Favorite Album Cover

[knut]

good call on the MBV cover. if ever there was a sleeve that summed up a bands sound so perfect, it's that.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Haha, it's probably iconic as hell (I wouldn't know), but I got a chuckle out of the Bob Dylan one. Last minute out-of-focus shot taken outside of studio, evidently in heavy winds = awesome album cover. :thumbs:

 

[swan_song1973]

im liking the amount of storm thorgeson im seeing here.

 

[Qonfused]

What a goddamn surprise I know.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

YEAH MAN HONESTLY I WAS F*CKING SURPRISED AS HELL SHIT

Cookie to anyone who can guess this one.

 

[kineaesth]

WAR STORIES BY UNKLE

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

F*CKIN RIGHT MAN

 

[Stigmata]

What a goddamn surprise I know.

Holy shit, you like BoC too?!

 

[Dalamari]

A few more I like:

 

[VirusType2]

 

[Bad^Hat]

^ Already posted.

I've always liked this PF cover.

Possibly because it reminds me a bit of the cover of something else dad owns, though not an album one.

 

[VirusType2]

^ Already posted.

Oh, I see. But I was still first, because I posted it about a year ago in a similar thread. : D

I've always liked this PF cover.

Possibly because it reminds me a bit of the cover of something else dad owns, though not an album one.

I remember my older brothers had 'Wish you were here', and I always just found the cover very interesting, and still do.

Haha, that's brilliant. : D

The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing.

In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles held on May 8th 2009, Serafini has stated that the script of the Codex is asemic, that his own experience in writing it was closely similar to automatic writing, and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey to the 'reader' is the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand, although they see that their writing does make sense for grown-ups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

I have to get this.

 

[swan_song1973]

shitty album, great cover.

 

[dfc05]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

I have to get this.

That book sounds really cool. But it costs $900 from Amazon D:

My university library has it, but in "Special Collections" and you have to make an appointment to see it. I don't know if curiosity is a good enough reason for them to let you see it.

Interestingly, my old uni (which is public) lets people actually check the thing out. And four of the copies are marked as "Lost Billed"... so four people out there have some really steep library fines.

 

[Bad^Hat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

I have to get this.

Not to get too far off topic, but it's really ****ed up and awesome. Reading it always gives me a really strange feeling, like I'm actually reading something completely foreign and fantastical. Some (most) of the illustrations are wonderfully bizarre, even though, as you pointed out, the text is pure gibberish.

 

[Ennui]

Holy shit, you like BoC too?!

oh how I lol'd

 

[jet_porkins]

 

[VirusType2]

Not to get too far off topic, but it's really ****ed up and awesome. Reading it always gives me a really strange feeling, like I'm actually reading something completely foreign and fantastical. Some (most) of the illustrations are wonderfully bizarre, even though, as you pointed out, the text is pure gibberish.

Yeah, it sounds completely awesome.

That book sounds really cool. But it costs $900 from Amazon D:

My university library has it, but in "Special Collections" and you have to make an appointment to see it. I don't know if curiosity is a good enough reason for them to let you see it.

Interestingly, my old uni (which is public) lets people actually check the thing out. And four of the copies are marked as "Lost Billed"... so four people out there have some really steep library fines.

Yeah, it is very rare and expensive. I'm just going to see if I can't find a .pdf. Obviously, not as good as the real thing, but better than nothing.

 

[Suicide Machine]

this:

and this ofc:

 

[Noodle]

First real rock album I ever listened to:

and because it's just awesome:

the requisite prog-rock album art:

and just because:

and because I love this band way too much

 

[The Monkey]

Not their best album musically, but I do love that cover.