Best Album Art?

[querelle]

Mine is a Carly Simon album called Boys In The Trees. Always loved that pic.

Q

[MrScorpio]

1. I'm going with the OHIO PLAYERS

Pain - 1971


Pleasure - 1972


Ecstasy - 1973


Climax - 1974


Skin Tight - 1974



Fire - 1974


Honey - 1975


Contradiction - 1976

[querelle]

4. WOW!

I've never seen those! Did the temperature in here just go up by ten degrees?

Q

[Hissyspit]

37. "Honey" won the Grammy for best album art that year.

[MrScorpio]

45. The Ohio Players are the best pure funk musicians ever

P-Funk may be more popuplar

But for me, the Ohio Players are the best musicians

[Hissyspit]

53. I would concur. I grew up on 'em.

Who'd she koo?

[SKKY]

2. No doubt about this one for me...

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[Joe Fields]

3. Beatles Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, King Crimson(Court of the Crimson King)

Joni Mitchell(Hejira), ELP(Brain Salad Surgery) Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy), It's A Beautiful Day (debut album), Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers), Jethro Tull (Thick As A Brick), to name a few of my favorites.

[querelle]

6. I Have.......

the old Stone's Sticky Fingers album with the real working zipper. Did you know that was Joe Dallasandro?

Q

[Joe Fields]

21. I have it, too. No, didn't know. Thanks.

[supernova]

5. I've always loved Abraxas

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Roger Deans covers for "Yes" and Hildebrandt's for "Molly Hatchet"

I had the grand pleasure of seeing of the original Dean paintings in NYC a few years ago. And I am totally kicking myself in the ass because I had a chance to buy a LE print of one of them, and I didn't because it was a lot of money, but it was money that I had and could have afforded... ARGH!

I think it was this one, from Yessongs:

[supernova]

10. I never pegged you for a Hildebrand fan

Learn something new every day.

I agree w/ you about the Yes covers, though. They fit the music perfectly.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I'm a huge comic/sci-fi/fantasy geek, so of course I love Hildebrand

And Boris!

If I'm ever rich enough to have a few thousand acres of land on which to put my house, I want Roger Dean to do my landscaping.

[supernova]

13. C'mon, isn't it really just

the Viking wenches in their fur&leather bikinis? ;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Partly that. And partly the love of the invincible warriors,

who symbolically stand for the geek (like me) for the ability to kick the shit out of the jocks and other clueless, ignorant shitbrained filth.

Thankfully, as I grew up, I realized that one doesn't need the giant invincible warrior archetype - as a geek, I learned that my geekness was weapon enough, giving me jobs and income and successes that none of the jock assholes could ever hope to achieve.

[taterguy]

8. Ted Lyons's Son of Kong Doing Calisthenics

Not gonna post a pic because I'm sure that you're all familiar with it

[querelle]

9. Umm No. n/t

[taterguy]

11. No it's not the best album artwork?

Or no you're not familiar with it? If not, what rock have you been living under?

[querelle]

17. I Must Have Been Living Under A Rock

For a very long time. Never heard of it. Please enlighten me, would you?

Q

[taterguy]

24. Enlighten yourself

That would be the zen way of doing it, maybe.

[Orrex]

55. What is the sound of one music snob being unhelpful?

:evilgrin:

[taterguy]

58. Being helpful gets us kicked out of the music snob's club

And it's not like us music snobs have a lot of other social options.

The truth is that I just couldn't find an internet image of the back cover of Let's Active's "Big Plans for Everybody"

Regardless, I stand by my statement that self-enlightenment is beneficial

[meegbear]

14. 2 of my favorites

[LynneSin]

16. Gotta be Soul Asylum.....

[lavenderdiva]

43. this looks to be a redo of 'Whipped Cream' by Herb Alpert

& the Tijuana Brass-- see post #28 even to where it mentions '& Other Delights' in the title. When I first saw this one by Soul Asylum, I remembered having the Herb Alpert album, and thought that's exactly the same!!

[MrScorpio]

18. Another of my faves, Slave - 1977

[livetohike]

19. One of my favorite album covers

Edit. Can't get the link to work

[Ptah]

20. Gotta go with this Janis

[querelle]

23. I Love Robert Crumb's Work!

Keep On Truckin'

Q

[lavenderdiva]

44. I stll have this one. I always thought it was fantastic!

[Joe Fields]

22. Janis Joplin (Cheap Thrills), Santana (debut album with lion head)

[asthmaticeog]

25. .

[MrScorpio]

26. You brought the Kraftwerk!

COOL!

[asthmaticeog]

27. You know whoisalhedges was briefly a member of that band, no?

[achtung_circus]

28. Whipped Cream and Other Delights

Even as a whippersnapper, it stirred me, I knew not why.




I've since figured it out.

[Initech]

29. I always liked Zappa's take on Sgt. Pepper:

[Skittles]

30. I always liked Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards

[Tikki]

31. These two always catch my attention when....

I am flipping through my 'stacks o vinyl'.





Tikki

[MissMillie]

32. Smell the Glove

[Common Sense Party]

51. The question is: "How much more black can it be?"

And the answer is: "None. None...more...black."

[CanuckAmok]

33. ...

[greendog]

34. David Grismans "Mondo Mando"

Wayne Anderson: Illustrator

[johnnie]

35. One of the coolest

[Tyrone Slothrop]

36. A couple of my faves

[Hissyspit]

38. "Boys In The Trees" won the Grammy for best album art that year (1978)

Followed the next year with the Grammy for best album art of 1979 by:

[PassingFair]

40. This one always tickled me...

It's entitled: "Crisis, what crisis?"

[Hissyspit]

41. The joke was that the crisis the band faced was how to follow up

their first major success "Crime of the Century" when it was clear the new songs just weren't up to the same standard. That said, "Crisis? What Crisis" is an enjoyable album in its own right with its own goofy underdog appeal.

[Hissyspit]

39. Weasels Ripped My Flesh ...Rzzz!

[CanuckAmok]

47. I always wonderd how they got Ray Liotta to sit so still with a weasel.

n/t

[Hissyspit]

52. LOL

Actually Frank took the title from an Esquire article, and Neon Park got the image from an old '50s advertisement. Maybe it was Ray's dad or grandfather? :)

[grannylib]

42. Loved the cover to Derek and the Dominoes

[begin_within]

46. "Brain Salad Surgery" by E.L.P. and "Exile on Main Street" by the Stones,

but only the original versions (Brain Salad opened up in the middle, Exile had a set of postcards included.)

[CanuckAmok]

49. A few more classics (some not for the squeamish):

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[Redneck Socialist]

48. Iron Maiden, Grateful Dead

[donheld]

50. This one

[catbert836]

54. Dark Side of the Moon

As well as:

Sticky Fingers by the Stones- Cover art by Andy Warhol



Abbey Road by the Beatles



Morrison Hotel by the Doors



Who's Next by the Who

[GalleryGod]

56. These Guys ! What a tour! What a show ! What a stage!

[sendero]

57. Carly Simon..

... is definitely my idea of an attractive woman :)

A favorite of mine...