Favorite Album Covers

deckerp

I know there are lots of music fans out there. I thought a fun topic to start might be to show our favorite album cover art. It may be the art you like or just a favorite album. I'll get us started.



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deckerp

Yeah, I'm back already.

As a big Eagles fan I thought this was really cool. This person has a picture they took of the hotel used on the cover of "Hotel California".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanuman/3646944812/

snookeroo

This is the one that started it all for me. So much going on visually! Nothing like holding the real album cover in your hands while the record was playing.



and the back

TCASMEY

Too many great ones out there.

But......


Do you realize most kids now a days have no idea what an album cover is?!? They live in the world of downloads.....favorite songs only. If we wanted to buy or favorite song only we bought a 45, we did not buy the whole album for one song!:laugh: :laugh:

THE WORLD IS CHANGING!

donya35

So I was raised in a super strict Christian home, where the only music I was allowed to listen to up until High School was Christian and Country. The first song I ever heard outside of those two groups, was Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Needless to say it made a HUGE impression on me that day!:laugh:

snookeroo

Boston's debut album, at one time at least, was the biggest selling debut album of all time. It may still be.
I remember talking on the phone with a friend back then, who said, "If you turn the album cover upside down, the spaceships are really guitars" Wow, that was cool!

Heather75

Revolver - The Beatles.

deckerp

I have The Eagles - Hotel California above. It was number one at one point. This album replaced it at number one. I listened to this album end to end a ton of times....



...I guess I still do sometimes. I just played it at work on Friday.

donya35

to Heather75:

Love Love LOVE your quote in your signature!! :happy:

deckerp

Boston's debut album, at one time at least, was the biggest selling debut album of all time. It may still be.
I remember talking on the phone with a friend back then, who said, "If you turn the album cover upside down, the spaceships are really guitars" Wow, that was cool!

Boston rules! It was/is cool. I wish they had done more albums back then. I said something like that to a guy I was in college with and he claimed they signed on for seven albums and had done seven with the last being a greatest hits. This was in 1983 or so. Whatever dude.

donya35

I have The Eagles - Hotel California above. It was number one at one point. This album replaced it at number one. I listened to this album end to end a ton of times....

...I guess I still do sometimes. I just played it at work on Friday.

Aww you beat me to it!!! I was gonna post this album!! I love them!

donya35

Another one of my favs! I put it on repeat and could listen to it for days!

deckerp

This album is not because of the cover art but because it's SUCH a classic album. Yet another one I've listened to all the way through, time and time again. Yes, just last week too.

donya35

It's Led Zeppelin...Need I say anymore?

Vallandingham

Been checking out all those album covers. Thanks, Deckerp. The cool thing is I have every single one of them, though they are all in CD now.

I rerally miss the album art from "back in the day".

I have so many faves that I can't pick one. Late sixties were the best though. Pearl. Santana. Grateful Dead. It's a lost art.

Elokyn

It's Led Zeppelin...Need I say anymore?

shout out

Mine are the physical graffiti covers by Led Zep. There are several variations of this cover so I'll just link the google.

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&q=led+zeppelin+physical+graffiti&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&oq=led+zeppelin+physical&gs_rfai=

snookeroo

This was another great one! The album artwork wasn't always limited to the cover.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was a double album with a tri-fold cover. The inside contained the lyrics (Bernie Taupin) along with more spectacular art. The record would play, you could follow along with the lyrics and get lost in the imagery. Marilyn Monroe...Bennie and the Jets...Danny Bailey...Alice and "friends"...and the Dirty Little Girl...they were all there.



the inside

Vallandingham

That was a great album snookeroo. I was in the Marines back then when I bought it. I remember going to my parents' home on leave after I got it. I was laying on my brothers bed listening to it with headphones on. Hands clasped behind my head, eyes closed . Apparently I was singing along loudly to "Benny and the Jets" and everyone in the house heard me. They all stuck their collective heads in the door. That was about 36 years ago. Any time "Benny and the Jets" comes on the radio, I hear about it.

My mother even told my daughter and she makes fun of me everytime it comes on and begs me to sing along.

I still sing along when it comes on -- but I keep my eyes peeled and no one has ever caught me. It'll be a cold day ..............

immacookie

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snookeroo

A FARWELL TO KINGS

One of my favorite albums to listen to in its' entirety.

immacookie

Another good one...

snookeroo

While technically not album art, perhaps the very first Picture Discs.
Those old enough to remember will understand. And for the younger generation, you'd probably never believe it.

deckerp

From your cereal boxes. I remember getting some of those but I don't have them any more.

deckerp

There is a CD version of this but I have the DVD. I highly recommend it.

Heather75

I love Jim Croce. My mom used to listen to him when I was little.

donya35

Ahhh....My Ramones!!

snookeroo

Have You Heard JIM CROCE Live

I have both the CD and DVD. Also his Live: Final Tour. Plus the original studio stuff - You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Life and Times and I Got A Name. And a couple Greatest Hits CDs. I just could never find The Faces I've Been on CD. He was Great!
Great DVD and Live CD collection! Nice pick.

snookeroo

I love this cover. It is "borrowed" from the the 1951 science fiction movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. One of my absolute favorite movies! And I should mention, among the many great songs on this album is the song that was on the B-side of Ringo's hit 45 "No No Song". The song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin: "SNOOKEROO".

deckerp

Is there a sound track to "Caveman"? :laugh:

Here's a super famous album cover.

front


back


This link is to an article talking about the picture and the conspiracy theories that came from it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205310/Pictured-The-Beatles-album-cover-started-decades-long-conspiracy-theory.html

snookeroo

Paul's not dead! This was, by far, one of my favorite live albums, if not favorite albums, when I was growing up in the seventies!
McCartney was unstoppable! He left that other band and just kept churning out the hits and unbeatable albums. Check out the line up of songs on this set. When this album was originally released, it was a 3 album collection (later released on two CDs). It was a gatefold album cover with an awsome inside center graphic that I always wanted as a mural on my wall. (never happened.)



the back



the inside



And to top it off, this album included a double sided poster. CDs, let alone mp3 downloads, just can't compare!

twoes

Mine is on my ticker, and happens to be a tatoo on my ankle also!!


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