My favorite album covers

If I had to choose my 10 favorite albums but exclusively from a visual point of view, based on the album cover, 9 of them would be by the artist Storm Thorgeson. The remaining one would be “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” designed by Peter Blake. Storm Thorgeson is a man who has dedicated his career to creating a visual language based on the concept “Album Cover”, which has left a huge impact on rock history. He has created icons that will forever be imprinted in the minds of millions of rock music lovers. Just to name a few: Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Hear… and many more), Led Zeppelin (House of the Holy, In Through The Back Door… and many more), Peter Gabriel (Peter Gabriel 1 and 3), The Cranberries (Bury The Hatchet), Alan Parsons (Try Anything Once), Nice (Elegy), The Mars Volta (Frances The Mute), Muse, Black Sabbath… and the list goes on and on. The entire list can be seen on Wikipedia.

Here is a short description of one of his most important works in his own words. “The refracting glass prism referred to Floyd light shows – consummate use of light in the concert setting. Its outline is triangular and triangles are symbols of ambition, and are redolent of pyramids, both cosmic and mad in equal measure, all these ideas touching on themes in the lyrics. The joining of the spectrum extending round the back cover and across the gatefold inside was seamless like the seguing tracks on the album, whilst the opening heartbeat was represented by a repeating blip in one of the colours.”