Best Al*** Cover - what's your opinion?

Best: Smell The Glove by Spinal Tap.



Cheers

Keith.

[Smell The Glove]Originally posted by Keith Mattox:


Especially the limited edition leather version.

My next choice would be:-

Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service

For an album cover to provide a bit of mental stimulation (?) try Warren Zeavon's "What's Wrong with This Picture"

Trouble is, they don't look so appealing scaled down from 12" to CD size.

Be seeing You

Ron

There´s so many. To me it probably depends on the mood I´m in.
Today it´s: Never mind the bollocks here´s the sex pistols.

Gunnar

'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy'

Paul

Album Covers part 1

My favourites...

• In the Court of the Crimson King
  
• Stand Up - Jethro Tull, open up the gatefold and a cardboard cutout of the band stands up!
  
• Return of the Durutti Column(Sandpaper sleeve)
  
• The white album (minimalist)
  
• Get Happy - Elvis Costello, the sleeve came looking pre-worn
  

and the worst...

Armed Forces - Elvis Costello. I have one of the limited edition sleeves which opens up like those horrible promotional leaflets and always opens up as you try top put the LP back onto the shelf (I use a plastic sleeve to hold it together.

A choice between ...

Funeral in Berlin - Thobbing Gristle (art by Val Denham)

or

Faust - 1st album clear vinyl in a clear inner sleeve, with a clear inert and a clear outer .

Both good enough to hang on the wall next to my Ortenstone collection.

DS

OTD - Nothing

Rainbow Rising - awsome!!

NB

...sad old perv that I am.

The best album cover I have see (and definately the wierdest) is 'Underground' by Thelonious Monk. It is still available on vinyl and CD. It really has to be seen to be believed! In short it encompasses the following: Monk at a piano dressed as a soldier, a tied up member of the geshtapo (probably a miss-spelling), a donkey, lots of straw and a machine gun! Follow that.

What no Zappa !

Overnight Sensation

Jack

Jack

Sorry. Ship Too Late, amongst others, is a given....

Gunnar

hello again! yep, that Pistols album should be right up there. I remember when it was first released, the title summed up the mood of the moment perfectly. I have the distinction of having seen the Pistols and the Clash in the same week.The Clash where better...

A riot of my own.....sir....

happy days

The first Kingfish album cover

"All systems are perfectly designed to get the results they get."

Cannot believe I ommitted Electric Warrior, T. Rex. Yes, that T. Rex.

And WHAT an album it is - forget what you may have heard, try it. I have been groovin' out to it since 1971...

Get it on? Got it on...

Mike!
If I could have done the same thing as you. I never had the chance to go to a pistols gig. Lived in the countryside at that time. 16 year old poor student at that time. Managed though to hear Clash in Stockholm during their London calling tour.
Ah! those days!
To me the clash was superior to the pistols.
Btw Londong calling is also a great cover.

Gunnar

In the sixties we used the albums covers as posters, they were fantastic.. I remember the odor; of course we're talkin' about vinyl..

Best albums covers:

Abraxas-Santana: Marvelous black woman
Stones: Satanic Majesties
Beatles: Pepper's
Doors: Strange days
Hendrix: Bold as love
Moody Blues: Question of balance
Woodstock Festival: we used to open the album (3 covers), smoked a little joint and you were there...

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Originally posted by NAIMGAIM:
Nobody mentioned any ROXY MUSIC covers!!! Personally I like Country Life

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As if!!! Third on my list - I think we are singing from the same hymn sheet here, viz." hide the Brillo pad"....

Mike