What's your favorite album artwork?
This is in my top 3.Love this!
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I'm not just saying thay either! 
Kelley and Mouse were unstoppable cover designers for many years:
I listen to Maiden about once every three years nowadays. But the "Eddie" mascot is genius for the style of music they play.
My favorite "Eddie" artwork....
sorta cheesy in pink, nice to see florence in the center
Never seen it before. Thanks mama!
I remember when my dad bought this album;
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Okay I found this while looking for other Spinal Tap covers.
Wouldn't surprise me if you knew about them but this was new to me.
I also rember laughing my ass off about it!
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All the song titles (except The Horse) are represented in the cover art. I had the poster version as a teenager and looked it it a lot. It's also Phish's best studio album, imho. While looking for an image to pull, I saw a jambase comment about how this year is the 25th anniversary of the album. But I don't feel that old, dammit! I swear it was just the other day ...
I mentioned this in another thread last week: when I was very young, I thought CSNY were friends of my parents because of the Deja Vu album cover. The nubbly faux-leather, the photograph glued on the front, all the guys with dogs and guns and hair and clothes that looked like my Dad. 
Edit: what's the best way to post images here? I used Imgur but it's got those funny IMG bracket thingies showing. That doesn't happen on my other forums.
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Here's one:
And inside:
My favorite song on the album is "Visions of Johanna"...he's holding a picture of the name inspiration on the inside. If it had not been for Johanna Van Gogh, the world would likely have never heard the name of her artist brother-in-law Vincent.
This image makes me dream:
I remember being mesmerized by this album cover as a 10 yr old.
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-- apparently inspired by this magazine cover, which I never knew til today!
So many Zappa classics to choose from! All the Cal Schenkel stuff is amazing, too -- for example:
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There’s a great documentary about Beefheart/Van Vliet on Amazon Prime... probably available elsewhere, I’m not sure. Never thought I’d see music videos of the Magic Band doing “Electricity” and “Plastic Factory.”
May you always be fast and bulbous.
Fantastic music, too!
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You never fail to make me laugh! Those are great! Especially the Fingering and Praying for the Lord! Too funny. 
and of course:
Fingering for god!
Soundgarden - Loud Love
Beatles - Revolver
Stones - Let It Bleed
Stones - Sticky Fingers (cause who doesn't enjoy looking at Mick's bait n tackle? )
Pearl Jam - Ten
L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Mother Love Bone - Apple
...cover painting by Jaime "Germs" Zacarias, released in 2008.
This was a band I used to be in as the drummer, engineer, co-producer and art director.
And I'm lucky enough to own the original painting.
...he's in his thirties and has already had three museum shows, and is in the Chicano art collection of Cheech Marin (and in my collection too).
I've known him for over 15 years, so I have seen his work evolve to the point of incredible.
Here is a piece I have, from his last museum show, in which he had around twenty works:
the back of a shirt once...
It's symmetrical, even the title: AOXOMOXOA. Tool two months and twenty two needles, the nickel wears off after a while.
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Love Opeth's style of album covers. I have been listening to this album a lot lately and it is amazing. I wish they could go back to making this style of music.
I always loved the idea of a person escaping from chaos and turmoil into peace and calm and serenity.
The title song is nominally about a prison break, but is really about throwing over oppression and achieving self-determination.
I recommend the album highly.
Also, its follow-ups, Man On The Line released in 1984, and Into The Light, in 1986. The #1 single from this album was 'The Lady In Red', which made CdeB a global superstar.
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Beatles Revolver by Klaus Voormann, Cream: Disraeli Gears, King Crimson: Court of the Crimson King, and the Stones: Sticky Fingers.
I would add Stones: Satanic Majesties Request (3-D photo) and Velvet Underground with Nico (the banana that actually peels by Warhol).
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Illustration by Wayne Anderson
I was told that one of the reasons it became such a big seller was that it was perfect to de-seed your weed. That's what a guy told me.
BTW - Stills is in a Confederate uniform.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young album cover for Deja Vu (1970) is superimposed by Bob Egan of PopSots on recent location image. The tree is still there. Bob didn't mention where it actually was but left a clue that David Crosby rented a house in 1969-70 in Novato, CA, and had a horse. So I followed the water (which a horse trail would need) to find this spot. Stephen Stills is a Civil War buff and is dressed in a Confederate uniform. David Crosby is dressed as Buffalo Bill. Photographer Thomas O'Neal used a vintage wooden box camera similar to the one used by Civil War photographer Matthew Brady (Abraham Lincoln portrait photog). They had to stay still for 2 minutes. Stephen lived up to his name. This is by Old Ranch Road and Indian Valley Fire Rd, Novato, CA, on the SW corner.
I'm not sure who that is. Here's the real Tapestry cover.
Has a good one, but of course, since it is using a Bruegel painting.
Who the fuck am I kidding? I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm way way way to uncultered. But, that being said, I dig it. And thanks for broadening my perspective.
"The Blue Cloak" (or "Netherlandish Proverbs"
, it's a depiction of aphorisms about generally foolish human behavior, from tossing feathers, to biting iron, to taking a dump out a window. Seriously, you can easily spend an hour finding stuff in this busy painting.
"It's this sort of really detailed, 1500s thing, but actually it's horrible, like, everything that's going on is like a disaster," Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold said. "All the stuff happening in that bucolic scene is weird, people defecating out of boxes and sheep getting cut through the gut."
(excerpted from http://www.mtv.com/news/2574202/fleet-foxes-and-titus-andronicus-give-a-lesson-in-16th-century-painting/)
One of the last things Vargas did.
and hang it on my wall. 
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I also love to gaze at the Plasmatics album- freaks and fiends on the loose: 
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And, honorable mention to Stepson; kinda reminiscent of Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy: 
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For those unfamiliar with Stepson, here's one of my favorite 69-year-old-guy-driving-down-the-street-blasting-music-with-windows-and-sunroof-open songs:
And on the inside...
It also came with a cardboard spaceship that you could punch out and put together.
Damn today's digital downloads! 
Not original art, but in intrigued me enough to buy the album without having heard of the group before.
The complete orginal by Breugel the Elder:
(very early John Dever)
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