What’s the best rock album cover of all time?

I love The Beatles’ Revolver and The Who’s Quadrophenia

Motorhead – Orgasmatron

Nervana – In Utero

The Beatles – Abbey Road
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run
Pink Floyd – Animals
The Clash – London Calling

This might be the sweetest question I’ve seen in the music section! Here are my top 3:

1) Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles
2) Revolver- The Beatles
3) Houses of the Holy- Led Zeppelin

My personal favourites :~

Mike Oldfield ~ “Tubular Bells”
Fleetwood Mac ~ “Rumours”
Pink Floyd ~ “The Dark Side of the Moon”
Fleetwood Mac ~ “Tango in the Night”
Meat Loaf ~ “Bat Out of Hell”
The Beatles ~ “Sgt. Pepper”
Stevie Nicks ~ “Trouble in Shangri-La”

Dark Side of the Moon- perfect.

The one that came with a big black vinyl pizza inside of it. Because the picture was bigger.
Although not all of the pizza’s were black. I remember one that looked like it only had the tomato sauce on it. It was “Red”.

Then later when you saw the picture covering a little, mini, stainless steel looking “flying saucer”.
It seemed like such a waste, of such a good image. You couldn’t hardly see it anymore.
Space age, ufo technology should come with magnification included.

Then the building would actualy be big enough again, that you can see all the people in the windows, again. Even the ones that look like undercover cops, disguised like girls.
And they really were “undercover”. Cuz you can pull the sleeve from under the cover, and there they were, on the sleeve. Exposed, and cover blown. Then they couldn’t catch whoever was putting graffiti all over the building. It became as if they were chasing “immaterial graffiti” sprayers.

Then there were the ones that you can open like a book. Like the one that had the big red face, yelling from the top of his lungs with mouth wide open, that if you were a dentist, you could see the condition of every tooth. Also, his bell hanging from the roof of his mouth. Then when you opened the cover, his face got bigger, by the addition of layers upon layers of of flesh on the side of his face. Finaly, there was his ear on the edge. I don’t know why he appeared to be in such a terrible way. Being that I think he was Royalty, with a red face.

Dinosaur Jr – Dinosaur(first album)
Dinosaur Jr – Where You Been is cool to with that weird looking guy with the gun in his pance. the back cover is awesome to.

The Clash – “London Calling”

Black Flag – “Damaged”

Black Sabbath – debut

Opeth – “Deliverance”

Unsane – “Blood Run”

and every Iron Maiden album ever…

…Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers with the real zipper on the pants…

Mercyful Fate’s Don’t Break the Oath.

My personal favorite would be what Metallica wanted to call “Kill em All”. It was orginally titled “Metal up Your As*” The photo was a toilet with a hand hold a knife sticking out. Great stuff!

Iron Maiden Piece of Mind is a great cover as well!