused in the Comatorium by TMV would have been a better choice. But overall nice selection!
Emanuel
August 4th, 2008 10:58 pmNice collection. If you put all covers of Pink Floyd, you couldn’t miss though. They’re just smashing.
Seba
August 4th, 2008 11:07 pmIt’s nice, byt what about for example with Ayreon (The human equation) cover or Dream Theater (Octavarium) …
Ade
August 4th, 2008 11:08 pmI guess my previous comment goes to spam section because of links.
Hmm well..
I have some additions:
Milosh – iii
hxxp://corde.up.seesaa.net/image/milosh_iii.jpg
Foxglove Hunt – Stop Heartbeat
hxxp://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5350/thefoxglovehuntjpgzs7.jpg
Explosions In The Sky – All of Sudden I Miss Everyone
hxxp://www.merryswankster.com/Images/AllofaSudden.jpg
Marching Band – Spark Large
hxxp://i38.tinypic.com/90swuf.jpg
Bjork – Greatest Hits
hxxp://music.porkrind.org/Bjork/Greatest%20Hits/cover.jpg
Organic Stereo – The Stories Linger in My Mind
hxxp://image.blog.livedoor.jp/masamusic/imgs/0/6/06166461.jpg
I guess enough although i have bunch more. Just preventive if SM put some anti-spam plugins.
p.s : xx change to tt
Anonymous
August 4th, 2008 11:27 pmYou should check out the album covers of jazz artists back in the 70′s. I especially love the covers from Miles Davis, Weather Report and Herbie Hancock. Now THOSE, are truly creative and inspiring pieces of art.
Peace
Hwan
August 4th, 2008 11:56 pmNice!!! a must-have article… i have a goooood one… i love the cover of “Since i left you”, from The Avalanches. I don´t know the author… nice disc too, btw.
Rols Rice
August 5th, 2008 12:33 amNot very inspiring for me…too old….just a few are not boring….(my opinion)
Bim
August 5th, 2008 12:44 amMy love of music combined with my love of design. Great Article.
Smashing Magazine, you’re smashing!
ajcates
August 5th, 2008 12:51 amSgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is missing, it has a freaking wikipedia entry and your going to leave it out??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band#Album_cover
Danny
August 5th, 2008 1:03 amCompletely second Luke Greenaway’s suggestion of any of the Lex records catalog, lots of embossing, foiling and attention to detail.
Also the lettering by Alex Trochut on the Rolling stones “Rolled Gold Plus” is sexy.
Did anyone else wonder why the hell a painting commemorating the July Revolution in france is featured on an album called “Viva la Vida”? Maybe it’s some kind of EU intergration directive.
Danny
August 5th, 2008 1:06 am*sorry about double post, forgot to close the link. Please delete post 161.
Completely second Luke Greenaway’s suggestion of any of the Lex records catalog, lots of embossing, foiling and attention to detail.
Also the lettering by Alex Trochut on the Rolling stones “Rolled Gold Plus” is sexy.
Did anyone else wonder why the hell a painting commemorating the July Revolution in france is featured on an album called “Viva la Vida”? Maybe it’s some kind of EU intergration directive.
Sudy
August 5th, 2008 1:32 amYou should’ve also added Green day’s “Dookie” album cover. It’s cool!
Olli
August 5th, 2008 2:08 amHi, not a bad collection at all!
How about some Mother Tongue stuff?
They always have great cover artworks.
i.e. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61C33IGJ76L._SS500_.jpg
On the back of the album is a more “alive” version of the painting.
Greetings from Cologne,
Olli
hugo
August 5th, 2008 2:19 amYou should’ve also added the most important, the cover that was the first of this art: “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
Andreas
August 5th, 2008 3:17 amNice list. It’s a shame that you’ve missed NIRVANA’s “In Utero”, though!
Jaco
August 5th, 2008 3:20 amA personal favourite from South Africa: Underbelly – For a cynical Science
nico
August 5th, 2008 3:26 amnice liste
but you missed some essentials albums.
Just one : Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Kelvin
August 5th, 2008 3:32 amDeftones = White Pony
Deftones = Deftones
Adam
August 5th, 2008 3:37 amI’m sure there’s a million better album covers out there. I’ve had more inspiration flicking through iTunes. Is this by chance just your entire collection?
Martin Labuschin
August 5th, 2008 3:40 amGreat, but you have totally forgotten Anberlin – New Surrender
http://www.amazon.de/New-Surrender-US-Anberlin/dp/B001BYZX1K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1217936330&sr=8-2
collin
August 5th, 2008 4:36 amany album by the sea and cake would do!
Tyler
August 5th, 2008 4:55 amYeah, not a huge fan of this list… some are good, but others… well… yeah… not so much!
I’ve always been a fan of Keane’s covers though!!
Don’t forget about Mika, or Kaskade!!!!
steven
August 5th, 2008 5:28 amI love the Fort Minor´s The Rising Tied Cover, as well as the album, it´s really good. Nice Job!
Renato
August 5th, 2008 6:08 amWhat a shit!
Anjhero
August 5th, 2008 8:27 amthat Soulwax – Nite Versions is so cool. N so is Linkin Park “Reanimation” (my favourite band:) )
Chris
August 5th, 2008 8:32 amGreat post. Although, I personally feel that DJ Shadow’s Preemptive Strike album cover design is better than the Endtroducing cover :)
leoner
August 5th, 2008 9:02 amThats good post, but whats up with The Beatles covers? Or King Crimson? Seems to me that it.. so underrated.
Uncle Rico
August 5th, 2008 9:04 amDon’t forget The Cult – Electric
Hugo
August 5th, 2008 10:50 amLateralus shoulda been in there instead of 10000 days. that or undertow.
Ian Muir
August 5th, 2008 1:02 pmHere are a few more that are pretty f#$%ing good
Red Flags by The Provenance – http://muzon.org/uploads/posts/2008-04/1209280869_red-flags.jpg
A Method to Feel Alive by CrowneVict – http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/505435.jpg
Drop by Beatropolis – http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C98Z2KJTL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
All of KMFDM album covers – http://images.google.com/images?q=KMFDM%20Album%20Cover
Ryan
August 5th, 2008 1:45 pmits in there.
Hueij
August 5th, 2008 2:33 pmSgt Pepper’s has been mentioned a couple of times, and so has Sticky Fingers. Too bad they won’t work on a CD cover…
Another one that won’t work on a CD but is IMHO one of the best vynil covers is Bob Marley’s “Light A Fire”.
But to end this discussion of which cover should definitely be or not be in this list, why not post 35 images of “The Beatles” (the White Album) and be done with it? (Well, maybe 34 and finish it of with Spinal Taps’ unpublished “Black Album”)
Sketchee
August 5th, 2008 2:38 pmNot much hip hop or country or anything else. I listen to a lot of these bands you have listed, including Muse and Radiohead and Keane. These covers seem to represent a certain type of music. I really liked Kelis’ Kaleidoscope cover. Erykah Badu’s Amerikah just some examples
Evan
August 5th, 2008 5:49 pmthose are some pretty cool designs. I’ve always been a big fan of album art. I designed some of my own you can check out. http://www.evanarussell.com
cipion
August 5th, 2008 8:16 pmThe beauty not only concerns the senses. Also involve intelligence (concepts as: time, death, life, etc.., are present), and many seem to expect only the satisfaction of their senses (especially the visual one). For example: the cover of New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies (Peter Saville), is so beauty, I am very foolish to explain so I quote the following snippet:
cipion
August 5th, 2008 8:21 pm“The second New Order album Power Corruption & Lies (1981) simply reproduces a scintillating detail of a Fantin-Latour painting and credits its source : The National Gallery, London. To cue us in on the mode of reproduction employed, the right edge of the cover carries a colour check guide in the form of a printer’s 4-colour registration code. Here Tschichold’s theories of mechanical reproduction (designing for such processes) are collided with Benjamin’s (the delusions involved in such processes) making this a pretty clever cover.”
Jill
August 5th, 2008 8:40 pmMIGGS “UNRAVELED” should be up there. Beautiful artwork
Juan
August 5th, 2008 9:30 pmGreat collection of covers!!! I love the Muse, Chemical Brothers and Mars Volta’s cover.
GGPP
August 6th, 2008 5:28 amThe Best Album cover are not made for designers
Stoo
August 6th, 2008 11:19 amSo happy to see my ELO recommendation got up there… Ace :D
Hyper Active
August 6th, 2008 12:37 pmSimplemente la mejor compilación de portadas que he visto, crema en diseño!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hjmoore420
August 6th, 2008 12:54 pmI didn’t go through all the comments but what about Axis:bold as love or Aoxomoxoa older and specific style but some great work.
On honestly as far as stones covers and art, what about the Sticky fingers original packaging (no pun intended if you know what the original loked like) but the old first pressing album had a working zipper on the pants. That function and form, relates to this article too
Börmaister
August 6th, 2008 1:43 pmfantástico
Jasix
August 6th, 2008 7:50 pmFamed sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas’ cover for Queens 1977 ‘News of the World’ is also a classic.
Hannah von Vino
August 6th, 2008 9:51 pmYay :D love all of these! Some of my favourite bands in there – Muse especially
I’m surprised My chemical romance’s album ’3 cheers for sweet revenge’ and the single cover for ‘thank you for the venom’ and even their earlier covers for example, ‘headfirst for halos’. They are all super awesome and drawn by lead singer Gerard way who also makes comics – shame about the new music >_
johnson
August 6th, 2008 11:59 pmsome good, some clearly don’t belong here.
obvious missing ones would be:
Anything on Ninja Tune
Most ambient albums
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works II, Polygon Window, Caustic Window, On Ep…
All of Radioheads Albums, espcially OK Computer (genius!)
every BlueNote album from 1957 – 1962
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Hendrix: Axis: Bold as Love
Gorillas 1st Album
etc etc
the list could be endless!
NeoSheet
August 7th, 2008 12:45 ami’ve seen another cover which more beatifull than this. but i understand its not easy to collecting beatifull music album cover whole the world, and also dificult to make an objective judgement, i like Dream Theater cover because i’m very nuts with this band event another cover looks great (is not objective isnt it?). Over all, you guys did nice work! keep rocking Smashing ;)
sergei
August 7th, 2008 6:41 amwow.
totally tasteless
Vakka
August 7th, 2008 1:02 pmthere’s a lot more… Baroness, Mastodon …
Vapid
August 7th, 2008 7:12 pmyou could use HISTORY INVADES “In Vision Vanish Invisible” on that list.
jamie
August 8th, 2008 12:13 amA fairly average collection. In case anyone was wondering – the YES cover art is by Roger Dean. I love his organic landscapes, he also designed the YES logo.
rightjuicyke
August 8th, 2008 12:51 amtrust busy house sea apple frog right boat
Bozo Meko
August 8th, 2008 1:26 amHow uninspiring. Have you, the author taken the time to contact hardcore record collectors, online record sites, I mean records, not trendy modern digital creations. Go take a look at the blue note library, or the website dustygroove.com. Come back with a better researched article, or don’t waste my precious time,