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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: Overexjoesure on April 10, 2006, 01:19:47 pm


Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Buquebus on April 16, 2006, 08:12:52 am
Poison, "Look What the Cat Dragged In"
http://usuarios.lycos.es/hardrockbuenosaires/caratulas_cds/caratulas_cds/poison_lookwhatthecatdraggedin_front.jpg
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: FrankZappa on April 15, 2006, 09:35:14 pm
I\'m suprised that no one has said anything about YES yet. some great album covers.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: leith on April 15, 2006, 08:46:12 pm
A few pop to mind.

American Beauty is cool as it can be read 2 ways.
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This one is pure art.
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and come on a little humor is always welcome.
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Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: daffodil on April 15, 2006, 08:33:19 pm
i think that first one is my new favorite!

i also like these:

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Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Cori on April 15, 2006, 07:06:37 pm
Abby Road and Rift are definite contenders.  I also love:

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^^^ Paul got me that picture on a blanket for my birthday once, it\'s awesome.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: wildcoyote on April 15, 2006, 11:43:10 am
A recent set list reminded me of the first album I ever purchased:
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Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Mamalakabubadaya on April 13, 2006, 09:51:55 am
Quote from: sallyalli
blood sugar sex magic

Quote from: Blackieshamps
One of my favorites...
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-not just the album cover, but the cd artwork/book that came with this was awesome.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: siflandollie on April 12, 2006, 02:55:15 pm
Zappa - Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Blackieshamps on April 12, 2006, 01:26:21 pm
One of my favorites...
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This one is def my favorite all time...
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Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Wolfman on April 12, 2006, 11:40:23 am
DJ Shadow and Amon Tobin should remix every Breakfast album into instrumental breakbeats and hip-hop beats...and release them on vinyl.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: RadicalRich1138 on April 12, 2006, 11:18:50 am
They should Press UAC 1 on vinyl
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Dyed_Tie on April 12, 2006, 10:08:56 am
PB on Vinyl!?!?!  I think I need to change my pants...  :poopself:
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Wolfman on April 12, 2006, 09:37:10 am
Quote from: FrankZappa
in the internet age you can get away with that argument. However, back in the 60\'s and earlier the cover was very important. You could\'nt listen to the album before buying it, so if your in the store with your allowence burning a hole in your pocket, the album cover is going to play a major factor in which one you buy. I\'ve had several people tell me this or similar stories.

Covers were more important in the vinyl age than they are today, but this doesn\'t change my point that albums are first and foremost for the music.  If albums were first and foremost for the cover, then people would go home and stare at the cover for hours while the record sat in a crate.  But that\'s not what happens.  People listen to the record for hours and the cover ends up in a crate.  Led Zeppelin\'s Physical Graffiti is my favorite vinyl cover.  When PB\'s self-titled comes out on vinyl, it will easily usurp Physical Graffiti as greatest vinyl cover of all time!
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Gordo on April 12, 2006, 12:54:04 am
Quote from: peaches626
anybody else gonna go with rift maybe?

the first album that popped in my mind..
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: peaches626 on April 11, 2006, 11:03:19 pm
anybody else gonna go with rift maybe?
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: sallyalli on April 11, 2006, 10:30:27 pm
blood sugar sex magic
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: wildcoyote on April 11, 2006, 09:46:44 pm
Looking through my CD\'s and I can\'t believe I forgot this one
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I had never seen this photo before I bought this album in 9th grade.  It influenced my thoughts on everything from war, to the human spirit.  I\'ve often thought of these monks when dealing with physical pain. To me, they have proved mind over matter is real.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Overexjoesure on April 10, 2006, 07:21:41 pm
That\'s a Staven Ass if I ever saw one!!!
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: FrankZappa on April 10, 2006, 07:18:57 pm
please, that\'s almost as bad as this piece of crap:
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on a note, this was from after tim and adrian left the band.

Don\'t even mention the episodes cover though!
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Overexjoesure on April 10, 2006, 07:13:17 pm
I can\'t believe no one posted this one yet...

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Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: FrankZappa on April 10, 2006, 07:07:29 pm
in the internet age you can get away with that argument. However, back in the 60\'s and earlier the cover was very important. You could\'nt listen to the album before buying it, so if your in the store with your allowence burning a hole in your pocket, the album cover is going to play a major factor in which one you buy. I\'ve had several people tell me this or similar stories.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Lexington on April 10, 2006, 07:02:57 pm
Quote from: Wolfman
Let\'s be fair though: Despite the questionable cover art, albums are first and foremost for the music, and both Deuce and Boyz II Men 2 rock the house!
amen brotha!!!
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: FrankZappa on April 10, 2006, 06:51:51 pm
1st place:
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For the full effect, cover the \'body\' of the skull with your finger from the sun glasses down. :P

second place in no paticular order:

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Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Wolfman on April 10, 2006, 05:17:07 pm
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THERE IT IS!  Greatest cover ever.

...How ironic that the same band would follow up the greatest cover ever with a ripoff of the immortal Boyz II Men!

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The fact that it looks like someone\'s 10th grade graphic design homework makes it tough.  The fact that it\'s the exact same cover as Boyz II Men\'s second album which came out 6 years earlier doesn\'t help either.
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Let\'s be fair though: Despite the questionable cover art, albums are first and foremost for the music, and both Deuce and Boyz II Men 2 rock the house!
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Dyed_Tie on April 10, 2006, 03:15:42 pm
Pearl Jam\'s Vitalogy is another great one for me.  Not so much just the cover but all the cover art.  Especially on Vinyl.  I love that freaky book.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Overexjoesure on April 10, 2006, 02:49:18 pm
For Floyd I\'ll go with Animals. I love The Jungle inspired industrial wasteland. AS for Beatles, this may sound silly but I\'ve always had a penchant for Beatles For Sale. Nothing like four best friends standing in the woods during a cool Autumn day.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Dyed_Tie on April 10, 2006, 02:38:34 pm
^^^  Thank You, Thank You  :bows:

For beatles albums I actually like Sgt. Pepper\'s, I was just being a wise-ass and for the PInk Floyd Albums I like Wish You Were Here better than DSOTM.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Overexjoesure on April 10, 2006, 02:36:12 pm
I predicted that DSOTM and White Album would make it within the first five covers....lo and behold.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Dyed_Tie on April 10, 2006, 02:30:01 pm
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Somebody had to say it. :D
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Gordo on April 10, 2006, 02:15:11 pm
Quote from: TreyChica
I\'d have to go with the aura filled digital bliss of Tortoise\'s "It\'s All Around You". I literally could stare at it for hours and hours on end. The best part is the album is double sided with artwork just as potent as the front.

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wow, thats fantastic.
Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: wildcoyote on April 10, 2006, 01:49:17 pm
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Title: Post Your All-Time Favorite Album Cover Thread
Post by: Overexjoesure on April 10, 2006, 01:19:47 pm
I\'d have to go with the aura filled digital bliss of Tortoise\'s "It\'s All Around You". I literally could stare at it for hours and hours on end. The best part is the album is double sided with artwork just as potent as the front.

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