What albums/CDs have your purchased because you liked the cover art.

6/29/12 | myself

[GSWarrior]

What albums/CDs have your purchased because you liked the cover art--never having heard anything from the band before-- that became one of your favorite artists?

Squeeze -- Cool For Cats
XTC -- Go 2
Roxy Music -- Siren

[GSWarrior]

Friday is a good day for a frivolous music thread.

[TSgt]

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[Ransomed]

I picked up a Molly Hatchet album for the Frazetta cover.

Freegards

[discostu]

Nils Lofgren’s Breakaway Angel. I’d gone to the store intending to buy some Nils, when deciding which one the one with the Ralph Steadman called to me, as his art so often does.

[6SJ7]

"Eat a Peach" by the Allman Brothers Band. The inside album art was pure late 70's wild. Good music.

[VanDeKoik]

I loved the Cirque Du Soleil music from their CD “Mystere” and bought several other CDs back in the 90s without knowing what the music was based completely on their cover art.

Some were hit or miss, but I generally liked what I got.

[formosa]

Roxy Music (Avalon)

[N. Theknow]

OK.

I give up.

I can't find Waldo.

[Revolting cat!]

[GSWarrior]

Roxy Music certainly had some striking album covers.

[KT22]

Eldorado, by ELO. Can anyone post an image for me?

[End Times Sentinel]

It didn't take long before I became a Ken Snyder groupie, following him from Holiday Inn lounges, to Music Fairs, and Amusement Parks. That was the best summer of my life... until he went Sandusky on me.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, I bought the Elmer City Rambling Dogs LP for the cover art, but never actually listened to it.

[Revolting cat!]

a-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom

[null and void]

None.

If I liked the art, I bought a poster.

[PGR88]

[MikeSteelBe]

Iron Maiden “Killers” with Paul DiAnno, before Bruce Dickinson was the frontman.

One of my little league baseball buddies brought the Kiss “Destroyer” album over to my house.

At about 11 years old, I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. It was a good album, as well.

[tsomer]

It wasn’t art, it was poetry.

Back around ‘78 Neil Young was quoted in Rolling Stone,
about his Rust... tour:

“I just wanted those kids to think this was the
loudest f_cking thing they ever heard.”

“At last”, I thought, “here’s somebody who understands.”

(pardon, but what was that you said?)

[Blogatron]

Badfinger - No Dice