Rock
What better way to welcome new guitarist Mick Taylor and celebrate starting your own record company than coming up with one of the most memorably direct album sleeves of all time? Second only to John Pasche’s Lips and Tongue logo , Sticky Fingers’ giant nob in denim is as savvy a coporate ad as you [...]
Movie studios have been dancing under the sequel tree for as long as time can remember, networks caught on and now crank out sequels of shows that are still running but record labels haven’t done much in the way of sequels. That is unless you count Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell series. Note: This [...]
The album’s cryptic cover art was designed by Tappin Gofton (aka Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton), who created the cover for The Chemical Brothers’, Push the Button. The blocks are the Baudot code-encoding (ITA2, a 5-bit alphanumeric encoding used by telegraphs) of the title of the album, X&Y. (Quoted from the Wiki page) The CD [...]
I love this cover for being both sexy and abstract at the same time. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Farrow design had commissioned extra photos from John Ross. Badabing! They feel a little Clockwork Orange to me for some reason. These would work great as posters. I also like this triptych below which [...]
This is the first single for UK group Devil’s Gun. This was submitted by the talented people at You Are Beautiful. (love the name) Now normally I’d fake it and say I’ve known about these guys and try and pass off as a trendy person but sadly I’ve never heard of them. This is why [...]
Although this great album has a very simple but iconic cover of the 5 band members skulls placed on a crucifix, it was the bands second option after the first cover proved to be to controversial. The original cover was created by artist and Juxtapoz magazine founder Robert Williams. The artwork titled ‘Appetite for Destruction’ [...]
What I love about this cover by Ohiogirl’s Andy Mueller (who also runs the record label Ohiogold which released this album) is that no only do you get a small notepad to design your own CD cover but on the first pressing they even included a lead pencil into the jewel case. This was released [...]
This album combines two different Andy Warhol (The Factory) designed covers for two different music artists, The Rolling Stone’s Sticky Fingers and The Velvet Undergrounds self titled album. Both classic covers in their own right. So for a band with the name like Dandy Warhols it just seems fitting. This cover was painted by Ron [...]
What I love about this cover is how the identity was carried across throughout all the other releases. They are dark yet appealing at the same time. Like a twisted kids fairy tale. All credit to Thomas Grunfeld who created the original creatures featured on the cover. They are from his series called Misfits which [...]
The Hive’s previous covers were all very forgettable, bland affairs. In fact they are so bad I’ll post the below. While not actually deviating that much from their previous covers, Tyrannosaurus Hives look timeless. While the previous endeavours look terribly dated. This cover however makes you stand up and take notice. It doesn’t say anything [...]
