Post The Best/Worst Album Cover Art

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xtreem_baseballer

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Posting this cover, cause if I was asked this question as a kid I would have picked:

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I actually spent alot of time as a kid trying to recreate this whole thing for an art class, just cause I liked it so much. I thought I did a decent job, but my teachers was just like, "uhhhh..."

I donno, there's alot of little details in it. You can't see it here very well but if the image was sharper there's some amusing stuff going on between the crowd of people.
 
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Gastr Del Sol has some of the best album covers I've ever done seen. I've been wondering for months how this was done, ****ing brilliant.

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The Psychic Ills also have some pretty good taste in art. In case you're wondering it's "Three Hairs and Shadow" by Wolf Vostell.
 
Best: Joy Division - Unknown pleasures

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simple, elegant, and powerful. its looks like an album that should be in your collection

Worst: Rolling Stones - dirty work

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throwaway 80's bull****. It's like everything I hated about the 80's was captured on the cover
 
I think I'll always prefer this as my favorite Costello cover:

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But the one you posted is certainly a lot better than this...

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The story behind this is hilarious, too. Virgin sent them to some company who specialized in album art..they showed them a whole bunch of concepts (included was a few that became famous, like the guy on fire shaking hanRAB with some other dude) and as the band were walking out unhappy Partridge saw this hanging on a wall and pointed it out. Apparently it was the office joke, like, "Nobody would ever want this, haha" so they just kept it on the wall as a joke. And XTC liked it and convinced the guy they were with (who thought they were kidding) to let them use it.
 
I love this album cover it just looks awesome, i have a bit of a thing for black and white covers
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I love the cover for Aphex Twin's Selected Arabient Works 85-92, i just keep staring at that syrabol wondering what the hell it's supposed to be. It's a really great simple cover that just grabs your attention.
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Yeuch, don't remind me :p:

Yeah, My Aim Is True's the more iconic one. It's a close second with me. The North cover just reflects a kind of downbeat melancholy probably better than any other cover I've ever seen. Shame the album itself is so boring though.
 
Agreed!!! They get too much **** because most of there fans think so highly of them and if you don't like Tool, than you don't know music.

And I'm a huge Tool fan, but they are far from being the best ever. I've always loved there album covers/booklet artwork. Even though the inside of Undertow disturbs me a bit.
 
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