Off the top of my head:
Strictly Commercial - Frank Zappa
Sergeant Peppers - Beatles (in fact most of the beatles ablums had good ones)
Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd
Led Zepellin 3
? - Lemon Jelly (can't remember the album name)
Kid A - Radiohead
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Who Killed the Zutons - The Zutons
Originally posted by darvlaythis is inspired! be sure to check out page 2 as well! 'at play with The Playmates' is my favourite, but it's a close thing😀😀😀
Here's what's more interesting...
The 10 WORST album covers!
http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/000302.html
Enjoy and shudder in disgust...
EDIT - Make sure you check out the Update link at the bottom as well...
EDIT: BTW, you can also see these at http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html
with some extemely funny comments - had me cracking up!
I think one of the best album covers is: The velvet underground & Nico.
It's plain white with a yellow banana on it.
Painted by Andy Warhol!
Now, Warhol painted a white banana for the cover, but just before it went into production Lou Reed (the singer of the band) decided that yellow bananas are more frequent. So he painted the white Andy Warhol banana yellow. And thus the cover was created.
Andy Warhol refused to speak to Reed afterwards!
Another great album cover (although it could quite easily fit on that "worst" album cover site) is the Bad News album.
Basically 3 of the 4 Young one's got together with a fourth chap and made a heavy metal album. It's dead funny. A lot of swearing and bickering, etc. Their version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is classic beyond words.
But the album cover is just as sweet. Basically a fold down cover with all four of them in their underwear with large phallus shaped objects strapped to their thighs.
Mhmmm. I guess you'd have to see it to get it.
I rather like Jane's Addiction's "Ritual de lo Habitual" cover. Though I noticed a few years back that it was banned in some places for an obscure reason that escapes me. So then they released a plain white version with a stark message berating Nazism or something.
It was a few years ago. I'm assuming the fuss has died down, and you can get the original cover again now. Hmmm, the Genesis Foxtrot cover was pretty cool, as was Nursery Crymes. I'm sure I'll think of others in a minute. Strange Days, ummm....., yeah. That should do for now, 😉.
