Album covers with no name or unreadable titles

Alice Cooper

From The Inside


Zipper Catches Skin

 

Bad Company, Burnin' Sky (1977)


Arctic Monkeys, AM (2013)


The Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen (1993) ... other Afghan Whigs albums Congregation, 1965, In Spades also have no artist or title on the cover.

 

NANANA BATMAN

 

And again...

 

You are correct! Forgot about that one!

 

The original Virgin label cover for The Faust Tapes (it'll send your eyes funny!)

 

Many of the album covers listed above are very good albums and when you see it you know exactly what it is. No words are needed. I see the Mona Lisa, I know what it is. That's part of why I got into music, that 12" vinyls album cover. I felt I was getting ripped off with cassettes so I never pursued them and at first thought the same with CD.

My problem today is identifying CDs without words (which can be another topic, Name That CD).

 

Do I really get to do this one first?

 

Strange that they would release it with and without band name and album title.

 

Pictures are worth a thousand words?

 

Foghat - rock and roll

 

Illegible titles count as well in this thread, there are quite a few out there

 

Also “One Man Dog”, I wonder how many people recognized him with the moustache as well.

 

Hard to read. Green River - CCR

 

SPC ECO-The Art of Pop, 2014

 

Didn't see anyone mention David Crosby, "If I Could Only Remember My Name"

 

Its interesting that a lot of the more well known albums such as "If I Could Only...", "One Man Dog", "Dark Side of the Moon", "Court of the Crimson King", etc. all had no titles when they came out but now have them added on the CD versions. Kind of spoils the cover in my opinion, but I can kind of see why they would do that.

 

Eels-Blinking Lights And Other Revelations, 2005

 

Can't believe I missed this beauty...Screamadelica It's funny how some images are so burned-in to the brain that you actually forget that there's no title info on the sleeve...It just doesn't register... (I felt that way when I saw Abbey Road mentioned earlier in the thread...)

 

Well, he also had a mustache in 1975 when he did the "Gorilla" album.

 

Dark Side had a circular sticker on the shrinkwrap when it was released. Anyway the cover was a winner - Storm Thorgerson said how he'd prepared a number of possible covers for the band to see, but all four pointed and said "That one."

 

Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon (though I think these did have title stickers on them when they were first sold).

 

No name, no title, partially obscured tracklist in a language I don’t understand...yet somehow this album is in my collection.
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