Favorite Album Art

[SandyFrank]

That is very jolly! There’s a happy feel to this TMBG cover as well, along with a strong Outsider Art vide.

[AdamSmith]

The Flaming Lips have some great album covers.

[Jimijamflimflam]

I am still a huge Boingo fan😁 and my friends and I listened to all those albums as soon as we could buy them.

Turns out (I think at least) Danny was even better making soundtracks than albums.

[FlyingSquid]

PDQ Bach is worth a listen if you like humor and classical music. Peter Schickele is a genius.

[SandyFrank]

These two album covers intrigued me enough to check out the bands behind them, and they since became two of my absolute favorite musical groups.

Also look up the cover to the Coil album Love’s Secret Domain. It really embodies a lot of what the band was about, but is not all-audience appropriate to post here. (It’s a great album, too.)

[FlyingSquid]

Here’s a fun one. The Andromeda Strain soundtrack.

This is what it looked like on the outside

and this is what it looked like on the inside.

[Jimijamflimflam]

A complete aside - back in the early 80’s, P.D.Q. was a copy utility program for Apple lle’s. Copied almost anything from the days of 5.25” floppy’s.

That’s it. A random, unsolicited memory from 30 years ago, yer welcome😅

[duaneiac]

Some album covers with art work by Mad Magazine’s Jack Davis:

[ColdStorage]

Giger already got two mentions so I’ll skip him and move forward.

Elsewhere in the Discourse, I made mention of the Designers Republic. Their beginnings were in event fliers and album covers:

The style holds up today (if a bit dated) and it influences other album art that I dig:

Allen Jaeger is an artist I know little-to-nothing about but the stuff he has contributed to Phil Western and cEvin Key is neat:

[SandyFrank]

@ColdStorage

Designers Republic

Good stuff! I see parallels in the house styles of Prospect Records and Soma.

[FlyingSquid]

We had one ELO cover earlier, how about another? This is my favorite ELO album and I love the cover.

[duaneiac]

A couple of albums with artwork by Gary Larson:

(I like the sign on the wall pointing the way to the fire hydrant.)

[SandyFrank]

Keeping on with the cartoon theme, another good album by a talent I appreciated more as I got older.

[LadyStarblade]

I “heard” this cover in my head.

[FlyingSquid]

This is a compilation album, but it’s a great cover.

[AndrewCrossett]

[JakeGittes]

Hmm, what’s the name of that band I like, you know, the greatest of the greatest things in my life entrainment-wise? Oh, yeah, I remember.

[FlyingSquid]

Well if we’re going to do The Beatles, we have to include the banned cover for Yesterday and Today.

[JakeGittes]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - front and back covers

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | Artwork

[FlyingSquid]