Today's favourite album cover?

[Mellotron]

nuff said.

Cheesy and cheap looking photoshopped photo of a band who haven't got an original idea between them?

Living in the late 90s (possibly the worst era for music, ever, EVER) and still believing they are anything more than a glorified pub band.

 

[Kosh]

Actually, just to shock those who insist I'm only aware of music from the late 60s and early 70s... check these two contemp. beasts out... One hailing from Brighton I believe... I own em both on double gatefold naturally..

Oh yes... I give you Astra and Diagonal...

 

[Taybha]

 

[Kosh]

Well, I feel sick... Gonna have to remedy that I'm afraid... with this...

YouTube - Rainbow - Stargazer (long studio version)

ahh ahahahaa hahahaha ahahahahah ahahahahh hahahahahah a ahahahahah (draws breath) ha ahaha aha ahah ha ha ha ahahahahahah

High noon,
Oh I'd sell my soul for water,
Nine years' worth,
Of breakin' my back,
There's no sun in the shadow of the wizard,
See how he glides,
Why he's lighter than air,
Oh I see his face...

Where is your star?
Is it far, Is it far, is it far?
When do we leave?
I believe, yes, I believe...

In the heat and the rain,
With whips and chains,
Just to see him fly,
So many die...

We built a tower of stone,
With our flesh and our bone,
Just to see him fly,
Don't know why,
Now where do we go?

Hot wind moving fast across the desert,
We feel that our time has arrived,
The world spins while we put his wing together,
A tower of stone to take him straight to the sky,
Oh I see his face...

Where is your star?
It is far, is it far, is it far?
When do we leave? yeah
We believe, we believe...

All eyes see the figure of the wizard,
As he climbs to the top of the world,
No sound as he falls instead of rising,
Time standing still...
Then there's blood on the sand!
Oh I see his face...

Where was your star?
Was it far, was it far?
When did we leave?
We believed, we believed, we believed...

In the heat and rain,
With whips and chains,
To see him fly,
So many died,
We built a tower of stone,
With out flesh and bone,
To see him fly,
But why?

With all our chains,
Did so many die,
Just, just to see him fly,
Look at my flesh and bone...
Now look, look, look, look, look at this tower of stone...

I see a rainbow rising,
Look there, on the horizon,
And I'm coming home,
Coming home, I'm coming home...

Time is standing still,
He gave me back my will,
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Going home,
I'm going home,
My eyes are bleeding,
And my heart is weeping,
We still hope, we still hope, oh
Take me back,
He gave me back my will,
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Going home,
I'm going home,
My eyes are bleeding,
And my heart is weeping,
We still hope, we still hope, oh...

Take me back, take me back,
Back to my home, oh, oh...

 

[Simster]

Edit: Got to say that Blur's "Parkilfe" album cover is pretty iconic.

 

[jakarta]

.
But my all time favourite is

An image I painstakinly painted onto the back of my denim jacket in my dormatory, took weeks to do and it looked sensational!

Good old NSC, only here would you get people who have even heard of The Deep Fix (great name for a band, pity the music was so crap) and as for Gong - I was playing Fohat Digs Holes in Space from Camembert Electrique just last night!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

 

[Lush]

New a-ha album out today.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

For someone I'm missing today and who will forever be, 'Always Somewhere...'

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Well, I feel sick... Gonna have to remedy that I'm afraid... with this...

YouTube - Rainbow - Stargazer (long studio version)

ahh ahahahaa hahahaha ahahahahah ahahahahh hahahahahah a ahahahahah (draws breath) ha ahaha aha ahah ha ha ha ahahahahahah

High noon,
Oh I'd sell my soul for water,
Nine years' worth,
Of breakin' my back,
There's no sun in the shadow of the wizard,
See how he glides,
Why he's lighter than air,
Oh I see his face...

Where is your star?
Is it far, Is it far, is it far?
When do we leave?
I believe, yes, I believe...

In the heat and the rain,
With whips and chains,
Just to see him fly,
So many die...

We built a tower of stone,
With our flesh and our bone,
Just to see him fly,
Don't know why,
Now where do we go?

Hot wind moving fast across the desert,
We feel that our time has arrived,
The world spins while we put his wing together,
A tower of stone to take him straight to the sky,
Oh I see his face...

Where is your star?
It is far, is it far, is it far?
When do we leave? yeah
We believe, we believe...

All eyes see the figure of the wizard,
As he climbs to the top of the world,
No sound as he falls instead of rising,
Time standing still...
Then there's blood on the sand!
Oh I see his face...

Where was your star?
Was it far, was it far?
When did we leave?
We believed, we believed, we believed...

In the heat and rain,
With whips and chains,
To see him fly,
So many died,
We built a tower of stone,
With out flesh and bone,
To see him fly,
But why?

With all our chains,
Did so many die,
Just, just to see him fly,
Look at my flesh and bone...
Now look, look, look, look, look at this tower of stone...

I see a rainbow rising,
Look there, on the horizon,
And I'm coming home,
Coming home, I'm coming home...

Time is standing still,
He gave me back my will,
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Going home,
I'm going home,
My eyes are bleeding,
And my heart is weeping,
We still hope, we still hope, oh
Take me back,
He gave me back my will,
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Going home,
I'm going home,
My eyes are bleeding,
And my heart is weeping,
We still hope, we still hope, oh...

Take me back, take me back,
Back to my home, oh, oh...

Did you catch them when they played The Brighton Centre in about '84?

Stunning!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

f*** me! how much more pretentious Art Student could they be?

I remember the equivalent of Nerds in the late 80's having Marillion graphics painted on their gas mask case satchels. I thought they were planks then and obviously I still do.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Now Hendrix...

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Some lovely homo-eroticism going on there

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[defrocked priest]

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

 

[Dave the OAP]

 

[Smithy]

 

[Smithy]

This is my favourite album cover for an album released this year:

 

[NMH]

Now Hendrix...

Jimi actually, and surprisingly for his regard for sex, hated that album cover.

Odd, that.