What is your favorite Hipgnosis album cover?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I was inspired to start this thread by The Polack MSgt's post in a nearby thread of mine here in the DU Lounge, Alright, let's talk about stuff that matters. What's your favorite album of the 70s?

Hipgnosis

Hipgnosis was an English art design group based in London that specialised in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands. Notable commissions included work for Pink Floyd, T. Rex, the Pretty Things, Black Sabbath, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, Yes, The Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Def Leppard, Paul McCartney & Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Electric Light Orchestra, the Police, Rainbow, Styx, Pezband, XTC and Al Stewart.

Hipgnosis consisted primarily of Cambridge natives Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and later Peter Christopherson. The group dissolved in 1983, though Thorgerson worked on album designs until his death on 18 April 2013, and Powell works in film and video, most notably with Paul McCartney and The Who, and is the creative director for both Pink Floyd and its member David Gilmour.
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Discography

Year Artist Album
1968 Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
1968 Alexis Korner A New Generation of Blues
1968 The Gods Genesis
1968 Pepe Jaramillo Till There Was You
1968 The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
1969 Pink Floyd More
1969 The Gods To Samuel a Son
1969 Pink Floyd Ummagumma
1969 Panama Limited Jug Band Panama Limited Jug Band
1969 Humble Pie Town and Country
1969 Various artists You Can All Join In
1970 The Greatest Show on Earth Horizons
1970 Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
1970 Quatermass Quatermass
1970 The Pretty Things Parachute
1970 The Greatest Show on Earth The Going's Easy
1970 Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs
1970 The Nice Five Bridges
1970 Toe Fat Toe Fat
1970 Cochise Cochise
1970 Harvest Records artists Picnic – A Breath of Fresh Air
1970 Panama Limited Indian Summer
1970 Sounds Nice Love at First Sight
1970 Gravy Train Gravy Train
1970 Syd Barrett Barrett
1970 The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation Remains to Be Heard
1970 Argent Ring of Hands
1970 Jackson Heights King Progress
1970 Twink Think Pink
1971 T. Rex Electric Warrior
1971 Toe Fat Toe Fat 2
1971 Trees On the Shore
1971 Marvin, Welch & Farrar Marvin, Welch & Farrar
1971 The Nice Elegy
1971 Pink Floyd Meddle
1971 Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra
1971 Audience House on the Hill
1971 Edgar Broughton Band Edgar Broughton Band
1971 Wishbone Ash Pilgrimage
1971 Climax Blues Band Tightly Knit
1971 Tear Gas Tear Gas
1971 Stackridge Stackridge
1971 Daddy Longlegs Oakdown Farm
1971 The Masters Apprentices Master's Apprentices
1971 John Williams Changes
1971 Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Italian reissue)
1971 Rory Gallagher Rory Gallagher
1972 Flash Flash
1972 Wishbone Ash Argus
1972 The Nice Autumn '67 – Spring '68
1972 Fumble Fumble
1972 The Hollies Distant Light
1972 Renaissance Prologue
1972 Edgar Broughton Band Inside Out
1972 Audience Lunch
1972 The Pretty Things Freeway Madness
1972 Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds
1972 Blue Mink A Time of Change
1972 Roger Cook Meanwhile...Back at the World
1972 Glencoe Glencoe
1972 Danta Danta
1972 The Hollies Romany
1972 Olivia Newton-John Olivia
1972 Labi Siffre Crying Laughing Loving Lying

{snip, as I've run out of room for them all}

Hmmmm. So many choices. I like this one:



Who else has this album?



Or this one?

[Lochloosa]

1. Billy Thorpe. Children of the Sun.

[Anon-C]

2. +1000

[sweetloukillbot]

3. So many great ones...

I've gotta keep it simple with Atom Heart Mother.

[IcyPeas]

4. I love T.Rex, so I have to pick this one: