Best album art

My first LP was Styx Paradise Theater. Oh man did the packaging set the mood, even before you lowered the stylus!

From the happy front cover...



Larger actual LP cover...
http://198.65.10.229/DID/Temp/Styx_PT_0.jpg


To the sad back cover...




The whole thing was just classy...






Colored artwork was embedded in the actual vinyl (B-Side)...



Just freggin' cool, IMO!

I've always been fond of this one, and the fine music inside.

Some I like. Bruce Dickinson, "The Chemical Wedding." Everything is by Blake, and he does a great song called "Jerusalem" that builds on Blake's poem of the same name.






Kansas' 3rd album, "Masque." Art is Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "Water."







My favorite Styx covers:






Inner sleeve art from Yes, "Close to the Edge." RIP Roger Dean!

One of my favorites of all time,

darn, was about to get REVOLVER in
oh well, i go with this one then

I'd say most of The Ohio Players' covers.. but I cant post any because they are NSFW.

A few more favorites...

The European cover for Blind Faith's album.

Can't show it here.

I always thought Tommy Shaw of Styx was one of the prettiest girls in any rock band of the eighties.

Seriously though, you guys have some great picks there. Styx and Journey bring back more school-days memories than any others. Thanks for the memories.

Some of my favorite Iron Maiden covers (and albums).













Some Crowbar, I always felt their covers complimented the music much of which concerns depression, adversity and the pain of loss.





And some great Sepultura covers

So many cool covers.

I always liked this..





and Blaskos cover always sticks out to me as well..

The Dead have always had the best album covers

(I won't put images up cuz I thot we weren't s'posed to show
other than our own or non-copyrighted)

http://www.livedownloads.com/labels/gd439460.jpg

https://www.google.ca/search?q=grateful+...mp;ved=0CBwQsAQ

Is that Frank Zappa at the far right of the Alice Cooper cover?

My dad had this one growing up. I probably looked at this album more than any other in that time period.





The Jedi Master

Love this one as well,

I'd definitely put here all early Marillion arts. Just some examples, there are many more.

I know it's a photograph vs. art (although it includes works of art) but I have to...



LOL (from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law)!...



Full...

For a minute I thought I was back at the Audiokarma forums. They have several threads like this hundreds of pages long.

woah, there is a blast from the past. My dad had a big 4 by 3 or similar size painting of this in his room, just the lady. Never knew it was from something. I always wanted it but it disappeared into the mists of time unfortunately.

http://www.rodneymatthews.com/recordcovers.htm

Artist for Magnum, Asia and several others

The only AC cover I see here has Groucho on the far right.

I guess that makes more sense, he just didn't look like Groucho to me without the glasses.

I think the wire rims may actually be there, but the
resolution is too low for them to show. I seem to recall
that Groucho appreciated that Cooper was basically
doing Vaudeville in a rock context, and they got
along. ...and would that be Chico on the far left?

One of my favorites. I guess the Nuge was into weaponry even back then.