Album covers (and inserts) with little illustrations based on all the song titles

This seems to have disappeared to link rot upthread, so here it is again, sorry.

https://i.imgur.com/SNpgi39.jpg

Kraftwerk, "Ralf & Florian"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLtEjuuVYAAwK5B.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLtEfDgUQAUnZKp.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLtEc4gVAAAwg06.jpg

https://cdn.smehost.net/billyjoelcom-uslegacyprod/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/15_riverofdreams_1000px.jpg

Billy Joel, River of Dreams (cover art by Christie Brinkley)

https://imgur.com/download/CoW9sGc
https://imgur.com/download/TdsF8ws

https://img.discogs.com/sRg7WS7QbRQOtC7NFuD--2mOK0w=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6611046-1509650617-9447.jpeg.jpg

http://www.aphextwin.nu/images/interviewsarticles/saw2faq-03-x.jpg

Genesis, A Trick of the Tail.
I'm not sure if all the songs are illustrated here, but all the illustrations are certainly taken from the lyrics on the album... the satyr from the title track, the old woman in the mirror from Ripples, the huntsman from Squonk, etc.

http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/images/trickofthetail_uk_lp_front.jpg

http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/images/trickofthetail_uk_lp_inner1.jpg
http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/images/trickofthetail_uk_lp_inner2.jpg

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

great posts y'all. typing up some recent ones in case of later image loss:

Various Artists - The World of Rock n Fun
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug Band
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2340796478_10.jpg

Darren Hayman (ex-Hefner frontperson) had a really lovely album called '12 Astronauts' last year - I got the package that came with nice collector cards for each astronaut.

1. Spaceman No More (Neil Armstrong)
2. Low Orbit (Buzz Aldrin)
3. Timber Cove (Pete Conrad)
4. Alan Bean (Alan Bean)
5. Don't Clip My Wings (Alan Sheppard)
6. Hard Disk in the Sky (Edgar Mitchell)
7. Major Sunday (David Scott)
8. Genesis Rock (James Irwin)
9. 100% Oxygen (John Young)
10. Duke's Dream (Charles Duke)
11. It's Geology (Harrison Schmitt)
12. Things We Left Behind (Gene Cernan)

"Hits of '77" (comp of Mrs Pottinger productions):

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HITS-OF-77-scaled.jpg

Nice one.

https://img.discogs.com/vGEuMPS13PmcV2W-bqQ5r9Oh_0g=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14366305-1573423706-5169.jpeg.jpg

dan hicks & his hot licks - where's the money?

Alison Statton & Spike: "Bimini Twist"
https://i.imgur.com/AMecr7b.jpg

Kevin Blechdom
Bitches without Britches

https://img.discogs.com/kStUnGjrmf2LIiGAqOgMopAJqfs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-185041-1487334637-1742.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/UVoZUPYW487ekYou4-BNcYiftCU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-185041-1487334655-2245.jpeg.jpg

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story (back cover)

https://img.discogs.com/y7r-tmjqYexQkxPA6hFvVldTgOY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-603424-1437940137-6249.jpeg.jpg

(wonder why "Amazing Grace" didn't get an illustration)

great selections, all

"Amazing Grace" is not listed on the label on most editions

The booklet for Taylor Swift’s Fearless: Platinum Edition features some amusingly cheesy (and, as they say, “yawnsomely literal”) photo tableaus illustrating many of the songs.

On the flip side, all of the song titles on Mike Watt's "hyphenated-man" are based on illustrations, specifically the creatures in Heironymous Bosch paintings, like "Arrow-Pierced-Egg-Man" and "Head-And-Feet-Only-Man."

Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
Booklet has little illustrations for each song

http://www.saintetiennedisco.com/full/tfth/b2cd/b2cd.html

Not sure any of it was included in the original album packaging, but Peter Gabriel’s Us album had a set of art pieces inspired by each song that were used on posters etc

https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/merch/art-from-us-catalogue

The gatefold of Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren has little photos illustrating each song, taken by Ron Mael of Sparks!

Rod Stewart's Foot Loose And Fancy Free came with a big booklet with illustrations for each track. Viewable here

Lou Reed's Berlin also came with a booklet with photos for each song, viewable here

Elsa Lanchester - Songs for a Shuttered Parlor

https://i.imgur.com/A9GVOs3.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/KXS5PNhFGzuqkSPSORR4X5K80Xg=/fit-in/600x633/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8493406-1482988606-1227.jpeg.jpg
the moon - s/t (kind of, maybe? some of them at least)

https://img.discogs.com/CGTF0v3c3uYSNNAcU-ZRjWkFivs=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4308014-1533137773-4744.jpeg.jpg
joe south - games people play (pickwick compilation)

https://i.discogs.com/LlP7GI3XeFKFXo0SM-dXLXfCb51DToadve6gztjeCTA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:473/w:473/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyODgz/OS0xMTI3OTU0NTA1/LmpwZWc.jpeg

Future Bible Heroes – Memories Of Love booklet has a puzzle for every song.

Great additions. The Elsa Lanchester one is quietly very strange.

Elsa Lanchester bravely paving the way for Tori & the Strange Little Girls booklet.

Mrs Badger-Butts???

The Madness by The Madness #onethread

The album's sleeve was designed by Dave Gibbons and Rian Hughes.[10] On the back-sleeve each song listed was accompanied with a small drawing in similar style to the album's cover – resembling a face.[11]

huh, nobody said "rocket to russia" yet unless it was one of the numerous broken pic links

I did the sleevenotes for the The Madness reissue!

Cool!

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/63ff7c7bbf5a7e7985f23002/1:1/w_600/Young-Nudy-Gumbo.jpg

young nudy - gumbo

Traffic, "When the Eagle Flies"

https://i.discogs.com/dxOc-0yN8OpR-kAtjKPQhhNEUXDONMOw5OrmwB4ptWQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:572/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyNTE3/NS0xMzUwMzIzMzk4/LTY5MTguanBlZw.jpeg https://i.discogs.com/5tMdpV7dh_96mhqujfbKnQC_vnzQ3wCQX26Qgbi2p7U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:579/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyNTE3/NS0xMzUwMzIzNDE1/LTQ5OTQuanBlZw.jpeg

excellent

From another Traffic related album - Jim Capaldi, "Whale Meat Again"

https://i.discogs.com/Oi0_9QCZUvO7LTALjQUblVHAeWYiftt3rhjSRfm_nm4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzMDg4/MTMtMTM4MjgwNzgx/NC0xOTg5LmpwZWc.jpeg https://i.discogs.com/ViApYa9_lTCljeYSQdzXeQQ3RstTr2XNjIOJ6ilveG8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzMDg4/MTMtMTM4MjgwNzc1/NS0zMDg3LmpwZWc.jpeg

... oops...

https://i.discogs.com/-x0vZNGtw_gnQU5wu5UteN4DXlGYQhMkcASPEi0F9rM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzMDg4/MTMtMTM4MjgwNzc1/NS0zMDg3LmpwZWc.jpeg

niiice. that one's a legend in other threads for the title; had no idea the insides delivered as well. the "It's All Right" one has a hilarious desperation about it.

ELP's Tarkus has this in the gatefold, seven drawings which correspond to the different sections of the title track, although the lyrics don't really match the drawings. though they do match the titles of the section. it's kinda weird, I suspect there's no overarching concept just the band doing two things at once