Album Covers That Involve the Songs

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I was thinking about this question, trying to come up with some good album covers that involve the songs on the album. here's the only ones I can come up with

Prince & The Revolution - Around the World in a Day
http://www.banality.nl/images/prince_aroundtheworld.jpg

Of Montreal - The Gay Parade
http://graphics.ink19.com/issues/june1999/covers/of_montreal.jpeg

Is there any other ones?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Is there? You bet them is!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Is that album good if I'm not a big fan of Janis Joplin?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Probably not. There's no way to ignore her and focus just on the instrumental parts.

Too bad for you — it's a great record.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

I'll give it a try. Maybe it's the record that will turn me around and make me love her.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

See the back cover of The Gun Club's Fire of Love.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

This?
ihttp://covertarget.com/ss.php?/audio/audiot/The_Gun_Club_-_Fire_Of_Love_-_Back.jpg

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

Precisely!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

anymore?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

phish - rift

― geoffrey armbruster, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

http://mitkadem3.homestead.com/files/King_Crimson_Lizard_Cover.jpg
King Crimson's Lizard.

I'm sure there's more that'll come to mind...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

beatles help ( not that it spells help)

― helper, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean covers that illustrate each song on the album? The first thing that comes to mind is the inner pictures on Faust - So Far but that doesn't exactly count.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

The Future Bible Heroes - Memories of Love:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005C41.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The back cover has an illustration for each song:
http://www.iheartny.com/yourenotthere/memoriesb.GIF

and the booklet has a puzzle for each song, where you have to work out the lyrics, except I can't find a pic of them and can't be bothered plugging my scanner in.

― davidsim (davidsim), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fab4collectibles.com/SHAVEDFISHcover.jpg

And, yeah, both this one and the King Crimson above illustrate every song.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

All of the songs on this album are represented on the cover and it's good fun working them out - tho it only really works if you've got the vinyl version:

http://www.marcharry.com/pss001.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boys LA Light
http://eil.com/newgallery/Beach-Boys-LA-Light-Album-209988.jpg

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f904/f90431h03d1.jpg

Although this only really involves one song on the album (actually two, if you include the number 13).

― Ross Godfrey (scatter), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H2H.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H33.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002HMH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

That last one is rather unfortunate, obv.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

how many of the songs on the album are actually about blood/spoof cocktails?

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

how many of the songs on the album are actually about blood/spoof cocktails?

Pretty much all of them as I recall.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002L7J.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Okay, it's the sleeve not the cover but Daniel Johnston's Yip/Jump music sprang to mind as worthy of a mention here:

http://photos18.flickr.com/23966508_0ebd6e29db_o.jpg

― Declan Zimmerman, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thewho.info/images/TWSO-LP-UK-A.jpg
http://www.thewho.info/images/TWSO-LP-UK-B.jpg
Not the songs, exactly: Just the fake commercials.

http://www.black-sabbath.de/lyrics/evil.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KYF.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

(Couldn't choose between 'em...)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025E6.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

An allusion to "Don't Fear the Reaper".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.vinylparadise.com/goodlp/5/driftra1.jpg

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.muhlemann.ch/os_comm/catalog/images/STONES61016.jpg

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Disco Inferno's 'In Debt' has little illustrations about each song on the inside cover.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah! I forgot about that! Good call, Sasha.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

I can't find a good image, but I think the Foreigner Head Games cover has song titles written on the bathroom stall in red.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f900/f90007tpcmi.jpg

OK, it's more the lyric "Fire in the disco" but it's the best I could come up with.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

The Four Seasons' 1969 "Genuine Imitation Life Gazette" had a cover that consisted of a newspaper front-page with stories corresponding to the songs. (Sorry, don't know how to post the image.)

In a weird twist on this theme, the cover art of Counting Crows' "August and Everything After" featured part of the handwritten lyrics of a song that was not included on the record.

― Vornado, Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Re-Illustrations

Didn't Rocket To Russia have little Holmstrom cartoons on the lyric sheet? My CD does;don't know about the LP.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

jethro tull - war child (one of the first albums i owned, oddly enough) is a great example of this, if somebody wants to post it.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Sorry this isn't larger, but I couldn't find one:

http://fingerprintz.free.fr/distinguishingmarks.jpg

― Pangolino 2, Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Marxism, thanks for that Drifters cover — I'd been trying to think of it for days and not coming up with it.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 8 July 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/140/149895.jpg
Temptations' Greatest Hits Vol. II
(Wish there was a better image.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 8 July 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

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