OT: The Most Iconic Album Cover of All-Time

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• Cashman1234

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  8 years ago

  That type of list should probably be mostly albums from the 60's through the late 70's. That seemed to be when the album cover and even sometimes the back cover were more art. With the change of format - to DVDs and other - album artwork is almost a thing of the past?
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  Motorhead, why are you a whale and not Lemmy?
• motorhead

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  8 years ago

  Since Lemmy passed, should I still use him?
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  Yes, it was the coolest avatar
• Cashman1234

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  8 years ago

  Yes. I think you should use Lemmy here. What better way to pay tribute to him than to discuss loose women and booze (and good hard metal)?
• shailynn

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  8 years ago

  Wow I gave this a thought for a minute and the 1st two bands I thought of were Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin, and I'm a child of the 80s
• rattdog

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  8 years ago

  Dio holy diver is a cool album cover Floyd dsotm and wish are great Led Zep 3 and graffiti are great too
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  IMO most 70's covers were iconic. 80's too. Works of art. I found frames that fit album covers and had about five hanging around the place
• shailynn

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  8 years ago

  ^^^ I'm willing to bet 2 of the 5 are Devo and New Kids On The Block
• JamesSD

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  8 years ago

  Dark side of the moon has a pretty awesome cover.
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  Not even close Shailynn. Yes, Uriah Heep, King Crimson, Led Zep, forgot what else.
• dudefromsd

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  8 years ago

  Scorpions "Virgin Killer"
• dudefromsd

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  8 years ago

  Scorpions "Virgin Killer"
• londonguy

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  8 years ago

  Couldn't agree more. Any list of top album covers that doesn't include DSOTM or Sgt Peppers has to be totally dismissed.
• DandyDan

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  8 years ago

  Even going into the 90's, Nirvana's Nevermind cover is iconic
• Longball300

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  8 years ago

  For me it was the first album I purchased; Boston's debut which only comes in a lowly 55th on this list: [view link] Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell, The Cars debut, The Clash London Calling.... I think it's highly dependent on your age. natch.
• DoctorPhil.

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  8 years ago

  sounds like a list put together by some sort of leftist tha sucks george soros cock. the best album cover is houses of the holy by led zepplin. my pappy gave that one to jimmie plant and robert page when he had dinner with them. drew it on a napkin i actually helped prince design the lovesexy album covr but it was a mistake. he called me up and was all phill you made my first assless purple suit and now i wanna wear it on an album cover. so i said prince youll look like a damn fag why don't you just pose nude in front of some flowers. crazy basterd thought i was serious i am sorry for the prince cover since that was a misunderstanding but for the lead zepplin cover all i can say on behalf of my family is your welcome
• Mate27

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  8 years ago

  Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" and so many other 60-70's rock groups had excellent album covers since that was a big way to market the product when walking through the record store. All my friends would show how cool they were in school by displaying the latest album cover art.
• flagooner

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  8 years ago

  ^ Yeah that would make them really cool. Sarcasm intended.
• motorhead

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  8 years ago

  ^^ LOL The music industry certainly has changed. No need to have artistic album covers when songs are downloaded from iTunes. Back in the 70's the record companies must have made huge profits. The cost to press out vinyl records must have been mere pennies but albums were very expensive relative to other things.
• lotsoffun201

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  8 years ago

  I vote for Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick. Fold out newspaper. It was pretty cool
• NinaBambina

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  8 years ago

  I immediately thought of dark side of the moon when I read the title to this thread, before I even opened it. So yeah, I'd say it's pretty iconic.
• DoctorPhil.

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  8 years ago

  my pappy also taught jethro tull how to play the flute. on behalf of my family your welcome
• jester214

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  8 years ago

  dark side of the moon - iconic or cliche? To me it's kind of cliche.
• flagooner

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  8 years ago

  But it bacame cliche by being iconic first.
• flagooner

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  8 years ago

  ^became
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  "Big Bambu" by Cheech and Chong with the giant rolling paper
• umissedaspot

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  8 years ago

  Pretty hard to beat Svetlana: [view link]