149 Of The Greatest Album Covers Ever
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Publish Not your original work? Add source Besides being bona fide artwork, an album cover also has several important missions to achieve. First, it has to capture the audience's attention and stick out of the crowd. For that, the illustration or the photo has to be either thoroughly original or a cleverly regurgitated familiar image; it also doesn't hurt if it's on the controversial side of things. Another 'must' for an album cover design is representing the essence of the music and the soul of the band itself. A pretty big ask for such a small, single image! Aching to see which of the album artworks succeeded in these tasks and took the title of being the greatest ever? We do too! And for that, we've compiled a thorough list of the greatest album covers ever! Of course, we do not doubt that you've already seen at least the top 30 of them, but did you know the stories of these artworks' conceptions? Neither did we, so we took the time to dig a bit and wrote the stories under the top 30 submissions for your consideration and amusement. Some of the album covers were, in fact, happy accidents, while others caused serious accidents being made (we're talking about you, Pink Floyd). So all you have to do now is scroll down below, check out the greatest album covers of all time, and vote for the ones you fancied the most. Just play fair and don't base your votes on your music preference this time, but rather the artwork! Also, don't forget to share this list of iconic album covers with your friends, as they too might like to learn the stories behind them. This post may include affiliate links. #1
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As the Roman numeration indicates, Queen II is the second album by Queen. Mick Rock, a well-known rock photographer of the time, was engaged by the band to create a cover for this particular album. According to him, the band hoped to get a cover that would grab people's attention since their first release failed to do so miserably. It's fun to know that this iconic photo was inspired by a similar one of Marlene Dietrich, taken in 1932. While Mick Rock argued that the photo might be pretentious, all Mercury cared about was that it was absolutely fabulous.
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Abbey Road is the eleventh album by The Beatles with a cover that's probably the most widely imitated throughout the music industry. Here, you can see the band strolling across a street near Abbey Road's record studio. The legendary photo was based on MacCartney's ideas and sketches and taken by Iain Macmillan. He had only ten minutes to take six photos while a police officer held the traffic behind him. A fun fact is that the car visible in the photo (a white VW Beetle) got its license plate stolen right after the release of the Abbey Road album - some souvenir.
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Wish You Were Here is the ninth album by Pink Floyd with a cover design by Storm Thorgerson. The album's cover design plays on the themes of absence and unfulfilled presence and the idea of fearing showing your true feelings so as not to 'get burned.' Hence, one of the businessmen in the photo is literally on fire. The photo of two people sharing a handshake - an often empty gesture - was hidden behind opaque shrink-wrap and only visible upon tearing it off. The band loved the end design of the cover so much that they even burst into a spontaneous round of applause upon inspecting it.
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Animals is the tenth studio album by Pink Floyd with a cover, unusually, designed by Waters (although they also employed Hipgnosis to come up with some ideas). The shooting of the picture has quite a funny story to it - on the second day of the shooting, the helium-filled pig balloon broke free of its moorings (there was no marksman to shoot it down on that day) and disappeared out of view. The wind carried away this pig to the area of Heathrow airport, causing panic and delayed flights. After a while, the helium pig landed in Kent and was recovered by a farmer, who was furious about the massive swine scaring his cows. Finally, the balloon was superimposed on the photos of the Battersea Power Plant.
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Unknown Pleasure is the debut album by the English band Joy Division, released in 1979. The iconic album cover used now for T-shirts, mugs, notebooks, and everything else you could think of isn't composed of random lines. Those lines, in fact, are radio wave patterns from the pulsar (a rotating neutron star) called CP 1919, and this particular image was found in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy.
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Who's Next is the fifth studio album by The Who, which was released in 1971. On the cover, you can see the band members seemingly having just urinated on a massive concrete piling protruding from a slag heap. The photo was taken by Ethan Russell in a town called Easington Colliery and was somewhat inspired by Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: Space Odyssey.
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Disraeli Gears is the second studio album by the British band Cream, released in 1967. The album cover was designed by an Australian artist Martin Sharp, and this is his vision of the band's music - warm, electric, and fluorescent. The photos used for this psychedelic collage were taken by Bob Whitaker, who's very well known for his work with The Beatles, sort of a star photographer. Besides trying to capture the essence of Cream's sound, the artwork was also inspired by Cambodian statues of deities, with ancient trees growing right on them. The association shows like this - band members' faces with the music swirling right from their heads.
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Relayer is the seventh album by an English prog-rock band called Yes, which was released in 1974. The album's artwork was designed and illustrated by Roger Dean, who has worked with the band since 1971, starting with designing their logo. For the Relayer album, Roger chose to depict a gothic cave, merging into an impenetrable fortress, an ultimate castle. The warriors on horseback, also depicted on the cover, refer to the lyrics of The Gates Of Delirium - a heavily war-themed song. By 2020, the original painting by Roger Dean went on sale for 6 million dollars.
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Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1973. The title of this album is a pun on 'A Lad Insane,' which was initially expected to be the main title. Brian Duffy shot the absolutely iconic image gracing the cover of this album in his north London studio. It is known that the lightning bolt crossing Bowie's face was copied by Duffy and makeup artist Pierre Laroche from a National Panasonic rice-cooker in the studio. The makeup was completed by a vile purple wash, evoking the image of a death mask. Upon its release, the image quickly became the center of talks - some deemed it offensive, while others found it daring and revolutionary.
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Back In Black is the seventh album by Australian band AC/DC, which was released in 1980. According to Angus Young, the cover was a sign of mourning for their lost band member, lead singer Bon Scott, replaced by Brian Johnson on this album. And though Atlantic Records disagreed with the cover, they accepted it with the condition that the AC/DC logo would be outlined in grey.
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Hotel California is the fifth album by American rock band Eagles, released in 1976. The building you see in the photo is the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel, shot just before sunset by David Alexander. The later cover design was provided by John Kosh (or simply Kosh) - a legendary English graphic designer and album cover creator. The band wanted to depict the titular Hotel California with a slightly sinister edge, and this photo worked like a charm. Since the vantage point seen in the image wasn't a usual one, it took some time for people to discover that it was The Beverly Hills Hotel, but once they figured it out, the hotel threatened legal action over the use of the image.
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London Calling is the third album by English rock band The Clash, released in 1979. In the cover photograph, you can see the band's bassist, Paul Simonon, smashing his Fender Precision Bass, whose remnants are now displayed in the Museum Of London. The rest of the cover was designed by Ray Lowry, who made it look like a homage to Elvis Presley's self-titled album (which you also saw on this list). The Royal Mail also chose this album cover for their set of 'Classic Album Cover' postage stamps issued in 2010.
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Holy Diver is the debut album by the heavy metal band Dio, released in 1983. The cover artwork was painted by Randy Berrett and featured the band's mascot, Murray, spinning heavy chains above waves where a priest or a minister is chained and floating. You can see Murray on several of Dio's albums, always as sinister as he can be. And although the band stated that it is a pure coincidence, if you flip the logo upside down, you can interpret it as saying 'DIE' or 'Devil.'
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POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Some of these were cool or iconic, most of them I did not recognize :/ and I feel like there are some honorable mentions that didn't show up on this list 1 1point reply Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of them were from older times which is good but I also wish there was more diversity by including some more newer albums too. 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Just saying there are a lot of really fantastic album/EP covers from recent years :) some not as popular as they deserve to be 0 0points reply Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fragile_28...er_art.jpg 1 1point reply Pablo Ramos Pablo Ramos Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of these are very famous albums and people vote because of that, not because the design or the photography is good. An example: The Beatles crossing a street is not a creative design, nor a good picture or even a good setting. Oh, but the album is a great one 1 1point reply Load More Comments POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Some of these were cool or iconic, most of them I did not recognize :/ and I feel like there are some honorable mentions that didn't show up on this list 1 1point reply Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of them were from older times which is good but I also wish there was more diversity by including some more newer albums too. 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Just saying there are a lot of really fantastic album/EP covers from recent years :) some not as popular as they deserve to be 0 0points reply Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fragile_28...er_art.jpg 1 1point reply Pablo Ramos Pablo Ramos Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of these are very famous albums and people vote because of that, not because the design or the photography is good. An example: The Beatles crossing a street is not a creative design, nor a good picture or even a good setting. Oh, but the album is a great one 1 1point reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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149 Of The Greatest Album Covers Ever
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Publish Not your original work? Add source Besides being bona fide artwork, an album cover also has several important missions to achieve. First, it has to capture the audience's attention and stick out of the crowd. For that, the illustration or the photo has to be either thoroughly original or a cleverly regurgitated familiar image; it also doesn't hurt if it's on the controversial side of things. Another 'must' for an album cover design is representing the essence of the music and the soul of the band itself. A pretty big ask for such a small, single image! Aching to see which of the album artworks succeeded in these tasks and took the title of being the greatest ever? We do too! And for that, we've compiled a thorough list of the greatest album covers ever! Of course, we do not doubt that you've already seen at least the top 30 of them, but did you know the stories of these artworks' conceptions? Neither did we, so we took the time to dig a bit and wrote the stories under the top 30 submissions for your consideration and amusement. Some of the album covers were, in fact, happy accidents, while others caused serious accidents being made (we're talking about you, Pink Floyd). So all you have to do now is scroll down below, check out the greatest album covers of all time, and vote for the ones you fancied the most. Just play fair and don't base your votes on your music preference this time, but rather the artwork! Also, don't forget to share this list of iconic album covers with your friends, as they too might like to learn the stories behind them. This post may include affiliate links. #1
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon 1973
For their eighth studio album, Pink Floyd continued working with Hipgnosis (an English art design group) and George Hardie, who have previously designed covers for several bands' albums. The cover design for The Dark Side Of The Moon was inspired by a photo of a prism with a light beam projected through it; it was found by one of the Hipgnosis group members in a photography book. The design stands for three elements: the band's stage lighting, the album lyrics, and Wright's wish for 'a simple, bold, and classy' design. It was also the first time that Pink Floyd felt confident enough of Waters' lyrics to print them on the album's sleeve.amazon.com Report Final score: 68points Buy Now POST #2
Queen - Queen II 1974
As the Roman numeration indicates, Queen II is the second album by Queen. Mick Rock, a well-known rock photographer of the time, was engaged by the band to create a cover for this particular album. According to him, the band hoped to get a cover that would grab people's attention since their first release failed to do so miserably. It's fun to know that this iconic photo was inspired by a similar one of Marlene Dietrich, taken in 1932. While Mick Rock argued that the photo might be pretentious, all Mercury cared about was that it was absolutely fabulous.
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The Beatles - Abbey Road 1969
Abbey Road is the eleventh album by The Beatles with a cover that's probably the most widely imitated throughout the music industry. Here, you can see the band strolling across a street near Abbey Road's record studio. The legendary photo was based on MacCartney's ideas and sketches and taken by Iain Macmillan. He had only ten minutes to take six photos while a police officer held the traffic behind him. A fun fact is that the car visible in the photo (a white VW Beetle) got its license plate stolen right after the release of the Abbey Road album - some souvenir.
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 1975
Wish You Were Here is the ninth album by Pink Floyd with a cover design by Storm Thorgerson. The album's cover design plays on the themes of absence and unfulfilled presence and the idea of fearing showing your true feelings so as not to 'get burned.' Hence, one of the businessmen in the photo is literally on fire. The photo of two people sharing a handshake - an often empty gesture - was hidden behind opaque shrink-wrap and only visible upon tearing it off. The band loved the end design of the cover so much that they even burst into a spontaneous round of applause upon inspecting it.
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The Beatles - Sgt Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth album by The Beatles with a cover design by two pop artists, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Once again, it was based on MacCartney's sketches, and the famous crowd behind The Beatles were all cardboard cut-outs. Except for the figures of the band themselves from the Beetlemania era - those were wax sculptures borrowed from Madame Tussaud's museum. A couple of The Beatles - Lennon and Harrison - had requested Hitler, Jesus Christ, and Mahatma Gandhi to be put in right beside them, but, fearing controversy, EMI declined their wishes. Only Ringo had no wishes for the cut-outs, stating that 'it's all fine by me.'amazon.com Report Final score: 58points Buy Now POST #6
LED Zeppelin - LED Zeppelin 1969
This was the debut album of LED Zeppelin, released in 1969 with a picture of burning Hindenburg chosen by Page on its cover. The entirety of the supervision of the design was handed over to George Hardie, whose name you've already seen and will see a couple of more times on this list - an album cover magician. The original photo of the burning Hindenburg was taken by Sam Shere in 1937 and was altered to fit the band's vision.amazon.com Report Final score: 57points Buy Now POST TooTall TooTall Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This albumcover would have had them drawn and quartered today... 0 0points reply #7
Pink Floyd - Animals 1977
Animals is the tenth studio album by Pink Floyd with a cover, unusually, designed by Waters (although they also employed Hipgnosis to come up with some ideas). The shooting of the picture has quite a funny story to it - on the second day of the shooting, the helium-filled pig balloon broke free of its moorings (there was no marksman to shoot it down on that day) and disappeared out of view. The wind carried away this pig to the area of Heathrow airport, causing panic and delayed flights. After a while, the helium pig landed in Kent and was recovered by a farmer, who was furious about the massive swine scaring his cows. Finally, the balloon was superimposed on the photos of the Battersea Power Plant.
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Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 1977
Rumours is the eleventh studio album by Fleetwood Mac released in 1977, often considered the band's magnum opus. In the cover photo, you can see Stevie Nicks dressed as her 'Rhiannon' stage persona, posing with Mick Fleetwood. Herbert Worthington took the bizarre photo and, although there's no particular explanation to what is going on in there, it was made to look mysterious on purpose. And to the question about those danglies between Fleetwood's legs… Well, there's no answer.amazon.com Report Final score: 52points Buy Now POST #9
The Beatles - Revolver 1966
Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles with a cover drawn by German-born bassist and artist Klaus Voormann. Voormann's artwork was partly-drawn and partly made as a collage, using photos taken by Robert Freeman in 1964-65. The inspiration for this artwork was taken from the works of nineteenth-century illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, whose works were highly influential on fashion and designs of the 1960s. Each of the Beatles' members is depicted seemingly in another state of consciousness, with images tumbling and pouring out of their heads.amazon.com Report Final score: 51points Buy Now POST #10
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 1979
Unknown Pleasure is the debut album by the English band Joy Division, released in 1979. The iconic album cover used now for T-shirts, mugs, notebooks, and everything else you could think of isn't composed of random lines. Those lines, in fact, are radio wave patterns from the pulsar (a rotating neutron star) called CP 1919, and this particular image was found in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy.
amazon.com Report Final score: 50points Buy Now POST Hellebore Hellebore Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Designed by the iconic Peter Saville 2 2points reply View more comments #11
LED Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 1975
Physical Graffiti is the sixth album by Led Zepellin. It was released as a double album in 1975. The album's cover was designed by Peter Corriston, who used a photo of two New York City tenement block buildings. The interesting part is that the sleeve was a die-cut, and by moving it, you could either see Physical Graffiti spelled out in the windows or pictures of various famous people as well as the band. This was a truly innovative design for the time and even got nominated at the Grammys for the best album package in 1976.amazon.com Report Final score: 46points Buy Now POST Mark Berry Mark Berry Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Yes! The original 2 vinyl record set with interchangeable window views! 0 0points reply #12
The Who - Who s Next 1971
Who's Next is the fifth studio album by The Who, which was released in 1971. On the cover, you can see the band members seemingly having just urinated on a massive concrete piling protruding from a slag heap. The photo was taken by Ethan Russell in a town called Easington Colliery and was somewhat inspired by Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: Space Odyssey.
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David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 1972
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust for convenience) is the fifth album by David Bowie, released in 1972. The photo used for the album cover was taken by Brian Ward in monochrome and recolored by illustrator Terry Pastor. He also retouched the typography that was initially pressed on the photo using Letraset. The whole vibe of the retinted photo is trying to tell the audience that Bowie is, in fact, a visitor from another world and dimension. The glowing sign seen in the photo was that of a furrier company called K.West, who, upon discovering that their sign was used for a pop music album cover, took it down, wishing for no association with this kind of culture.amazon.com Report Final score: 43points Buy Now POST #14
Cream - Disraeli Gears 1967
Disraeli Gears is the second studio album by the British band Cream, released in 1967. The album cover was designed by an Australian artist Martin Sharp, and this is his vision of the band's music - warm, electric, and fluorescent. The photos used for this psychedelic collage were taken by Bob Whitaker, who's very well known for his work with The Beatles, sort of a star photographer. Besides trying to capture the essence of Cream's sound, the artwork was also inspired by Cambodian statues of deities, with ancient trees growing right on them. The association shows like this - band members' faces with the music swirling right from their heads.
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Yes - Relayer 1974
Relayer is the seventh album by an English prog-rock band called Yes, which was released in 1974. The album's artwork was designed and illustrated by Roger Dean, who has worked with the band since 1971, starting with designing their logo. For the Relayer album, Roger chose to depict a gothic cave, merging into an impenetrable fortress, an ultimate castle. The warriors on horseback, also depicted on the cover, refer to the lyrics of The Gates Of Delirium - a heavily war-themed song. By 2020, the original painting by Roger Dean went on sale for 6 million dollars.
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Blondie - Parallel Lines 1978
Parallel Lines is the third album by the rock band Blondie, released in 1978. The album took its name from an unreleased track written by Debbie Harry; only the lyrics were included in the first vinyl edition of the album. The iconic photo was taken by Edo Bertoglio and was chosen by the band's manager, despite the members feeling strongly against it. The simplicity and the sternness that the image is showing make the artwork instantly recognizable and iconic.amazon.com Report Final score: 41points Buy Now POST #17
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King 1969
In The Court Of The Crimson King is the debut album by the prog-rock band Crimson King, released in 1969. The painting used as this album's cover was done by a computer programmer Barry Godber, and it is Barry's own face. Sadly, Godber died shortly after the release of In The Court Of The Crimson King, making it his only album cover design. Now, one of the band members owns the original painting, describing it as reflecting their music to its bare bones.amazon.com Report Final score: 40points Buy Now POST #18
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 1973
Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1973. The title of this album is a pun on 'A Lad Insane,' which was initially expected to be the main title. Brian Duffy shot the absolutely iconic image gracing the cover of this album in his north London studio. It is known that the lightning bolt crossing Bowie's face was copied by Duffy and makeup artist Pierre Laroche from a National Panasonic rice-cooker in the studio. The makeup was completed by a vile purple wash, evoking the image of a death mask. Upon its release, the image quickly became the center of talks - some deemed it offensive, while others found it daring and revolutionary.
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AC DC - Back In Black 1980
Back In Black is the seventh album by Australian band AC/DC, which was released in 1980. According to Angus Young, the cover was a sign of mourning for their lost band member, lead singer Bon Scott, replaced by Brian Johnson on this album. And though Atlantic Records disagreed with the cover, they accepted it with the condition that the AC/DC logo would be outlined in grey.
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Herb Alpert s Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights 1965
Whipped Cream & Other Delights is the fourth album by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, released in 1965. Besides having enjoyed great success with sales, this album also became an icon of classic pop culture because of its cover, of course. It depicts model Dolores Erickson (who was three months pregnant at the time) wearing chiffon and doused in shaving cream. The cover became so widely popular that several bands have since parodied the photo for their own albums, even playing with the title. For instance, Soul Asylum's album named Clam Dip & Other Delights.amazon.com Report Final score: 36points Buy Now POST #21
Eagles - Hotel California 1976
Hotel California is the fifth album by American rock band Eagles, released in 1976. The building you see in the photo is the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel, shot just before sunset by David Alexander. The later cover design was provided by John Kosh (or simply Kosh) - a legendary English graphic designer and album cover creator. The band wanted to depict the titular Hotel California with a slightly sinister edge, and this photo worked like a charm. Since the vantage point seen in the image wasn't a usual one, it took some time for people to discover that it was The Beverly Hills Hotel, but once they figured it out, the hotel threatened legal action over the use of the image.
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Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 1969
Let It Bleed is the eighth British and the tenth American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released in 1969. The picture that you see on the cover isn't a collage or a superimposed image, but rather a surreal sculpture designed by Robert Brownjohn. Although Mick Jagger initially asked M. C. Escher to design the cover (who politely declined), it was this version that was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of 'Classic Album Cover' postage stamps released in 2010.amazon.com Report Final score: 34points Buy Now POST #23
Supertramp - Breakfast In America 1979
Breakfast In America is the sixth album by the English band called Supertramp, released in 1979. The album's cover resembled the view of Manhattan from an airplane window and was designed by Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty. The center figure in the image is Kate Murtagh, an American actress and singer-comedian, dressed as a waitress mimicking the pose of Lady Liberty. The Lower Manhattan skyline seen in the photo is created by using cornflake boxes, syrup jugs, and all sorts of stuff typical to a diner's environment sprayed white. Breakfast In America won the 1980 Grammy award for the best album packaging, beating albums by Talking Heads and Led Zeppelin.amazon.com Report Final score: 32points Buy Now POST #24
Alice Cooper - School s Out 1972
School's Out is the fifth album by the American band Alice Cooper, which was released in 1972. The original album cover was designed by Craig Braun and had the sleeve opening in the manner of a real school desk. The vinyl inside was wrapped in a pair of panties, though it was later discontinued upon discovering that the paper garment was highly flammable. You can still see the original desk of which the photo is taken displayed in The Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas.amazon.com Report Final score: 31points Buy Now POST #25
The Clash - London Calling 1979
London Calling is the third album by English rock band The Clash, released in 1979. In the cover photograph, you can see the band's bassist, Paul Simonon, smashing his Fender Precision Bass, whose remnants are now displayed in the Museum Of London. The rest of the cover was designed by Ray Lowry, who made it look like a homage to Elvis Presley's self-titled album (which you also saw on this list). The Royal Mail also chose this album cover for their set of 'Classic Album Cover' postage stamps issued in 2010.
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Metallica - Master Of Puppets 1986
Master Of Puppets is the third album by Metallica, released in 1986. The artwork for this album was designed by the band themselves and their manager Peter Mensch. The illustration, depicting white cemetery crosses tethered by strings and manipulated by hands emerging from the blood-red sky, was painted by Don Brautigam (you can see his initials on the lower right corner of the painting). The cover depicts an overall theme of the album of people being subconsciously manipulated and easily disposed of.amazon.com Report Final score: 29points Buy Now POST Anthony Nizza Anthony Nizza Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago One of the BEST albums out there. 3 3points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27
Prince - Purple Rain 1984
Purple Rain is the sixth studio album by Prince, released in 1984. On the cover, you can see Prince sitting on his customized 1981 Hondamatic Honda CM400A motorcycle (a purple one, of course). There's also his movie co-star and love interest of the hour Apollonia in the background standing in a doorway of a back alley. The alley is actually in the Warner Bros Studio Backlot in California, and the location was designed to look like a New York tenement area. And as for the flower arrangements behind the photo - who knows, those were probably Prince's idea also, knowing how much he cared about the stuff considering his one true love - music.amazon.com Report Final score: 27points Buy Now POST #28
Dio - Holy Diver 1983
Holy Diver is the debut album by the heavy metal band Dio, released in 1983. The cover artwork was painted by Randy Berrett and featured the band's mascot, Murray, spinning heavy chains above waves where a priest or a minister is chained and floating. You can see Murray on several of Dio's albums, always as sinister as he can be. And although the band stated that it is a pure coincidence, if you flip the logo upside down, you can interpret it as saying 'DIE' or 'Devil.'
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Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley 1956
Elvis Presley (known in the UK as Elvis Presley Rock 'n' Roll) was the debut album by the singer, released in 1956. Initially, it was thought that the cover photo was taken by Popsie Randolph (since he was the only credited photographer on the album), although it was later discovered that the actual photographer was William V. 'Red' Robertson. This iconic design was echoed on the albums by The Clash, F-Punk, and Chumbawamba, just to name a few.primevideo.com Report Final score: 25points Buy Now POST #30
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan 1963
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in 1963. The photo used as this album's cover depicts Dylan and his girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo, strolling in the middle of Jones Street in the West Village, New York City. As Suze remembers, Dylan was wearing a thin jacket for 'the look,' and she was terribly cold dressed in an oversized sweater and a bulky coat, making her feel like an 'Italian sausage.' The cover, being unscripted and down-to-earth simple, was a revolutionary one, compared to the stiff and polished covers of pop and folk albums at the time.amazon.com Report Final score: 22points Buy Now POST #31
Michael Jackson - Dangerous 1991
amazon.com Report Final score: 19points Buy Now POST #32Kiss - Destroyer 1976
amazon.com Report Final score: 8points Buy Now POST Anthony Nizza Anthony Nizza Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago YES!!!!!!! 0 0points reply #33Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery 1973
amazon.com Report Final score: 8points Buy Now POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This one looks really cool. Hmmm I've never heard of this album or this band 0 0points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34Gorillaz - Demon Days 2005
amazon.com Report Final score: 8points Buy Now POST Archer Harris Archer Harris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I listened to one of their songs on pandora. It was okay. 0 0points reply #35Grace Jones - Nightclubbing 1981
amazon.com Report Final score: 8points Buy Now POST Christopher Elkins Christopher Elkins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Why does it say "noclubbing"? 0 0points reply View more comments #36ABBA - Supertrouper 1980
amazon.com Report Final score: 7points Buy Now POST #37Cyndi Lauper - She s So Unusual 1983
amazon.com Report Final score: 7points Buy Now POST #38Blink 182 - Enema Of The State 1999
amazon.com Report Final score: 6points Buy Now POST #39Ramones - Ramones 1976
amazon.com Report Final score: 6points Buy Now POST Demongrrrrl Demongrrrrl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Thirty years ago, I was sitting with two friends on a bench in a north London Underground station. It's pretty late, well after closing time, and we were almost the only ones there. Suddenly this tall bloke with a red spiky mohawk, Doc Martens, piercings, etc , stalks past us. Without breaking stride, he looks at us and snarls, "Oi've been to see the Ramones!". And continues on his way. 0 0points reply #40The Police - Ghost In The Machine 1981
amazon.com Report Final score: 6points Buy Now POST #41Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 1973
amazon.com Report Final score: 6points Buy Now POST #42Madness - One Step Beyond 1979
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago crumb_truckin.jpg 1 1point reply #43The Beastie Boys - Paul s Boutique 1989
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST #44Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love 1967
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST #45Metallica - and Justice For All 1988
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST #46David Bowie - Heroes 1977
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST #47Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction 1987
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST #48The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 1968
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST #49The Black Keys - Brothers 2010
amazon.com Report Final score: 5points Buy Now POST #50Björk - Homogenic 1997
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST #51Judas Priest - British Steel 1980
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST #52Funkadelic - Maggot Brain 1971
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST #53The White Stripes - Elephant 2003
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST #54Florence The Machine - Lungs 2009
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST #55Kraftwerk - Computer World 1981
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST #56Rush - Moving Pictures 1981
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST #57The - Tommy 1969
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This one shoulda been higher - for the art, the concept and how iconic it is. 1 1point reply #58LED Zeppelin - LED Zeppelin III 1970
amazon.com Report Final score: 4points Buy Now POST James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Saw them live in 2007 when they reformed for the Ahmet Erturgun tribute concert. 2 2points reply #59The Velvet Underground And Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico 1967
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is bananas 0 0points reply #60The Notorious B i g - Ready To Die 1994
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #61The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers 1971
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #62The Roots - Things Fall Apart 1999
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #63The National - Trouble Will Find Me 2013
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #64The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 1966
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #65Elton John - Don t Shoot Me I m Only The Piano Player 1973
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #66Aerosmith - Draw The Line 1977
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #67Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising 2019
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This one's very cool 0 0points reply #68Pixies - Doolittle 1989
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #69Outkast - Stankonia 2000
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST #70Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast 1982
amazon.com Report Final score: 3points Buy Now POST Mark Berry Mark Berry Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago "Killers" was even better! 0 0points reply #71Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U S A 1984
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #72Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Unfold the cover and the plane has crashed into a mountain and crumpled at the front. I have this on tape somewhere 0 0points reply #73Hole - Live Through This 1994
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #74Duran Duran - Rio 1982
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #75Steely Dan - Aja 1977
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #76John Coltrane - Blue Train 1958
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amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #78Uriah Heep - The Magician s Birthday 1972
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #79Oasis - Definitely Maybe 1994
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #80Lorde - Melodrama 2017
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #81Prince - Sign O The Times 1987
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #82The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 2002
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST Mark Berry Mark Berry Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago So awesome an album, and with a cover that does it justice! 1 1point reply #83The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 2001
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #84Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 1975
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #85Frank Zappa - Hot Rats 1969
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #86Aphex Twin - The Richard D James Album 1996
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I remember watching MTV Europe/UK and they had a live show with Eddy Temple-Morris and they had guests. Without exception they all requested Come To Daddy, which had been banned by the channel. 1 1point reply See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #87Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica 2011
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #88Björk - Vulnicura 2015
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #89Radiohead - Kid A 2000
amazon.com Report Final score: 2points Buy Now POST #90Nas - Illmatic 1994
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #91Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band — Trout Mask Replica 1969
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #92Joni Mitchell - Hejira 1976
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #93The Smiths - Meat Is Murder 1985
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #94Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 1998
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #95Tame Impala - Currents 2015
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #96Madonna - True Blue 1986
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amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #98The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 1995
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #99U2 - War 1983
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #100Patti Smith - Horses 1975
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #101Nina Simone - Sings The Blues 1967
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #102Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life 1976
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #103Tool - Lateralus 2001
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST James016 James016 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amazing album and incredible live. 0 0points reply #104Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill 1998
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #105Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 2018
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #106Kate Bush - The Kick Inside 1978
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amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fka twigs is known to be quite artistic :) 0 0points reply #108DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 1996
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #109Thundercat - Drunk 2017
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #110It s Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #111Beck - Odelay 1996
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #112Pulp - Different Class 1995
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #113Taylor Swift - 1989 2014
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #114Bon Iver - Bon Iver 2011
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST Rose the Cook Rose the Cook Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Don't know the performer but an upvote for the artwork. 2 2points reply View More Replies... View more comments #115Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 2018
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amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #119Massive Attack - Mezzanine 1998
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #120Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake 1968
amazon.com Report Final score: 1point Buy Now POST #121Madvillain - Madvillainy 2004
amazon.com Report Final score: 0points Buy Now POST #122N W A - Straight Outta Compton 1988
amazon.com Report Final score: 0points Buy Now POST #123Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame 1982
amazon.com Report Final score: 0points Buy Now POST #124Fatboy Slim - You ve Come A Long Way Baby 1998
amazon.com Report Final score: 0points Buy Now POST #125Radiohead - Ok Computer 1997
amazon.com Report Final score: 0points Buy Now POST #126Santana - Lotus 1974
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amazon.com Report Final score: 0points Buy Now POST #134Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues 1983
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POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Some of these were cool or iconic, most of them I did not recognize :/ and I feel like there are some honorable mentions that didn't show up on this list 1 1point reply Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of them were from older times which is good but I also wish there was more diversity by including some more newer albums too. 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Just saying there are a lot of really fantastic album/EP covers from recent years :) some not as popular as they deserve to be 0 0points reply Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fragile_28...er_art.jpg 1 1point reply Pablo Ramos Pablo Ramos Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of these are very famous albums and people vote because of that, not because the design or the photography is good. An example: The Beatles crossing a street is not a creative design, nor a good picture or even a good setting. Oh, but the album is a great one 1 1point reply Load More Comments POST Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Some of these were cool or iconic, most of them I did not recognize :/ and I feel like there are some honorable mentions that didn't show up on this list 1 1point reply Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of them were from older times which is good but I also wish there was more diversity by including some more newer albums too. 1 1point reply Load More Replies... Two thousand seven Two thousand seven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Just saying there are a lot of really fantastic album/EP covers from recent years :) some not as popular as they deserve to be 0 0points reply Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fragile_28...er_art.jpg 1 1point reply Pablo Ramos Pablo Ramos Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Most of these are very famous albums and people vote because of that, not because the design or the photography is good. An example: The Beatles crossing a street is not a creative design, nor a good picture or even a good setting. Oh, but the album is a great one 1 1point reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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