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bucky1960 Feb 29 2012 at 10:54 AM	what album/cd cover is your favorite and what emotions does it create when listening to the music? mine is wichita falls. i guess the black and white photo, the sky, and the car with its lights on gives the feeling of an impending storm while listening to the title track.
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naut Feb 19 2013 at 8:23 AM	Hejira
SEABOB Feb 02 2013 at 4:11 PM	Quicksilver Messenger Service ’Happy Tails’ true classic album jacket with man on horseback riding off into the sunset with
bluepno Feb 02 2013 at 11:28 AM	Lonely Woman...MJQ
barley Jan 31 2013 at 7:21 AM	Bill Evans- Undercurrent.
healthy_scratch Jan 28 2013 at 9:35 AM	My all time favourite album cover is Miles in The Sky from Miles himself. Not only is it a great transitional album often overlooked by so many of his other fine transitional moments to Electric. The original Led Zeppelin III with the spinning wheel was pretty nifty back in the LP days. Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold As Love is another fine moment in album cover art. For Pat I like 2 of his trio covers in Question and Answer along with its painting on the inside flap and the Day Trip and Tokyo Day Trip. -HS
john Jan 20 2013 at 12:14 PM	Seriously - I remember seeing an album quite a few years ago from an obscure heavy metal band that had attached to the front cover a bag of puke. Obviously it was sealed and looked as though it was made from clear vegetable soup (lots of diced carrots, that sort of thing) but certainly notable/notorious. Cheers John
HAMBONE Jan 18 2013 at 3:07 PM	I agree Oystein. There was something about listening to an album for the first time while reading the liner notes and enjoying the artwork that just can’t be replaced. It was the whole music experience. Ah, the good ol’ days...
Oystein Jan 18 2013 at 3:13 AM	...but cover art isn`t what it used to be. Downloaded cover pictures get smaller and eyesight declines. Not a good combo... Remember the days of leaning back and reading the liner notes while listening to a brand new LP? A good thing is that the old hand-held vinyls are coming back.
seadog Jan 16 2013 at 2:31 PM	Thanks bluepno! Thoroughly agree with your choice of Whipped Cream and Other Delights. Definitely OOh-la-la! Also get a kick from your reference to the great Cole Porter’s Blossom Dearie chestnut.
Roll Tide Jan 16 2013 at 9:04 AM	Cheech and Chong’s "Big Bambu" (1972) "manufactured to look like a giant rolling paper package, and originally contained a giant rolling paper with the record." I remember getting the album a couple years before having knowledge of rolling paper and had no idea!
thehague Jan 15 2013 at 7:20 PM	Hambone, imho all of the covers mentioned are still okay today, except for the BF, which was and is truly perverted in my view. And I’m no puritan. Like John I like the original EL.
HAMBONE Jan 15 2013 at 12:05 PM	Forgive my prior sloppy keyboarding
HAMBONE Jan 14 2013 at 12:23 PM	John and the hague, I think you can tale EL and the original cover of Blind Faith and Bitches Brew and they would all fall under "P" for perverse in the album wrack!
thehague Jan 12 2013 at 10:14 PM	John, you pervert you, lol.
john Jan 12 2013 at 7:53 AM	I always feel drawn, in some strange way, to the cover of Electric Ladyland. Cheers John
wtk Jan 11 2013 at 2:15 PM	Roxy Music always had great album covers.
bluepno Jan 11 2013 at 10:40 AM	Hear! Hear! very nice...seadog. The OOh La La guy smiles.
seadog Jan 10 2013 at 9:04 AM	An entire part of the popular music experience that has passed into the ether. Just another thinning of what should be a much broader listening experience than the compressed, limited, sonically cleansed, altered and completely detached from any communal conversation past time that listening to music has become. Album covers hinted a glimpse as to what was enclosed musically, added a sense of what the artist was about, as well as something physical to delve into with curiosity, and for folks of a certain age and demographic a place to clean your weed during that first inquisitive spin on the turntable. I’ve always thought that some of the best ones stepped out of the genre to add something to the conversation, either fun, controversial, some sort of bonus or just weird. Favorites: Sticky Fingers with the original zipper of course, The White Album - four great photos, awesome poster with all the lyrics, Thick as a Brick, Living in the Past, Rod Stewart’s Every Picture - tear off poster; Elvis Costello Armed Forces - limited edition Live at Hollywood High EP in the first release, Stevie Wonder’s SITKOL with bonus EP in first pressing, Jefferson Airplane’s Long John Silver folds into a 3D cigar box full of pot and Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief – not only a great cover but the infamous three sided album, all of them listed as “the other side”. My absolute all time favorite though is Alice Cooper’s Schools Out. The original that folded into a working 3D model of an old school desk. Flip up the top to be greeted by the LP wrapped in a pair of white lace girl’s panties! Pure creative genius brilliantly capturing the spirit of adolescence in a record album.
Unity Village Idiot Jan 09 2013 at 7:24 PM	American Garage is one of my faves of the PMG catalog. King Crimson Discipline is a more general favorite.
Ian Jan 09 2013 at 4:24 PM	I love the cover art on the new Donald Fagen album "Sunken Condos"
bootybandit Jan 09 2013 at 12:27 PM	Way, Way too many Great album covers to mention (BTW, this generation doesn’t know, or seem to care, what they’re missing). The Short list would be ’It’s a Beautiful Day’ - Self-titled, ’Crosby, Stills, Nash’ - Self-titled, ’Pat Metheny Group’ - Self-titled, and’Close to the Edge’ - Yes. Each a very special album/cover for me; representing special times in my life. The memories are indelible. Peace!
SEABOB Jan 05 2013 at 3:47 PM	Moddy Blues all of there early works To Our Childrens Children,
Oystein Jan 03 2013 at 4:39 AM	Deep Purple - In Rock. Pink Floyd - Dark Side... PMG - Group (white)
cdr9 Dec 31 2012 at 2:38 PM	Earth, Wind and Fire’s "Alln All" Egyptian Great Pyramid cover is a favorite and PMG’Ss "Speaking of Now" cover.
bluepno Dec 31 2012 at 9:54 AM	The Court of the Crimson King...Aqualung...White Album(inserts)...Thick as a Brick(newspaper)...Exile on Main St. (w/postcards)...Velvet Underground & Nico...Eno , Before and After Science (w/ the four watercolours in a portfolio folder...Woodstock...Whipped Cream and Other Delights...A Wizard A True Star...
foxesfred Dec 30 2012 at 11:46 PM	The cover for Brubeck’s Time Out.Then move onto Getz’s Bossa Nova albums- Getz/Gilberto-Getz/Byrd-Jazz Samba, and Getz/Alemeinda
blisterfree Dec 30 2012 at 7:39 PM	Frank Zappa’s Grand Wazoo always fascinated me as a kid, the notion of elevating musical notes to the power of wartime implements, to be hurled self-riteously from trombones and tubas, thus fending off the British Invasion, or perhaps the Spanish Inquisition, so the Mayans might live to work on their calendar another day... or something.
thehague Dec 30 2012 at 4:40 PM	Roger Dean’s ’Yes’ covers always amazed me.
DSOP Dec 29 2012 at 6:21 PM	For all you fans of "As Falls Wichita...", my trio recorded a different version of it on our new record. There’s a link on my home page at www.paulmarangoni.com.
mario toni Mar 10 2012 at 12:03 PM	@tiny_tim yeah, ohio players covers rule! who could forget them! ;)) pat’s covers: bright size life, wichita, watercolors. lyle first album.
scroller Mar 09 2012 at 11:01 AM	Earth Wind & Fire always had great album covers
bobhgolfs Mar 06 2012 at 9:04 AM	Monk’s Underground ...... Check it out.
roel Mar 05 2012 at 1:32 PM	Anybody knows the beautiful art by James Marsh for the TALK TALK catalogue. All excellent covers (singles,cd’s)
Dazedcat Mar 05 2012 at 10:20 AM	More! Wynton Marsalis: "J Mood", Pink Floyd: "Darkside of the Moon" and Return to Forever "Romantic Warrior".
bluepno Mar 04 2012 at 6:57 PM	correction 19th century.
bluepno Mar 04 2012 at 11:57 AM	Ohh La La , The Faces...the 18thc. actor with manipulable face. Selling England by the Pound, the album cover is a painting by Betty Swanwick called The Dream. Herbie Hancock Sextant and Crossings is the same illustrator as Van Morrison’s Hard Nose the Highway.Each are most excellent albums.
bucky1960 Mar 03 2012 at 9:36 PM	the Jethro Tull album covers of Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses lend a feeling of autum. Storm Watch and Beasty are both cool. Of all the covers that are of artisitic quality are the Yes covers from Roger Dean. He also did others from groups like Badger. are older covers better than current covers?
bluepno Mar 03 2012 at 4:30 PM	Thick as a Brick...St Cleves Chronicle. Close To The Edge. In The Court of the Crimson King. Tarkus. Eno, Before and After Science came with a green portfolio of four beautiful watercolor engravings.Woodstock (the original foldout).Genesis Nursery Cryme.ELP, Brain Salad Surgery. Hipgnosis made some great ones...Then the ECM 70’s covers.
Domitille Mar 03 2012 at 9:19 AM	Hum... I love too "As falls wichita, So falls wichita Falls", and One Quiet Night’s cover.
Dazedcat Mar 03 2012 at 12:05 AM	Other favorite album covers would include Who’s Next, Sticky Fingers, All The Young Dudes, the PMG "White Album" and Bitches Brew.
HAMBONE Mar 02 2012 at 12:11 PM	Great question. Favorite Pat album cover would be his first, Bright Size Life. There’s just something about that lonely tree in the sunset that reminds me of Missouri, and I’m sure that was Pat’s message.But favorite all-time album cover would be The Rolling Stones original Satanic Majesties Request. That holographic cover was a real mindblower to a 12 year old!
bucky1960 Mar 02 2012 at 11:25 AM	i guess i first was asking about PM covers but, let’s open this wider to others. Yes had great covers drawn by Roger Dean. these covers took you to other world places as did the music at times.
-m Mar 02 2012 at 9:10 AM	The Beatles: "White Album"
sunship Mar 02 2012 at 8:56 AM	"Imaginary Day" - I dug the whole decoding message thing going on from the cover to the inside. And there was something about "Watercolors" that made me feel good. What is that image anyway? A boat on the ocean in the summer?
Dazedcat Mar 01 2012 at 1:40 PM	American Garage. Lo-Fi glory with Airstreams :-)
tiny_tim Mar 01 2012 at 11:08 AM	How many remember those ’Ohio Players’ album covers!!!
bluepno Mar 01 2012 at 8:10 AM	I like the photo collages starting with Travels, then Still Life,talking, Letter From Home and Secret Story. It has to be in LP format to appreciate the nuances of the photos. each tells a little story in visual hints and clues.
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naut
Feb 19 2013
at 8:23 AM

Hejira

SEABOB
Feb 02 2013
at 4:11 PM

Quicksilver Messenger Service ’Happy Tails’ true classic album jacket with man on horseback riding off into the sunset with

bluepno
Feb 02 2013
at 11:28 AM

Lonely Woman...MJQ

barley
Jan 31 2013
at 7:21 AM

Bill Evans- Undercurrent.

healthy_scratch
Jan 28 2013
at 9:35 AM

My all time favourite album cover is Miles in The Sky from Miles himself. Not only is it a great transitional album often overlooked by so many of his other fine transitional moments to Electric. The original Led Zeppelin III with the spinning wheel was pretty nifty back in the LP days. Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold As Love is another fine moment in album cover art. For Pat I like 2 of his trio covers in Question and Answer along with its painting on the inside flap and the Day Trip and Tokyo Day Trip. -HS

john
Jan 20 2013
at 12:14 PM

Seriously - I remember seeing an album quite a few years ago from an obscure heavy metal band that had attached to the front cover a bag of puke. Obviously it was sealed and looked as though it was made from clear vegetable soup (lots of diced carrots, that sort of thing) but certainly notable/notorious. Cheers John

HAMBONE
Jan 18 2013
at 3:07 PM

I agree Oystein. There was something about listening to an album for the first time while reading the liner notes and enjoying the artwork that just can’t be replaced. It was the whole music experience. Ah, the good ol’ days...

Oystein
Jan 18 2013
at 3:13 AM

...but cover art isn`t what it used to be. Downloaded cover pictures get smaller and eyesight declines. Not a good combo... Remember the days of leaning back and reading the liner notes while listening to a brand new LP? A good thing is that the old hand-held vinyls are coming back.

seadog
Jan 16 2013
at 2:31 PM

Thanks bluepno! Thoroughly agree with your choice of Whipped Cream and Other Delights. Definitely OOh-la-la! Also get a kick from your reference to the great Cole Porter’s Blossom Dearie chestnut.

Roll Tide
Jan 16 2013
at 9:04 AM

Cheech and Chong’s "Big Bambu" (1972) "manufactured to look like a giant rolling paper package, and originally contained a giant rolling paper with the record." I remember getting the album a couple years before having knowledge of rolling paper and had no idea!

thehague
Jan 15 2013
at 7:20 PM

Hambone, imho all of the covers mentioned are still okay today, except for the BF, which was and is truly perverted in my view. And I’m no puritan. Like John I like the original EL.

HAMBONE
Jan 15 2013
at 12:05 PM

Forgive my prior sloppy keyboarding

HAMBONE
Jan 14 2013
at 12:23 PM

John and the hague, I think you can tale EL and the original cover of Blind Faith and Bitches Brew and they would all fall under "P" for perverse in the album wrack!

thehague
Jan 12 2013
at 10:14 PM

John, you pervert you, lol.

john
Jan 12 2013
at 7:53 AM

I always feel drawn, in some strange way, to the cover of Electric Ladyland. Cheers John

wtk
Jan 11 2013
at 2:15 PM

Roxy Music always had great album covers.

bluepno
Jan 11 2013
at 10:40 AM

Hear! Hear! very nice...seadog. The OOh La La guy smiles.

seadog
Jan 10 2013
at 9:04 AM

An entire part of the popular music experience that has passed into the ether. Just another thinning of what should be a much broader listening experience than the compressed, limited, sonically cleansed, altered and completely detached from any communal conversation past time that listening to music has become. Album covers hinted a glimpse as to what was enclosed musically, added a sense of what the artist was about, as well as something physical to delve into with curiosity, and for folks of a certain age and demographic a place to clean your weed during that first inquisitive spin on the turntable. I’ve always thought that some of the best ones stepped out of the genre to add something to the conversation, either fun, controversial, some sort of bonus or just weird. Favorites: Sticky Fingers with the original zipper of course, The White Album - four great photos, awesome poster with all the lyrics, Thick as a Brick, Living in the Past, Rod Stewart’s Every Picture - tear off poster; Elvis Costello Armed Forces - limited edition Live at Hollywood High EP in the first release, Stevie Wonder’s SITKOL with bonus EP in first pressing, Jefferson Airplane’s Long John Silver folds into a 3D cigar box full of pot and Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief – not only a great cover but the infamous three sided album, all of them listed as “the other side”. My absolute all time favorite though is Alice Cooper’s Schools Out. The original that folded into a working 3D model of an old school desk. Flip up the top to be greeted by the LP wrapped in a pair of white lace girl’s panties! Pure creative genius brilliantly capturing the spirit of adolescence in a record album.

Unity Village Idiot
Jan 09 2013
at 7:24 PM

American Garage is one of my faves of the PMG catalog. King Crimson Discipline is a more general favorite.

Ian
Jan 09 2013
at 4:24 PM

I love the cover art on the new Donald Fagen album "Sunken Condos"

bootybandit
Jan 09 2013
at 12:27 PM

Way, Way too many Great album covers to mention (BTW, this generation doesn’t know, or seem to care, what they’re missing). The Short list would be ’It’s a Beautiful Day’ - Self-titled, ’Crosby, Stills, Nash’ - Self-titled, ’Pat Metheny Group’ - Self-titled, and’Close to the Edge’ - Yes. Each a very special album/cover for me; representing special times in my life. The memories are indelible. Peace!

SEABOB
Jan 05 2013
at 3:47 PM

Moddy Blues all of there early works To Our Childrens Children,

Oystein
Jan 03 2013
at 4:39 AM

Deep Purple - In Rock. Pink Floyd - Dark Side... PMG - Group (white)

cdr9
Dec 31 2012
at 2:38 PM

Earth, Wind and Fire’s "Alln All" Egyptian Great Pyramid cover is a favorite and PMG’Ss "Speaking of Now" cover.

bluepno
Dec 31 2012
at 9:54 AM

The Court of the Crimson King...Aqualung...White Album(inserts)...Thick as a Brick(newspaper)...Exile on Main St. (w/postcards)...Velvet Underground & Nico...Eno , Before and After Science (w/ the four watercolours in a portfolio folder...Woodstock...Whipped Cream and Other Delights...A Wizard A True Star...

foxesfred
Dec 30 2012
at 11:46 PM

The cover for Brubeck’s Time Out.Then move onto Getz’s Bossa Nova albums- Getz/Gilberto-Getz/Byrd-Jazz Samba, and Getz/Alemeinda

blisterfree
Dec 30 2012
at 7:39 PM

Frank Zappa’s Grand Wazoo always fascinated me as a kid, the notion of elevating musical notes to the power of wartime implements, to be hurled self-riteously from trombones and tubas, thus fending off the British Invasion, or perhaps the Spanish Inquisition, so the Mayans might live to work on their calendar another day... or something.

thehague
Dec 30 2012
at 4:40 PM

Roger Dean’s ’Yes’ covers always amazed me.

DSOP
Dec 29 2012
at 6:21 PM

For all you fans of "As Falls Wichita...", my trio recorded a different version of it on our new record. There’s a link on my home page at www.paulmarangoni.com.

mario toni
Mar 10 2012
at 12:03 PM

@tiny_tim yeah, ohio players covers rule! who could forget them! ;)) pat’s covers: bright size life, wichita, watercolors. lyle first album.

scroller
Mar 09 2012
at 11:01 AM

Earth Wind & Fire always had great album covers

bobhgolfs
Mar 06 2012
at 9:04 AM

Monk’s Underground ...... Check it out.

roel
Mar 05 2012
at 1:32 PM

Anybody knows the beautiful art by James Marsh for the TALK TALK catalogue. All excellent covers (singles,cd’s)

Dazedcat
Mar 05 2012
at 10:20 AM

More! Wynton Marsalis: "J Mood", Pink Floyd: "Darkside of the Moon" and Return to Forever "Romantic Warrior".

bluepno
Mar 04 2012
at 6:57 PM

correction 19th century.

bluepno
Mar 04 2012
at 11:57 AM

Ohh La La , The Faces...the 18thc. actor with manipulable face. Selling England by the Pound, the album cover is a painting by Betty Swanwick called The Dream. Herbie Hancock Sextant and Crossings is the same illustrator as Van Morrison’s Hard Nose the Highway.Each are most excellent albums.

bucky1960
Mar 03 2012
at 9:36 PM

the Jethro Tull album covers of Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses lend a feeling of autum. Storm Watch and Beasty are both cool. Of all the covers that are of artisitic quality are the Yes covers from Roger Dean. He also did others from groups like Badger. are older covers better than current covers?

bluepno
Mar 03 2012
at 4:30 PM

Thick as a Brick...St Cleves Chronicle. Close To The Edge. In The Court of the Crimson King. Tarkus. Eno, Before and After Science came with a green portfolio of four beautiful watercolor engravings.Woodstock (the original foldout).Genesis Nursery Cryme.ELP, Brain Salad Surgery. Hipgnosis made some great ones...Then the ECM 70’s covers.

Domitille
Mar 03 2012
at 9:19 AM

Hum... I love too "As falls wichita, So falls wichita Falls", and One Quiet Night’s cover.

Dazedcat
Mar 03 2012
at 12:05 AM

Other favorite album covers would include Who’s Next, Sticky Fingers, All The Young Dudes, the PMG "White Album" and Bitches Brew.

HAMBONE
Mar 02 2012
at 12:11 PM

Great question. Favorite Pat album cover would be his first, Bright Size Life. There’s just something about that lonely tree in the sunset that reminds me of Missouri, and I’m sure that was Pat’s message.But favorite all-time album cover would be The Rolling Stones original Satanic Majesties Request. That holographic cover was a real mindblower to a 12 year old!

bucky1960
Mar 02 2012
at 11:25 AM

i guess i first was asking about PM covers but, let’s open this wider to others. Yes had great covers drawn by Roger Dean. these covers took you to other world places as did the music at times.

-m
Mar 02 2012
at 9:10 AM

The Beatles: "White Album"

sunship
Mar 02 2012
at 8:56 AM

"Imaginary Day" - I dug the whole decoding message thing going on from the cover to the inside. And there was something about "Watercolors" that made me feel good. What is that image anyway? A boat on the ocean in the summer?

Dazedcat
Mar 01 2012
at 1:40 PM

American Garage. Lo-Fi glory with Airstreams :-)

tiny_tim
Mar 01 2012
at 11:08 AM

How many remember those ’Ohio Players’ album covers!!!

bluepno
Mar 01 2012
at 8:10 AM

I like the photo collages starting with Travels, then Still Life,talking, Letter From Home and Secret Story. It has to be in LP format to appreciate the nuances of the photos. each tells a little story in visual hints and clues.

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