Best Album Cover Photo/Artwork?
Velvet Siren
little bit of response.....what is the favorite photo/album cover?
Ascesis08
I like "Presence" -- it's most representative of LZ themselves.
Jenna
howldog
> what is the favorite photo/album cover?
lots andlots of good ones. that book about album cover art is worthy of
anybody's coffee table. anything by hipnosis from the 70s was great, or
most of their stuff. the roger dean Yes covers were always good.
physical graffitti was a nice package. Houses of the Holy was
interesting too. Santana Abraxis has a wild painting on the cover and I
think that guy painted Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, worth a look. I always
liked the European cover to Golden Earrings "Moontan". Yowza. Roxy Music
always had some er um great reading material on their covers. heh. one
great CD cover recently I saw, cant remember the title or artist but I
saw it in a graphic design magazine, it was in a red plastic jewel case,
and the insert was printed in two colors, green and red, so that it
looked one way inside the case, but you took the insert out and it
looked different. that was a great idea.
oh and a few guys liked the Howldog CDR cover. heh.
Terra
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DJ
IV for the huge impact it had on the recording/music/music-journalism
industry at that time.
Art:
V for the imagery - mysticism that was Led Zeppelin.
Runner Up:
Box set for the Crop Circles with the Zeppelin shadow.
Worst?
Coda - no imagination for the cover - but the photos inside are classics.
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Felix
me, nothing was cooler than throwing an album on the turntable,
putting on the headphones, and listening to some great music while
perusing the covers, reading the liner notes, lyrics, etc. I just
don't get the same feeling with those itty-bitty cd inserts. Of
course, the eyesight isn't what it used to be...
Felix
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LindaD
fun to play with the windows. Runner-up: III.
In general, I liked the the Dead's Blues for Allah cover a lot, altho I was
never a big Dead fan. I had a Deadhead friend who kept taking me to shows
and then going, "Oh, they weren't very good tonight." Finally I stopped
going. The patchouli and sweat vapors started getting to me.
The Yes covers were great, especially Topographic Oceans, the one that folds
out three or four times and it's a whole landscape. I also liked the Velvet
Underground Warhol banana cover.
Then there was the famous Dead Kennedy's Geiger cover, Penis Landscape,
which was of course banned. Geiger also did ELP's Brain Salad Surgery.
The most lurid one I remember is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Delightfully
awful. But my faves are the Cannibal Corpse covers--I love them. They're
all, like, drippy Steadman-type paintings of dead babies and abbatoirs and
zombies. They crack me up.
Coolest: Mingus' Ah Um, Joni Mitherll's Blue, also Hejira.
CD covers just aren't the same.
LindaD
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Lee McC
> liked the European cover to Golden Earrings "Moontan". Yowza.
Heheheee - I kinda dig that red head holding the airplane on the Blind Faith
cover. You can see her booby. ;o)
:o)
howldog
LindaD wrote:
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> In general, I liked the the Dead's Blues for Allah cover a lot,
me too. I got that one. We call it "Snooze for Allah".
> I had a Deadhead friend who kept taking me to shows
> and then going, "Oh, they weren't very good tonight." Finally I stopped
> going. The patchouli and sweat vapors started getting to me.
I saw two shows. What a giant freaking YAWN. Possibly visually the most boring
live act I ever sat thru. Garcia would simply step on a pedal and get a standing
ovation. Endless jams at a mind-numbing slow tempo.... oh... mind-numbing, maybe
that was the point...
I really like their albums tho, great band. The whole deadhead trip thing,
couldnt see it.
>
>
>
> The most lurid one I remember is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Delightfully
> awful.
thats pretty scary. Famous illustrator Drew Struzan(?) painted it i think. Maybe
I 'm wrong about that....He;s amazing. does covers for TV guide all the time.
Oldjack57
>me, nothing was cooler than throwing an album on the turntable,
>putting on the headphones, and listening to some great music while
>perusing the covers, reading the liner notes, lyrics, etc. I just
>don't get the same feeling with those itty-bitty cd inserts.
Yessiree!! Nothing like coming home after work on Saturday night, cracking open
a bottle of bourbon, throwing HOTH on the turntable and using the cover to
clean the stems and seeds out of the weekend's combustibles.
Can only do one dube at a time on a jewel case.
LindaD
it home, and sit and examine every inch of the cover while you listen to it.
They were also wonderfully useful for rolling joints, especially the double
albums with the crease. I don't do that no more, but... besides, CD covers
are too slippery.
'Course, those were the olden days, when we had to walk 10 miles to school
in the snow uphill both ways, ate gravel for breakfast, and had to kill our
own dinner (ah, those roadkill possum stews!). Only 13 channels of crap on
TV--but it was free. Hey, there's a generation thing--remember when TV was
free?
Nostalgically,
LindaD
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> Yes, I do miss the big covers.
You miss many "big" things these days, old wornout hag.
> They were also wonderfully useful for rolling joints,
Very unfriendly mention of drug usage, My Queen. Stryder is licking his
lips.
> remember when TV was
> free?
And you were too! Unfriendly prices for streetwalkers make some queens less
than royal.
DJ
it harder to scrape around.
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Anthony
people's recreational drug habits. CD covers are more appropriate for lining
up on.
Anthony
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