One of the greatest joke album covers, the boxer was already a perfect image for the Pogues, but don’t miss the subtle bit of play here. (The word “peace” of course has five letters.) 71: Rush: Moving Pictures (design by Hugh Syme) The Pixies’ debut cover is sexy, sinister, and full of secret meanings, starting with a vintage-looking softcore photo that was staged for the cover shoot. 13: Yes: Relayer (design by Roger Dean) 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) Following on from his extraordinary debut Psychodrama, Dave’s sophomore album We’re all Alone in this Together bolstered the artist’s reputation for grappling serious themes with flair and compassion, this time prying open everything from domestic abuse to hostile immigration policies. The album was recorded immediately after the Big City Sounds sessions – on September 21–23, 1960. [1] :6 The band did not rehearse the music before recording it. [2]

The abstraction of the Talking Heads’ beautiful, moving-parts cover for their 1983 record Speaking in Tongues couldn’t have better represented the music within. It would have been rated higher if the thing wasn’t so tough to store. 73: The Mothers of Invention: We’re Only In It for the Money (design by Cal Schenkel) 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.Smashing Pumpkins’ album covers were often softer and prettier than the music, but this cover (created by Billy Corgan’s then-girlfriend) is the perfect translation of the obsessively romantic theme of Adore. 31: Ohio Players: Climax (design by Joel Brodsky) as their life’s calling, likening it to the art of comedy. “It’s putting someone at ease, helping their

Springs. In just a few weeks, that flurry of creativity resulted in their seventh full-length, Love Rolling Stones’ original “Beggars Banquet” Cover is Missing. It was banned for decades and should really have been here.There were nearly as many copies of Alice Cooper’s School’s Out in 1970s high schools as there were actual school desks. Ten points if you got the original with the underwear inner sleeve. 65: Aerosmith: Draw the Line (design by Al Hirshfeld) You don’t necessarily get a thing of rare beauty when you load a cover with as many fold-out panels and elaborate paintings as an 11-inch disc can hold, but Santana certainly did in this case, thanks to famed Japanese designer Tadanori Yokoo. Recorded live during Santana’s performances in Osaka, Japan, the full sleeve art is an amalgamation of Buddhist and Christian imagery, along with Yokoo’s signature pop art style. 18: 10cc: How Dare You! (design by Hipgnosis)