What Is The Best Album Cover You Have Seen?
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Yep, I remember being fascinated by that one when I was a youngster looking thru my parents records. I wonder why?
GasGuzzler
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Hendrix's second album has a cover you can stare at for hours. I have two of these.
Led Zeppelin III has a multi-windowed cover with a wheel inside. Turn the wheel and the art changes. I have this one.
Van Halen 1984 is a classic. Don't have this one.
When I was in high school, kids would wear this shirt and get sent home.
The front cover of the album Who's Next is a photograph, taken at Easington Colliery, of the band apparently having just urinated on a large concrete piling protruding from a slag heap. The decision to shoot the picture came from Entwistle and Moon discussing Stanley Kubrick and the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. According to photographer Ethan Russell, only Townshend actually urinated against the piling, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect. The sky in the background was added later to give the image what Russell called "this other worldly quality." The rear cover shows the band backstage at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, amid a cluttered mess of furniture. In 2003, the television channel VH1 named the cover of Who's Next one of the greatest album covers of all time.
Other suggestions for the cover included the group urinating against a Marshall Stack and an overweight nude woman with the Who's faces in place of her genitalia. An alternative cover featuring Moon dressed in black lingerie and a brown wig and holding a whip was later used as part of the inside art of the 1995 and 2003 CD releases of the album. Some of the photographs taken during these sessions were also used as part of Decca's United States promotion of the album.
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Note that I said "minority." Not everyone was involved but enough to reach a decision. If you want to blame someone, blame me and me only.
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In my personal life, I would defend such artistic expression to the death...but it's not a hill TGT should be expected to die on. The odds of prosecution are vanishingly close to but definitely NOT zero; there are people in prison in the USA for the crime of possessing cartoons, after all.
Bottom line - It's simplest and best for TGT to just steer clear.
One of the best album cover art I enjoyed was Yessongs, not just the front cover, but throughout. I liked it so much I used to have a poster of it on my bedroom wall.
