QotD: Art over Music
What are your three favorite album covers of all-time? Any honorable mentions?
Question submitted by Tamara.
The way she's standing there, androgynous and beautiful, getting ready to deliver the greatest opening line of any rock album in history: "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine..."
The whole album, the whole era perfectly captured in Robert Mapplethorpe's calmly confrontational photo...
"Out of light cometh darkness"
A coat of arms on an outhouse door, madness and sex and chaos, looking for transcendence while dancing in the mud...
Comments
Rock on with the Patti Smith. I'm so proud of knowing about her sometimes that I try to keep it to myself.
i have Easter on vinyl, and i have kept it on the top of a leaning stack of records, facing outward, for many months. i think "i should put those records away," then i look at patti's armpit and leave them where they are.
I never understood why the album layout changed so dramatically between the LP and CD release. The LP is a work of pure art (same goes for the Blue Monday 12")