Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik cover. Film director Gus Van Sant took the photos for the package. The Chilis liked tattoos, so why not get champion inker Henk Schiffmacher to design a logo for the band's classic 1991 album? Henky Penky aka Hanky Panky had tattooed Anthony Kiedis and Kurt Cobain, so it was a very "grunge" look. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik.and the picture later ended up being used for Beck Hansen's fifth album in 1996. Joan Rigby took a photo of a Komondor dog taking a leap over a fence for the July 1977 issue of the American Kennel Club's monthly magazine. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream album cover. Taken by photographer Kirk Weddle, who took just 11 frames of the boy in the water, t's a clumsy metaphor to be sure, but what a memorable photo.Ī hazy photo of two girls - Ali Laenger and LySandra Roberts - eating popsicles on a summer's day in Los Angeles in 1993 housed this epic album. Probably the most famous image of the 1990s, little Spencer Elden goes swimming in pursuit of a dollar bill. Saville used stock images to great effect.īlurred, kinetic, confused - Angus Cameron's photography for the acclaimed shoegaze classic reflects the sonic chaos lurking inside the sleeve. The band's long-term designer Peter Saville had moved to California and the sleeve art seems to reflect the riots that plagued the city at the time - burning houses on one side, blissed-out beach fun on the other.
Their label, Factory, had gone bust the year before and their sixth album was to be the first for major London Records. The festival was headlined by Status Quo, Procol Harum and Bad Company - which one is he grooving to?ġ993 was a landmark year for the veteran Manchester band. The image was turned into a silkscreen by artist Kate Gibb and musician Ed Simons felt that the image of one guy getting into the tunes while the others remained seated summed up the Brothers' selective appeal.
The Chems' third album in 1999 bore a cover that featured a photo taken by Richard Young at the Great British Music Festival at London's Olympia across New Year 1976. Placed carefully among the congregation were the cut-out figures of each band member, taken by fashion photographer Rankin. That's all." For their breakthrough 1995 album, Jarvis Cocker had photographer Donald Milne gatecrash the wedding of Dom and Sharon O'Connor's wedding in Surrey in August 1995.
"We don't want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. Enough to give entomophobes the heebie jeebies. For this landmark trip hop album, photographer Nick Knight took photos of various beasties in the Natural History Museum and designer Tom Hingston created an impossible creature via the medium of digital collage.
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