U2start.com | Your all-time favorite album covers

I looked a little bit, and I didn't find a topic about album covers (that didn't specifically have to do with U2). I've been very into the prospect of framing some vinyl to put on my walls in my bedroom, and have acquired a few already:

Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town
U2: The Joshua Tree
U2: Wide Awake in America
U2: Boy
Pearl Jam: Vs

and I plan to get quite a few more, which I'll probably post below since they're some of my favorite covers. Albums are artwork in more than just one way, and an appealing cover can open a door into an entire discography of an artist if it catches your eye. That being said...which covers really draw you in?

My favorite U2 ones are War, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and The Joshua Tree.

We can probably start with the obligatory "Dark Side of the Moon" and just knock that right out of the way, I think.

Otherwise...

Blink 182: Enema of the State

I really love the blue tone of the entire cover, and who could lie- the sexy nurse ready to let go of that glove

Really though, this album- both visually (it was EVERYWHERE) and musically- defined part of my youth, growing up in the 90s and early 00s.

The Black Keys: Brothers

Need I say more? They certainly didn't.

Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream

I can't really explain why I love this one...could be that the album is such a 90's icon in itself that I just associate it with that music and that's why I'd be so fond of it on my wall.

Green Day: American Idiot

Just cool.

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

A classic! The contrast on this one seems to be jacked up so the bulge is a little harder to see, but it's a funny and classic cover none the less.

These are just a few, and the most stand-outs of my all time favorites...There are so many other subtle ones that really do the trick as well, I could go on for pages and pages. Just wanted to get the ball rolling though.

RUMMY

14 years

Love the cover of OK Computer - and Kid A, Hail To the Thief, and In Rainbows

Hate the cover of The Bends - and Pablo Honey, Amnesiac, and King of Limbs.

MattG

14 years

Originally posted by RUMMY:Love the cover of OK Computer - and Kid A, Hail To the Thief, and In Rainbows

Hate the cover of The Bends - and Pablo Honey, Amnesiac, and King of Limbs.

Yeah I love OK Computer, but The Bends is totally getting framed for me at some point. SUCHHH a good album, and the cover always made me imagine that the guy on it was either singing or listening to Street Spirit. Haunting.

Forgot this one: One of my all time faves as well

colbourne25

14 years

a favorite of mine...

clover68

14 years

for what comes on my mind now .. i love

yeah

14 years

LikeASong

14 years

I agree with the London Calling and Enema Of The State calls. Great, great covers.

I like virtually every cover, because all of them have their own stories and feelings attached to them; anyway, my favorites are:

Coldplay - Parachutes

Dire Straits - One Every Street

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

El Ultimo De La Fila - Astronomía Razonable

Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving

Muse - Absolution

Muse - The Resistance

Pink Floyd - P.U.L.S.E.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

U2 - Go Home

U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky

You might know by now, but... I love album covers

MirrorballBoy

14 years

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Mr_Trek

14 years