One of the many imaginative trips from the late 60s, this assemblage by the bands drummer represents various personal dreams of the band members. Definitely Stand Up with the woodcut popup gatefold. Since people were already using LPs to store and clean marijuana, the Airplane gave you a cardboard box holder for it, along with the pot, or at least a realistic-looking photo. YES RELAYER my favourite! 20 tracks (). Indestructible), and Hybrid Theory (LINKIN PARK) beats several of the ones on this list. Classic. Cars - Complete Greatest Hits. But, I would rank that, Sgt Peppers and Revolver over the White Album both in terms of the quality and impression of the Album covers and the significance of the albums in the history of popular music as well as with their musical content. I do like the Beatles but unfortunately they are rammed down peoples throats. (Are you depressed or something? Luscious embossed gatefold featuring Edmund Landseers celebrated depiction of Scottish Highland Low Life. Very old list, These covers are awesome, we got some covers too at RobLunaMusic.com. One of many great Stiff Records album covers, this caught Ian Durys personality and stood in stark contrast to the elaborate sleeves on the market at that time. Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Like a proto XXL Freshman Class, the three alternate covers of A Tribe Call Quests classic third album Midnight Marauders featured a collage of 71 hip-hop personalities from Afrika Bambaataa to the Beastie Boys, like the Sgt Pepper of hip-hop. Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by American rock band the Cars, released on October 25, 1985, by Elektra Records. Charles Lloyd Geeta, I miss LP vinyl artwork. Signed, An OLD rocker, Todd Rundgren Something/Anything? Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha. No mention by anyone of Family! 17 LP Record Lot! See? None of ABBA albums is listed in 100 which is not right, I wonder why this is on Agnethas Face Book. Are you saying she wasnt naked? Blue Oyster Cultss 1st LP Wheres the Jefferson Airplane, Spooky Tooth, Aorta, the Dead 72,.good stuff , but please dont put a number on them. It doesnt really matter what sort of adjective you want to put it in front of the words album cover, because lists of this sort of are always incredibly subjective. Not Cyril Jordan. No DSOTM? Blind Faith IMO best of all time. PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love Can think of twenty more pieces of art that deserve to be here. The Art work on Powerslave is so incredibly detailed, it should in the top ten. How can Steppenwolf 7 not be in the list? Or Cindy Laupers Shes So Unusual? Davis Is a Bonkers Vision of Our AI-Controlled Future, You Killer Joe Goldberg Channels Willy Wonka in For You and Only You. Others missing It was a commercial success, going six-times platinum. Taking its inspiration from the albums original title Automatic Changer, the front has the album on a turntable stacked with all sorts of other things. But the track resonated in ways that Ocasek wasnt always comfortable with. It would have been rated higher if the thing wasnt so tough to store. We would keep at it until it sounded live or alive. E.L. .), as Hawkes sci-fi synth arpeggios and Elliott Eastons squealing guitar leads leap out of the mix. Raise your hand if you also thought the cat was a head of lettuce. P-funks wild fusion of funk, surrealism, and pop art extended beyond music, resulting in some of the most provocative LP covers of the era. Each one of Sinatras Capitol-era album covers was cool and classic in its own way, from the lonely scenes on the ballad albums to the visual swagger on the swingers. Cool list. Heres proof: https://youtu.be/QARxQsSJo58. Needed: Sgt Peppers of course; Beatles Butcher cover: Woodstock; Smiths Meat is Murder; Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters; Soundgarden: Louder than Love; Alice Cooper: Pretties for You; Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation; Buffalo Springfield: Retrospective; The Flaming Lips: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart. Didnt see Wheels Of Fire from Cream, the first platinum album, what about King Crimsons first album? Rodney Matthews did a superb job especially on my personal favourite On a Storytellers Night, but there are many more worthy of inclusion in this list.. Pepper album cover to great success. Rolling Stones original Beggars Banquet Cover is Missing. Sold by Bridge_Media and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. Savoy Browns Lookin In No Showtime ScorpionsBlackout, Rainbow : Rising Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Humble Pie Rock On. The baby in question, Spencer Elden, even recreated the photo 25 years later. As the band often claimed, fewer people would have bought the albums if theyd put themselves on the covers. Linton Kwesi Johnson Bass Culture And also, Eels, Daisie of the galaxy, Gong, Flying Teapot and Camembert Electrique, Zappa Hot Rats, Christophe, Pas vu pas pris (the kitchiest one ! Bad Company Straight Shooter Dukes of Stratosphere 25 o clock. This stark black-and-white cover became so iconic that its now worn proudly on T-shirts by teens whove never heard of the band. Complete Greatest Hits was a fairly credible claim for The Cars' semi-canonical 20-track 2002 best-of, which did include the great majority of the band's most winning singles. AC/DC and Meatloaf, Talking Heads, Elvis, Bob Dylan Asia, Most Pink Floyds LOOK AT THE COVERS ON THESE BABES Hot Rats, Zappa Wazoo, Were Only in it for the Money, and Freak Out by Zappa, most Grateful Dead covers Eno, Another Green World and check The Chocolate Watchband. duhhh. Pretty iconic. $11.55. Too many dumb (actually sad) choices to call out. that album was truly great and the cover, was a compilation of Anuels chains, in his hands. The Court of the Crimson King is at 79? I also remember Theres the Rub as a cover that led me to buy the album. Only 3 left in stock - order soon. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Talking Heads The Name of This Band is Talking Heads is a double live album with the quartet on one album/cover and the 11 piece band on the second album/cover. I would love to laugh in their faces. From indelible images to perfect portraits, the 100 greatest album covers provoke and awe just as much as the contents inside. Thats not unique? My thoughts exactly. The songs video remains an experimental classic of the form, winning the Video of the Year award at the 1984 VMAs, where it beat out Michael Jacksons Thriller. Though its clever use of computer animation was striking at the time, the band wasnt too hot on the idea of a miniature Ocasek appearing in the clip stalking the object of his affection, played by model Susan Gallagher. "Tonight She Comes", a previously unreleased song, and a remix of "I'm Not the One" were issued as singles to support the album. For her debut solo album, Courtney Love took the Cars concept a step further by enlisting the younger, edgier pin-up artist (known professionally as Olivia) to paint her. What about including some Budgie album covers. BTO Not Fragile Maybe its not a rock album but its certainly one of the most iconic covers of all. You could also see Yeezus as the last celebration of the physical CD before it disappeared. I loved the Velvet Underground and the Carpenters. Im Not the One also made a memorable appearance in the Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison, in the scene where he gets a valentine from his principal. We try to be precise and tight, but that doesnt make our music stiff or calculated. My way of songwriting even if it seems overly obsessed with form and structure is just as emotional to me as soul music may be to someone else. E.L. Really???? Your email address will not be published. But, album covers are another thing, and I dont think that every single shit the Beatles ever took needs to be lionized as genius. Since Miles Davis Bitches Brew sounded like no other previous jazz albums, it couldnt look like one either. This article on a 2000s compilation album is a stub. As art and not the music inside, Beatles White Album and AC DCs Back In Black can go and put these two in. The Pixies debut cover is sexy, sinister, and full of secret meanings, starting with a vintage-looking softcore photo that was staged for the cover shoot. It also made it essential to own the original, fold-out vinyl. Get it as soon as Tuesday, Apr 11. No Steppenwolf? The reason? Last edited on 15 December 2022, at 09:49, "New Zealand album certifications The Cars Greatest Hits", "British album certifications Cars Cars Greatest Hits", "American album certifications The Cars Greatest Hits", Recording Industry Association of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greatest_Hits_(The_Cars_album)&oldid=1127547538, This page was last edited on 15 December 2022, at 09:49. ?..or .exile on main street,,,,,,or maybe..atom hearth mother? Lotus Santana Sales of the album reignited following Ric Ocasek 's death in September 2019. This is not even close to 100 of the greatest covers. No GENESIS total shame! It could have just as easily been Born in the USA, with its Annie Liebovitz photo and Bruce in a white t-shirt and blue jeans in front of an American flag. You forgot Alrune Rods album Alrune Rod http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3109/cover_17659102009.jpg, Freddie Hubbard Hub Tones Turns out to be the first CD I ever bought. I do not know where you culled the images for this article, but whoever was responsible is clearly a dunderhead. I think it would be better to have 1 cover per artist on the list because there are so many great ones. CD size artwork is just too small. It is difficult because it might be 101 on the list, but it should be up there, and arguably better than some in the top 100 I would say (1/7.4 billion isnt much of an opinion I know) sorry the rest of you geezers, I forgot to mention, Def Leppard, High and dry, this ought to be on this list, And come to think of it, Def Leppard. My 12-year-old self loved that cover! But while Sticky Fingers has a great story, Let It Bleed was equally unique and surreal. Crimsons first album cover is on the list. If youre doing the 100 Greatest Rock Album Covers, I could see excluding Whipped Cream and Other Delights because Herb Alpert and the TJB probably wouldnt be classified as rock. If, however, youre not putting sideboards on the category, Whipped Cream and Other Delights should be in there somewhere. http://www.sakisgouzonis.com. No Peter Saville or Vaughan Oliver works? Beth Orton Trailer Park 3 on the Top 200 (The Cars went no further than No. The image for The Ramones debut album is incorrect, it is an image that has someone had a non-Ramone cut and pasted onto the cover. Iron Maiden :Somewhere in Time I chose LPs from musicians that I liked that were done by fine artists of note and were interesting to look at. Ok. The more commonly known US cover is nice enough but makes it look like a conventional singer-songwriter album and Kate Bush is anything but. So, without further ado, here is our pick of just 100 of the greatest record covers of all-time. 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Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (front & back), Black Sabbath-Heaven & Hell, Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You, Slade-Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Bad Company-Run with the Pack, Bad Company-Straight Shooter, Frank Zappa-Joes Garage, Roger Glover & Friends-Butterfly Ball, to name a few, Greenslade Time and Tide Deep Purples Deep Purple in Rock and The Beatles Abbey Road? Blue Train by John Coltrane was designed by Reid Miles with a photograph by Francis Wolfe. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. One of the psych eras great hallucinations, the famous album cover for Moby Grapes 1968 double LP Wow showed an otherworldly landscape with the worlds largest bunch of grapes. Ocaseks keen grasp of pop-music architecture sometimes gave him pause. Yes: Yessongs It sounds contradictory that you could work on something for 12 hours to capture spontaneity,guitarist Elliot Easton said, but there you go. 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