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Album covers thread
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:51 am
by SadFuzz
People's favourite album covers?
Right now i'm really drawn to
Render another ugly method by mothers
Cor-crane secret (the reissue) by polvo
Aerial M self titled
Contemporary Movement by Duster
Life is alright, everybody dies by Kal Marks
Daydream Nation gets points too for the Gerhard Richter painting.
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:32 am
by s_mcsleazy
vs. mission of burma. i'm a sucker for floral patterns and i think the flowers on the chain link fence look really cool.
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 12:13 pm
by SadFuzz
There was a record store in Ayr that had a vinyl of it forever, always caught my eye.
Good shout.
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 7:11 pm
by Plumerai
My faves are Slayer's Reign in Blood, Siouxsie's Last Beat of My Heart single & the first six Iron Maiden covers.
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:45 am
by tune_link
SadFuzz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:51 am
People's favourite album covers?
Right now i'm really drawn to
Render another ugly method by mothers
Cor-crane secret (the reissue) by polvo
Aerial M self titled
Contemporary Movement by Duster
Life is alright, everybody dies by Kal Marks
Daydream Nation gets points too for the Gerhard Richter painting.
LOVE that Duster LP cover. I think the obvious answer here is MBV Loveless. Concur about the Daydream Nation sleeve.
Just scrolled through a bunch of stuff and here's some covers I love:
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (and pretty much all of his LP art for that matter, all in a similar style)
The Caretaker - pretty much any of the sleeves done by Ivan Seal for An Empty Bliss... or Everywhere At the End of Time series
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Radiohead - Kid A and OK Computer
Autechre - Amber
Bowery Electric - self titled (a still from the old PC game Myst if I remember correctly)
The Breeders - Last Splash
CAN - Soon Over Babaluma
Codeine - Frigid Stars
Unwound - Fake Train
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual
Funkadelic - self titled
Future - DS2
GAS - Konigsforst
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill and A I A
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape
Smashing Pumpkins - both Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies
Nico - Desert Shore
Pink Floyd - Animals
Scott Walker - Scott 3
......
this list is just going on too long.....
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:56 am
by SadFuzz
+1 on Frigid Stars
I'm a sucker for simple 2 or 3 colour album art
You listed the breeders as well, i think the cover art for Pod is great. I saw some outtakes Vaughn Oliver took for it recently and its just so weird and cool.
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:22 pm
by LVC
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:18 pm
by blacktiger
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:26 pm
by blacktiger
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:30 am
by s_mcsleazy
i know this one is a bit of a cliche and is kinda a parody of many jazz albums but i think i'll always have a soft spot for this one.
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 7:16 pm
by budda12ax7
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:39 am
by s_mcsleazy
ok, david, you can ignore this post. so quite often how i discovered new music as a kid was by looking at the album covers in my dad's cd/record collection. this is one album cover i kinda always remember. not the best album by the band, but god damn, i think between in utero - nirvana, parallel lines - blondie and this, i had an ok introduction to music.
i mean if the point of an album cover is to get people wondering about the music inside, this worked on me. as i said, to this day, i dont think it's their best album. but i still respect the band..... mostly
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:07 am
by MechaBulletBill
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:01 pm
by budda12ax7
winner....the post above me.
Re: Album covers thread
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:25 pm
by SadFuzz
Extra mention to Thirst by Clock DVA