Rolling Best Album Covers of 2006 Thread

Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll and Ris Paul Ric's disc look like those reissues of classic novels. I forget the publisher. But the Ris Paul Ric one is crazy stupid.

http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2005/cover/artbrut.jpg
http://flagpole.com/images/jpgs/2005/11/02/recrev-rispaulpic.jpg

― kevinod (odtron5000), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

more trees

Robert Rich - Electric Ladder

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s509495.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Some good choices there, djmartian- Daedelus always has great album covers. Here's part 2 of The Exchange Sessions at Boomkat (can't find a bigger image anywhere):

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=20970

And hey, that Yrkoon cover is the Yellow Sign! Keen.

Personal favorites:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000EF7W3O.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000F1IPJC.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V54838509_.jpg
(really a 2005 album, but it just came out in the US so I'm cheating a little)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000ELL7MA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.stonesthrow.com/records/covers/baronzen-atthemall400.jpg
(No idea if the music is any good, but I like the cover)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000CQJYZ4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V56257051_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BW9AQM.02._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BW9AQW.02._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
(same artist who painted Bowie's Diamond Dogs cover)

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Liv Kristine - Enter My Religion

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s490042.jpg

Jon Gibson - Criss X Cross

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s484031.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the Baron Zen cover art is great. Too bad about the contents.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The Concretes - In Colour

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s472765.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EQ5Q86.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V57015745_.jpg

Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

http://www.allhiphop.com/reviews/soul1_rev.jpg

V/A - Soul Sides Vol. 1

http://images.derstandard.at/20060326/etiquette.jpg

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette

http://www.deftone.com/destroyer/images/thumb/3/38/Destroyer_rubies.jpg/250px-Destroyer_rubies.jpg

Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.fly.co.uk/fly/archives/toumanidiabedatesymettric.jpg

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000EPFDCQ.02._OU02_PIuk-r-fp-1149,BottomRight,10,10_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000E6UZDM.02._OU02_PIuk-r-fp-1229,BottomRight,10,10_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://www.klicktrack.com/contentproviders/locash/releases/ffl005/images/lo-fi-fnk_boylife.jpg

http://myspace-721.vo.llnwd.net/00475/12/74/475094721_m.jpg

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/780/789689.jpg
http://www.sonypictures.de/landing/emily-rose/images/start_bg.jpg

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 23 April 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/55/133892472_462e51c110_o.jpg
The Bunnybrains-A Sense of Tokyo-(Lost Frog-Japan)2006

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 24 April 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/38/133896415_432faf8910_o.jpg
Bunnybrains-untitled single art from new record(Narnack/2006)

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 24 April 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Hah cool. Did you do those, dan?

― /me aaaaaaaaaa (eman), Monday, 24 April 2006 02:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Cougars, "Pillow Talk"
http://www.wilrecords.com/fanzine/2005/cougars.jpg

― digestion (digestion), Monday, 24 April 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i didnt the top one is by simone frazier and th bottom one is by Jamie Mohr

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Architects - Nightmares

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s546736.jpg

Charles Lloyd - Sangam

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s561584.jpg

Saturnus - Veronica Decides to Die

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s507778.jpg

Russian Circles - Enter

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s544868.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Another Ze reissue cover:

http://www.zerecords.com/pictures/picture_761.jpg

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That Jesu Silver one gets my vote.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

some more:

Barzin - My Life In Rooms

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s529273.jpg

Calexico - Garden Ruin

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s464064.jpg

Cosmicdust - Snow Noise Assemblage

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s507826.jpg

Dark Fortress - Séance

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s450453.jpg

Taylor Deupree - Northern

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s556715.jpg

Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s566203.jpg

I'm Not a Gun - We Think As Instruments

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s483120.jpg

Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s452328.jpg

Leafcutter John - The Forest and the Sea

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s457068.jpg

Orbit Service - Songs Of Eta Carinae

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s567993.jpg

Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s527698.jpg

Matthew Shipp - One

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s412141.jpg

Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s531102.jpg

Ricardo Villalobos - Salvador

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s575930.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Dabrye - Two/Three

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s498400.jpg

Ramona Cordova - The Boy Who Floated Freely

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s571616.jpg

One Second Bridge - One Second Bridge

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s579055.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 21 May 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

A rateyourmusic.com user is compiling a list related to interesting 2006 album covers from an artistic / design perspective cover collective-2006 - Rate Your Music - A list by qwaszx

current count: 695 album covers

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 8 October 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

As this thread has not been updated for sometime, any further suggestions?

[Reminder, rateyourmusic.com allows the use of html code to be re-used on other websites. On the rym website click on any album album cover to find the html code]

useful starting point:

top 1000 albums of 2006
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2006

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 8 October 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

that regurgitate cover is still freaking me out, man!:

http://www.relapse.com/ecards/Regurgitate/

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 8 October 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

uh...

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens

Pearl Jam - Binaural

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(should say "Matthew Shipp - One)

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening

Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (Bad album, but cool Sgt. Pepper's-esque cover)

Beck - The Information

― Erock Lazron (Erock Zombie), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

so...."best" = "most boring", basically?

that lizzy mercier one is kind of amusing, though, i guess.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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