The Best Album Covers | A List of Some Favorites!
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2022
- In this video I share the best album covers, or what I consider some of my favorites! I focus primarily on rock records, of course! What do you consider the best album covers? This list is NOT comprehensive. I just thought it would be a fun discussion! There are too many amazing album covers to list in a single video, am I right?!
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Jazz label Blue note had amazing artwork , their album covers are very beautiful , outstanding. Some other favorites ... Sweet 'desolation boulevard' , Husker du 'warehouse' , Kinks 'kontroversy' , Grace Jones 'nightclubbing' , Ramones 'too tough to die' and - of course ... - Roxy music 'country life'!
Hi Henke! Good call on Sweet's Desolation Blvd! I could have shown that one, too! Love Kinks Kontroversy as well, but I only have the American cover. Killer picks here. Rock on!
My friend in Canada has the Country life lp without the ladies on the cover! WTF ! He’ s jealous of my 74 originsl!
Hi Hanna, Jeff from Omaha here. Very impressed with your choices. Great shirt too.
Hi Jeff! High five for being in Omaha. Glad you enjoyed these picks! I could have included soooo many more!
You have great taste in music ..... the world would be a better place if we had more Golden goddesses like you
Very kind words, Robert. Thank you so much! Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
The Kink Kontroversy (1966) Dave's Guild and group shots add visual correlation to adrenaline raveups and lyrical character narratives. (British Jacket) The American pressing has them in their 1964 riding jackets.
Van Morrison-Veedon Fleece 1974 ( Wolfhounds and scenery superimposed around Van!)
Love 1s Lp 1966 (Quintessential group shot,front cover and back)
Mothers of Invention- Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1971) Cannot be unseen or forgotten.
Devo - Are We Not Men? 1978
Same as above.
Opal- Happy Nitemare Baby 1987 Austere snapshots of fragile alliance. Sonically dense and lyrical.
Great fun with this one,Hannah!
Velvet Underground- Loaded -1970 Looks like the urban transcendence and motion the music sings about. And the cleanest subway stop ever! (A drawing).
Hi there, Lawrence! Some really fab covers you listed here...some others have not brought up and I agree that 1st Love LP - what a cover. Can't go wrong with any of their first 4, really! And that Opal cover - love! Wonder if I will ever find that one on vinyl...same thing with Loaded from VU. I don't think I've ever seen a vinyl copy. One day...one day! Thanks for posting a comment, as always! I enjoy reading your thoughts!
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures. I saw it on a shelf in a record store in 1982. There were almost no words on the entire sleeve and I had no idea who Joy Division were or what they sounded like and I thought to myself..."They say you should never judge a book by its cover but...that's one hell of a cover...I gotta know what the hell this is" and I bought it on the spot. When I got home and listened to it, I hated it. To be fair, I was 12 years old. About 5 or 6 more listens later, I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. It's weird how some music just takes time before you get it.
What a fun video Hanna. Some of my favorites are the Australian cover for AC/DC Highway to Hell, Eric Clapton's Pilgrim, Megadeth's Peace Sells, and The Beatles Revolver to name a few. Rock on Hanna
Nice picks indeed, Brian! Can always count on you to bring the ROCK! :-)
Husker Du!!! I miss staring at album covers.
Vinyl is definitely best for this. :-) And Husker Du forever!
Two of my faves are R.E.M.'s Murmur cover, announced a whole new southern culture almost, and the cover for Fables of the Reconstruction which got my vote as weirdest album cover ever.
Hey Scott. Happy Thursday to you, and notable and worthy picks with those 2 R.E.M. LPs. Fables is definitely a strange one! Ah, 80s R.E.M. forever!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert I think Fables either got voted best or worst album cover depending on who you talked to back then. It actually won some MTV award (!) for best album package or something or other. Murmur I love because it just sums up the whole Athens scene and the band so well.
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Another fave album cover of mine is Elvis Costello This Year's Model, such a great cover image. And the Stooges' Raw Power.
I love all R.E.M.' album covers from Chronic Town through Document. Including the inside artwork. They had great design that mirrored their murky, mysterious music.
The Motels Careful LP always stood out to me. Remember just staring at the cover over and over. The art of it. X Debut LP also a stand out. So many to choose from. Thanks for the video.
X's Los Angeles is a pretty iconic one. I'm always somewhat cautious about wearing the shirt I have of that out in public for fear of the questions I might get lol. The Motels had some interesting artwork on their albums!
All of the early X albums have great covers, and they all somehow fit the music. I can never decide which one I like best.
Gotta love some good cover art! Great picks! ✌️
Thank you, Zach! Happy you tuned in for this one! Enjoy your weekend!
Gr8t video Hanna,I might feel inspired to make a video like this..would take some time plan it out tho cuz there’s so many album covers I love!
Well, this was a very rushed video, but you definitely got the gist! A proper one would be at least 3 hours! Hehe! Hope you do one on the same topic!
Hey Hanna - a bit late to post but really enjoyed your topic and video! Just a few covers that I like:
1) The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
2) Live - Throwing Copper and The Distance to Here
3) Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
4) Oasis - Definitely Maybe
5) Silverchair - Diorama
6) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
7) Interpol - Our Love to Admire
8) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
9) New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
10) Chvrches - Every Open Eye
Looking forward to more of your videos!
Some great choices. The Blondie cover is so simple, but so iconic. I like the early 80 new wave album covers....the take me straight back to that time. The Cure and The Smiths have some great album art. Great video. Great Bunnymen shirt too!!
Thanks, Jason! Glad you like my Echo shirt! You're right, 80s new wave/post-punk...lots of stand-out covers for sure! Really enjoyed your comment!
Hello Hanna 😊 Thanks for sharing some of your favorites. A lot of album art from the 70's was quite epic and iconic. Two of my favorites from that decade is Todd Rundgren's album A Wizard, A True Star and Gary Wright's Light of Smiles album. If you ever have the chance to look those up (the vinyl covers) the air brush work is fantastic, as you said you can really take time to ponder. Enjoyed, take care!
Hi there! Agreed on that Rundgren album. Still one I don't own but I'm very familiar with the cover and it's an interesting one! I'm about to look up Wright's Light of Smiles after I submit this comment! Thank you, and so glad you enjoyed this one!
great collection Hanna and great video to
Thanks, Curtis! Kind of a short one! Enjoy the rest of your Thursday!
Love the topic Hanna. Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain one of my favs. Take care.
Hi there, Andre! It's been a while. Great to hear from you. Glad you're a fan of Ocean Rain, too. Stellar music and art on that one! Be well.
I'm glad you picked coloured albums and darker covers picked up jack whites new album, fear of the dawn it's my cover of the year.
Some really cool album covers you chose, Hanna. Some of them are just iconic.
Hi Tony! Thanks so very much. Artwork can really help an album stand out. And if the music is just as good, we have a winner! :-)
Always enjoy seeing artwork 🌸🎸🥁
Thanks, Mazzy! I hear you guys have been getting soaked in WA. Meanwhile, we've had a very dry winter here. Hope you are well. Thanks for stopping by. 👋🏻🦋🎶
Scott Walker's "Scott 3" is one of my favorites.
Hi Aron. I had to just look that one up. Wow, I love it with the eye and him sitting deep in contemplation! Great pick!
hey there, its me again.. goin through some of your content and i love it.. you have such wonderful taste in music.. anyway my fav cover of all times would be goo by sonic youth.. the second would be animals by pink floyd.. thats cause my dad used to have a copy on vinyl and it scared me so bad when i was a kid that i ended up lovin it.. i think the whole vibe of that record is just incredible.. surreal to say the least..theres this contrast goin on with the heavyness of the landscape and this flying pig.. so strange.. and its a perfect match with the music.. but goo is so iconic to me, cause of my adolescence, which was the best time of my life, that has to be on top of everything else. oh and third i pick three imaginary boys by the cure which was my first alternative record ever.. i started to make music because of that. keep it up hanna. also genuinely looking forward to some new amazing covers on your soundcloud page. cheers.
I'm so thrilled you have been enjoying the content on my channel! Goo is indeed an excellent album cover! I love Daydream Nation's cover, too! Oh and you checked out my Soundcloud covers, too! Thank you. Not sure I'll be recording anything new anytime soon as I don't really have my equipment anymore. Be well and see you at my next video!
Favourite album covers 👍
Queen 2 in the background 👍👍
Bring it on Omaha girl 🥳😉
Glad you liked this video! :-) I wish I could redo this video honestly because I would have included so many more!
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Never too late to do more covers. 😉
They are a bit like genres, painterly, illustrative, Graphic, photographic, pattern etc
So many variations!!....in fact I often imagine which artwork of my own I would have used instead and post it either before or after the album 😉😁👍
I love your videos Hanna. I saw Smashing Pumpkins in the early 90’s opening for The Red Hot Chili Peppers and it’s a toss up between that and NIN Downward Spiral tour as my favorite concert. Hope you have a nice weekend!
-Frank
Hi Frank! Wow, seeing Smashing Pumpkins in the early 90s would have been my dream! That's awesome! Thanks for sharing your best concerts! Hope you are well!
That is a nice list. My all time favorite is the punk band Sum 21- Does This Look Infected. Really like Echos-Songs To Learn and Sing with the silhouettes of the band in yellowish background. The The - Dusk just love the colors and the bands name in small print in the album cover. Lastly Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon with the skeletons doing tango.
Hey there, Matt! Ah, excellent mention of Concrete Blonde's Mexican Moon! Love that one, too! Echo & the Bunnymen were on a roll with those album covers in the 80s. Really solid, all of them! :-)
Great selection as always dear.
Thanks, Andrew! Glad you approve! enjoy the rest of your week!
You have chosen some of my favorites too!!! This Dukes cover is truly amazing!
Some big favourites:
Can - Tago Mago
Silver Apples - s/t
John Cale & Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax
Vangelis - Spiral
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
I enjoy your list, too! That Silver Apples s/t is really neat! :-) Take care, and thanks for watching!
Hi Hanna, you gave us the real icon covers there, Bowie, Cream, Hendrix, The Who, The Beatles etc.
Some i love are The Sound, From The Lions Mouth
Devo, Duty Now(2nd album)
Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain
Talking Heads, Buildings and Food, Remain In Light
Lou Reed, The Bells.
Bowie,Diamond Dogs
So happy you chose Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane
Hi Danny! From the Lion's Mouth. I should have shown that cover for sure. Same thing with Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain! You should have done this video, my friend! Brilliant picks! :-)
Duty now for the future my favorite Devo album, and a classic album cover.
@@toddhill7483 for sure Todd. That look that Devo had for that album was stunning. When you look at how good their first 4 albums are, it is amazing how it stands out. Brilliant keyboards and guitar, with Brian Eno producing their 1st album and Mark loving his music, i can hear Eno's influence in the songs. Yes, DNFTF is one of my most loved recordings and what a look and cover its got, thanks Todd.
Great idea. Love a lot of your coices. The Smashing Pumpkins' Cover is super cool, yes. How about the Cover-Concept of the White Stripes and later on Jack White ... And: May I add some Jazz ones: Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew" as well as "Decoy". "Undercurrent" - Bill Evans and Jim Hall. All the iconic Bluenote-Covers. Or check out "Moondog" (by Moondog). Finally, looking into the Country genre, of cource, Johnny Cash and his American Recordings. I suppose, I forgot about 476 other candidates overall ;-) Take care.
Hey there, Frank! Hope all is well in your world! I should have done a montage at the end and I would have featured Bitches Brew in that! Yeah, there are just too many choice covers to list, right? This could have been a 3-hour video. Instead I went the brief route! See you next time!
Fun video! Cannot complain about any of your choices. You seem to have a predilection for the psychedelic album covers. That Dukes of The Stratosphere album surely owes a debt to Disraeli Gears?
I Am A Cliche had a handful of theater screenings here. I highly recommend it. Poly Styrene's story is told through the eyes of her daughter.
I love that Germ Free Adolescents cover. In the documentary, they mention how Poly was disappointed that they had made her picture thinner to fit in the test tube. She wanted to be seen as she was.
I look forward to your Hoodoo Gurus video. They were a fun live act in the 80s. Stoneage Romeos is my favorite I think. Also a great album cover. Also loved the video for I Want You Back
Hey there, Richard! Great to see you again. The past few videos aren't my typical content, so I appreciate you still sticking around here! I definitely do appreciate the more psychedelic, colorful covers, I guess. And definitely some strong similarities between Cream's DG and DoS's 25 O'Clock!
Thanks for giving me a little preview into the Poly Styrene story. I truly look forward to seeing it soon.
The Gurus were excellent! I love Stoneage Romeos, too! Although I believe my copy is a different cover that many are used to seeing. Enjoy your weekend!
Hi Hanna. Great covers. My favorite covers are the ones Gered Mankowitz take from Suzi Quatro and the band. That might have something to do with the fact that my mother (who brought me the cassette Suzi Quatro) dislike the cover . I guess that for 12 old that meant that the cover is extra cool. :) Anyway never get over it and have brought pile of her singles with the picture sleeves from these sessions. Another weird delights are Elvis soundtracks. He just look so good and there are always more pictures backside. Also like the cool locations and colours in them. I wach them more than listen to them!!
Hey there, and happy Friday night! Thanks so much for watching this video and sharing some of your favorite colors. Seems you had fun reminiscing about some of these, too. The Elvis soundtracks - agreed! The Suzi Quatro self-titled from '73? Absolutely classic! Never even thought to mention that one, so kudos!
Every album you've featured is a classic! I love Hoodoo Gurus!!
Right on! I hope to feature the Gurus again in another video in the next month or so!
Hi Hanna. I have always loved the Hoodoo Gurus cover as well and is my favorite album of theirs. Ocean Rain and Parallel Lines are wonderful covers as well. The T. Rex cover is iconic too. I'm with you on the Smashing Pumpkins album on why I have CDs of some of my favorites instead of the vinyl ... price. Some of my favorites are: Bruce Springsteen (Born To Run when you open it up and see Clarence Clemmons with Bruce), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ghosteen), The Chills (Submarine Bells) and Guadalcanal Diary (Jamboree).
Hi Randy! I'm hoping we get a lot more 90s reissues...and quality ones. I just got the Lemonheads' It's a Shame About Ray reissue with demos and extra tracks. That is a reissue done right. So pleased with it! Ohhh, I'm so jealous you mentioned Chills' Submarine Bells (a favorite...how did I not show it?!) and that Guadalcanal Diary. Several of their albums have neat artwork! Kudos for these selections, my friend! Cheers!
Enjoyed the journey down cover lane. Well done.
Thank you! Just a quick overview of some preferred ones in my book, but I'm so glad you enjoyed! Take care.
Cool video! One of my faves (for the cover AND the music):
The Radio Dept.- Lesser Matters.
Oh, I love that cover, too. You also reminded me I need to get more Radio Dept. in my collection! Only have 2 of their CDs! Cheers!
Great vid Hanna. A couple favorites The The-Soul Mining, XTC - Drums and Wires and My Life with the Thill Kill Kult - Sexplosion because it so reflects the music.
One that isn’t necessarily a favorite but a bit shocking is Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey, for years I thought it was just a collage of purple-y color but if you look at it from a far is a decomposing corpse.
Hi Kevin! I really like that The The - Soul Mining cover as well. I don't think I've ever listened to Ministry, come to think of it, but I will look up the LP cover you mentioned by them. Thanks for watching!
I saw Ministry back in 85 , they were rude & horrible . The The ‘s Uncertain smile is awesome! XTC amazing !
I'll add two to the mix. Obvious: King Crimson (you know the one); less obvious: Cheap Trick, In Color. It also has my favorite back cover!
Hi Jerry! Thanks for providing two more to add here! I love Cheap Trick's cover for In Color as well! Rock on!
Hey Hanna-great topic to cover. Several o' my all time favorite covers are displayed 'round my abode either in large poster form or metal reproductions...Pink Floyd-A Saucerful Of Secrets, Mothers Of Invention-Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Elvis Presley-Elvis Presley (his 1st album), David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust. Another fave is the 3D cover for Rolling Stones-Their Satanic Majesties Request-front 'n back, inside 'n out...amazin'!
Hi John! That first Elvis album...love the photo/art, too! No doubt these are excellent selections! Hope you are well. Great to hear from you, as always!
Greetings Hanna. Love the topic and all of your picks. I've always liked that Talking Heads cover. As for the Dukes, Sir John Johns and Lord Cornelius Plum approve of your selection. Some personal contribution include 2 album covers by King Crimson, Lark's Tongue in Aspic and In the Wake of Poseidon. (Front and back) Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink. Mercury Rev All is Dream. Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord. The Mermen Amazing California Health and Happiness Road Show. (Front and back) Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain. (Also has some amazing inner sleeve art) Looking forward to checking out covers from your subscribers. Thanks!
Good evening, Todd! Ah, Mercury Rev - I enjoy several of their covers. Brilliant! I'll check out the Sparklehorse in a bit. Dang, I love all the lists you guys are providing! So many brilliant covers out there! Too many to feature in a single video, that's for sure! Take care.
I like the artwork on the earlier Tangerine albums . Some of Can's artwork is pretty trippy too .
Good call on Can. I only have them on CD but love, love, love their artwork!
Hello, nice UK Track Records OG of THE WHO SELL OUT. Great record indeed!
Thanks, Marc! Yep, I've got original mono and stereo presses, as well as the new mono reissue that came out last year. I'm a bit obsessed! The deluxe CD edition is a favorite, too!
Awesome video!
Thanks, Kurt! Very kind of you and I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
very good video. Some of my favorite bands that have great cover art are Modest Mouse, Tame Impala and Foals.
Ah, totally agree on Tame Impala and Foals! (insert hand claps here). :-)
@@TheOmahaIntrovert verrrr Niiiice!
Hey Hanna,
I just.love album covers !! My favorite Bowie cover in Aladdin Sane…also my fav album of his musically. Stooges Fun House is great. The Who Sell Out is amazing , but the cover of Who’s Next with the double meaning of the title and the monolith is so classic !!
List of favorites
1 Derek & the Dominos Layla …a real painting !
2 Small Faces Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake with the circular cover of a tobacco can.
3 The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
4 Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East with all the equipment boxes …fantastic music too !
5 Deep Purple In Rock with the band members on Mt Rushmore ….Heavy Metal forged in rock … what a concept !!!
Fun topic….could go on for hours.
Thanks for the idea……so cool !!!
Hi Richard! Truthfully I could have shown several Who covers, right? Several are just so amazing. Who By Numbers, too! Ogden's is iconic. I wonder if I got rid of my Deep Purple In Rock. I haven't seen it in a while. Must have traded it. I dig your picks, my friend! Thanks so much for chiming in here! See you next time!
Hi, Hanna! The art of album covers really started to have an aesthetic importance in the 60s and since then until today there are so many covers that have become classic, iconic, honored and parodied as well. Some of my favorite covers: Elvis Presley-Elvis Presley (1956), The Clash-London Calling (1979), The Beatles-Abbey Road (1969), The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed (1969), Pink Floyd-Animals (1977), AC/DC-Highway to Hell (1979), King Crimson-In The Court of the Crimson King (1969), Van Halen-1984 (1984), Boston-Boston (1976), Santana-Abraxas (1970), Mountain-Climbing! (1970), Thin Lizzy-Jailbreak (1976), Rainbow-Rising (1976), New Order-Power, Corruption and Lies (1983), Duran Duran-Rio (1982), Tears For Fears-Songs From The Big Chair (1985), Michael Jackson-Thriller (1982), Big Brother & The Holding Company-Cheap Thrills (1968), Beastie Boys-Licensed to Ill (1986), Dio-Holy Diver (1983), Nirvana-Nevermind (1991), ZZ Top-Eliminator (1983), The Strokes-Is This It (international cover, 2001), Red Hot Chili Peppers-Californication (1999), Joy Divison-Unknown Pleasures (1979), The Smiths-The Queen is Dead (1986), Bob Dylan-Nashville Skyline (1969), Blur-Parklife (1994), Queen-Queen II (1974) and Ramones-Ramones (1976). Great video as always. Rock on!
Hey Alen! Yep, you have listed several iconic, classic covers here. Many of these I absolutely love, too..especially JD Unknown Pleasures, Smiths Queen is Dead, and Blur's Parklife! I appreciate your thoughtful and insightful comments always! see you next time and always be rocking!
Unknown Pleasures cover has left a permanent, decades long impression on my mind.
Fun House is also my favourite Stooges album and what a badass cover. Great selection by the way. Roxy Music and David Bowie are wellknown for their brilliant music but also for their iconic covers. Here's some favourites of mine. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me, The Legendary Pink Dots - Island Of Jewels, Lou Reed - Transformer, Marianne Faithful - Broken English, Goat - Requiem, Ty Segall - Sleeper, The Raveonettes - Chaingang Of Love... Have a nice weekend.
Hi Danny! I appreciate the comment! I really dig the cover of Lou's Transformer and several of the Raveonettes ones. Great selections, my friend! It's almost Friday! Cheers!
Hey im Danny too. Im a lifelong Bowie and Reed follower. I chose Reed's The Bells for his brazen, wild look on the cover, and its also a fave album. Cant believe i forgot Transformer, one of the greatest covers of all. I saw a doco about the making of the iconic cover. Great choice Danny.
You presented a bunch of great albums, most of them I have also.
The ESP Disk label had interesting covers on most albums, especially the early releases. Easter Everywhere by the Elevators is wonderful. I like Kulu Se Mama by Coltrane. Giorno Poetry Systems' album Big Ego has a great photo. So many to choose from!
Hi Ed! I guess I could have shown Easter Everywhere, too as I own it and agree that it's pretty neat! Indeed there are so many to choose from and too many to list. I'm glad I kept this one short. Just a sampling!
Should check out Earth Wind & Fire’s rich catalogue of amazing covers . Fun video!
Thanks for watching, Hugh!
Great topic! It seems album art is rarely ever discussed even though it is just as important as the music on the record. It's a part of the whole package. I've bought plenty of records because of the artwork, without having heard the music. Most times the music was just as great.
A couple of my faves are Rubella Ballet - At Last It's Playtime (UK; 1985) and 9353 - To Whom It May Consume (Washington DC; 1984). The most offensive album cover ever though is Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss? (Phoenix AZ; 1984). The front cover is a piece of sandpaper!
Hey there! Agreed that cover art is an important element to the whole package. So glad you enjoyed this topic. Plus, extra points for giving me some album covers to explore here. I'm unfamiliar with these! I'm off to Google these. Thank you!
Hello Hanna; Like the Echo T-shirt. Agree with your LP cover picks. Some real classics from the rock & psych era, along with the newer pop, punk & shoe gaze released covers. The Dukes LP covers always have a visual presence. LP covers were photographed, drawn & designed as part of the packaging. Favorites would include the Beach Boys Smiley Smile, like the drawing. The Rolling Stones Satanic Majesty's Request. Mothers Of Invention Freak Out. Captain Beyond's 1st LP. Moody Blues Every Good Boy. The Move's 1st LP artistic. Small Faces Ogden's Nut Flake. Pink Floyd's Saucer Full of Secrets. Including the two on the shelf. To name a few. Good video for discussion. Take Care. Tina & Pat!~
Tina and Pat, good evening to you both! Ah, great pick with BB's Smiley Smile. And Ogden's is a memorable one for sure. Notable selections here for sure. You always know your stuff! Take care!
Mellon Collie is one of my faves too, not only the cover art but the insert art and the lyric book art, it's all amazing. I believe this cover art started a celestial design trend that happened in the mid-'90s too. Some other faves include X- Wild Gift, White Stripes White Blood Cells, BOC's Music has the right to children, Slowdive's Just for a Day, and Galaxie500's On Fire. Excellent topic, I've discovered much great music based on the cover art. I think it speaks to the attitude or mood of the music within for the most part.
Gotta love that X cover, and of course the musical content within.
Hey Rando! Yes, the complete and total package on Mellon collie! Such an outstanding achievement. X - Wild Gift - another favorite! Our taste is too similar! Thanks for listing your favorites here. :-)
ah interesting idea for a video. might have to steal it sometime in future. lotsa great selections. talking heads. hoodoo gurus (have had tix to see them in NYC for like 3 years and unfortunately it just got cancelled.) blondie (just got tix to see them and THE DAMNED in NYC in august!) x-ray spex. I like that rain parade cover, wasn't familiar with it. i think my favorite is... (i hate to bring this band up to you again) but Van Halen 1984. just iconic image to me. I listened to an interview with the woman who created it and it's an interesting tale how it came to be. Oh and dig the BeetleJuice doll. I'm sure i've seen that before just never mentioned it.
Hey there, Steve! Yes, I hope you cover this topic in the future. OMG, you're gonna see Blondie with the Damned. Okay, I am waaaay jealous. That's gonna be an epic show. Would be a dream show for me! And yes, Beetlejuice has been looking over my shoulder in several videos. I moved him to this shelf because he insisted. 😆🤣 Thanks so much for being here, as always! 🎶
@@TheOmahaIntrovert yeh i'm looking forward to that show. but with my luck i'll end up booking a road gig and won't be able to go. it's happened many times which is why i stopped buying tix in advance but some ya feel are gonna sell out ya gotta take the gamble. we'll see. As for B-Juice. I have a copy of a script for a sequel they were gonna make in 90s called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. Porbably for the best they didn't make it.... hahah. Stay cool Hanna.
Some of my fav album covers would be, Marquee Moon/Television, Born to Run/Springsteen, Beware the Shadow/Help Yourself, Magicians Hat/ Bo Hanson, Not Available/The Residents, For Your Pleasure/Roxy Music, Another Green World/Eno, with 9000 lps in my collection the list goes on and on, You have an awesome channel and excellent and eclectic taste. Keep the vinyl spinning.
Great titles/covers. I especially love Marquee Moon, too. Wow, you really over 9,000 records? That's quite the collection! If you ever have punk, post-punk, or new wave stuff to trade or sell, do let me know! Hope to see you stop by here again! Rock on!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Hi Hanna, Yes I really do have 9000 or so records and probably about the same amount of cd's I worked for Homers in the 1970's off and on till around 1980. I was an early part of the Vinyl Community 10 years ago. I was jeffrecordman1958. Record buying has been a 50 year obsession ever since I bought my Three Dog Night album at Richman Gordman in 1971. Will keep in touch. You have a great channel. Thanks for the response.
Very fun show Hanna and there are many to pick from I've always loved split enz time and tide, simple minds new gold dream and the one that's always intrigued me is the police's synchronicity because of its eye popping visuals and the insane 36 sleeve variations they released and not one variation is the same and I always wondered what the idea behind that album cover was
Hey there, George! There are a few Split Enz covers I really dig. And Synchronicity is really interesting and left me scratching my head a bit when I first held a copy. ha! Take care.
@@TheOmahaIntrovert one more I love I forgot to mention was David Bowie's let's dance he looked so badass in that boxing pose and as a child kind of intimated me hehe be well and happy hunting
Agreed! Ah, Bowie was such a master at it all!
Hi Hanna. Nice choices. I believe guitarist John Squire designed/painted the Stone Roses album cover art.
I agree, shoegaze album covers tend to be fantastic, and offer a strong visual complement to the music. These days, 'gaze is my fave! You've probably listened to DKFM online?
Hi Peter! Yes, John Squire did the cover for that SR debut. What a brilliant piece, eh? Happy to hear that you're big into shoegaze as well! Yes, I have the DKFM app, although I must say it's been a few months since I tuned in. Shame on me! Any good shoegaze releases so far this year? I'm a bit behind. I guess Deserta has a new one.
Shame! Shame! 😆 I'm just getting exposed to Deserta. Have you heard anything from the new Blushing album? I like what I've heard.
I have not heard the new Blushing album! Thank you for the reminder. I have their first LP. So darn good! I'll be sampling the new one this weekend!
😄H. Good video topic, definitely do a part 2. Album artwork is an important part of vinyl. I played that smashing pumpkins cd so much I can’t play it anymore. I made enlarged color copies of the front cover from the cd and framed it. So it was a fav. Aladdin Sane 1 then Ziggy for me. Where did you get that cover with the big rca and victor logo? and is it the orange label..I’ve never seen that. !
Thank you, J! This Aladdin Sane is actually an unofficial release. Kind of a replica of the Brazil press. Has the orange label and it's on white vinyl. I hope to get a better copy in the future on a dig! So cool that you got a print of the Mellon Collie artwork framed! I would do the same! :-)
@@TheOmahaIntrovert they have a recent parlaphone reissue silver vinyl at the r store 25$. I have one.
Those Parlophone reissues are quality!
13th floor elevators!!! Rocky Erickson was crazy, but had some wild tunes in the day. I still have many of the same records you've shown... and wow, what memories - BTW, Might be time I give back Ziggy/Spiders to my brother. HEHEE
P.S. Great shirt...and contrast w/ your hair and eyes, perfect.
EDIT: Fave Album cover, Led Zep 1 always comes to mind along w/ Dark Side of the Moon.
Thanks so much, TJ! I also love the album cover of Led Zeppelin I! Heck yeah! Glad you like my Echo shirt, too! You have great taste in tunes! Peace.
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Any album lover/music lover could probably go on for days picking fave cover art... I'd like to add The Blue Oyster Cult album covers as some of the best ever. The 1st 2 album covers are mind blowing and The Live "On your feet or on your knees" cover w/ the Limo in front of that old Gothic Church is extremely inspiring, to say the least.
Thanks Omaha.
I've never owned the album but I always liked the cover of Chapterhouse - Whirlpool with the white curled up cat against the blue background. Most recently I was playing Quivers new record , Golden Doubt (great jangle pop album) when my 10 year old daughter spotted the cover and immediately said if she could have it for her room. It is a beautiful cover that suits the contents perfectly.
Hi Andrew! Yes yes yes, I adore that Whirlpool cover from Chapterhouse as well. It's mesmerizing in a way! I love that Quivers Golden Doubt record cover, too! I believe I featured it in a video sometime last year. They might be playing here in a few months, too. I'll have to see if I can go! I appreciate the comment, thank you!
One of my favourite album covers is Red Rider's, " Neruda ". The title is in tribute to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The artwork fantastic, and the music makes it very likely my desert island pick for best Canadian rock album of all time, ...sorry to my chosen guys in Rush. Red Rider's previous effort, As Far as Siam has cool artwork as well, this is the album that has the amazing " Lunatic Fringe " on it. Red Rider had interesting early roots with some country elements, their first song of prominence was, " White Hot ", a biography piece about the poet Arthur Rimbaud. Rock on, listen to " Neruda ", you will not walk away disappointed.
Hey John. Just looked up the cover for Neruda. A pretty stunning piece indeed, wow! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this topic! Take care.
Human race is great song!
Hi Hanna, killer covers and albums. Also some 90's to 2000's CD's have great artwork, CD's with customized labels and thick booklets or booklets as posters. I think 90's CD artwork is very underrated.
Hey Alejandro. There's a few by Fleet Foxes and Chelsea Wolfe I could have mentioned too as far as more modern, but you know, I was really trying to keep this one short, hehe! My other videos are just so long and I lose people's interest. There are several awesome 90s covers indeed.
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Yes, like Smashing pumpkins Infinite Sadness also, great CD artwork. Love Chelsea Wolf, I have her 4 first CD's great digipack cover art on all of them.
You have great taste as always!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Well I learned a lot from you :)
Here are a couple of my favorites:
Circle Jerks: Gig (Best live action shot I have ever seen on a cover)
The Coathangers: Nosebleed Weekend (The shot with Meredith and her bloody nose is classic because she is just a very small person and very sweet.)
The Dead Milkmen: Beelzebuba (This cover just fits with their humor)
AC/DC : Highway to Hell (The photo with Angus in horns and a tail with Bon laughing on the side is iconic)
Dead Kennedys: Plastic Surgery Disasters (This photo hits hard and makes a powerful statement)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: Whipped Cream and Other Delights (My dad had this album in his collection, and I thought the cover was awesome).
Golden Earring: Cut (As an engineer, I have always thought this cover was cool for the high speed photography)
The Cramps: Bad Music for Bad People (This illustration is so fitting for the band).
The Scorpions: Blackout (I remember seeing this cover for the first time at a friend's house in high school, and it freaked me out).
Weezer: Pinkerton (This japanese cover art just seems so peaceful)
Emerson Lake and Palmer: Tarkus (This whole foldout saga of the armadillo was really cool. My dad also had this album and it is what got me into synth music).
Nice list, my friend! I'll check out that Coathangers cover. I'm intrigued. The Dead Milkmen had some interesting covers! Oh, I just had that Cramps Bad Music record on display on my record wall! I love it too! I appreciate you sharing your list. I love when people jump in and share theirs!
Hi Anna great album covers...Have you had chance to check out the band White Lies...Look forward to your next video...Tonight Tonight is one of my favourite songs of all time!
Hi Jamie! Thanks for checking this one out! I have heard a few songs from White Lies and really enjoy what I've heard so far. I'm with you on Tonight, Tonight! What a song! See you next time!
Hi Hanna. What you said about Little Creatures, if you still have Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time, that sleeve is full of references to past Iron Maiden sleeve's, song titles, etc.
Even though i'm not really a fan of that kind of art, Bob Dylan's Modern Times has a great sleeve photo.
Pasi
Hey Pasi. I still have Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time. Ha, no viable trades with VC members so far out of this stack. Seems people want something for nothing or just to buy. I'm hanging onto all of them for now. I enjoy that Dylan Modern Times cover, too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic!
Agree with MCIS being cool (although I’m biased to Gish) I kind of wish they would have issued that with different images. The vinyl remaster is more of a collage. Fun list!
Hi J J! Smashing Pumpkins fans unite! Truthfully, I love all the SP covers of the 90s. I don't like the shiny covers on the Gish and Siamese Dream vinyl reissues. Enjoy your weekend!
Ocean Rain is my number one.
I also like these ones:
Too-Rye-Ay, Dexys Midnight Runners
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Flaming Lips
Hejira, Joni Mitchell
Strange Days, The Doors
Thanks, Josue! I still need to get Hejira in my collection!
13 Floor Elevators excellent for cover and music. Yea Maggot Brain is killer. Cyndi Lauper super fun. The Pumpkins is a great cover, superb music. Cool video. Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman
Hiya, Steve! Glad you liked some of these covers I selected for this very video! Keep on spinning the good tunes! See you next time!
How did I miss this video? One of my favorite topics! Some very cool choices there, and several that were surprising to me. Love that Cyndi is in there and Fun House always tripped me out; like Iggy was melting into a puddle. Electric Warrior is my all-time favorite cover 😎. Others:
•RIDE - Nowhere
•ANGRY SAMOANS - Back From Samoa
•AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - Sources, Tags, and Codes
•Quadrophenia
•MELVINS - Houdini
*GALAXIE 500 - On Fire
Hey! Sorry for the delayed response. Trying to catch up on UA-cam now after our trip! Good call on all of these choices, man! I so love Ride's Nowhere and Galaxie 500's On Fire as well. Excellent! Thanks so much for watching and providing your picks. See you on Insta!
Hello from France.
I love the Xpecs cover too and the Mellon Collie one.
My favs are among many others the following :
Crash Test Dummies 1st album the ghost that haunts me
Elastica : 1st album
Thin lizzy : Jailbreak
Blondie's "best of" cover is great too.
Hi Greg! Greetings! I also love the Elastica first album cover and Blondie's Best of! I should have shown a few more Blondie LPs because they had great covers! Cheers!
Great video. It really captures the beauty of vinyl and those days, when I would lie on the floor exploring the covers and liner notes while the music played! If you like psychedelic and quirky music, check out a band called The Pamelas on UA-cam ( won’t find them on Spotify or elsewhere, I purchased all their CDs on ebay-twice!). They are a contemporary band based in France with fantastic style and also some interesting covers. Excellent choices in your video!
Hey Ash. I've never heard of the Pamelas, but from how you described them, I definitely want to check them out, so I appreciate the recommendation! I'm going to do a search on UA-cam after I respond here! So glad you enjoyed this video, and thank you for the comment!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert this is the one I started with ua-cam.com/video/xH9cCDI0T1Q/v-deo.html Great album cover too!
Shopping at Portland Goodwill I found McCartney's Egypt Station. CD was missing which is always a bummer. Anyway, I offered to buy it without the disc since it folded out nicely and looked great. Six panels. Merry Xmas they said it was free. Sweethearts. Favorite cover.....Bowie's Low.
Bowie's Low is another favorite cover of mine. In my opinion, he is the artist that has the most wonderful, unique album covers!
Good Morning 🌞 Hanna - Nice Echo & The Bunnymen 👕 ! Five favorite covers - Verve - A Storm In Heaven , Talking Heads - Remain In Light , The The - Soul Mining ( The Woman smoking was the wife of Fela Kuti ) , Clash - London Calling & # 1 for me Echo & The Bunnymen with Heaven Up Here which did win the British equivalent of a Grammy for Best Album cover in 1981. I'm Pisces ♓ , so 🤷 this is my time ! ✌ 🇺🇦
Hey David! Ah, good call on Verve's A Storm in Heaven. Love that one as well! And truthfully, I love those first 4 Echo album covers! All so well done and interesting to look at! We have such similar music taste and I enjoy reading your comments as always! Thank you! ❤️🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
It's great to see you picked T. Rex Electric Warrior album cover. How about The Slider? It's iconic in the same way as Electric Warrior is. And it has the. bkack and white and red.
Hi Hans! Yep, you're right, The Slider is an iconic album cover as well. Maybe I didn't show it because I showed it fairly recently in another video. However, I love it as much as you do! Cheers!
Debbie's face on the cover of P. Lines looks like the attitude of "Just Go Away" (of course cool rhymes with fool).
Yes! Her attitude really speaks volumes there! Gotta love her!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert I love the Mr. Spock socks that Jimmy or someone has on, too.
Lot's of classic covers here. The best ones to me are the ones that there was some serious thought put into the composition. The Who Sell Out is one of those that fits the bill and it's also representative of the album's content. The Rain Parade is a new one for me. I'll have to check it out. I've always loved the Madness, Ocean Rain, Ziggy Stardust and Parallel Lines covers. I am totally with you on your number one album cover. I've always wanted to see the original painting (The Souvenir (Fidelity)) that the main image is taken from. I am surprised you don't have that one on vinyl at all. An OG goes for far more money than I care to spend. Looking it up online, it really needs to be repressed. It looks like it's being pirated again after the 2014 box set repress.
Paul, Happy Friday! I need to catch up on your latest video offering, too. Glad you love some of these covers I shared, too! That Rain Parade LP sounds as good as the cover! Definitely very 60s inspired and jangly. Yeah, the only Pumpkins LPs I have on vinyl are the reissues of Gish, Siamese Dream, and Pisces Iscariot. I couldn't believe the $1,450 price tag on that OG Mellon Collie. I nearly had heart failure! Damn! It really does deserve a quality repress. Fingers crossed! Thanks again for watching my last few videos...not my typical content, lol.
Good job
Much thanks, John! I appreciate the comment!
I loved it when I read that Peter Doig, now one of the world's most successful painters, said he got into art as he wanted to make album covers. As a working-class boy myself, Album art and comics were really the only examples of art I got to see as a kid. My actual all-time fave isn't from an album but was the cover art of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's single Relax, painted by Yvonne Gilbert, and it still is. I had the 12-inch anyway so it was the same size as my albums anyway. I even tried to replicate on my teenage bedroom wall. It is a great shame that cover art seems like a bit of a lost craft (maybe it is not, and I am just old!).
Thanks for checking out this video, James! I'll have to check out the cover of "Relax". I'm familiar with the song but I'll have to pull up the artwork. Cheers!
The Au Pairs " Playing With A Different Sex cover photo by the Amazing Eve Arnold (her back story is a great read). I believe she may have given the band exclusive rights to the photo, Eve was a fan of the Au Pairs and it doesn't appear in her catalog. Loving your channel!
Hey hey Hanna my buddy bud!! Woop! Heck yeah we are w ya 🌈the covers were just as important as the music itself back in the day!!! Jackson Pollack one of my fav artists 🎶🎶🎶 always happy to come hangout for a few, oh yes Little Creatures!! Got my bike out and did a little maintenance may have some decent riding weather this weekend....always a hello to Chris, take care my friend!!!! What the what?? No Neil? Hanna 😶😯🤨😕- Lis 😎✊🏻🎶...Yes-Fragile or Close to the Edge...Neil’s - psychedelic pill!
Lis! Hiya! Yeah, I didn't include any Neil here...please forgive me. What was I thinking?! I love the art on Harvest Moon and Psychedelic Pill! I sure hope you are able to ride your bike and enjoy some nice weather this weekend! I'll say hi to Chris! We're gearing up for another road trip soon with kitty cat! 😺❤️🦋 Catch ya later, and thank you for saying hello as always, my friend!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert hehehe all is forgiven ....have fun!
Great sihow, Hanna, I wouild include Abbey Road, Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers XTC Orange and Lemons. The Clash London Calling The Dark Side of the Moon.
Great selections, Gary. I love XTC's Oranges and Lemons and Black Sea.
That DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR 25 O'Clock album cover was done by lead singer / songwriter Andy Partridge... who is an excellent artist / designer! Great stuff!
The dude is a genius! Extraordinary talent! I appreciate the comment, John!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Cheers!
I do like Mellon Collie, I had the 4 LP set that had big books of art in it as well as a track by track writeup by Billy Corgan. Sadly, I had to sell it during a rough financial spell. Funhouse is definitely peak Stooges. Some others I like are Zep III with the wheel insert you spin to change the picture. Tarkus, which looks like something an 11 year old kid would draw. Can't go wrong with those Roger Dean Yes covers. I wish I was as cool as Patty Smith on the cover of Horses. Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping is cool; I think it was painted by Kevin Barnes's brother. Haim's last album is cool, them in Canter's looking like they mean business. I lucked into a signed copy of that one. Hope you guys are doing well! I can't believe it was 70 degrees this week in Nebraska, I'm about over winter.
Hi Jason! I'm very much saddened that you had to sell your Mellon Collie box set! Also, good call on Led Zeppelin III. The Soft Machine's 1st album is another cool one. I'll check out that Haim cover.
Yeah, the weather this winter...well, seems Nebraska didn't have a winter. It has been very mild and dry. only 7.8" of snow for the season here. What the hell...we usually get 40-plus inches! Thanks so much for watching and sharing your thoughts on this topic!
The first deep purple album wild ascan be
Gostei desta camiseta do echo e the bunnymen.... muito bom gosto ✌
Obrigada. Thank you!
First Comment , View & Like 👍👌 😃
Good morning, David! Yes! ⭐️ 🏆
Hellfire, missed it again! 🙃
Black Flags Shattered. Bought it just because of the art lol. Love it
Do you mean Damaged? Black Flag had some memorable covers!
Yeah i meant damaged lol. I must’ve been thinking about the shattered mirror on the cover. I dont listen to it much but i love the cover. What is strange is that some of my favorite albums have what i consider to be awful cover art lol.
been some great album covers over the years, meatloafs bat out of hell, the first boston album, i also like a lot of the iron maiden covers.
Hi Nick! Those Iron Maiden covers are fun to look at. Love that with records we get the whole package...music and art. A 2-in-1! Cheers!
My LP cover faves are (in no order): 1. All Strawberry Alarm Clock covers, #2. All Chocolate Watchband covers. #3. The Leaves - Hey Joe LP. #4. Dust - Both LPs. #5. All covers on Frankie Stein & His Ghouls LPs. #6. The Morgen LP cover featuring the famous lithograph by Edvard Munch "The Scream". #7. The comic book cover on The Groundhogs LP "Who Will Save The World". #8. The cover on the 1st Blue Oyster Cult LP. #9. The Sacred Mushroom LP cover. #10. And finally, all the covers that Aram Heller & Get Hip Records created for my "Psychedelic Unknowns" & "Marijuana Unknowns" comps I compiled way back in the 80's & early 90's. Well, there's the 1st 10 I thought of... Hanna, I do love most of the covers you mentioned also, especially covers on those early Funkadelic LPs!
Greetings, Bill! You know that Morgen LP - I actually have an OG. It's probably the highest valued record in my collection, but it's not in the greatest shape. Those 60s bands really knew how to stand out with the colorful artwork! And yeah, I guess I could have listed/featured several Funkadelic LPs! Hehe! It was great reading your list! Cheers!
The cover of Velvet Crush's Teenage Symphonies to God will always hold a special place in my heart. I bought the CD back when it first came out (1994) based solely on the cover. 28 years later it is among my favorite albums.
Mike, I love that pick! That’s one of my favorite 90s albums as well! When will we get a vinyl reissue?! ❤️💯🙌🏻
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Dunno if we'll get a reissue, though it does seem like more and more Creation releases have been getting reissues. I have two original pressings. One of them fully signed and with a handwritten setlist from a concert in Japan (they were oddly popular in Japan).
Ahhh, I just picked up "Germ Free Adolescents" a month ago-very cool! "Fun House" is an amazing cover and my favorite STOOGES album ever! "...Ziggy Stardust...", "She's So Unusual" and "Electric Warrior" are others I love and own, except for the latter which I still need to pick up. Feels almost blasphemous that I don't own any T. REX 😲😬
Hi Jeff! Thanks so much for watching my videos! I'm behind on comments due to my move. Fun House is definitely my favorite Stooges album, too! high five! I hope you are able to get T. Rex in your collection ASAP! enjoy the weekend!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert Yea, absolutely! I enjoy watching your channel and like to see what records you have in your collection. I believe I remember hearing you say that you're a big fan of THE WHO. I have "Who's Next" in my wantlist cuz there's trax on there that I know I like, but other than that, I'm not too familiar with some of their material. Any recommendations on other albums of theirs?
London Calling
Marquee Moon
Slanted and Enchanted
Husker Du Warehouse. Good call Hanna! I like Zen Arcade cover too.
Just about any Blue Note Records release. They are the best album covers of all, imo.
Any one of REM's first 8 records.
You know, I ALMOST showed Slanted and Enchanted! D'oh! These are all solid, solid picks. Love those R.E.M. covers as well. Kudos! Thanks for watching!
Is that an original cover to Ultravox!
When i bought it early 77 it was inside a Carpenters sleeve Bizzare
It took me several years to find a cover to go with the record
You have to take into account this lp was never widely available at the time
You have a helluva record collection for a person of your generation
Well done 👏 ✔️
One of my favorite covers is Santana 1. From a distance it looks like a lion but as you get closer you see it is a composition of many human forms.
Great call, iconic one that. Even the simple but stunning Caravanserai too.
Yeeesss, you are right! That is a stunning piece. Santana doesn't get enough credit for the artwork on several of his LPs! I'm gonna check out your new video offering tomorrow!
The Who have some great ones: Sell Out, Quadrophenia, Tommy, but I love the cover of Who's Next where they've just finished pissing on the monolith. At the time we all assumed it was because they were mad at Stanley Kubrick for not wanting to film Tommy, but it was just a random act. My favorite Beatles' lp cover is Beatles For Sale. You can tell by the title and the photo that they are sick of Beatlemania. I love the look of a lot of old jazz covers. Almost enough to make me start buying jazz. The album art books from the 70s and 80s are nice collections.
Hi Robert! Who's Next is definitely the most iconic of The Who covers! Ha, such a great one. I think the only jazz cover that has really jumped out at me is Bitches Brew. Then again, I'm a jazz amateur and I basically know like 10 jazz albums total. Lol. Enjoy the rest of your week, my friend!
I love the Blondie album covers. Robert Mapplethorpe did the album cover for Patti Smith's Horses.
thanks for tuning in, Darlene! Yeah, the Blondie covers were quite artistic! And Mapplethorpe really knew what he was doing with that Patti Smith cover! Brilliant! Hope all is well!
@@TheOmahaIntrovert same thing with you, thanks!
So many great ones in show here! Warehouse is maby my favorite of those you shown - and Electric Warrior is on my Top 10 Lis Of LPs :) and; Stones Roses - Amazing I luv Pauline - and Little Creatures - I tend to like covers with faces/persons on - in different settings - like;
Wasted Youth (UK) - Wild And Wandering
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
New York Dolls - In Much Too Soon
XTC - Black Sea
Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool/Labour Of Lust
Portishead - Dummy
Marianne Faithful - Broken English
The Who - Who's Next
The Lords Of The New Church - ST
The Boys - Alternative Chartbusters
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
The Only Ones - Baby's Got A Gun
Sweet - Deselation Boulevard
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Sings
Johnny Thunders - So Alone
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Dalis Car - The Waking Hour (a Painting)
The Velvet Underground - (1969)
The Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Scars - Author! Author!
& Many Many More :) Cranes - Richard Lloyd - Radio Stars...............................................................
PS; I've posted my Top 100 - 2021 in your great "Roadtrip" video - if you wanna check it out!
Terje, I can always count on you to be thorough and cover what I missed! Fab nods to Portishead's Dummy, XTC's Black Sea (my favorite by them), Small Faces - There are But Four Small Faces, and Nick Lowe's Jesus of Cool! Yeah! And I will be checking out your top 100 of 2021 list tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up! :-)
@@TheOmahaIntrovert You're Welcome :) Black Sea is on my Top 100 List Of LPs, and so is Nick, Portishead Nick Drake The Velvet New York Dolls The Who Scars Thunders Wasted Youth The Only Ones Radio Stars & The Boys :)
My favourite album covers are:
• Rid of Me by PJ Harvey (definitely my favourite and also my favourite album of all time)
• To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey
• Dry by PJ Harvey
• Tidal by Fiona Apple
• Post by Björk
• Boys for Pele by Tori Amos
• Push the Sky Away by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Never for Ever by Kate Bush
• Autoamerican by Blondie
• The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell
• Bleach by Nirvana
I love your list, Tom! Thanks for checking out this video of mine! I definitely agree on Never For Ever and wish I had the album at the time to display it. In my latest video I show a Japanese pressing of it that I recently acquired! Cheers!
Interesting... I never gave PJ a thought,(album cover-wise) but I do love her music... too much good music to choose a fave Album or cover art for me, but I don't find "Rid of me" cover to be attractive at all.
@@TheOmahaIntrovert I actually re-listened to Never for Ever today and I loved it more than ever. It’s a great transitional work between her 70s albums to her wackier 80’s albums (The Dreaming and Hounds of Love). Happy listening!
@@bishlap I absolutely adore the album cover for Rid of Me. It’s not conventionally attractive and that’s why I love it - the shape of her hair swinging over her head like some kind of animalistic claw, the blank expression on PJ’s face, the high contrast black and white (partly due to the fact that the photo was taken in pitch black with the flash on, and the camera butted up against the wall opposite because the bathroom was so tiny). It conveys a sense of menacing danger and unhinged psychosis that perfectly fits the music, and the sheer fact that Maria Mochnacz (the photographer) had very little control over the outcome due to working in a tiny pitch black room makes it’s incredibly striking look even more phenomenal because it happened by chance. Even the leaf of the plant creeping in at the right hand side along with the tiles of the scabby bathtub makes it feel just that little bit nastier.
I also love the Dry cover because it looks the way it sounds, (dry, bodily, a little bit nasty and raw), and I love the To Bring You My Love cover because it reminds me of ‘Ophelia’ by John Everett Millais and to an extent, the dead woman in the bathtub in The Shining.
Sorry this is a lot of nerdy trivia haha
Great video as always. My list of best album covers would be far too long to list here, so I'll leave it this time. One band with good covers did just pop into my head - Microdisney. Have you heard them or own any? If you don't, you'll want to check them out. First two albums. Let me know!
Hi George! I've seen friends post some albums by Microdisney but I haven't explored them just yet. Thank you for the reminder! And yes, listing favorite album covers is too daunting of a task. I didn't come anywhere close to featuring all of my favorites. Just a taste here!
Hanna, some of my favorites are Bowie's Heroes and Low. Whatcha think?
Yep, those are 2 other notable Bowie covers. Seriously, can't really go wrong with any of those 70s covers! Absolutely fantastic and iconic! Cheers!
Top 4 album cover art for me:
1. Morgen 1969
2. Culpepers Orchard 1971
3. Elias Hulk Unchained 1970
4. Zombies - Odessey and oracle 1968
Nice, Rob. I still have a copy of that Morgen, OG. The Vinyl is not great though…
Need to look up 2 of these. 👍🏻🎸
@@TheOmahaIntrovert outstanding! I managed to buy a copy still in the shrink ! :)
Hi Hanna, my list (not final jajaja) The Cult "Electric"; Stray Cats "Gonna Ball"; The Chills "Snow Bound"; XTC "Black Sea"; Echo and the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain"; The Triffids "The Black Swan"; And Also the Trees "Farewell to the Shade"; Fields of the Nephilim "Dawnrazor'; The Sadies "New Seasons" and The Church "Heyday". Cheers from Argentina
Hi Diego! Thanks for watching! The Chills have some great cover art. I also love Submarine Bells from them. Black Sea is definitely my favorite XTC cover. The Triffids - I love them so much and will be featuring them in a later video. The Church's Heyday is a gorgeous cover, too. Love their shirts! Be well.
Good morning!!!, yes, Submarine Bells is beautiful but i don't have it on vinyl 😔. I see behind you another cover that I like: Au Pairs. Cheers Hanna!!!!
Yeah that Playing with a Different Sex Au Pairs cover is pretty neat! Good call!
I shoulda known you'd have at least one WHO record in there. I always thought 'Pinball Wizard' took 'I can see for miles" a step further, but as an LP, Sellout and it's cover deserve to be on any list. in fact, PT was well on his way, composing radio ads .like 'Rotosound strings.' I imagine you've watched the several part interview w/ Jeff Stein about 'The Kids are Alright'. a must see for WHO fans.
Who Sell Out is still my #1 of all time! :-)
@@TheOmahaIntrovertbecause you have impeccable taste. I remember noticing when I got the LP ,the small scratches on Pete's fingers (using 'Odorono')from pounding his strings. he once impaled his hand on a whammy bar, which is the reason you don't see them on many of his guitars. in the doc 'Jimi Hendrix' PT is interviewed, and a bandage can be seen on his right hand.