It contains 20 singles and notable album tracks in chronological order of their original release. Ok. Every fan did an immediate double-take when they saw Bowies act of self-sabotage here. This style of art would be associated with psychedelic music from here on out, though Crumb was a bit anti-hippie himself. Some Ramones fans will get very angry! I ended up with Sticky Fingers Warhol, Weasels Ripped MF Neon Parks, Disreali Gears Martin Sharp etc. Thin Lizzy Black Rose Shake It Up peaked at Number Two on the charts. Are you saying she wasnt naked? It contains 20 singles and notable album tracks in chronological order of their original release. Paul Simon Graceland You included the original/European cover Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland, which Hendrix hated. The Moody Blues had at least six or seven albums that were better than most everything on this list! Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies. The Cars had already released five albums and solidified their legacy by 1985 when Elektra released their Greatest Hits LP. Cars - Complete Greatest Hits. All the Mastodon covers are missing Basically, youre going to cover more bases if you dont get stuck on insisting on including 5 Beatles albums. Agree! Or Jagged Little Pill? Although it has different artwork, this 20-track set of the Cars' biggest hits is exactly the same, right down to the same running order, as Rhino's Complete Greatest Hits package from 2002, which means it has everything the casual fan might want, including the perfect radio singles "Just What I Needed," "My Best Friend's Girl," "You're All I've Got Tonight," and "Shake It Up." All the Mountain covers are missing It was their party; you could join if they let you. Erm, didnt the Velvet Underground release White Light White Heat (the black album!) What about Its only a Movie, with the free Banger inside?! But, album covers are another thing, and I dont think that every single shit the Beatles ever took needs to be lionized as genius. No wonder they had Questions in The House. Nowhere is that more evident than Free. Over hand claps and laser-beam synths, Ocasek delivers quick-tongued lyrics about time travel and stepping outside your dark world. The track sounds playful, serious, and sonically impeccable all at once, not to mention deeply catchy. Savoy Brown Street corner talking. Check out Complete Greatest Hits by The Cars on Amazon Music. Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues should be on the list. Many of Alperts albums are excellent. Sorry Guv, the first Platinum album was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly. I still like that first Grateful Dead album cover too! I would love to laugh in their faces. finally someone brought up Argus by Wishbone Ash. Your having a laughNot all but some of the sleeves chosen very poor in artistic design. yessongs, blind faith, bustin` out. was just the opposite of the grinning pic that everybody expected to see, and the first of many carry-overs from the Beatles art-school days. J.D. We started out wanting to be electric and straight-ahead rock, and it kind of turned into an artier kind of thing, Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes once said of the way the band fine-tuned its sound in the early days. Shakespears Sister Hormonally Yours . Its got to make the top 100 easily . Heres proof: https://youtu.be/QARxQsSJo58. Deep Purple in Rock. I do see Wish You Were Here is listed. Though Steely Dan was long associated with Los Angeles, the cover for Pretzel Logic (actually shot at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street) looks, feels, and tastes like New York. The cover for Ten Out Of 10 remains one of Hipgnosis fiendishly clever 10cc covers and one of their more overlooked albums. Albums like ABBA Greatest Hit Volume One and Arrival are very classic look or Super Trouper could be easily picked. Tbh a fair few of these are not even close to being top 500 never mind 100. Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account, Do you know any background info about this album? They had some of the best album cover art The mysterious image on 1989s cover was an easy one for her fans to copy, and they did. Im not proud of the lyrics to Shake It Up, Ocasek later said. Greatest Hits was originally released in 1985. If Horses wasnt enough to make Patti Smith an instant icon of bohemian cool, the Robert Mapplethorpe album cover certainly was. What about including some Budgie album covers. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Everything in the cover, from the sepia tone photo, to the clothes to the typography was the antithesis of the sixties aesthetic and announced a new music rooted in the past. T Rex electric warrior. Most of the albums on this list are chosen for anything other than their striking artwork. CD size artwork is just too small. Blue Oyster Cultss 1st LP Playing Possum Carly Simon Great graphics on that one. Nazareth,,,any of them but especially No Mean City ! dennis wilson holding the mikestand from his crotch into the audience with that look on his face. This is not even close to 100 of the greatest covers. It doesnt make much sense , we always mix cover art with album content, or we like a cover with no special art because it reflects so well album content that we love so much, or a period, or because she reminds a girlfirend so is this meaningful? Arriving one year after his milestone album The Payback, Brown delivered the double-album Hell, which called out societal ills both on record and on the elaborately illustrated cover. Not so with John Coltranes Blue Train, whose cool album cover photo and mood lighting marked it as a work to take seriously. Discover the worst album covers of all time. BOTH ARE DIAMOND CERTIFIED ALBUMS AND WERE MADE BY THE BEST AMERICAN HARD ROCK BAND IN HISTORY!! But I dont think the model on the Whipped Cream cover is wearing a dress though. How can Steppenwolf 7 not be in the list? The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour. Lot there ive got, lot that arent there that should be, and a lot that shouldnt be there. Kraftwerk It doesnt really matter what sort of adjective you want to put it in front of the words album cover, because lists of this sort of are always incredibly subjective. Charles Lloyd Geeta, I miss LP vinyl artwork. Bandolier belongs on this list. . Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak . Why in the world did Humble Pie get a bunch of policemen to form a human pyramid? Why never name the covers artists? Two of the most innovative album covers of all time. Looking In- Savoy Brown. Beth Orton Trailer Park I chose LPs from musicians that I liked that were done by fine artists of note and were interesting to look at. Example: ANYTHING by either Storm Thorgerson, Hipgnosis or Roger Dean as an album cover deserves consideration. As always, his daughter Ninas name was hidden a few times in this famous album cover. And their album absolutely free as well. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Oh, I forgot to note that all covers done by Neon Park for all Little Feat albums. Howard Finsters uniquely Southern folk art was a perfect match for Talking Heads back-to-roots album (and for R.E.M.s Reckoning around the same time). Crimsons first album cover is on the list. Axis:Bold As Love- Jimi Hendrix Experience And, Guitars that destroyed the world. Most people dont even notice the details of this cover at first. The Argus cover stuck with me through all these years. BTOs Not Fragile Led Zeppelin III. Start the wiki Similar Albums Greatest Hits Thompson Twins For her debut solo album, Courtney Love took the Cars concept a step further by enlisting the younger, edgier pin-up artist (known professionally as Olivia) to paint her. Begin shaking it up . Agree with many entries (Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon and Nirvanas Nevermind are among the most iconic). Lists like this are always subjective! I know this isnt crap. Peter Blakes pop-art assemblage on Sgt. Although it has different artwork, this 20-track set of the Cars' biggest hits is exactly the same, right down to the same running order, as Rhino's Complete Greatest Hits package from 2002, which means it has everything the casual fan might want, including the perfect radio singles "Just What I Needed," "My Best Friend's Girl," "You're All I've . No Computerworld This article on a 2000s compilation album is a stub. (Its hard to imagine Sgt. Jeff Bridges got nothing on the original The Dude, the effortlessly cool and quixotic album cover character that appears on Quincy Jones genre-blending solo debut. Scorpions fly to the rainbow. Really???? It looked right to me and how I felt, said Jones. The graphic photo of Bushwick Bill at the hospital was as unflinching as their music. Exactly! The cover for the British prog-rock outfit Familys 1971 album is a multi-foldout extravaganza and features an early computer graphic, adding the individual band photos to each other until they become the pretty blur at top right. Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. Joe Walsh- But Seriously Folks is a definite must for this list .. No Iron Maiden or KISS at all???!!! Read some good books about them. The band won Video of the Year for "You Might Think" at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. Sorry. Nice to see a few prog rock albums in there this time(other than just Dark Side of the Moon that is). The Rolling Stones always had cool, attention-grabbing album covers. Nazareth: Hair of The Dog But its so cheerful that you still have to love it. Blue Train by John Coltrane was designed by Reid Miles with a photograph by Francis Wolfe. It could have just as easily been Born in the USA, with its Annie Liebovitz photo and Bruce in a white t-shirt and blue jeans in front of an American flag. Not much of a list! Im sure you could probably add another 100 albums too. Goats Head Soup The Rolling Stones, cd packaging is a different size as well. Genesis-Nursery Cryme. Where is the magnificant album of Blind Faith. But, I would rank that, Sgt Peppers and Revolver over the White Album both in terms of the quality and impression of the Album covers and the significance of the albums in the history of popular music as well as with their musical content. No they are not. in the 1970s. Forgoing any blinged-out tropes, the former Wu-Tang member put a doctored version of his welfare ID card on the front cover of his solo debut, as both a reminder of where he came from and to destigmatize being on public assistance. Roger Deans fantasy paintings became as much a part of prog-rock iconography as the music. Im Not the One was a deep cut from Shake It Up, never a single, but it became so beloved by fans, it was included on the Cars 1985 Greatest Hits. Arguably the coolest 60s album cover of all, the art for Big Brother & the Holding Companys sophomore record was also most peoples introduction to the style of underground comic art perfected by R. Crumb. Another Hipgnosis job, the famous album cover for XTCs Go 2 boasts a dense block of typed copy that taunts and messes with the album buyers head. The album and the visitors have to be on it. The Smiths The Smiths, Thats not the original Ramones cover -_-, Brothers In Arms Dire Straits best cover Kiss: Destroyer The Cars The Cars Format: Audio CD 1,316 ratings $1513 See all 20 formats and editions Streaming Unlimited MP3 $8.99 Listen with our Free App Audio CD $15.13 55 Used from $2.98 14 New from $10.00 5 Collectible from $15.00 Vinyl $69.99 5 Used from $69.99 3 New from $114.98 11 Collectible from $38.88 Audio, Cassette You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Or any Molly Hatchet cover? 5 bids. , The Groundhogs Who Will Save The World? The Beatles Rubber Soul,Sgt Pepper Led Zeppelin 3, In Through the Outdoor Deep Purple in Rock, Stormbringer Jethro Tull Stand Up, Thick As A Brick Peter Gabriel 2, Joy Division Closer, Cocteau Twins Treasure, Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Therapy? Iron Maiden :Somewhere in Time pixar vinyl. Emmanuel by Anuel AA??? just because of his name, the rarity, and therefore their collectibility Neil Young Harvest or After the Goldrush Bleeker & McDougal-Fred Neil No DSOTM? Also, try to get images from original LP and not the CD. or endless summer, their comp from 74 that put them back on top of the world! Violent Femmes Hallowed Ground is another. Tubular Bells should be on here.. Not a bad list, however I found it hard to believe neither Lil Boat 2 or Nuthin 2 Prove by Lil Yachty made the cut. Not a bad selection,but how could you leave out Axis Bold as love or several of the Moody Blues lp covers? Some of my favorite album covers are not mainstream. Their debut album pictured Oasis in the worlds coolest crash pad, showing every band of the era how it ought to be living. Can Ege Bamyasi The cool album cover for The Miracles 1961 debut encapsulates the old-school showbiz that Motown would soon lead the world away from. The Beatles influence cannot be measured. Both used a few of Frank Frazetta art. If you had any serious knowledge about The Beatles and their influence on the entire world with fashion, language, music and more, you would not ask this question. I thought the list was overall pretty good. Flipper Gone Fishin. If The Beatles could do a double White Album, the Bee Gees could do a fuzzy red one. Some of Eltons greatest album covers were a bit splashy, others a little somber. Im getting annoyed now. $3.65 shipping. Justin Bieber Shares Heartfelt Message to Frank Ocean After Coachella Set My bad. VH 4-LIFE!! Like all goth-influenced artists, Chelsea Wolfe has a strong sense of the dramatic. He was beginning his relationship with Porizkova at the time, and the songs yearning melody and sweet lyrics of devotion reflect a sense of romantic bliss anyone could envy. Bow Wow Wow should be off. We assume the mess on the backside happened after someone pressed start.. The reason? Ah, the days when bands had the money to carry out their wildest ideas. Thanks for letting us know, Timothy! Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.com. This Was by Jethro Tull, Here is what you left out: for me. Sly & The Family Stones Theres a Riot Going On (Even though My copy is the one with Title printed on the front.) . Those who have chosen the list looked at books, as the themselves state. How can you have a list of the 100 best album covers and NOT feature Timed to accompany a possible 2016 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (an event that unfortunately did not happen), Moving in Stereo: The Best of the Cars is the first high-profile Cars compilation since 2002, when The Complete Greatest Hits appeared (it also would see release under the title Definitive).Where the 2002 collection marched chronologically through the singles, opening . He dropped Beatitude in early 1983, in the lag time between Shake It Up and Heartbeat City. In this case, the interlocking geometric shapes are a visual answer to the albums innovative time signatures. Everything here is at once brutal and elegant: A massive three-chord guitar riff and a hammering keyboard line vie for the listeners attention; a second guitar jangles in the distance; the bass pops cheerfully in support; Ocasek sings staccato, drilling lines, not wasting a single syllable; backing vocals flare softly behind it all. That came to mind immediately. ACCEPT Balls to the Wall, MESSAGE FROM BOOKS AND DREAMS ? Where is Fleetwood Macs Mystery to Me cover??? Select a genre and a sub-genre, let the winners of the fight decide which artists should be included in that genre/sub-genre and THEN pick the top 100 album covers for each might be a way to be a bit more fair all around, but it would still leave so many deserving visual artists out of the final mix it would be pointless. However; In the end, such Lists are Tough choices, Luckilly! Some good covers in there but all subjective and hard to disconnect with the music the covers represent. I was hoping to see the Jackson 5 Skywriter LP. Get it as soon as Tuesday, Apr 11. Santana debut (lion) Since people were already using LPs to store and clean marijuana, the Airplane gave you a cardboard box holder for it, along with the pot, or at least a realistic-looking photo. Little Feat Waiting for Columbus Killer artwork, killer shows. Images in this review Reviews with images. This iconic album cover said it all about coy mid-60s sexuality, bachelor-pad style. Rush 2112. And a great album too. Tubular Bells to name but three. Everything is subjective but whipped cream, santana 1 and Blind Faith are iconic. And how many other bands numbered their albums before the white album? Moody Blues In Search Of The Lost Chord, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Tales Of The Unexpected, YOU MISSED A LOT RICHIE BLACKMORES RAINBOW. Nick Haeffner The Great Indoors Have a mono and a stereo copy. KISS DESTROYER, KISS LOVE GUN, KISS HOTTER THAN HELL, NINE INCH NAILS DOWNWARD SPIRAL, NIRVANA IN UTERO, METALLICA LOAD, NAZARETH HAIR OF THE DOG, AC/DC HIGHWAY TO HELL, DANZIG DEMONSWEATLIVE, QUEEN NEWS OF THE WORLD. and Textured Goldprint rather than Aqualung. you have quite ignored the rest of the world. Peppers famous album changed record covers forever, and kept many of us occupied for weeks trying to identify everybody at the ceremony. The Cars joked that they should've called their astonishingly tight 1978 self-titled debut The Cars' Greatest Hits, for . We try to be precise and tight, but that doesnt make our music stiff or calculated. My way of songwriting even if it seems overly obsessed with form and structure is just as emotional to me as soul music may be to someone else. E.L. Steely Dans Aja cover is a mysterious minimalist image with a striking slash of red and white fabric on black background, partial profile of an Asian woman and brush stroke typography of the title which suggests Japanese calligraphy, all of which is a play on Aja/Asia. The most extra terrestrial capture of El Zim casting further questions on just what planet did Bob arrive from? Sigur Ros all. YES RELAYER my favourite! An iconic cover and album . Led Zeppelin 111, Grand Funk E Pluribus Funk a nd Survivors, Alice Cooper Schools Out and Billion Dollar Babies, A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Pretty iconic. Only 3 left in stock - order soon. Complete Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by American rock band the Cars, released on February 19, 2002, by Elektra Records and Rhino Records. Animal Notes by Crack the Sky, 2nd Street by Back Street Crawler, Warrior on the Edge of Time by Hawkwind? My list is identical. Also with no picture. [3] No Never Mind The Bollocks I agree! Who cares??? So many Moodies covers are way better than a lot here, even albums I love! Juicy Lucy? Very old list, These covers are awesome, we got some covers too at RobLunaMusic.com. You should know better to dare put together a list like this and call it Greatest.no one is ever happy or appreciates the work put into it. Twenty-four years after their previous album, the Cars reconvened in 2011 for what would be their final one. Who made this list obviously never saw a Uriah jeep album cover smh, Missing from list: One has to consider The Prodigy Fat of the land surely? arc of a diver? Cant believe some of what they entered.but I think Styxs Equinox & Grand Illusion along with Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here And Kansass Audio Visions, Song For America, & Leftoverature were neat album artwork/photography. No Showtime Animal Tracks by The Animaks What about the Moms Apple Pie album? The design-centric 4AD label did some of its finest work for the Cocteau Twins album covers. . The British cover of the Bonzo Dog Band with King Kong, and their other early albums. And Neil Young On the Beach! should be in the top 10 I think Supertramps Crime of the Century belongs here, more than Breakfast in America. Ian Dury New Boots and Panties Id suggest more from Psychedelia, say the double live album by the Grateful Dead, I think one of the best ever, or the first Cream album, that came at a time that there looks and styles were very influential, and Ginger Bakers leather flight jacket set the style on fire for decades! and Dont Crust that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers? Dukes of Stratosphere 25 o clock. I would certainly add The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper with album artwork by Norman Rockwell. Rick Griffin artwork. As he rapped on Wu-Tangs Dog Sh_t,: Got meals but still grill that old good welfare cheese.. Like a proto XXL Freshman Class, the three alternate covers of A Tribe Call Quests classic third album Midnight Marauders featured a collage of 71 hip-hop personalities from Afrika Bambaataa to the Beastie Boys, like the Sgt Pepper of hip-hop. J.D. Obviously, killary can count on one more fools vote for the of the government, by the government, for the government system that has and will forever more forget the wants and needs of its own citizens. Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by American rock band the Cars, released on October 25, 1985, by Elektra Records. Wings Band On The Run is missing.Really, it IS! The one for Dont Shoot Me Im Only the Piano Player was just right, drawing from his soon-to-be-legendary love of movies. Meanwhile, his debut allowed him to look like the crazed hillbilly everyones parents feared he was, captured in mid-song at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida. Well, I dont agree. Are you kidding me? He gave this 1979 single, about a free-spirited girl who wont settle down, to Benjamin Orr to sing. The ubiquitous Hipgnosis team outdid itself with this ultra-clever 10cc sleeve, which is not only inspired by one of the songs (the phone sex-themed Dont Hang Up) but is full of hidden gags, with the same people turning up in each of the four main photos. Columbia Records art director John Berg was responsible for iconic covers like Bob Dylans Greatest Hits and Bruce Springsteens Born To Run, but this was likely one of his more expensive: They built an entire set, complete with costumed extras, to create Monks arresting album cover. Sweet Moments With The Blue Velvet Band for the Eric Von Schmidt designed board game on the INSIDE of the fold out cover. ELOs Out of the Blue come on, nobody noticed? Its Walter Carlos, not Wendy! Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream and Other Delights. That was my song about what the good times in rock & roll really mean, instead of what theyre supposed to be, he once said. My thoughts exactly. Gentle Giant In A Glass House, Great album covers but would have to add One of those web features where many of those 100 pioneering sleeve designs are are merely chosen to provoke controversy (or ridicule). No Steppenwolf? Adam created some of the most iconic visuals in musical history. Tommy James & The Shondells Crimson and Clover and Jethro Tulls, Broadsword And The Beast. I was glad to see one Roger Dean work, but how about his cover for Osibisas debut LP? these are the top 100?What about Jimi HendrixElectric Ladylandor. All of Marvin Gayes cool album covers are works of art in a way, but Ernie Barness Sugar Shack, which graces the cover of I Want You, is the only one currently hanging in a museum. ScorpionsBlackout, Rainbow : Rising Foghat Rock n Roll Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day by Man if only for the fantastic origami map of Wales. L.A. suburbia meets Rene Magritte. One really missing is Deep Purple In rock. Wishbone Ash Argus , The Crazy World of Arthur Brown I bring you to burn . Theres plenty of punk attitude on Joe Jacksons album cover for Im the Man, where he portrays the hero of the title song a sleazy character wholl sell you anything as long as you dont really need it. Bob Dylans Self Portrait is among the 100 best covers of all time? Since Miles Davis Bitches Brew sounded like no other previous jazz albums, it couldnt look like one either. They probably dont know the inside of the sleeves! Next time shoot for 250 and you,d still better prepare for some flack. It is possibly the most pornographic album cover ever, but subtle enough to circulate for a long time before someone noticed and it received new censored artwork. Cant wait to see Roger, the voice and co-founder of Supertramp, on his tour this summer in Europe. It was kinda like not about good times at all. H.S. Benjamin Orr tells the title character I need you so (a line originally sung as fortissimo) amid a rush of cryptic imagery (Purple hum, assorted cards/Razor lights youll bring/All to prove youre on the move. ELP Tarkus. Wishbone Ashs Argus and Uriah Heeps Demons and Wizards should be here. The Who The Who Sell Out Robin Trowers BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Come on people ? And also, Eels, Daisie of the galaxy, Gong, Flying Teapot and Camembert Electrique, Zappa Hot Rats, Christophe, Pas vu pas pris (the kitchiest one ! Roger Dean along with Hipgnosis and maybe a few others is one of the most noteworthy album cover artists who did some of the most recognizable art work especially for progressive rock bands. Eno Here come the warm jets. The Cars Greatest Hits Vinyl LP Record Album Elektra 1985. Its fair that the cover was a little mysterious since the songs revealed everything else. You dont necessarily get a thing of rare beauty when you load a cover with as many fold-out panels and elaborate paintings as an 11-inch disc can hold, but Santana certainly did in this case, thanks to famed Japanese designer Tadanori Yokoo. Walking a razor-thin line between exploitation and cultural commentary was the Geto Boys modus operandi, and nothing exemplified this dynamic more than their famous 1991 album cover art. Deceptive Bends and Kansas Left Overture to name a few.. He fittingly put his coolest album cover on Yes most creative album, an icy winterscape that illuminates the albums war-and-peace theme. Well, some of the things on that first album that we thought were a little slick, we toned down on the second, like on the background vocals, Ocasek said. I totally Agree with the one that Requested Crime Of The Century rather than Breakfast In America of Supertramps Covers. The Who Quadrophenia Benjamin Orr sang the lounge-lizardy vocals, but Ocasek (who wrote it with keyboardist Greg Hawkes, which made it the only song on the Cars debut not solely written by Ocasek) took over in live performances after Orrs death. B.H. VHS or . Cat Power You Are Free. Shake It Up is the Cars finest New Wave dance-party jam, a simple, irresistible tune gliding along on a bloopy keyboard line. nearly 1/2 of these covers dont deserve to be on this lista lot of much better covers arent even represented here, from bands represented here and from lesser known bands. . Its hard to choose ONLY 100! I met the Cars and told them, The bands in the medicine chest, and then on a bar of soap, and Rics a fly, Stein said, and one of them said, Why dont we all just play on a turd in the toilet bowl? That was the prevailing attitude. J.D. 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