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unusual facts about cover art



Ritual de lo habitual

Two versions of the disc packaging were created: one album featured cover artwork by singer Perry Farrell, related to the song "Three Days" and including male and female nudity; the other cover has been called the "clean cover", and features only black text on a white background, listing the band name, album name, and the text of the First Amendment (the "freedom of speech" amendment) of the U.S. Constitution.

Russell H. Tandy

Russell Haviland Tandy (1891 – 1963) was an American illustrator, best known for his cover art for early editions of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series.

Tarkus

The cover artwork was commissioned from the painter and graphic designer William Neal.

The Next Day

The cover art for the album is an adapted version of Bowie's 1977 album, "Heroes".

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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Albert Wilfred Barbelle

Albert Wilfred Barbelle (b. 15 February 1887 Fall River, Massachusetts; d. 3 February 1957 New York City) was an American artist known well for his work in advertising, particularly cover art for sheet music of Tin Pan Alley.

Artist Collection: Luther Vandross

The album's caricature-style artwork was made by Hanoch Piven, who also designed the cover art for the other albums from the Artist Collection series.

Batman: Son of the Demon

DC Comics published a new printing of Batman: Son of the Demon in 2006 featuring new cover art by Andy Kubert for the first time in standard comic book size with a cover price of $5.99 US, tying in with the "Batman & Son" arc.

City of the Spider Queen

The book was published in 2002, and was written by James Wyatt, with cover art by Todd Lockwood and interior art by Scott Fischer, Rebecca Guay, Vince Locke, Raven Mimura, Puddnhead, Christopher Shy, Ben Templesmith, and Sam Wood.

Conrad Keely

He even noted that, as a reference to Secret Wars, he wanted to include a New Mutants character in the collage cover art of Worlds Apart.

Curt Kirkwood

He is also an artist and created the cover art for several Meat Puppets albums, as well as for Stephen Beachy's novel The Whistling Song.

Damien Broderick

Several of his books feature cover art by Swedish transhumanist Anders Sandberg, including Earth is but a Star (2001), Broderick's anthology of science fiction stories, and thematically related critical discussions, concerned with the far future.

Deep Chills

The album's cover art was designed by Karl Kotas and is a spoof of Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Don't Be Fooled by the Name

Mick Rock was responsible for the cover art and photography.

Donna Parker

First published by Whitman from 1957 through 1964 in thick glossy picture cover editions, the series was revamped with new cover art in the late 1960s and then reprinted with a smaller, non-glossy picture cover.

E-Motion

The "E" in the title of E-Motion stands for Einstein, and he appears in cover art and advertisements.

Full of Flowers

The cover art depicts an imaginary landscape with the composer sitting and holding a bouquet of flowers in front of two cliffs, with a Shamrock (a symbol of Ireland) behind him.

G N' R Lies

The cover art bears a resemblance to John Lennon's Some Time in New York City, an album that contains Lennon's controversial "Woman Is the Nigger of the World", a song Axl cited when he defended his use of the word "nigger" in "One in a Million".

Gena Showalter

#Last Kiss Goodnight, December 2012, Cover art by Nathália Suellen ISBN 1-4516-7159-8 (Solomon Judah & Vika Lukas)

Hadashi no Mirai/Kotoba Yori Taisetsu na Mono

"Hadashi no Mirai" was used as the campaign song for Coca-Cola and is evident on the cover art design for the limited edition.

Halos for Heros, Dirt for the Dead

The cover art was adapted for the 2008 re-release of the band's For Those Who Have Heart (2007) album.

Jacket Full of Danger

The album's cover art is an illustrated photograph by American artist Galen Pehrson and was featured in ArtForum 10.6Vol-9UK The image depicts Green with a suite of illustrated characters, each character refers or symbolizes a social theorist, philosopher, or semiotician: Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, and most notable Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan engaged in a "dance".

Jock Sturges

His photographs also appear as cover art on three novels by Jennifer McMahon, Promise Not to Tell, Island of Lost Girls and Dismantled, as well as Karl Ove Knausgård's 1998 debut novel Ute av verden (Out of the World).

Kick Over the Traces

The Japanese edition features a second disc recorded live at 924 Gilman Street on February 10, 2008, and features different cover art.

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.

Live from the Battle in Seattle

Shepard Fairey - CD Art Adaptation, Tray Photo, Cover Art Concept

Lookin' for Trouble

The original cover art was designed by Hugh Syme and was originally intended to be the cover art for Max Webster's High Class in Borrowed Shoes.

Metaphysical Graffiti

The album title and cover art parody the 1975 album Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin.

More Stories

The cover art was designed by Kazuki, with additional design by Ben Drury and James Lavelle.

Motor Home Massacre

In a similar manner to Andre the Butcher, the film's cover art is misleading, falsely presenting itself to be a serious horror film.

Patrick Procktor

Procktor's painting "The Guardian Readers" is the cover art for Elton John's 1976 album, Blue Moves.

Prior Park Landscape Garden

A picture of the Palladian bridge located in the Prior Park Landscape Garden is used as the cover art for the progressive death metal band Opeth's second album Morningrise.

Retro-Trader

The collection has many items which exist nowhere else in the world, such as the only known surviving Sinclair C5 concept artwork, and also many pieces of original retro gaming cover art, from the likes of artists such as Roger Garland, better known for his artwork for the J. R. R. Tolkien book The Lord of the Rings.

River of Darkness

The film features professional wrestling stars Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, and Sid Eudy (credited as "Psycho Sid Vicious" on the cover art) as well as Ray Lloyd in a minor role.

Rob Worley

Jason T Kruse was the primary artist with Mike Kunkel providing the cover art for the first two issues.

Rocka Rolla

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

Scratch9

The comic was written by Rob M. Worley with artwork by Jason T Kruse and cover art by Mike Kunkel.

Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile

The cover art is a parody of the famous painting American Gothic by Grant Wood.

Tarney/Spencer Band

The band's second 1978 album (1st for A&M), recorded in London, was titled Three's a Crowd, produced by David Kershenbaum and featured cover art with rounded corners, shaped like an American style cafe menu card.

Terror Twilight

The original cover art for Terror Twilight lists the final track, "Carrot Rope," as "...And Carrot Rope." This alternate song title was revived for the 2010 Record Store Day version of Quarantine the Past, even though the song was the fifth track on side one.

That Christmas Feeling

In 2010 Capitol Records Nashville made the album available as a digital download, with the original cover art and two bonus tracks ("The Night Before Christmas" and "Silent Night") taken from the 1969 BFGoodrich compilation album The Christmas Sound of Music.

The 1983 Annual World's Best SF

For the hardcover edition the original cover art was replaced by a new cover painting by Richard Powers.

The Classic Guide to Strategy

The cover art from Volumes One and Two are the kanji characters for "earth" and "water", respectively, which relate to the first volumes of The Book of Five Rings written by Miyamoto Musashi.

The Color of Silence

The Color of Silence is Tiffany's "alternative" album, even down to its cover art reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral.

The Grateful Dead Family Album

The Grateful Dead Family Album is a photographic music reference book by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, cover art by Stanley Mouse with hundreds of intimate photographs and stories from members of the Grateful Dead and the Dead Family.

The Ladies of Missalonghi

The book had a full wrap-around cover art and interior illustrations by Peter Chapman.

The Splendour of Fear

The cover art is taken from the poster for the 1966 Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey film Chelsea Girls.

The Temple of Elemental Evil

The original drawing of the cover art for the Burzum album Det Som Engang Var was inspired by the art for The Temple of Elemental Evil.

The Transformers: Headmasters

The TPBs had new cover art Andrew Wildman, who illustrated several issues toward the end of the original ongoing series.

The Wrong Object

In 2008, they released Stories from the Shed (with cover art by British artist Marc Atkins), their first studio album in more than five years.

Urs Amann

He is mostly known as the painter of the cover art for several Klaus Schulze records, all in a style reminiscent of Salvador Dalí.

Violent Demise: The Last Days

The cover art depicts the hand signs of the gangs Bloods and Crips, which the band's initials, "B.C." stand for.