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(The Sun) Obvious Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" voted best album cover of all time. See kids, 'albums' used to be what music came in and you didn't need to put on your bifocals to see what the cover art looked li ... ah, forget it   (thesun.co.uk) divider line 75
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HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-03-05 11:01:23 PM  
Dunno, I'll stick with Santana's "Abraxas" on that one.

 
Godzilla [TotalFark] 2008-03-05 11:16:39 PM  
DSOTM has the win for me.

 
40below [TotalFark] 2008-03-05 11:23:02 PM  
Anyone rememember pouring over Iron Maiden covers looking for the secret messages and hidden stuff?

/ yeah, me neither

 
paulseta [TotalFark] 2008-03-05 11:31:21 PM  
40below: Anyone rememember pouring over Iron Maiden covers looking for the secret messages and hidden stuff?

/ yeah, me neither


No, but I remember playing Unknown Pleasures at normal speed trying to find the quality singing and music and hidden unfail.

 
cerote [TotalFark] 2008-03-05 11:42:49 PM  
This one was the first cover I really scrutinized.

I like how the list has a lot of covers that have little or no words on them; they've always been my favorite, as a rule.

 
baka-san [TotalFark] 2008-03-05 11:51:40 PM  
It's fallen out of favor, but I still love the album and the cover
www.irocknroll.com

But my vote for the best
www.rockandmetaldomain.co.uk

I know, am old

 
marcre3363 2008-03-05 11:56:31 PM  
Met a girl one time wearing this album cover on a shirt & tried to strike up a conversation about Joy Division. She had no idea what I was talking about.

"Your shirt" I said. "It's the cover from a Joy Division album."

"Really? I don't know. I think I bought this at Urban Outfitters."

I almost punched her in the ovaries.

 
Heroic Poser 2008-03-06 12:32:36 AM  
That Rick Springfield one with the dog wearing cloths freaked me out.

 
baka-san [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 12:55:35 AM  
Heroic Poser: That Rick Springfield one with the dog wearing cloths freaked me out.

Working Class Dog
cdn.last.fm

had it on cassette

 
Because People in power are Stupid 2008-03-06 01:31:39 AM  
I don't like the cover but it's a damn good album.

/Has the box set with everything

 
Cagey B [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 02:16:26 AM  
It is indeed an awesome album.

However, I will totally be the heretic here and say that Closer was an even better album.

 
JerkyMeat 2008-03-06 02:56:56 AM  
I have never seen that cover, but I'm not british or homosexual so I understand.

 
CZMisfitsFan 2008-03-06 03:13:01 AM  
Greatest album covers EVER

bitterpress.files.wordpress.com

homepages.bw.edu

www.hosndrega.de

 
HereComesTheScience 2008-03-06 03:15:15 AM  
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AgentOrangeDrink 2008-03-06 03:17:51 AM  
All the albums are British. Where's The Velvet Underground?

 
Krack 2008-03-06 03:24:31 AM  
g-ecx.images-amazon.com

 
Krack 2008-03-06 03:27:43 AM  
upload.wikimedia.org

 
Krack 2008-03-06 03:43:25 AM  
images.amazon.com

 
Krack 2008-03-06 03:47:41 AM  
sleevage.com

 
DjangoStonereaver [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 04:24:03 AM  
I vote for SYNCHRONICITY by the Police, personally.

 
LonMead 2008-03-06 05:02:58 AM  
I just like the bad joke here...
www.sentero.net

But my fave album and album cover...
images.amazon.com

 
Shazzoir [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 05:25:19 AM  
I'd have to vote for Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album...

 
bareto 2008-03-06 05:35:52 AM  
Link (new window) (NSFW?)

 
Onkel Buck 2008-03-06 06:55:08 AM  
I always thought this was a great trippy album cover
i26.photobucket.com

 
Wookie Milson 2008-03-06 07:02:54 AM  
JerkyMeat: I have never seen that cover, but I'm not british or homosexual so I understand.

/coffee out my nose... thanks

 
saint75 2008-03-06 07:39:25 AM  
Ok Brits, time to play "teach the American"

FTFA: 10. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the B*****ks

Is bollocks really that big of a curse word over there?

 
The Dynamite Monkey 2008-03-06 07:49:53 AM  
What is with the Brits and The Stone Roses?

Am I alone in thinking they are the most overrated band of all time?

A MOJO poll (of brits) put a SR album as The Greatest Album Of All Time. I just don't get it. Do you have to be on X?

Jeepers!

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 07:51:07 AM  
See kids, 'albums' used to be what music came in...


They still come in albums. The packaging and media are just smaller.

 
ClemsonChili 2008-03-06 08:10:13 AM  
img209.imageshack.us

/Thread

 
bigtotoro 2008-03-06 08:38:01 AM  
No love for Roxy Music's Country Life? I mean, they're an overrated British band, too! (NSFW)
http://www.radio3net.ro/db_artisti/2020.jpg

 
CDP [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 09:08:31 AM  
i54.photobucket.com

 
foil helmet guy 2008-03-06 09:51:04 AM  
i270.photobucket.com

 
GibbyTheMole 2008-03-06 09:52:04 AM  
I mildly like some of their stuff, in small doses, but much of Roger Dean's cover artwork for Yes (and other artists) was outstanding. Do a Google Image Search & you'll see some great stuff.

I'm also a big fan of the classic Blue note covers, not to mention the incredible music contained within the cardboard. Those covers were timeless.

 
AxL sANe 2008-03-06 09:52:40 AM  
CDP - I see yours, and raise you the following:

i222.photobucket.com

i222.photobucket.com

 
Bartleby the Scrivener 2008-03-06 09:53:47 AM  
img267.imageshack.us

 
mercator_psi [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 10:19:37 AM  
I really liked the Peter Saville design. The problem was, so many other crappy bands ended up using that style at the time that it was like a lovely chocolate bon-bon with a rancid semen center.

Same thing happened with the Designers Republic stuff in the mid-90s. They got their reputation from good IDM like Autechre and such, but it became copied and overused.

If only there were a well-worn axiom that could summarize this idea. Something like, "you can't cover a judge with a book"? Hmm.

 
Sybarite [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 10:32:16 AM  
I'll always have soft spot for this one.



img337.imageshack.us

 
delathi 2008-03-06 10:33:45 AM  
Ahem..

ecx.images-amazon.com

 
40below [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 10:44:58 AM  
static.metal-archives.com

Only because any album with anthems such as "Sodomize The Dead" should be included.

 
carmody 2008-03-06 10:45:25 AM  
www.beansoftware.com

WTF? 40-odd responses before this?

You farking kids get off my lawn right farking now.

 
taoistlumberjak 2008-03-06 11:31:03 AM  
foil helmet guy

This
so very much this.

 
dogbone 2008-03-06 11:31:26 AM  
g-ecx.images-amazon.com

 
CDP [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 11:32:01 AM  
AxL sANe ~ I see, and raise.................................

i132.photobucket.com

i22.photobucket.com

 
Asperger Jones [TotalFark] 2008-03-06 11:50:41 AM  
www.cs.rochester.edu

No love for Smell the Glove?

 
Beatles1964t 2008-03-06 11:52:56 AM  
carmody: WTF? 40-odd responses before this?

You farking kids get off my lawn right farking now.


THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

/my lawn, off it.

 
priestrape 2008-03-06 12:03:46 PM  
img175.imageshack.us

 
I_Love_Cheesecake 2008-03-06 12:20:26 PM  
bigtotoro: No love for Roxy Music's Country Life? I mean, they're an overrated British band, too! (NSFW)
http://www.radio3net.ro/db_artisti/2020.jpg


Came here to plug Country Life's cover.

Roxy Music wasn't over-rated. CL was their best album, but their entire early catalogue is amazing.

/those albums' covers all had dishy women on the front, including Jerry Hall on Siren

 
chitownmike 2008-03-06 12:20:36 PM  
RHCP Mothers Milk NSFW? (Pops)

 
Cletus from Canuckistan 2008-03-06 12:23:48 PM  
Speaking of Joy Division, anyone here seen 'Control' yet?

 
mfaby 2008-03-06 12:24:00 PM  
I dunno, article AND thread useless without pic...

Best cover that shows what rock and roll is?

'London Calling'


That is all.

 
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