Sunless Shortlist: Best Covers
Okay, here are the best covers I have in my collection. If the worst covers was difficult, this list was damn near impossible. I narrowed down this list from around thirty or so albums. Here goes:
American Music Club - Mercury
Beulah - Yoko
Ah, symmetry. Like a still from a Wes Anderson movie.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
I freaking love this cover. When I was a senior in high school, this picture of Nick Cave is exactly what I wanted to look like. Everybody else says he looks like a heroin addict. Well he was. I didn't care. I wanted to look like Nick Cave.
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Yeah, so dirty. Okay so it's Jane Birkin, and she's 25 here. But the inference is that she's a very young girl. Lolita-ish. Pretty cool.
James - Pleased to Meet You
Looks normal. Upon further inspection, something weird is going on here. After looking at the similarly shot portraits of the band inside for a great long while, I figured it out. I'll let One of the Three explain it.
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
It look many months of urging from my friends to finally pick this album up. I kept picking it up at the store, but kept resisting. I don't know why. Judging from the cover, I assumed they were more like Spiritulized, or the Suede, or something.... stuff I was totally not into in 2001. Eventually I got it and loved it. Totally didn't expect the sound. It didn't fit the cover, so it kind of became iconic to me.
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Crappy album. Great cover. Storm Thorgerson is so cool. More than anything else about it, I love the mystery.
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
I was obsessed with all of the pictures on this album for a long time. Even the pictures inside are fascinating and bizarre. Classic stuff.
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Red Riding Hoods meets the Imperial Guards from The Empire Strikes Back. Yeah, it's all supposed to be a real look at Red Riding Hood, but it always reminds me of the Imperial Guards.
American Music Club - Mercury
Oh so pretty and a perfect setting for this album. I don't know what it is. I assume it's a real location. Pretty cool though, whatever this place is.
Beulah - Yoko
Ah, symmetry. Like a still from a Wes Anderson movie.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
I freaking love this cover. When I was a senior in high school, this picture of Nick Cave is exactly what I wanted to look like. Everybody else says he looks like a heroin addict. Well he was. I didn't care. I wanted to look like Nick Cave.
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Yeah, so dirty. Okay so it's Jane Birkin, and she's 25 here. But the inference is that she's a very young girl. Lolita-ish. Pretty cool.
James - Pleased to Meet You
Looks normal. Upon further inspection, something weird is going on here. After looking at the similarly shot portraits of the band inside for a great long while, I figured it out. I'll let One of the Three explain it.
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
It look many months of urging from my friends to finally pick this album up. I kept picking it up at the store, but kept resisting. I don't know why. Judging from the cover, I assumed they were more like Spiritulized, or the Suede, or something.... stuff I was totally not into in 2001. Eventually I got it and loved it. Totally didn't expect the sound. It didn't fit the cover, so it kind of became iconic to me.
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Crappy album. Great cover. Storm Thorgerson is so cool. More than anything else about it, I love the mystery.
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
I was obsessed with all of the pictures on this album for a long time. Even the pictures inside are fascinating and bizarre. Classic stuff.
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Red Riding Hoods meets the Imperial Guards from The Empire Strikes Back. Yeah, it's all supposed to be a real look at Red Riding Hood, but it always reminds me of the Imperial Guards.
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Wilco's album covers just keep getting more and more fascinating. This picture just blows my mind. It's a simple black and white image, with a complicated image. It's the starkness of chaos, or something. Beautiful.
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