Mind Numbingly Awesome Album Covers

That album was to be subtitled "how to end your career in America before it's really started"

http://homepages.bw.edu/~jcurtis/Iron_Maiden_4.jpg

http://otho.douban.com/lpic/s1480543.jpg

I know, lol 90s post-rock aesthetic, helvetica-style font, etc., but it's still awesome

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cvZRpnpzzaw/R3H4NJQi_NI/AAAAAAAABN0/jIrF1t7YXGY/s1600/Kokotsu%2BNo%2BSeka.jpg

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/c3/29/5154224128a06efcd7d29010._AA240_.L.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000AQRZ8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

totally awesome cover by band I don't really care about.

http://www.mapplethorpe.org/bio.gif

reminds me of this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510PXTZXZ6L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

It's the hand coming out of the bin that really makes it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Whale-We_Care.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Whale_-_addmeibb.jpg

http://www.dance-lyrics.com/ama/rooty_b00005k9v5.jpg

http://staticblog.hi-pi.com/gisblogMnt-se-travelblogg/skivomslag/images/gd/1205759619.jpg

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/mothers_of_invention_weasel.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/MA-Altars.jpg

http://www.nestorindetroit.com/Demolition%20Doll%20Rods/DDR-art/enchante.jpg

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/link-wray-1971-lp.jpg

Totally awesome, unexpected record, the really great fold out cover doesn't hurt.

does anyone know who this is? i found it on the web somewhere ages ago and its kind of awesome

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/222.jpg

I think, surprisingly, it's the Prodigy.

Why were you snooping around your bosses office? Does he know you were in there?

Just wondering.

-- kwhitehead, Friday, August 22, 2008 1:24 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Um. Today is my last day so I was training my replacement yesterday. She was sitting at my desk and he was out so I was at his. The tape was sitting right next to the keyboard. No snooping involved.

I think, surprisingly, it's the Prodigy.

Right. It's from Music for the Jilted Generation

That's gotta rate among the greatest inside sleeves ever. And I think the actual cover for MftJG is pretty great too.

The only thing I never understood about that pic is, why does that dude look like some sort of a metalhead and not a raver?

Someone already posted Nigtclubbing which is awesome too, but this is my favourite Grace Jones cover:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2274/2490074379_ca2866b8f4.jpg?v=0

yeah, but that album is only okay

Lotta great Grace Jones art out there:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Grace-Island.jpg

the exceptions to the great Grace Jones covers are far fewer than the instances

far far fewer

As long as the woman herself actually appears on the cover...

They ain't all great, but I'll defend this one:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Grace-Living.jpg

and this one is ... interesting:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Grace-Slave.jpg

and these two are interesting relative to one another:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Grace-Muse.jpg http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Grace-Inside.jpg

but, yeah, we've come a long way from awesome...

http://www.michael-gaughan.com/comwork/comwork29.jpg

Maybe no mind numbing just sitting on the shelf, but when fully realized this is probably one of the coolest covers I've ever seen

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l18tkfuIFo1qz84jeo1_500.jpg

^that is fantastic

is the one before it the new of montreal or something

totally awesome cover by band I don't really care about.
― I know, right?, Friday, August 22, 2008 1:02 PM (1 year ago)

look familiar?

http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/robert_mapplethorpe_self_portrait_1975b.jpg

totally awesome cover by band I don't really care about.
― I know, right?, Friday, August 22, 2008 1:02 PM (1 year ago)

Maybe that's the one you posted, but now has a question mark. If so, apologies!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q5YP5KK9L._SS500_.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/BWAbcocIfkx368iwaVatihGSo1_500.jpg

http://www.lovevinyl.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/prince-parade.jpg

Parade by Prince is one of those albums where the CD cover simply can't do the vinyl cover justice.

I just bought this Kat Mandu compilation, and what an awesome cover it has:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/katmandu.jpg

It's based on the cover of the Kat Mandu's debut LP:

http://www.goodgroove.org/discoboogie/cd10/KatManduTMB.JPG

The LP cover is cool too, and it has a better font, but IMO the colours in the comp cover make it more awesome.

The cover of Kat Mandu's second LP, OTOH, is kinda odd:

http://www.snickarsrecords.com/rec_pictures/021101.jpg?time=2008-09-08+16%3A22%3A10

"Mind numbingly" is way overstating, but I sold my copy of Horslips' "Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part" LP years ago, and kinda want one again. Octagonal, with intricate die-cuts.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61iy32mtABL.jpg

http://www.buddyhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/musiccatalog_b_boards-of-canada-music-has-the-right-to-children_boards-of-canada-music-has-the-right-to-children1.jpg
http://auralfloat.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/boardsofcanada-twoism19951.jpg

Kind of a lot at once and "Mind-Numbingly Awesome" might sound off in relation to some of these:
http://i.imgur.com/Vj9CG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nyJJg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uKfJn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2ZWGe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qg5nO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DSfsW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ShKqq.gif
http://i.imgur.com/TZYlC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mdJ1Y.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nfKQH.jpg

And more:
http://i.imgur.com/N5if6.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/K1nMR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cgOSW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ef0Zx.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WkN6s.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/B1unf.jpg

http://img.sharedmp3.net/files/pics/1028/1027669/img_1_pr.jpg

wow. fuck mine, a lot of those ^ i'd hang on the wall.

esp. the first 5

that said, i bought ride's nowhere purely b/c of the album art (ok, and it was $4) when i was about 13... in total realization joy division's unknown pleasures is the clear inspiration, and a little more iconic, but there's something about this that rly suggests that buying this album will transport you somewhere

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/r/ride/album-nowhere.jpg
and furthering shoegaze scene, mbv's were always particularly good:
http://www.filtersage.com/cover/music/mbv_glider.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_osaKxjJ33dE/S4Fob9z6VvI/AAAAAAAAAPw/8b2hbavtYnY/s400/mbv_feed_me_with_your_kiss.jpg

uno mas:
http://images.wikia.com/lyricwiki/images/0/07/Saint_Etienne_-_Foxbase_Alpha.jpg
again, i can easily see why anybody would go "so what" about this one, but there's always been something striking about this cover... maybe the particular nostalgia factor, or how utterly simple it is. i dunno. it's just yet another band i've checked out for the artwork alone.