Would Sgt. Pepper's be exactly the same without Peter Blake's cover ? At a time when full-length records do not mean much any longer and album covers even less, I found interesting to make a website on sleeve design. Long before videos, record covers were the visual embodiment of music, a way to put images on sound. I remember having spent hours as a teenager detailing the cover of records while listening to them. Later on, I realised that some of them had things in common in their design, revealing either a mere sign of the times or a more deliberate connection. Some records even obviously copied famous sleeves, as a tribute or as a mockery. Here is a collection of record covers I came across, which share some common visual features.

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The Rolling Stones

Get Stoned

30 Greatest Hits-30 Original Tracks (1977)

The Rolling Stones

Sucking the Seventies (1981)

The Rolling Stones

Collection 1971-1989 (1990)

The Rolling Stones

Collectors' Edition (1990)

The Rolling Stones

Coca-Cola Presenta - Volumen 1 (1995)

The Rolling Stones

Coca-Cola Presenta - Volumen 2 (1995)

The Rolling Stones

Forty Licks (2002)

The Rolling Stones

Ten Licks from Forty Licks (2002)

The Rolling Stones

Live Licks (2004)

The Rolling Stones

A Bigger Bang World Tour 2005-2006

Special Edition (2005)

The Rolling Stones

In Store Sampler (2005)

The Rolling Stones

2009 Remasters (2009)

The Rolling Stones

1964-1969 (2010)

The Rolling Stones

1971-2005 (2010)

The Rolling Stones

Complete Singles (2011)

The Rolling Stones

No Spare Parts (2011)

The Rolling Stones

Grrr (2011)

The Rolling Stones

Blue and Lonesome (2016)


Robot girl












Autograph

That's the Stuff (1985)

Aerosmith

Just Push Play (2001)


Wild bunch











The Stooges

The Stooges (1968)

Mew

And the Glass Handed Kites (2005)











Masters of Deceit

Hensley's Electric Jazz Band &

Synthetic Symphonette (2000)

Revolver

Music for a While (2009)


Shaved head girls












Sinead O'Connor

The Lion and the Cobra (1990)

Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco (1994)


Dark side

Rudolf Serkin, Bruno Walter, New York Philarmonic Orchestra

Beethoven Piano Concerto No5 In E-Flat, "Emperor" (1941)

(5 × Shellac, 12", 78 RPM)

Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

The Niwitz

Dark Side of the Spoon (1999)

Richard Cheese

The Sunny Side of the Moon - The Best of (2006)

Philip Glass

The Essential (2008)

Scissor Sisters

K-Mart Disco (2010)

Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon - Immersion Boxset (2011)

Rainbow












Supergrass

Life on other Planets (2002)

Infadels

Universe in Reverse (2008)


Black and green












The Housemartins

London 0 Hull 4 (1986)

Belle and Sebastian

The Boy with the Arab Strap (1998)


White album











The Beatles

The Beatles (White Album) (1968)

The Dandy Warhols

Dandys Rule OK (1995)











Lewis Black

White Album (2000)

Various

The Blues White Album (2002)


Cooling in water (2)












Slint

Spiderland (1991)

Washed Out

Life of Leisure (2010)


Moulded faces (3)












The Byrds

Byrdmaniax (1971)

The Soundtrack of our Lives

Behind the Music (2001)


Jump












Maxïmo Park

A Certain Trigger (2005)

Bryan Adams

Anthology (2007)


On the road














Bruce Springsteen

Nebraska (1982)

The Kinks

Live - The Road (1988)

The Jesus & Mary Chain

Stoned & Dethroned (1994)












Acetone

I Guess I Would (1995)

Hothouse Flowers

The Best of (2000)

Vincent Gallo

When (2001)







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Monster Movie

Last Night Something Happened (2002)

Weekend Players

Pursuit of Happiness (2003)

Bon Jovi

Lost Highway (2007)











Ray Manzarek/Roy Rogers

Translucent Blues (2011)

Mark Knopfler

Down the Road Wherever (2018)


B/w portrait














Sandie Shaw

Me (1965)

Nico

The Marble Index (1969)

Diane Birch

Bible Belt (2009)


Red armchair












Alain Bashung

Master Serie Vol.1 (1998)

Serge Lama

Feuille à Feuille (2001)