best album covers

[Flash]

i'm sure this has been done before but ehh
post your favorite kickass album covers here
the kind that makes you want to listen to the album just by looking at its cover

i'll start with one of my favorites


peter gabriel 2 (aka "scratch")

also armon's new album has a kickass cover by lenko ghew jab moit

[Mew_User]

[jjjjjjjjjj]

[Katasaki]

IF - Mindless Self Indulgence

I'm a big fan of Jhonen's artstyle.
I enjoy seeing it, even as just an album cover.

[cipher]

I know it's obscure as hell, but this one is pretty awesome

[lenko]

[retrosmash]

[FlamingoPudding]

For some reason I find this one completely mesmerizing.


My favorite album ever.

[Mew_User]

Everyone loves Boards of Canada.
These are all just albums I listen to a lot.


So many factors decide how great any album art is.
How well it describes the music, how original or minimalistic or how even gimmicky it is are important to me.

[lenko]

i love how the primal scream album looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old yet its one of the most memorable album covers ever

[BluPhoenix]

yes







this isn't an album cover, but it sure looks like one

[Necronomitr0n]

will probably clean this post up later

[FlamingoPudding]

if you ever try psilocybin mushrooms, be sure to play this record. You will feel like orgasmic mud is dripping from your face.
Look at those colours!!!! AND THERE'S SOMEONE WALKING ON III-*sploded*

[W.A.C.]

Favorite album cover ever. No idea why there's two versions though. Btw, the game guy who made this cover made a lot of Pink Floyd's '70s album covers as well as album covers for many other well known bands like Led Zeppelin.

Edit-

Props to systech for posting Disco Volante's cover.

[rtil]

[funzop]

^my fav


















and of course

[cipher]

Wow I came here again literally planning on posting that.

So here's another instead

[salutations]

literally just spent an hour trying to remember this album cover from when i was younger but i didn't remember it was crash test dummies so it was kinda hard to remember!!!!

[aether]

[psi43]

IF - Mindless Self Indulgence

I'm a big fan of Jhonen's artstyle.
I enjoy seeing it, even as just an album cover.

aw man i wanted to post that one