Best Album Cover/Title?
Posted by Jim Thomas on 12 June 2008 - 10:39am.
This has probably be done before.If so, mea culpa.
Now that even CDS are rapidly becoming passe, the art of the album cover seems to be heading for extinction. However, I still remember poring over full size LP covers in fascination (sometimes I must admit I was in a slightly chemically enhanced state).
My nomination for the best album cover ever is The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by the Incredible Strings Band, which is also my nomination for the best Title too. For those of you not into pyschedelic folk world music this is what it looks like:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1364/1468658862_2723be6964.jpg?v=0
Any other suggestions for Best In Show?
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unknown pleasures by joy division
the end.
My favourite two
When I was younger I used to love the covers of the two Beatles compilations 62-66 + 67-70.
You can see in the images the change from boys to men, poor to rich, unknown to famous. Still love the two images. I know the first image was originally used on the "Please Please Me" album but I experienced the image first on the "red" album.
there *is* something haunting
about those two covers. It's quite powerful that the first one from the very early days (note Ringos quiff) where they were just best mates having a laugh and the latter one where they've bloody well gone and changed most EVERYTHING, can hardly speak to each other, but still, y'know, are happy enough in themselves to reprise their first publicity shot.
Probably 'cos they knew they wouldn't be doing another one of themselves in, say, 1974.
when these came out on CD, there were adverts for them where the 'other shot' would be superimposed such that you'd have the Red cover fabs being looked down upon by their older selves and vice versa
My Fave Title
I've said it before and I'll say it again is
I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Dump, which I bought, without hearing a note, on that title alone.
The cover art aint that shoddy either.
Anyone for Elton?
Captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy
I have to say that at the time I found the artwork on this album, a stunning piece of work, and if truth be told, still do.
Having just searched for an image for it, I find that its by a chap called Alan Aldridge. Rummaging through his web site, I also learned that he did all those Beatle type illustrations.
(I bet most of you knew that!)
Martin
http://mindbrix.co.uk/sites/www.alanaldridge.net/aldridge.php/Gallery/Ph...
A bit of hip-hop
"When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold" by Atmosphere.
I've no idea if the album's any cop, but what a title.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Life_Gives_You_Lemons
Underworld
Second Toughest In The Infants