Great album covers

less is more...

Yeah, there were alot of clues. Lots of sites out there that cover them too. Here is one: http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/IBP/AbbeyRoad.php

You CANNOT have an album cover thread without King Crimson -

and sometimes more is more ...

The infamous Mom's Apple Pie cover -






lol!

No one even remembers the band, but the cover has gained "legend" status.

This one caused quite a stir when it came out, as I recall. Child porn they sid.

yep that accusation probably sold 500,000 more copies for them.

Yeah, they went after Blind Faith for this one too.



"Credited as the first ever rock album to not display the bands name on the cover art (apparently Eric Claptons’ idea) was the self titled Blind Faith (1969).

The 60’s Supergroup’s only album featured Bob Seidemanns‘ striking photo of a nude, freckly youngster holding a gleaming, chrome, impressionistic sculpture of a jet (the hood ornament from a ‘57 Oldsmobile).
Raunchy album art seemed to be quite the thing to do at the turn of the seventies, but unlike, say STICKY FINGERS, this image is anything but direct.

Compositionally, it’s pretty simple but for a few elements - the superimposition of the head on the sky and the tilted horizon line betray a kind of 60’s/psychedelic vibe (only in hindsight I’m guessing) - but Stanley Millers’ design coupled with the photo produce symbolism and metaphor all over the shop.

Bob Seidemann says “To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a space ship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare’s Juliet. The space ship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.”

The American record company disagreed and released this cover with a sensible pic of Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech and Eric Clapton" -

What was Winwood when that came out? 15-16?

That guy has talent.

Someone been posting Child Pornography?!?!!?

Me too. Trying to seperate seeds and stems on a CD cover is a bitch.

This was the original cover for G&R's Appetite For Destruction. They were forced to change it due to much controversy stemming from the Rape scene.

here's a great vinyl album cover I recently discovered on vacation, we rented a house in Hawaii and I found a box of vinyl in one of the closets, most of it was normal classic rock stuff but I found this train wreck of an album cover in there:

Guess which member here lives every day like this>>>>>