Best Album Cover Designs

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l294/Longhorn_Platinum/Chicago13.gif http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l294/Longhorn_Platinum/Chicago09.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l294/Longhorn_Platinum/Chicago11.gif

[Neil Peart]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/WishYouWereHere-300.jpg

Nothing else comes close.

[Trevelyan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Trevelyan/beck.jpg

[Sarah]

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/1035/im1hv6.jpg

[Rhino]

I've got a collectors edition somewhere. Right after Lynyrd Skynyrd released Street Survivors, the band was killed in a plane crash. So they immediately altered the cover to remove the flames that were originally on it. I have one of the few with the flames. The CD released later had the flames back on it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JQ5BPJAZL._SS500_.jpg

[DoctorDoom]

Try this one (http://www.snopes.com/rumors/thecoup.htm), ready for release when the real thing happened.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Strange/Coup.jpg

[Beowulf]

I'm with Sarah in a way. Iron Maiden made some damn good cover art. This one was always a favorite of mine:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dFUX0%2B4gL._SS500_.jpg

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Yes-Frag.jpg

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://www.bluebeat.com/i/an/7/3/0/3/l3037.jpg

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/611FQFbI7ZL.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001DQI/?tag=httpspothomec-20)http://www.pergunnareriksson.se/images/elton_captainB.jpg

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://thegood.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/robert-crumb-janis-joplin-cheap-thrills-2.jpg

[Wyatt_Junker]

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000B9DAPC.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Wyatt_Junker]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/especial/images/175_discosrc/5181717_4.jpg

[Wyatt_Junker]

http://www.cornichon.org/archives/Beatles%20album%20cover.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-The-Abbey-Road-EP-89395.jpg

[Wyatt_Junker]

We will make you homo.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Original_Photo/2005/07/08/1120851835_2714.jpg

[Wyatt_Junker]

front

http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/Cover10Front.jpg

back

http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/Cover10Back.jpg

[Neil Peart]

I don't like all these n00dz covers. :sad:

[Sarah]

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7712/9914004oe6.jpg


http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9660/queennewsoftheworldsv2.png

[BarryC]

The covers of the Moody Blues' first 7 albums, plus most of Yes' album covers. That's all I can think of right now without dragging out my albums.

[Elgalad]

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6615/b000002ojh01sclzzzzzzzfz4.jpg

Those expressions.. priceless.


-E

[Gonzo67]

Just a selection out of my own personal music library. Was difficult to chose such a small number out of the hundreds of CD's I have stored on my HD. But these are my personal favorites from my collection:

Aerosmith: Honkin' On Bobo

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Honkin' On Bobo Cover.jpg

Collective Soul: Dosage

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Dosage Cover.jpg

Dragonforce: Valley Of The Damned

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Valley Of The Damned Cover.jpg

Grateful Dead: Blues For Allah

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Blues For Allah Cover.jpg

Grateful Dead: Go To Heaven

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Go To Heaven Cover.jpg

Grateful Dead: Reckoning

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Reckoning Cover.jpg

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Beethoven's Last Night

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Beethoven's Last Night Cover.jpg

Stryper: Reborn

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Reborn Cover.jpg

Metallica: Ride The Lightning

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Ride The Lightning Cover.jpg

ZZ Top: Afterburner

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Afterburner Cover.jpg

Judas Priest: Ram It Down

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Ram It Down Cover.jpg

Judas Priest: Angel Of Retribution

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Angel Of Retribution Cover.jpg

Dio: Holy Diver

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Holy Diver.jpg

ELO: Out Of The Blue

http://webpages.charter.net/gonzo367/Out Of The Blue Cover.jpg

There are plenty more, but with literally hundreds of CD's to pick from, I could be here all week.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s24577.jpg

[Elgalad]

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6056/metallicablackhf1.jpg


-Elgalad

[Elgalad]

My sister had this one.

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4149/whiteauk5.jpg


-E

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L3DQwsxWL._SS500_.jpg

[BarryC]

This one shows up on my screen as completely black. There's no sign of the snake at all.
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6056/metallicablackhf1.jpg


-Elgalad

[Elgalad]

This one shows up on my screen as completely black. There's no sign of the snake at all.

I can still see it in your quote. :biggrin:

Maybe you need to adjust your monitor's contrast/brightness?

-E

[Neil Peart]

I can still see it in your quote. :biggrin:

Maybe you need to adjust your monitor's contrast/brightness?

-EI tried that and it didn't work.

[Riverboat]

Too Bad She's a Lefty
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s24577.jpg
Now. Back then she was just a hot chick.

[Riverboat]

Step aside, amateurs. This is and always will be the album cover against which all album covers are measured-

http://memex.naughtons.org/wp-content/SgtPepper.jpg

Then again, there's this -

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Original_We're_Only_in_It_for_the_Money_front_cove r.jpg
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/files/gif/We_re_Only_In_It_For_The_Money.gif

[Longhorn_Platinum]

Riverboat:
Step aside, amateurs. This is and always will be the album cover against which all album covers are measured-

:moo: I'd rather look at Maria Muldaur.

[Timberwolf]

Just about any Molly Hatchet cover...here are a few.


http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/84/981584.jpg


http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/43/842043.jpg


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S51lU2v3L._SS500_.jpg

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Molly_Hatchet_-_Molly_Hatchet.jpg)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qJmHee4XL._SS500_.jpg

[Elgalad]

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5193/2685ui8.jpg

:ooo:


-E

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

EXCELLENT choices, Timber!

[ColonialMarine0431]

Rammstein !

[mkafrica]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/mkafrica/2041046-1303847727.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/mkafrica/B000050HZO01_AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/mkafrica/11thhour.jpg

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Love them too, mka! :thumb:

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/71/05/8a43024128a0cb5a0869d010.L.jpg

[Longhorn_Platinum]

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drf000/f083/f08372voek6.jpg

[Neil Peart]

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6056/metallicablackhf1.jpg


-ElgaladYeah, Smell the Glove is a great album cover.

[Elgalad]

Yes Neil, but that's Not Smell the Glove.

That's Metallica, Metallica.

This is Smell the Glove (http://members.aol.com/chiprowe/black.wav)..

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9687/smellthegloveca3.gif

Though to a purist, that wasn't the original design. That one was the American 'Censored version'..

This was the original (or something like it):

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7269/smellgloveipodol6.jpg

:smirky:


-Elgalad