Blogcritics Comments on The Top Ten album covers

Comment by Paul Rosa on The Top Ten album covers

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:42:04 EDT

Good stuff but two glaring omissions: "Who's Next" by The Who. The 4 band members are seen walking away from a freshly-urine-soaked momolith. And for sheer lunacy, check out NOFX's "Heavy Petting Zpp." Disturbinly hysterical!! -Paul ]]>

Comment by harry on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:07:35 EDT

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Comment by Nemo Leahy on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:23:24 EST

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Comment by Aaron, Duke De Mondo on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:55:19 EDT

I think a note should be flung in the direction of Dookie by Green Day, which manages to fit any number of daft and wacky characters and scenes into the confines of a CD case (or a cassette case even, as my first purchase of it was indeed on tape). Also, i have a 12 inch record by NOFX called Eating Lamb (which i presume came out at the same time as Heavy Petting Zoo - same art style on the cover), which has a fella 69ing a sheep. im fairly sure i only bought it so as i could walk down the street with it in full view. And of course, the Greatest Of All Ever - Rum, Sodomy And The Lash by The Pogues, which took The Wake Of The Medusa and put the Pogues heads on the sailers. Shane still gets hsi sunglasses, of course, even in the midst of all the death and destruction. ]]>

Comment by Warren Brown on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 05:11:43 EDT

Surely for a totally over the top cover-for size and visual splendour Santana:Lotus ]]>

Comment by Eric Olsen on The Top Ten album covers

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:58:44 EDT

Thanks for stopping by Chloe, stunning work. Let us know when you do your site update. ]]>

Comment by Chloe Cumming on The Top Ten album covers

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:15:36 EDT

Thank you Al. It is my painting to which you refer. I have a funny feeling that I'd make my fortune if CDs were twelve inches in diameter. Sigh. I'm probably a bit late joining this thread but felt I ought to acknowledge your acknowledgement. I met Sir Peter Blake (i.e. the man who created the Sgt. Pepper cover) backstage at the first nught Brian Wilson Smile tour in February. I showed him a tiny painting of the Beach Boys from my handbag. He revealed to me that he was doing the cover for Brian's next album (Gettin' In Over My Head.) But I got the impression it was all a bit last minute and now I've seen the cover and it's a sort of thrown together collage and I think to myself... Peter, you've done better work. ]]>

Comment by Al Barger on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:46:01 EDT

Stepping out from anything well known, but I really like the painting by one Chloe Cumming for the 2004 Box o' Clox album A Tribute to Brian Wilson ]]>

Comment by HW Saxton Jr. on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:04:36 EDT

Album covers eh? I think these are all pretty cool covers: Velvet Underground-White LightWhite Heat Black on black with the low key skull. Subtle but menacing. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet The orig. cover with all the grafitti on the wall and the filthy toilet. I think it's funny,others find it disgusting. Any of R.Crumbs covers for Yazoo Records particularly "The Memphis Jug Band" LP. Any LP on Chess/Checker Records with a Stan Bronstein photograph on the cover. He was one of the best photographers of musicians anywhere. His pictures of The Wolf,Muddy,Little Walter,Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley to name but a few are easily recognizable classics of their genre. Oh yeah,to point out the obvious time: The "London Calling" cover is a DIE-RECT lift of the first Elvis Presley LP cover It is a homage/tribute of sorts. Either way it works. ]]>

Comment by Leah on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:58:36 EDT

The cover of Ghost in the Machine is actually a digital "portrait" of the band. The one in the middle is Sting, you can see his spiky hair. The one on the right is Stewart Copeland, Sting said he had the biggest head. And the other one is Andy Summers. Most non-Police fans aren't aware of this, and makes it an even cooler cover. ]]>

Comment by Douglas Mays on The Top Ten album covers

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:29:43 EDT

Shark, right on about Big Brother & the Holding Co. (R. Crumb). Classic work! Also, good tips from the record collector's point of view. sssshhhh...! don't tell anyone (lol) peaceloveguidance ]]>

Comment by Eric Olsen on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:27:53 EDT

yes, that was Jerry on Siren - a remarkable cover ]]>

Comment by Douglas Mays on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:23:17 EDT

Al, true. "Night Train" and "Last Chance Texaco" Rickie sure dug deep into the scary parts of her soul. I hear she is living in this neck of the woods now (just south of me in Tacoma, WA). With "Danny's All Star Joint", you can tell I'm a rocker. The moods that Rickie could touch upon are amazing. gotta jump, peaceloveguidance ]]>

Comment by Al Barger on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:55:14 EDT

Yes Doug, the mischievous "Danny's All Star Joint" is a great tune. However, it was the dramatics of "Night Train" and the dark night of the soul in "The Last Chance Texaco" that caused me sleepless nights. ]]>

Comment by Douglas Mays on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:05:57 EDT

Al, I'm with you on the Rickie Lee Jones cover. "Danny's All Star Joint" (that the right song title?)was my fave. During that era I was in love with Karla Bonoff album covers. Yeah, I had posters and all that good, obsessive stuff. Eric, right on about Roxy Music 'girl' album covers. Wasn't that Jerry Hall on the Siren album? peaceloveguidance ]]>

Comment by Eric Olsen on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:59:15 EDT

All of the Roxy Music "girl" covers up through Siren are classic. Lou Reed's Transformer Blues For Allah is my favorite, but all of the Kelly Mouse covers are iconic Hipgnosis was usually interesting ]]>

Comment by Mark Edward Manning on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:17:44 EDT

I'd have to agree that the Beatles' "butcher" cover to "Yesterday and Today" is a classic. ]]>

Comment by Shark on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:51:06 EDT

...and R.Crumb's Big Brother & the Holding Co. cover qualifies as an instantly recognizable icon. BTW: I believe the albums WORTH the most these days are the original: Beatles "butcher" cover Velvet Underground (Warhol's peelable banana) Sticky Fingers (Warhol's zippable zipper) Rauschenberg's collage on the Talking Head limited edition EP ====== And here's a tip for the collector/investor on some great deals: Look for *Family Dog artists' (and other famous **graphic artists') album covers; they will end up being highly collectible pieces of mid-20th century art work a lot of money to your kids and grandkids; you can still get them for next to nothing, and some day, they might attain the "art museum" level of graphic art. *Rick Griffin - Eagles ‘On The Border’, Grateful Dead’s ‘Aoxomoxoa’, the first Quicksilver Messenger Service album, Neil Young’s ‘On The Beach’, various albums by the Cult. See also - Victor Moscoso(!!), Mouse Kelly (American Dead cover!!), etc. etc. **Gary Burden, Jimmy Wachtel, Rodney Matthews, Ralph Steadman, et al. PS: Don't tell anybody. I'd hate to see the prices go up just yet. ]]>

Comment by Al Barger on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 05:27:07 EDT

Though I was the right teen age for it, I never gave a rat's ass about Farrah Fawcett and her famous poster. Instead, I was fairly fixated on the cover of Rickie Lee Jones eponymous debut album, with the photo of her in the beret. That may be more a personal thing than any indication that it's a particularly great album cover. Also, the fascination was based on this being a picture of the girl who's singing stuff like "The Last Chance Texaco." I'll just say it made a big impression on me. ]]>

Comment by Douglas Mays on The Top Ten album covers

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:43:01 EDT

BRICKLAYER, you bring up a good point about the lack of quality in today's cover art. A picture with some computer graphics that anyone can buy. Back in the days of the LP an artist had 144 square inches to deal with. Now with the CD an artist has 36 square inches to work. The problem is that I have not seen (like BRICKLAYER says) anything that really qualifies as good original art. There are some alright covers out there, but the art of a CD cover has a long ways to go. I'm with you on that one, BRICKLAYER. peaceloveguidance. ]]>

Comment by Douglas Mays on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:27:16 EDT

Oh, and of course, any Yes album with Roger Dean graphics. Al, good memory with JA/Long John Silver! plg ]]>

Comment by BRICKLAYER on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:00:34 EDT

Kiss-Love Gun Nazareth-Hair of the Dog All Molly Hatchet covers All Motorhead covers by Joe Patagno, or whatever the dude's name is Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast, and Powerslave Metallica-Master of Puppets Led Zep-4 The Who-one with the baked beans So, so, so many of today's mainstream album covers REALLY suck! It's just a photo of the singer, or the band, or some really lame computer graphic that some nimrod like me could do if he had the time. They look like they put less than ten seconds of thought into the artwork. And if the tiny lyrics were not hard enough to read anyway, they smear or shadow or try some other non-creative, creative technique on them to make it impossible. ]]>

Comment by Al Barger on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:17:35 EDT

Jefferson Airplane - Long John Silver Not so much just the picture on the cover, but it was an elaborate construct that was supposed to fold up into a cigar box. Honorable mention also for the gatefold sleeve of Prince's Around the World in a Day with the woman's figure for the landscape, and the little icons for each of the songs. Also, props must be given for the cover of Spike, with the image of Elvis Costello's evil smiling head mounted like a rock critic's hunting trophy that might yet climb off the wall and bite you. ]]>

Comment by Shark on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:46:21 EDT

Honorable Mention: Stones - Sticky Fingers (Andrew Warhola) Talking Heads -Speaking in Tongues (Robert Rauschenberg) Jeff Beck - Beckola (Magritte) ]]>

Comment by Shark on The Top Ten album covers

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:39:26 EDT

#1 pictured ]]>