To pick one single Cover; is Impossible, plain and simple. No Dark Side of the Moon? Heres proof: https://youtu.be/QARxQsSJo58. Robin Trowers BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Come on people ? Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (front & back), Black Sabbath-Heaven & Hell, Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You, Slade-Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Bad Company-Run with the Pack, Bad Company-Straight Shooter, Frank Zappa-Joes Garage, Roger Glover & Friends-Butterfly Ball, to name a few, Greenslade Time and Tide T Rex electric warrior. POINT BLANK. Troublegum Paul McCartney Press to Play. We would keep at it until it sounded live or alive. E.L. what a joke! How come the Destroyer album from Kiss or Love Gun for that matter didnt make the cut? [3] How can you have a list of the 100 best album covers and NOT feature Whatever. Wishbone Ashs Argus and Uriah Heeps Demons and Wizards should be here. greatest hits lp. Last edited on 15 December 2022, at 09:49, "New Zealand album certifications The Cars Greatest Hits", "British album certifications Cars Cars Greatest Hits", "American album certifications The Cars Greatest Hits", Recording Industry Association of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greatest_Hits_(The_Cars_album)&oldid=1127547538, This page was last edited on 15 December 2022, at 09:49. by The Cars Audio CD. From indelible images to perfect portraits, the 100 greatest album covers provoke and awe just as much as the contents inside. Blown Pig,pigs head,headphones,sunglasses,a smoke,hilarious. Adam created some of the most iconic visuals in musical history. Hows that for a diverse list? Agree! What Ho! This cover is Roger Dean at his most vivid. in the 1970s. No Never Mind The Bollocks Besides that, Id argue that there are a few more albums and artists definitely in 100s not mentioned: Electric Ladyland (Hendrix), The Trooper (Iron Maiden), Mothership (Led Zeppelin), American Idiot (Green Day), The Eminem Show (Eminem), All Eyez on me (2Pac), and Straight Outta Compton(NWA), Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park), Enema of the State (Blink182), Seal II (Seal), Queen II (Queen), God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols), Destroyer (Kiss), The 20/20 Experience (J. Timberlake), The End (Black Eyed Peas), Demon Days (Gorillaz) jeez, I could make my own list. ELP Tarkus. The cover of The Ramones 1976 self-titled debut is pure punk rock in all its black-and-white grittiness. Vagabonds of the Western World Thin Lizzy The Allman Brothers Band: Eat a Peach (1971) As the urban legend goes, the surviving members of The Allman Brothers Band named this album Eat A Peach and put a peach truck on the cover (more accurately, art for the side of a peach crate) to commemorate the death of guitar player Duane Allman. ScorpionsBlackout, Rainbow : Rising As he rapped on Wu-Tangs Dog Sh_t,: Got meals but still grill that old good welfare cheese.. I would have included the Crown of Creation cover by Jefferson Airlplane and the Beatles Yesterday and Today Butcher cover. They always were.. Gotta go with just about any of the 30 or so covers Warhol designed, You missed oneAlice Coopers Schools Out album cover was one of the cleverest ever designed. I also remember Theres the Rub as a cover that led me to buy the album. Yet no iconic Electric Warrior or Slider covers. $11.55. The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour. Zeppelin III. or endless summer, their comp from 74 that put them back on top of the world! Some of Eltons greatest album covers were a bit splashy, others a little somber. I think Supertramps Crime of the Century belongs here, more than Breakfast in America. We started out wanting to be electric and straight-ahead rock, and it kind of turned into an artier kind of thing, Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes once said of the way the band fine-tuned its sound in the early days. Neil Young on the beach. Jimi Hendrix EXP -Axis Bold As Love VH 4-LIFE!! The cover was memorably defaced by Bowie himself decades later. It sounds contradictory that you could work on something for 12 hours to capture spontaneity,guitarist Elliot Easton said, but there you go. Patto Hold Your Fire It was banned for decades and should really have been here. Def Maybe by Oasis is a great cover and photoshame it didnt make it. B.H. There are a lot great suggestions, but my list would have included Blind Faith, The Who By Numbers, Alice Coopers Schools Out, Iron Maiden Killers, Dio, Iggy Pop Raw Power, Ted Nugent Cat Scratch Fever, Leon Russell Live, Cream Wheels of Fire. Where are any of those incredible Yes covers like Yessongs? Disturbed has some rather good album covers (e.g. A masterpiece! Kate Bush Lionheart No Uriah Heep? 3 on the Top 200 (The Cars went no further than No. Its not the original Ramones co Disappointed but not surprised to see no Iron Maiden or Megadeth covers in there. hilarious drawing of a bunch of hairy guys supposed to be the beach boys, i think, tho i have no idea who is who! VAN HALEN VAN HALEN OR 1984 SHOULD HAVE SURELY MADE THE LIST. Two of the most innovative album covers of all time. Another Hipgnosis job, the famous album cover for XTCs Go 2 boasts a dense block of typed copy that taunts and messes with the album buyers head. YES RELAYER my favourite! Great album, great cover. Blue Cheers Outsideinside fascinated me as a youngster, checking out my cousins music. Its probably responsible for more teenage boys wanting to join the high school band and more trumpet sales than any other single event. On an album that made a mad dash through the whole of pop history, Nick Lowe pictured himself in a bunch of different guises, from rockabilly hoodlum to sensitive balladeer (there were different pics on the US and UK versions), all with tongue firmly in cheek. Where is Fleetwood Macs Mystery to Me cover??? They probably dont know the inside of the sleeves! Its Walter Carlos, not Wendy! : The Doors, the Rolling Stones, Hendrix, the Beatles & More! Steppenwolf: 7 .), as Hawkes sci-fi synth arpeggios and Elliott Eastons squealing guitar leads leap out of the mix. The Rolling Stones probably couldnt beat the Beatles for a psychedelic album in 1967, but they arguably had the cooler album cover, the first 3D sleeve in rock. Desk Graffiti , Girls Panties and All. How could you leave out the Blind Faith cover Your email address will not be published. But, album covers are another thing, and I dont think that every single shit the Beatles ever took needs to be lionized as genius. Bassist-singer Orr had died in the interim, a huge loss, but in so many ways, the Cars sound was pristinely preserved. Just to name a few. Id suggest the cover with the red/yellow profile picture of Hendrix which was used in North America. these are the top 100?What about Jimi HendrixElectric Ladylandor. Next time shoot for 250 and you,d still better prepare for some flack. No Stratosphere Check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLNeSbtVN0, you neglected the all time best album cover ever (at least for college age males such as myself in the early 70s): http://www.sakisgouzonis.com. Blue Oyster Cultss 1st LP This list is so lame! Its got to make the top 100 easily . Hope to see him when he comes to the US and Canada next month and in Dec, too. A rawer demo version of Just What I Needed a song Ocasek apparently wrote in the basement of a commune he was living in broke the Cars in the first place when Boston radio started playing it in 1977. Then came Black Sabbath. It was an art-school friend of Jimmy Pages who created this mythic cover by superimposing the bandmembers over a famous shot of WWI German fighter pilot the Red Baron and his crew. . See all customer images Top reviews. friday music vinyl. Fear and Surreal apprehension in an English Country Garden. Some good covers in there but all subjective and hard to disconnect with the music the covers represent. I do like the Beatles but unfortunately they are rammed down peoples throats. J.D. Playing Possum Carly Simon One of many great Stiff Records album covers, this caught Ian Durys personality and stood in stark contrast to the elaborate sleeves on the market at that time. Bridge of Sighs Robin Trower Ya know people today dont even understand the concept of an album cover. When you walked into a record store, you could see this album clear across the room. A lot of bands re-form, do stuff, and theyre crap. Scorpions Lovedrive Dream Weaver was a neat cover also. Agree that there are many Grateful Dead album covers that are better than those in the list. Glad to see the original Electric Ladyland cover. As the band often claimed, fewer people would have bought the albums if theyd put themselves on the covers. . Signed, An OLD rocker, Todd Rundgren Something/Anything? Dylans Highway 61 Revisited belongs Self Portrait doesnt. This item: The Cars - Greatest Hits. Also Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies snakeskin wallet cover or the Schools Out School desk cover one of these should be there. And not just because she is nude!!! jethro tull a passion play. Black Moses by Isaac Hayes! Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous ELO-Discovery, anything by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, or Megadeth, Huey Lewis & the News-Sports (since Born To Run made the list), Police-pick an album cover, KISS-many to choose from, RATT-Out Of The Cellar, INXS-Kick, Duran Duran-Rio, Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik, David Lee Roth-Skyscraper, Scorpions-pick an album cover, Quiet Riot-Metal Health, and a couple hundred others that I cant think of at the moment. How about some love for the greatest live album ever recorded? However; In the end, such Lists are Tough choices, Luckilly! It was kinda like not about good times at all. H.S. As in any list it is a daunting task because its all subjective. Be Good To Yourself by Man Jimmy Jimmy has the experimental edge of the records Ocasek was producing for artists like Bad Brains, Suicide, and Romeo Void. 17 LP Record Lot! ELO Out of the Blue Savoy Brown,Outside Looking in.. My opinion the Best Cover art ever, Be Bop Deluxe Axe Victim and Sunburst Finish Why never name the covers artists? would probably add some Scorpions, Iron Maiden (Powerslave/Aces high), Zappa, Axis:Bold As Love. And, Guitars that destroyed the world. Consequently where is Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells? Others missing There were so many great covers that could replace all of these, in my opinion! TOUGH CHOICES! If you look past the Fab Four walking across the zebra crossing you will see a white VW Beetle,. Twenty-four years after their previous album, the Cars reconvened in 2011 for what would be their final one. J.D. Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha. Arriving one year after his milestone album The Payback, Brown delivered the double-album Hell, which called out societal ills both on record and on the elaborately illustrated cover. Jethro Tull Stand Up Golden Earring Moontan, and one of an early Klaus Doldinger Passport Cover! . Ok. Yes, the big return to pop, Ocasek mused at the time. Since Miles Davis Bitches Brew sounded like no other previous jazz albums, it couldnt look like one either. The first single from the Cars 1984 LP, Heartbeat City, helmed by producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Def Leppard), You Might Think was another immediate smash, with Ocasek turning creepy obsession into MTV bubblegum. You forgot Alrune Rods album Alrune Rod http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3109/cover_17659102009.jpg, Freddie Hubbard Hub Tones Bogus list, how in the world could they not include any grateful dead covers ???? Santana Lotus Everything in the cover, from the sepia tone photo, to the clothes to the typography was the antithesis of the sixties aesthetic and announced a new music rooted in the past. U2 Achtung Baby Iconic is a great word to describe that album cover. Any artist who dares to look this terrifying on the cover of their first album deserves all the platinum success they get. Bad Company Straight Shooter While the album made an instant star out of Springsteen, the cover did the same for E Street Bands sax man Clarence Clemons. Looking for more? No Peter Saville or Vaughan Oliver works? I like the list, but my personal Favourite covers include Kevin Coyne, millionaires and teddy bears, Ian Dury, new boots and panties, jungle brothers, done by the forces of nature, Julian cope, dark orgasm, beck, morning phase, Peaches, fatherfucker, van Morrison, astral weeks and the john Lee Hooker and canned heat collaboration. Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors. Everybody since has been influenced by their music and creative style. , And the one that Im Pictured holding in my Profile Photo: Not one Moody Blues album cover.unfrickinbelievable!!! Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells. Overnight Sensation by Frank Zappa Croquet Anyone? I still like that first Grateful Dead album cover too! And it was a good thing they did. Interesting! Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Not even one of the first 5 Roxy Music albums or Enos Another Green World or Here Come The Warm Jets. There are better Zeppelin covers, and I would think at least 1 from the Moody Blues would be on here! Frank Zappa wrapped his skewering of hippie culture Were Only In It for the Money in an equally vicious parody of the famous Sgt. Misplaced Childhood? Its the quintessential Ocasek combination: doom and gloom wrapped in a pop melody. Kraftwerk: Computer World Those are all iconic albums(or most of them anyway)but not necessarily iconic album covers. Agreed. Humble Pie Rock On. This shimmering image is undeniably beautiful, yet you never know just what it meansjust like their music. Not a terrible list, but Id have thought Weather Report Heavy Weather, would have somehow made that list. The Cars joked that they shouldve called their astonishingly tight 1978 self-titled debut The Cars Greatest Hits, for good reason, and they kept rolling out precision-tuned new models throughout the Eighties. The reason? We try to be precise and tight, but that doesnt make our music stiff or calculated. My way of songwriting even if it seems overly obsessed with form and structure is just as emotional to me as soul music may be to someone else. E.L. The White Album is a good cover, but come on, man, its a blank page. This article on a 2000s compilation album is a stub. The band chose to include one new song with the release, Tonight She Comes, a quietly contagious synth stomper that Ocasek had been planning to keep for himself. Lot there ive got, lot that arent there that should be, and a lot that shouldnt be there. Not a single Cannibal Corpse cover. Ocasek provided a small clue to the songs unsettling mood when he once said of the title, The O stands for obnoxious. H.S. 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