Let's post our top 2 cd cover ,let me first:)

skid row - slave to the grind


iron maiden - power slave

First off props to the Avatar dude, RATM are a killer band :a013:

I don't know about my second but I will put up one to begin with:

The cover of Sydney band Wolfmother's original EP:



Also not my other picks but Led Zeppelin 3 and Sgt Peppers were pretty crazy...

the beatles - the white album
metallica - the black album

I could go on for a very long time with this...

^^^ So who requested Ken's album "By Request Only" ?

For nostalgic reasons, I'd say
A Split-Second - Ballistic Statues
and
Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong Of The Right


I've never seen it, and I can't remember the name of band or album, but I like the idea behind it: a [vinyl] album with a cover made out of sandpaper. The idea was, that the sandpaper cover would destroy the surrounding albums from the friction caused by customers lifting/sliding it back when checking through the albums in the shop-rack :a013:

Was it New Order's Blue Monday? I know they lost a fortune on the packaging of that one, even though it was their biggest hit.

I like that second cover ADL and that sandpaper thing sounds pure genius :a013:

it's interesing,maybe you love this one

beatallica's grey album

Blind Guardian - Live
&

Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

Nevermore are a great band, This Godless Endeavour is an alright cover too:

I particularly love their font :a013:

Well this would have to be one of them ... the inside cover for Yes - Close to the Edge

(back when they were real albums, before all these new-fangled CDs )

I'll have to think about the second one ... far too many to choose from

ahhhhh Roger Dean ....
From him, the Relayer cover is also really cool, and the Octopus cover for Gentle Giant...



Both great cds by the way:D:

Some interesting covers there, haven't heard more than a couple songs by yes though (been meaning to check them out actually as I quite liked the stuff I heard).

How about a bit of Santana!!

sorry but i have 3

the beatles - white album
jimmy eat world - furures
the clash - london calling

all equally awesome

yeah santanas covers sre really cool, my mum and dad listen to them a bit, and ive taken a liking to it!
(listen to america and black magic woman)
(stealing wikipedias bandwidth eh?)

yngwie's rising force

radiohead's kid a

funny you had that beatallica cover up there, this is probably old but some of you might know dj dangermouse did a grey album. execpt it was jayz black album over the white album. it was actually very well mixed. i like it.

Bitter Suites To Succubi cover

Nymphetamine cover

Number 1:
<-------- My Avatar
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Number 2:


Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Pink Floyd - Pulse


Death From Above 1979- You're a Woman, I'm A Machine

Meshuggah - I



Cryptopsy - Once Was Not

Dude I fucking LOVE Death From Above 1979

You seem pretty

not much competes with floyd covers, as per my avatar, radiohead and joy division are pretty good too, Marillion's Afraid of Sunlight springs to mind too.

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I think Pink Floyd has by far the best and craziest covers ever

It wasn't New Order's Blue Monday. The origional packaging was made out of a hard plastic, to make the album look like a floppy disc, the idea was that the vinyl would be visible through small openings on the plastic and look like the middle part of the disc, it was a really neat concept. Thing is, they lost near 10 cents every time they made one of those albums, so they changed the cover halfway through production. Let me see if I can find a picture, because coincidentally, "Blue Monday" is one of my two favorite album covers ever.
http://static.flickr.com/48/120183557_3ab87a205c.jpg?v=0

Another one of my favorite album covers would have to go to
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0007...01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I like the Blue Monday one as well -- thanx for the link, El Capitan Retro :a013:

Probably didn't think to Google for it at the time but I found a reference to that sandpaper cover now:

There may be other bands that had one too, though -- the marketing part of an album isn't always seem as creative as the music

Cee-Lo...Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections


Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Plastikman Sheet One
Perforated sheet for doses of lsd


The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
No perforated Sheet.....but plenty of doses were enjoyed


I know it said 2 but.....
I can remember the first time i saw this record @ my uncles I was 7 years old and thought it was the coolest
I unzipped the zipper on the front and found a joint(didnt know at the time)
I think the design was by Andy Warhol or atleast the idea was his.

Interestingly enough, That Skid Row cover was painted by the singer's, (Sebastian Bach), father, David.

There you have it, your useless trivia for the day.

Tool - Aenima

Link to Rage against the machine cover


Edit by ABBANDON

Oversize pic linked

The inside cover artwork for tool's 10000 days (witht he lenses that make it all 3d etc)



and the dmars volta's e-loused in the comatorium artwork

Pink Floyd rocks

The Fratellis - costello music



Limp Biskit - Significant other

Let me just say, its about the covers, not the content

1st Saliva - Every Six Seconds



2nd Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

Nice cropping BugZ LOL

pics linked to amazon.co.uk, normally link to allmusic.com, but they seem to be down at moment, will change when back up lol

ill let you off then

Hi ya!
Just registered.
My fave ones. Well, it's only one, same album, but 2 pics.

The Killing Tree - We Sing Sin EP


and

its a tie between:
Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord


and

Billy Talent II

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
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Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
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I'd say pink floyd pulse and pink floyd dark side of the moon (prism thing, I think thats the album)

I'd say pink floyd pulse and pink floyd dark side of the moon (prism thing, I think thats the album)

blink 182- enema of the state

just cause the chick looks like and ex and enema was need my mob phone from my ass after I got caught cheatin

blink-182 <--- My fav band of all time :)

1:Enema Strikes Back :)
2:The Used - In love or death

the back cover of "the fragile" by nine inch nails ( I have it as a bilboard size poster :p)
Reubens "in nothing we trust" digipak

Shpongle - Tales of the inexpressible



Ted Nugent - Week-end Warriors



But chosing only 2 is real difficult, there's so many good ones around...

J.M. Jarre - Oxygen



Leftfield - Leftism

the fragile back cover

1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets (1989)


2. Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain (2007)

Mob Rules and Last in Line, most of Iron Maidens are also good.

Rust In Peace by Megadeth is pretty awesome. Actually, all Megadeth covers rule.