P-funk’s wild fusion of funk, surrealism, and pop art extended beyond music, resulting in some of the most provocative LP covers of the era. On his Dr. Dre’s solo debut The Chronic, the design assumed that Dre was already an icon and presented him accordingly. All the Mountain covers are missing Gentle Giant – In A Glass House, Great album covers but would have to add John Cale – Walking on Locusts It should, however, have been pictured with the “Belly-Belt”. Music Quiz / Album Covers Without Text Random Music or Album Quiz Can you name the albums given their covers that lack any text? The Beatles influence cannot be measured. That cover is supposed to suggest she WAS naked because she could easily have been. Served its purpose no doubt in keeping a hungover intern busy for an afternoon copying and pasting images and not otherwise effing up an important (sic) project. by stereo_love Plays Quiz not verified by Sporcle . Some for consideration…. It’s sublte ambiguity makes it a great cover, even though the music wasn’t great. The so-called “White Album” was innovative; the first LP cover to come out with no picture! George Clinton’s gonzoid take on outer-space adventure found its perfect match in the spaceship-party cover for Parliament’s Mothership Connection. Moody Blues had many! Great album, great cover. Any artist who dares to look this terrifying on the cover of their first album deserves all the platinum success they get. Taste – On The Boards Maybe it’s not a rock album but it’s certainly one of the most iconic covers of all. Bow Wow Wow should be off. I have trouble in doing the top 500, imagine top 100… Good thing that several people remember the 3d captain beyond cover. Faltaram muitas bandas como: UFO, Triunvirat, Uriah Heep, Nazareth, Creedence, Boston, The Moody Blues, The Birds, muitas outras e principalmente Iron Maiden. The cover was memorably defaced by Bowie himself decades later. ACCEPT – Balls to the Wall, MESSAGE – FROM BOOKS AND DREAMS ? Alice Again-School’s Out. Be Bop Deluxe – Sunburst Finish Barnes’s sensual figures and jubilant dancers reflected the carnal nature of Gaye’s 1976 album. Rodney Matthews did a superb job especially on my personal favourite ‘On a Storyteller’s Night’, but there are many more worthy of inclusion in this list.. The list is too P.C. A masterpiece! Number 21 or 22. Wow indeed. Can’t believe some of what they entered….but I think Styx’s “Equinox & Grand Illusion” along with Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” And Kansas’s “Audio Visions, Song For America, & Leftoverature” were neat album artwork/photography. Jeff Beck – Beck Ola Nevermind. Check again.. Leaves a lot to debate on. Yes, the Beatles were a brilliant band, the springboard for EVERYTH8NG THAT CAME AFTER. Not every band would fly a pig over Battersea Power Station, but few other bands would make an album that absolutely called for it. With all four bandmembers together in a bathtub, the cover said more about The Mamas & The Papas than what was probably intended. Missing Jethro Tull’s “Thick As A Brick” (newspaper you can open and read), Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Live At The Star Club Hamburg” (a map of Hamburg in cartoon style when you open it), Led Zeppelin’s “III” (the wheel you can turn) and rare old french edition of Jimi Hendrix’s “Electric Ladyland” (artwork by heroic fantasy cartoonist Philippe Druillet) .. oh ! no Doe Maar, Herman Brood and no Nits all to Dutch for ya…….. Zappa “We are only in it for the Money” i think what’s going on here is some of these albums became really popular hence the covers became somewhat iconic. Erm, didn’t the Velvet Underground release White Light White Heat (the black album!) ELP – Tarkus. It was creativity to the nth degree, man! Not one Moody Blues album cover….unfrickinbelievable!!! I agree…the white album? Not one Iron Maiden album? …. Lot there i’ve got, lot that aren’t there that should be, and a lot that shouldn’t be there. Kansas’s “Leftoverture”. Foghat – Rock and Roll, Energized Like a proto XXL “Freshman Class”, the three alternate covers of A Tribe Call Quest’s classic third album Midnight Marauders featured a collage of 71 hip-hop personalities from Afrika Bambaataa to the Beastie Boys, like the Sgt Pepper of hip-hop. Some Ramones’ fans will get very angry! Absolutely on all the Hipgnosis and Warhol albums. George Harrison – Wonderwall This cover did wonders with its simple strategy. Lol… And what is so special about U2’s The Joshua Tree cover??? Covers that don’t belong even if it were the 1000 greatest ones. Tubular Bells to name but three. Many great covers here, but The Police’s “Ghost in the Machine” should have been included. Kanye West brings the minimalist “White Album” concept to the CD era. My favorite album cover though is Klaatu’s “Hope”. However; In the end, such Lists are Tough choices, Luckilly! Pixelated Album Covers. Very “old” list, These covers are awesome, we got some covers too at RobLunaMusic.com. Absolutely right! The cover depicts one of the greatest rock guitarists in his prime! 13. (Pictures) Fifty years ago this week the photo session that produced the iconic cover for The Beatles album “Abbey Road” took place. Great graphics on that one. Not a bad list, however I found it hard to believe neither Lil Boat 2 or Nuthin’ 2 Prove by Lil Yachty made the cut…. I don’t know why I keep looking at these top 100 lists, they always annoy me with who they have on the list and who they leave off. The Who by Numbers by Dan Dalton. Disappointed but not surprised to see no Iron Maiden or Megadeth covers in there. It was their party; you could join if they let you. You should know better to dare put together a list like this and call it Greatest….no one is ever happy or appreciates the work put into it. It wasn’t just the banned cover, but the freshness of the young girl, the invoking up the future with the rocket-like model, and the underage girl who appeared in place of her older sister, and with her parent’s consent. ", Into Shadows Act II: Through Horned Shadows Glimpse, And You'll Follow the Winds' Rush 'Till Their Breath Dwells, The Black Album / Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols, My Face Is on Fire / Trails of Colour Dissolve, Ballad of the Band / I Didn't Mean to Hurt You. Here they’re on the 10th floor of a hotel standing at the precipice, and only one of the guys seems concerned about it. Blue Cheer’s Outsideinside fascinated me as a youngster, checking out my cousin’s music. The cover for The Miracles’ 1961 debut encapsulates the old-school showbiz that Motown would soon lead the world away from. Black Flag’s trailblazing punk-metal wouldn’t have been the same without Pettibon’s grisly comic images, though in this case, not quite as grisly as the album itself. Wishbone Ash’s “Argus” and Uriah Heep’s “Demons and Wizards” should be here. plus Carl Glover, Storm Thorgerson, etc. The somber, shadowed photo featured on both the US and UK album version of Meet The Beatles! Roger Dean’s fantasy paintings became as much a part of prog-rock iconography as the music. Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood looked impeccably stylish doing whatever it was they were doing on the Rumours cover. But, the topic of conversation is ‘album covers’ – not the quality/enjoyability of music on the album itself. No Peter Saville or Vaughan Oliver works? was just the opposite of the grinning pic that everybody expected to see, and the first of many carry-overs from the Beatles’ art-school days. Absolutely Steve. In this case, the interlocking geometric shapes are a visual answer to the album’s innovative time signatures. Would be nice to actually officially credit them too! Disturbed has some rather good album covers (e.g. Agreed. Pump by Aerosmith i didn’t see that herb alpert one with the girl in the whipped cream. Luxurious Snake skin cover with a fabulous interior, lush with band portrait,Lyrics and One Billion Dollar Bill.. Jackson Browne-Late for the Sky. Their debut album pictured Oasis in the world’s coolest crash pad, showing every band of the era how it ought to be living. Bad Company – Straight Shooter 1980s Album Covers. What Ho! Very much so, any album cover from Yes shoild be there. The cover of The Ramone’s 1976 self-titled debut is pure punk rock in all its black-and-white grittiness. How can Steppenwolf 7 not be in the list? The Argus cover stuck with me through all these years. Cool list. Many of Alpert’s albums are excellent. The ubiquitous Hipgnosis team outdid itself with this ultra-clever 10cc sleeve, which is not only inspired by one of the songs (the phone sex-themed “Don’t Hang Up”) but is full of hidden gags, with the same people turning up in each of the four main photos. Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms? These type of lists are irrelevant. Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking Example: ANYTHING by either Storm Thorgerson, Hipgnosis or Roger Dean as an album cover deserves consideration. Left off: Jimi Hendrix Cry of Love; Osibisa “Osibisa”; Osibisa “Woyaya”; Suntreaser “Zin-Zin”; Babe Ruth “First Base”; Uriah Heep “Demons and Wizards”; Blue Cheer “Blue Cheer”; Blue Oyster Cult “Blue Oyster Cult”; Colosseum “the Grass Is Greener”; Babe Ruth “The Best of Babe Ruth”; Lenny White “Venusian Summer”; Pink Floyd “Relics” (US LP); Blind Faith “Blind Faith” (banned coved); Suzi Quatro “Suzi Quatro”; Buddy Miles “Them Changes”; Golden Earring “Moontan” (US banned cover); Kate Bush “Kick Inside” (Yugoslavian cover & red socks cover); Hard Stuff “Bolex Dementia” (US cover); Rory Gallagher “Tattoo”; Linda Ronstadt “Don’t Cry Now”; Dolly Parton “Something Special”; Tanya Tucker “Tanya Tucker”; Helen Reddy “Reddy”; Julie London “Make Love to Me”; Jaye P. Morgan “Just You Just Me”; June Christy “June’s Got Rhythm”….etc. Arriving one year after his milestone album The Payback, Brown delivered the double-album Hell, which called out societal ills both on record and on the elaborately illustrated cover. To commemorate this and to celebrate album art in general here’s a picture quiz that features some other album covers from the last fifty years. Kiss: Destroyer Blown Pig,pigs head,headphones,sunglasses,a smoke,hilarious. Led Zeppelin III. Some of my favorite album covers are not mainstream. (Suddenly I’m in doubt; Is it actually there?). And a great album too. One big picture…. Thanks to NatBateman for this suggestion. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Rock_and_Rolling_with_Fats.jpg. Most fucking annoying. Are they so great? Agreed! Neil Young – After the Goldrush. However, I appreciated Unknown Pleasures (JD) is ‘difficult audibly, as covers go it must slightly trump Power, Corruption and Lies? Yes: Yessongs No Uriah Heep? Goude’s visual re-imagining of the androgynous singer led to some of the best album covers in music history, from Nightclubbing to Slave to the Rhythm and the arabesque grandeur of Island Life. why on earth is Ian Dury & The Blockheads ‘Do It Yourself’ not on that list and covers like Madness and Elvis Costello are? If you have sergeant pepper’s then you should have we’re only in it for the money by the Mothers of Invention. From Beatlejuice to Nightcrawler, how many can you get right? Interesting to look over the ones here thanks! Tommy James & The Shondells “Crimson and Clover and Jethro Tull’s, “Broadsword And The Beast”. Everybody since has been influenced by their music and creative style. And here we have to mention the friendship between Iron Maiden and Derek Riggs , who, starting with their 1980 debut, worked on all of their album covers in the 80s and 90s, drawing the mascot “Eddie” and defining the band’s visual language. 19) The Beatles, The Beatles (known as The White Album) (1968) 20) Billy Bragg, Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs Spy (1983) 21) Beastie Boys, Licensed To Ill (1986) If You Can Remember The Names Of These Albums From Just The Album Art, We're Going To Be Seriously Flabbergasted. On their 1969 debut, the cavorting characters were there to remind you how much fun rock’n’roll was supposed to be. VAN HALEN “VAN HALEN” OR 1984 SHOULD HAVE SURELY MADE THE LIST. It doesn’t make much sense , we always mix cover art with album content, or we like a cover with no special art because it reflects so well album content that we love so much, or a period, or because she reminds a girlfirend… so is this meaningful? dennis wilson holding the mikestand from his crotch into the audience with that look on his face. If you had any serious knowledge about The Beatles and their influence on the entire world with fashion, language, music and more, you would not ask this question. This cover is Roger Dean at his most vivid. The Rolling Stones probably couldn’t beat the Beatles for a psychedelic album in 1967, but they arguably had the better cover, the first 3D sleeve in rock. No they are not. ), JJ Cale Shades and so many others…. The album cover that started it all the most iconic Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass the one with the naked girl covered in whipped cream , WTF how could this not be included really, That was my first thought too. Goat’s Head Soup – The Rolling Stones, cd packaging is a different size as well. Playing Possum – Carly Simon Thanks to MarkiesCarab for this suggestion. He fittingly put his most beautiful cover on Yes’ most creative album, an icy winterscape that illuminates the album’s war-and-peace theme. even better than cream’s disraeli gears which is almost an eyesore is their wheels of fire cover, same artist, but way less of a dogs breakfast, cleaner and classy and silver, a refined version without the cliche dayglow. Everything in the cover, from the sepia tone photo, to the clothes to the typography was the antithesis of the sixties aesthetic and announced a new music rooted in the past. One of the many imaginative trips from the late 60s, this assemblage – by the band’s drummer – represents various personal dreams of the band members. Dream Weaver was a neat cover also. Carly Simon – Really, all of them, but Playing Possum is a classic! How come the Destroyer album from Kiss or Love Gun for that matter didn’t make the cut? It won NME’s award for best album artwork in 1969. Robert Palmer – Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley 20 images. The boxer was already a perfect image for the Pogues, but don’t miss the subtle joke: the word “peace” of course has five letters. There are quite a few Arguably, not to mention Questionable choices here. Live Adventures by Kooper and Bloomfield didn’t make the top 10? And so, the #DoubleJAlbumChallenge was born. The Doors ” Full Circle ” (great cover, crappy album. The Stones always had attention-grabbing covers and Let It Bleed was equally unique and surreal. Wings – “Venus And Mars” Kate Bush – The Dreaming (with a kiss, I’d pass they key) Where is Quicksilver Happy Tails ? Photo was actually taken on the 20th. Since Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew sounded like no other previous jazz albums, it couldn’t look like one either. How could I forget? Zeppelin III. No “LIVE” cover for GFR? Freewheel By Bob Dylan I agree! My favorite album cover is Blow By Blow from Jeff Beck! hilarious drawing of a bunch of hairy guys supposed to be the beach boys, i think, tho i have no idea who is who! This countdown of great album covers – some iconic, others overlooked – has it all: indelible images, perfect portraits, nightmares, and hallucinations. Thanks to PrisonBound for reminding me of this one. Sporting a photo of JS Bach with a Moog synthesizer, Wendy Carlos’ pioneering electronic album Switched-On Bach was unlike anything people had seen (or heard) before in 1968. All these covers are DOPE. Einstürzende Neubauten – Strategies Against Architecture A soft cover just wouldn’t be right for Slayer’s thrash masterpiece Reign in Blood and designer Larry Carroll packed a thousand nightmares into this Bosch-like painting, which influenced metal imagery for decades to come. LOSE -. You’d think this list was made in the 1950s. Neil Young – Harvest or After the Goldrush Jefferson Airplane’s Long John Silver hails from the golden age of elaborate album covers. Beth Orton – Trailer Park Who is the nitwit in the middle? I do not know where you culled the images for this article, but whoever was responsible is clearly a dunderhead. Pepper sleeve to great success. Lists like this are always subjective! Where are any of those incredible Yes covers like Yessongs? Scorpions fly to the rainbow. The cover of Joy Division’s 1979 debut record is an actual depiction of radio waves. I miss the Band`s Music from big pink and Country Joe Mc Donald`s I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die. School ‘s Out I still like that first Grateful Dead album cover too! Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, "Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward. Where can I buy or print some of these album covers?, 45 rpm singles also (7 inch). T Rex electric warrior. You forgot Alrune Rod’s album Alrune Rod http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3109/cover_17659102009.jpg, Freddie Hubbard – Hub Tones BuzzFeed Staff. Illustrated album covers had been around for decades, but the nineties, saw digitally drawn illustrations spawn a whole new style. Required fields are marked *. Sigur Ros all. Axis:Bold As Love – Jimi Hendrix, A good compilation but with some notable omissions: (here’s only a few) Can you recognise these 23 iconic movie posters without the text? Rolling Stones’ original “Beggars Banquet” Cover is Missing. Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells. Wendy Waldman – Strange Company All were released between 1980 and 1989. Largely written by bandmembers Ian Anderson, John Evan, and Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond (with help from Chrysalis staffer and former journalist Roy Eldridge), the famous newspaper cover of Thick as a Brick is full of cross-references and cerebral wit – just like the music – and Anderson said it took just as much work. Stand Up by Jethro Tull Sticky Fingers and Banana covers are among the most recognizable. You were there when the photo was taken? … Inspired by the album’s themes of the subconscious, the dark sleeve of Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? The cover for Ten Out Of 10 remains one of Hipgnosis’ fiendishly clever 10cc covers and one of their more overlooked albums. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. U2 – Achtung Baby I grew up shopping in the vinyl era, and there were so many great covers then. Wes Montgomery – Road Song Talking Heads’ The Name of This Band is Talking Heads is a double live album with the quartet on one album/cover and the 11 piece band on the second album/cover. For each cover there is a question and the answer to each follows the set of questions. OMG – Where are the judges? It also made it essential to own the original, fold-out vinyl. No GENESIS – total shame! Carole King – Tapestry some of these covers are just bands posing. Robert Fripp saw this dramatic painting after In the Court of the Crimson King was completed and knew it perfectly suited the music, with the crazed cover figure as the 21st century schizoid man.
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