Thelonius Monk, Underground
Smell the Glove
It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
The uncensored version of Spinal Tap - Smell the Glove.
Its hard not to love aqualung especially the text but especially the art but especially the way it relates to all the songs.
The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. Probably the darkest record ever made, and it starts with the striking cover design. From the Wikipedia article:
"The album cover, designed by Richey Edwards while hospitalised, features a triptych by Jenny Saville depicting three perspectives on the body of an obese woman in her underwear, and is titled Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face). Saville gave her permission for use of her work for free after a discussion with Edwards in which he described each song on the album. The back cover features a photo of the band in military uniforms and a quote taken from Octave Mirbeau’s book The Torture Garden …
… The lyrics booklet features various images including Christian iconography, photographs of the gate at Dachau concentration camp and a plan of the gas chambers at Belsen concentration camp, a photograph of Lenin’s corpse, an engraving depicting an execution by guillotine in Revolutionary France, a picture of an apple, a photograph of a woman with a parasitic twin, photographs of each of the Manic Street Preachers as children and a photograph of a group of British policemen in gas-masks"
Image here
Big fan of that album. It’s made much darker if you know the whole story of Richey and his disappearance.
Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Thrifts stores are littered with them. I think people got it just for the cover.
Also Spiritual Healing
I just learned about the original album artwork for Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction which goes pretty hard
That’s in the inner liner.
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering. The original album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been sawed in half by Joel-Peter Witkin)
Fresh White Reeboks Kickin Your Ass by Nigel Pepper Cock is a very visibly hard album cover
Dayglo Abortions - Feed US A Fetus
Great thread idea - you might also enjoy !albumartporn@lemmy.world, which has some pretty out-there covers.
I’ll nominate Abraxas by Santana which has a lot to take in!
Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
I prefer the simple classics:
Mayhem - The Dawn of the Black Hearts,
Look up at your own peril, this comes with trigger warnings
I told my wife about that one a while ago, she was not impressed
Mayhem really lived up to their name
