Album covers that captured your brain with their enigmatic design, locking your brain on the goal of hearing the music within?

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http://www.din.or.jp/~wild7/ongaku/image2/neu2.jpg

― absolutego (ex machina), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.din.or.jp/~wild7/ongaku/image2/neu2.jpg ihttp://www.southern.com/southern/band/CRASS/pics/07007L.jpg

― absolutego (ex machina), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000G1IU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Matt Burr (stingy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Still haven't heard it yet, though.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000063U.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.subpop.com/bands/dwarves/dwarves-67.gif

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LEE.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I picked this up having not heard a single note off of it, but couldn't help thinking that a sleeve like this couldn't possibly contain a boring album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I was right, of course.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://mapage.noos.fr/francois.lerolle/disques3/horaceand2.jpg

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://plasmatics.profuselyorange.net/essays/valley1.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002WDA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, are the album covers in this thread required to have made you buy them without ever having HEARD of the band?

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(..because I was already a Poppies fan when I got this... my brain was still captured by the album cover though.)

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001G0I.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

While I'd heard of the band via a friend of mine who apparently knew and had a crush on one of them, i'd never heard or seen what they'd looked/sounded like until I spotted this album in a shop. Given my friend's tastes, I'd assumed they were some schmaltzey celtic pop act. Once I saw the cover, not only was I convinced that this was not to be the case, but I HAD TO TO HEAR IT!.....and it was magnificent.

http://virginprunes.com/archives/if-i-die-i-die.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://guitarplanet.free.fr/blueoysterimaginos.jpg
Classic spooky, menacing BOC album cover, just like in the olden days, this hinted at the exciting prospect of the best Cult LP in a decade. (Wrong, oh so wrong.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sonymusicstore.com/coverimages/SME_0101_CK_085481.70Q_200x200_72dpi_RGB.jpg

― chad (chad), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently tits sell records

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

tits can sell anything

― jmeister (jmeister), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

so true

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003KZF.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 2 April 2005 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Had I not known of them already I stil would've bought Starry Crowns' debut EP for the cover alone:

http://www.splendidezine.com/reviews/mar-21-05/starry.gif

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://plaatjes.hemisphere.nl/154825.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://swans.pair.com/IMG_PRODUCTS/whitelight.jpg http://swans.pair.com/IMG_PRODUCTS/loveoflife.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 10 April 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I pretty much started listening to B12 all because of seeing the cover to Time Tourists. That and Claro by Brothomstates.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.angelair.force9.co.uk/sjpcd117.jpg http://www.klangundkleid.ch/img/covers/2004-9-18-12-30-8-good-girls-gone-bad.jpg http://www.musicmeter.nl/images/covers/14000/14105.jpg ('cept it was actually the "Onion Soup" single that I saw ... same design though, pretty much) http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg200/g216/g21676xt49y.jpg

― babyalive (babyalive), Sunday, 10 April 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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