Lights Off
Ten scary album covers, from a butchered Beatles sleeve and a werewolf Ozzy to a ghost at an old mill.
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The Playlist
Themed collections of album cover art. From the sublime to the ridiculous, the iconic to the obscure. Album covers gathered around a common thread.
Stories
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.
Deep End
Ten album covers featuring swimming pools. A Rolls Royce submerged by crane. An inverted sky. A hot older woman in heels. A donut on a fishhook. Water, leisure and the American dream on vinyl.
The Music Was Always Better Than The Cover
Kylie Minogue - Eighty million records sold. Number ones in five consecutive decades. One of pop's greatest ever careers. So why are some of her album covers so forgettable?
The Decade The Sleeve Became An Art Form - The 1970s
The 1970s was the decade when the album sleeve stopped being packaging and became a full blown art form. Here are the ten greatest covers of the decade.
Cover To Cover
Nine album covers in conversation with another album cover. Some are deliberate tributes. Some are knowing winks. Some are coincidences so perfect they feel impossible.
Eight Covers. One Secret Pattern
Eight studio albums. Eight covers. And hiding across most of them, a secret that nobody noticed for years.
Press. Ship. Regret.
Five album covers that got it wrong. A missing letter. A wrong title. A bridge nobody bothered to fact check. The mistakes that made it to print.
The Flame, The Beetle, The Bullet
Five albums. Five covers. One unmistakable visual vision. Here's the full story of Massive Attack's extraordinary album cover art from Blue Lines to Heligoland.
None More Fictional
Ten fictional album covers from film and TV that never existed. And yet somehow, some of them are better than the real thing.
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.
Look Closer
Eight iconic album covers hiding secrets most fans never noticed. From Bowie to The Beatles, look closer and you might just be surprised.