Dunno, I'll stick with Santana's "Abraxas" on that one.

DSOTM has the win for me.

Anyone rememember pouring over Iron Maiden covers looking for the secret messages and hidden stuff?

/ yeah, me neither

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.

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.

It's fallen out of favor, but I still love the album and the cover


But my vote for the best


I know, am old

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.

That Rick Springfield one with the dog wearing cloths freaked me out.

Heroic Poser: That Rick Springfield one with the dog wearing cloths freaked me out.

Working Class Dog


had it on cassette

I don't like the cover but it's a damn good album.

/Has the box set with everything

It is indeed an awesome album.

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

I have never seen that cover, but I'm not british or homosexual so I understand.

Greatest album covers EVER

All the albums are British. Where's The Velvet Underground?

I vote for SYNCHRONICITY by the Police, personally.

I just like the bad joke here...


But my fave album and album cover...

I'd have to vote for Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album...

Link (new window) (NSFW?)

I always thought this was a great trippy album cover

JerkyMeat: I have never seen that cover, but I'm not british or homosexual so I understand.

/coffee out my nose... thanks

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?

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!

See kids, 'albums' used to be what music came in...

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

No love for Roxy Music's Country Life? I mean, they're an overrated British band, too! (NSFW)
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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.

CDP - I see yours, and raise you the following:

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.

I'll always have soft spot for this one.

Ahem..

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

WTF? 40-odd responses before this?

You farking kids get off my lawn right farking now.

foil helmet guy

This
so very much this.

AxL sANe ~ I see, and raise.................................

No love for Smell the Glove?

carmody: WTF? 40-odd responses before this?

You farking kids get off my lawn right farking now.

THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

/my lawn, off it.

bigtotoro: No love for Roxy Music's Country Life? I mean, they're an overrated British band, too! (NSFW)
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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

RHCP Mothers Milk NSFW? (Pops)

Speaking of Joy Division, anyone here seen 'Control' yet?

I dunno, article AND thread useless without pic...

Best cover that shows what rock and roll is?

'London Calling'


That is all.