THE SUPER:
Roxy Music: Country Life (1974) Bandleader Brian Ferry met two beautiful women at a bar on holiday in Portugal, and he asked Eric Boman to photograph them in a garden. "We thought it would be nothing but a holiday snap," recalled Evaline Seeling (left). "We shopped for sexy underwear." Many stores banned the record; an alternate cover appeared with only the hedge.
THE STILL COOL-CLASSIC:
Joy Division: Closer (1980) This post-punk band's second and final album appeared two months after the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. Eerily, the cover (selected by designer Peter Seville before Curtis's death) featured a photo of a family tomb, by Demetrio Paernio, in Genoa, Italy. The austere, haunting image echoed the bleak yet mystical feel of the album. -- JC
STYLISHLY ALTERNATIVE:
STYLISHLY ALTERNATIVE:
Prodigy: The Fat of the Land (1997) As an urban-sounding heavy rock band that lived in the countryside, Prodigy titled this album in reference to their rural lifestyles. Designer Alex Jenkins thought a crab fit the title, as well as the band's aggressive attitude. He found the photo, by Konrad Wothe-Silvestris, in an Images of Nature stock library. The background was given a zoom effect using Adobe Photoshop and a photocopier. -- JC
SHOCKING & CENSORED:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (1968) The British version of this landmark album -- designed quickly by Track Records to meet a production deadline -- had a foldout cover shot by David Montgomery of some 20 women in the nude. It was both praised and panned, but Hendrix hated the cover. His request to use a shot of the band by Linda Eastman (soon to be McCartney) had been ignored. The U.S. label, Reprise, put out a sleeve with a head shot of Hendrix, which later became the international CD cover -- partly as a posthumous nod to the artist's wishes, and partly due to the nude cover's hoopla. -- JC
THE SCHLOCKY:
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