Greatest album covers of all time

[TempestTS]

Probably not an obvious choice but this one is awesome...

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[Laphroaig]

Nice idea for a thread.
One of my favourites.

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[Richie H]

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The message in the whole album is, Can we communicate..

[Laphroaig]

Love Neil Young, but that's one album I've never listened to. Must get a copy.

[Laphroaig]

German sense of humour?

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[Laphroaig]

No words required

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[Richie H]

Love Neil Young, but that's one album I've never listened to. Must get a copy.
You may find one in a used record store or you can download it. Its a strange album but a great one..
I love Pink Floyd.....

[Richie H]

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I had such a huge crush on Carole in the 70s
Wait minute......I still do..

[TempestTS]

Great album and a personal hero of mine Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics Metal Priestess

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[SanDiegoPervySage]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Ice_Cube-Death_Certificate_%28album_cover%29.jpg

[Plaything]

http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/webkit-fake-url://6134C958-31C5-4812-9A28-54E7D17B64F9/imagejpeg

[Joop1980]

What about Amanda Lear (post op)

http://i15.tinypic.com/4mbt5wh.jpg

[ed_jaxon]

Steely Dan Royal Scam

[TempestTS]

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

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[Ben in LA]

Marvin Gaye: In Our Lifetime (his last Motown album)

[maxpower]

Love Neil Young, but that's one album I've never listened to. Must get a copy.


Yeah...you're not going to like that album.

[fred41]

I love almost all of the Pink Floyd album covers. When I was young, it was popular to have a favorite band or album painted on the back square of a denim jacket or vest...so I painted "Animals" on my denim vest in acrylics. It came out awesome.
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[MrFanti]

Great thread here! :cheers:

[TempestTS]

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

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[Post Op Preferred]

There is only one answer to this question, it's obviously blind faith's original, forbidden cover

[nysprod]

There is only one possible answer to this question lol

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[maxpower]

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones


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[Elisabeth_TS]

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones


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But is that the one with the actual zip or the plane printed version?

[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

But is that the one with the actual zip or the plane printed version?


With the zipper, of course, as originally designed.

[maxpower]

Abbey Road - The Beatles


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[maxpower]

The Beatles


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[maxpower]

Some Girls - The Rolling Stones


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[CORVETTEDUDE]

There can be only one......

[yodajazz]

Not one of the greatest, i just happened to have this on my computer. Posting this to say that some of the album cover models went on to greater careers. The model is actress Janet Dubois. She went on to have a starring role on the TV series "Good Times", as the neighbor, Willona. She also sang the theme of the Jeffersons show, "Movin of Up". She later guest appeared in several tv shows, such as Moesha and The Steve Harvey, and movies like "I'm Gonna get You Sucka".

[The Piper]

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[Laphroaig]

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[Laphroaig]

Never has an album cover more accurately described the voice within.

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[maxpower]

The Velvet Underground & Nico


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[maxpower]

The Who Sell Out


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[gunner55]

834903King Crimson...In the Court of the Crimson King

[JoeyFink]

Pills 'n Thrills and Bellyaches

[Jimmy W]

834912834913Also maybe not the best but these two made the cut when I decided to sell a lot of my vinyl and go to digital:

[Jimmy W]

Sorry, still trying to re learn how to add images

[speedking59]

not only a great album, but a pretty good cover

[Thor57]

a few of the best:iagree:

[TempestTS]

Motorhead

Another Perfect Day

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[maxpower]

a few of the best:iagree:


I don't know why, but that Edgar Winter album cover always creeped me out.

[maxpower]

More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads


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[maxpower]

Warehouse: Songs and Stories - Hüsker Dü


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[TempestTS]

Johnny Cash
American I

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[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

Disraeli Gears - Cream


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[ThatBloke]

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[maxpower]

Love Gun - KISS


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[Laphroaig]

Famous album covers expanded.

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More examples here.

http://www.athenna.com/famous-album-covers-expanded-by-aptitude/athenna/web_design/teoria-de-design/

[maxpower]

Brick by Brick - Iggy Pop


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[giovanni_hotel]

Santana - Abraxas
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[giovanni_hotel]

Ohio Players - Honey
https://wdajnabi.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/tumblr_mpqu1jujvr1qmxgnyo1_500.jpg

Parliament - A Motorbooty Affair
https://s0.smlycdn.com/data/product2/2/f2835f8161547799a2f2c36c4ab818e3f2e60ec1_m.jpg


David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
http://mjmalouf.com/images/Bowie74HorPstr.jpg

[Thor57]

I don't know why, but that Edgar Winter album cover always creeped me out.

creeped me out, too..nut very artful

[Lovecox]

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[TempestTS]

creeped me out, too..nut very artful

A half naked homoerotic albino creeps you out... hmmm you dont say...

[TempestTS]

Doro has always had some great covers

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[maxpower]

Beggar's Banquet - The Rolling Stones


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[maxpower]

Oh My Gawd!!!... - The Flaming Lips


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[aktrik]

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[TempestTS]

Abby Road

hard to top

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[maxpower]

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[Richie H]

Small Faces
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[maxpower]

Something for Everybody - Devo


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[EZWind]

Grateful Dead....AOXOMOXOA.....Rick Griffin Rocks and Rules!!

[jerseygirlangie]

There is no contest, whatsoever - this is the clear winner :

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[gummi baer]

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[fred41]

ELP "Brain salad surgery"835785



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[fred41]

Wasn't as big a fan of southern rock as my friends were in the 70s...but I listened to my fair share. Molly Hatchet's album cover art may actually be more memorable than the band, but they did have a hit or two.

Molly Hatchett's first album:
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it's awesome)

[TempestTS]

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Sword

Apocryphon

[Richie H]

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[CORVETTEDUDE]

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[gmb]

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[Jimmy W]

835892Tom Waits: Small Change Probably the first album I bought as a kid with no idea what was on it, I just thought everything about it looked cool. I was right.

[maxpower]

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[maxpower]

The pictures didn't show the first time I tried this, so...


The two Dukes of Stratosphear albums both have pretty cool artwork, with 25 O'Clock borrowing from Cream's Disraeli Gears.

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[TempestTS]

Cream
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[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

More Zappa: Over-nite Sensation


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[giovanni_hotel]

Cream
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The Cream album cover really is one of the greatest of all time IMO.
Luv those dudes.

[Richie H]

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[tonkatoy]

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[my my my!]

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

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[maxpower]

Another one from KISS: Rock and Roll Over.


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[TempestTS]

Iggy and the Stooges

Ready to Die

[TempestTS]

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

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Check back a few pages - I beat you to it but never the less worthy of more than one mention

[Laphroaig]

The (banned) original cover.

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[Laphroaig]

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[Laphroaig]

Pink Floyd - Pulse

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Storm Thorgerson (R.I.P.) who produced most of Pink Floyds artwork was a genius.

[lollipop2284]

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Cool cover, awesome album.

[Richie H]

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[Nikka]

Talk dirty to me , original from Poison, cover by Nikka - Nikki Montero

https://soundcloud.com/nikki-montero/talk-dirty-to-me

[TempestTS]

We are the meatmen
and you suck!

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[maxpower]

This Year's Model - Elvis Costello & The Attractions


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[Richie H]

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[CORVETTEDUDE]

Pink Floyd - Animals

[maxpower]

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys.

Full panoramic shot.


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[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

#1 Record - Big Star


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[Laphroaig]

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[Laphroaig]

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[Richie H]

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Great Album..This was the debut of Frank "Poncho" Sampedro on
rhythm guitar replacing the late great
Danny Whitten

[maxpower]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love and the U.K. version of Electric Ladyland. Hendrix disliked them both.


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[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson


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[maxpower]

The La's. Anyone remember them? One great album and done.


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[Richie H]

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[giovanni_hotel]

http://s20.postimg.org/i2dxhy2z1/In_The_Face_Of_Funk.png


http://www.dorchesterarts.plus.com/files/BIGgrace.jpg.jpg

[giovanni_hotel]

http://www.theuntappedsource.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/worst-album-covers-millie-jackson.jpg

[maxpower]

giovanni - Thanks for giving me a good laugh first thing this morning ^. I almost spit my OJ all over my keyboard!

[giovanni_hotel]

http://www.hostpic.org/images/1406010053360130.jpeg

[maxpower]

Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings. Note that actors Christopher Lee and James Coburn are in the photo. There are some other British celebrities of the time in the picture (aside from the band members), but I don't know who they are.


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[CORVETTEDUDE]

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[morim]

The best cover (not the best album) from the best band.

[Laphroaig]

The best cover (not the best album) from the best band.

Burn is my favourite Deep Purple album, "Mistreated" is David Coverdale's finest hour and the title track is great as well.

ps. I've aready posted their best album cover "In Rock" :tongue:

[Laphroaig]

The woman who introduced me to Jazz...

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[Laphroaig]

More German "humour"

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[DAWA]

Wild Cherry from 1976-77-78

[fred41]

The best cover (not the best album) from the best band.

it's all subjective, but i like the "Stormbringer" cover better (but not the album). I think they're best album is their double live - "Made in Japan"...(I also love Coverdale, but I think Ian Gillan, at the height of his vocal career, was and always will be, the best singer Deep Purple ever had).

[Richie H]

Deep purple Rocked..

[Richie H]

Here's my lady of jazz.
This is a oldie..
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[fred41]

Of course topics like this will eventually devolve (and it already has) into 'favorite albums or bands' instead of 'album covers'...lol

[maxpower]

Backspacer - Pearl Jam. The artwork is by This Modern World cartoonist Tom Tomorrow.


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[Richie H]

Ever wonder what it's like to stand on stage in front of 18.000 Fans. ?
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[alpha2117]

The album cover that launched a million t shirts

[alpha2117]

Love the Candy Dulfer cover - I forget which tack it was but she actually had a track that charted really well

[Richie H]

Love the Candy Dulfer cover - I forget which tack it was but she actually had a track that charted really well
Lily was here?
Pick up the pieces?
She rarely tours the states but when she does don't miss it.. Wow.

[leckery5]

I remember smoking pot my freshman year of college and looking for the hidden images over and over again. Try doing the same!

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[Richie H]

I remember smoking pot my freshman year of college and looking for the hidden images over and over again. Try doing the same!

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Oh yea. Great Times.

[Richie H]

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[CORVETTEDUDE]

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[gmb]

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[maxpower]

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison. The photo was taken on the grounds of Friar Park, the English estate Harrison had recently purchased at the time, and resided until his death.


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[Cerberus]

DB is the man and a great one from Roxy!838542838543

[Richie H]

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[Laphroaig]

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[Laphroaig]

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[gmb]

DB is the man and a great one from Roxy!838543

Amanda Lear...

[Richie H]

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[JenniferParisHusband]

Since this is all subjective.... The Police Synchronicity was the one I spent the most time with. I think it was mostly for the topless Asian woman, but it was simple, and still complex. A lot to take in as a 10 year old. And Asia, they always had cool artwork.
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[giovanni_hotel]

The '80s had so many great album covers. You could do a thread on that decade alone.

[giovanni_hotel]

Robert Palmer - Sneaking Sally Through The Alley
https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxr9fa19jJ1qbrl3q_1326488998_cover.jpg

I'm a lifelong Robert Palmer fan primarily from this record. Very underrated IMO.

I love the color tone, the clothes and how they're falling off 'Sally', the headlights in the tunnel behind them and also the fact that her eyes are blocked out like it's a government surveillance photo.

Who's chasing them?? Where are they going??

[Richie H]

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[Laphroaig]

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[Kolorius]

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[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

Another from The Police: Ghost in the Machine.


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[martin48]

Never mind the tracks ....

[Laphroaig]

I can't believe it's not been posted yet.

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[Laphroaig]

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[giovanni_hotel]

I can't believe it's not been posted yet.

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Perfect example of the album cover being 100x cooler than the band.

I knew dudes who never listened to Meatloaf but had this poster in their rooms.

[Laphroaig]

Controversial

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[leckery5]

Weasels ripped my flesh!
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[leckery5]

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[Richie H]

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[jerseygirlangie]

Another contender, from Roxy Music :
http://www.ricsrecordrack.com/uploads/3/0/5/4/3054393/roxymusic-4thmusicalbum.jpg

[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin. All six variations, each from a different person's perspective, except for the man in white.


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[Richie H]

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[Richie H]

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[Jimmy W]

840997WEEN - the pride of New Hope PA and their album 'Chocolate & Cheese'

[Jimmy W]

PS: adding pics is still very not user friendly

[Love gun]

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[Richie H]

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[Absarokah]

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[Absarokah]

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[Laphroaig]

:whistle:

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[Laphroaig]

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[Absarokah]

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[Laphroaig]

Sanctuary. Ok, this is a single, not an album but it's still the best Iron Maiden cover art.

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[Laphroaig]

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[morim]

Sanctuary. Ok, this is a single, not an album but it's still the best Iron Maiden cover art.

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All Maiden covers are works of art.

[Richie H]

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[Richie H]

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An album completely devoted to his wife.
Awesome..

[Laphroaig]

An album completely devoted to his wife.
Awesome..

I knew "Unknown Legend" was about her, didn't know that the whole album was.

[Absarokah]

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[maxpower]

Los Angeles - X


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[Jimmy W]

I forgot about X...great album cover!

[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

Strange Days - The Doors


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[Richie H]

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[Laphroaig]

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[Laphroaig]

The first time I caught sight of this cover in the record shop, I thought my God she's got a hairy bush...

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[fraggle543]

Interesting choices, thanks to the original poster for these pics.

[Richie H]

Pink Floyd.... The sleeve shows a series of mirrors reflecting the same image over and over. However, when you look closer you realise the band members switch places.



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[Richie H]

Such a fun band..


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[Laphroaig]

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[Laphroaig]

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[Idt20082008"]

The Clash
London Calling

[moonunit7]

Ritchie H is probably the only one who will recognize this one, but its a great album cover with lots of cool artwork inside.
Pic is from the cassette (see musicians).

[Laphroaig]

Ritchie H is probably the only one who will recognize this one, but its a great album cover with lots of cool artwork inside.
Pic is from the cassette (see musicians).

Is that the same Roger Glover, bassist with Deep Purple?

Edit, having read the musicians list which includes Coverdale, Hughes and Dio and seen that it's produced by Purple Records, I think I've answered my own question.

But, you're right, I've never heard of it before, thanks for sharing.

[Richie H]

Classic..Old School..
Love is all with Ronnie James Dio on vocals ..




Ritchie H is probably the only one who will recognize this one, but its a great album cover with lots of cool artwork inside.
Pic is from the cassette (see musicians).

[Richie H]

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[maxpower]

Lick - Lemonheads


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[Richie H]

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[Laphroaig]

Classic..Old School..
Love is all with Ronnie James Dio on vocals ..

Ronnie James Dio, the man who came up with this sign. :rock2

I'm sure I remember that despite Ozzy's popularity "Heaven and Hell" was once voted the best Black Sabbath song by their fans.

[Richie H]

Anyone care for a bucket?

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[Joe Blow]

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[Richie H]

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[Laphroaig]

Anyone care for a bucket?

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At first glance I was sure that was Rolf Harris...oops!

[Laphroaig]

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[Laphroaig]

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[maxpower]

Who's Next - The Who


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[maxpower]

Candy-O - The Cars


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[Richie H]

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[gmb]

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[Richie H]

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[Joop1980]

Jimi Electric Ladyland


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[Jimmy W]

844496"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" cover of Dylan with Susie Rotolo has always evoked the 60's for me in a very comforting way. Here is a cool update I found superimposing the original over what I think is West 4th & Jones from a few years ago.

[Richie H]

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[gmb]

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