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Favorite Album Covers
Posted: 4/22/2006, 6:02 am
by bovine
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.

Posted: 4/22/2006, 6:26 am
by magicseamonkey
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.
Posted: 4/22/2006, 7:18 am
by bovine
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.
Posted: 4/22/2006, 7:58 am
by magicseamonkey
Right, the simplicity is just so Cake.
Posted: 4/22/2006, 1:03 pm
by myownsatellite
This is my favorite CD cover ever:
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/gilyan10/1f350a80.png">
Posted: 4/22/2006, 1:19 pm
by Dread
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)
Posted: 4/22/2006, 1:21 pm
by pit_girl1
myownsatellite wrote:This is my favorite CD cover ever:
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/gilyan10/1f350a80.png">
Mine too

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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:

Posted: 4/22/2006, 1:40 pm
by myownsatellite
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">
Posted: 4/22/2006, 3:19 pm
by Johnny
Posted: 4/22/2006, 8:03 pm
by bovine
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.
Posted: 4/22/2006, 8:57 pm
by Hope
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
Posted: 4/22/2006, 9:05 pm
by Hope
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
Posted: 4/22/2006, 9:15 pm
by Axtech
Posted: 4/22/2006, 9:18 pm
by afealicious
whoa.

Posted: 4/22/2006, 9:18 pm
by Hope
hahaha, i saw those on mike's myspace!
Posted: 4/22/2006, 9:25 pm
by Axtech
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.

Posted: 4/22/2006, 9:32 pm
by crustine
Posted: 4/23/2006, 7:05 pm
by myownsatellite
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.
Posted: 4/23/2006, 7:08 pm
by pit_girl1
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

Posted: 4/23/2006, 8:10 pm
by Lando
I'm not a system fan, but I like this one.
