Favourite album art of all time

FAVOURITE ALBUM ART OF ALL TIME

… as voted on by the global music magazine

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Source: www.boston.com

Most comments on this entry, agreed that the cover images gave them an idea and a visual link to the style and fast upbeat music that Nick Lowe produced.

Neil Young’s debut album was widely bought because customers saw the cover as a work of art. In other words, not only where listeners getting good tracks but also a piece of Van Gogh style art.

This is a typical Grace Jones album cover. Not only is she strong and proud of the way she looks. She is sexualised by appealing to the yoga fantasies. A comment can also be made on the statuesque pose.

Album art like this is always praised at it has the ability to tell a story in a single snapshot. This particular shot goes hand in hand with the main track and is a visual manifestation of it.

Here, we see direct mode of address, in which his glossed over eyes tell us that Cohen’s music will be emotional and personal.

One also sees ‘gimicky’ covers such as this Kiss album that had a reflective surface that would stick out of all the bland covers in a CD store.

This album art is very political but artistic at the same time. Badu is telling us that her problems are not easy to be solved and weigh heavy on her mind.

Again, this style of album art is not only artistic but gives us an idea of the type of music that Tyner produces and the mood of it as a result.

This is a moving image album art that shows a bird made out of shards of glass flapping its wings. It is considered the best digital album cover of all time by music award industries and audiences alike.