Album Covers

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

What albums do you like for their art?

Ok, rules: no mentioning just the band and cover. You need to describe it (unless it's obvious, like the Beatles White Album) and at least mention why you like it. I will delete posts that break the rules.

I'll start. Rush's Presto. I mean, rabbits. EVERYWHERE. Even coming out of a floating top hat. And they're all converging on the viewer of the picture, like he holds something that enthralls them. Wow. They even almost manage to distract you from the subtle rock, scissors, paper graphics on the back. So like, where to these rabbits come from? What are they after? Are they merely tools for some deranged stage magician's amusement? It's like a haiku in photograph.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I like the Levellers, "Levelling the land" it has a painting by Jeremey Cunningham (the bass player)  and looks like this
http://www.levellers.co.uk/images/07levelling.jpg

I like the evil glee of the people who look like flames. This is an album that Eric had, and that I eventually bought and lost and bought again...

[Outkast in Exile]

I've always rather liked Meatloaf, Bat out of Hell album art.  I presume that most people know what that looks like? It just looks rather cool, ever since I was about four I've loved it.  I even persuaded my father to buy a copy of the album for me at that age.

[EUOL]

You had good taste even then, Outkast.  Both BAT album covers were done by Michael Whelan.

[Outkast, Still in Exile]

Why thank you EUOL  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Yes, while the music is, at times, only passable, the cover art was extremely cool.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Michael Whelan, seriously??

I'll have to say the coolest album cover I've ever seen is Skeleton Key's album "Fantanstic Spikes through Balloon".  (Great album to listen to, as well.)

The front cover art is a picture of a sausage, just a sausage, except that the paper on which it's printed has holes punched all the way through it.  And then in the spine of the CD case is a nail.  Just a nail.  It rattles a lot.  What does it mean?  Are any of the songs about nails or sausages?  Not really, no.


Here's a picture, to give you some visual reference.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:u1he4jo72wa4

[Maxwell]

thats gotta be one of the coolest things i've ever seen fuzzy

[Sigyn]

I admit I have a soft spot for Jethro Tull and the cover of Stand Up reminds me of a lot of Arts and Crafts movement stuff I've seen:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qauk6jah71w0

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hey, Fuzzy, maybe I'll have to buy that one. I have a sampler CD with "Watch the Fat Man Swing" on it and is tres good. You recommend the rest of the album as well?

[fuzzyoctopus]

Yes, I do.  I'm particularly fond of "The only useful word", but that's probably just because I'm an English major.

Hmm, no free downloads, but you can listen to samples of the whole album on Amazon.com

[Maxwell]

or you could use lime wire

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

except that we do not encourage illegal activities at TWG.

[Maxwell]

limewire's illegal?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

downloading songs that you didn't pay for is.