Album covers with art variations

Never seen the alternate before, where is it from?

 

An odd one I learned about from a prog newsgroup. First edition of this Steve Howe release had a Roger Dean cover where it looks like there is a drowned body in the water. Later this was revised.

 

Faces - A Nod is As Good As A Wink...

 

How about the 4 Cindy Sherman-inspired variants of this cover:

 

Original edition...................................................Gold edition (inc. live CD)

 

Make it five. I prefer this one...

 

Simple Minds have a few examples, firstly two variants of Once Upon A Time, the top one sold significantly better than the bottom one and was used for the CD covers too, meaning that the bottom one is uncommon, if not expensive. Certainly, I've never seen one in person.

 

Simple Minds also released Real Life with this stark blue cover as the cover was designed to fit the dimensions of a DAT tape. After a while they switched the cover to the back and used the original white back cover for the front. If you ask me the white cover works way better, but some purists prefer the original.

 

No one, I had eggs today.

I was referring to the way the photo cropped the top of the one guys head while two practically disembodied heads appear in front of his legs. The band photo with their instruments on the scond cover is much better.

 

Ok. I think this is a case of different albums using the same artwork.

 

I was debating putting this one up

 

I dig the cover. If you are going to do that one, there were also Japanese releases of "Meet The Beatles" and "The Beatles' Second Album" in Japan that also used the same "artwork" from the US LPs, but had completely different track lists.

 

Scorpions "Virgin Killer"

I won't be posting this one up here......yeeesh

 

Regarding Wish You Were Here, I was thinking of the one with the guy on fire and this one:

 

Original double-album vinyl cover and initial single CD release cover, which was missing four songs and banter from original double vinyl album.






Import 2 disc CD cover which restores songs and banter to original double vinyl release soundtrack.

 

The US first press, I have one, didn't realize it till I grabbed the CD, subsequent US presses changed the cover, not sure where it was sourced as I see at least on discogs the UK did not have the pissed off one either, they must of sent the wrong prints

 

Thomas Dolby-The Golden Age of Wireless

 

That's the sticker on the black shrink that covered the album, is it not?

 

It was also the cover of the cassette.

 

I always enjoy these threads about album artwork