1. Seahawks - VQ1 Spaceships Over Topanga Canyon
http://i.imgur.com/Si7tk.jpg
http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/189570-1/Endless_wave.gif
2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/umo.jpg
Ruban Nielson: I found it on one of those random-image sites-- it was my desktop wallpaper the whole time I was making the record. At first, I didn't know anything about it but it looked futuristic, which I like. It's a visual equivalent of what I wanted people to hear when they listened to the album.
this was some reddit ish floating around a while back: http://humanscribbles.blogspot.com/2010/12/spomenik-propaganda-or-pure-beauty.html
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
3. Gnaw Their Tongues- All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity
http://www.anticorporatemusic.com/catalog/images/voorkant1.jpg
via an NSFW pic makin the encyclopedia dramatica rounds for a while.
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
i believe the original photo for that was used as-is on another album
― fit and working again, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
(can't remember what it is ... it's on some thread here i think)
― fit and working again, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I got an ad this week that uses this:
http://files.sharenator.com/giant_rooster_RE_Supersize_the_nature-s386x468-24195.png
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
xpost - tam tam should swoop in and drop us the original pic
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2412574-1282658689.jpeg
The Klaxons - Surfing the Void
― emil.y, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Or, uh, just Klaxons.
― emil.y, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Thought we'd have mentioned merriweather post pavilion by now..?
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
How many album covers has this photo appeared on now? I know there's more.
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/259/cover_1331623102008.jpg
― /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\etc (Matt #2), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/6585-love-songs-of-the-hanging-gardens.jpg
― peter in montreal, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Its not on the cover, but on the inner art for one for Pearl Jam's Binaural.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
what is that anyway
― thomp, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thesirenssound.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/shalabi-effect-shalabi-effect.jpg
― the wheelie king (wk), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation
― fit and working again, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
though the album is dumb, ill rep for animal collective being kind of AWARE slash not idiots about the MPP art. it's like a funny good internet stoner joke and also sincerely suits their schtick well...
― 69, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
The pillars were composed of cool molecular hydrogen and dust that were being eroded away by photoevaporation from the ultraviolet light of relatively close and hot stars. The leftmost pillar was about four light years in length.
good lord
― thomp, Friday, 19 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
and that photo was taken 6,000 years after they were destroyed! ag. is this something everyone knows about or what
― thomp, Friday, 19 August 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
this thread has made me click around wikipedia looking at pictures of nebulae
― peter in montreal, Friday, 19 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
these should all be album covers
― peter in montreal, Friday, 19 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
and in fact, probably are
is this something everyone knows about or what
yeah pretty much. if you were around when the hubble took those pics
― the wheelie king (wk), Friday, 19 August 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
hubble trouble
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 August 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
In An Aeroplane Over-- oh wait, it was an album before it was a meme? Carry on.
― bad taste in 80s kitsch songs (MintIce), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
album arthttp://www.covershut.com/covers/Stereophonics---Keep-Calm-And-Carry-On-2009-Front-Cover-22131.jpg
album poster:http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drn300/n342/n34256uxysc.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Weezer to thread.
― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
There's no excuse whatsoever for that kind of laziness. xp
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
i mean.. what can you say really?
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
I think wikipedia stated at some point that some grindcore band used goatse as an album cover, dunno if it's true though
― V79, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link