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Favorite Record Artwork/Layout/Design (1 Viewer)

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Okay, another music thread, but this one crosses into the visual.

What is your favorite cover art and/or inside layout to an album, CD, cassette, etc.?

List your favorites here. Include pictures on imgur or another hosting site if at all possible.

I'll start with my favorite album cover of all time.

Chairs Missing

Second favorite is tough. I'll go with one from 2018. Keep it recent.

RTJ

 
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Roxy Music - Country Life>definitely nsfw 😃, love Roxy and their covers

Bowie -Low >not my favorite Bowie album, close but visually stunning cover

Paul McCartney-,McCartney>>>artistically McCartney and Gabriel are heads and tails over the rest

Peter Gabriel- Peter Gabriel 1>>>see above 

Kraftwerk- Man Machine>

PiL-First Issue> love the design and cleverness of the concept

 
HellToupee said:
Roxy Music - Country Life>definitely nsfw 😃, love Roxy and their covers

Bowie -Low >not my favorite Bowie album, close but visually stunning cover

Paul McCartney-,McCartney>>>artistically McCartney and Gabriel are heads and tails over the rest

Peter Gabriel- Peter Gabriel 1>>>see above 

Kraftwerk- Man Machine>

PiL-First Issue> love the design and cleverness of the concept
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As far as album covers, liked Peter Gabriel's second album better. The scratch was cool. Add into the fact that it was 1978 makes it even more impressive.

Overall, my favorite cover is from Exit...Stage Left by Rush. I know most people hate the band, but this one was extremely clever. Back in the day, when you bought music on vinyl, there was more real estate to play with; this being a double album that meant you had a huge space when the album unfolded. For those that don't know, ESL was a live album released in 1981. The inside of ESL has a reference to each of the previous albums released by the band in the area of a stage that would be 'stage left.' The title comes from the old cartoon character Snaggle#### who, every time there's trouble he would flee, uttering 'Exit... stage left' or 'Exit... stage right'. The band wanted to have his tail on the cover, but there were legal issues related to that.

 
Mr. Ected said:
As far as album covers, liked Peter Gabriel's second album better. The scratch was cool. Add into the fact that it was 1978 makes it even more impressive.

Overall, my favorite cover is from Exit...Stage Left by Rush. I know most people hate the band, but this one was extremely clever. Back in the day, when you bought music on vinyl, there was more real estate to play with; this being a double album that meant you had a huge space when the album unfolded. For those that don't know, ESL was a live album released in 1981. The inside of ESL has a reference to each of the previous albums released by the band in the area of a stage that would be 'stage left.' The title comes from the old cartoon character Snaggle#### who, every time there's trouble he would flee, uttering 'Exit... stage left' or 'Exit... stage right'. The band wanted to have his tail on the cover, but there were legal issues related to that.
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so much for the accusations that Rush is a fetid, festering pile of juvenilia - Snaggle#### may be a cartoon but, by all appearances, he is a fully-adult animated jungle beast

 
wikkidpissah said:
Mr. Ected said:
As far as album covers, liked Peter Gabriel's second album better. The scratch was cool. Add into the fact that it was 1978 makes it even more impressive.

Overall, my favorite cover is from Exit...Stage Left by Rush. I know most people hate the band, but this one was extremely clever. Back in the day, when you bought music on vinyl, there was more real estate to play with; this being a double album that meant you had a huge space when the album unfolded. For those that don't know, ESL was a live album released in 1981. The inside of ESL has a reference to each of the previous albums released by the band in the area of a stage that would be 'stage left.' The title comes from the old cartoon character Snaggle#### who, every time there's trouble he would flee, uttering 'Exit... stage left' or 'Exit... stage right'. The band wanted to have his tail on the cover, but there were legal issues related to that.
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so much for the accusations that Rush is a fetid, festering pile of juvenilia - Snaggle#### may be a cartoon but, by all appearances, he is a fully-adult animated jungle beast
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Snaggle#### was one of the best parts of the Yogi the Bear show!!!

 
Given the demographic, surprised my A1 and I thought obvious album cover hasn't been mentioned...

Unknown Pleasures

And always was a fan of factory records albums... New Orders first few, and factory desgner/artist on omd

Eta... Favorite part of the latter was the cut out lozenges interaction with the actual colored inner sleeve.

 
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Some may think the sound of the vinyl was everything, but the 400% blowup up this cover art over the cd version made a big difference.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
Some may think the sound of the vinyl was everything, but the 400% blowup up this cover art over the cd version made a big difference.
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I agree with that. I don't think that people are running adequate enough systems or even using proper sourcing to get the vinyl "sound." That's all in used records or in sources specifically saying that they're sourced from analog. Then you can hear it. Otherwise, you're usually getting a digitally-mastered source.

The cover art and gatefolds are huge, to the point where records that don't even take a second LP get the gatefold/artwork treatment on new and even re-releases.

It's sort of staggering and a testament to both consumer gullibility and just how powerful both tangible art and tactile items are. The tactile feel of picking up and putting on a record is something you can't really quantify, though the price markup is prohibitively staggering. 

That's also not to say that they never got creative with CD packaging. In keeping with that, I'll link my favorite CD box set art right here.

Zombies - Zombie Heaven

 
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Great idea for a thread. Will really need to think about great album art as there is so much.

As far as design?

Really liked the original Sticky Fingers album by the Stones, the one incorporating the actual working zipper on the image of the jeans.

Zep 3 had an internal flywheel that created different images in circular cut-outs on the front.

Alice Cooper's School's Out opened like a school desk and had the album wrapped in a pair of paper panties.

Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick read like a multi-page newspaper.

 
El Floppo said:
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Andy. On that tip.

Lou Reed - Transformer

(By the way, just found out I own/general manage a 1977 repressing of Transformer on Dynaflex, which means it's analog sourced and the reason it sounds so damn good compared to most of the other, digitally sourced recordings). It's in good condition. I dropped ten bucks on it. It's more like worth thirty.  :pickle:

Even the folks over at Steve Hoffman say that the pressing is pretty darn good. 

 
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