I think a good photo is what you want for an album. Clash-London Calling for example. I love all the Pixies stuff, Doolittle especially. In fact all 4AD artwork is exemplary.

What other album covers do you think stand on their own as great art?

Sex Pistols' Nevermind the Bollocks is legendary (for good reasons), and The Smiths' Meat Is Murder has become quite iconic. The cover of the Baader-Meinhof album is hilarious.

NOFX - Heavy petting zoo always makes me giggle.

RATM - S/t just works so well with the cd.

Peter Saville did some excellent work with New Order - Brotherhood and Republic perhaps being the high watermark.

Which was the one with Stephen Morris on the front with the tracing paper?

Stone Roses - Stone Roses is great

Tweez - it was Low-Life. You could take the Morris photo out and put the three other band member shots in. Hours of fun, perhaps.

Troublegum by Therapy is ace. The cover is a naked man smeared in mud poking his head into a dustbin.* When you open the cd, the disc looks like a bin lid. You take it out, and you have the point of view of the guy on the cover: A nice picture of bloody rags, used needles, condoms, dodgy porn and a dead rat. :D

* Garbage pail, for our cousins across the pond.

The cover of Six by Mansun refers to all the inspirations behind the album, and is a jolly nice painting in its own right. ;)

Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company (R.Crumb)

I pretty much like everything Storm Thorgerson has done: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Audioslave etc

I used to look at this for hours when I was a kid...

Look with the one-eyed trouser snake?

Bungeeboy spouted:
Stone Roses - Stone Roses is great

For album art? Really?

All the "godspeed you! black emperor" records sport fantastic origional sleave art.

thesmileyone spouted:
Look with the one-eyed trouser snake?

No, I wasn't old enough to masturbate in 1985, but I've made up for it since.
Another good sleeve...

i like the pushead art work.

World Of Weird spouted:.
Another good sleeve...

One I've actually got! Ever seen Tantamount To Treason - Michael Nesmith and The Second National Band? It even comes with a recipe for home brew on the back.

The "Set Fire To Flames" artwork is usually bleak as hell, which is always a good thing :)

I agree with Stoke Fields about Godspeed artwork, some really original stuff, the same with Fly Pan Am, and A Silver Mt Zion...hell all the artists on the Constellation label have great artwork.

I liked the pure by three colours red album cover so much I had it tattooed on my arm. :D

(Im at work at the mo Ill will post the pic later)

Spinal Tap - Smell The Glove

none more black :)) :haha::haha:

I Really Like Pink Floyds Division Bell Cover

And Hundread Reasons Ideas Above Out Station As Well As The Superb RATM Selftitled Cover And Their Covers For Renegades

Even Though Its Not A Photo, I Think Laterlus Is By Far The Best Cover :D

Shame this one got banned...think it's ace!

XTC, Go To.

For those that haven't seen it, the sleeve is covered with text explaining how the record company is trying to subvert you into buying the album.