Top 25 Album Covers

This list took me forever to put together but I'm quite content with it now after so many hours starring at my CD shelf and doing some research. It's a subjective list of my top 25 best album covers of all time. Now I couldn't just write this up in a matter of minutes and pretty sure something as epic as BEST ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME requires a certain level of seriousness.

I think the best are the ones that will never age and you see printed innumberable times on t-shirts and posters - and could quite possibly be hanging in John Cusack's living room wall in High Fidelity? Nirvana - Nevermind's back cover reveals, when you look closely, a collage of va-j-j's, raw meat, and randomly, Kiss. So my list isn't just based on the music, but the adjacencies of the cover (front & back), packaging is important.. and also, the inside sleeves.



1. Sex Pistols - God save the Queen
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
4. Pink Floyd - Animals
5. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band
6. Bjork - Medúlla
7. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. The Roots - Things fall apart
9. Tool - Aenima
10. Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
11. U2 - The Joshua Tree
12. Beatles - Abbey Road
13. The Clash - London Calling
14. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
15. Björk - Post
16. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
17. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
18. Blondie - Parallel Lines
19. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
20. Prodigy -The Fat of the Land
21. Nas - Illmatic
22. Madonna - True Blue
23. Sigur Ros - ()
24. Run DMC - King of Rock
25. Ramones - Ramones

Bjork - Hyperballad (DJ Ayres Remix)

Radiohead - Karma Police