Most Iconic Album Covers

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,901
    I was thinkin' about the Dead -- I like their album covers, but they're not generally iconic. That was my original thought, but, upon reflection, this one is pretty iconic ;)

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    Not a great record, but the cover art graphic became something of an icon in and of itself.

    Album wise, I am rather partial to these two. Both covers are -- striking -- and are both very much of their time ('specially aoxomoxoa), but probably only really "iconic" to a Deadhead.

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    extra points for the latter since the calligraphy may be alternatively read as "American Reality". Oh wow, man -- heavy!
  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Re: Lynyrd Skynyrd "Street Survivors" The hand cut shorts and long tube socks on the guy on the end crack me up.
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    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,059
    Zappa had some of the best cover art ever
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,059
    Nothing's Shocking, except for this cover....
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  • pongshi
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    edited February 2017
    Black Crowes


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    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,303
    There was so much badazz album art in the psychedelic era

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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,059
    Yep2 wrote: »
    15 million sales for a single album?
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    Spinal Tap?
  • StevieB
    StevieB Posts: 256
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,303
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  • StevieB
    StevieB Posts: 256
    Yep2 wrote: »
    StevieB wrote: »
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    Saw them in a dive bar in Fort Smith Arkansas & they BROUGHT IT!

    Yeah, they were one several really good southern rock bands that started out in Jacksonville Fl. bars back in the 70's.
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