The Decade the Sleeve Went Synthetic - The 1980s
The 1980s was the decade when album sleeves went fully synthetic: Xerox, airbrush, early CGI and MTV logic. Here are the ten greatest covers of the era, ranked.
Category
New Order
New Order and Peter Saville created some of the most distinctive sleeve art in music history. Cold, elegant and always surprising; here are their cover stories.
Stories
Say Nothing
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.