What are your ten favorite album covers ever?

Question

Mine are, in no order:

It's a Beautiful Day - It's a Beautiful Day
Fear of Music - Talking Heads
Diamond Life - Sade
Night and Day - Joe Jackson
True Blue - Madonna
Presence - Led Zeppelin
9 Objects of Desire - Suzanne Vega
Nick the Knife - Nick Lowe
She's So unusual - Cyndi Lauper
One Step Beyond - Madness

Answer 1

Billy Joel- Piano Man

Styx- The Grand Illusion

Eddie Money- Playing for Keeps

The Beatles- A Hard Day's Night

Bruce Springsteen- Born in the USA

Arctic Monkeys- The Rhapsody Interview

Elton John- Elton John

John Lennon- Imagine

Carole King- Tapestry

Howie Day- Stop All the World Now

Answer 2

Oh boy. This will take awhile Favorite songs in album order Tell Me Walkin The Dog Around And Around Time Is On My Side 2120 South Michigan Avenue Down The Road Apiece Play With Fire The Last Time (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction You'd Better Move On The Singer Not The Song I'm Free Blue Turns To Gray Under My Thumb Goin Home I Am Waiting Take It Or Leave Connection 2000 Man 2000 Light Years From Home The Lantern Citadel Sympathy For The Devil No Expectations Dear Doctor Street Fighting Man Prodigal Son Stray Cat Blues Factory Girl Salt Of The Earth Love In Vain Live With Me Monkey Man Midnight Rambler You Can't Always Get What You Want Midnight Rambler (Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! Version) Sympathy For The Devil (Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! Version) Under My Thumb (Altamont Version) Brown Sugar Sway Can't You Hear Me Knocking B*tch I Got the Blues Sister Morphine Dead Flowers Moonlight Mile Rocks Off Rip This Joint Casino Boogie Tumbling Dice Sweet Virginia Torn And Frayed Loving Cup Happy All Down The Line All Down The Line (Alternate Take) Stop Breaking Down Soul Survivor Silver Train Winter Star Star I'm Going Down Memo From Turner Out Of Time It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) Till the Next Goodbye Time Waits for No One Short And Curlies Fingerprint File Hand Of Fate Fool To Cry Crazy Mama Miss You When The Whip Comes Down Some Girls Far Away Eyes Before They Make Me Run Shattered Dance Part a million If I Was A Dancer (Dance Part two) Everything's Turning To Gold Send It To Me Let Me Go She's So Cold Start Me Up Hang Fire Slave Waiting On A Friend Undercover Of The Night Too Much Blood All The Way Down Fight Terrifying Continental Drift Slipping Away Top 10 Albums so as Sticky Fingers Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! Let It Bleed Beggar's Banquet Exile On Main Street Love You Live It's Only Rock And Roll December's Children Their Satanic Majesties Request Aftermath BA: The Stones via a long way

Answer 3

Great list! A few that come to mind for me (just the first good ones I can think of):



Deja Vu - CSNY

Aja - Steely Dan

Nevermind - Nirvana

Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

This Year's Model - Elvis Costello

Quadrophenia - The Who

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins

More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads

Candy-O - The Cars



Check out this video spoof of album cover art:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP83IrERdP4

Answer 4

Cathedral-Forest Of Equilibrium

Caravan Beyond Redemption

The Ethereal Mirror

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath

Paranoid

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Kiss-Dressed To Kill

Fleetwood Mac-Rumours

The Who-Who's Next

The Who Sell Out

Answer 5

Ah! No Roger Dean Yes covers? Shame! :)



me?



pretty much any Yes or Rush album. R.Dean & Hugh Syme are brilliant artists. (the one on my avatar is striking)



Rubber Soul- Beatles



Zeppelin 4- the man on the front is so mysterious.

Answer 6

Whoa 10?!?! :O >_<



Okay, I guess my favorite ones involve artistic creation, and most of them belong to Nightwish/Enigma/Era. Evanescene's new album looks awesome too. n_n



Nightwish - Highest Hopes, Once, Oceanborn,

Era - Era

Enigma - Enigma, The Cross of Changes, Lounge 2

Evanescence - The Open Door

System of a Down - Mesmerize

Gregorian - The Dark Side

Answer 7

Pink Floyd ANY