Favourite album covers!

[MiracleOfSound]

Simple thread this one.

Show us your favourite album covers and tell us why.

I'll start us off with 'Somewhere In Time' because it

a) Has more easter eggs than Mass Effect 2, Skyrim and Arkham City combined.
Full list here: http://www.maiden-world.com/articles/somewhere-in-time-hidden-messages.html

b) Perfectly suits the gritty, sleek, then-futuristic sound of the record

c) Has Cyborg Eddie

d) Has a Blade Runner reference

e) Has the Tardis

Forgot to mention, please use spoiler tags on order to avoid slowing down the thread!

Spoiler: Iron Maiden: Somewhere In Time

 

[BathorysGraveland]

This has always been a personal favourite of mine, the split between Graveland and Honor. The pagans celebrating while a church burns in the background. It has always had a sense of, greatness to it. It also just looks great as an artistic piece.

Marduk's Those of the Unlight has also always appealed to me. It just looks like an awesome, dark as hell interpretation of the (pre-film) Nazgul.

And finally, quite possibly my favourite. Bathory's Blood on Ice. The cover art is a visualization of the albums concepts, and has the contents of every song in visible art form. Really cool.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Of the ones I can think of right now, here are some of my favorites.

Spoiler: The Roots - Undun

Spoiler: Pixies - Surfer Rosa (kinda NSFW)

Spoiler: Tool - 10,000 Days

Spoiler: Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

Spoiler: Mellowhype - BLACKENDWHITE

 

[bluepotatosack]

Spoiler: Bitches Brew

 

[ChupathingyX]

a) Has more easter eggs than Mass Effect 2, Skyrim and Arkham City combined.

Ahhh but does it have more easter eggs than Destroy All Humans! and Destroy All Humans! 2 combined?

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I always liked Ayreon's albums; they have that interesting fantasy-sci-fi artwork feel to them...

Spoiler: Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer

Spoiler: Into The Electric Castle

Spoiler: 01011001

Spoiler: The Human Equation

 

[BreakfastMan]

My favorite:

I know, I am being a little contrarian, but... it really is a great album cover. Simple, but memorable. Kind of like the White Album (which it was probably based after).

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It was 1987. An eight year old Sober Thal saw his first bit of badass art work thanks to his older sister. Later on, maybe five years later, when he was able to listen to the album, he fell in love with a whiney voiced rock band named GNFNR...

Spoiler

EDIT: This thread is going to run like shit if people don't use spoiler tags.... just sayin.

And then they had to change it. At least it got left on the inside. Awesome, awesome cover.

 

[Dethenger]

Spoiler: Boom.

I must agree with BreakfastMan: Simple, but memorable.

 

[John Nordstrom]

One of my favorites has got to be Agalloch's Ashes Against The Grain. It's not the most colourful, but it's that fact exactly that makes the album art the perfect primer for the music contained therein; bleak, somber, yet artistic at times.

Spoiler

On the other side of the spectrum, we've got my favorite album cover for madness. Deconstruction by The Devin Townsend Project has the perfect album cover for the absolute insanity contained on the disc.

Spoiler

 

[Nouw]

Spoiler: Plastic Beach. If I ever retire, this is the place I'd go to. Where's north from here? Point Nemo!

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Spoiler: My fav album cover!

This... I don't know why, but I find it mesmorising! The artist is pronounced like: Fella, and his music is pure genius! This is one of my fav albums!

These album covers I also like! Some I bought because of the covers attracting my attention first!!

Spoiler: This one is simple, but reflects the mood of the music perfectly! A lot of music like his, such as Distance and Burial also show abandoned Urban areas at night in there slevework. The music makes you feel like you are there! Burial especially does! Hes my favourite of the gritty dubstep music style!

Spoiler: Cant get enough of this cheerfull scene! As a bonus the inside of the album shows the same scene but at night. The other half to this image (the back of the album sleve) shows a city scene, which also has the night time version! My mate has the 2 images one abothe the other enlarged and framed on his wall! Its pretty epic!

Spoiler: Tim hecker-Ravedeath. This is a drone/chillout album, and I just love the way he has taken a typical chillout cover/scene with a simple looking house, but adds a new edge by showing some guys chicking a piano off of the roof!

Spoiler: This one makes me smile!

Spoiler: this one is one of my favourite images! It is a poster or my wall and shows a collection of some of the best album covers around! (Dark Side oF the Moon especially!)

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Spoiler: Melechesh - Sphynx. Now heed your fathers are here We claim the sons you bear

Spoiler: Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss. Familiar painting of a road.

Spoiler: Nile - Festivals Of Atonement. It's a skull. In a wall.

Spoiler: The Faceless - Planetary Duality. It reminds me of Crysis

Spoiler: Sepultura - Beneath The Remains. Oh look, another skull, this time with a psychedelic taste

Spoiler: Scanner - Hypertrace. lol

Spoiler: Cynic - Focus It's those things again

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Spoiler: I can't help but smile at this one.

 

[Froken Keke]

These are my personal favorites.

 

[Gmans uncle]

either...

Spoiler: Pink Floyd: Atom Heart mother

or...

Spoiler: Daft Punk: Alive 2007

with a special place in my heart for...

Spoiler: The black keys: brothers

 

[booker]

Spoiler: nmh

It's truly a classic album, and is certainly memorable, beyond its cover and that one song about Jesus or something.

 

[JdaS]

Spoiler: Minor Threat

'Nuff said.

Spoiler: The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century

Grew to absolutely love the subject matter of this amazing concept album when I saw the show live. The album cover is perfect.

Spoiler: Guignol & Mischief Brew - Fight Dirty

I just love the idea of Guignol and Mischief Brew as pugilists and how their sounds converge to create the sweet science they do.

Spoiler: Fugazi - End Hits

Amazing band. Amazing music. Amazing cover.

Spoiler: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak

Love the band, love the album. But I had to give the cover a special mention for how terri-bad it is. The single ugliest album cover in my entire collection.

I could go on forever, really.

 

[mysecondlife]

Spoiler: Circa Survive's On Letting Go

at one point, I had this as my wall paper. It was a fan made copy since I couldn't find the original big enough for my screen.