Top Record Covers in the Last 50 Years
24 items ranked
This field of contemporary design is particularly interesting. A record cover should express three different identities: album, band and graphic design artist. Here are the most popular record covers.
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1.
Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon
Iconic
70 points - added 5 years ago by redbarron80 -
2.
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
63 points - added 5 years ago by redbarron80 -
3.
Beatles Abbey road
42 points - added 5 years ago by redbarron80 -
4.
Blondie, Parallel lines, 1978
A nice combination of the 70s naive attitude with an introspective twist from the 80s.
13 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
5.
Nirvana, Nevermind, 1991
8 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
6.
Yes, Relayer, 1974
1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
7.
Van Morrison, Wavelength, 1978
1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
8.
Peter Wolf, Come as you are, 1987
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
9.
Tracy Chapman, Our Bright Future, 2008
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
10.
The Cranberries, No need to argue, 1994
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
11.
Chris Isaak, Silvertone, 1985
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
12.
Talking Heads, Naked, 1988
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
13.
Johnny Hallyday, Olympia 64, 1964
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
14.
Nico, The Marble Index, 1968
This design is obviously ahead of its time. They did covers like this twenty years later.
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
15.
The Cars, Candy-o, 1979
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
16.
The Hawks, 30 Seconds over Otho, 1982
Beautiful road-trip record cover.
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
17.
Grace Jones, On Your Knees, 1979
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
18.
Roberta Flack, Chapter Two, 1970
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
19.
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band, Live Peace in Toronto, 1969
A typical minimalism and an atypical picture of a cloud.
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
20.
Sinead O’Connor, The Lion and the Cobra, 1987
-1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
21.
Bjork, Post, 1995
-1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
22.
The The, Mind Bomb, 1989
-1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
23.
Michael Jackson, Thriller, 1982
Even if this record cover is not by far the first cover to feature an idealized image of the artist, it’s still exquisitely clean and well done.
-5 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
24.
Hole, Nobody’s Daughter, 2010
-7 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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