Top 5 Favorite Album Covers Of All-Time

I love reading what Storm wrote about that photo it after he took it. He said it was something like, 'ordinary cow, ordinary feild, ordinary camera, extraordinary photo'.

It's just very pastoral Floyd.



Edited by Any Colour You Like - May 24 2010 at 20:39

1. DSOTM
2. Blue Lambency Downward, Kayo Dot
3. AHM
4. Australasia, Pelican
5. Fragile

So many other good ones though...





Edited by Any Colour You Like - May 24 2010 at 20:24

Genesis - Foxtrot, Yes - Fragile, King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King, Pink Floyd - Animals, Rush - Hemispheres

i actually like this cover more than the original. very good album too (not as good as the original though)

I feel like I should give an updated list, as though I still enjoy the ones I listed previously I can't say they're my top 5 anymore.






Krautrock has so many great album covers it was hard to choose just five overall.


Edited by SaltyJon - April 26 2010 at 00:51

BaldJean wrote: SaltyJon wrote: BaldJean wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Ah, alright.  The cover's confusing, then, it looks like it says Amon Düül II there.  I still haven't checked out any of the British AD albums (or the original AD, for that matter).  I feel like I need to. Thanks for the clarification! the "original" Amon Düül never recorded an album; they split up into two halves, one of which simply kept the name and the other named themselves  Amon Düül 2 Ah, to clarify I meant the one which kept the name and recorded several albums.  Paradieswärts Düül is the one I've thought about starting with, as it seems to be the one which people generally enjoy most of that group's albums. yes, a good start. don't start with "Psychedelic Underground"; it is a horrible album, but of enormous historic value. it was the first album by a German rock band, and it was so very bad that all the other bands around which had suffered from an inferiority complex were cured of it; they could hardly be worse than that

I'll probably check that one out eventually, both for completion's sake and because you've made me curious now.  

SaltyJon wrote: BaldJean wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Ah, alright.  The cover's confusing, then, it looks like it says Amon Düül II there.  I still haven't checked out any of the British AD albums (or the original AD, for that matter).  I feel like I need to. Thanks for the clarification! the "original" Amon Düül never recorded an album; they split up into two halves, one of which simply kept the name and the other named themselves  Amon Düül 2 Ah, to clarify I meant the one which kept the name and recorded several albums.  Paradieswärts Düül is the one I've thought about starting with, as it seems to be the one which people generally enjoy most of that group's albums.

yes, a good start. don't start with "Psychedelic Underground"; it is a horrible album, but of enormous historic value. it was the first album by a German rock band, and it was so very bad that all the other bands around which had suffered from an inferiority complex were cured of it; they could hardly be worse than that

Dunno if these are my top 5 of all-time but here's 5 of my favs.

SaltyJon wrote: Ah, alright.  The cover's confusing, then, it looks like it says Amon Düül II there.  I still haven't checked out any of the British AD albums (or the original AD, for that matter).  I feel like I need to. Thanks for the clarification!

the "original" Amon Düül never recorded an album; they split up into two halves, one of which simply kept the name and the other named themselves  Amon Düül 2

SaltyJon wrote: BaldJean wrote: to really appreciate the last one you have to have to have the vinyl, which is a gimmick cover with which you can create many different covers (at least 64) by folding a number of little triangles in the middle this way and that. .name and title of the original vinyl only appear on the back Which ADII album is this?  I don't know it by the cover and it's not listed on their PA page anywhere.

you were looking in the wrong place. this is not an Amon Düül 2 album, it is an album by the British Amon Düül founded by Amon Düül 2 members John Weinzierl and Dave Anderson, "Hawk Meets Penguin". so look under Amon Düül from country United Kingdom to find it. the album is quite in the vein of the early Amon Düül 2 albums; lots of improvisaton and only onwe short composed part in the first track. the second and third track blend into each other on CD; they had been on different sides of the vinyl because the first track is only a little more than 12 minutes long, which would hae been a bit short. I like the album a lot; it is the best the British Amon Düül made, maybe on par with "Die Lösung", their 3rd album, which is more conventional but gets an extra bonus because of the presence of the late Robert Calvert (who has a cameo appearance on their 4th album too, which is probably the latest thing ever recorded with him)


Edited by BaldJean - April 25 2010 at 23:38