[Closed] Great album covers (Friday night music thread)

Greenslade album covers. Bedside Manners my favorite.

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King Crimson's In The Court of The Crimson King

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Not their best album by a long way, but it's the one that made me stop in my tracks at the record shop. I bought it - having never heard them before - because the cover looked so good.

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This started a bit of an ongoing obsession 😳

This is one of 2 albums I've bought specifically for the cover:

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The other - 10,000 Days by Tool - isn't too impressive in picture format.

Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones. Always been a fav of mine - don't know why>

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Judging by your STW name you need this...

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or this

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This - Wasted In America by Love/Hate

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Always liked this (and it's variants)

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Gotta love a Maiden cover

A few of my favourites:

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A few of my favourites...

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Some truly awful covers so far....

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And a 12 inch single
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always liked this, but not sure I'd want it on a wall

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Not their best album by a long way,

it is for me. No Rest For The Wicked a close second though, with Today Is A Good Day coming in for the bronze.

Although Joolz' artwork for the latter is pretty good:
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No Rest 1st - by a mile. Love it...

Then Impurity, to me (and only me I think) it sounds like a more grown up T&C

Eight, TIAGD & (controversially) LOHC all get played more than T&C.

I am with Joolz again in Nov for a 40th birthday present tattoo. Gonna dust off some Red Sky later I think!

And this one...

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Not their best album by a long way,

it is for me. No Rest For The Wicked a close second though, with Today Is A Good Day coming in for the bronze

Ghost of cain for me, then thunder and constipation.

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FOTN- elizium

Tool
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or

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Taz - if you like Tool....have you heard the Cypress Hill/Tool mashup (by the same people that did Wu Tang Clan/Fugazi). It;s good, but as I don't really know anything about Tool, I'm not sure if I know who did what bit!

[url= http://www.datpiff.com/aRCHANGEL-Cypress-Hill-X-Tool-Lateralus-mixtape.377856.html ]Free download[/url]

LOHC is for me a half & half record. half of it is great, the other half a bit meh. White Light, HCTW, Fate, Living in the Rose, ace, the rest not so

Know what you mean about Impurity though. Funny thing, when I'm out on my bike (not often I know!) the same lyric over anything else keeps popping into my head "fear is the only enemy that I still know"

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Plenty of classics [url= https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=blue+note+records+album+covers&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=ZJn&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=UXBKUK6iMqWo0AX-nICoAQ&ved=0CDsQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=606 ]here[/url]

sc-xc wee bit of tool for you Some tip top drumming for John as well

oh and

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or any of the Rodney Matthew work for Magnum albums

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I'd never heard anything by Tool but I like that. Reminds me a bit of Porcupine Tree:

cheers mr drummer, that's a new one to me!

my last band tried to cover that before we started writing our own material. Gavin Harrison is one heck of a drummer

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John - check out "jambi" and "schism" by tool for some truly epic drum stylee

Teetosugars - some mighty fine choices there!

will do later.

our bass player seems to like them, I'll see if I can tap up his back catalogue 😉

anyway, back on topic, how about this one?
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the inside sleeve was all Bocsh's garden of arcane delights.

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Heres a goodun

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John Drummer. I love the Chameleons. Script of the bridge. Superb!

These are all pretty iconic album covers IMO, though may not work for your intended purpose

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Props to the FOTN & DCD posters 8)

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Anything by BMSR/Tobacco

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You could take a look at this site

[url= http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/03/35-beautiful-music-album-covers/ ]35 beautiful album covers [/url]

Though I would be more inclined to Google

Album covers by Roger Dean

Lots of really iconic album art being posted, any of which would look good framed, but there's still some missing:
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^Surfer Rosa, in case boobies are frowned upon.

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^My fave t-shirt

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^Fave sleeve of all time

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Some good taste on this thread... surprised this hasn't surfaced yet:

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the first LP what I bought:
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Yeah, the King Crimson one is a work of art. Got it on vinyl so has to be at least 30 years old?

Apparently the designers were at a loss and the band, . . . someone just scribbled this and said jokingly will this do, . . .and Gedge said yes perfect . . . great sleeve, better album

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Protest The Hero - Canadian mathcore awesomeness

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Such a Philistine, cant post pic

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It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

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Sorry, must include this!

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From: [url= http://www.nme.com/photos/50-piss-poor-hip-hop-album-sleeves/262078/1/1?utm_source=nme&utm_medium=bestofnme&utm_campaign=bestofnme-50%20atrocious%20hip-hop%20album%20sleeves ]NME[/url]

Bad/genius rap album covers deserve a thread unto themselves:

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