Albums issued with different artwork than the original

This was a bit more widespread than I originally believed.

The case of the King Crimson "Discipline" was because Fripp discovered the design wasn't public domain after it had been issued believing it to be an ancient design although he commissioned someone to come up with something similar but different.

 

James Galway - "The Man With the Golden Flute". Completely different pics between the LP and CD verisons.

Relevant since I was needle dropping it this week and noticed this.

 

Dire Straits ST The cd is cream colored, wheras the original LP is white.

 

a few 70's era Scorpions albums - Lonesome Crow (I believe) Virgin Killers and Taken By Force.

 

Smell The Glove

 

The Joshua Tree had different vinyl and CD covers

 

Tarot - Follow Me Into Madness LP vs. first CD: http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/db4f88bbcba8afb20f7fb79ac0e56b4f/o55605.jpg vs. http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/0b5b4c2c38054bc447dfb4c5cde6963a/o3416819.jpg

 

Then there's these...and, a few other layouts, if I recall correctly...!

 

Thin Lizzy Fighting.

 

Shine on Brightly (Procol Harum) was issued with a different cover in the US and UK, for some reason.

Blind Faith and Electric Ladyland, for obvious reasons.

Also King Crimson's Islands.

 

This is gonna be a long thread!

Plenty of Bowie entries:

 

My vinyl is cream colored. Well, actually, the vinyl is black but the cover that the vinyl goes in is cream colored.
Perhaps there were different colored covers in different countries?

 

Always hated the CD cover...like the LP cover better luckily the Mofi and the reissue (IIRC) something closer to the original cover.

 

The Emmylou Harris Christmas album Light of the Stable has been issued with four different covers over the years:

 

Appitite For Destruction (don't know if I can post the original here)

 

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

First one that comes to mind

Also, Blind Faith, several 70s and early 80s Scorpions, Are You Experienced?, Electric Ladyland, AC/DC Bon Scott era, etc

 

Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider:

Original cover intended by record company, never used because the band hated it:



First release cover only on the German pressing and LP. The band thought it was ridiculous and had it changed later (it's known as the flying frog):



Replacement cover, used for second pressing:



US cover:



Japanese cover:



2001 Remaster cover:



2009 Rerelease cover:

 

Kiss - Creatures Of The Night LP was different then when it was first issued on CD.

 

The Scorpions - Virgin Killer

What is the story behind Velvet Underground's - White Light/White Heat 's two different covers?

 

Allan Holdsworth Sand

 

Indeed:

 

And I'm sure if we get too heavily into foreign variants there could be a million, but I always thought these Japanese KISS examples were interesting (I especially like the Elder one)

 

One obvious one (to me) is Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark. There's tonnes of variations of it as you can see on a Google search.

 

I never understood why my CD of The Beatles Rubber Soul had the title in gold on the cover while all of my UK and import LP copies had the title in red.