Favorite Album Covers

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:56 am

So, anyway...the thread on rediscovering vinyl and Jeff Rath's comment about the covers got me remembering some of my favorites:

Close To The Edge (Yes)
Bitches' Brew (Miles Davis)
Overnight Sensation (F. Zappa)
Acquiring The Taste (Gentle Giant)

plus...that 'Playin' and singin' fer you the following...' cover R. Crumb did for Big Brother and Janis

..and many more. A few of your favorites?

eatswodo · Post by **eatswodo** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:21 am

Love those Roger Dean Yes covers.... a couple of other favourites are Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick (the full newspaper version), and Man's Be Good To Yourself, which has a big foldout illustrated family tree of the band.

Also, the picture on Maria Muldaur's Waitress In A Donut Shop still makes me go weak at the knees....

I'm dating myself, aren't I

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:30 am

Trapeze - Medusa
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Rainbow - Rising
UFO - (any between 74-78...gotta love Hipgnosis!)

leftyguitars · Post by **leftyguitars** » Thu May 26, 2005 9:20 am

David, I got into trouble for dating myself. My mum said I would go blind! hahaha!!! Now where did I put my specks???

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Thu May 26, 2005 9:44 am

Grateful Dead..Aoxomoxoa
Big Brother and the Holding Co....Cheap Thrills
Little Feat...Down on the Farm
Blind Faith...(the original cover)....everyone needs a little perversion.

incubus2432 · Post by **incubus2432** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:08 pm

rob · Post by **rob** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:28 pm

Brian,
That's one of my favorites, too!!!

Budgie...Squawk
The Beatles...The White Album
Metallica...The Black Album

expomick · Post by **expomick** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:22 pm

Clash - London Calling
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Generation X - 1st album
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
K-Tel compilation - Out-A-Sight (late 1974)
any Johnny Cash album from the 60's

expomick · Post by **expomick** » Fri May 27, 2005 5:46 am

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush

janglebox · Post by **janglebox** » Fri May 27, 2005 8:39 am

I still think the Byrds 5D is a classic.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri May 27, 2005 8:57 am

Herb Alpert: Whipped cream and other Delights, haha! Loved that cover.

Mothers on Invention: Freak Out

harley · Post by **harley** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:34 am

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Yes - Relayer
UFO - Force It & Obsession
Badfinger - ***
Wings - Band On The Run
Rod Stewart - Sing It Again, Rod (the original shaped like a whiskey glass)
Beatles - Abbey Road
Stones - Through The Past Darkly

And one I saw back in the 70s that I never bought, but I still remember it. It was called "Do They Hurt?" by a band named Brand X. As I recall, it had an alligator looking at a guy wearing alligator shoes. To my teenage male mind, that was hilarious!

rob · Post by **rob** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:58 am

Brand X. Wasn't that the band that Phil Collins was doing before Genesis? I know someone who has an album or two from them. Probably the same one you saw, Harley.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri May 27, 2005 12:10 pm

Sure was, Robert.

They are sort of still going. It's very hard stuff to get over here - import only. They did a live album called 'Livestock' and I loved it. Some b****rd pinched it when I had a party a few years ago.

I'm pretty sure if you google it you'll find an official site (or at least a fan one).

eatswodo · Post by **eatswodo** » Fri May 27, 2005 3:17 pm

Phil Collins was in Brand X *during* Genesis, not before or after. Their first album, Unorthodox Behaviour, is a fusion masterpiece that no-one knows about - Percy Jones, a Welsh Wizard on a fretless Wal is a standout, and it demonstrates what a truly superb drummer Collins is.