The album cover that started it all the most iconic Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass the one with the naked girl covered in whipped cream , WTF how could this not be included really. My thoughts exactly. Iconic is a great word to describe that album cover. What are you trying to prove? Who cares??? That cover is supposed to suggest she WAS naked because she could easily have been. It has really good music also. Have a mono and a stereo copy.
The reason? The cover depicts one of the greatest rock guitarists in his prime! A masterpiece! T Rex electric warrior. And their album absolutely free as well. Good thing that several people remember the 3d captain beyond cover. Scorpions fly to the rainbow. Neil Young on the beach. Everything in the cover, from the sepia tone photo, to the clothes to the typography was the antithesis of the sixties aesthetic and announced a new music rooted in the past.
The best Electric Ladyland cover was the one with all the nude girls on it….. I still have my copy of it, they were on the front and back of the album.
One big picture…. I grew up shopping in the vinyl era, and there were so many great covers then. While everyone of these are worthy, there are so many that could be included that a top best covers list seems woefully inadequate.
I agree! Nazareth: Hair of the Dog hands down the best album cover of all time. Turns out to be the first CD I ever bought. Have a people pick out a favorite car and there will be different cars! These type of lists are irrelevant. There were so many great covers that could replace all of these, in my opinion! No Molly Hatchet covers? No Moody Blues? No Steppenwolf? Some good ones did get missed as pointed out in here. Interesting to look over the ones here thanks!
Leaves a lot to debate on. Some of my favorite album covers are not mainstream. Drawn by cat himself and very iconic. Also born to run, top 10? Some good covers in there but all subjective and hard to disconnect with the music the covers represent. Where is the first Moby Grape cover and no Jefferson Airplane cover???? Too much british and not enough America.
So almost all white guys from the seventies….. In any case, there was no way to do this list without SOME argument was there? Next time shoot for and you,d still better prepare for some flack. You should know better to dare put together a list like this and call it Greatest…. The Argus cover stuck with me through all these years.
Thank You for such a wonderful list even though you overlooked some of my personal favourites. Alice Cooper — Billion Dollar Babies. Jackson Browne-Late for the Sky. The Byrds- Sweetheart of the Rodeo. An ultimate Nudie back patch with intricate stitching as befits the Dandy 60s Combo. Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde. The most extra terrestrial capture of El Zim casting further questions on just what planet did Bob arrive from?
Genesis-Nursery Cryme. Fear and Surreal apprehension in an English Country Garden. Croquet Anyone? Desk Graffiti , Girls Panties and All. No wonder they had Questions in The House. Definitely Stand Up with the woodcut popup gatefold. Those who have chosen the list looked at books, as the themselves state.
I thought the list was overall pretty good. Not a bad selection,but how could you leave out Axis Bold as love or several of the Moody Blues lp covers? And Neil Young — On the Beach! Photo was actually taken on the 20th. Ok, not bad. From this list my favourite would be Revolver but, as many others already commented, I would say Moody Blues are missing from the list.
Not much of a list! I think it would be better to have 1 cover per artist on the list because there are so many great ones. Both used a few of Frank Frazetta art. Here are just a few of the ones you forgot. No ABBA on it? They have some good cover better than some shown. The album and the visitors have to be on it. No mention of Family!
No mention by anyone of Family! Can think of twenty more pieces of art that deserve to be here. I was doing this thing at home of putting up framed album covers. Not one Iron Maiden album? The Art work on Powerslave is so incredibly detailed, it should in the top ten. There are some truly great album covers here, but one hell of a lot of these are great albums with OK covers. This is not even close to of the greatest covers. It is possibly the most pornographic album cover ever, but subtle enough to circulate for a long time before someone noticed and it received new censored artwork.
I framed it and hung it on my wall. And a great album too. Disturbed has some rather good album covers e. Lists like this are always subjective! Impossible to achieve.
Signed, An OLD rocker. All these covers are DOPE. Do It Yourself was issued in at least 32 different wall paper sleeves and was designed by the great Barney Bubbles. To pick one single Cover; is Impossible, plain and simple. I could make a list of a hundred by myself, in which many of the listed ones here would be as well. So has the Interpretation Of Classical Works. LOSE -. Good selection. One really missing is Deep Purple In rock. Nothing to much iconic about that selection, where is Symarips Skinhead Moonstomp cover, now that itself is well known for all old BootBoys old and new,.
OMG — Where are the judges? I would love to laugh in their faces. Too many dumb actually sad choices to call out. What Ho! Anyone still interested in this old thread? And come to think of it, Def Leppard. On Through the night, what is wrong with you guys? Sort it out. There are quite a few Arguably, not to mention Questionable choices here.
Really, it IS! It was banned for decades and should really have been here. However; In the end, such Lists are Tough choices, Luckilly! How could I forget?
Served its purpose no doubt in keeping a hungover intern busy for an afternoon copying and pasting images and not otherwise effing up an important sic project. Absolutely on all the Hipgnosis and Warhol albums. Some good covers. But not top I have trouble in doing the top , imagine top … complexity is the miracle, who tries to say it all? There are a couple of Yes albums too that I can think of also. Dream Weaver was a neat cover also. Where can I buy or print some of these album covers?
Just the album cover, not necessarily the vinyl. Quicksilver Happy Trails not in the top ? Nice to see a few prog rock albums in there this time other than just Dark Side of the Moon that is. Any of the First 3 Waterboys album covers. Your having a laugh………Not all but some of the sleeves chosen very poor in artistic design. Misplaced Childhood? Number of the Beast? Most here are ridiculously banal — Bee Gees, Ramones, and Springsteen et al. Yet no iconic Electric Warrior or Slider covers.
You nailed it. My list is identical. My year-old self loved that cover! Emmanuel by Anuel AA??? Thats not unique? I think you just wanted to provoke a reaction. Your email address will not be published.
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Nicholas Gambella September 7, at pm. Very much so, any album cover from Yes shoild be there. Mark April 7, at am. Mark Allen April 8, at pm. John June 8, at pm. Gondo April 12, at pm. Errol Arias September 18, at pm. Magicians birthday was there.. Check again.. Number 21 or Rod Lan April 13, at pm. Mark I September 8, at am. DaNuck September 16, at pm. Bogus list, how in the world could they not include any grateful dead covers???? Terry Sear September 26, at pm. Larry October 27, at pm. James November 6, at pm.
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Jeff November 9, at pm. Maybe even Synchronicity or Zenyette Mondetta. Scott October 27, at pm. Steve Jobs October 27, at pm. Great graphics on that one. Patrick Gleeson November 21, at pm. Absolutely Steve. An iconic cover — and album ….
Kay October 27, at pm. Jim December 12, at pm. Tubular Bells should be on here.. Bow Wow Wow should be off. Jim Gordon January 20, at pm. Absolutely right! Tubular Bells is one of the best ever; much better than the Top ! Mark October 27, at pm. David Niblick December 12, at am. Scott christiansen December 12, at pm. Andrew Massey October 27, at pm. KRT April 26, at am. Well said. The Beatles influence cannot be measured. Gary August 21, at am. Dan November 15, at am.
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Diesel October 31, at am. Dire Straits — Brothers in Arms? Seriously why was this omitted? Janne October 31, at pm. David October 31, at pm. Seriously no Rodney Matthews in there. But the talking heads black cover is in there. Chris Squires October 31, at pm. Kevin October 31, at pm. PhiloBike October 31, at pm. Gina October 31, at pm. That came to mind immediately. Steve Giovanetti October 31, at pm.
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Jim November 7, at pm. ROD November 8, at am. Wolfpat December 13, at pm. That was my first thought too. Bill from the 60s July 16, at pm. You suppose she was naked. You were there when the photo was taken?
Joe April 27, at pm. Joe Giersher April 28, at pm. FAR better than many of those original covers. Angelo November 8, at am.
Bolero November 8, at pm. Gary Hambley November 8, at pm. Dafyn November 8, at pm. Hugh Jaynus November 8, at pm. Don Killaby November 8, at pm. Margaret November 8, at pm. When looking through his writing he found a poem entitled Under The Bridge and - instantly touched by their lyrics - Rubin implored Kiedis to show them to the rest of his band.
Kiedis was reluctant, thinking the song too gentle for the Chili Peppers- who still had a very energetic, funk-based sound. But, after singing the lyrics to Frusciante and drummer Chad Smith, the frontman recalls that they simply: "got up and walked over to their instruments and started finding the beat and guitar chords to match it". Speaking about his famous final verse which literally describes the bleak process of scoring and injecting heroin, Kiedis explains: "What that was referring to was a point in time about five years ago when I had nothing in my life, no friends or no places to live, no car or relationship with my family.
He was a Mexican mafia ex-convict and he and I would stroll the streets of downtown L. A looking for our next score. And one particular afternoon it was very hot in the middle of summer and I'd been up for days, and he and I had found what we were looking for and we went to this bridge that was downtown in the middle of Los Angeles in this ghetto.
He adds: "And that always sticks in my brain as a low point in my life. While at his lowest point, Kiedis does find some salvation in the chorus, pledging not to feel like he did that day. While some might think the place he loves is the high of a heroin hit, Kiedis revealed in the same interview: "The place I love is where I am now".
The frontman never revealed the exact whereabouts of the titular bridge, but many have tried to use clues in his interviews and his autobiography to find it, with Vulture citing a small tunnel underneath Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park as its possible location in Sadly, it wasn't to be the last time the group was marred by drug use.
Kiedis was set to relapse, while John Frusciante's well-documented struggle with addiction would hit an all-time low when he left the band for the first time in Although Under The Bridge is a song about both the isolation of addiction and recovery, it manages to be both gentle and triumphant, while remaining one of the band's most-loved hits. Latest Videos.
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