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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.

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  • The Music Was Always Better Than The Cover 6 min read

    The Music Was Always Better Than The Cover

    Craig
    • • Kylie Minogue • Nick Knight • Ellen Von Unwerth

    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 8 min read

    The Decade The Sleeve Became An Art Form - The 1970s

    Craig
    • • Pink Floyd • Joy Division • Meat Loaf

    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 5 min read

    Cover To Cover

    Craig
    • • The Clash • The Beatles • Gorillaz

    Eight 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 6 min read

    Eight Covers. One Secret Pattern

    Craig
    • • Mark Hoppus • Tom DeLonge • Travis Barker

    Eight studio albums. Eight covers. And hiding across most of them, a secret that nobody noticed for years.

  • Press. Ship. Regret. 4 min read

    Press. Ship. Regret.

    Craig
    • • Electric Light Orchestra • The Byrds • The Zombies

    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 6 min read

    The Flame, The Beetle, The Bullet

    Craig
    • • Massive Attack • Robert Del Naja • Tom Hingston

    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 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.

  • 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.

  • Look Closer 5 min read

    Look Closer

    Craig
    • • David Bowie • Green Day • Iron Maiden

    Eight iconic album covers hiding secrets most fans never noticed. From Bowie to The Beatles, look closer and you might just be surprised.