Pictures that would have made great album covers

I nominate this first:

 

No ****, Sherlock

 

This would have made for an impressionable and humorous cover...



Oh wait...

 

....instead, they took off their shirts.

 

I love the shot of CSNY in Hawaii, was possibly going to be used for Human Highway, sorry can't work out the linking thing.

 

This would make for a great Taylor Swift cover...

Perhaps she could use it for a live "unplugged" coffee house album containing intimate versions of her "1989" songs? I'd sure buy it on day one...

 

Here you go:

 

Next album could be called, SUCK. Kinda edgy, no?

 

I've always thought that this would make a cool cover for a Greatest Hits compilation.

 

^ Or a poster for the man cave!

 

Grateful Dead

 

I'm still on record as saying as I would have used this great photo for Springsteen's "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" album. I know many fans really like the original leather jacket cover, but I'm much more enamored by this photo. Oh well, at least it made a great cover for the DVD...

 

I like that!

I'm not sure Taylor would. But she might...

 

Thank you, wonderful picture.

 

I used that photo when I made a CSNY tape many moons ago.

 

And here are two great images I would use for the front and back cover, celebrating Alice Cooper's song and video "Elected". I'd load this specialty album with every outtake and remix of the song known to man. Along with a bonus DVD that includes the video and a making of. What else do you need to commemorate our historic 2016 election?

Front Cover


Back Cover

 

This would have been a classy cover if Motley Crue had put out another stellar effort in between "Too Fast For Love" and "Shout At The Devil"...

Perhaps they could have called this one "Two Fast For Love II".

 

This is a true timepiece photo from the 50's and a great snapshot. It might have worked well as cover art for an Elvis "Love Songs" album back in the day...

 

This photo was already used inside the 1999 album, but I think it would have made a very Prince-esque cover in its own right. What a great album...and what a great photo. Even in his sleeve art, Prince was a true artist...

 

Most rock historians agree that "The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands" would probably have sold better if they had chosen any of the 11 photographs of the band inside the gatefold to be the cover photo, instead of the one they did.