What albums/CDs have your purchased because you liked the cover art.

6/29/12 | myself

[GSWarrior]

What albums/CDs have your purchased because you liked the cover art--never having heard anything from the band before-- that became one of your favorite artists?

Squeeze -- Cool For Cats
XTC -- Go 2
Roxy Music -- Siren

[GSWarrior]

Friday is a good day for a frivolous music thread.

[TSgt]

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[Ransomed]

I picked up a Molly Hatchet album for the Frazetta cover.

Freegards

[discostu]

Nils Lofgren’s Breakaway Angel. I’d gone to the store intending to buy some Nils, when deciding which one the one with the Ralph Steadman called to me, as his art so often does.

[6SJ7]

"Eat a Peach" by the Allman Brothers Band. The inside album art was pure late 70's wild. Good music.

[VanDeKoik]

I loved the Cirque Du Soleil music from their CD “Mystere” and bought several other CDs back in the 90s without knowing what the music was based completely on their cover art.

Some were hit or miss, but I generally liked what I got.

[formosa]

Roxy Music (Avalon)

[N. Theknow]

OK.

I give up.

I can't find Waldo.

[Revolting cat!]

[GSWarrior]

Roxy Music certainly had some striking album covers.

[KT22]

Eldorado, by ELO. Can anyone post an image for me?

[South Hawthorne]

It didn't take long before I became a Ken Snyder groupie, following him from Holiday Inn lounges, to Music Fairs, and Amusement Parks. That was the best summer of my life... until he went Sandusky on me.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, I bought the Elmer City Rambling Dogs LP for the cover art, but never actually listened to it.

[Revolting cat!]

a-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom

[null and void]

None.

If I liked the art, I bought a poster.

[PGR88]

[MikeSteelBe]

Iron Maiden “Killers” with Paul DiAnno, before Bruce Dickinson was the frontman.

One of my little league baseball buddies brought the Kiss “Destroyer” album over to my house.

At about 11 years old, I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. It was a good album, as well.

[tsomer]

It wasn’t art, it was poetry.

Back around ‘78 Neil Young was quoted in Rolling Stone,
about his Rust... tour:

“I just wanted those kids to think this was the
loudest f_cking thing they ever heard.”

“At last”, I thought, “here’s somebody who understands.”

(pardon, but what was that you said?)

[Blogatron]

Badfinger - No Dice

[ArtDodger]

My older sisters had the LP with the photo of the jeans and the real zipper! Heady days!!

M

[7thson]

Don’t think I ever purchased an album for the cover art. However, below are some I thought were cool back in the day -
Savoy Brown - Street Corner Talking
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Faces - Oh La La
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Queen - News of the World

[Fresh Wind]

Even better was the Velvet Underground album with the peelable banana designed by Andy Warhol. They’re worth a lot of money now if the banana was never peeled.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Friday is a good day for a frivolous music thread.

And this is.

Answer: 0

If I want to look at softcore porn, I won't buy a CD by a talentless bimbo pictured writhing on the cover.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Derek and the Dominoes - Layla

[JRios1968]

[ChildOfThe60s]

Remember the “Sticky Fingers” cover? It even had a subtle “bulge” in the appropriate spot.

[Gay State Conservative]

None.Every album/CD I’ve ever bought was bought because I knew,or at least suspected,that there was at least one song...or one passage...that I’d enjoy.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

“Roxy Music (Avalon)”
I can’t say I have ever bought an album got its cover, but Avalon is on one of the coolest albums ever made (great cover art too).

[dragnet2]

What albums/CDs have your purchased because you liked the cover art.

A thread for those with money to burn!

Something for everyone!

[brivette]

the Beatles white cover album.

[Wright Wing]

I was much younger then, BUT:

Queen - News Of The World
The Cars - Candy O
Kiss - Destroyer
Scorpions - Love At First Sting and Blackout

[circlecity]

The original (uncensored) cover of Golden Earring’s - Moontan. (the album with Radar Love)

[Sirius Lee]

[dfwgator]

Loved the Gabriel-Era Genesis Album covers

[ChildOfThe60s]

I had the Thick as a Brick LP when it came out in all it's glory. Little Milton's collaborator flashing her undies was pretty funny at the time.

But making it like a multi-page newspaper with all the satirical articles was very cool.

[wtc911]

PORT SAID -—— when I was thirteen.

[aces]

I bought for the music but really like the cover art:

Every Good boy deserves favor..moody blues

Isle of View....Jimmy Spherris

Welcome to the Soul Farm..Aeon’s Promise

[GSWarrior]

I had this album. Great songs, great cover.

[GSWarrior]

I think Tull stole that concept from the Four Seasons.

[Cincinatus]

[rustbucket]

I listend to this YouTube version of a Buxtehude Alleluia and got fascinated both with the music and the painting that the YouTube poster showed during most of the playing of the music (the first art work that briefly appears is thought by some to be a painting of Buxtehude).

Unfortunately, the art work on the actual CD cover is not as inspiring as the YouTube art work. I keep seeing various things, a huge face, small figures, etc., in the YouTube painting. I keep wondering who painted it.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crGdezCHud8

[a fool in paradise]

BOB DYLAN’S DREAM

[Boogieman]

[Buckeye McFrog]

the “Legend” album by Poco. Shows a nicely stylized drawing of a galloping horse (which was actually drawn by Phil Hartman, the late comedian)

[a fool in paradise]

[PAR35]

People still buy CDs? They still make CDs?

And if you are buying music for the picture on the cover, wouldn’t it just be cheaper to download the image?

[a fool in paradise]

All of them.

[Cincinatus]

Well, whatever floats your boat....

[EQAndyBuzz]

Nectar - Remember the Future