Skip to Sidebar Skip to Content

Art Before Noise

Posts

Previous Posts
  • That's Not His Suit 4 min read

    That's Not His Suit

    Craig
    • • CBS Records • Dick Zimmerman • Epic Records

    The white suit on the cover of the best selling album in history wasn't Michael's. It belonged to the photographer. And the tiger kept wandering off.

  • Fifty Pounds 6 min read

    Fifty Pounds

    Craig
    • • Klaus Voormann • The Beatles • Parlophone Records

    Klaus Voormann spent three weeks creating one of the most celebrated album covers in history. He was paid fifty pounds.

  • The Phoenix, The Harpy, The Pixels 5 min read

    The Phoenix, The Harpy, The Pixels

    Craig
    • • Kanye West • George Condo • Def Jam Records

    My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West - I thought it was just Kanye being Kanye. It was.

  • The Stuff Of Diners And Motels 4 min read

    The Stuff Of Diners And Motels

    Craig
    • • Arcade Fire • Win Butler • Merge Records

    Neon Bible by Arcade Fire - The cover doesn't immediately grab you. A neon sign in the dark. Pink and orange against black. Something you'd walk past without stopping. Look again. There's considerably more going on here than first appears.

  • None More Fictional 5 min read

    None More Fictional

    Craig
    • • High Fidelity • Spinal Tap

    Ten fictional album covers from film and TV that never existed. And yet somehow, some of them are better than the real thing.

  • Unzip This 4 min read

    Unzip This

    Craig
    • • Andy Warhol • Rolling Stones Records • The Rolling Stones

    A Controversial look at the cover of Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones

  • Hold It Up To A Mirror 3 min read

    Hold It Up To A Mirror

    Craig
    • • Beastie Boys • Columbia Records • Def Jam Records

    Licensed to Ill by Beastie Boys - I thought it was their private jet. Three lads flying somewhere loud and probably illegal.

  • The Night Ziggy Landed 5 min read

    The Night Ziggy Landed

    Craig
    • • Brian Ward • David Bowie • RCA Records

    The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie - He doesn't fill the frame. He's small, almost lost in the street.

  • Say Nothing 5 min read

    Say Nothing

    Craig
    • • David Bowie • Hipgnosis • Led Zeppelin

    Nine album covers so confident in their artwork they didn't bother with a single word. No band name. No album title. Just the image.

  • 10050 Cielo Drive 5 min read

    10050 Cielo Drive

    Craig
    • • Interscope Records • Nine Inch Nails • Nothing Records

    A look at the controversy behind the cover of The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

  • Stolen From A Pub Toilet 3 min read

    Stolen From A Pub Toilet

    Craig
    • • Fleetwood Mac • Herbert Worthington • Mick Fleetwood

    Rumours by Fleetwood Mac - The cover is boring. Two people, a light background, and a pair of wooden balls hanging like testicles.

  • Screaming From The Earth 5 min read

    Screaming From The Earth

    Craig
    • • Eddie Hazel • Funkadelic • George Clinton

    Maggot Brain by Funkadelic - The cover disturbed me. The music surprised me.

Load More You've reached the end of the list