most creative album covers

[SA-708]

anything on 4ad/v23

All designed by Vaughn Oliver:

 

[noisefreq]

All great covers AND great music!

 

[alteclipsch]

Roxy Music Avalon.
There's something about it that draws me in. And the album is fantastic.

 

[birchoak]

Roxy Music Avalon.
There's something about it that draws me in. And the album is fantastic.

One of my favorite albums. The whole thing just "works." That helmeted Viking dude and his pet falcon gazing upon that glassy reach of Viking water.

 

[dannybtx]

All designed by Vaughn Oliver:

Oh man, I love 4AD but I've always considered The Breeders - Pod to be one of the ugliest album covers

 

[SA-708]

Oh man, I love 4AD but I've always considered The Breeders - Pod to be one of the ugliest album covers

Mr. Oliver, the designer, is also the cover model, shot overexposed while performing a "fertility dance" whilst wearing a skirt made of dead eels. I've always appreciated the rediculousness of the concept.

 

[OldPolishGuy]

I've always liked Mahogany Rush's Strange Universe album. Maybe not the most creative album cover but it appeals to me in an odd sort of way. OPG.

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Bloodgood - Detonation

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Mortification - Post Momentary Affliction

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Stryper - To Hell With the Devil

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Leviticus - I Shall Conquer

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice, Released Upon the Earth

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

The Who - Live At Leeds

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Living Sacrifice - Ghost Thief

 

[FrostEOne]

Eagles - One of These Nights
I came very close to having this on my 67 Harley Davidson Sportster gas tank back in late 70s.

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Newsboys - Take Me To Your Leader

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Hope For the Dying - Dissimulation

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Messiah Prophet - Rock the Flock

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Messiah Prophet - Master of the Metal

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

Saint - Time's End