Can any other band beat this run of album covers?

[Speedy]

After viewing the Fave Album thread it came to my mind.....can any other band bost as many great album covers as KISS?



























They had quite a few more great ones, but these were all in a row. Can any other band compete?

[Warpig]

First off I agree with you Speedy all the 70s Kiss album covers were hard to beat. But I think Molly Hatchet comes pretty close.

[rtbuck]

Maiden had a bit of cool covers but to answer your question my opinion is ...No! Just thinking about the feeling I had back in the 70's of going into a record shop & getting the newest Kiss record...

[jimmccormick3]

Molly Hatchet indeed had great cover art!

I liked Blackfoots album covers. Always loved Robin Trowers. Putting it Straight," "Heat in the Street" & "Hot Shot" from Pat Travers gets my vote for best front & back covers, quite hilarious. Led Zeppelin & Rush also come to mind as great cover work.

[MrAce]

The Molly Hatchet albums look like they should be in Conan The Barbarian comics. Pretty cool.

But I must agree, KISS' covers are the best.

[Trexx]

I guess. IF you're into KISS.

I don't like KISS so the abum art is ho-hum.

[caljam]

Not bothered about those Kiss album covers. Only of interest if you like seeing four blokes in fancy dress.

I prefer an album cover not to show the band. I think that is when you really get something special. Don't know much about Molly Hatchet, but those album covers are far superior to the Kiss ones. Much more interesting. Not seen them before.

I think the Tygers of Pan Tang had some good album covers.

[HARD ROCK UNIVERSE]

Let's not forget UFO :

[Speedy]

I don't like the UFO covers that are a white rectangle with a red X in them.

Hatchet surely had some great covers. The only ones that seem a little forced are Kingdom and Warriors. The rest are excellent.

I also agree with Maiden. Excellent covers up until Fear of the Dark. All the Riggs Maiden covers were awesome. The rest are hit and miss.

If you don't like the KISS ones....oh well.....I was just looking to see who would come up.

I should have thought about MH though....I have most of those.

[Jesse]

Here's a couple Hatchet covers that Warpig missed:

[Jesse]

Helloween's got a good catalog of album covers too!

[Jesse]

Savatage too!


























This is one band that I actually bought into SOLEY because of the albums covers. Never heard anything of them before, just liked their album covers. Sometimes you CAN judge a book-er CD- by it's cover.

[Scott]

Kiss had some cool covers...I can't argue that.


But, WTF happened here?

[HARD ROCK UNIVERSE]

Some from the German band Eloy :

[Speedy]

scott said:

Kiss had some cool covers...I can't argue that.
But, WTF happened here?

Can't argue with that. I always HATED that cover. Shitty cover, shitty album.

Plenty of good choices so far.......some I have never seen.

[Trexx]

Yeah. This is a neat-o thread. Thanks folks for taking the time to post the covers. It'll help when I peruse the music store...

[Trexx]

I do like these quite a lot...








My pastor told me I had to take them out of the day care room though...

[Trexx]

I think my favorites are Y & T's gems from the '80s...

[Trexx]

I've always loved this photo composition for Pat Travers' "Heat in the Street".

There it is... A bottle of 'Lowenbrau' beer being poured over a fat cops head. Remember?
... "Lowenbrau" that is, not fat cops... those dudes are still in vogue!

[Pete]

nightwatcher said:

Some from the German band Eloy :

The Germans make some great album covers... Like this one.





but seriously there's some great album covers on this page
www.stormthorgerson.com/