Do you have a Best Album Cover evah pick? I'm doing a project on Album cover art of the
60s and 70s.
Help me out with my project (it's part of a larger art project). I want your pick for the best, not just your favorite. Qualities will include design, artistic quality and fidelity to the music of the artist. Does it say something or is it just a nice picture of the artist?
Thanks for your help, fellow DUers!
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(Pink Floyd of course)
I can think of zillions of others, but this one immediately came to mind.
maybe 
on edit: found this
https://jonimitchell.com/paintings/view.cfm?id=475
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we had to do an art project on an album cover... I chose "The White Album" 
Also, can't let that one be posted without this classic ...
If they played metal it would be extremely cool! 
I remember as a kid seeing the kabuki makeup and blood spitting from KISS. I thought they were hard core until I heard the music.
Flaccid, top 40 garbage!
All Beatles, in particular Sgt. Pepper, Revolver, Meet The Beatles
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Eric Clapton Layla
Santana Abraxas
Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
I’m sure I could come up with lots more... 
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Cover by Roger Dean for the Uriah Heep album Demons & Wizards, 1972.
Source dreamchimney.com
by Michael Alan Goldberg
July 31, 2013
https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/07/31/roger-dean-is-the-most-important-person-in-yes-who-actually-isnt-in-yes/
De Burgh plays chess with himself in the guise of Jesus and the Devil. The pieces are positioned to recreate a famous chess match I can't recall right now.
Primarily because of the memories it brings when I listen to it.
So I’m probably a bit prejudiced.
Songs: The Wizard, Traveler in Time, Easy Livin', Poet's Justice, Circle of Hands, Rainbow Demon, All My Life, and Paradise / The Spell
But I didn’t see Mountain “Climbing”, also a very good album cover:
Subtly very beautiful, like the music therein.
I wore out at least three vinyl copies.
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (basically his biographical album)
(plus there was a poster included with more)
And yes I got to see him on his lastest tour where he revisited that cover art theme too (although the tour was based on his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album - another great cover)
Also Earth, Wind and Fire had some nice covers in the '70s and on (Egyptian-themed) as they were also in transition with musical styles and with theme focus - All 'N All was one -
And Ramsey Lewis and his collaborative album as he was transitioning from '60s-style to '70s style jazz with Sun Goddess -
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and Blues for Allah, both Grateful Dead.
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so Molly Hatchet's debut, at least, was a favorite cover (Don't remember if he did the cover to Flirtin With Disaster but that 's a cool painting too) edit to add - yes, he did paint that one too.
So cool that the "modern" hand with the modern paintbrush is drawing stick figures, while the "Neanderthal" hand with the stick is drawing rifles and airplanes. The incongruity of it has always struck me.
The Doors--Strange Days
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Leo Kottke--Dreams and All That Stuff
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The Byrds--Younger Than Yesterday
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