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My top 5 classic rock album covers:

5. The Who, Odds & Sods
4. Rolling Stones, It's Only Rock 'n Roll
3. T. Rex, Electric Warrior
2. The Doors, Strange Days
1. AC/DC, Powerage
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Abbey Road - Beatles
Moving Pictures - Rush
1984 - Van Halen
News of the World - Queen
Smell the Glove - Spinal Tap
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elfurioso92 said:
Abbey Road - Beatles
Moving Pictures - Rush
1984 - Van Halen
News of the World - Queen
Smell the Glove - Spinal Tap


Which one?
The "how much more black can it be? and the answer is none. None more black" version?

Or the

"greased, naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash and a man's arm extended out up to here holding on to the leash and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it." Version?
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The most correct answer is "whipped cream and other delights."
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In reply to Duncan Idaho • 3:58p, 9/7/20
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Duncan Idaho said:
elfurioso92 said:
Abbey Road - Beatles
Moving Pictures - Rush
1984 - Van Halen
News of the World - Queen
Smell the Glove - Spinal Tap


Which one?
The "how much more black can it be? and the answer is none. None more black" version?

Or the

"greased, naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash and a man's arm extended out up to here holding on to the leash and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it." Version?
Both are classics
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In reply to Duncan Idaho • 4:41p, 9/7/20
Duncan Idaho said:
The most correct answer is "whipped cream and other delights."


We have rules around here...
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The most correct answer is "whipped cream and other delights."
Not a rock album.
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Led Zeppelin IV
Fragile
Thick as a Brick
Some Girls
Tres Hombres
Abraxis



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I have a hard time separating the music from the album cover, but if I were to try to just focus on iconic album covers these seven are the ones that popped into my head (in no particular order):

Abbey Road
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
Rumours
Led Zeppelin I (thought about listing Houses of the Holy too)
Appetite for Destruction
Nevermind
The Dark Side of the Moon
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Kill 'em All
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
...and Justice for All
Metallica
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I don't know what kind of drugs you needed for this one...

Front



Back



Opened

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Bobby Petrino`s Neckbrace said:


Led Zeppelin IV
Fragile
Thick as a Brick
Some Girls
Tres Hombres
Abraxis





Tres Hombres has the greatest inside cover of all time.
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Not sure if you can top Sgt Peppers, Abbey Road, or Dark Side of the Moon, but we can always try......





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I wanna see our defense pissed off, not confused, maybe a little murder in their hearts Reload12, 11/4/11
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Great catch on London Calling

Solid contender for number 1

Bad job by me for not listing it
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Who's Next might be better than Odds & Sods.....

May need to re-evaluate.

But I feel strongly It's Only Rock n' Roll is underrated both musically and as an album cover. I really like it. Black and Blue from '75 also contains some really underrated material, including the really dirty Hand of Fate, and most of the lead guitarist work was hired hands, as Wood was transitioning in. And the cover is hilarious.
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Disclaimer: Views expressed in this post reflect the opinions of Texags user bonfarr and are not to be accepted as facts or to be taken at face value.
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Great article about Wayne Perkins

https://www.al.com/entertainment/2017/10/rolling_stones_bob_marley.html
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This was the Rolling Stone readers poll top 10 album covers.



















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Nevermind is ridiculous and awful. Tipper Gore was correct about some things.

Wish You Were Here is great. I'm going to reformulate and re-post as a definitive top 10.
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I would add











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Best Springsteen cover art is Western Stars. Born to Run is good, but overall his covers have been bad. The River aesthetic is good, however (I could have made that album truly great by re-arranging cuts, assuming access to Tracks material).
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AC / DC did really well in the Bon era.


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Scoop series and Empty Glass are definitely honorable mention, although I'm guessing Townsend being so temperamental contributed to the quite uneven quality of his solo material cover art.
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By the way... you all know the London Calling cover is a ripoff... or tribute. Right?

I mean it is great I agree. but most don't know the origin of it. Even though it is better than the original.

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Here is Billy Joel's best cover art.


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probably but Glass Houses is great too



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Live 75 - 85 is both good and very disappointing in two respects:

- bad bad bad selection, by comparison to (high-quality) bootleg releases that could have been included
- way too much focus on 80s instead of 70s

Good art, however
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three more punk iconic covers









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