Photo album cover5/26/2023 The flag backdrop fueled a misperception that the angry title song was blindly patriotic. ![]() “We took a lot of different types of pictures, and in the end, the picture of my ass looked better than the picture of my face,” he said. Bow Wow Wow: See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy (1981)Īfter the stark Nebraska, Springsteen set out to make a commercial album and hired Annie Leibovitz for the cover. Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Between Blind Faith’s controversial cover and Miley Cyrus’s shoot with Annie Leibowitz was Bow Wow Wow’s interpretation of Manet’s “Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe,” which caused quite a ruckus as lead singer Annabella Lwin - just 15 at the time - appears nude. Photographer Daniel Kramer captured the blur of changes by posing the bard with cultural artifacts (and Sally Grossman, wife of Dylan’s manager) and by swirling the edges of the frame in the darkroom. MJ This record launched Dylan’s electric phase, as he churned out increasingly surreal songs and improvised in the studio. The image matches the duo’s slightly nostalgic sonic landscapes, layered with spoken-word tracks and ambient noise. Many people undoubtedly picked up the album because of its beguiling photo, aged and wrinkled, of an eerily faceless family on vacation. Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children (1998) JH When Boards of Canada, now one of the big names in trip hop, came out with their small-run, personally produced 1998 debut album, no one knew their name. The white border? Because it’s a sticker, of course. This photo and design by M/M - also meant to evoke pagan femininity - is just that. Bjork wanted something colorful and upbeat. But no, that’s actually the artist (looking remarkably normal) inside a bizarre sculpture by famous fashion designer Bernard Willhelm. On first glance, it looks like a Photoshop effort, especially given the white border around Bjork’s costume. Just one year old, this cover has already made an impact and inspired quite a few spoofs. ![]() From a band said to “emphasize the lighter side of UK punk,” this album is fun but by no means lightweight. The alien look fit her emotionally complex music. MJ Along with photographer Nick Knight, designer Paul White, and computer manipulation, this Icelandic genius created an eye-grabbing image with antenna-like hair buns, spiked fingernails, an elongated neck, stretched facial features, and an oversized kimono. The image spoofed a legendary banned ’70s cover with a suckling kitty, Mama Lion’s (see Preserve Wildlife in the Shocking & Censored Album Covers), but the music bore little resemblance. ![]() The prototype for this style is our favorite Tigermilk sported a barely blue-tinted image of a topless Joanne Kenney (now a promotions executive for SonyBMG) apparently breastfeeding a stuffed tiger (some say Tigger). This Scottish indie pop band has cultivated a specific look in their covers: one or more 20-something hipsters caught in a half-private, half-mugging moment, the black-and-white snap tinted red or green or gold. ![]() “The viewers could read into the cover whatever they wanted.” - JC For Zach Condon, the face behind Beirut, photographs obviously have the power to inspire music. “It was chosen almost at random,” recalled art director Robert Fisher. MJ With a groundbreaking album close to completion and in need of a cover, Beck picked this picture of a high-jumping dog (no, it’s not a mop) from a photo book on dog breeds the hairy canine is a Komondor. The melancholy of that era is palpable in this haunting image, as well as in the music. In a 2007 homage to the photographer for the Guardian, Hegarty described arriving in New York City in 1990, when much of the city’s art community had succumbed to AIDS-related illnesses - Hujar included. Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (2005) For the cover of his band’s second album, lead singer Antony Hegarty honored photographer Peter Hujar by using Hujar’s image of famed transvestite and Andy Warhol cohort Candy Darling.
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