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TristezaOrange · Post by **TristezaOrange** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:36 pm

It is more interesting posting the crap ones but there are some albums that make you want to buy them just to have the cover artwork.

Some of my favs:

XTC - Go 2

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Brian Wilson -SMiLE

The Sea and Cake - Oui

I'll return with more

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:39 pm

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:40 pm

Spinal Tap - Smell the glove

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:42 pm

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:48 pm

Any album cover featuring a photograph by Bob Carlos Clarke is cool.

take care,
McLilith

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:51 pm

The Zoviet-France 'Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music' double cassette. Moulded ceramic box, silk-screened flag/banner folded up inside, plus feathers collected from around the Sellafield nuclear plant.

... all of their packaging up to 1986 was handmade and exquisite.

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:59 pm

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:08 pm

the wooden box edition of Shinjuku Thief's 'Witch Hammer'/'Witch Hunter'/'Witch Haven' trilogy:

IMO, the Dorobo label has the most consistently excellent graphic design of any label I've seen.

http://home.mira.net/~dorobo/dorobo.html

(and the music is pretty amazing too).

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:29 pm

Alice Cooper's Muscle of Love LP came with a pair of woman's underwear as the Vinyl liner

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:34 pm

Delores Erickson- Yum

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:34 pm

Sicklecell666 wrote:Alice Cooper's Muscle of Love LP came with a pair of woman's underwear as the Vinyl liner

Taint did one recently that was wrapped in bloodstained girl panties. But he's a bit odd in the head.

Another cool one was Vagina Dentata Organ's 'The Triumph of the Flesh' LP, where the clear vinyl enclosed a layer of the artist's blood.

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:41 pm

dystonia_ek wrote:Another cool one was Vagina Dentata Organ's 'The Triumph of the Flesh' LP, where the clear vinyl enclosed a layer of the artist's blood.

That reminds me of the stunt that KISS did a long time ago. Each member of the band had a vial of blood drawn, and dumped it into the ink vats that printed the KISS comic books. Naturally, the comic books boldly declared that they were "printed with real KISS blood!"

I'm not sure it would be such a good stunt these days, with concerns over AIDS, etc. People get squeamish more easily these days.

take care,
McLilith

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:42 pm

I think it was Zappa's "Joe's Garage, part I", the vinyl version ofcourse. Listened to the album with the cover folded open, so you could "follow the magic footprints"

I miss that in CDs, the fold-open rigid cardboard artwork so you actually got something in your hands to look at.

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:44 pm

McLilith wrote:
dystonia_ek wrote:Another cool one was Vagina Dentata Organ's 'The Triumph of the Flesh' LP, where the clear vinyl enclosed a layer of the artist's blood.
That reminds me of the stunt that KISS did a long time ago. Each member of the band had a vial of blood drawn, and dumped it into the ink vats that printed the KISS comic books. Naturally, the comic books boldly declared that they were "printed with real KISS blood!"

I used to have one of the original prints waaayy back

Whoomph · Post by **Whoomph** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:49 pm

no offence to the ladies of course .

BTW great thread , next we should have the best banned ones

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The coolest album covers of all time.