Thoughts?

which are your favorite front covers?

[Edited 2/25/11 4:04am]

It's almost as if that snake is some kind of allegory.....

deebee said:

It's almost as if that snake is some kind of allegory.....

subtle, right?

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Just to mention a few....

Simple and understated:

Harlepolis said:

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amazing cover indeed

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Yeah!

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I don't know which is the best album cover but Virgin Killer by the Scorpions is one of the worst.

I like these....

JoeTyler said:

Thoughts?

I LOVE this cover! The albums fookin great aswell!

Fela was always fond of boobies on an album cover...

The cover on the left just makes me laugh, as it's over-the-top but in such a lo-fi, homemade kind of way. I quite like the one on the right, though; not just for the obvious reasons.

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some good ones

Mott The Hoople - Mad Shadows

Looks rather scary, but it's actually a picture of a fireplace and a mirror

T.Rex - Electric Warrior

Marc Bolan in electrifying colours doing what he did best

HIM - Greatest Love Songs Vol.666

Lead singer Ville Valo looking sad, sick and disturbingly beautiful. There's a strange S/M vibe here too.

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I love Michael's Dangerous album cover...and these...

That Whitesnake album cover looks cheap and tacky, sorry.

I still like this one a lot. Glen Friedman took some AMAZING pictures in the late 80s.

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Many people prefer the album cover for the Power album over Rhyme Pays but I still prefer Rhyme Pays and the cover looks better, too.

This one is the one for Power. A much weaker album, IMO.

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Santana had some fantastic album covers in the early to mid 70s. Abraxas, Caravanserai, Borboletto...just to name a few.

I still love the Purple Rain album cover, front and back (ok, the typo on the back is hilarious....there´s this purple suspicion that lurks in the ANALS of my mind .... )

Lovesexy and Parade and Dirty Mind were excellent and very iconic, too.

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I think the best front cover is...remember Sade's first greatest hits disc? Just a closeup pic of her with her hair blowing in the wind.