How good is your knowledge of 70s music? See if you can recognise these album covers from the decade...
Master Of Puppets is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was originally released on February 24, 1986 and was the band's last album to feature bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus crash in Sweden while touring to promote the album. The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 and became the first thrash metal album to be certified platinum. Track Listing: SIDE ONE: Battery (5:12) Master of Puppets (8:35) The Thing That Should Not Be (6:36) Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (6:27) SIDE TWO: Disposable Heroes (8:16) Leper Messiah (5:40) Orion (8:27) Damage, Inc. (5:32) Remastered by Howie Weinberg at Howie Weinberg Mastering, Los Angeles CAVinyl Lacquer Cutting by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Los Angeles CA
Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ was released on September 21, 1993, becoming an instant No.1 and helping to shape the direction of rock in the 1990s.
Back in the day, when you purchased a new record, you not only got a slab of great rock music but also a beautiful rock album cover worthy of framing.
Who wouldn't like to see their favorite rock album covers leap to life? That's precisely what you'll find here as we look at these animated album covers.
On August 8, 1969, The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ album cover photo was taken, resulting in one of the most famous artworks in history.
Back in the day, when you purchased a new record, you not only got a slab of great rock music but also a beautiful rock album cover worthy of framing.
Back in the day, when you purchased a new record, you not only got a slab of great rock music but also a beautiful rock album cover worthy of framing.
Vinyl LP reissue from 2003. Original lead vocalist Bon Scott left a kickin' legacy on this classic AC/DC album from 1979. His tragic passing in early 1980 overshadowed the album's success, but he left the charts burning with the hits \"Highway to Hell\" (#47 on the Billboard Hot 100), \"Girls Got Rhythm\" and \"Touch Too Much.\" Famed producer Mutt Lange also helped push the band's envelope, and the album peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200 chart. Through the advances in digital technology, the classic was successfully remastered with a greater clarity and intensity in 2003. The vinyl LP remains a masterpiece of hard rock.
Here are 27 more classic rock and heavy metal albums featuring great cover art, including Van Halen, "1984," T. Rex, "Electric Warrior," and Megadeth, "Countdown to Extinction."
Back in the day, when you purchased a new record, you not only got a slab of great rock music but also a beautiful rock album cover worthy of framing.
From Black Sabbath to Metallica, Rolling Stone picks the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.
We love listening to a wide range of music at TensionWIRE, but we never forget the classics. Below are a few of our favorite go-to punk and rock album covers for your viewing enjoyment. Of course we left a bunch of good ones out, but dont worry just post them below. Great album art does more then describe the music, it beomes part of the experience. - See more at: 20 best punk and rock album covers
When you look at the cover of an album, you should know exactly how it sounds. It may seem like an odd conundrum, but the artwork of a record can often — whether subconsciously or explicitly -— affect one's experience with the music within. Maybe it's an elaborate, commissioned piece of art. Maybe it's a photo that captures just the right kind of moment. Whatever the sleeve is, we know a great one when we see it, as it intrinsically ties our emotions to the music. Of course an immensely popular album, while immediately recognizable, doesn't necessarily mean that its cover is legendary — just popular. Thus when it comes to listing the most iconic album covers of all time, legendary artists like Michael Jackson, for example, won't make the cut here, as his album covers are just that: extremely popular. Topics like this are meant to inspire healthy debate, so let's dive into this list of the "most iconic album covers of all time." Let's find out how they came to be and why they remain hallmarks of any music lov
A deconstruction of the cover art for the Journey album Escape.
Let's look at the 20 best album covers of all time. Why are they the best? And how can we design one of the same caliber? Let's find out.
Deluxe reissue of Queen's 1974 sophomore album, QUEEN 2.
Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003, with a slight update in 2012.
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Truly iconic album covers don’t just define an album, they define an era, a generation and, in some cases, an entire musical genre.
Here are 27 more classic rock and heavy metal albums featuring great cover art, including Van Halen, "1984," T. Rex, "Electric Warrior," and Megadeth, "Countdown to Extinction."
From AC/DC and Black Sabbath to Queen, the Rolling Stones, Rush and more, we’ve selected the very best classic rock vinyl you need to have in your collection
How good is your knowledge of 70s music? See if you can recognise these album covers from the decade...
Selection include 'Nevermind,' 'London Calling' and 'Sticky Fingers'
**Album cover art** is often considered to be one of the "extincted" fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores. That's a pity because album covers can be extremely expressive and convey the message of the album in a number of creative ways. This post attempts to prove exactly that.
**Album cover art** is often considered to be one of the "extincted" fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores. That's a pity because album covers can be extremely expressive and convey the message of the album in a number of creative ways. This post attempts to prove exactly that.
On the eve of their shows at London's Tate Modern, see all the album covers by seminal electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk
Truly iconic album covers don’t just define an album, they define an era, a generation and, in some cases, an entire musical genre.
Here are 27 more classic rock and heavy metal albums featuring great cover art, including Van Halen, "1984," T. Rex, "Electric Warrior," and Megadeth, "Countdown to Extinction."
In the heyday of vinyl, followed by CDs, album cover art was just that: an art form. Musicians used the images on their albums to express their personalities and capture the themes of that collection of their songs. Other artists have used weird album covers to push the boundaries of social norms. .
Queen, that most chameleon-like or even dare I say it 'mercurial' of bands (damn that pun and the horse it rode in on), was as tough to pin down visually as they were musically, following trends or even creating them as quited their whims. Yet they were markedly image-conscious, and that's an important part of their - or, to be more specific, of Freddie Mercury's - legacy. From groundbreaking early music videos to live performances... and the album covers themselves. Like the album contents, the album covers are on occasion magnificent but frustratingly erratic. There are some deviations here that do stray from the bounds of good taste - and yet I should add that 'camp' was an important part of this band as well. It's tough to be sure when the tongue is in the cheek and when it isn't: it's tempting to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that whenever it gets cheesy, it's intentionally so. Queen: Freddie Mercury, arms aloft, holding a mic stand on a stage somewhere in the universe, under the spotlight: from the very get-go, before even anyone had any idea who they were, how could they have such a fully-developed sense of their own ethos and of how to mythologise themselves? A truly beautiful cover and arresting opening salvo. Queen II:Odd that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is not on this album, since its cover seems to be a still from that songs' iconic video. Again, then - the mythologising is intact. There's a lot of hair on this cover, and some cheesy paper-and-scissors editing. But it's still impressive. Sheer Heart Attack:And this... isn't. There's no allure here, nothing to clue you into the fact that they're anything other than a terribly generic hard-rock band. A Night at the Opera: Here's the great leap forward. The title is from a Marx Brothers movie, but otherwise it's all pomp and circumstance, like they just realised that their band name implies regal underpinnings. So a kind of a coat-of-arms. This is one of those albums that you ponder every time you see it in a second-hand bin. It just forces you to. A Day at the Races:An obvious sequel - not designed as a two-part 'Use Your Illusion'-style project as I had always assumed, this is merely the follow-up: black to the original's white, even though this is 'day' to its 'night'. Diminished returns, though, which describes the music as well. News of the World:A big sci-fi move - taken from some sci-fi book or something. A huge robot appears to have speared some people with its finger. It has little to do with the band whose music is inside it, but it's still an intriguing image. Jazz: Something a bit weirder. Queen are starting to lose the plot a bit, I think - musically as well as visually. This is a geometric Spirograph cover-o-nothing, with the band's name five times and a little bicycle rider 18 times. Yes, I counted. The Game: The four of them, all badass, tough as leather. In front of a drum riser. They're just as rock as you can get, aren't they? Funny they're about to abandon that genre. Flash Gordon: This soundtrack cover is very yellow. And that's all I can say about it. Hot Space:Queen go disco, with a decent cover that evokes the era perfectly. Blur ripped it off. But no-one in Blur had an awesome moustache. The Works:Embarrassed by their disco deviation, Queen go back to being four regular blokes, sitting on the ground in front of their shadows looking very everyman. Aren't they about to dress in drag for their video? A Kind of Magic:Pretty horrid, though at least you can make no mistake about what decade this album was released in. Blue superhero cartoon characters? Well, why not? The Miracle: This rather ugly beast is much maligned. But what is really is is a decent idea that didn't quite come off, presenting the four of them as a single crazy-mutated beast. But the eyes disturb, as for some reason does Brian May's shoulder. Innuendo: A jester juggles the universe while standing in a pile of earths. It's an interesting enough cover, but it's not clear what, if anything, it has to do with Queen. This was the last Queen album released during Freddie Mercury's life. Made in Heaven: I didn't like this cover until I saw that it wasn't Mercury himself but a statue of him, in Switzerland. The conceit is pretty tacky as it's misty-eyed, but for some reason I bite my tongue and allow myself to be impressed by it. This posthumous album features Mercury's ghost; so, then, does its cover. This is not really all there is: there have been any number of compilations since then (including the one that puts Queen hits in alphabetical order) and an unfortunately large number of releases featuring the three living ones that use the name Queen. But that's all just packaging. In reality, when Freddie Mercury died, so did Queen.
Over the decades, artist and musicians have worked together to create albums where the cover art is as memorable as the music itself
The 100 greatest album covers of all time, from Elvis Presley to Public Enemy to Lana Del Rey.
The Beatles' album covers are works of art in their own right, proving that cover art can be so much more than a simple advertisement.
