This is a one-time only, strictly Limited Ddition box set, never to be remade, showcasing why Devo was, and still is, one of the most important bands in American history. De-evolution is real. The art of Devo is real. Here is the evidence. Art is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer, featuring performances recorded in 1960 and originally released on the Argo label. [1] :18 Farmer stated in 1995 that the album, which consists mainly of ballads, was his favorite. The image of a baby grasping at a dollar bill became one of grunge’s coolest and most enduring symbols, an album cover that captured the attitude of Nevermind and the era. The baby in question, Spencer Elden, even recreated the photo 25 years later. as their life’s calling, likening it to the art of comedy. “It’s putting someone at ease, helping their

Each one of Sinatra’s Capitol-era album covers was cool and classic in its own way, from the lonely scenes on the ballad albums to the visual swagger on the swingers. The cover of Come Fly With Me caught both Sinatra’s natural charisma and the allure of the jet-set era.Though Steely Dan was long associated with Los Angeles, the cover for Pretzel Logic (actually shot at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street) looks, feels, and tastes like New York. Frank Zappa wrapped his skewering of hippie culture We’re Only In It for the Moneyin an equally vicious parody of the famous Sgt. Pepper album cover to great success. 72: The Pogues: Peace and Love (design by Simon Ryan) One of the greatest joke album covers, the boxer was already a perfect image for the Pogues, but don’t miss the subtle bit of play here. (The word “peace” of course has five letters.) 71: Rush: Moving Pictures (design by Hugh Syme)

If The Beatles could do a double “ White Album,” the Bee Gees could do a fuzzy red one. The red velvet cover, with gold embossed lettering, served notice that Odessa was going to be unique and beautiful, which it was. Matthew Cooper, Designer mrcooper – cover art credits for Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Noel Gallagher. Best Art Vinyl 2016 winner for Last Shadow Puppets – 'Everything You've Come toExpect' Most of Pink Floyd’s covers would be in the running for a list of the greatest album covers, but we wanted to highlight something that wasn’t Dark Side of the Moon. This burst of Storm Thorgerson / Hipgnosis imagination features four versions of the same photo (except that the band rotates one position in each), matching their sense of surrealism. 58: Metallica: …And Justice For All (design by Stephen Gorman) For her debut solo album, Courtney Love took the Cars’ concept a step further by enlisting the younger, edgier pin-up artist (known professionally as Olivia) to paint her. Of course, it got an extra dimension by playing with Love’s own image at the time. 89: The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (design by Michael Cooper)On the more provocative end of the spectrum, Drake made headlines with his album Certified Lover Boy in the summer. The cover art, designed by Damien Hirst, features rows of multiracial pregnant emojis, drawing parallels with Hirst’s spot artworks – and much derision online. In typical 2021 fashion, Hirst recently reimagined the cover design as a series of artworks and minted them as NFTs. The abstraction of the Talking Heads’ beautiful, moving-parts cover for their 1983 record Speaking in Tongues couldn’t have better represented the music within. It would have been rated higher if the thing wasn’t so tough to store. 73: The Mothers of Invention: We’re Only In It for the Money (design by Cal Schenkel) It was weird, it was witty, it was Warhol. The famous minimalism of The Velvet Underground & Nico peel-away banana album cover became an influence on punk visual style many years later and remains one of the greatest album covers. Best Art Vinyl 2021 winners join an impressive Art Vinyl archive of celebrated visual artists. Notably including the Hipgnosis design studio, legendary classical Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel, as well as the many unknown, unsung heroes of the music industry, who use design to create modern-day visual icons. Full Archives Here. The Led Zeppelin “III” cover is a far more Original and Iconic Cover even though “HOTH” is one of Hipgnosis’ most beautiful designs. It should, however, have been pictured with the “Belly-Belt”.

The cover for Ten Out Of 10 remains one of Hipgnosis’ fiendishly clever 10cc covers and one of their more overlooked albums. Here they’re on the 10th floor of a hotel standing at the precipice, and only one of the guys seems concerned about it. 54: Thelonious Monk: Underground (photo by Horn Grinner Studios; art direction/design: John Berg and Richard Mantel) The ubiquitous Hipgnosis team outdid itself with this ultra-clever 10cc sleeve, which is not only inspired by one of the songs (the phone sex-themed “Don’t Hang Up”) but is full of hidden gags, with the same people turning up in each of the four main photos. 17: XTC: Go 2 (design by Hipgnosis) Known for his alchemistic collaborations with the late artists MF Doom and J Dilla, and his remixes of Blue Note Records,Madlib’salbum Sound Ancestors was a rare instance of the lauded music producer releasing a solo record –sort of. Although the base material was created solely byMadlib, the record was arranged and mastered by Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, over the course of several years. Jefferson Airplane’s Long John Silver hails from the golden age of elaborate album covers. Since people were already using LPs to store and clean marijuana, the Airplane gave you a cardboard box holder for it, along with the pot, or at least a realistic-looking photo. 94: Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (design by Kenneth Cappello) I totally Agree with the one that Requested “Crime Of The Century” rather than “Breakfast In America” of Supertramp’s Covers.All the Ohio Players covers were legendary, and the early Westbound ones were considerably more daring than the hit-era ones for Mercury. As the band often claimed, fewer people would have bought the albums if they’d put themselves on the covers. 30: The Louvin Brothers: Satan is Real (design by Ira Louvin) One of the psych era’s great hallucinations, the famous album cover for Moby Grape’s 1968 double LP Wow showed an otherworldly landscape with the world’s largest bunch of grapes. Wow indeed. 77: Kayne West: Yeezus (design by Kanye West and Virgil Abloh) Anyone who went to plays or read the New York Times in the 70s will recognize the work of the line-drawing caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, who did his magic on Aerosmith’s members here. As always, his daughter Nina’s name was hidden a few times in this famous album cover. 64: Eric B. & Rakim: Paid in Full (design by Ron Contarsy) RCA wasted no time in cleaning up Elvis, who’d look completely respectable on all future albums. Meanwhile, his debut allowed him to look like the crazed hillbilly everyone’s parents feared he was, captured in mid-song at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida. Which of course leads us to… 2: The Clash: London Calling (photo by Pennie Smith, design by Ray Lowry) It may be a more glamorous cover after her first two, but this photo of PJ Harvey – in which she could easily be mistaken for Shakespeare’s Ophelia – implied that a newer, softer image comes at a cost.

Several months before working on the album I watched a documentary that touched on the similarities between shapes created incymatic(sound wave visualisation) experiments and the structures of primitive lifeforms. The documentary speculated that perhaps sound could have had something to do with the origin of life,” Errol F Richardson, who worked on the design, told us. “When I first heard the album title, I immediately thought about the possibility that sound could be, in a way, our ancestor.” Robert Fripp saw this dramatic painting after In the Court of the Crimson King was completed and knew it perfectly suited the music, with the crazed cover figure as the 21st century schizoid man. Sadly, the artist passed away only months afterwards. 78: Moby Grape: Wow (design by Bob Cato) Listen here 57: The Mamas & The Papas: If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (design by Guy Webster) All of Madonna’s album covers are striking in their own way, but there’s something special about her 1983 self-titled debut. She looks like she can see everything that’s going to happen to her in the next 40 years. 55: 10cc: Ten Out Of 10 (design by Hipgnosis)Psychedelic album covers were an art form in themselves, and the explosion of color (with the band looking suitably avuncular) made Cream’s Disraeli Gears one of the definitive ones. The designer also wrote one of the album’s most vivid lyrics on “Tales of Brave Ulysses.” The perfect cover for a cool, sensual and futuristic concept album, this captures Janelle Monáe’s depth and mystery and is a beautiful piece of art in its own right. 26: Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (design by Mati Klarwein) The more commonly known US cover is nice enough but makes it look like a conventional singer-songwriter album and Kate Bushis anything but. We’re referring to the original UK “kite” cover that introduced the strangeness and sensuality that Bush was all about. 27: Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer (design by Joe Perez ) Why in the world did Humble Pie get a bunch of policemen to form a human pyramid? Because they could, of course. 39: The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream (design by Dino Danelli)