Iconic album covers

**White trash** · 19th November 2009, 12:52

When was the last one you remember?

What got me thinking was an ad on TV for the new Wolfmother album and it reminded me very much of the seventies style of album cover art. Unfortunately due to CD poularity I reckon we've lost alot of the strength the art used to have. There's lots of good cover art, but I don't think it's as instantly recognizable as it once was.

Where's the next "Electric Lady land" or "Dark Side Of The Moon" or (dare I say it?) Tubular Bells going to come from?

**Winston001** · 19th November 2009, 12:58

Well said. I used to love the cover art on LPs and wanted to cover a wall with them.

Tales From Topographic Oceans

Tarkus

Led Zeppelin 4

Brain Salad Surgery

Deep Purple In Rock

Whos Next......

**vifferman** · 19th November 2009, 13:04

"The Magician's Birthday" - Uriah Heap. Of all the albums I had, that had the best artwork.

There was also lotsa artwork inside - it was one of those folding album covers.
It also had some great music on it.

There maybe a return to that, with some CDs having books of artwork included, Sure, it's smaller, but some of it's pretty good, like Margaret Urlich's "Second Nature", or the 'book' that "Pulse" came in. The trouble with these CDs/DVDs is that they (and the trendyoid cardboard covers) don't friggin fit in any of my CD/DVD racks!

**KiwiGs** · 19th November 2009, 13:04

10 characters

**EgliHonda** · 19th November 2009, 13:11

Always like these ones for some reason...

**R6_kid:Me** · 19th November 2009, 13:11

Tool - 10,000 days

**KiwiGs** · 19th November 2009, 13:14

couple more...

**SPORK** · 19th November 2009, 13:14

need I say more

edit: reminds me of when the Ian Curtis graffiti on Wallace St was cleaned off/painted over, and then an idiot DJ from ZM painted it back on without even knowing who he was.