Author Topic: Great album covers (Read 20741 times)

a yawning lamprey innit? It regularly crops up in 'controversial album covers' lists along with stuff from Carcass, the HR Giger poster from The Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist, and The Beatles 'Yesterday And today 'meat' sleeve.

jobotic · « **Reply #69 on:** February 18, 2019, 08:15:36 PM »

I've got that. Time to Melt is great.

BlodwynPig · « **Reply #70 on:** June 12, 2019, 02:57:20 AM »

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Neville Chamberlain · « **Reply #72 on:** September 26, 2019, 01:52:31 PM »

Just been having a dig through the old archives and came across this:

It's got a very haunting quality.

Menyatta Zondatta · « **Reply #73 on:** September 28, 2019, 11:26:20 PM »

I'll go with this one then.

NJ Uncut · « **Reply #74 on:** October 05, 2019, 11:40:31 AM »

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NJ Uncut · « **Reply #76 on:** October 05, 2019, 06:07:10 PM »

Fits the music, find it a bit messy/hacky but the almost-3D effect and casual lettering over a very specific design from an industrial world works for me

holyzombiejesus · « **Reply #77 on:** October 05, 2019, 09:55:14 PM »

Quote from: NJ Uncut on October 05, 2019, 11:40:31 AM

Wow! That's a coincidence. Just watched My Life as a Courgette and this - a song I've never heard before - was on the soundtrack. My wife liked it so much she asked me to get her a copy, so I go on Discogs and see the sleeve you just posted this morning.

https://youtu.be/hUHU2w9wpbk

Butchers Blind · « **Reply #78 on:** October 06, 2019, 11:48:04 AM »

Quote from: NJ Uncut on October 05, 2019, 11:40:31 AM

Looking at that cover I fancy a certain type of mint.

alan nagsworth · « **Reply #79 on:** October 19, 2019, 01:32:30 PM »

Sublime. I love this album.

wosl · « **Reply #80 on:** October 19, 2019, 02:11:22 PM »

Yeah, great album (and The Pleasure Principle is at least every bit as good). And that cover is a very good one overall, although it's always irked me that they chose not to rig the shoot so that Gary was looking towards a real, or more convincingly mocked-up window, showing a better-realised view (although I suppose that might've weakened the 'replica' pun). The painting behind the window frame gives off a flat-backdrop vibe that works against the stark urban-robo look that Numers is going for. A more successfully executed cover idea is the Wyndham/Midwich-y one for the Complex single:

The typeface used is close to the one used on Replicas (Eurostile), but is more unusual and interesting.

idunnosomename · « **Reply #81 on:** October 19, 2019, 11:17:52 PM »

Friedrich or something. Anyway good melodic atmos black metal.

holyzombiejesus · « **Reply #82 on:** November 04, 2019, 10:51:13 AM »

Really like this. No idea what the music sounds like (it's Thirst by the stupidly named SebastiAn).

pupshaw · « **Reply #83 on:** November 04, 2019, 07:33:25 PM »

Quote from: wosl on October 19, 2019, 02:11:22 PM

Yeah, great album (and The Pleasure Principle is at least every bit as good). And that cover is a very good one overall, although it's always irked me that they chose not to rig the shoot so that Gary was looking towards a real, or more convincingly mocked-up window, showing a better-realised view (although I suppose that might've weakened the 'replica' pun). The painting behind the window frame gives off a flat-backdrop vibe that works against the stark urban-robo look that Numers is going for. A more successfully executed cover idea is the Wyndham/Midwich-y one for the Complex single:

The typeface used is close to the one used on Replicas (Eurostile), but is more unusual and interesting.

Not sure if it's deliberate or not (which in itself may be deliberate) but the "reflection" in the window is not a reflection, but someone looking in.

H-O-W-L · « **Reply #84 on:** November 05, 2019, 07:43:32 AM »

Quote from: OnlyRegisteredSoICanRead on February 10, 2019, 10:34:31 AM

I believe that's actually Cherry Poptart, a character that appeared in a lot of bawdy (read: basically porn) independent comics starting in the seventies. Yeah. Must be, that's Larry Welz' signature.

Crabwalk · « **Reply #85 on:** November 05, 2019, 10:12:09 PM »

I am very taken with the artwork to Anna Meredith’s new album.

Fuck knows what it means, I just find it beautifully laid out, with a gorgeous palette. After a couple of spins it sounds bloody amazing too.

Rich Uncle Skeleton · « **Reply #86 on:** November 05, 2019, 10:18:03 PM »

Where do you want these Hipgnosis sleeves?

H-O-W-L · « **Reply #87 on:** November 06, 2019, 07:46:22 AM »

Quote from: Rich Uncle Skeleton on November 05, 2019, 10:18:03 PM

Where do you want these Hipgnosis sleeves?

Bin and/or grave.

buzby · « **Reply #88 on:** November 06, 2019, 09:20:10 AM »

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on November 04, 2019, 10:51:13 AM

Really like this. No idea what the music sounds like (it's Thirst by the stupidly named SebastiAn).

He's part of the Ed Banger crew (alongside Justice, Mr Oizo and Riton), so think French glitchy electro house.

alan nagsworth · « **Reply #89 on:** November 06, 2019, 11:03:38 AM »

Unsure if his recent stuff is any good but SebastiAn’s Ross Ross Ross EP is a fuckin blinder

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