Best Album/CD Cover Artwork

[Mookalafalas]

I've followed the "worst CD artwork" thread for a while.  It's fun, but relentlessly negative (by definition, of course).  Who'd've dreamt it would get to 138 pages, and still going strong? 
  There is one cover I am really struck by every time I see it (I don't own it, btw). So much so that I feel compelled to say something. There is no thread for good cover art, so I've made this one.  Perhaps this will only be a one post thread , but I find this cover so classy and modestly elegant that I want to formally make note of my appreciation.
   I love album art. The "original jacket" reissues are a godsend, IMO.  Industrial/commercial art may be the bete noir of a certain kind of purist, but I think many examples should be recognized as true fine art.
Anyway, if you've got a favorite, feel free to post.

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[North Star]

I've followed the "worst CD artwork" thread for a while.  It's fun, but relentlessly negative (by definition, of course).  Who'd've dreamt it would get to 138 pages, and still going strong? 
  There is one cover I am really struck by every time I see it (I don't own it, btw). So much so that I feel compelled to say something. There is no thread for good cover art, so I've made this one.  Perhaps this will only be a one post thread , but I find this cover so classy and modestly elegant that I want to formally make note of my appreciation.
   I love album art. The "original jacket" reissues are a godsend, IMO.  Industrial/commercial art may be the bete noir of a certain kind of purist, but I think many examples should be recognized as true fine art.
Anyway, if you've got a favorite, feel free to post.

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What do you call these, then? 
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19.0.html
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,23067.html

[Florestan]

There is no thread for good cover art

Yes, there is:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,25348.msg933625.html#msg933625

My favorite hands down is this:

[Mookalafalas]

What do you call these, then? 
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19.0.html
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,23067.html

Yes, there is:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,25348.msg933625.html#msg933625

My favorite hands down is this:

  Whoops, my bad
  Hadn't seen either of these.  The more robust of the two (14 pages) has been dead two years, about when I first joined.
   

[PerfectWagnerite]

I think this one is cute:

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[Draško]

The worst artwork thread is bit tiring to look at, maybe this one could be resuscitated for balance.

Here's one I liked recently:

[vandermolen]

Striking cover image:
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I also like this one:
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[DaveF]

The striking series of abstracts on the old David Atherton/London Sinfonietta Schoenberg LPs (which I don't think ever made it onto CD - great pity):

[Mahlerian]

The striking series of abstracts on the old David Atherton/London Sinfonietta Schoenberg LPs (which I don't think ever made it onto CD - great pity):

Some of them did, but the covers aren't as striking:
   

As for some favorite covers of mine, I really enjoyed this series (unfortunately out of print) on the Japanese King Records label:
           

Both fitting and elegant.

[Draško]

Many great covers haven't survived LP to CD transition. Another one is Neumann's Suphaphon Mahler cycle. I still have a few of these.

 

 

[NikF]

The worst artwork thread is bit tiring to look at, maybe this one could be resuscitated for balance.

Here's one I liked recently:

Good stuff.
And I think I noticed this cover posted elsewhere on the forum in recent times.

[Madiel]

I totally love the set of Nørgård symphonies on Da Capo. The first one came out some years before the others.

 

[DaveF]

Some of them did, but the covers aren't as striking:
   
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Yeah, bo-RING.  I don't think the Verklärte Nacht/Chamber symphony disc was ever CD'd - both tremendously good performances.  There was also another, IIRC, including Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, which I couldn't find on a quick image search.  Interestingly, the cover of the one LP I do still have (VN/Chamber symph) is identified as "Study in Colour" by Rayment Kirkby which, given that gentleman's credentials, would suggest it is a work of photography rather than painting.

[Mookalafalas]

I didn't know this thread was still alive

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[Draško]

My high school math teacher once told me that a man should never be without at least one pair of red knee high socks. An advice I always heeded (and a true story). I was truly awful in math.

[geralmar]

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My favorite recording, also.

[Mookalafalas]

Love Arcana--music and artwork. Classy label.

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