[Closed] The best, and worst, album covers in your collection.

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One of my favourites as I find the original photo quite powerful.

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Cheating but I also love this one.

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Then literally any ManoWar album cover.

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Obvz this is in there..

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This..
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One of the best:

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Sulphur Aeon: Gateways to the Antisphere

One of the worst:

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Cracking album, and the cover would have been good: However, they chose to use the artists draft mock-up, rather than the finished artwork, which sucks.

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I know it's a "homage" to a Presley album, but my fave is

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Luckily lost-
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I suspect there's many many more entries on the "worst" category than in the best

Someone post up "unknown pleasures" and close the thread

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worst dont have any that are truly shocking

Best, I think currently I would favour Dummy by Portishead.

Worst, Kick Ass soundtrack, which just doesn't work without the movie.

A favourite from my collection
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My mate created this.
Comes up regularly as v v poor. He's proud tho.
But not on my shelves.

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Most metal bands can provide you with candidates for the worst

Most metal bands can provide you with candidates for the worst

And the best.

There's no competition for the worst. Absolutely beyond unforgivable.....

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And I've re-thought what the very best is....

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Absolute genius!

Van Halen featured heavily in my collection, until the gawd awful Cherone period.

So..this

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And (dear God) .. this.. what were they actually thinking ? Scrub that, they were clearly pissed.
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My favourite:
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The worst - Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam:
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Best, front and back:
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Worst?
Hmmmm, I'll have a look.......

Always liked the inlay from Prodigy Jilted Generation album. Thought it reflected the time quite well.

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This a favourite
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Jesus this thread needs some balance..

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Or almost any of the Peter Saville covers for Factory. Low Life by New Order was a very nice thing in its original vinyl issue.

I forgot the worst. It's pretty bad but not in the same league of terrible as the hair metal examples above!
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binners has already posted my best and worst, so just in this room, cds include this which is extremely bad (and muscially iirc)

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And this, which I always liked.
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(prob won't work as from a blog)

I'll be back with more tomorrow if the threads still alive!

Love just about any by Storm Thorgersen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Thorgerson

Don't like any with just a word or a set up photo of the band.

did someone delete my Pixies album?

Oh come on......if so I demand that Kevin Rowland one is deleted too. And those Monowar ones. They all have the same thing on.

I stick with it, Surfer Rosa is an amazing cover, as were so many of the 4AD ones.

Link

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I've got a fair few 4AD albums, by Pixies, Breeders, Belly, Kristin Hersh, Tanya Donnelly, and I've always loved the artwork and graphics, but it's so difficult to pick a favourite.
One that isn't necessarily a great design, and isn't really my [i]favourite[/i], but is one that really formed my musical tastes for the rest of my life, after a schoolmate brought it in to school then let me borrow it, and it changed forever what I thought music could be.
Up to that point it had been whatever I'd heard on the radio, Beatles, Stones, a bit of Jethro Tull, mostly the pop chart stuff of the 60's.
Then I heard this:

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21st Century Schizoid Man utterly blew my mind, and even better, my folks hated it!
I can really only think of this one as the worst, there are probably worst buried away somewhere, but I can't think of any at the moment, crap sleeves tended to put me off the band; "if that's the best they can do for the sleeve, well..."

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One of my absolute favourites, is this one:

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It's an album that Kris put together of poems by people who's work she loved that she put to music, a broad range from all over the place, and as soon as I saw the sleeve design I just fell in love with it.
I've managed to get hold of one of a very limited run of hand-printed posters that Kris had run up by the artist for some US shows, and which she signed for me.
It's sitting across the room now, framed up and waiting to go on the wall.
And I highly recommend Kris as someone who anyone who appreciates fine singing and songwriting should check out.

Not sure about best but a very powerful one for me was by a band in my home town called The Depraved. Their album 'Stupidity maketh the man' featured a shocking photo of a crowd of people stood around a tree from which two black men hang, from lynching. Horrible image that has stuck with me.

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I remembered this one when I shut my computer down last night!
Actually framed the sleeve on my wall (and had the t-shirt 🙂 )
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Can't really think of any 'worst' album covers - although I am sure there's plenty in my collection if I had a look through. There's certainly some bland ones.....

My favourite's are probably, in no particular order:

The Black Crowes: Amorica

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Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power

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The Almighty: Powertrippin'

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The Wildhearts: Earth v's The Wildhearts

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Actually - the worst from a pretentious nonsense point of view from a band that should have known better (IMO) was Metallica's album cover for Load. It's a 'piece of artwork' called blood & semen and is apparently bovine blood mixed with the artist's semen....and the album was a bit meh, too....

Meh

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Daughter's 'Not to disappear'.
Beautiful cover, beautiful album.

Best
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Worst (little known local band from Harrogate that *nearly* made it).
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Quite surprising that people over the age of 10 like Iron Maiden covers. Always thought they were naff in the extreme.

theotherjonv -
Did someone delete my Pixies album?

STW censoring artwork? Pretty odd if it's true.

Another t-shirt I had -
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based on real art
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or is it porn?

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Only a 45, but I like it..

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Quite surprising that people over the age of 10 like Iron Maiden covers. Always thought they were naff in the extreme.

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This is pretty cool; on holiday in Ireland we wandered into this place in Kinsale where the bloke prints posters on white canvas. The colours are super-dense and bright. You can actually build a collage of your favourite CD covers taken from iTunes:

https://www.thecanvasworks.ie/products/personalisedprint-music

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Nice that Globalti. I've signed up for a Kickstarter thing where you can hang your albums (8 albums iirc) on the wall in a display. Easy to change and/or remove to play. Will pass the link on if anyone interested.

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My Dad had this - the triple fold LP sleeve was a true wonder for a small boy. And it still gives me shivers:

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So who had (or indeed still has) a copy of [url= http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4963799-the-album-cover-album ]The Album Cover Album[/url]? I do 🙂

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The best...

Ultimate Breaks and Beats

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The worst.
Tony D Music makes you move

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I've got a copy of the Album Cover Album, in fact I've got a few of those Paper Tiger collections of various artists work.

Sorry about this, I'm afraid I'm going to <end of thread> the best of artwork.
Although this isn't in my collection, it would've been if it had still been at the shop when I went back, but some bastard bought it. Just happy i managed to photograph the Best Album Cover Ever.

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What!
Now that's a true disgrace

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theotherjonv -
Did someone delete my Pixies album?

I'd considered that Pixies cover 'art'. The Blacks Crows and Spinal Tap covers - not so much.

Had a quick flick through last night.

Some really, really bad stuff, some crackers too:

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I really enjoyed the old 'describe an album cover' thread.
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Absolutely love that Thelonius Monk cover. I've got all the Incredible String Band albums. Some howlers there ....

Best: Anything by John Dyer Baizely

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Worst..

Any number of godawful 80's and 90's Metal bands but recently, the latest Prodigy seemed to have precious little put into it, it's just.. dull, especially considering the squillion pound budget it would have had.

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Talking of pron, I recently bought an album by Alex Smoke, "Love Over Will". I think it's the most NSFW (or NSFchildren) sleeve I've ever seen. Features a hermaphrodite erm, you know... masturbating.. on some rocks.
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Q&A between me & Alex on his [url= https://alexsmoke.com/2015/11/17/new-album-love-over-will/#comments ]blog[/url] (Note the image is visible if you scroll up on that page!)

I think the worst may be Boxer's album. I won't post it here to save the mods The work of deleting it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_the_Belt_(Boxer_album)

How could i forget my other fave sleeve ever

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Best, worst, and not even an album cover.

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Embarrassingly I have a copy of that! -^^^^^

Lot's of great covers have already been shown.
I think my favorite has to be Brain Salad Surgery.

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My faves

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DezB - Member
Nice that Globalti. I've signed up for a Kickstarter thing where you can hang your albums (8 albums iirc) on the wall in a display. Easy to change and/or remove to play. Will pass the link on if anyone interested.

Plastic sleeves? I bought a load of plastic hanging sleeves at a record fair about twenty years ago. Used to have about 12 albums hung up in my lounge.

When threads like this, music related, come up on here I often wonder if some of you make up the Bands and their Band names..

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[i]Plastic sleeves?[/i]

No, like velcro frames by the look of it.

[i]I often wonder if some of you make up the Bands and their Band names[/i]

Usually the bands make up their own names.

How about this:
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and this:
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