Favorite Album Covers

My friend Johnnie is working on a book about album covers. He says the book will be pure art – no photos of bands. It's hard to create a comprehensive list so he asked for our help. My fave covers are below – and I'm sure I forgot some as it is. It's always difficult for me to create lists like this because I invariably forget something I would have otherwise included. Let me know what you think of my list and please list your own as well.

  

 

Comments

[Metalboy!]

Ha! Now we're talkin', Mr. Rock-It!

Christian and the boys, take note...

Metalboy! has nearly every album Mr. Rock-It lists, except Outlaw Blood (who do they sound kinda like, if anyone, Mr. Rock-It?). Can you make that claim? Wake up! You are missing too much music!

You say, Christian, more or less, that every Motorhead album pretty much sounds the same in your latest review posted subsequent to this post here.

You are so right, Mr. Rock-It, Johnny Crash! Of course! I wonder if that's the same artist who did Britny Fox, "Boys In Heat".

I agree with you, Mr. Rock-It, Johnny should stick to covers that are lost gems of Hair or Glam Metal, as the other stuff has pretty much been flogged by other coffee table books devoted to the subject over the years.

You could even cover the 70's as the genre was percolating before it got the full on treatment in the 80's/early 90's (i.e. Starz, as Mr Rock-It points out. Check out a Cheap Trick-ish clone, Blind Date for another example of an obscure Glam Metal cover of the late 70's).

Back to Part 2 of Mr. Rock-It's list -- for God's sake, boyz, bust out of your walls, man, and check out some of these albums, will ya?

p.s. Where the h*ll are Christian's and Kenny O's opinions on this topic? What the h*ll is the world comin' to?

[ROCK-IT]

A few others I forgot about:

HEAVEN - "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
PUSH - "Your Worst Nightmare"
MARSHALL LAW - "Power Games"
LA GUNS - "LA Guns"
SANCTUARY - "Refuge Denied"
FOOLISH PLEASURE - "Look Up"
DIRTY LOOK - "Five Easy Pieces"
CHEYENNE - "Rebel Underground"
VINNIE VINCENT - "Invasion"
DANGEROUS TOYS - "Hellacious Acres"
FEAR OF GOD (FOG) - "Within The Veil"
WINTERS DAWN - "The Winter Is Dawning"
SLEAZY - "Big A.."

* As far as the Outlaw Blood goes: I'd say if you combined Cinderella and Bang Tango you would be close. The guitarist for this band has recently appeared on releases by Eric Martin - Somewhere In The Middle", Motley Crue - "Saints of Los Angelos", Ace Frehley - "Anomaly". Also helped write songs with Aerosmith, Ozzy, Scorpions, Foreigner, and Def Leppard.

Pretty sure you can pick this one up pretty cheap.

[Metalboy!]

Thanks, Rock-It!

I'll check 'em out.

p.s. I've got most of the ones from your latest list except Sleazy, Marshall Law, FOG and Push. I'll check those, too...

[justadude]

Not sure if you all will accept it... but my all-time favourite album cover has to be:
Meatloaf "Bat out of Hell"!!
First album I ever bought, and purely because of the artwork...