What are some examples of great album covers you've liked?

Santana Abraxis probably more than any other!

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is for me,the most easliy recognised one.Simple and effective design:)
Here is a fine selection of stunning covers for you…
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Meat Loaf’s Bat out of hell….... :-/

@lucillelucillelucille JIMINY CHRISTMAS!!! what the hell were they smokin’????

@lucillelucillelucille Bless you for that but, guess what? I can’t view the bloody thing :¬(

Iron Maidens, Number of the beast …..

Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! @ucme
Just do a search for worst album covers and see what pops up! Do it
@VS—LOL!—

Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones (gatefold version)

7Songs by 23Skidoo

The Beatles by The Beatles (popularly known as The White Album)

Blue Monday 12” by New Order

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

London Calling by The Clash

Yeah, Pink Floyd’s, triangular , prismatic dark side of the moon was iconic.

Jethro Tull Aqua Lung
There was a homeless man in our town that looked like this album cover so he earned the name Aqua Lung. He was quite popular for at least 25 years around town. Everyone knew of him.

U2 the Joshia Tree, Nirvana’s swimming baby.

Tool – Aenima was a cool cover, with the rotating eye and the picture of L.A. disappearing and re-appearing. You need to own the actual CD to appreciate it

Wish You Were Here.

Physical Graffiti.

Some Girls.

I purchased this and have it in my bathroom.

I’ve always been fond of this one.

I always like Nirvanas imagery of their choice there with the baby in the pool thing going on.

For art work, Emerson Lake and Palmers is one of my favs!

Slave to the Rhythm

Awesome
Terrific
Byuteefull!
Intriguing
Girl, I know how you feel.
No, not “great”, but he’ was so, so pretty in 1986.
And this is just a testament to Photoshopping-type skills in the days way before Photoshop. I mean, look at it! She never held that actual pose, it’s a composite.

All of the Pink Floyd album covers are brilliant.

Animals by Pink Floyd (Frankly, anything by Pink Floyd)
Wincing the Night Away by The Shins
A Question of Balance by The Moody Blues

Queens, News of the world, album cover always fascinated me as a kid….. I think we were reading the iron giant at school about the time of it’s release.. :-/
I was Ten……..

All good stuff, thanks all. Some of my particular faves in there somewhere too.

Depeche Mode : Violator
Grace Jones : Slave to the Rhythm
New Order : Blue Monday

Have loved & owned all three at some point.

I have always loved this even though I don’t know anything about the band. The picture just appeals to me in some way.

The album covers of the 80’s are my favorites.
Alice Cooper scary
Cindi Lauper beautiful
Grace Jones ~ Night Clubbing
MFSB No one listened

Every single Maiden album excluding Dance of Death.
Autopsy-Severed Survival [NSFW]
Venom-Welcome to Hell
Bolt Thrower-Realm of Chaos
Burzum-Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Kreator-Pleasure to Kill
Carcass-Reek of Putrefaction [Really NSFW, click at your own risk!]

Just checking out more recent interviews with Grace Jones. Damn, that woman still looks good.

never mind the bollocks, The Beatles Abbey road

Just some stuff.

We gotta bow before the classic, though.

Paradise Theatre. On the other end, the worst album cover was The White Album.

Molly Hatchet’s first three album covers were art by Frank Frazetta. Groups like Dust and Nazareth also used Frazetta’s art. RIP Frank Frazetta.

Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell. I own it on picture disk. And yes, I know it was mentioned before.

@lucillelucillelucille – That was hysterical!

The cover for Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective.

(Look at it for a bit.)

@absalom are those aliens behind the abstract of leaves? :D

Anthem of the Sun, by the Grateful Dead.

Book of Dreams, by Steve Miller.

@lucillelucillelucille the Worst ones are SO much easier to come by….

@AmWiser

“Cindi Lauper beautiful”

Have you noticed that the soles of the shoes on the back cover of ‘She’s So Unusual’, are covered with parts of Vincent van Gogh’s, “The Starry Night”?

So many but Santana Abraxis does stand out.
Anything from YES
As a young lad I did enjoy my Fathers Herb Alpert Album Whipped Cream & Other Delights

@blueiiznh AND the Tijuana Brass
Lawrence Welk Baby Elephant Walk.. (Close your eyes guys! Just listen!) I can’t find the album cover, but my Mom painted an Acrylic of it, and sold it in the 70’s. It’s floating around in Wichita some where…

Well, in doing my recent research, Henry Mancini wrote it The Baby Elephant Walk. He also wrote the ”The Pink Panther Theme (Never mind the commercial.)

Intuit by Ramona Falls.

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.

I love a lot of Meat Loaf’s album covers. Favourites are Bad Attitude and The Monster is Loose

Also I liked, Jim Steinmans ‘Bad for good’ album cover… :-/

How could I forget Smell The Glove by Spinal Tap?

Frank Zappa’s Over-nite Sensation

Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans

forgot to give the link
http://riekels.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/yes-tales-from-topographic-oceans/

King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King freaked me out (in a good way). That may have had something to do with ingestion of fungus.