Your favorite album cover?

At the moment I'm going with Planet Earth just because it has that cool holographic thing that changes from Symbol to Prince holding the earth.

Y'all?

today Im going for the minimilism of Parade and then 1999 as backup.

Planet Earth?

yall gonna let that fly?

Probably 1999 - because he did the art himself.

Although Parade is totally -able.

I will ponder that question and get back to you, but as a guy, I cringed when I saw LOVESEXY's cover. :::shudder:::

I didn't focus so much on it tho, and was pleased with what was on the album.

I'll get back to you on my FAVORITE cover, this sounds like fun!!

It's like a cartoon to much to me to ever be offensive.

heymistermusic said:

I will ponder that question and get back to you, but as a guy, I cringed when I saw LOVESEXY's cover. :::shudder:::

Especially since they airbrushed almost all of his non-chestal body hair off.

rdhull said:

It's like a cartoon to much to me to ever be offensive.

heymistermusic said:

I will ponder that question and get back to you, but as a guy, I cringed when I saw LOVESEXY's cover. :::shudder:::

and his muscles..he looks like an anorexic 13 yr old girl with a mustache...not that I would know what..ah hell the whole keeps getting deeper....

Genesia said:

Especially since they airbrushed almost all of his non-chestal body hair off.

rdhull said:

It's like a cartoon to much to me to ever be offensive.

I've always loved the Around The World In A Day album art.

And The Rainbow Children...

His album art post WB has been atrocious.

I like the artwork inside the Parade album; the scrapbook looking stuff. It was all very cohesive with singles, etc. The Rainbow Children is nice.

ICONIC COVER !

All up to Lovesexy are essential.
All later ones are meh, some very cringeworthy even.

I cant pick a 'best' but should mention The Family album cover is between the 10 best.

Hell yeah i can pick my best, nothing's ever that strong as PR, even with the near unreadable lyrics inside.

(all vinyl of course)

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Sign O' the Times...

It's so trippy...when I look at it I almost feel like I'm hallucinating.

The other cover I dig is Around the World In a Day.

I've always liked the Lotusflower & MPLS Sound Album covers.

purplethunder3121 said:

And The Rainbow Children...

I always thought this looks like something J.J. on Good Times would do.

SOTT, Around the World and Rainbow Children are great and timeless covers.

sro100 said:

purplethunder3121 said:

And The Rainbow Children...

I always thought this looks like something J.J. on Good Times would do.

The artist for The Rainbow Children was Cibabi Bayoc. But the artist for most of the Good Times paintings, Ernie Barnes, had a similar style and subject matter:

purplethunder3121 said:

Good Times was one of my favorite shows as a kid. And those paintings were just amazing.

Certainly Parade, Sign o the Times, Controversy, Diamonds and Pearls, The Gold Experience, and even LotusFlower.

filthycute08 said:

"Come" makes me want to follow him past the gates and into the darkness. The album cover for "1999" is a piece of fine art disguised as an ornate doodle.

especially with a circumcized penis on the cover

Parade. Less is always more...

rdhull said:

Controversy

The penis album cover is a close second.

Parade is perfect. It looks just how the album sounds. Playful, loose, baroque, a little cloudy.