The perfect wrapper for the laconic, melodic and somewhat scuzzy tunes within. It's unsettling, but also familiar and even a little sweet. A pre-teen dragging on a Viceroy on Jones Beach (you can read more about the image here). This picture from photographer Joseph Szabo is jarring. Extra points for what I call the "Munsters" font. He is the Fearless Girl staring down a public and an industry who have ignored and/or mocked the hammering punk he and the Asheton brothers have cooked up outside my hometown of Detroit. This is the band's desperate last gasp before sputtering to an end, but Mick Rock's photo of Iggy on the cover is defiance incarnate. But Raw Power easily wins for best cover. That designation goes to the previous release, the ferocious and vital Funhouse. Some people call this the Stooges' best album, but they're wrong. Here are 10 examples of cover art that do that for me every time.
As always, it's the covers that stop your thumb scrolling and get you to stop and listen.
I was almost instantly reconnected to the aural, visual and tactile pleasure one gets rifling through milk cartons jammed with LPs. Within hours, I began to get slowly acquainted with my long-neglected collection of vinyl. Hours before Michigan locked down on March 16, 2020, a kid in a blue polo shirt threw an Audio Technica AT-LP 120 turntable in the trunk of my car.
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