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Topic: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

I like CD's because of their ease of use and size, but I really miss some of the art that was displayed on our favorite albums. With the advent of the Ipod's and other media storage devices and their ability to download music directly from the Internet I'm afraid that the next generation won't even know what an album is. The younger generation doesn't know what it missed not having the album covers to look at while the music played on. I have a lot of albums so picking out a favorite is hard. I'm going to put down a couple of names to get things going. I like King Crimson's first album, and Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards covers.

Paul

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Albums are so cool not only because of the covers but the sound.  But I guess one of my all time favorites is Moody Blues, Question of Balance.  There was so much going on that cover.  I could look at it and always see something new.  The gatefold albums were always cool because it folded out and have twice as much to show. 
Stevie Ray's picture disk, Couldn't Stand the Weather is my favorite picture disk.

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3 Reply by NPB_EST.1979 (edited by NPB_EST.1979 2007-06-29 11:53:20)

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

for record cover's I always liked Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" and Kiss "Alive"
OH! and Nick Drake's Pink Moon - very Salvador Dali-esque...


definitely not Beatle's White Album - there was NOTHING on that freaking thing... wink

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

I have an awful lot of favorites, so the first one to pop in.......is...Santana's first....

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5 Reply by Rocket (edited by Rocket 2007-06-29 12:37:26)

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Nice to know the somewhat younger generation didn't mix acid & music....there IS hope wink

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

definitely not Beatle's White Album - there was NOTHING on that freaking thing... wink

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

you say that like mixing acid and music is bad.  the results can be very very good or bad, just like music with no acid.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCdNsm7gvu8

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

blu69cam wrote:

I like CD's because of their ease of use and size, but I really miss some of the art that was displayed on our favorite albums. With the advent of the Ipod's and other media storage devices and their ability to download music directly from the Internet I'm afraid that the next generation won't even know what an album is. The younger generation doesn't know what it missed not having the album covers to look at while the music played on. I have a lot of albums so picking out a favorite is hard. I'm going to put down a couple of names to get things going. I like King Crimson's first album, and Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards covers.

Paul

Paul,
I'll give this a bit more thought, but I gotta tell you: When I saw this topic, King Crimson's "The Court of the Crimson King" was the first one that shot into my mind. Awesome cover and maybe even better artwork on the inside.
Bill S

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8 Reply by Bill S (edited by Bill S 2007-06-29 19:07:15)

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Captain Beyond's first LP
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper LHCB
Yes - Yessongs (Did I spell it right?)

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

CSNY  -  Deja Vu
Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East
Neil Young - Harvest
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Elton John - Honky Chateau
Elton John - Madman Across the Water
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles - Rubber Soul

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Bill S wrote:

Captain Beyond's first LP - check it out: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e … Beyond.jpg
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper LHCB
Yes - Yessongs

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Bill,
I bought Captain Beyond with the 3D picture glued on the front of the album cover for $1.50 at Barkers discount store in Port Arthur. The later versions of the album only had a picture on the front of the album cover, not the 3D image.

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Never said it is bad! Just that they are objective about white, blank album covers which doesn't contain a hidden, cryptic concept or message by the blank canvas!

Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
p.s.-but there are some absolutely terrible examples of both not mixing well in either case...

suhl wrote:

you say that like mixing acid and music is bad.  the results can be very very good or bad, just like music with no acid.

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

To keep the original thread topic,

Fleetwood Mac-Mystery To Me...

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Savoy Brown-Lookin' In...

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Aerosmith-Toys In the Attic

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

One of my all time favorites...Little Feat-Waiting For Columbus!
Yer turn...

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (inside's pretty cool too....and what an album!)  Would love to see Joe throw a lil' ELP tease or two into a song somewhere :-)

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Re: Album Cover Art... What's your favorite from the past?

Jefferson Starship.....Blows Against The Empire     

Some of the artwork on the inner sleeve booklet was done by Grace Slick