Top 10 Best Album Covers of All Time
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Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
This album cover is so simple, but after listening to the album, it will stick with you for the rest of your life. The spectrum that emerges from the prism represents different topics in life, each covered by a different song on the album. Truly a god among men when it comes to album covers.
This is the only album cover on here that is good. Sorry, but it's true. The only good ones are this and the one on the items list. Sorry, but why do I always find Heart or Sarah Brightman on every single music list? Anyway, I'm not trying to hate on this list, but I always see Heart on a music list.
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The Beatles - Abbey Road
There are albums listed higher than this that have artwork I have never seen or simply don't know since there's no picture beside the entry. How is this lower? It should be #1! I'm horrified to see that it didn't even make the top 3.
Who doesn't know this one? Black and white silhouette on a cheap T-shirt and you know what it is. The best.
It might not be the best, but it's the most famous and iconic. It gets my vote.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
Yes, it's only a banana, but it's designed by Andy Warhol, and he knows his stuff.
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The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Easily the best. It sums up the whole revolution that not only The Beatles influenced but all those that came before them at the time. A perfect cover for a perfect album.
Honestly, I feel like most of these are ranked high because people love the album itself. However, this one I agree with. It's a great cover, not just a great album.
Instantly recognizable and the most expensive album cover they made. All the actors, the fancy uniforms - just so classic.
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Nirvana - Nevermind
What?! The only cool and artistic items on this list are Dark Side of the Moon and Nevermind. The rest are just pictures of famous people in weird poses. TopTens seems to attract all the fanboys...
This picture is awesome. A baby swimming underwater, lol. Nirvana forever.
Very deep meaning (greed is brainwashed into us by the media from a very young age).
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Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
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Patti Smith - Horses
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The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
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Sarah Brightman - Fly
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The Clash - London Calling
Image as rock. Anger. Lashing out at the very thing that supports you. It's this one or The Who's "Who's Next" with the group urinating on a monolith. Talk about being pissed off...
Come on, people! What could be cooler than Paul Simonon smashing a bass guitar in black and white?
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Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
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Planxty - The Well Below the Valley
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Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
How is this underneath Evanescence and Jackie Evancho?
Almost every Iron Maiden cover is awesome.
Iron Maiden has the best album covers.
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David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
The most famous image of Bowie!
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The Arcana - Mesmer Theatre
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The Beatles - Revolver
The first thing you see in the best album of all time.
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Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
God, this album introduced me to rock music and will always carry a special place in my heart. The vocals, the rawness in the lyrics, and the music itself are phenomenal. It's one of the best albums of modern days still. It sucks that Chester had to leave this world. I guess all that anger and despair came from somewhere.
We all fight our battles, and in the end, it doesn't always matter. Rest in peace, music legend.
Hybrid Theory has a very creative cover.
The cover shows what the music is like, and I think that's what a cover is supposed to do.
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The Arcana - Lemon Freddy Phantom of the Sky
Totally the best album cover ever!
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Yes - Fragile
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
I love the original Rolling Stones cover Sticky Fingers, but I also love Too Fast for Love, the Mötley Crüe tribute to the Stones.
I'm a big Mötley Crüe and Stones fan.
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The Arcana - Tomorrow is Yesterday
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The Arcana - Pastel Painted People in Candy Coloured Crowds
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The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
The best album ever made. It makes you think about the music and only the music. That is amazing and different.
It's not good. It's amazing! So simplistic. I could stare at it for hours.
Not flashy or hip. Just symbolic.
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Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Travis Smith just makes good covers. Another great album cover of his that deserves my spot on the list is The Sound of Perseverance.
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Heart - Little Queen
The girls are just too fine. This is not art. It's the real thing. Ann and Nancy look great.
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Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
