Your favorite album cover...


Album cover art ain't what it used to be.
I always admired the R. Crumb Big Brother cover.
Sticky Fingers is worth framing.
Hated Beggars Banquet and the White Album covers.
Neon Parks was fun, the Last Record Album and Weasels Ripped my Flesh come to mind.
London Calling is my favorite, a take off of an old Elvis album cover that captured the spirited intensity the band was producing at the time.
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Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Radiohead -KID A
This is one of my favorite covers:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lets-Get-Acquainted-With-Jazz-for-People-Who-Hate-Jazz-Jimmy-Rowles-Audio-CD...

I found my sealed copy in an antique store in the bottom cabinet of an old Victrola wind up 78 record player.

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Walter Rossi - Six Strings Nine Lives
...is a pretty awesome cover - full scale foldout of Rossi's Gibson LP.
The iconic Led Zeppelin One. 

"Axe Victim" - BeBop Deluxe

"Live At The Fillmore East" - The Allman Brothers (also iconic)

"Revolver" - The Beatles

"Rockin' The Fillmore" - Humble Pie




Blind Faith ;-) ?

But seriously, Dylans' Nashville Skyline. Talk about spitting the counter-culture's eye!

Definitely- The Who, Who's next. Everyone remember them emptying their bladders?

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Spirit- Twelve dreams of Dr. Sardonicus.
City Boy- Dinner at the Ritz.
Beatles- the meat cover.

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I've always liked Tijuana Moods by Charlie Mingus.
A two dollar Tijuana whore leaning up against a beautiful jukebox.
METROPOLIS - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Music By Giorgio Moroder. The cover features "Maria" the robot in grand, color, Futurist style, covering both the front and and back of the outside gatefold. Arresting and beautiful.
Really?
Like Cheap Thrills, Disraeli Gears, and Sgt. Pepper?
Nice try........
Captain Beyond/ Sufficiently Breathless and Hawkwind/ Hall of the Mountain Grill. Favorite music also...
Most of the time in my memory Delicate Sound of Thunder, but I can't really tell if it's my favorite album cover of all times. Sid's covers are great as well.
Mothers of Invention had some good ones, not the least of which were We're Only in it for the Money and Lumpy Gravy, the Sgt. Peppers take off and the band in drag, respectively.
I like Mark Ryden's work in general very much, in particular the cover art for Bigger Better Faster More by Three Non Blondes. He also did MJ's Dangerous and RHCP's One Hot Minute album covers. More please, Mr. Ryden.
Led Zeppelin's creepy Houses of the Holy!
Creepy Black Sabbath's self titled!

But the best has to be The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Beatles Butcher Cover. Mammas and Pappas with Mamma sitting on a toilet. Lynyrd Skynyrd Flame cover. All banned of course.
Abraxas, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Barboletta, Disraeli Gears, Physical Graffiti, Eat a Peach, Question of Balance, Santana 3, But Seriously Folks
1972 First album by a group called "Mom's Apple Pie". Google it and you'll see why!
Bill Evans and Jim Hall, "Undercurrent" (artist's photo of woman swimming, taken from below - I mention this because I've seen reissues which are different).
I second Maiden's CD artwork, but unlike the above post, I've been into Maiden for three plus decades.
Stones Let it Bleed
Beatles Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin Presence
Clash London Calling
The Who The Who Sell Out
Frank Zappa What's Got into you Suzy Creamcheese?