Every Picture Tells a Story - 10 Album Art
by Error Finn

A good cover image has been successfully captured a piece of the disc theme or mood, symmetrical or just catching pattern and, above all, speaks to the viewer, and interest in self-recording to an eye-catching image.(That we all know)
I don´t like monster illustrated albums.I feel they are impersonal and, frankly, ugly. These are predictably, the tedious, which tend to scare and glamorous at the same time. No points, sorry. What remains is still a lot of opportunities ...I appreciate the simplicity, the use of color, humanity, insight and a sense of the situation.
Excellent example of strong colors, and the use of improvised music was record label Impulse!, which was free jazz trendsetter, was able to exploit the new format to the fullest and its LPs are any noted for their distinctive visual style. The label's trademark were black, orange and white.(This is something we all don´t know)
It is interesting to note that a significant proportion of the British pop / rock musicians (in 1960s and beyond) had been in Art Schools.There they learn the the visual, theatrical, and just like to work as a painter.When the musicians start to think like painters, and not enough to their art heard music, but it also be displayed.Sgt. Pepper album cover reveals that the musicians are artists.(The rest is history, and that is why there is a BEA)

• Chart updated: 12/02/2013 16:56
• (Created: 11/22/2013 12:42).
• Chart size: 10 albums.

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Bitches Brew 

 Miles Davis

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I'm always on my mind called this album in a Diamond.This "African Star" incredible picture has done German painter Matias Klarwein. Mati Klarwein´s (1932-2002) most famous work is inspired by surrealism and pop culture, but also reflects his interest in non-Western deities, symbolism, and landscapes."Bitches Brew" cover decidedly Afro-centric and psychedelic undertones reverberated within both the Black Power movement and the progressive counterculture of the early 70s. Ok, BB's (like Santana’s Abraxas),image has been analyzed many times, but if you own it fine on LP, place it on your wall. [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

958 charts

Rank Score:

9,364

Rank in 1970:

6

Rank in 1970s:

39

Overall Rank:

153

Average Rating:

 84 (1,198 votes)

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With The Beatles 

 The Beatles

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Released 22 November 1963 (50 years ago)same day as JFK (+ C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley) died. black and white. four people. layout. sensitivity. simple and effective. Fab Four The Image!Photo was taken by Robert Freeman. [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

514 charts

Rank Score:

2,239

Rank in 1963:

5

Rank in 1960s:

86

Overall Rank:

776

Average Rating:

 76 (1,257 votes)

Comments:

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Billion Dollar Babies 

 Alice Cooper

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The original vinyl (gatefold) contained a surprise to a billion-dollar bill.It sounds like giant inflation of the 1920s in Germany.
"Million dollar babies
Billion dollar babies
Trillion dollar babies
Zillion dollar babies
M-m-million babies
M-m-million dollar babies" They have access to the money of the United States president.Elected! [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

218 charts

Rank Score:

1,058

Rank in 1973:

33

Rank in 1970s:

311

Overall Rank:

1,604

Average Rating:

 79 (319 votes)

Comments:

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Liege & Lief 

 Fairport Convention

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Fairport Convention was generated by the folk rock in the late 1960s. At the same time, it also gave birth with a "family of great album covers".Look at these four albums (the children) for the years 1969-71 (Liege & Lief, Full House, Angel Delight and Babbacombe Lee) and you'll find them exciting visual sibling of spirituality. [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

319 charts

Rank Score:

1,851

Rank in 1969:

28

Rank in 1960s:

104

Overall Rank:

942

Average Rating:

 79 (338 votes)

Comments:

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Blue 

 Joni Mitchell

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Female.Emotional intelligence."Blue",the album image is a kind of blue, indigo blue, reminding the 50's jazz albums cover (as referring to come Mingus recordings?). Album covers look like what the inside of the music sounds.I choose this album among the first.I would not have made ​​this top ten even, if "Blue" would not have been included! [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,374 charts

Rank Score:

16,500

Rank in 1971:

6

Rank in 1970s:

20

Overall Rank:

68

Average Rating:

 85 (1,504 votes)

Comments:

114

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Sweetheart Of The Rodeo 

 The Byrds

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When the album is called "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and the album cover of "rodeo professionals," can already infer the content of the music.Somehow, I always thought that the album a picture, there is a serious attempt (Byrds point of view) to find new audiences.It was influential as the first major country-rock album. But the conservative of country friends are not cared about the album, reached # 77 on the Billboard Charts.I have always liked the album, and the beautiful album cover. [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

387 charts

Rank Score:

2,034

Rank in 1968:

19

Rank in 1960s:

96

Overall Rank:

853

Average Rating:

 77 (431 votes)

Comments:

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White Blood Cells 

 The White Stripes

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The use of color is strong. As some of Nicholas Ray's films from the 1950s: people of color against environmental color.Picture has something that really dangerous and at the same time mesmerizing great.Image watching, thinks stagnant moment.Does White Stripes love the color of red? [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

911 charts

Rank Score:

5,853

Rank in 2001:

9

Rank in 2000s:

42

Overall Rank:

285

Average Rating:

 81 (1,370 votes)

Comments:

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Cheap Thrills 

 Big Brother And The Holding Company

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We know that one picture speaks more than thousand words, but Robert Crumb comics sing better than a billion babies.A cartoon on the cover of the album!? Why not. Crumb was a hard fan of Joplin, so he, J.J and the band spent a lot of time together.My favorite here is a picture - black woman holding a baby, who is crying or singing the words:"SUMMETIME" (Gerswin Bros; vocals:Janis ARR: S. Andrew)***** [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

415 charts

Rank Score:

2,395

Rank in 1968:

16

Rank in 1960s:

82

Overall Rank:

730

Average Rating:

 79 (409 votes)

Comments:

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The Nightfly 

 Donald Fagen

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This album cover is a charming, even Film Noir-style-seeking, detailed eye-catcher.It is also a tribute to the old radio DJs, who are the artists himself. As a great friend of the radio, seeing this picture give me a nostalgic feelings.In Finland, one of the long line of well-known music journalist is quoted at this picture, by placing himself in "The Nightfly" a DJ scene. [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1982

Appears in:

339 charts

Rank Score:

2,516

Rank in 1982:

10

Rank in 1980s:

108

Overall Rank:

696

Average Rating:

 77 (378 votes)

Comments:

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Debut 

 Björk

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This angel-faced girl (28 year old woman!) is looking directly at you. She looked at me for the first time in the spring of 1994, when I bought this album.This picture does not get bored. Björk's begging gesture touch to sensual.Actually, this is even more photo like the album!Or, at least, one of the relatives thought - and he thought that the picture is my girlfriend! [First added to this chart: 11/28/2013]

Year of Release:

1993

Appears in:

768 charts

Rank Score:

5,335

Rank in 1993:

5

Rank in 1990s:

61

Overall Rank:

323

Average Rating:

 80 (1,051 votes)

Comments:

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Every Picture Tells a Story - 10 Album Art composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	4	40%
1970s	3	30%
1980s	1	10%
1990s	1	10%
2000s	1	10%
2010s	0	0%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
The Byrds	1	10%
The White Stripes	1	10%
Big Brother And The Holding Company	1	10%
Donald Fagen	1	10%
Björk	1	10%
Miles Davis	1	10%
The Beatles	1	10%
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Country	Albums	%
	6	60%
	2	20%
	1	10%
	1	10%

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