Favorite Album Art part ii - Albums with multiple variations of the cover artwork

[privateuniverse]

I was always intrigued by albums that had multiple variations of their cover artwork. To be clear, I am not talking about albums that received new artwork on a reissue (like several of the recent Rush reissues) or albums that had different covers depending on the country that they were released in (like Hendrix's Electric Ladyland.) Rather this is for albums that multiple variations of the cover available at the time of initial release. The most notorious one that comes to mind is The Police's Synchronicity. It was reported to have had more than thirty variations of the front cover. Here are a few:

How many can you think of?

 

[privateuniverse]

Then of course, there's Genesis's Abacab:

 

[salsdali]

The most notorious one that comes to mind is The Police's Synchronicity. It was reported to have had more than thirty variations of the front cover. Here are a few:

How many can you think of?

interesting, I never knew that

 

[privateuniverse]

And then there's Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. They got a little obnoxious with theirs. If you were trying to collect them all, they made it more difficult by packaging them in a brown paper bag so you didn't know which one you got until after you bought it!

 

[salsdali]

I also think some of the box sets have better album covers than the original.

For instance, Rage Against the Machine

Original:

Box set:

 

[JonUrban]

Garfunkel's "Fate for Breakfast" had a bunch of variations, but the album was a bomb so no one ever saw most of them.

 

[François]

 

[François]

 

[Marplot]

 

[Marplot]

 

[JonUrban]

Garfunkel's "Fate for Breakfast" had a bunch of variations, but the album was a bomb so no one ever saw most of them.

Here are 6 of them grabbed from Google Images

 

[sjcorne]

Three shades of DSOTM:

 

[kap'n krunch]

oo, oo i got one Mistah Kahtteh!!!

Of course, the first one is really cool...

 

[kap'n krunch]

Also, Yes...LP

and CD

 

[kap'n krunch]

Yes, of course...

the first one wins yet again....



ugh..

 

[kap'n krunch]

and , of course , Patto one of the most underrated bands EVER!!...EVER!!!!...and I mean it, dammit!
By the way this is their BEST ALBUM EVER....

U.K. LP

US LP

 

[JonUrban]

No one posted the two "Yesterday and Today" covers, and the two "Blindfaith" covers? Two of the more famous pairs.

 

[bill114]

Golden Earring Moontan
USA

Europe

 

[Beefalo]

Golden Earring Moontan
USA
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Europe
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Outstanding album !

 

[bill114]

Two from Camel

Mirage: Euro on left, USA on right


Moonmadness: Euro on left, USA on right