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Hey, people. I just wanted to make a thread about album covers and it's mainly about deciding the best of them ever made.

This thread is like The Best Of 00's thread, but the difference is that the goal here is to decide;

• Best Album Covers Of All time
• Best Album Covers Of The Last Decade (2000-2009)
• Best Album Covers Of 2009

Apart from that, you could post your personal favorites list as in the other thread, the quality of your choices doesn't matter. Maybe we could make a "Top 100" list as a community. Yeah, go on and make your list.

This is neat. I am reserving this space for a list at a later date.

I'll expand my list later, but for my list of all time, this -has- to be on there:

I like these two Converge album covers:

Two that come to mind:



Uyama Hiroto - A Son Of The Sun

and



World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland

This one's cool:

Not the best covers of all time, but a few that I like (and they're also good listenin'):

I know it is kind of weird that I like this cover, but anyway, I like this cover. It's not really great though, not a cover to show up in the Top 100 but it's still one of my favorites.

My favorite band is Shining these days, they execute doom and other black metal elements very good in their songs.

In alphabetical order by artist name: "Feels" by Animal Collective, "Atomizer" by Big Black, "Super æ" by Boredoms, "Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum" by Deathspell Omega, "Upgrade & Afterlife" by Gastr Del Sol, "Yanqui U.X.O." by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, "Hypermagic Mountain" by Lightning Bolt, "Wind's Poem" by Mount Eerie, "I Blame You" by Obits, "Slanted & Enchanted" by Pavement, "Sings Reign Rebuilder" by Set Fire to Flames, "Spiderland" by Slint, "Music is Rotted One Note" by Squarepusher, "Kollaps Tradixionales" by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, "2370894" by VSnares.

This is a machine for making cows.

Sgt. Peppers is probably still my all-time favorite.
But Ten, Pearl Jam's first album, has always appealed to me because the cover folds out to become more awesome. Cover and unfolded below.

rennaT wrote:<Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms cover here>

Oh, how could I forget? That too.

Dawn of the Black Hearts by Mayhem.

I take all mine back. This is awesome.

Brainbabe wrote:

Holy shit. You are the best.

987654321 wrote:Dawn of the Black Hearts by Mayhem.

That's the pic where the drummer suicided, right? Anyway, great cover.

'Hooz Edit: Image removed.

Yeah, that's an actual photo. We've commented on this image before, but I'll let you off with a warning. None of that here, please.

rennaT wrote:[image]
This is a machine for making cows.

Ugh, damn it Tanner, you always beat me at these sort of things :/.

This is from 2009; I'll look through my albums later to find more. I think this one's creative.



As for best album cover of the decade, I'd have to go with Hours by Funeral For A Friend. It doesn't look like much on its own, but the album leaflet had a different image of the girl on each page dressed as a school girl from different decades. In the 2000 image (the front cover) she's wearing a bullet-proof vest... At the time there were quite a few people in England who were making their kids wear such things to school after a chain of stabbings.

Ew, the fray

Amadeus wrote:Ew, the fray

Ganteka, you lack both the social graces and the musical pedigree to get away with that sort of comment. I would encourage you not to be a dickhead.

Ew, the fray

xVxCrushloaderusSupremusxVx wrote:Ew, the fray

Better, but still meh.

rennaT wrote:

Amadeus wrote:Ew, the fray

Ganteka, you lack both the social graces and the musical pedigree to get away with that sort of comment. I would encourage you not to be a dickhead.

...not to mention this is a topic about album covers not artists. I'm not a big The Fray fan myself.

This is the image from a different angle; I think it's pretty creative as I said before:



:)