So we’ve done albums with the worst covers - but which are the best covers?

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Special mention for Death Penalty by Witchfinder General. I'm probably not saying it's a great cover but the band are fellow yam yams, it's a cheesey photo and not cheesey art and the local controversy around it's release was news for weeks and a small highlight of my teenage years.

I haven't got the album but I knew the one you meant straight away!  Ah, how times have changed...

phil_b

Cacofonix

Cacofonix

Front cover 

Back cover

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

Special mention for Death Penalty by Witchfinder General. I'm probably not saying it's a great cover but the band are fellow yam yams, it's a cheesey photo and not cheesey art and the local controversy around it's release was news for weeks and a small highlight of my teenage years.

I haven't got the album but I knew the one you meant straight away!  Ah, how times have changed...

On Heavy Metal Records, their office base about two miles from where I grew up. I think it still exists a a recording studio. This was a very local news story!

TeleMaster

Cacofonix said:

phil_b said:

It was mentioned in the first two post of this thread for good reason

Oddly reminiscent of Their Satanic Majesty’s request.

Edit:  vice versa it seems, from Wikipedia.  The Stones one was released December 67, the Beatles’ in May 67.

Yea. And the accusation has been ever since that this confirmed that the Stones did follow the Beatles for inspiration. That while the Beatles set the trend, the Stones often followed it. 

fob

Surprised this wasn't in the first couple of posts. Perhaps its ubiquity has robbed something from it in the intervening years.

fob

I've pared this down if you can believe it. I won't post any more but a fun thread.

EricTheWeary

Ahh the UB40 one; simple genius in it's way. I had an actual UB40 that I probably should have hung onto as a collector's item. 

My sister had the Supertramp album but the whole city being made out of cups completely passed me by for many years!  

Stuckfast

I have rediscovered Supertramp this year. They were great!

Reverend

Iron Maiden - s/t, Killers, Powerslave, Somewhere In TIme
Black Sabbath - s/t
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Bad Brains  - s/t

digitalkettle

Reverend said:

Iron Maiden - s/t, Killers, Powerslave, Somewhere In TIme

I'd go as far as everything up to Seventh Son.

Bit weird when you think about it but I spent my formative years with Eddie gurning at me from all four walls

russpm

Led Zep III  with the wheel....

Fuengi

I love the Tigercats album covers, works of art. 

Reverend

digitalkettle said:

Reverend said:

Iron Maiden - s/t, Killers, Powerslave, Somewhere In TIme

I'd go as far as everything up to Seventh Son.

Bit weird when you think about it but I spent my formative years with Eddie gurning at me from all four walls

me too, in fact I'd say a lot of the singles too. Even the Cinderella christmas card used for the entire population of hackney lp .

bobblehat

bobblehat

Philly_Q

Reverend said:

Black Sabbath - s/t

I was tempted to mention that, in contrast to Paranoid being mentioned on the worst covers thread.  I think there was also a thread on best opening tracks, or maybe I imagined that...

digitalkettle

Reverend said:

digitalkettle said:

Reverend said:

Iron Maiden - s/t, Killers, Powerslave, Somewhere In TIme

I'd go as far as everything up to Seventh Son.

Bit weird when you think about it but I spent my formative years with Eddie gurning at me from all four walls

me too, in fact I'd say a lot of the singles too. Even the Cinderella christmas card used for the entire population of hackney lp .

Ha...I see there's a bunch...I never knew about these!

Cacofonix

TeleMaster said:

Cacofonix said:

phil_b said:

It was mentioned in the first two post of this thread for good reason

Oddly reminiscent of Their Satanic Majesty’s request.

Edit:  vice versa it seems, from Wikipedia.  The Stones one was released December 67, the Beatles’ in May 67.

Yea. And the accusation has been ever since that this confirmed that the Stones did follow the Beatles for inspiration. That while the Beatles set the trend, the Stones often followed it. 

Possibly on the cover.  The content is wildly different.