Favorite Album Covers

bovine · Post by **bovine** » 4/22/2006, 6:02 am

I'm curious what everyone's favorite album covers are. Two of my favorites are below.

I also love the covers on the entire Verve Remixed/Unmixed series...but there are 6 CDs in the series, and I can't decide on a single favorite out of them. The series takes songs from the Verve record label (mainly classic jazz songs) and remixes them. Then the Unmixed series is just the original versions. Each cover is a sculpture of sorts made up of things associated with jazz music and older recorded music in general and also things associated with newer music technology.

Ya know what? Now that I went through all that, I guess I'll post a picture of one of the CDs. It's not necessarily my favorite cover from the series (I like them all about the same), but it's from volume 2 which is, IMO, the best one musically.

magicseamonkey · Post by **magicseamonkey** » 4/22/2006, 6:26 am

I always liked this one. It was up for a Grammy, but it lost to some ugly cover.

This hasn't been released yet, but I think the art is fantastic.

This one always struck a chord with me (pun intended).

I always enjoy the simplicity of Cake's album covers.

There's also Fantomas' Suspended Animation limited edition cover, but that's more of a full-package experience...

I like this cover a lot.

ditto.

bovine · Post by **bovine** » 4/22/2006, 7:18 am

I was actually thinking of mentioning the Cake covers in my post as well. It's not that I think that any one of them is really amazing (although I do like them), but I like how they all have the same basic look.

magicseamonkey · Post by **magicseamonkey** » 4/22/2006, 7:58 am

Right, the simplicity is just so Cake.

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 4/22/2006, 1:03 pm

This is my favorite CD cover ever:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/gilyan10/1f350a80.png">

Dread · Post by **Dread** » 4/22/2006, 1:19 pm

My favorite album cover:

Failure - Fantastic Planet

Brand New - Deja Entendu

Weezer - Pinkerton

Jimmy Eat World - Futures

Silverchair - Diorama

Deftones - Deftones

Mellowdrone - Box

Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines (I also like the Happiness cover a lot)

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La Dee Da (yep, more than the 60s/70s influenced covers of Purple and Tiny Music)

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 4/22/2006, 1:21 pm

myownsatellite wrote:This is my favorite CD cover ever:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/gilyan10/1f350a80.png">

Mine too

.

I've always liked this one as well, just because it looks so fun and fluffy and I want to touch it:

And I also love:

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 4/22/2006, 1:40 pm

I like the new Fiona Apple cover too:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/gilyan10/0614135c.jpg">

And also the new Imogen Heap cover:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/gilyan10/02497d55.jpg">

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 4/22/2006, 3:19 pm

bovine · Post by **bovine** » 4/22/2006, 8:03 pm

myownsatellite wrote:I like the new Fiona Apple cover too:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/gilyan10/0614135c.jpg">

I love the album, but never cared much for the cover. That's interesting that you rank it as one of your favorites...I never knew what other people thought of it.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 4/22/2006, 8:57 pm

i like these ones:

jack's mannequin - everything in transit

elliott smith - either/or

olp - spiritual machines

my morning jacket - z

m.i.a. - arular

broken socials scene - s/t

sonic youth - daydream nation

olp - happiness

radiohead - hail to the thief

neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea

stone temple pilots - thank you (thre real cover doesn't have the words on it... just the picture)

the strokes - is this it

sufjan stevens - illinois

red hot chili peppers - by the way

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 4/22/2006, 9:05 pm

woah that was a lot of pictures. whoops.

can we do Single covers too?

my favourite single cover that i can think of right now:

oasis - wonderwall

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 4/22/2006, 9:15 pm

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 4/22/2006, 9:18 pm

whoa.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 4/22/2006, 9:18 pm

hahaha, i saw those on mike's myspace!

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 4/22/2006, 9:25 pm

hahaha

I found one on eBay a while ago, and Nikki found the other, and posted links to them in Mike's myspace comments. I guess he found them amusing. :lol:

crustine · Post by **crustine** » 4/22/2006, 9:32 pm

no accounting for taste,

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 4/23/2006, 7:05 pm

bovine wrote:
myownsatellite wrote:I like the new Fiona Apple cover too:

I love the album, but never cared much for the cover. That's interesting that you rank it as one of your favorites...I never knew what other people thought of it.

I love the album too. I like the cover because it's not her usual thing, and I think the photographic aspect of it is pretty amazing. I love the positioning and the color. I think overall it's just a neat cover.

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 4/23/2006, 7:08 pm

Hope wrote:i like these ones:

jack's mannequin - everything in transit

Whoops I forgot to list that one! I have a humongous version of that on my dorm wall

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 4/23/2006, 8:10 pm

I'm not a system fan, but I like this one.