2007: Los mejores discos del año, recopilación de listas

[Madam Green.]

29. Marillion: ‘Fugazi’ - Despite the arguable quality of their music, Marillion most certainly gave a shit about their album artwork and this multi-tiered image of a young man suffering an apparent overdose is their most startling brilliant and thought-provoking.

28. Smashing Pumpkins: ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ -A sprawling concept album was matched with suitably epic artwork directly inspired by renaissance masterpieces of the past. A masterpiece of an album too.

27. Radiohead: ‘Amnesiac’ - Yet another Radiohead album cover designed by Stanley Donwood (he’s done the majority of the band’s complete back-catalogue), ‘Amnesiac’s’ cover, although simplistic, is distinctly eye-opening – with the tears of an amnesiac stitched into an antique red book. However, the real treat was the limited edition version, which was the library book itself.

26. The Beatles: ‘Revolver’ - The pencil drawn Beatles faces were almost the antithesis to the Sgt Pepper artwork a year later, yet for many people it’s just as striking. Who needs Peter Blake eh?

25. Prince: ‘Lovesexy’ - Quite simply, the cover to this leaves very little to the imagination. Prince has always been one to flaunt it and ‘Lovesexy’s’ cover was no different. Thank goodness for his left knee position!

24. Sonic Youth: ‘Goo’ - Sonic Youth have to had some bloody ace album covers, so it's actually quite hard to choose, but this one is almost too cool for school. It's one album that you can judge by its cover.

23. The Cure: ‘The Cure’ - Imagine what it would look like if you got a five year old child to design you album. Et voila! Complete with lined paper, disproportionate figures and plenty of crayon doodling. Brilliant.

22. Manic Street Preachers: ‘The Holy Bible’ - The Manics’ third and darkest album was predominantly written by the soon to disappear Richey Edwards with most of the lyrics taken from his personal journals. The cover is a painting by artist Jenny Saville entitled ‘Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face)’ which the band were able to use after Edwards explained the meaning of every song during a 30 minute phone call to Saville.

21. The Libertines: ‘The Libertines’ - It doesn't matter what you think of the album, great artwork should represent something rather than just a photo of the band and this manages to sum up the whole album in one moment. You can look at it, listen to it and the two go hand in hand, it captures the whole downfall of the band in one shot.

20. Pink Floyd: ‘Atom Heart Mother’ - Every Pink Floyd cover is brilliant, but the one from 1970 of a cow – Lulubelle III, is one of Storm Thorgerson’s finest for the band. It’s simultaneously hilarious but perfect. Thorgerson describes it as a ‘cow how a cow should be’, and like most of the album is totally irrelevant to anything else.

[Madam Green.]

19. Dinosaur Jr: ‘Green Mind’ - There must be something about the fourth album and an amazing cover, because a number of artists on our list have made it thanks to their forth LP. ‘Green Mind’ is no different. The Dinosaur Jr cover- a picture by Joseph Szabo - is perhaps one of the most challenging on our list.

18. David Bowie – ‘Aladdin Sane’ - The Couldn’t perhaps be a more (in)sane cover to an album called, ‘Aladdin Sane.’ Beautifully evocative, the cover captures everything that Bowie was, and, was about to become in the 1970s. It does indeed show the birth of a pop superstar.

17. Joy Division: ‘Unknown Pleasures’ - Their 1979 debut features a simple rippling effect which was based on a graph discovered by Morris of 100 consecutive pulses. Set against the stark black background, it made for a dark, brooding image – very much like the music, then.

16. Beck: ‘Odelay’ - Featuring a Komondor, a rare Hungarian breed of matted hair dog, the cover to Beck’s second album ‘Odelay’ is as off the wall as the music contained with in it. The artwork bears a resemblance to the inside cover to Bush’s 1994 album ‘Sixteen Stone’ which showed a picture of a Puli being tossed in the air.

15. The Rolling Stones: ‘Sticky Fingers’ - The cover to what is considered to be the Stones’ most drug drenched album features the image of a male crotch in jeans and a leather belt. The original release featured a working zipper which opened to reveal cotton briefs emblazoned with the stamp ‘This Is Not ETC’ and was created by Pop-Art legend Andy Warhol. The album was also the first time the band’s now famous tongue and lips logo was presented to the world.

14. The Beatles: ‘Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’ - Perhaps the most celebrated cover of any Beatles album, this is a masterpiece in iconography and is a goldmine for pop culture trivia. Painstaking put together by pop artist Peter Blake, it was zeitgeist-defining in more ways than one.

13. Pink Floyd: ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ - The cover to, ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon,’ certainly comes close to topping the most recognisable covers ever list. Featuring a simple refracting prism and no text, the cover cunningly left everything to the imagination.

12. Supertramp: ‘Breakfast In America’ – The majority of the band may have hailed from UK, but this album cover said more about the vain, commercial obsessed country that America has become in contemporary times than a thousand words. The scary waitress standing in for the Statue of Liberty is a stroke of genius.

11. Sigur Rós: ‘Agaetis Byrjun’ - It’s perhaps suitable that a band that communicate in a mystifying language that 99.9% of us can’t understand should create album covers which are just as bewildering. Take Sigur Ros’ debut, ‘Agaetis Byrjun,’ as a prime example.

10. The Velvet Underground: ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ is often referred to as the ‘Banana Album’ because of Andy Warhol’s fruity creation on its front cover. Early copies came invited the owner to ‘Peel slowly and see’; peeling back the banana skin revealed a flesh-colored banana underneath.

[Madam Green.]

9. Led Zeppelin: ‘Houses of the Holy’ - Best enjoyed when the gatefold vinyl cover is fully spread out, the ambiguous, nymph-like crawling children, the orange Mars-esque glow and the scene of Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland combine to mark a strikingly original work.

8. Roxy Music: ‘Country Life’ - Perhaps the band’s most consistent album, the cover to ‘Country Life’ sums up everything that was risqué about Roxy Music. Like the band’s music, the candid cover was designed to test the openness of the record buying public.

7. The Beatles – ‘Abbey Road’ The image that created a million pilgrimages and even more bad holiday snaps, the cover to Abbey Road and the album’s title cemented the studio’s legendary status in the hearts and minds of Beatles fans worldwide. The famous photograph also helped fuel rumours that Paul McCartney was dead and has since been paid tribute to by numerous bands including McCartney himself on his live album ‘Paul Is Live’.

6. Beastie Boys: ‘License To III’ - “Rather than make an album cover that was understated and ‘safe’ for their debut, Beastie Boys went with a clear message of intent. ‘License To III’ featured a Boeing 727, inscribed with the band’s name and the logo, '3MTA3,' which when held to a mirror says, ‘Eat Me.’

5. The Strokes: ‘Is This It’ – The album that has probably defined indie music since the turn of the millennium more than any other sports a cover of simple cheekiness. A naked female rear caressed by a leather gloved hand is the perfect allegory for the sleazy tales of sex, drugs and rock & roll the record contains.

4. The Clash: ‘London Calling’ - Capturing the iconic moment as Paul Simonon smashes his bass guitar onstage, this remains one of the greatest music photographs of all time even though the photographer Pennie Smith criticised it for being out of focus - she was moving for cover as shards of the bass flew at her when she took it. An image that encapsulates pure punk spirit from the band that probably defined it the most.

3. The Sex Pistols: ‘Never Mind the Bollocks' - The first and only Sex Pistols album features as front cover and album title as vitriolic and garish as the songs contained within and on its release resulted in Richard Branson and a Nottingham Record shop owner being prosecuted under the Indecent Displays Act after it was put in the shop window.

2. Uriah Heep: ‘Very Eavy Very Umble’ - The album cover that single-handedly taught young children in the early seventies not to rifle through their Dad's record collection. So scary, they issued an alternative cover in the United States. The wimps.

1. Nirvana: ‘Nevermind’ - A stunningly original idea and an undoubted classic. The swimming baby chasing the American dollar was a defining image of the nineties and summed up the endless rat race of contemporary society perfectly – an innocent baby corrupted by money.

[Madam Green.]

…he de decir que no estoy muy de acuerdo con estas listas però bueno...las pongo por hacer algo

...y ahora las peores

50. Prince – ‘Prince’: The Purple One has given us some decent album covers in his time, but Christ knows what got into his little egomaniacal head with this one. He looks like Ron Jeremy’s thinner cousin.

49. MC Hammer – ‘Look Look Look’: He ditched the baggy trousers, became a preacher, but continued to make awful albums will equally naff covers. This 2006 one is cringe-worthy.

48. Queen – ‘The Miracle’: The four members of Queen merged into one fat head. How nice. We reckon we could knock up a better front cover on Photoshop in five minutes. Blindfolded.

47. Orion – ‘Reborn’: He looks like a gimp in camp Elvis drag. Very disturbing.

46. The Prodigy – ‘Experience’: In the early nineties The Prodigy were too busy frying their heads with fistfuls of ecstasy tablets to bother with artwork. The music was ace, but ‘Experience’s cover was truly pants.

45. Vanilla Ice – ‘To The Extreme’: Like many acts on the list, Vanilla Ice has made producing dire album sleeves, into, well, an art form. This 1990 release is perhaps the pick of the bunch.

44. Razorlight – ‘Razorlight’: ARRRGGHHHH!!! A black and white photo of Johnny Borrell – get it away from us!! Please!!

43. The Kinks – ‘Schoolboys In Disgrace’: There’s something a tad disturbing about a cartoon boy baring his red raw arse after a good spanking. The artist should be shot. A disgrace.

42. Tori Amos – ‘Y Kant Tori Read’: Good old Tori turned dominatrix for this album sleeve. Some people may find it sexy, we don’t – we’re scared she’s going to spank us to oblivion.

41. Ice T (Iceberg) – ‘Gangsta Rap’: Nope we don’t want to see Ice-T (or Iceberg as he wants to be known) straddling a naked woman on the front cover. The truth is we’re a bit jealous of him. The c*nt.

40. Prince – ‘Dirty Mind’: One of two Prince albums in our poll and it’s another howler. Horrible photo, bland greyscale and just shit.

[serukusuo]

Mejores para quien ???

[Madam Green.]

@serukusuo:3mgh3ncl:

Mejores para quien ???

…es que no encuentro el link de la web... ...luego lo busco

[Madam Green.]

39. Kenny Loggins – ‘Keep The Fire’: The background looks like one of those shite airbrush paintings you can buy off people in the street in Tenerife, while Kenny himself is pretending to be some kind of deity. Hmmmm.

38. Rob & Fab – ‘Rob and Fab’: Poor Rob and Fab. They were outed for faking the vocals on Milli Vanilli records, then they released this steaming turd of a record – which the duo did apparently sing on – to widespread distain.

37. Crosby, Stills & Nash – ‘Live It Up’: Wtf? Giant sausages on sticks… on the moon. With men climbing up them. Surely the result of taking way, way too much LSD?!

36. Kaiser Chiefs – ‘Yours Truly, Angry Mob’: The cover to the Kaisers’ second album was almost as bland as the music it contained… Wait, what’s-his-name is winking! Man, they’re so cool.

35. Butthole Surfers – ‘Brown Reason To Live’: They had a revolting name and their artwork always bordered on the macabre. Clever that. At least it’s got us still talking about them 25 years down the line.

34. Village People – ‘Renaissance’: They tried to get all arty on us, but they spectacularly failed. Stick to what you know best lads, like ‘Y.M.C.A’.

33. Michael Jackson – ‘Bad’: It’s the best selling record of all time, but ‘Bad’ sadly bares the image of Jacko in the early stages of his plastic surgery makeover. For that reason alone, it’s bad.

32. Bob Dylan – ‘Saved’: Mr Zimmerman’s 1980 album featured pretentious artwork of the highest calibre. It’s a good job his career didn’t need saving.

31. Any Bonkers compilation: Perhaps it’s the chavs who blare this happy hardcore shite out at deafening levels on public transport? Whatever it is, the hideous cartoon artwork reminds us of those moments of woe and the god-awful music it contains.

30. Jermaine Jackson – ‘My Name Is Jermaine’: His name be Jermaine. He’s a bad ass motherf*cker and this is one bad ass piece of album artwork. OW!

[Madam Green.]

29. The Beatles – ‘The Beatles’ (The White Album): An amazing album that’s for sure – in fact, one of their best. But the cover?? Well, it’s just lazy. Worse still, it probably put ideas into Hard-Fi’s heads.

28. El Vez – ‘Son Of A Lad From Spain?’: The self-dubbed Mexican Elvis decided to parody another musical institution with this release. The idiot.

27. Bee Gees – ‘Life In A Tin Can’: The ninth studio album from 1973 saw the brothers Gibb being buried in a tin – literally. Funny that.

26. Black Sabbath – ‘Sabotage’: It’s been said that this is in fact a life size mirror that the Sabbath boys used to snort gargantuan lines of cocaine from. Well, not quite, but it could have been a funny story.

25. Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’: It’s the 13th best selling album of all time, shifting well in excess of 30million copies. Proof then that not many people judge an album by its cover.

24. Guns n’ Roses – ‘The Spaghetti Incident’: A messy front cover on an album that turned out to be almost prophetic for the mess that Guns n’ Roses have now become. If it has been spaghetti Bolognese, it’d be a different story of course.

23. The Frivolous Five – ‘Sour Cream and Other Delights’: It’s like a very disturbing nightmare. One that you wake up from with heart palpitations and a cold sweat. Get it away from us, please.

22. Mick Ronson – ‘Play Don’t Worry’: He may have been cool when he was David Bowie’s lead guitarist, but he shred every ounce of credibility he had with this 1975 effort. Dire.

21. A Flock of Seagulls – ‘Dream Come True’: Garish colours. Tacky computerised graphics. Awful comb-overs on the three fiddlers. There’s clearly nothing right with ‘Dream Come True’. Apart from the music, that is.

20. Orleans – ‘Waking and Dreaming’: Unless you’re a teenage girl pumped full of pheromones, quite why a discerning record buyer would like to see a group of semi-naked men on the front cover of an album is beyond us. Well, me anyway.

[Madam Green.]

19. David Hasselhoff – ‘Night Rocker’: This 1985 album was massive in good old Germany, where the Hoff is treated like a national treasure. It saw him break from his Knight Rider role and become a fully fledged musician.

18. Eulenspygel – ‘Eulenspygel 2’: The experimental Krautrock outfit naturally gave us an experimental cover. Sadly though, for vegetarians at least, it’s enough to curdle the stomach.

17. Boned – ‘Up At The Crack’: Were they trying to be ironic? Were they going for the comedy value? The answer is irrelevant – it’s not big, it’s not funny and it’s definitely not clever.

16 Michael Bolton – ‘Michael Bolton’: The man who became synonymous with shit hair released this damp squib of a record featuring, well, a fetching photo of himself – complete with chest hair. You disgusting man.

15. Millie Jackson – ‘Back To The Shit’: Basically Ms Millie Jackson sitting on the bog and taking a shit. In comparison, she makes Peaches seem like a delightful lady.

14. ManOwar – ‘Anthology’: This 1997 compilation album of ManOwar’s greatest hits perhaps belonged to the Eighties for it’s pure cheesiness value. The boys must clearly have worked out to get that authentic Conan the Barbarian look.

13. Heino – ‘Liebe Mutter…’: We’d never heard of this German songsmith until we stumbled across this tragedy of an album cover. It’s so bad, it’s brilliant.

12. Devastatin Dave The Turntable Slave – ‘Zip Zap Rap’: Okay, so it’s technically a single, but this cover is so devastatingly bad it needs to be included. Fucking brilliant.

11. David Cassidy – ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is’: We were spoilt for choice with the amount of dodgy album covers in David Cassidy’s back catalogue, but this surely takes the biscuit. Awful.

10. The Handsome Beasts – ‘Beastiality’: Just wrong. Very wrong, indeed. We can’t say much more than that..

[Madam Green.]

9. The Beatles – ‘Yesterday and Today’: A US only release, the original version (above) featured the band holding baby dolls and pieces of meat. A political statement? Were not sure. Macabre? Without a doubt. It’s not Abbey Road, that’s for sure.

8. The Rolling Stones – ‘Dirty Work’: It may have been the Eighties, but still The Rolling Stones can’t be forgiven for this album shot. What the hell were they thinking?!

7. Tino – ‘Por Primera Vez’: The Spanish heartthrob’s only solo effort in 1983 has been heralded by many as the worst album cover of all time. Not quite, but it’s definitely up there.

6. Kevin Rowland – ‘My Beauty’: The former Dexy’s man has sold about 12 copies to date of this turgid covers album. Most people were probably too scared to go to the till to buy it. Commercial suicide.

5. Europe – ‘The Final Countdown’: Everything about this cover wreaks of Eighties cheese and tackiness. The Swedish hair rockers may have produced one of the songs of the decade, but their artwork left a lot to be desired.

4. Various Artists – ‘My Pussy Belongs To Daddy’: Okay, it may have been released in more innocent times, but this is wrong. VERY wrong!

3. John Lennon & Yoko Ono – ‘Unfinished Music No 1: Two Virgins’: The overtly experimental, wankery music was awful. The cover was just disturbing. It may have been the sixties, but we reckon Yoko should have shaved more.

2. The Coup – ‘Party Music’: Released in June 2001, just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, The Coup touched a raw nerve with their album cover depicting The Twin Towers being bombed. Okay they may not have forseen the true events three months later – but despite this, there’s little doubting it’s in very poor taste.

1. Hard-Fi – ‘Once Upon A Time In The West’: Seemingly in a bid to make some kind of deep cultural comment about the rise of downloading, Hard-Fi decided to ditch the record sleeve altogether. The result? A pretentious mess.

[-Toxinho-69]

La lista de la pritchfork

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/f ... ms-of-2007

Y viene con sorpresa final en el disco Nº1 (que no son los innombrables)

[jösexiu]

ah, pues el nº 1 es el el que más me esperaba yo

[Chiappucci]

Vic Chesnutt?!

Six Organs?!

Edito, porque veo que el segundo no les había gustado mucho. Ahora que lo de Mr. Vic.

[Trinxo]

el nº 1 directamente me lo han robado… joputas...

el resto de la lista que quieres que te diga... ni chesnutt, ni Elvis Perkins, ni Akron/Family....

[-Toxinho-69]

Es una lista muy jodida. Coincido con ellos en que Panda Bear merece estar bien arriba pero lo de no poner a Akron/Family tiene delito y aún por encima en sus votaciones le dan un 6,9. Para mi es el que más me ha gustado del año.

[jösexiu]

de todas las publicadas, a mí es la lista que más me gusta (es decir, con la que más coincido)

eso sí, a mí no me convencen ni el de Panda Bear ni el de Akron/Family

[-Toxinho-69]

Ya me dijo Jorgito que las listas os iban a salir un poco raras.
A ver cuando empezamos a colaborar.

[jösexiu]

a ver lo que sale, sí ...

estamos trabajando en ellou

[Kiwi]

Spoon?

[Trinxo]

@Kiwi:1pv74lsa:

Spoon?

como no sea en el peor concierto del año…