One of many great Stiff Records album covers, this caught Ian Durys personality and stood in stark contrast to the elaborate sleeves on the market at that time. The so-called White Album was innovative; the first LP cover to come out with no picture! One of the greatest joke album covers, the boxer was already a perfect image for the Pogues, but dont miss the subtle bit of play here. Bleeker & McDougal-Fred Neil If there are that many Elvis fans, we will, of course, need 15 Elvises. The red velvet cover, with gold embossed lettering, served notice that Odessa was going to be unique and beautiful, which it was. Ten points if you can find where the Beatles are hiding in the 3D image on Their Satanic Majesties Request. Looking for more? and the famous 1st US edition of Faces 1st LP, named by mistake Small Faces on the cover .. What about Steppenwolf Monsters? Its an amazing cover. And although they had other great album covers,I will submit Quicksilver Messenger Service and Happy Trails. My list is identical. Who is the nitwit in the middle? Another dull and inaccurate list. Candy-O is one of the two best uses of pin-up art on a rock record, along with. Ocasek provided a small clue to the songs unsettling mood when he once said of the title, The O stands for obnoxious. H.S. Animals by Pink Floyd Agree with many entries (Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon and Nirvanas Nevermind are among the most iconic). Trending Black Moses by Isaac Hayes! Not one Moody Blues album cover? And it was a good thing they did. One of those web features where many of those 100 pioneering sleeve designs are are merely chosen to provoke controversy (or ridicule). Whatever your views are on this stuff he was Walter when it was recorded. "Tonight She Comes", a previously unreleased song, and a remix of "I'm Not the One" were issued as singles to support the album. Fool, You wish you were ignorant enough to have $450 billion dollars. Without it, AC/DCs Back In Black, for example, would not have been created. The Doors Full Circle (great cover, crappy album. Anyone who was or is a fan of Supertramp needs to see Rogers show its fantastic his voice is incredible and what a band he has. Black Flags trailblazing punk-metal wouldnt have been the same without Pettibons grisly comic images, though in this case, not quite as grisly as the album itself. But while Sticky Fingers has a great story, Let It Bleed was equally unique and surreal. As the first classical album to go platinum in America, Carlos helped to bring Bach to the future. BOTH ARE DIAMOND CERTIFIED ALBUMS AND WERE MADE BY THE BEST AMERICAN HARD ROCK BAND IN HISTORY!! Some Ramones fans will get very angry! ELO Time Athletic, artistic, and alien.. Alice Again-Schools Out. I do not know where you culled the images for this article, but whoever was responsible is clearly a dunderhead. One of the best covers ever! Both used a few of Frank Frazetta art. Carly Simons No Secrets, Carly Simon seriously? Robert Palmer Sneakin Sally Through The Alley All those drum sounds were played into a computer, according to an interview with The Chicago Tribune, and then fed into the tracks as samples. But so many are so lame, even stuff that I like! The cover depicts one of the greatest rock guitarists in his prime! Of course, it got an extra dimension by playing with Loves own image at the time. While everyone of these are worthy, there are so many that could be included that a top 100 best covers list seems woefully inadequate. Joe Walsh- But Seriously Folks is a definite must for this list .. No Iron Maiden or KISS at all???!!! Black Rose Thin Lizzy Americans might believe the Ramones with their Hey ho lets go are real Punk, but no-one else does. This item: The Cars - Greatest Hits. A list like this NOT including Hawkwinds Space Ritual cover does NOT deserve to be taken serious! On an album that made a mad dash through the whole of pop history, Nick Lowe pictured himself in a bunch of different guises, from rockabilly hoodlum to sensitive balladeer (there were different pics on the US and UK versions), all with tongue firmly in cheek. Most of the albums on this list are chosen for anything other than their striking artwork. The artwork is fabulous!! That cover is supposed to suggest she WAS naked because she could easily have been. Nothing in that song happened to me personally, he said later. Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha. Fish Out of Water Chris Squire Those who have chosen the list looked at books, as the themselves state. But I dont think the model on the Whipped Cream cover is wearing a dress though. Very much so, any album cover from Yes shoild be there. Basically, youre going to cover more bases if you dont get stuck on insisting on including 5 Beatles albums. I was in the middle of recording my solo album, he said later, and it was one of the songs that I didnt use in the solo album at that point. Those are all iconic albums(or most of them anyway)but not necessarily iconic album covers. The band again worked with Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker, but Ocasek said they tried for a rawer approach than on their first album. So many Moodies covers are way better than a lot here, even albums I love! Sorry. If you had actually lived through the 60s you would know what it meant to the world of music. Lists like this are always subjective! What about including some Budgie album covers. Scorpions : Lonesome Crown, Yeah,my first tattoo was Rainbow Risingthink that artwork rocks..along with the album naturally. Edgar Froese: Macula Transfer Playing Possum Carly Simon ACCEPT Balls to the Wall, MESSAGE FROM BOOKS AND DREAMS ? It should, however, have been pictured with the Belly-Belt. George Harrison Wonderwall All the 3 inches of Blood covers are missing Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Thats not unique? Definitely Stand Up with the woodcut popup gatefold. by The Cars Audio CD. Misplaced Childhood? hilarious drawing of a bunch of hairy guys supposed to be the beach boys, i think, tho i have no idea who is who! P.D. Only 3 left in stock - order soon. and Dont Crust that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers? Animal Tracks by The Animaks Example: ANYTHING by either Storm Thorgerson, Hipgnosis or Roger Dean as an album cover deserves consideration. Many great covers here, but The Polices Ghost in the Machine should have been included. And, Guitars that destroyed the world. No wonder the clever lads in XTC loved it. Neil Young After the Goldrush. The Byrds Fifth Dimension and Younger than Yesterday. Youd think this list was made in the 1950s. Indeed, Candy-O is where the Cars set up shop in the Billboard charts: It went all the way to No. I feel cold sometimes about whats going on, he told Rolling Stone in 1980. The ubiquitous Hipgnosis team outdid itself with this ultra-clever 10cc sleeve, which is not only inspired by one of the songs (the phone sex-themed Dont Hang Up) but is full of hidden gags, with the same people turning up in each of the four main photos. Yardbirds Roger The Engineer Number of the Beast? A nod to how Thelonious Monk mustve felt as a pioneering jazz artist, Underground casts the pianist as a French Resistance fighter in WWII. Some for consideration. "The debut album that plays like a Greatest Hits album" is an old rock-journo clich, but sometimes that's what you have to go for and damn, the Cars' debut album qualifies better . You may want to reconsider Yellow Submarine by Heinz Edelman (not Peter Max) and Hot Rats by Cal Schenkel. come on, nobody noticed? duhhh. Janes Addiction Nothings Shocking I think Supertramps Crime of the Century belongs here, more than Breakfast in America. Most fucking annoying. If you had any serious knowledge about The Beatles and their influence on the entire world with fashion, language, music and more, you would not ask this question. It has really good music also. . Yes, the big return to pop, Ocasek mused at the time. I totally Agree with the one that Requested Crime Of The Century rather than Breakfast In America of Supertramps Covers. (So has the Interpretation Of Classical Works.). Everything is subjective but whipped cream, santana 1 and Blind Faith are iconic. We try to be precise and tight, but that doesnt make our music stiff or calculated. My way of songwriting even if it seems overly obsessed with form and structure is just as emotional to me as soul music may be to someone else. E.L. There are better Zeppelin covers, and I would think at least 1 from the Moody Blues would be on here! Explore their music with more than just one ear and youll discover that they were not only unique and groundbreaking, they WERE music for a period of time. Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (front & back), Black Sabbath-Heaven & Hell, Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You, Slade-Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Bad Company-Run with the Pack, Bad Company-Straight Shooter, Frank Zappa-Joes Garage, Roger Glover & Friends-Butterfly Ball, to name a few, Greenslade Time and Tide The Cars made their name with chugging guitar pop, but their biggest hit in the States is actually this melancholy synth-laden ballad. If youre doing the 100 Greatest Rock Album Covers, I could see excluding Whipped Cream and Other Delights because Herb Alpert and the TJB probably wouldnt be classified as rock. If, however, youre not putting sideboards on the category, Whipped Cream and Other Delights should be in there somewhere. yessongs, blind faith, bustin` out. Even years later its haunting yet sexy and compels you to stare at it! I framed it and hung it on my wall. Meanwhile, his debut allowed him to look like the crazed hillbilly everyones parents feared he was, captured in mid-song at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida. Jimmy Jimmy has the experimental edge of the records Ocasek was producing for artists like Bad Brains, Suicide, and Romeo Void. I always went for the left side of the music brain, too. minor damage to jewel case including scuffs or cracks, or to the item cover including scuffs, scratches, or cracks. Not a terrible list, but Id have thought Weather Report Heavy Weather, would have somehow made that list. Foghat Rock and Roll, Energized Jimmy Jimmy goes for an extremely Suicide-ish electronic pulse, as Ocasek narrates the tale of a troubled teenage boy who doesnt want to go home and take out the garbage. / Dream Lover / Livin' Doll / Unchained Melody /. ELO-Discovery, anything by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, or Megadeth, Huey Lewis & the News-Sports (since Born To Run made the list), Police-pick an album cover, KISS-many to choose from, RATT-Out Of The Cellar, INXS-Kick, Duran Duran-Rio, Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik, David Lee Roth-Skyscraper, Scorpions-pick an album cover, Quiet Riot-Metal Health, and a couple hundred others that I cant think of at the moment. Start the wiki. Whatever. Many good picks here and I was happy to see perhaps my favorite album ever,The new riders the adventures of Panama red, although I,m not sure if it deserved it. The list is too P.C. Omission faux pas in my eyes to this list. Humble Pie Rock On. But the lack of copy-proofingis the first round 10 or 100?and the absence of full-gatefold shots, inside or out, of examples like Zeps Houses is all too indicative of a rush job generated just to fill space. The design-centric 4AD label did some of its finest work for the Cocteau Twins album covers. R.S. No they are not. L.A. suburbia meets Rene Magritte. Hatfield & The North The Rotters Club All tracks are written by Ric Ocasek, except where noted. Nico The Marble Index Golden Earring Moontan PiLs follow-up to their famous Metal Box album cover was even cooler, showing non-performing bandmember Jeanette Lee with a rose in her teeth, a weapon in her hand, and a murderous look in her eyes. now. Impossible to achieve. That was my song about what the good times in rock & roll really mean, instead of what theyre supposed to be, he once said. America Homecoming Jethro Tulls Living In The Past with its Book design (The Hardback one!) I would toss the Asia cover for any of the Yes albums. Disgraceful. In this case, the interlocking geometric shapes are a visual answer to the albums innovative time signatures. The Cars Greatest Hits Full Album - Best Songs Of The Cars The Cars Greatest Hits Full Album - Best Songs Of The Cars The Cars Greatest Hits Full Album -. Kraftwerk: Computer World Foghat Rock n Roll Ocasek didnt enjoy as many hits as a solo artist, despite making several strong albums on his own. Led Zeppelin 111, Grand Funk E Pluribus Funk a nd Survivors, Alice Cooper Schools Out and Billion Dollar Babies, A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Why in the world did Humble Pie get a bunch of policemen to form a human pyramid? That album included the classic A Taste of Honey.. Good thing that several people remember the 3d captain beyond cover. Sweet Off The Record No Showtime VHS or . One of the psych eras great hallucinations, the famous album cover for Moby Grapes 1968 double LP Wow showed an otherworldly landscape with the worlds largest bunch of grapes. No Never Mind The Bollocks Dave Brubecks 1959 album Time Out is likely the most famous use of pop art on a jazz cover. Iconic is a great word to describe that album cover. How could I forget? and Textured Goldprint rather than Aqualung. Desk Graffiti , Girls Panties and All. Rolling Stones original Beggars Banquet Cover is Missing. Forgoing any blinged-out tropes, the former Wu-Tang member put a doctored version of his welfare ID card on the front cover of his solo debut, as both a reminder of where he came from and to destigmatize being on public assistance. Deep Purple: Machine Head The Go-Gos sense of playful subversion extended to their sendup of glamorous cover photos on their hit debut, Beauty & The Beat. Whats with the Ramones cover?!? AC/DC and Meatloaf, Talking Heads, Elvis, Bob Dylan Asia, Most Pink Floyds LOOK AT THE COVERS ON THESE BABES Hot Rats, Zappa Wazoo, Were Only in it for the Money, and Freak Out by Zappa, most Grateful Dead covers Eno, Another Green World and check The Chocolate Watchband. Where is Fleetwood Macs Mystery to Me cover??? (Suddenly Im in doubt; Is it actually there?). I am happy Ogdens Nut Gone Flake is presented. The album was released in Europe as "The Definitive". If I would have sent any of those to a client for their album cover, they would have sent it back with a list of revisions and notes if not completely rejected. Ok, not bad. 20 tracks (). $19.49. Grateful Deads Blues for Allah is one of my favorites!! Cover done by Norman Rockwell. Read some good books about them. I miss the Band`s Music from big pink and Country Joe Mc Donald`s I-Feel-Like-Im-Fixin-to-Die. Why never name the covers artists? Or how about Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division? or endless summer, their comp from 74 that put them back on top of the world! Nazareth: Hair of the Dog hands down the best album cover of all time. Sales of the album reignited following Ric Ocasek's death in September 2019.[3]. The one for Dont Shoot Me Im Only the Piano Player was just right, drawing from his soon-to-be-legendary love of movies. Cant believe no-ones mentioned it yet- Cat Stevens tea for the tillerman and/or teaser and the firecat. Savoy Brown Street corner talking. Id suggest the cover with the red/yellow profile picture of Hendrix which was used in North America. An iconic cover and album . For her debut solo album, Courtney Love took the Cars concept a step further by enlisting the younger, edgier pin-up artist (known professionally as Olivia) to paint her. $3.65 shipping. just because of his name, the rarity, and therefore their collectibility Diamanda Gals The Divine Punishment Greatest Hits was originally released in 1985. Axis:Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix, A good compilation but with some notable omissions: (heres only a few) Gravy Train A Ballad of a peaceful Man ? It looked right to me and how I felt, said Jones. Ian Dury New Boots and Panties (how the hell did you miss this ?) It doesnt really matter what sort of adjective you want to put it in front of the words album cover, because lists of this sort of are always incredibly subjective. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); About Us Contributors Terms of Service Privacy Policy 2023 uDiscover Music, Get Up, Stand Up: The 20 Best Reggae Singers Of All Time, The Best Albums Of 1994: 69 Records You Need To Check Out, Best Frank Sinatra Songs: An Essential Top 20, Run This Town: The Best Jay-Z Collaborations, Best Thin Lizzy Songs: 20 Essential Classic Rock Tracks, No Doubt, Beastie Boys, And Aqua: Currently Trending Songs, Fancy: Behind Bobbie Gentrys Womens Lib Statement, Best Blue Note Album Covers: 20 Groundbreaking Artworks. Blue Oyster Cultss 1st LP The Allman Brothers Band: Eat a Peach (1971) As the urban legend goes, the surviving members of The Allman Brothers Band named this album Eat A Peach and put a peach truck on the cover (more accurately, art for the side of a peach crate) to commemorate the death of guitar player Duane Allman. It sort of makes me Stone Cold Sober , So good to hear of Crawler again. It was banned for decades and should really have been here. Because they could, of course. and Finally , the Mona Lisa of Rock and Roll Pavlovs Dog-Pampered Menial. There are a couple of Yes albums too that I can think of also. Everest yes, that was the original plan so they came up with something just as memorable by leaving the studio and crossing the street, resulting in the famous Abbey Road album cover. Needed: Sgt Peppers of course; Beatles Butcher cover: Woodstock; Smiths Meat is Murder; Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters; Soundgarden: Louder than Love; Alice Cooper: Pretties for You; Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation; Buffalo Springfield: Retrospective; The Flaming Lips: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart. Roger Dean was a genius. You forgot Alrune Rods album Alrune Rod http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3109/cover_17659102009.jpg, Freddie Hubbard Hub Tones Wheres The Incredible String Bands gem 5000 spirits.? You dont necessarily get a thing of rare beauty when you load a cover with as many fold-out panels and elaborate paintings as an 11-inch disc can hold, but Santana certainly did in this case, thanks to famed Japanese designer Tadanori Yokoo. Moody Blues had many! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Rock_and_Rolling_with_Fats.jpg. The graphic photo of Bushwick Bill at the hospital was as unflinching as their music. Seriously why was this omitted? The Polices Ghost in the Machines minimalist digital portrait of the band members. Deceptive Bends and Kansas Left Overture to name a few.. I chose LPs from musicians that I liked that were done by fine artists of note and were interesting to look at. Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors. No Moody Blues? Scorpions Lovedrive Bad Company Straight Shooter The cover for Ten Out Of 10 remains one of Hipgnosis fiendishly clever 10cc covers and one of their more overlooked albums. Tangerine Dream Poland Yes Fragile, Iconic doesnt mean good.Here are some album covers that are better,debate me the seer,currents,igor,the money store,sinner get ready,kids see ghosts,blonde,skylarkin,pure comedy,indicud,year of the snitch,nina,tyron,ctrl,bandana,in the future,wilderness heart,fate,twin fantasy,awaken my love,you wont get what you want and a lot more.Older isnt awlays better. One of the many imaginative trips from the late 60s, this assemblage by the bands drummer represents various personal dreams of the band members. Some good covers in there but all subjective and hard to disconnect with the music the covers represent. Talk about overkill. ver but fake! The cool album cover for The Miracles 1961 debut encapsulates the old-school showbiz that Motown would soon lead the world away from. Peppers with the cover to the White Album and vice versa.) The Cars Greatest Hits Full Album - Best Songs Of The Cars Follow 'Time Music' Subscribe for More: https://by.com.vn/x15rkE Please share this video in so. Wendy Waldman Strange Company Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. At last someone actually mentioned Budgie Great LP covers. (Are you depressed or something? I just figured having a girlfriend stolen was probably something that happened to a lot of people. The second single from the bands debut LP, it hit the Top 40, offering a slick New Wave twist on classic-rock tropes as Ocasek tossed off playfully surreal references to suede blue eyes and nuclear boots. As he later recalled, At some point, I realized my lyrics didnt include the words My Best Friends Girl. So I pulled out the lyrics someone had typed up and added a chorus in the margin in pen: Shes my best friends girl/Shes my best friends girl/But she used to be mine. J.D. A rawer demo version of Just What I Needed a song Ocasek apparently wrote in the basement of a commune he was living in broke the Cars in the first place when Boston radio started playing it in 1977. Served its purpose no doubt in keeping a hungover intern busy for an afternoon copying and pasting images and not otherwise effing up an important (sic) project. The B-52s first two albums The 50 Greatest Album Covers of All Time From Elvis Presley to FKA Twigs, here are the 50 greatest album covers of all time. Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies. Where is Quicksilver Happy Tails ? Or Cindy Laupers Shes So Unusual? Not even one of the first 5 Roxy Music albums or Enos Another Green World or Here Come The Warm Jets. Pump by Aerosmith No Stratosphere Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood looked impeccably stylish doing whatever it was they were doing on the famous Rumours album cover. Or any Molly Hatchet cover? A lot of bands re-form, do stuff, and theyre crap. Lotus Santana Looking In- Savoy Brown. What we can say for sure, though, is that album covers are vitally important to how a record is received by the public. Patto Hold Your Fire Savoy Brown,Outside Looking in.. My opinion the Best Cover art ever, Be Bop Deluxe Axe Victim and Sunburst Finish Also, try to get images from original LP and not the CD. POINT BLANK. [3] The album and the visitors have to be on it. We know now who the real fool really is. Where is Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert???? This famous album cover did wonders with its simple strategy. Agreed! Metallicas trademark mix of shock value and social commentary had few better expressions than this image of a modern take on Lady Justice for their famous 1988 album cover to And Justice For All. It took a German painter schooled in surrealism to create its mix of African folk art and psychedelia. Neil Young on the beach. Most of the classic Blue Note covers were full of bright graphics and exuberant photos (and lots of exclamation marks!). Here are just a few of the ones you forgot. HOW COULD YOU FORGET CHEECH & CHONGS BIG BAMBU WITH THE GIANT ROLLING PAPER INSIDE. If you have sergeant peppers then you should have were only in it for the money by the Mothers of Invention. PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love nice version of the ramones :))))) and all those magnificent Uriah Heep covers? Be Bop Deluxe Sunburst Finish Indestructible), and Hybrid Theory (LINKIN PARK) beats several of the ones on this list. 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