favorite record covers

[bunnyben]

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/broom.jpg

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/im ... grandi.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/67184550.png

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jane-Birkin-S ... 33727a9870

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... arding.jpg

that's all of the top of my head, more will come to me later

[angelsighs]

ooh where to start??

i'm a sucker for psychedelic sleeves, and also minimalism and op art stuff, Sonic Booms sleeves are often great and I like a lot of the Stereolab sleeves (even if i don't like much of the music ). and of course Factory records (Joy Division etc)
i'm also partial to evocative pictures like city scapes n stuff.. (Mogwai's latest, Doves Last Broadcast, Echo and The Bunnymens Heaven up Here..)

all the best ones perfectly represent the music within...
all the Dirty Three ones, but especially Ocean Songs
Scott Walker - Scott 3.. love that big eye, also used by Jason for Feel So Sad
John Martyn- Solid Air
Earth- A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extractions
Magic Lantern- Platoon

[jack white]

the stooges - the stooges. front & back, the coolest guys ever.

[TheWarmth]

Brian Cannon's sleeves for the pre-UH Verve were so badass, with the exception of the cover for A Northern Soul, which is pretty goofy and cliche. The fact that they all used real photography rather than photoshopping techniques makes them even cooler. For example, the sleeve for She's A Superstar: everything in this is real ... the band standing on a hill in the background, the neon sign in the foreground and that little stream dyed blue. Awesome stuff. No photoshopping.

[jadams501]

She's A Superstar is my all time favorite record cover. It's the first vinyl I ever bought and the first I ever framed. How Brian Cannon went from that to the yawn that is the cover of Urban Hymns is inexplicable.

[olan]

The best cover in my collection is Durutti Column's first LP "The Return Of The Durutti Column". The sleeve is made of two bits of sandpaper, designed to fuck up the sleeves next to it in your collection. The irony is that everybody used a thick outer sleeve to cover the sabdpaper, meaning that as the sandpaper aged the album in the sleeve was fucked up by warping. If you are into Situationalism I believe this is meaningful, but it all seems like cottage industry incompetence to me......

[James T]

http://dropd.com/issue/51/CD/Blur/cover.jpg

http://991.com/NewGallery/Neil-Young-Decade-250309.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AFSdFnNYdA0/T ... rontal.jpg

[Kurious Oranj]

Loveless cover is pretty great

it just captures the music so well

[hairy]

Sonic Boom's Spectrum with the rotating sleeve, great when tripping

[redcloud]

"The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators" would have to be on any list of "best record covers". An absolute classic of the genre. I also love the cover for "Easter Everywhere".

Now bunnyben, I am seeing a connection there with your choices...pretty women, scantily clad. Hmmmmm.....

Jokes aside...the Francoise LP with the sunset superimposed over her face is VERY similar to this classic: http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/13537.jpg

[jadams501]

Other candidates include Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream and Other Delights, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, and Abbey Road.

[bunnyben]

Echo and The Bunnymens Heaven up Here..)

that one just popped into my mind, and croc- see the bunnygod?

[bunnyben]

"The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators" would have to be on any list of "best record covers". An absolute classic of the genre. I also love the cover for "Easter Everywhere".

Now bunnyben, I am seeing a connection there with your choices...pretty women, scantily clad. Hmmmmm.....

Jokes aside...the Francoise LP with the sunset superimposed over her face is VERY similar to this classic: http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/13537.jpg

haha, it;s dylan's beard- anyway only one of the women is scantily clad

hardy predates cosby by 5 years

[niamhm]

I`m a sucker for bands posed with a studied ,nonchalant cool ,which is probably a bit juvenile for a 45 year old guy ,but their you go,

[niamhm]

The Beatles ,Rubber Soul & For Sale (had a large poster off this one up in my last place many years ago)

[Holden]

Just started this blog (lots more on the way). Thought this thread was the right place to launch it!
The Nancy & Lee cover is sublime.

http://getbacktovinyl.wordpress.com/

[angelsighs]

Echo and The Bunnymens Heaven up Here..)

that one just popped into my mind, and croc- see the bunnygod?

bunnygod... no what's that?


Loveless is a good example of an image that isn't that great on its own, but allied with the music within makes perfect sense.. the album really does sound pink and blurry.

thought of some more.. Soft Machines first album.
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/disp ... ?rev=sm-sm

on the op art tip I always liked this Sonic Youth one which is the first release in their avant-garde SYR series:. Daydream Nation is also pretty cool.
http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/ep41a.jpg

Person Pitch by Panda Bear is another recent fave.

[redcloud]

There are some brilliant sites devoted to the weird, the wacky and downright disturbing record covers that sit in record bins all over this country. The thought process behind of some of these photo shoots is mind boggling. If you have time to spare and you need a good laugh this site is well worth trawling through:

http://lpcoverlover.com/

[sm-iom]

Velvets and Nico for me

[bunnyben]

Echo and The Bunnymens Heaven up Here..)

that one just popped into my mind, and croc- see the bunnygod?

bunnygod... no what's that?

.

http://whatwouldsummerwear.files.wordpr ... ss500_.jpg see?

[bunnyben]

Velvets and Nico for me

the third- nice sweaters

[Dreamweapon]

Echo and The Bunnymens Heaven up Here..)

that one just popped into my mind, and croc- see the bunnygod?

I'll add my vote to that - love that cover as well as Lazer Guided Melodies and Recurring (esp the US/Japanese luminous covers) - hopefully not too obvious though.

[plastic37]

Heaven up Here for me too. I want my ashes scattered on that beach.

i also love the cut n paste style of Sister and Evol by Sonic Youth. The inner sleeves more than the *cough* spines.

Scum by Napalm Death captures everything about the band - the sound and the politics.

I am sure of few of you, like me enjoyed the War of the Worlds gate-fold in our youth.

And to make this a top five...

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

ps - and my favourite Spiritualized sleeve is Fucked Up Inside