COVER LOVER....

[Nai Noswad]

The sleeve, jacket or cover of an album - potentially sells the LP before it's even heard.
Post your favourite record sleeve ( or worst if you like!)
This particular cover is from a prog album from 1974.

Gravy Train - Staircase To The Day.

 

[Nai Noswad]

By the same artist, Roger Dean:

Yes - Fragile.

 

[SanguineRemedy]

Riot is one of my favorite bands ever, but the album cover for Narita featuring their mascot is terrible...

 

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[Nai Noswad]

Absolutely Sanguine, all their albums.. Rock City often gets made up as a T. Shirt here. The sleeve design compliments the songs within.

 

[SanguineRemedy]

Absolutely Sanguine, all their albums.. Rock City often gets made up as a T. Shirt here. The sleeve design compliments the songs within.

I actually have a Fire Down Under T I found in a flea market in the middle of nowhere. Always good finds for music merch and such in those small towns..

 

[Nai Noswad]

Closer to the heart as Rush sang... this whole album, which was a concept( I failed to spot that at 18.)
Merges and dovetails so well... The cover is kinda underplayed...'less is more' approach and the colour and focal point still gets me parusing as I did in January 1977, with Battersea Bridge on stage left. The British Railways 'walk through' BMC and Commer vans.. Hertz trailers and brake vans, portrays a time long gone and reminds me of living near a shunting line. If my memory serves the whole album is fraught with tension and hassle : Rick Wright got fired after rows about Animals, The floating pig that features inside the gatefold was built by the German firm that constructed airships for Led Zeppelin. When floated in mid-air in late 1976...PIG drifted into Heathrow airspace, throwing flights into chaos, the edgy sound was a direct response to punk and lyrical content was connected to Roger Waters marriage problems.... plus the original sleeve idea was to portray a kid finding his parents having sex in bed "Animals".... but was shelved amid fear of being banned. Hipgnosis were contracted to provide a cover as they have done so previously.. Mr 'Technical Ecstasy' Storm Thergason once again sprinkled his magic over what is now recognised fully as a classic... out and in.
So not really 'on the wing'.