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unusual facts about album cover



Aidan Hughes

Aidan Hughes is best known for creating most of the album covers for the industrial band KMFDM.

Åke Hodell

One of his visual artworks, the piece "220 Volt Buddha", was use as the album cover of Swedish heavy metal band At the Gates' 1993 album With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness.

Expert Knob Twiddlers

The album cover features Mike and Rich playing the game Downfall by Milton Bradley Company: the cover is designed as a parody of the original game's box art.

The GreenMount School

This assignment involved creating two album covers for the band, one using the design aesthetic of 1960 and one the design aesthetic of 1980; writing lyrics for a song on each of the albums; and crafting a pseudobiography for the band, covering its two decades of existence.

The Mirror's Truth

The cover artwork for this single was by Alex Pardee who had designed the artwork for the whole A Sense of Purpose album.

The Paramounts

Mundy committed suicide in 1972, but left his possessions to Trower, including a painting of an album cover for an imaginary album by 'Liquorice John Death', which Mundy had called Ain't Nothin' to Get Excited About.

The Vertigo of Bliss

The album cover for The Vertigo of Bliss was designed by comic book artist Milo Manara.

Vênus

In the cover art created for the album, the front cover featured the sunset seen from the Parnaíba River amidst the zodiacal table and the back cover showed a silhouette of the band members in gray, reflecting the concept underlying the lyrics: ecology, mysticism and anti-racism.


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'Hours...'

The album cover, designed by Rex Ray with photography by Tim Bret Day and Frank Ockenfels, depicts the short-haired Bowie persona from the intensely energetic previous album Earthling exhausted, resting in the arms of a long-haired, more youthful version of Bowie.

1,837 Seconds of Humor

The back of the album cover contains an essay of biographical information of Stevens from his youth in his hometown of Clarkdale, Georgia to the time of this album's release and gives brief descriptions of all the songs on the album.

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live

The album cover artwork was adapted from a section of a painting by Brett Whiteley titled Alchemy 1974.

Always Leave the Ground

Always Leave the Ground, also written as ...Always Leave the Ground on the album cover, is the second album released by This Day and Age on its label One Eleven Records.

An Ancient Lie

The album cover featured artwork provided by Glenn Fabry, better known for his work as a British Comics artist.

Animetal Marathon V

The album cover depicts the band trio as the Black Tri-Stars of the Mobile Suit Gundam series.

Around the Fur

The album cover was shot by photographer Rick Kosick during a late-night party in Seattle where the band was recording.

Arthur Sarnoff

He also made an album cover for the American punk band Butthole Surfers for their third album, Locust Abortion Technician, which portrays two clowns playing with a dog.

Basket of Light

The album cover uses photographs of Pentangle's 1968 concert in the Royal Albert Hall.

Best of Little Walter

The album cover features a black-and-white photo portrait shot by Grammy award winning photographer Don Bronstein of Little Walter holding/playing a Hohner 64 Chromatic harmonica and liner notes by Studs Terkel, who had written Giants of Jazz.

Darkane

The album cover was done by Carlos Holmberg (ex-Soilwork) and the cover is a Rorschach test as seen by an individual who has completely succumbed to the sinister supremacy, according to the band.

David Bierk

His most widely recognizable work is the 1991 album cover of Skid Row's Slave to the Grind.

Debajo de un pino

The album cover depicts a Chinese lion, these lions, also called Foo Lions are known as "happiness dogs" or "heavenly dogs" and is believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, temples, emperors' tombs, government offices, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), until the end of the empire in 1911.

Dispersive prism

The image of a dispersive prism was featured on the album cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling albums of all time.

Dr. Steel II: Eclectic Boogaloo

The album cover (and album title) are a parody of the soundtrack album cover for the movie, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Eugene Wolfgramm

In 1990, Eugene reunited with his siblings to record four new tracks featured on The Best of The Jets (1990) and was featured on the album cover and inside sleeve.

For the Beauty of Wynona

The album cover photograph was taken by renowned Czech artist Jan Saudek.

Golden Beach, Florida

Eric Clapton's album 461 Ocean Boulevard was named after the Golden Beach house at that address, a photo of which is also featured on the album cover.

Grim Scary Tales

The album cover depicts the notorious Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler holding a goblet filled with blood.

Hikari no Densetsu

For example: In the eighth volume of the manga series the author makes a parody of popular 80s singer Cyndi Lauper by drawing Hikari with the same hairstyle, skirt, and posture that the singer had on the She's So Unusual album cover.

Hiroshige

The album cover of the alternative rock band Weezer's 1996 album Pinkertons features Kambara Yoru no Yuki ("Night Snow at Kambara"), print number 15 * in Hiroshige's popular 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō series.

I, Assassin

The album cover of I, Assassin was influenced by that of Frank Sinatra's 1954 album Songs for Young Lovers.

Inside Living Things

The missing chapters included "Pildriver" (Making of Lies Greed Misery), "Apaches" (Making of Until it Breaks), "360 Body Scan", "Making of the Album Cover" and "The Story".

Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon

She also revealed the album cover, in which she is seen from behind in the desert of Tucson, Arizona.

Janet 'Rusty' Skuse

It is commonly believed that it is Skuse who appears on the cover of the second album Indelibly Stamped (1971), by progressive rock group Supertramp, largely due to a tattoo on the left arm which names "Bill" and "Rusty"; however, a comparison between the album cover and photographs of Skuse's tattoos show that this is not the case.

Jintara Poonlarp

Her image also tends to the contemporary and Western: In most of her videos both she and her dancers wear modern dress, and one album cover, Mor lam sa on 8, was an imitation of Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love.

Laisse béton

French singer-songwriter Renaud's second unnamed studio album is commonly known as Laisse béton, although it is sometimes referred to as Place de ma mob after the wall inscription on the album cover.

Lambs Anger

The album cover pays homage to the 1928 surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou", where in place of Simone Mareuil is a puppet named Flat Eric, who appeared in the music video for Flat Beat.

Less Talk, More Rock

The album cover is the promotional poster of the 1984 Calgary Stampede.

Little Creatures

The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

Main Course

The album cover with the band's new logo made its first appearance here which was designed by US artist Drew Struzan.

Mia Mäkilä

In 2008 Mia Mäkilä did the album cover and booklet art for Spark Large, the first full-length album by Marching Band.

Monika Dannemann

After Hendrix's death, Dannemann became romantically involved with German rock guitarist Uli Jon Roth of Scorpions, with whom she collaborated on several songs (notably "We'll Burn the Sky") and album cover designs and artwork.

Monkee Flips

The album cover showed a still of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing a banjo), from the television episode "It's A Nice Place To Visit".

Natsu no Yoru wa Danger!

An English-language cover ("Dangerous Summer Night!") was recorded by Maysa Leak for the album Cover Morning Musume Hello!

On Tour with Eric Clapton

As no pictures of Delaney and Bonnie were deemed good enough for the album cover, a photo was used instead of a Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn in a desert, reportedly taken by manager Barry Feinstein while working as a photographer covering a Bob Dylan tour in 1966.

Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

The album cover features a photo of Parsons' ornate tailored suit jacket designed by Nudie Cohn, which was worn for the cover of the Burritos' album, The Gilded Palace of Sin.

Rocinate

Based on the artwork on the album cover, it appears that the title is a misspelling of the name Rocinante - the horse from Don Quixote.

Rocka Rolla

The original "bottle cap" album cover art was initially intended by designer John Pasche for use with an unspecified Rolling Stones album.

Spring of Two Blue J's

The album cover was a solarized photograph by renowned Japanese jazz photographer K. Abe, and the record labels designed by Frank Olinsky (the future designer of the MTV logo from Manhattan Design).

The Bravest Man in the Universe

The album cover, photographed by Jamie-James Medina, features Womack's hand with his thumb twisted backward.

The Listening Room

The 1958 reproduction of the painting was used for the album cover of Beck-Ola by The Jeff Beck Group.

Things That Go Pump in the Night

The tape cover features the same black and white photo used on the 1989 Pump album cover, of a smaller International K Series truck on top of a larger International KB Series truck, with the word pump in place of the chrome International markings on the side of both hoods.

Time Loves a Hero

The album cover depicts the Cattolica di Stilo which is a church in Italy, but the background is the town of San Miguel de Allende Mexico and the statue in front of the Cattolica di Stilo is in San Miguel de Allende.

Wake the Union

The album cover features an acoustic guitar (with cotton strings) with various English and North American symbols, such as roads (the signs for Route 66 and the A303) and flags (United Kingdom, United States).

Waterloo Lily

The album cover detail from "The Tavern Scene" from A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth.

Xtra-Acme USA

The album cover features actress Winona Ryder, who starred in the music video for Talk About The Blues, which appeared in the band's sixth studio album ACME.

Your Squaw Is on the Warpath

The album cover shows Lynn dressed in Native American clothing, out in the wilderness with her left hand over her head as if she is searching for something.