Album covers you love

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Now about something a little different.

Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating is space BP was sold in packaging that made it look not like a CD but a course of medication.

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It included a prescription sticker

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And the actual disk was in a large blister pack

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And even included instructions

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Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland ... I won;t post it because of the nudity

Also most of the Artwork from Pink Floyd is amazing. WOuld love to have the budget to replicate some of their stuff.
 
One of the most original album covers I can remember was from the late sixties.The Small Faces,Ogdens Nutgone Flake.A circular one made to look like a tobacco tin.I would love to see that one if anyone could post a pic.
 
Jack Flash said:
One of the most original album covers I can remember was from the late sixties.The Small Faces,Ogdens Nutgone Flake.A circular one made to look like a tobacco tin.I would love to see that one if anyone could post a pic.
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got the album on cd somewhere :)
 
KC Leblanc said:
Now about something a little different.

Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating is space BP was sold in packaging that made it look not like a CD but a course of medication.
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Did you see the limited edition re release of that?

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ding76uk said:
Did you see the limited edition re release of that?

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Great packaging. Didn't they do a white version full of mini-CDs?

EDIT: It's here

Talking of Sprititualised (from where I live, Rugby - have a few original 45s from their initial incarnation as Spacemen 3 before they became Spiritualised Elaectric Mainline) this is great:

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The way the emboss follows you around the room when you look at it is spooky. The gold CD without any markings on it was a b****r though - kept putting it in the CD player the wrong way :)

For anyone interested in seeing Sprititualised artwork take a look here - very cool :)

Anyway, back to the main point, what's my fave album cover.Photographically it's this:

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Photographically I just think it's such a strong image. Tried to recreate it in a sense here but with Optimus Prime as the subject :)
 
Jack Flash said:
Thanks for that.A classic album art wise but I don,t know what the music is like.
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It was seen as a bit of a concept album at the time due to having Stanley Unwin narrating a story as part of/in between songs in "Unwinese"...

Are you all sitting comftibold, two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin.
Now, like all real life experience stories, this also begins once a polly tito, and Happiness Stan, whose life evolved the ephemeral colour dreamy most, and his deep joy in this being the multicolour of the moon. Oh yes. His home a victoriana charibold, the four-wheel folloped ft-ft-ft out the back. Now, as eve on his deep approach, his eye on the moon. Alltime sometime deept joy of a full moon scintyladen dangly in the heavenly bode. But now only half! So, gathering all behind him the hintermost, he ploddy-ploddy forward into the deep complicadent fundermold of the forry to sort this one out.

ahem back on topic, this has to be one of the most iconic covers from the 90s ?
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to make you feel old, that baby must now be in his early 20s!!
 
Typing this on my phone so can't post a pic. Beatles for Sale. So desperate to re-create that type of Portrait
 
No comment....

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I am going to offer up the early Deacon Blue covers - Raintown especially. Will try and work out how to post a copy of it here.
 
Now I'm sure you'll all appreciate the skill and craftmanship that has gone into making this seminal work of art.....

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...sorry I'm on a roll here!

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Last one I promise . . . Nylon hair at it's very best:

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OMG I had hundreds of those TOTP albums, universally awful but great covers. ;)

Andy
 
jontucker said:
I quite like this one...

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As a huge Stereophonics fan anyway I love this album cover but I also love the cover for Performance and Cocktails.
Went to see them a couple of weeks ago and the photos in their tour programme were amazing as well.
 
Couple of my faves, probably showing my age a bit here.

Relayer by Yes (any Roger Dean album covers to be honest)


And Pour Down Like Silver by Richard and Linda Thompson.


If you haven't heard of Richard Thompson he was a founder member of Fairport Convention in 1967 and recorded with his wife until they divorced. He is one of the greatest guitarists and songwriters this country has produced find his stuff and give him a go, the man's a genius.

Andy
 
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