Lots of lovely covers for well-loved albums, but I didn’t spot any Magnum. Sticky Fingers and Banana covers are among the most recognizable. But it’s so cheerful that you still have to love it. Savoy Brown,Outside Looking in.. My opinion the Best Cover art ever, Be Bop Deluxe “Axe Victim ” and “Sunburst Finish” Freewheel By Bob Dylan Four Tops – Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over) 2:41: 1-8: Four Tops – Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever: 2:49: 1-9: Four Tops – Reach Out I'll Be There: 3:01: 1-10: Four Tops – Standing In The Shadows Of Love: 2:40: 1-11: Four Tops – Bernadette: 3:04: 1-12: Four Tops – I Got A Feeling: 2:54: 1-13: Four Tops – 7-Rooms Of Gloom: 2:36: 1-14: Four Tops – I'll Turn To Stone: 2:30: 1-15: Four Tops – Then came Black Sabbath…. – Animals by Pink Floyd Axis:Bold As Love- Jimi Hendrix Experience Throughout their career, 24 of their singles reached the Billboard Top 40 with seven of them reaching the top ten and two of them reaching #1 on the chart. I chose LP’s from musicians that I liked – that were done by fine artists of note and were interesting to look at. Ten Years After “SSSSH, “Stonehenge”, and Cricklewood Green” Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous The Tops never went back to the UK album summit, but their place in the nation’s hearts was now unshakeable. 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. Thin Lizzy Night life, Mike Oldfield Tubular bells, moody blues on a threshold of a dream.and jeff beck becola. Impossible to achieve. This is the first time I’ve heard somebody besides myself mention Crawler or Back Street Crawler in any way . Number 21 or 22. And, Guitars that destroyed the world. Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day by Man – if only for the fantastic origami map of Wales. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes, Any early Genesis cover should be there, especially “Trick Of The Tail” or “Selling England By The Pound”. Iron Maiden – Number Of the Beast IMO best of all time. The Argus cover stuck with me through all these years. The album cover for Hüsker Dü’s final studio album is one of those cases where a cover is exactly like the album: vivid, colorful and jarring in a welcoming way. Thanks for letting us know, Timothy! Ten points if you got the original with the underwear inner sleeve. …and we must not forget Captain Beyond’s “Sufficiently Breathless”, Genesis “Live”, Charlie Daniels Band “Fire on the Mountain”, Yes “Relayer”, all the crazy Blue Oyster Cult covers, Joe Walsh’s “The Smoker you Drink, the Player you Get”…just the title alone …Jesus, come on. I don’t think half of these deserve to be on this list. Leaves a lot to debate on. Lotus – Santana Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies. Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin' (1969) 6. Disturbed has some rather good album covers (e.g. Auf der LP Back Where I Belong waren auch wieder größtenteils Songs des Teams Holland, Dozier und Holland zu hören. The Band’s brown album (The Band) is a break with the period’s psychedelic imagery and music. Not a single Cannibal Corpse cover. Exactly! The Go-Go’s sense of playful subversion extended to their sendup of glamorous cover photos on their hit debut, Beauty & The Beat. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 29. Tubular Bells should be on here.. Vagabonds of the Western World – Thin Lizzy You could also see Yeezus as the last celebration of the physical CD before it disappeared. I would certainly add The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper with album artwork by Norman Rockwell. – Spirits in the Material World by The Police Luxurious Snake skin cover with a fabulous interior, lush with band portrait,Lyrics and One Billion Dollar Bill.. Jackson Browne-Late for the Sky. Sie wechselten des Öfteren die Plattenlabels; so waren sie kurze Zeit auch bei Chess Records, bis Berry Gordy sie 1964 für Motown verpflichtete. Bob Dylan’s ‘Self Portrait’ is among the 100 best covers of all time? Iron Maiden :Somewhere in Time Indestructible), and Hybrid Theory (LINKIN PARK) beats several of the ones on this list. However, when an album itself becomes iconic(for example Close to the Edge by Yes)then usually the cover becomes iconic too. complexity is the miracle, who tries to say it all? My favorite album cover though is Klaatu’s “Hope”. Not always but a lot of the time. Brian Eno – Another Green World Written-By – Ivy Jo Hunter, Jack Goga *, Pamela Sawyer *, Vernon Bullock. Why in the world did Humble Pie get a bunch of policemen to form a human pyramid? Desk Graffiti , Girls Panties and All. Osibisa ? Alice Cooper: From The Inside No Steppenwolf? Rush’s greatest album covers expressed both their grand concepts and their cerebral sense of humor. Blue Cheer’s Outsideinside fascinated me as a youngster, checking out my cousin’s music. http://www.sakisgouzonis.com. And although they had other great album covers,I will submit Quicksilver Messenger Service and “Happy Trails”. Discover the worst album covers of all time. Along with plenty of sex and provocation, since much of this list of the greatest album covers revels in rock’n’roll imagery. XTC’s Drums and Wires because of the way the band’s name is incorporated into the portrait. nice version of the ramones :))))) Auch das Cover von den Four Tops war erfolgreich. Speaking of censorship, what about the uproar over Blind Faith’s album? I ended up with Sticky Fingers – Warhol, Weasel’s Ripped MF – Neon Parks, Disreali Gears – Martin Sharp etc. Dave Brubeck’s 1959 album Time Out is likely the most landmark use of pop art on a jazz cover. served notice that Eilish was here to mess with your head. My first album (x2) that my Grandma bought me cause I told her I liked it; Mom was not pleased when I opened it at XMas and played LOUD! Ya know people today don’t even understand the concept of an album cover. Bauhaus – The Sky’s Gone Out OTHER CATEGORIES. Not a bad selection,but how could you leave out Axis Bold as love or several of the Moody Blues lp covers? what about Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers? And when I hear people bitch that their MUSIC is no better or worse than, say, Sammy Hagar or Sublime, I don’t even enter that conversation, cuz that’s stupid, if you have EARS and you don’t like ANYTHING the Beatles did, you’re just a Mary Mary quite contrary. nearly 1/2 of these covers don’t deserve to be on this list…a lot of much better covers aren’t even represented here, from bands represented here and from lesser known bands. And how many other bands numbered their albums before the white album? Help by The Beatles Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (front & back), Black Sabbath-Heaven & Hell, Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You, Slade-Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Bad Company-Run with the Pack, Bad Company-Straight Shooter, Frank Zappa-Joe’s Garage, Roger Glover & Friends-Butterfly Ball, to name a few, Greenslade – Time and Tide They probably don’t know the inside of the sleeves! Meanwhile, his debut allowed him to look like the crazed hillbilly everyone’s parents feared he was. Dire Straits – Love Over Gold Maybe it’s not a rock album but it’s certainly one of the most iconic covers of all. ?………………….maybe dark side of the moon? This Was by Jethro Tull, Here is what you left out: Talk about overkill. This stark black-and-white cover became so iconic that it’s now worn proudly on T-shirts by teens who’ve never heard of the band. Pretty iconic. It was weird, it was witty, it was Warhol. Wishbone Ash “Argus “, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown “I bring you to burn …”. L.A. suburbia meets Rene Magritte. That cover is supposed to suggest she WAS naked because she could easily have been. Carly Simon – “No Secrets” If Horses wasn’t enough to make Patti Smith an instant icon of bohemian cool, the Robert Mapplethorpe photo certainly was. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures I would have included the Crown of Creation cover by Jefferson Airlplane and the Beatles’ Yesterday and Today Butcher cover. What is it wit all the Beatles albums???? This list is so lame! BOTH ARE DIAMOND CERTIFIED ALBUMS AND WERE MADE BY THE BEST AMERICAN HARD ROCK BAND IN HISTORY!! Arguably the most iconic 60s cover of all, the cover for Big Brother & the Holding Company’s sophomore record was also most people’s introduction to the style of underground comic art perfected by R. Crumb. T Rex electric warrior. Especially as you didn’t included Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. because of what, the nipples? How about some love for the greatest live album ever recorded? Kiss Alive 1 captured the raw live energy deffo should have been there. Missing: Vs. – Pearl Jam; Workingman’s Dead – Grateful Dead; Live at Fillmore East – Allman Bros.; Loaded – The Velvet Underground; Destroyer – Kiss; The Bends – Radiohead; Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan; Marquee Moon – Television; Pet Sounds – Beach Boys; Rage Against the Machine – RATM; Harvest – Neil Young; This reminds me of the Guerrilla Girls campaign “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?”. Where is the magnificant album of Blind Faith. It was their party; you could join if they let you. Disgraceful. Ah, the days when bands had the money to carry out their wildest ideas. What about some of the Moody Blues albums? Basically any Genesis cover could’ve made it here. Carole King – Tapestry The Beatles Rubber Soul,Sgt Pepper… Led Zeppelin 3, In Through the Outdoor Deep Purple in Rock, Stormbringer Jethro Tull Stand Up, Thick As A Brick Peter Gabriel 2, Joy Division Closer, Cocteau Twins Treasure, Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Therapy? Roger Hodgson’s title track is as fresh today as when it was released. Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights Not a terrible list, but I’d have thought Weather Report – Heavy Weather, would have somehow made that list. If The Beatles could do a double “White Album,” the Bee Gees could do a fuzzy red one. Put the notorious bathroom cover together with the engraved invitation on the US replacement, and you’ve got the yin and the yang of The Rolling Stones at the time. I’d include Budgie’s Bandolier, he first Captain Beyond album in 3D, Nazareth’s No Mean City and Lucifer Friend’s first album. Deep Purple – Machine Head Band – Eat a Peach Steppenwolf: 7 Nur wenige Stunden später explodierte dieses Flugzeug durch einen Bombenanschlag in der Luft (Lockerbie-Anschlag). Dann veröffentlichte Arista Records das Album Indestructible, auf dem Aretha Franklin und Kenny G als Studiogäste zu hören sind. I do like the Beatles but unfortunately they are rammed down peoples throats. George Harrison – Wonderwall Suzanne Vega – Days of Open Hand Shame. Eno – Here come the warm jets. Scorpions – “Lovedrive” Couple faves of mine were missing, like Savoy Brown -Looking In and Quicksilver Messenger Service- Happy Trails, but the truly iconic ones were there. Scorpions : Lonesome Crown, Yeah,my first tattoo was Rainbow Rising…think that artwork rocks..along with the album naturally. Movie Blu-Ray Covers Consoles 3DO Covers Atari 2600 Covers Atari 5200 Covers Atari 7800 Covers Atari Jaguar Covers Colecovision Covers Dreamcast Covers Gamecube Covers Genesis Covers … See? Or Cindy Lauper’s “Shes So Unusual”? Written By – Ivy Jo … As the first classical album to go platinum in America, Carlos helped to bring Bach… to the future. Seriously no Rodney Matthews in there. All the 3 inches of Blood covers are missing But so many are so lame, even stuff that I like! John Cale – Walking on Locusts An additional 21 have reached the UK Top 40 with ten reaching the top ten and one reaching #1 on the chart. Geschichte. "I Can't Help Myself " reached No. OMG – Where are the judges? BTO – Not Fragile As the 80s arrived, the Four Tops found themselves without a record contract and facing irrelevancy in the fickled world of popular music. Some of Elton’s greatest album covers were a bit splashy, others a little somber. 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 the British prog-rock outfit Family’s 1971 album is a multi-foldout extravaganza and features an early computer graphic, adding the individual band photos to each other until they become the pretty blur at top right. The Police’s Ghost in the Machine’s minimalist digital portrait of the band members. It was creativity to the nth degree, man! Sigur Ros all. Or “Jagged Little Pill”? 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 ! I have planned my holidays around his tour dates. The Led Zeppelin “III” cover is a far more Original and Iconic Cover even though “HOTH” is one of Hipgnosis’ most beautiful designs. Diamanda Galás – The Divine Punishment From 1963 to 1972, the group reached the R&B charts 28 times, and all but a very few are presented here (among the missing are three decidedly unnecessary covers: "MacArthur Park," "If I Were a Carpenter," and "River Deep -- Mountain High"). Sometimes credited as "The Four Tops" Line-Up Chronology: Lawrence Payton (1953-1997) Levi Stubbs (1953-2000) Renaldo "Obie" Benson (1953-2005) Abdul "Duke" Fakir (1953-present) or beach boys smiley smile, or beach boys live in concert double lp from ’73, never mentioned as one of the cheekiest, or even rudest covers ever! M-634, MT-634, 634. Tubeway Army Replicas. There are some truly great album covers here, but one hell of a lot of these are great albums with OK covers. Four Tops, one of my favourite Motown groups. Some Ramones’ fans will get very angry! Sell This Version. Those are all iconic albums(or most of them anyway)but not necessarily iconic album covers. The artwork is fabulous!! Great album, great cover. and Finally , the Mona Lisa of Rock and Roll… Pavlov’s Dog-Pampered Menial. born to run? 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. For the artwork AND the music. 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. Come on no one has even said Goats Head Soup! I think it would be better to have 1 cover per artist on the list because there are so many great ones. 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. Others missing On Through the night, what is wrong with you guys? Everest – yes, that was the original plan – so they came up with something just as memorable by leaving the studio and crossing the street, resulting in the iconic Abbey Road cover. 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. Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells. The so-called “White Album” was innovative; the first LP cover to come out with no picture! The Four Tops sind eine afroamerikanische Soul-Gesangsband aus Detroit. One big picture…. You missed one–Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” album cover was one of the cleverest ever designed. 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. Beginning of dialog window. Many of Alpert’s albums are excellent. no nektar. I miss the Band`s Music from big pink and Country Joe Mc Donald`s I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die. Pink Floyd – “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” A plain white cover with the band name… SOOO artistic! Savoy Brown Street corner talking. ver but fake! Here are 2 that sprang to mind. The Breeders – Last Splash Any of the First 3 Waterboys album covers. Robert Palmer – Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley But, album covers are another thing, and I don’t think that every single shit the Beatles ever took needs to be lionized as genius. The title track of Four Tops’ 1968 album was one of the first records they made after their mentors Holland-Dozier Holland quit Motown. you have quite ignored the rest of the world. It has really good music also. She looks like she can see everything that’s going to happen to her in the next 40 years. I was glad to see one Roger Dean work, but how about his cover for Osibisa’s debut LP? You were there when the photo was taken? The sublime strangeness of this David Bowie photo tells you everything you need to know about the creative madness of his Berlin period. Beth Orton – Trailer Park Santana – debut (lion) Audio-CD-Sound zu altem Video-Material. KISS DESTROYER, KISS LOVE GUN, KISS HOTTER THAN HELL, NINE INCH NAILS DOWNWARD SPIRAL, NIRVANA IN UTERO, METALLICA LOAD, NAZARETH HAIR OF THE DOG, AC/DC HIGHWAY TO HELL, DANZIG DEMONSWEATLIVE, QUEEN NEWS OF THE WORLD. The one for Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player was just right, drawing from his soon-to-be-legendary love of movies. Besides that, I’d argue that there are a few more albums and artists definitely in 100s not mentioned: “Electric Ladyland” (Hendrix), “The Trooper” (Iron Maiden), “Mothership” (Led Zeppelin), “American Idiot” (Green Day), “The Eminem Show” (Eminem), “All Eyez on me” (2Pac), and “Straight Outta Compton”(NWA), “Hybrid Theory” (Linkin Park), “Enema of the State” (Blink182), “Seal II” (Seal), “Queen II” (Queen), “God Save the Queen” (Sex Pistols), “Destroyer” (Kiss), “The 20/20 Experience” (J. Timberlake), “The End” (Black Eyed Peas), “Demon Days” (Gorillaz)… jeez, I could make my own list. By defacing the Heroes cover, Bowie found the most dramatic way of saying “that was then, this is now”. Absolutely on all the Hipgnosis and Warhol albums. How could Music From Big Pink by the Band not be on here? LOSE -. Blue Oyster Cult – Agents Of Fortune The best Electric Ladyland cover was the one with all the nude girls on it…..I still have my copy of it, they were on the front and back of the album. A lot of good covers here from good albums. Who is the nitwit in the middle? That wasn’t what he wanted at all! It’s sublte ambiguity makes it a great cover, even though the music wasn’t great. Interesting that they all seem to be from the vinyl era,no cd artwork I would love to laugh in their faces. The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s. Crimson’s first album cover is on the list. Whenever hip-hop started to take itself too seriously, ODB was there to disrupt, agitate, and give the middle finger to convention. , And the one that I’m Pictured holding in my Profile Photo: Rick Griffin artwork ! There were so many great covers that could replace all of these, in my opinion!
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