Album Covers featuring Yawnsomely Literal Cover Art in regards to said album's title.

Well done! Rupert Holmes ftw, looks like a pretty full life he's lived in that circle. We started at the Itsukushima Shrine, baby, and look where we've ended up.

ha. scrolling through i thought for half a second that it was a band called full circle with all kinds of inexplicable album titles.

That band would have ruled! Like, each time they're trying to make up a really generic name for a different style of artist that might put out an album called "Full Circle."

a lot of those albums can be summed up as "this is my first album in 20 years!" or "this is gonna be last album ever!" or "this is the album where I reflect upon my long and fruitful career." Rupert Holmes must have been an extraordinary human being in order to have gone full circle at age 34, just 2 years after his big hit.

oh yeah, I forgot

http://i.imgur.com/LBcmZs2.jpg

(band name and album title)

Full Oi'rcle

Leon Thomas managed to avoid using the circle motif, despite the album title:

http://underdesign.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/front6.jpg

Though funnily enough, he used it in an earlier album with a different title:

http://www.icrates.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Leon-Thomas-Spirits.jpg

http://stereocontrol.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/moon_antarctica.jpg

really happy they switched back to the original cover for at least the vinyl reissue. the one with the purple top and the ice hands shaking in the sky is amazing

http://lolymusic.com/uploads/posts/2014-10/1413642998_0934194875df.jpg

the "full circle" album covers are killing it upthread

ahaha i had forgotten those... I was all ready to type "Rupert Holmes ftw" but discovered I already had, yikes. staggerlee's "reflections" series is also wonderful.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Holger_Czukay%2C_Jah_Wobble%2C_Jaki_Liebezeit_-_Full_Circle.jpeg

note to self: do not title an album, should i ever make one, "full circle"

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YxQetI0qL.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8VcDplmfQ4c/T8W85lMvwpI/AAAAAAAABNs/R5cRtGKiLKo/s1600/John+Lee+Hooker+-+The+Cream.jpg

That'd be funnier if it was an album called "John Lee Hooker" by a band called The Cream.

some people call it a career arc, but I like to think of it as a...
lol

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/1/12/20120917042415!Too_hot_to_handle_heatwave_album.jpeg

I feel like the cover of Udo Lindenberg's 1971 album "Lindenberg" qualifies here, at least to German speakers.

new brian wilson album ftw

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/460_Width/1501/news-15-01-brian-wilson.jpg

alternate cover art: an elderly Brian Wilson is sitting on the beach with a margarita in hand, being fanned by two beautiful beach babes. nearby, five young men in green-and-white striped swim trunks are running down the pier, just about to jump in the water. the chubby one (representing a young Brian Wilson) is waving at the older Brian to join them, but the older Brian dismisses him with a smug grin and a flick of the wrist. No Pier Pressure.

(I really like the actual cover photo, though)

God, he couldn't have just called it "Pier Pressure"?

No.

brb starting a band called Partial Circle

http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/images/covers/bobby-shew-outstanding-in-his-field-20130808103520.jpg

...can't argue with that

Bobby Shew, Alan Titchmarsh impersonator.

(from the cover of his new album 'Fork Off')
http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/240768_1.jpg

Back in 1984...
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00421/810359_a_421336b.jpg

'Go Fork Yourself'
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p01gzyfq.jpg

Feel like I'm just going to end up posting this on every album cover thread.

http://www.secondhandlps.de/pix_rb_soul/robinson_smokey_pocketful.jpg

http://i34.servimg.com/u/f34/11/44/89/15/nina_s12.jpg

HA!

http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/5013929044128.jpg

Img link upthread is broken so I'm reposting this one, it's a nice one!

http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/039/Music/69/1f/eb/mzi.frzvpkpv.600x600-75.jpg

awesome

http://i.imgur.com/0LeirJT.jpg

I'm glad they put the "POISON - BE CAREFUL" label there, otherwise you might think Thomas is merely showing his women in bottles collection to you.

I imagine you could pretty seamlessly merge this thread and the terrible 70s album names one.

http://cdn.discogs.com/Cn2igg8M98Gpaio2eRTJlnoJoEc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc%28%29:format%28jpeg%29:mode_rgb%28%29/discogs-images/R-1676521-1303959840.jpeg.jpg

hmmph

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/258/MI0000258883.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

this just came up on forgotify, though I guess the addition of the monkey keeps it from being altogether Yawnsomely Literal

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CVVaWSesL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

the cover kind of makes it look like Ed is the monkey and that the album is a collaboration between him and a real white guy with a guitar

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/CloudNineCover.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Millie_Jackson_-_Back_to_the_S%2A%2At%21.jpg

https://everyrecordtellsastory.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/aerosmith-rocks.jpg?w=700&h=698

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xFs5iPwDL._SY300_.jpg

https://metalodyssey.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/guns-n-roses-the-spaghetti-incident-x-large-album-pic.jpg

better not to put spaghetti on your cover and be thought yawnsomely literal, than to put spaghetti on your cover and remove all doubt.

I see spaghetti, but where's the incident?