Yikes.
Not that anyone will read this...

10cc- How Dare You
Fanny- Rock and Roll Survivors
DJ Funk- Booty House Anthems
Mr. Bungle- Mr. Bungle
The Breeders- Last Splash
Tricky- Maxinquaye

Any Led Zepplin cover, I really like In Through the Out Door for some reason.

Thw White Album. Hand's down.
Runner up: Sniff the Glove (Spinal Tap? - man my memory is shyte)

My addition to the list:

Live - Throwing Copper

the aforementioned his name is alive's livonia



or nearly any cover from the 4ad label...

Yeah so I'm outing myself as a teenage music geek, but I must add mine...maybe my perception is a bit clouded by liking the bands but anyway.

Travis - The Invisible Band (You just see the tree, until you realise the band are standing under it, that tree is bloody enormous)
The Music - The Music (it's like a rainbow bullseye thing - pretty cool)
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Best of Blur (love the cartoons)
Goodshirt - Good (New Zealand band, most of you probably wouldn't have heard of them, but Good has absolutely the best cover art)
Electric Soft Parade - Holes in the Wall
And of course, the 'butcher' cover of Yesterday and Today (hehe) and also, that Led Zeppelin one with the windows, I've forgotten what it's called.

Honey - The Ohio Players

Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin

Remember, The KLF is gonna rock you.

and



I'd stare at that last one for hours.

This is a fantastic cover. I just wish I could find a larger image.
Add-N-to-X's "On The Wires Of Our Nerves":

Great cover for an awesome album. They go together.

DEAD KENNEDYS...

IN GOD WE TRUST, INC.

Another favorite that I don't think anyone has posted:

I give up heres the link
http://www.led-zeppelin.com/gfx4/boxset1.jpg

WEEN
WEEN
WEEN

"CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE"

Blind Guardian's "Nightfall in Middle Earth". JRR Tolkein fans will recognize the scene with Luthien dancing before the throne of Morgoth the Dark Lord, while one of the wolves in the background is her lover Beren in disguise.

Then there's Iced Earth:


You can't go wrong with Spawn!

what about KMFDM



http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003RFH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Flaming Lips: Telepathic Surgery

If you look really close at the hubcap, you can see the corpse of Col. Sanders being fired, glazed and naked, from a cannon...through the giant sized hole of a donut sign.

Easily the best... and, apparently, forgotten...

WhereMyHatIsAt: glad I could be of service

I so wish I could find a larger image for this. It's a really fun one to look at in detail. Hilt's "Journey to the Center of the Bowl":

Holy long thread Batman!!!It's probably been mentioned already so I won't bother enabling voting, but 'Axis Bold as Love' Jimi Hendrix Experience is my favorite. And as a side bar. Anyone watch Antiques Roadshow. In one episode the dude who appraises pop culture stuff had a hawaiian style shirt of the cover, I'd kill for it.

One more:

may as well post the back cover for that too...

From the creators of The King of The Hill theme song.

Almost any cover from a classic progressive rock band kicks buttock. Some great examples:

Genesis: Nursery Cryme (one of the best covers ever), Foxtrot, Trespass.
Yes: Fragile, Relayer, Tales from Topographic Oceans, The Ladder.
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle, The Division Bell.
ELP: Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery.
Rush: Hemispheres, Permanent Waves.

You know an album cover rocks when you can buy framed lithographs of them, like you can with some of the Genesis and Yes covers that I mentioned.

only wish I coulda found this larger so you could really see the details....



god bless r. crumb
oh yeah, and janis joplin too!

Here's one I really like:

Phish - Rift is great because it has all of the songs interpreted in the cover image.


Pop Interstate's album is great: A Lesser of Two Knievels


The Dead's Europe '72 cover:



Handsome Boy Modeling School

my tat


but props to the descendents and aphex twin

Kapital:

Ever heard SOD's song "Celtic Frosted Flakes"? Is funny.

The person who beat me to this - if you're female - MARRY ME.



also



POLYSICS RULE!

my apologies

Obviously Props to the Depeche Mode covers!

I kinda liked the "Some Great Reward" cover as well from them. A couple in wedding attire in the middle of a huge factory at night embracing. Something strange and cool about that.

But I can't believe nobody ever put up or mentioned the "I Want You" album by Marvin Gaye, the album that came up afterwards, "Here, My Dear", complete with a burning crotch and a monopoly board representing the judgement/settlement he had to do with his ex wife. Oh well.

Would post them, but my html skills suck.


Bye.

Favorite Album: (but I doubt any farkers here have ever heard it)

Man, it's so hard to choose... Hendrix, Beatles, James Gang, Who, CCR, Cream, Chuck Berry, etc.

Favorite cover? Tough choice, but here's a few of my faves:

One of my all time faves:

ALmost forgot The Pharcyde, Bizarre Ride cover.



Looks like a poon-naner.

these two are great as well: