Top five best album covers of 1987
Here are my top five best album covers of 1987.
5-Anthrax-Among the living
A fairly simple approach yet I have always liked this cover a great deal.
Friday I will wrap up look at 1987 with a summary of that year and a look ahead to 1988.
1-Motorhead-Rock-n-Roll
Motorhead normally had good covers, but this is a strong cover even by their standards.
2-Candlemass-Nightfall
A beautiful painting that with the the sound they were beginning to perfect.
3-Helloween-Keeper of the seven keys pt.1
I like how there are several points on the album where you can really see the depth as it goes beyond just one dimension.
4-Black Sabbath-The Eternal Idol
Fairly basic cover, but somehow has a classic look and it just works for Sabbath.
5-Anthrax-Among the living
A fairly simple approach yet I have always liked this cover a great deal.
Friday I will wrap up look at 1987 with a summary of that year and a look ahead to 1988.
posted by Metal Mark at
1:13 AM
6 Comments:
The Helloween cover is good for what it is, I suppose, but all those fantasy covers have worn thin in my opinion.
I don't see what you see in the BS cover. It looks weak to me.
That Candlemass cover is a Thomas Cole painting, isn't it? I think they used another of his for a later album as well. Ray can tell us for sure as he's a big Candlemass and Thomas Cole fan.
bob-I like fantasy covers if they are done right. I like this one because there are several points where you can look deeper into an object or place.
The Eternal Idol cover is a very strange choice, I think, but somehow very memorable. Especially if you listen to it along with the title track, which is an odd one too, there's a lot of probably unwarranted symbolism you can think of, at least if you're an over-imaginative teenager. I was, when I first heard the album, so maybe that's why...
jp-It's a cover I have always liked. I used to have it on tape and only just recently got it on vinyl and I think that caused me to notice it again.
I love the Candlemass cover. Very Led Zeppelin-esque. Even if it is Thomas Cole. :)
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