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Judging An Album By It's Cover

g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
edited March 2016 in Other Music
Have you ever purchased or, conversely, not purchased an album because of its art?

I have this thing about aesthetics and so I'm very partial to putting on display only the cover art in my collection that looks good. I also have a tendency to overlook albums with cover art that just doesn't look as good.

This is apparent in the way I'm gathering my Rush collection. I have all of the albums digitally but was also meaning to get them on cd, vinyl, etc, and what I noticed is that I wanted to buy the "pretty" albums first (Hold Your Fire even though the color red I like least), even though they're not personally my favorites to listen to.

I like the comic imagery the most, one of the main reasons I first got into Iron Maiden & Molly Hatchet album covers.

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Discuss judging an album cover:

Peace
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  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    edited March 2016
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    ^^^^is a good example, if cheap enough I might hit that up. :smile:

    Below when I was a teen I can remember friends showing this album all I could say was wow....

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    Then opened up to this...

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    Peace

    Post edited by g under p on
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • HobbesHobbes Posts: 6,423
    When I first saw Bowie's Blackstar. Something about the simplicity. Just beautiful.

    Black Sabbath self titled. I remember this from my youth, so I just had to have it in my collection now. I bring this one up because just last night I got lost in that album cover.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    oh yes.. I bought the eels daisies of the galaxy cause of the cover art.
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,168
    As a kid I saw Vitalogy at a record shop and was mesmerized by it's simplicity. Finding out it was PJ, and the CD was not released yet, made it even cooler.
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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,357
    I used to look through rows and rows of music to try and find new bands strictly because of the album covers.
    That's how I found Meat puppets, Soundgarden, vio lence, soul asylum to name a few.
  • gregkitefangregkitefan Posts: 1,115
    The Alice Cooper Show.
    Not that good of a live album by Cooper, but I did go back and check out some of his other great studio albums.
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