Greatest Back Covers

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Front covers have been done to death, but what of the reverse side? It normally contains track details, copyright information etc, but there have sure been some stunners regardless of this.

The Beta Band did absolutely brilliant back covers, for a start. What are your favourites?

(CD or vinyl)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Loverboy Get Lucky (the picture of them running in red tights to live glory)

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think 80s "power-pop" and metal bands are going to pwn this thread.

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Can - Limited Edition has the best front and back pairing ever. I posted them once a long time ago, but can't remember the thread.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Smell the Glove

― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Goatse - CX

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

ha! on my CD version the front cover on the live disc is the back cover on the studio one and vice versa. both are indeed awesome, though, so OTM.

xxpost

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Faith No More "Angel Dust"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Funkadelic, Free Your Mind... etc.

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Add 70s funk/r&b groups to this as well... those highly electrified italic fonts! The Ohio Players ones are top rank.

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

(despite the Ohio Players not using the italics)

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta love a covers thread with no images.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

TELL AN AMAZON COM TO INCLUDE BACK COVERS THAN BE SARKARSTICK

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

all my parades are pissed on, Doughnut, it's part of the harsh way of life here.

May as well go down fighting: the reverse cover of Mansun's Six is MUCH better than the oft-derided front.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://foreverill.com/interviews/post87/bestcov2.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 12 August 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, this is the one I actually meant:

http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/images/wwl-back.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 12 August 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006LLOG.03.BACK.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 12 August 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

The number of hours I spent trying to figure out if that was real...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 12 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

There can only be one- you can see Geezer Butler's checkered y-fronts!
ihttp://www.gnarf.org/~klaatu/urc/Black_Sabbath_-_Sabotage-back.jpg

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Saturday, 12 August 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

la düsseldorf _viva_, for the dude with the camel.
daniel johnston _artistic vice_ for the sweet shot of his "band," aka the bunch of west virginian natives wearing bat man the movie t-shirts and the likes.

worst/most-played-out back cover idea: the front cover reversed.

― Dan Gr (certain), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 12 August 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: XTC's Black Sea perhaps the worst culprit.

Mogwai's Happy Songs For Happy People hides the 'F' of 'For' on the back cover, giving the title an apparently new spin.

I LOVE the cowboy dude on the flipside of The Sophtware Slump, carrying his synthesiser off into the night in a last stand against technological failure in the 1880's Midwest (or whatever it is).

Yanqui UXO has a brilliant flipside depending on where your political beliefs lie, and Slow Riot... tells one and all how a Molotov cocktail might be made.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ice T - Power

It shows T and Evil E's guns and Darlene's assets

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LF6.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, found it:

http://www.rarerecords.com.au/photos/9562-2.jpg

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Danny A just pwned this thread so badly.

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://porktornado.diaryland.com/images/letmetouch1.jpg

― slick dickens (slickdickens), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/Cover3Back.jpg

― slick dickens (slickdickens), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

shiny orange bellbottoms are the bomb!

― slick dickens (slickdickens), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta love a covers thread with no images.

Right, here's mine once again - the whole thing, in all it's glory:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Funkadelic_free_your_mind_g.gif

― Monty Von Booty (Monty Von Byonga), Sunday, 13 August 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, wait. An absolute stormer (arf) and perhaps my all-time favourite... Verve's A Storm In Heaven. I don't know why, but it somehow just rules.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Sunday Manoa - Guava Jam

Te Front cover looks like this:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/1.jpg

The Back cover looks like this:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/2.jpg

― grady (grady), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

aka "If you look closely, you can see the world's most bizarre game of badminton going on in the background"

― Scourage (Haberdager), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

That's Bill Ward with the see through pants on Sabotage, not Geezer

― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

sorry that picture's kind of shakey... i wish i could do it better justice... i can just sit and look at the real thing forever.

it should also be noted that Guava Jam was named the #2 Greatest Hawaiian Album of all time in this book.

― grady (grady), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Trout Mask Replica

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

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