Favorite album artwork...what's yours?

[Joe Fields]

I have lots more. But here are a few for starters...

[NightWatcher]

1. I had this with the working zipper

[Joe Fields]

4. so did I! got burned up and melted down to nothing in a house fire, though.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Anything done for Yes by Roger Dean

[Joe Fields]

5. absolutely. love roger dean. I used to have yes posters

plastered on my wall. I should have added those, but there are so many albums whose artwork I love.:toast:

[hellbound-liberal]

8. Another Roger Dean and Yes fan here!

To me the artwork is an inseparable part of the Yes experience. BTW, Relayer is one of my favorite Yes albums!

[Joe Fields]

10. agreed and agreed! Gates of Delirium is awesome, and also,

the Revealing Science of God, from Tales of Topographic Oceans are examples of art rock at it's finest. And the artwork, like you say, makes it complete. I've been fortunate enough to see Yes twice, once with Rick Wakeman, and once with Patrick Moratz.

[Adsos Letter]

22. first thing that came to mind! n/t

[musette_sf]

3. there are a lot more arty ones

but this one just has great "a-peel" :-)

[Joe Fields]

6. I love that stuff. thanks for sharing.

It sounds kind of nerdy, but I go through all the albums made throughout each year, just to look at the album artwork. :hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Pretty much anything by R. Crumb sends me, especially Cheap Thrills

Since everyone has seen Big Brother and the Holding Company's "Cheap Thrills" jacket, I'll post a more obscure one.

[Joe Fields]

12. Hell yes. I use the Mr. Natural icon on another website. Love Crumb.

He loathed the popularity of Mr. Natural, as well as the Keep on Truckin' poster. He hated how commercialized they had become. Great, but very disturbed artist.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. I've spent time with Crumb, and in his defense, I believe he's not as disturbed as most think

He was raised in a dysfunctional household, and has more then his share of quirks, but he's actually well grounded in reality, albeit, a reality that had ended by the 'forties. Times have been better.

[Joe Fields]

47. How did you come to spend some time with Crumb? That must have been

quite interesting, to say the least.

[BrotherBuzz]

59. He used to live in my small Northern California town

I met Crumb through a member of the 'Cheap Suit Serenaders', we share the same eclectic interests in music. I also met Terry Zwigoff back when he was making 'Louie Bluie', and was a nobody.

[Joe Fields]

80. Those must have been some very memorable experiences.

I would consider myself lucky to have been there.

[hellbound-liberal]

9. Here's one of my favorites from BOC

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61+M-RQCYwL._SS500_.jpg

[Joe Fields]

14. wow, that's one I had forgotten.

:toast:

[Guava Jelly]

11. Here are a few that I love

[stuntcat]

13. superstar cat!

I forgot that Carole Kink one

[Guava Jelly]

23. And a great album it is

:)

[Joe Fields]

15. seriously, I almost put this one down, just for you, man. so here it is...

[Joe Fields]

17. Hey, you've either got, or you haven't got....style!

[Guava Jelly]

25. I have no idea what i got

But it is heading towards the bed :)

[greendog]

16. Here's three...

[seemunkee]

19. Brain Salad Surgery by HR Giger

[Joe Fields]

20. Excellent choice. I love the way the album opens up, too.

[Tikki]

21. My favorite:

Tikki

[dysfunctional press]

24. Moose has some of the coolest covers going...

[FredStembottom]

45. They remind me of this golden oldie from 1968!

Soft Machine Vol. 2

[bikebloke]

26. Zucchero

Oro, Incenso & Birra

[GenDem]

27. I love album cover art.

A few favorites.

[Joe Fields]

28. At one time I had two of those three. Tea is great!

[GenDem]

40. I actually plagiarized that very cover

in one of my very first paintings, when I was a Freshman in high school. Ahh, the good old days.

This is one of my all time favorites.

[Fenris]

29. A few of the finest

[FredStembottom]

48. Those are good!

Love the big ol' floppy disc, especially.

[ironflange]

30. These two

[DS1]

31. this comes to mind

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

32. somehow, I'm partial to this one.

[Joe Fields]

49. lol

:rofl: Can't imagine why...

I actually had that very album in another thread of mine yesterday.

[stuntcat]

68. I want that album!

lol I'd be so proud of it

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[nickgutierrez]

57. I bet Grovelbot would like Kraftwerk. n/t

[Tyler Durden]

34. We always called King Crimson "the gospel according to Robert Fripp."

Larks Tongues in Aspic

[Joe Fields]

50. What, no Court of the Crimson King artwork?

blasphemy, I tell you...

[Tyler Durden]

35. "Jerimiah said his peace, then fell back in the road..."

"He was shot by Cooley Reese, who they nicknamed 'Jack the Toad'..."



He was bad, bad news.
I knew Cooley; Cooley never lost his cool.

[Decruiter]

36. Tonight's selection

There are three painted models in this shot.

[Tyler Durden]

37. Boogie with the Canned Heat.

Well, I'm so tired of crying, but i'm out
on the road again.
- I'm on the road again.
Well, I'm so tired of crying, but I'm out
on the road again.
- I'm on the road again.
I ain't got no woman
Just to call my special friend.
You know the first time I traveled out
in the rain and snow,
- In the rain and snow.
You know the first time I traveled out
in the rain and snow,
- In the rain and snow.
I didn't have no payroll,
Not even no place to go.
And my dear mother left me when
I was quite young,
- When I was quite young.
And my dear mother left me when
I was quite young,
- When I was quite young.
She said "Lord, have mercy
On my wicked son."
Take a hint from me, mama, please
don't you cry no more,
- Don't you cry no more.
Take a hint from me, mama, please
don't you cry no more,
- Don't you cry no more.
'Cause it's soon one morning
Down the road I'm going.
But I aint going down that
long old lonesome road
All by myself.
But I aint going down that
long old lonesome road
All by myself.
I can't carry you, Baby,
Gonna carry somebody else.


This is a song with a message,
I want you to heeeeed my warning.

Wanna tell you all a story, about this chick I know.
They call her Amphetamine Annie, and she's always shovelin' snow.
I sat her down and told her, I told her crystal clear
I don't mind you gettin' high but there's one thing you should fear
Your mind might think it's flyin' baby on those little pills
But you ought to know it's dyin', cause - speed kills!

But Annie kept on speedin', her health was gettin' poor
She saw things in the window, she heard things at the door
Her mouth was like a grindin' mill, her lips where cracked and sore
Her skin was turnin' yellow, I just couldn't take it no more
She thought her mind was flyin' on those little pills
She didn't know it was going down fast, cause - speed kills!



Yaaaa, speed can kill you too baby, yaa

Well I sat her down and told her, I told her one more time
The whole wide human race has taken far too much methadrine
She said "I don't care what a limey says, I got to get it on
I'm not hip to the scene of the man who comes from across the pond."
She wouldn't heed my warning, Lord she wouldn't hear what I said
Now she's here in the grave yard, and she's awfully dead.

Ya, speed gonna kill you!
Anybody.
Speed will get you!
Speed from over the pond.
There ain't no hope baby...
Yaa, aah hah.
Spoon a Spoon a Spoon.... huah...

[Joe Fields]

51. You must be my twin brutha from anutha mutha..

I play canned heat at home constantly. Love Amphetamine Annie, and the way the band shouts out "Speed Kills!"

I have several live recordings of theirs downloaded.

[MrSlayer]

38. Killers.

Too bad the music isn't as heavy and evil as the cover suggests.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

39. Since Roger "Yes" Dean has already been mentioned -- Genesis's "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"

[edbermac]

41. The one thing I hate about CD's; great sound but the cover is too small!

Back in my day an album cover was a work of ART, framed and hung on your bedroom wall.

Now you need a goddamn magnifying glass to read a CD cover.

[FredStembottom]

42. 2 faves: 1 old. 1 new.

[stuntcat]

70. Dead Can Dance

ALL their covers are ALL my favorites but I like Passage in Time best because it's an owl's-eye butterfly's wing-


and this LCD Soundsystem cover for obvious Disco reasons :D

[stuntcat]

71. OOPS THAT REPLY WAS TO THE BIG THREAD

:blush:

[datasuspect]

43. i had "axis" gatefolded

two record set. bought the poster too at one point.

[Joe Fields]

52. No gatefold for me, damn, but I had numerous Jimi posters.

[hellbound-liberal]

44. Here's one that really captures the personality of the artist

[Joe Fields]

53. very cool

[LoZoccolo]

46. /How dare you!/ from 10cc

The top half of this picture shows the outside of the gatefold, and the bottom shows the inside. Sorry I couldn't find a better picture; this looks like something for sale on eBay.



Better picture of the front:

[stuntcat]

72. I *heart 10cc

but all I know is a few songs I got, I've never seen them or their albums before, these are funny

[Joe Fields]

54. Here's another one I really like...

[stuntcat]

67. I wanted to add that

LOVE that album

[Joe Fields]

81. I happen to think it's her best work...

[stuntcat]

82. you know..

as a whole I think so too, as a package I mean.. like a Work..

Just this week my best friend was at a used cd store looking at it and he called me to ask if he should buy it and I said "heck yeah, you have to have Hejira, like duh!" .. which I'm sure was the sort of stellar review Joni'd appreciate! :+

[John Kerry VonErich]

55. Here is one of mine...

[nickgutierrez]

56. A recent favorite

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer, by Of Montreal:



The top and bottom flip out, with the cd underneath, with similar, fractal-like pictures expanding to all four sides. It's very nice. :)

[Forkboy]

58. Here's some I like.

[Joe Fields]

63. that rivals some of the best of the 60's and early 70's album artwork

Nice stuff.

[Arugula Latte]

60. Heino, of course!

:rofl:

[Tyler Durden]

61. I got you ALL BEAT!

This is in my basement in a sealed plastic envelop, unopened in 25 years.

Top that.

[Joe Fields]

64. you really can't beat the human body when it comes to art...

[Joe Fields]

65. you really can't beat the human body when it comes to art...

[mr blur]

69. I've got that one!

Opened and played endlessly, though.

[Tyler Durden]

73. I play my CD of it: that one's vinyl has never seen a needle.

And never shall.

[Joe Fields]

74. Was it regularly mastered, or mastered at half-speed?

I used to have a few collector albums that were mastered at half-speed, like Dark Side, and It's a Beautiful Day, etc..

[Tyler Durden]

90. Old Style import.

nothing beyond that, but unplayed.

[Tyler Durden]

91. Standard first edition import.

[taterguy]

62. No love for the Louvin Brothers?

[Joe Fields]

66. One more.

Since Tyler won't do it, but it deserves a placein album artwork history...

[Va Lefty]

75. My top 3...

[Xipe Totec]

76. Santana Abraxas

And another good Santana album cover

[Joe Fields]

77. and the music inside was even better than the artwork.

One of my top twenty albums.:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

78. Absolutely!

One of my favorites too!

:thumbsup:

[ok_cpu]

79. Here's a couple of mine

[Patsy Stone]

83. These, for a few:

[stuntcat]

86. Kate

sweeeEEt :loveya:

[Patsy Stone]

88. She's gorgeous

and so is that picture. :loveya:

[doggyboy]

84. What, no "Eat A Peach"???

:hippie:

[Joe Fields]

85. Oh, Man....sorry

here you go

[Patsy Stone]

87. Welcome to DU, doggyboy!

:hi:

[Lethe]

89. I like the Boards of Canada covers

They fit the music well.

[Joe Fields]

92. Here's a few more I like..

[Fire Walk With Me]

93. What a great thread idea. It's a blast to see what others are into.

But no Pink Floyd? No Who? (Sell Out) or Residents?

[Joe Fields]

94. Go on, Peake, post some. We don't want to hog them all.

[Fire Walk With Me]

100. When Tower was blowing out remaining stock, I'd buy if I liked an album cover.

[SKKY]

95. Here are some of my favorites...

[blondeatlast]

96. Here's mine; now, who'll start the inevitable and always hysterical BAD album artwork thread?

[Joe Fields]

97. You do it, you do it!!!

[bamacrat]

98. Jimi Hendrix

I also like the Dark Side of the Moon cover.

[Skittles]

99. Demons and Wizards