10 Favourite album covers?

[Charger]

Okay I thought we might need another top 10 list...

So how about some cover art?

Any takers?

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I have some obvious ones on my list already... but do I limit myself to 1 cover per artist?

[Charger]

I think 2 per band would be okay....but no more. Then there's chance for more variety.

[Zzzptm]

Only 10? Oh boy... this will be difficult to narrow down for me. And, honestly, the cover often can be better than the actual album. Some covers I like of records I've never listened to all the way through.

Can we also do 10 album covers we turn over the most so we don't have to look at them?

[Charger]

We can do 10 worst albums covers as well after this for sure.

[Zzzptm]

We can do 10 worst albums covers as well after this for sure.

[Zzzptm]

I also loved Deepest Purple's exploding guitar cover, but that's for a "best of" collection and this one is for an album that has 3 of any "best of" collection for Deep Purple on it. But this is about the covers, and this one always whispered to me in the record shops as I was acquiring my first albums, all the Led Zeppelin catalogue. The album name spoke of metal and, in fact, the cover image is a sheet of metal with the album title stamped into it and the reflection of the band members on that metal. No CGI, just clever photography and knowing how to assemble a great image. There's something comforting to me about the cover of this album, so it'll always be one of my favorites.

[Charger]

^^
Was that an official entry?


Anyways I'll get on with mine then.

At #10

I'll have this one:




Basically a rather simple artwork but captivating and it has a nice level of detail...and it has a connection to both the band and the album title. Also if you look at the water it's rather clear that DIO's Holy Diver artwork was greatly inspired by this one.
The art is by Ken Kelly.

[Zzzptm]

That was official for me and I think I'll see what else gets posted here so I don't duplicate efforts. Because I could totally duplicate Rainbow Rising! Such a great cover and it made me have to check out the album - and seeing Dio, Powell, and Blackmore on the back cover made me all like whooooooooooooooah I thought Rainbow was all like "Stone Cold" with JLT, but DIO is singing here? OK, gotta buy this album... and I did, thanks to that cover!



My second album cover pick is Heaven and Hell. After buying all the Led Zeppelin albums and a few from Deep Purple in standard record stores, I was ready to try faster means of vinyl acquisition back in the early 80s. I had gotten Sabbath Bloody Sabbath as a cutout, and that was nice. But then, I went to Half Price Books in Dallas and basically gave all my money to them for the next 6 years, at least what I didn't spend on RPGs and gas for my car.  All the records usually needed was a little alcohol wipe and that got any dust or grime off the playing surface and I was ready to rock. First album I got there was Made in Japan - my mom was like "I dunno, live albums usually suck", but she was used to dealing with live recordings from the fifties and sixties, when live recording technology usually sucked. It was fine and I was ready to go back for more, and this album was what I had my eye on. There were like five of them in the store, all at somewhat less than half-price of the sticker in the regular record store. And this was the coolest cover in the bins, what with those angels smoking and playing cards. I bet they were cussing, too!

Lynn Curlee was the artist for the cover, and I only wish he'd done more album covers than this one and BOC's Agents of Fortune.

[Charger]

I think it's okay to duplicate...It's not a problem. Sure it would be cool to see different covers and stuff that might be new but if it's a cool cover then it's a cool cover and it can be cool cover for all of us!

[Zzzptm]

Then if there's a duplicate, we get a bonus cover to post!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

#10
I'll get this one in before everyone posts it! 



This was always going to be in my top 10

EDIT: That image is a little dark and muddy... Wikipedia has let me down! I'll see if I can find a better one.

[Charger]

^^ Well goddamn! That will be featured on my list but quite a bit higher.
Heaven And Hell on the other hand would no have made my list.


#9

Is this one:




Death Angel quite fast rose to my among my favourite bands just a couple of years ago.
This again on the side of simple but the image is really really cool! The moth with the skull is simple yet powerful and most importantly it is beautifully done. Would love to get this as a poster or flag!
The drawing is done by Bob Tyrell and it's called Death Moth

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I'm not really doing mine in any order, I still have to work out my final 10, I have about 5 or 6 definite choices but that's it.

I wouldn't have included Heaven and Hell, but it is a nice cover.

[Zzzptm]

I'm not really doing mine in any order, I still have to work out my final 10, I have about 5 or 6 definite choices but that's it.

I wouldn't have included Heaven and Hell, but it is a nice cover.

I'm just coming forward with ten, myself. And I did calculate that someone else would put up Mob Rules, so I went with Heaven and Hell. Mob Rules is such a monster cover, chilling and terrifying with those shadow figures.

Now for my third album cover that I consider awesomeness, I go with...



I bought mine used, so I had to scrounge up some other 3D glasses to make it all work, but I had a ball with this one. I liked about half of the album, but I kept going back to the 3D fun of the cover. And if you think this means I will feature Jethro Tull's full newspaper version of Thick as a Brick, you are absolutely correct. I like an album cover that I can really sink my teeth into and read.