Favorite Vinyl Album Art

[bass12]

I've always been partial to some of Grace Jones' album covers, in particular this one :

[bass12]

I also always dug Talk Talk's record covers:

[bassdude51]

Canned Heat Future Blues

and

Moby Grape's first album

My 2 favorite album covers of all time. (Counter Culture statements) Photo #2, can you spot the "bird"?

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by Luv2Pla4U

Ohio Players - Fire, Honey, Skin Tight, Ouch!, Pleasure, Ol' School... you get the idea

Originally Posted by mellowinman

For me it will always be Roxy Music's Country Life.

Well, my work here is done...

[Unprofessional]

Originally Posted by repoman

Lets remember where the Clash got there inspiration from: (that's Elvis's first album, 'case you were wondering)

I read in a Paul Simonon interview somewhere that he always regretted smashing up that particular P-Bass since it was his best player at the time.
The cover and the contents are classic. I still have the vinyl... somewhere.

[Ric5]

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by Ric5

Hey! My copy of DSOTM came with a different band poster! Same general concept & layout, but it had different photos of the individual musicians, and I'm pretty sure it was in portrait orientation.

[gkbass13]

I have a nice unopened copy of the Super Fly soundtrack that I display for decorative purposes. already have it on CD and digital, so It's nice to keep it wrapped and minty.

[rtav]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (H.R. Giger)


Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (Roger Dean)


Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (great pic from Mick Rock)


Queen - Queen II (just another great freakin pic from Mick Rock)


Beat - King Crimson


Janet Jackson - Janet (it's OBVIOUS)


Heart - Little Queen (again, it's OBVIOUS)


The Beatles - Revolver


The Beatles - Hey Jude


The Tubes - The Tubes


Renaissance - In the Beginning

[96tbird]

Originally Posted by Unprofessional

I read in a Paul Simonon interview somewhere that he always regretted smashing up that particular P-Bass since it was his best player at the time.
The cover and the contents are classic. I still have the vinyl... somewhere.

There's a YouTube video of that interview, it's quite entertaining.

[sevdog]

I see School's Out has been mentioned and it was pretty cool, but the day I found my dad's copy of Muscle of Love was one of those "a-ha" moments in becoming addicted to rock'n'roll.

The brown cardboard box with the pictures of the sailors in the daytime/nightime is freaking awesome...throw in a midget pimp and a hooker-gorilla-in-a-whig and you've got the greatest vinyl album cover of all time right there.

[JimmyM]

When I think of awesome album art, only one word comes to mind...Heino!

[Richland123]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dog

would love it if you could post a photo

[sevdog]

...Sammy Hagar parachuting onto the Capitol Lawn with pointy guitar in hand was also pretty sweet.

[bass12]

Someone had to bring out the Heino. And that someone would be JimmyM!

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by 96tbird

There's a YouTube video of that interview, it's quite entertaining.

Paul Simonon on his smashed P-bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZzYSgFAlY

[line6man]

I have a lot of favorites, but off the top of my head, here are three.

Frank Zappa's "Weasels Ripped My Flesh."

Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica."

Steve Vai's "Flex-Able." (There were four different versions, but I like this one.)

[4dog]

This one brought me out of puberty

[pica]

Originally Posted by Unprofessional

I read in a Paul Simonon interview somewhere that he always regretted smashing up that particular P-Bass since it was his best player at the time.
The cover and the contents are classic. I still have the vinyl... somewhere.

I do believe London Calling was voted number 8 in Rolling Stones greatest 500 albums of all time. As a matter of fact I'm looking at the issue right now.

[cdef]

The Blue Note jazz label had famously stylish graphics. In the hippie era, Elektra Records always had good cover art and photography.

As mentioned, Cal Schenkel's work for Zappa was great. So were Neon Park's paintings for Little Feat.