One of the psych era’s great hallucinations, the famous album cover for Moby Grape’s 1968 double LP Wow showed an otherworldly landscape with the world’s largest bunch of grapes. Wow indeed. 77: Kayne West: Yeezus (design by Kanye West and Virgil Abloh)

Modern Art, is modern jazz, it’s jazz that swings and moves in a classy way without being classic, it hovers in the light blue range, it’s understated, balanced, soulful and breezy; yet it’s never lazy and never conservative. There’s a subtle approach to the music found here that’s uncharacteristic, in that the players find more strength playing together than soloing as individuals, delivering arrangement after arrangement that’s dreamy, filled with passion, and as endless as a star filled sky. The cover for Ten Out Of 10 remains one of Hipgnosis’ fiendishly clever 10cc covers and one of their more overlooked albums. Here they’re on the 10th floor of a hotel standing at the precipice, and only one of the guys seems concerned about it. 54: Thelonious Monk: Underground (photo by Horn Grinner Studios; art direction/design: John Berg and Richard Mantel) Jeff Bridges’ got nothing on the original “The Dude,” the effortlessly cool and quixotic album cover character that appears on Quincy Jones’ genre-blending solo debut. Q always had an ear for talent – as his cross-cultural LP proved – but he also had an eye for design. (He spotted the eponymous “Dude” statue at an art gallery and took it home for inspiration.) 82: Cocteau Twins: Heaven or Las Vegas (design by Paul West) Listen here 8: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass: Whipped Cream & Other Delights (design by Peter Whorf Graphics) One of the many imaginative trips from the late 60s, this assemblage – by the band’s drummer – represents various personal dreams of the band members. 38: PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love (design by Valerie Phillips)Why in the world did Humble Pie get a bunch of policemen to form a human pyramid? Because they could, of course. 39: The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream (design by Dino Danelli) This beautiful, panoramic view of Ludlow Street in NYC on the album cover of Paul’s Boutique did everything possible to put you right into the Beastie Boys’ world, making it look both funky and inviting. It also made it essential to own the original, fold-out vinyl. PiL’s follow-up to their famous Metal Box album cover was even cooler, showing non-performing bandmember Jeanette Lee with a rose in her teeth, a weapon in her hand, and a murderous look in her eyes. 87: The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (design by Andy Warhol)

Art is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer, featuring performances recorded in 1960 and originally released on the Argo label. [1] :18 Farmer stated in 1995 that the album, which consists mainly of ballads, was his favorite. Most of Pink Floyd’s covers would be in the running for a list of the greatest album covers, but we wanted to highlight something that wasn’t Dark Side of the Moon. This burst of Storm Thorgerson / Hipgnosis imagination features four versions of the same photo (except that the band rotates one position in each), matching their sense of surrealism. 58: Metallica: …And Justice For All (design by Stephen Gorman)Modern death metal bands got nothing on country duo The Louvin Brothers, who went to the inferno in 1959 and looked great in white suits while doing it. 29: David Bowie: Heroes (design by Masayoshi Sukita) First place artist, Paul Philips explains the concepts behind his work, "I had the idea through my love of playing with scale, I like themes of beguilement and being overwhelmed as I've struggled over the years with my own mental health and the subjects of anxiety and being overwhelmed are prevalent in my work.I felt a giant sleeping bear was perfect for this concept, I added the man and the doe to hammer home the scale of the Bear and then the yellow dots are the dreams themselves. I liked the idea of all three being asleep as if the image is a dream itself..I liked the playful nature of this idea and felt it was a complete piece of work as it connects with the themes on the album in many ways." Known for his alchemistic collaborations with the late artists MF Doom and J Dilla, and his remixes of Blue Note Records,Madlib’salbum Sound Ancestors was a rare instance of the lauded music producer releasing a solo record –sort of. Although the base material was created solely byMadlib, the record was arranged and mastered by Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, over the course of several years. Their debut album pictured Oasis in the world’s coolest crash pad, showing every band of the era how it ought to be living. 36: Grace Jones: Island Life (design by Jean-Paul Goude) This album cover was more of a multimedia assemblage, incorporating the die-cut edges and the marble-swirled disc into the overall design and giving an instant visual image to the top-hatted Dave Mason. 50: Elton John: Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player (design by David Larkham and Michael Ross)