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Album Art

January 10, 2008

I love album art - it used to be a significant element in an artist’s album release. It gives the artist an identity and is often used to convey ideas as to what may be found inside the album cover. But as the size of LP shrinks to CD and from CD reduced to thumbnails that come with the online download, album art has perhaps slowly but surely been losing its importance. The size reduction is also affecting album art as a art form as what apparently looks good in a LP size image may turn out to be terrible when it is zoomed out to 50×50 pixels or a 160×160 thumbnails. Here are some album art images for your enjoyment:

My all-time Top 5:

1. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

2. The Doors - The Best

3. Derek & The Dominos - Layla & Assorted Love Songs

4. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

5. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

My top 5 which I am not supposed to like but I do:

1. Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts

2. The Black Crows - Amorica

3. The Car - Candy-O

4. Paula Cole - Courage

5. Madonna - True Blue

Top 5 Most Significant in my life:

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

2. James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon

3. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

4. Carole King - Tapestry

5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Apart from Amazon, Album Exchange is a good place to look for album covers.

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