what are your fav. album covers?

[effetebomb]

What are your favorite album covers??? i'm thinking about design for a few upcomming projects. post pics or links please. discuss why you like the ones you mention! i'll do a bunch in a little bit... still researching at the moment

[effetebomb]

LINKS:

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/42-reggae-album-cover-designs-the-art-culture-of-jamaica-166.aspx
http://lpcoverlover.com/
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/09/cute-vintage-album-covers_01.html
http://www.popcultmag.com/oddglimpses/albumcovers/albumsdefault.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loganmills/


i'm kinda loving the vintage look.

what modern covers are you into?
any from any of these links you like?

[Derelict78]

[SirBlend12]

And pretty much every Cure album has a good cover. I'm a big fan of simple and somewhat delicate. Or if it has mountains. Well, any of natures landscape, I suppose.

Or just... "different".

[effetebomb]

wow, i like a lot of those! I've never heard of/ don't recognize about half of them. I'm trying to reconcile what i like about vintage with what i like about modern and how they relate. here's a good blog about album covers that is not retro specific like the rest i posted earlier. it goes into a little more depth about each cover posted.

http://sleevage.com/

[SirBlend12]

Yeah, I dunno... there's just something infinitely pleasing to me about pastels and earth-scape types of art like that. Anything that's well done in sort of a colored pencil/crayon style or watercolors, as well.

I just noticed that several of the covers I posted are apparently not there anymore. I'll just have to do another post later once I think of more that I dig (and re-up the ones whom have gone missing...).

I gotta take a look at that link, too.

[my bloody television]

+1 for aphex twin. I slept at my friend's place a week ago and woke up to that album cover staring me in the face...not the most pleasant thing to wake up to!

[bigchiefbc]

As far as weird Aphex Twin covers, I don't think it gets better than this one:




Here's one that's not exactly art, but it gets its point across:

[CBGB]

Favourite bad album covers... http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers

[Derelict78]

and windowlicker is a great album...well i guess its really a single

[Blurillaz]

[Dexterecus]

[dronemachine]

[comtrails70]

Loveless is definitly one of the coolest..
There is an import Pink FLoyd cover that depicts the band infront of wht i presume is their tourvan.They have all their gear spread out in the road in a geometric fashion.I wasn't able to find it but that would be my vote as the best..
Here is some Red Crayola cover I kinda like.Not too fascianted by the album itself though

[comtrails70]

i cant believe how awesome this is..