coolest album packaging/art?

[RedStratocas]

i dont mean just the cover, i mean the case as a whole. i know a lot of you guys don't buy cd's but for those that do, what are some of your favorite cases and album artwork?

i recently bought the new no age album, "nouns" and i was really excited about the album art. basically, it's a 68 paged book shaped like an album that's full of photos and strange art, and the cd itself is in a sleeve in front. another one of my all time favorites is the artwork for "kid a" by radiohead, because it's got all sorts of different types of really fragile paper and fold out images and a really interesting array of art. and another notable one for me would be "in the aeroplane over the sea" by neutral milk hotel. that one is like a fold-out old-timey style pamphlet and at the bottom in tiny print are most of the lyrics in a continuous form.

[Blinger1]

Völkerball by Rammstein.

Look at the spoiler ;)


http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2872/dsc00115zx0.jpg
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/7950/dsc00116lb3.jpg

[Coldplay]

Hard-Fi's made me laugh when we bought it. It looks like this

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G21LUFozL.jpg

Or the single, which looks like this;

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/hard-fi_suburban_knights_cover.jpg

And inside there's a booklet which says;

In massive white text, spread over 6 pages;

"Insignificant photoshoot"

Pure class.

[MJJ]

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/michael_jackson_dangerous-f.jpg

I love this. :P

[Agent 47]

I think one of the most amazingly different packagings of an album is Buckethead's In Search of The.

It's a collection of 13 albums, with each cd cover hand-drawn and numbered differently by Buckethead himself. No two sets are the same.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Insearchofthe910.JPG/800px-Insearchofthe910.JPG

[Mr.Sam]

tenacious d's pick of destiny album is quite cool, on the special edition the cover changes as you move it around :D

[Fehm]

I agree with the tenacious D comment (Y) lol and i like the bucket head ones xD

[PaintYourTarget]

Hard-Fi's made me laugh when we bought it. It looks like this

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G21LUFozL.jpg

Or the single, which looks like this;

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/hard-fi_suburban_knights_cover.jpg

And inside there's a booklet which says;

In massive white text, spread over 6 pages;

"Insignificant photoshoot"

Pure class.
I have a Hard Fi mug (don't ask) which says "No Band Mugshot Available."... cheese. They got slated in NME for it though.

The Viva La Vida album by Coldplay is great - the art in the sleeve is really random, but quite genius as well - and the fact it was all on card (both the Cd and Vinyl) really emphasized the greenness of the band. We have a framed Copy of it at my dads.

[Coldplay]

Agree with the Coldplay one, was going to say that but thought the Hard-Fi one was smarter =]

[RedStratocas]

yeah i liked the coldplay one. i really like paper cases way better than the ugly plastic cases.

[Coldplay]

And more environmentally friendly.

[RedStratocas]

and they're cheaper. i dont know why record companies aren't doing them more.

[Coldplay]

The Verve made their album on 100% recycled paper.

Their singles album that is.

[IceNineKills]

Paramores album cover for All We Know Is Falling. Purely because of the meaning behind it.

[PaulMacC]

Paramores album cover for All We Know Is Falling. Purely because of the meaning behind it.
What is the meaning behind it?
I think Disturbed's - Ten Thousand Fists album is cool.

[Cwmbran]

What is the meaning behind it?
There is a shadow on the sofa as when they released the album Jeremy had recently left the band but yeh as we all know he returned.

Basically the shadow represents Jeremy.

[Coldplay]

Thats clever that is.

I quite like riot! by Paramore (The album cover)

[broken]

Hard-Fi's made me laugh when we bought it. It looks like this

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G21LUFozL.jpg

Or the single, which looks like this;

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/hard-fi_suburban_knights_cover.jpg

And inside there's a booklet which says;

In massive white text, spread over 6 pages;

"Insignificant photoshoot"

Pure class.
i just thought it was lazy tbh :S:S

[stickwitu]

yeh i didnt find it funny tbh lol

[JackBuddy]

The Chemical Brothers usually have good covers;
http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/chemical_bros_pushbutton.jpg
http://www.astralwerks.com/chemical/we_are_the_night/ecard/images/0094639415823-LF.jpg
http://www.merryswankster.com/images/Chemical_Brothers_Dig_Your_.jpg

Meh, loads here: http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=chemical%20brothers%20album&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

[Grindie]

Laura's Marling box set edition of 'Alas I Cannot Swim' is quite epic

[le harry]

Definitely Kid A, my friend has it and nothing i have compares to it.

[RedStratocas]

Definitely Kid A, my friend has it and nothing i have compares to it.

i know, for serious. i was pretty disappointed with the artwork in the in rainbows box set, it was very uninteresting. the kid a album art is just amazing, ive spent a long time looking at it.

[Coldplay]

Kid A doesn't seem special to me? :S

[heartbeat]

I quite like Kanye West's "Graduation", although it isn't really that good.

[PaintYourTarget]

yeah i liked the coldplay one. i really like paper cases way better than the ugly plastic cases.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/705662m.jpg
Doppelgänger by The Fall Of Troy was printed on Card and actually looks quite disturbing. Definately one of the more interesting album covers I've seen.

[Pyroka]

Im surprised no-ones mentioned SOAD!

http://dorisneubacher.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/steal-this-album.jpg

[-Eyeless-]

Im surprised no-ones mentioned SOAD!

http://dorisneubacher.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/steal-this-album.jpg

I have to agree thats great!

[samsaBEAR]

the Aerials version of Hadouken!'s debut, Music For An Accelerated Culture.
It came in a solid cardboard box.
With a little lanyard saying what Aerials number you were, a H! stencil, and an exsclusive artwork/lyrics booklet.
also, if you were one of the first 1000 (which i was :D) to buy it, you got a signed Certificate of Authenticity to go with it.
and of course the CD, which was awesome.

It came in a plastic wallet type thing, with had 'Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture'.
then the normal plastic case had the green lines on. then the inlay booklet had the newspaper on, it was a layered effect.
the normal store-bought copy was just a bog standard print of the artwork.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/2383079938_dd046b25c3.jpg

[velvet]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/705662m.jpg
Doppelgänger by The Fall Of Troy was printed on Card and actually looks quite disturbing. Definately one of the more interesting album covers I've seen.

I love that album, aha.
I love the artwork for Manipulator by The Fall Of Troy too.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61R6Sf4RGRL._SS500_.jpg

[Coldplay]

That Haudouken one is nice.

[RedStratocas]

Im surprised no-ones mentioned SOAD!

http://dorisneubacher.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/steal-this-album.jpg

well they stole that from a famous book (called "steal this book"). so not all that original or anything.


Kid A doesn't seem special to me? :S

i'm not talking about just the cover. i'm talking about the entire sleeve; it's very good.

[Jõnathan]

you've got to think that this is interesting:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JAjzv99tL.jpg

[Coldplay]

Nothing special about that.

[samsaBEAR]

Nothing special about that.
it's sexy man!
the back cover is better, with all the pandas and stuff :D

[Cwmbran]

Yeh... Slight bump but still I wanted to post my favourite album art which has to be this:
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3765/l6c6fec5e38e8d682191aaejm6.jpg