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By *orders Couple OP Couple
over a year ago

Kelso

I've recently been getting lots of articles on my news feed about the best album covers. I'm sure that there are plenty of you, like me, who remember the heyday of albums and the artwork on the covers.

One I particularly remember was Lovedrive by The Scorpions which featured a lady with rather nice breasts and a man with a massive piece of bubblegum stretching from his hand to her nipple. Surprisingly this cover hasn't featured in any of those articles lol.

Which album covers have particularly stayed in your memory?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Strokes - Is This It - features a gloved hand on a naked female bum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The LET THERE BE ROCK album cover...absolutely ICONIC !!! AC/DC's finest album cover in my humble opinion

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

I recall that album growing up.. One in the same vein was Force It by UFO.

But there are a couple of album covers I used to love to scan over.

Iron Maiden - Killers

Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear.. And all subsequent Marillion 12' singles / albums from then on really...

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By *orders Couple OP Couple
over a year ago

Kelso

"The Strokes - Is This It - features a gloved hand on a naked female bum"

And a very nice bottom it is too. Definitely one to remember

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By *orders Couple OP Couple
over a year ago

Kelso

"I recall that album growing up.. One in the same vein was Force It by UFO.

But there are a couple of album covers I used to love to scan over.

Iron Maiden - Killers

Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear.. And all subsequent Marillion 12' singles / albums from then on really... "

I get the impression we listened to the same music

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By *orders Couple OP Couple
over a year ago

Kelso

"The LET THERE BE ROCK album cover...absolutely ICONIC !!! AC/DC's finest album cover in my humble opinion

Such a great band too

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

"The LET THERE BE ROCK album cover...absolutely ICONIC !!! AC/DC's finest album cover in my humble opinion

What more iconic than 'If you want Blood' or better than 'Highway to hell'!! Good but no way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kiss : Destroyer

I definitely grew up listening to the same music, I remember scaling a wall to get into the Newcastle City Hall to see the Scorpions, then hanging upside down as my trousers got caught on the window latch.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

It's not just the covers though it's the inner sleeves too - used to love sitting listening to albums whilst spending time reading/appreciating the covers and the inner sleeve - a pleasure that never felt quite the same with CD booklets...

...notable covers/inners of my youth were...

One Step Beyond - Madness - the iconic pose on the front, Chas Smash dance moves on the back, and the inner sleeve was made up of photo booth pics of fans and the band plus one shot from behind of a naked lady with a towel on her head

Armed Forces - Elvis Costello - painting of a majestic charging elephant

Parallel Lines - Blondie - another iconic image, simple yet effective

Am sure there are more but I'd have to dig the vinyl out to jog the memory

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The LET THERE BE ROCK album cover...absolutely ICONIC !!! AC/DC's finest album cover in my humble opinion

What more iconic than 'If you want Blood' or better than 'Highway to hell'!! Good but no way. "

It is to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Queen - News of the World

Darkness - Permission to Land

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The LET THERE BE ROCK album cover...absolutely ICONIC !!! AC/DC's finest album cover in my humble opinion

What more iconic than 'If you want Blood' or better than 'Highway to hell'!! Good but no way. "

It is to me

..also the very first time the ICONIC AC/DC logo was used by the band.

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon.

Classic art work.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

The Yes covers were classics

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

SPLHCB

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Run, Sodomy and the Lash - The Pogues

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By *rPeachyMan
over a year ago

Bristol

Anything 1980s Marillion.

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By *orders Couple OP Couple
over a year ago

Kelso

"Kiss : Destroyer

I went to a few gigs at Newcastle City Hall. I didn't see the Scorpions there though.

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By *adbod7519Man
over a year ago

Leeds

Wild Things by The Creatures. It’s of Siouxsie in the shower with her then partner. Several shops refused to stock it

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By *orders Couple OP Couple
over a year ago

Kelso

"The LET THERE BE ROCK album cover...absolutely ICONIC !!! AC/DC's finest album cover in my humble opinion

What more iconic than 'If you want Blood' or better than 'Highway to hell'!! Good but no way.

It is to me

..also the very first time the ICONIC AC/DC logo was used by the band.

I'm assuming you mean the international cover and not the original Australian one.

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By *orders Couple OP Couple
over a year ago

Kelso

"It's not just the covers though it's the inner sleeves too - used to love sitting listening to albums whilst spending time reading/appreciating the covers and the inner sleeve - a pleasure that never felt quite the same with CD booklets...

...notable covers/inners of my youth were...

Armed Forces - Elvis Costello - painting of a majestic charging elephant

Parallel Lines - Blondie - another iconic image, simple yet effective

Am sure there are more but I'd have to dig the vinyl out to jog the memory"

You're right there. It was the whole package.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kiss : Destroyer

I went to a few gigs at Newcastle City Hall. I didn't see the Scorpions there though. "

Iron Maiden was my first concert at the Newcastle City Hall 1983, I remember I was gutted that Paul Dianno was replaced with a singer called Bruce Dickinson...it turned out well didn't it.

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

10cc deceptive bends, great album sleeve

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nirvana - Nevermind

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any of The Yes covers, Maiden Powersl_ve, Somewhere In Time. And more recently, Volbeat have some good examples

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

London Calling The Clash

Aladdin Sane David Bowie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

electric ladyland - jimi hendrix experience.

the original one you'll have to google

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I've got many albums on vinyl, some good ones have already been mentioned, but I'll chuck Led Zep - Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti and Pink Floyd - Animals into the mix

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By *orace pinkerMan
over a year ago

North west

Zappa. Thing fish

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By *r51Man
over a year ago

st ives

Nirvana’s Nevermind or most albums by Molly Hatchet .

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

The Vaughan Oliver covers on 4AD albums are beautiful. I'm especially fond of Treasure by Cocteau Twins.

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

I love the Sgt Pepper's cover.

And a favourite was Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces...not particularly for the picture, but because of the tin it came in. I was gutted when my copy got damaged in a house move

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By *isfits behaving badlyCouple
over a year ago

Coventry

Looking back off the top of my head the album covers that stick into my mind are:

Moloko - Statues

Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate

(Mr)

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

-Destroyer by KISS (comic book style art)

-Nevermind by Nirvana (totally original!)

Powersl#ve by Iron Maiden (fabulous fantasy artwork)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The one that sticks out to me forever and I don't know why but it is so memorable is the lightening seeds one with a strawberry on called Jollification.

Its one of my childhood albums.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Without any doubt, the best album art in my mind is Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick" It's just so funny i can't stop reading it when i start.

It takes longer to read than it takes to play the album.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Penthouse and Pavement Heaven 17

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Funhouse - The Stooges.Red,yellow.black album cover with classic Stooges tracks

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

The Damned- Strawberries with the pigs head on it and guess what? The actual record was pink red and smelt of strawberries

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By *adbod7519Man
over a year ago

Leeds

The Velvet Underground and Nico

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Elton John ~ Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kiss : Destroyer

I went to a few gigs at Newcastle City Hall. I didn't see the Scorpions there though.

Iron Maiden was my first concert at the Newcastle City Hall 1983, I remember I was gutted that Paul Dianno was replaced with a singer called Bruce Dickinson...it turned out well didn't it."
I was -1 year old then. Who’d have thunk Bruce would have become the iconic singer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jean Michel Jarre Oxygen

Its a painting by the artist Granger of the world decaying and a skull beneath.

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