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Tsevir Leirbag 
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 20:16 |
What are your 10 favourite covers/sleeve designs? (Top 5 is also accepted  )*
My favourites (in no particular order):
And an eleventh...
* This is NOT a favourite album thread
Edited by ProGR72 - July 27 2009 at 16:18
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 22:12 |
5. Wobbler  4: King Crimson  3: Emerson Lake & Palmer  2: Atoll  1: Den Za Den 
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 22:17 |
 Because my beautiful wife did the original artwork throughout, and it's an interesting cover. (Although no where near as interesting as the one above!
Edited by Valdez - July 18 2009 at 22:19
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https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/new-2025-broken-hearts-troubled-minds
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 22:37 |
 clarke2001 wrote:
5. Wobbler
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 This one's beautiful
Edited by ProGR72 - July 18 2009 at 22:38
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
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friso
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 05:23 |
With a beautifull inner sleeve
Even Nice if yo have the lp with the second halve of this drawing on the back
Same as the one above
Very nice cover, the music was a bit of a dissapointment though
Might not be very progressive
A flying teapot
So elegant..
ooowh nice
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 06:06 |
FOABP - Porcupine Tree, Very Simple, but that makes it a great one. 
Genesis - Nursery Cryme 
WYWH - Pink Floyd, the shaking machine hands are a really nice cover, the original cover with the flaming man isn't very special though, IMO. 
Tool - Lateralus, the different pages of the booklet make you look deeper into the man's body, very original. 
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink 
King Crimson - ITCOTCK, very frightening. 
VDGG - Pawn Hearts 
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage 
Radiohead - Ok Computer, an image that perfectly fits with the sound of the album.
But, the best cover of all-time must be: 
Rush - Permanent Waves
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 06:24 |
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 07:18 |
Stuck to PA albums only but could have put 10 Barney Bubbles RIP. 
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Pekka
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 07:33 |
Here are the first that come to mind, can't put them in order though:
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Posted: July 20 2009 at 19:00 |
I'm a fan of some of the above, but I think these capture the mood of the albums beautifully:
 Explosions In The Sky - 'All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone'
 Maudlin Of The Well - 'Part The Second'
 Efterklang - 'Parades'
 Godspeed you Black Emperor! - 'Yanqui U.X.O.'
 Neurosis - 'Times Of Grace'
That'll do for now...
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: July 20 2009 at 19:33 |
this has been done before but id like to add one not many people see  animal collective - merriweather post pavilion inner cd cover (underneith the trippy one which is cool too but we've all seen that)
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moshkito
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Posted: July 21 2009 at 09:15 |
Hi,
You need to get the "Album Cover Book" and then the Roger Dean book ... both have the greatest collection of album covers ever ...
Hint: You must get the 12x12 book ... so you can see these in their glory.
Missing on this list of awesome covers:
Amon Duul 2 - Wolf City
Capability Brown - Voice
Flash - (the first album and the second album ... too bad the music wasn't as nice looking!)
Pink Floyd - Meddle -- Ummagumma is the perfect MC Escher cover too!
In general, Hipgnosis has the greatest history of covers. However that is also saying that there were not good covers out of San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury days, including the artists around the Fillmore scene.
Another set of artists are the ones around Frank Zappa ... excellent covers all around.
You can really see the change for paint/draw to the mixed media and eventually the computer graphics ... it is an impressive collection of art ... and should be "art history" of the 20th century!
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Posted: July 23 2009 at 18:58 |
Wow, amazing choice keiser willhelm! I hadn't seen that before.
 Battle Circus - The Half-Light Symphony (Not just favorite cover but quite possibly favorite album.)  Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days  Dream Theater - Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory  Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Creepy and kinda frightening. Or maybe it's just because I followed the story that went along with it. Either way it's cool.)  Neutral Milk Hotel - I n The Aeroplane Over The Sea (This cover stuck with me long before I ever heard the album.) |
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Posted: July 23 2009 at 19:15 |
...I'm too lazy to post 10, so I'll just post my favorite 
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10 favourite album covers/sleeve designs
