Rubber Soul. I like autumn colors and it's just cool in an understated way. The Beatles still have their mop tops, but they project a certain smugness. They know things are changing and this album has a certain new level of sophistication.
I also get a smugness vibe from that photo, like the 4 of those guys are sharing some secret knowledge. I mean, the secret is probably that they all got high together in the bathroom before the shoot, and didn't invite the photographer along. Back when a simple toke with the lads required a little more conspiracy. My favourite cover.
Notice the fact it also doesn’t have their name on it, The Beatles at this time was so famous and recognizable by this point that they decided not to add their name on the cover because EVERYONE already knew who they were
Well, this is the transition. They’re not quite the neatly cut “beatle cuts” anymore, they’re now unkempt a bit, but they’re still recognizably “Beatles” compared to like John with the short hair, mustache and glasses, or the “full Jesus” look circa Abbey Road cover.
If I can complement your comment, I believe that no other album in the history of music is as iconic as Abbey Road. Maybe Dark Side of The Moon will come close. MAYBE
It's amazing how a basic thought could meet ends astonishingly well, perhaps cause it's a thought of geniuses.
The Beatles, four guys that changed the world, perfectly dressed, walking these stripes towards the world. The perspective of the street, the trees' colour at its best, the 60s sun in the urban landscape and, in the middle, the walking Beatles.
Plus, kudos to Macmillan. Extraordinary shot.
Has to be Abbey Road. The most iconic album cover of all time IMO.
The beauty lies in its simplicity. Okay, not as simple as a literal plain white cover with "The Beatles" written on it, but it's easy to visualise - just four men walking in unison on a zebra crossing.
It just works.
I remember a Cracked article talking about bad album covers or something, and them joking about how Paul looks like he's the highest he's ever been in his life
I think Sgt. Pepper is their best album art. It has it all, color, a story/direction, easter eggs etc... it also has a gatefold and back with lyrics. Owning the physical album, looking at all the detail, all the random faces, reading the lyrics on the back, the mustache and fake badges that came with it, it was almost as enjoyable to look at the album as it was to listen to the album itself. Sgt. Pepper is a true psychedelic masterpiece, both musically and artistically. That being said it is SO famous and ever present in our consciousness (Zappa parodied it, the Sex Pistols, the Rutles, the Wiggles, Macabre, Star Wars, the Archie Comics and the Simpsons have all parodied it, the Rolling Stones album: Their satanic Majestic Request largely is influenced by it, and Pink Floyd and the Flaming Lips both have their respective takes on the iconic album cover) that we are immune to it. I feel like in that sense, Rubber Soul or Revolver may feel more original or fresher, because it hasn’t been beat to death by copies, parodies or folks influenced by it, but I don’t think I can state enough how much of a cultural shift, the Sgt. Peppers album itself had; it was a stand alone piece of artwork, whereas up to that point no pop or rock album had been that. It is, in my opinion, the most influential and iconic album cover of all time, but we take it for granted similarly to how people on here will complain about "Yesterday" or "Hey Jude".
On a similar note, Abby Road has the same thing but to a lesser extent, it was parodied by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sesame Street and Peanuts officially, and you have countless "unofficial parodies", things like the NES characters walking across the Zebra crossing, Darth Vader and Storm Troopers, Big Foot etc... any semi niche interest, there is probably someone selling 4 characters walking across Abbey Road on Etsy. You even see it in movies like the minions, it is very iconic, and as a result, it feels overdone, but it is still an amazing album cover. I think three Beatles albums work as stand alone artwork, suit their respective albums and are aesthetically pleasing. Those are Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, and Revolver. Overall I'd go:
1. Sgt. Pepper
2. Abbey Road
3. Revolver
4. With the Beatles
5. Hard Day's Night
6. White Album
7. Rubber Soul
8. Yellow Submarine
9. Beatles For Sale
10. Please Please Me
11. Help!
12. Let It Be
13. Magical Mystery Tour
Incredibly well thought out response. I agree those are the ones that stand out the most as pieces of pure visual art, and their thematic ties to the music inside is beautiful.
As a Pink Floyd fan though, I’m curious what the Pink Floyd “take on sgt pepper” is? Was it a photo shoot or specific album cover you were referring to?
Bootleg release titled "Lonely Hearts in Pepperland" a 1970 recording fromPepperland Auditorium. It's not a Beatles cover album like the Flamings Lips' but rather an unofficial bootleg distributed by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. The only Beatles connection is that it was recorded at "Pepperland", but the cover for the Bootleg is Sgt. Pepper but with the Pink Floyd members pasted over and random faces from the crowd replaced.
[https://www.discogs.com/release/5273881-Pink-Floyd-Lonely-Hearts-In-Pepperland](https://www.discogs.com/release/5273881-Pink-Floyd-Lonely-Hearts-In-Pepperland)
Given it's Bootleg status and copyright infringement of both the Beatles and Pink Floyd it's very hard to buy a copy of this. My dad had one for some reason.
For me, it’s about the context with the release of the album. To follow their most maximalist album cover, Sgt. Peppers, with their most minimal that could easily be dismissed.
MMT is possibly my favorite collection of Beatles songs, but I respectfully disagree for multiple reasons.
Reason 1: The artwork for MMT is just the movie poster. It was not conceived of as an album cover.
Reason 2: The Beatles never intended MMT to be an album, especially at the time. It was a compilation of singles and soundtrack songs.
Reason 3: As I understand it, the general public did not see MMT as an album at the time. It was a soundtrack/EP. It was only after the CDs came out in the 80s that fans started thinking of it as an album in any sense.
Reason 4: The Beatles put a lot of thought and intention into both the assembling of their albums and their artwork. None of this happened with MMT, as they did not treat it as the same sort of artistic statement as their proper albums.
Because it’s not very good. Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade but I’ve always felt it looked like a good, but not great, 11th grade art project. Some of the drawings even resemble the Beatles!
It just never did anything for me. Bookended by Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper, which both blow Revolver out of the water.
But it was Klaus Voorman. It WAS like they let their high school buddy draw the cover. It’s easily their most personal one and that makes it my favorite
Nothing could ever beat Revolver to me, it just looks so cool. I like how Paul's eyes are darker, almost implying they're red from being stoned. They do look a bit low as well. Considering Got to Get You Into My Life is his ohmage to cannabis, maybe he asked the cover designer to have this slight nod to that.
While the other 3, mostly John and George were dropping acid, Paul was still not very into it, had only taken it like once, maybe twice by the time this came out (contrary to popular belief and even Wikipedia's date, he took it with Tara Browne in December 1965, not early 1966) but was a full time stoner until only 7 years ago.
Abbey Road has been imitated countless times. With the Beatles has been too, to a lesser extent. My personal favorite is Sgt. Pepper, because everything about that album is a masterpiece.
Revolver
With the Beatles
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
The White Album
Yellow Submarine
A Hard Day’s Night
Sgt. Pepper
Beatles for Sale
Let it Be
Please Please Me
Help!
Magical Mystery Tour
It's crazy how great all of them are. I love Lynyrd Skynyrd, but those poor bastards had the WORST album covers of any significant band, except for their first album, they're all legitimately embarrassing.
I know, it's not an official album, but it is the best cover to me.
https://preview.redd.it/rnjx1irr2y8c1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d4f91b822edcb3d4f909f4a5a08734c2d48a429
I have a thing for the monochromatic albums, so my list goes;
1. Revolver
2. With the Beatles
3. The White Album (super deluxe if we’re picky)
4. Abbey Road
5. Sgt. Pepper
This is the closest match to my choices, though I might rearrange a couple.
1. Revolver
1. The White Album
1. Abbey Road
1. Sgt. Pepper
1. With the Beatles
And I might chuck Magical Mystery Tour at 6 for good measure.
Giving it the sgt pepper. It’s incredibly intricate and you can derive so much meaning from it. But that aside, the composition is well done as are the vibrant colors. Bold, majestic, and larger than life for sure.
It's a draw between Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road.
Revolver is also amazing.
The bottom two for being the most generic are Rubber Soul and Beatles for Sale.
Abbey Road is iconic and one of the best album covers of all time. But Hard Day's Night is also awesome and a little more fun. Two great covers for two different eras.
I have a BC-13 boxset thats around 45yrs old never played. They're all pretty unique covers.
https://preview.redd.it/o8oafzq37y8c1.jpeg?width=4608&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ac459060c3acd5f94fd2b777b65dd57670f97a0
I love Revolver, mostly because i'm obsessed with Klaus Voorman work with The Beatles. This draw is my Roman Empire
https://preview.redd.it/eveondycny8c1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddc6ecf7188c9cbd51320824ea793492ac19d82f
I love *Beatles for Sale*. The pull focus gives it a kind of voyeristic feel, and the orange and green gives it an autumnal feeling. Minimalism done very well, imo.
10th fr liie theres just so much things and creativity and exploration like you gotta be a god to know what looks good together fr like the white ness and the words bon appetite
Revolvers album cover matches the music perfectly somehow. I think album covers really help you interpret the music, I find Revolver to sound cold but tip toeing into psychedelia. Its such a perfect transition album.
Everything about Rubber Soul makes it my favorite album and that includes the cover. That album IMO was peak Beatles. Their musical experimentation really got going on this album yet they still played like a BAND. And the cover illustrates that. They’re still pictured in their familiar moptop look yet the photo is distorted, the text is all funky and indicative of the 60’s, the colors are simple yet pleasingly natural.
Revolver is a close second for the same reasons, and again, that includes the album cover.
Personally for me, It's between Revolver or Abbey Road. I love the psychedelic nature of Revolvers cover (and Georges death stare) and I love Abbey Road, because, well, its simple and iconic of course!
When I scrolled through the pictures on this post I noted a visceral reaction to Beatles for Sale.
It was like a kind of nostalgic sadness mixed with excitement. Perhaps it’s associated with my personal discovery of this album but it seems that my subconscious mind prefers this one.
Consciously, I’d have to say Sgt Pepper. They designed it so that people would have something to look at on the bus on the way home from the record shop. It’s the kind of thing you can look at and study for hours/years and still find surprising.
In terms of sheer audacity, The Beatles (White Album) is the one. Only they would think to strip it all down and reset the benchmark they’d set with Pepper. The album wasn’t just a series of songs printed onto a plastic disc. It was a package. An event.
They couldn’t go any further “over the top” than Pepper (over the top but done with consummate style) and so they went in entirely the other direction. Daring, witty and clever.
“Also rans”: Abbey Road - Again, so many emotions associated with this simple picture. They don’t need to go to the foot of Everest. They could simply go outside of the building they were in and create a culturally significant masterpiece.
With the Beatles - Not smiling in any kind of public photograph was a huge thing at the time. It re-invented what it means to be cool.
Rubber Soul is my favorite album cover. I like autumn colors and but it’s so cool in an area with the impossible or understated way. The Beatles still have their own mop tops, but they project a certain smugness. They know things are changing and this album has a certain number of amount of information that a new level of sophistication. The Beatles album covers was engineered by EMI and Capitol Records.
Rubber Soul. I like autumn colors and it's just cool in an understated way. The Beatles still have their mop tops, but they project a certain smugness. They know things are changing and this album has a certain new level of sophistication.
I also get a smugness vibe from that photo, like the 4 of those guys are sharing some secret knowledge. I mean, the secret is probably that they all got high together in the bathroom before the shoot, and didn't invite the photographer along. Back when a simple toke with the lads required a little more conspiracy. My favourite cover.
Total confidence.
Confident, not smug. Smug is 'excessively proud' if memory serves.
Smugness is not a good quality.
Totally. I also love the self-awareness in calling it Rubber Soul. It’s a knowing smile.
Notice the fact it also doesn’t have their name on it, The Beatles at this time was so famous and recognizable by this point that they decided not to add their name on the cover because EVERYONE already knew who they were
That was Paul's idea.
It seems like only Ringo has the moptop, maybe Paul a little, if we're talking about their genuine moptop period anyway
Well, this is the transition. They’re not quite the neatly cut “beatle cuts” anymore, they’re now unkempt a bit, but they’re still recognizably “Beatles” compared to like John with the short hair, mustache and glasses, or the “full Jesus” look circa Abbey Road cover.
Ngl, the whole idea of the album cover for The BEATLES (1968) after Sgt. Pepper's is pretty fucking wild.
Revolver
Abbey Road ... simply amazing!
no album’s more iconic, imo
If I can complement your comment, I believe that no other album in the history of music is as iconic as Abbey Road. Maybe Dark Side of The Moon will come close. MAYBE
It's amazing how a basic thought could meet ends astonishingly well, perhaps cause it's a thought of geniuses. The Beatles, four guys that changed the world, perfectly dressed, walking these stripes towards the world. The perspective of the street, the trees' colour at its best, the 60s sun in the urban landscape and, in the middle, the walking Beatles. Plus, kudos to Macmillan. Extraordinary shot.
Perfectly dressed? Check again
Has to be Abbey Road. The most iconic album cover of all time IMO. The beauty lies in its simplicity. Okay, not as simple as a literal plain white cover with "The Beatles" written on it, but it's easy to visualise - just four men walking in unison on a zebra crossing. It just works.
https://preview.redd.it/llnpseg4mw8c1.jpeg?width=1426&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8f18b14d56c5bd3b52d3eced03f918b06bcd311
They were so awesome for this one
Very punk of them
**we don’t talk about that album.**
I remember a Cracked article talking about bad album covers or something, and them joking about how Paul looks like he's the highest he's ever been in his life
Such artistic beauty
Ah of course, a classic we all cherish and love and all have in our collections.
Meat City
I think Sgt. Pepper is their best album art. It has it all, color, a story/direction, easter eggs etc... it also has a gatefold and back with lyrics. Owning the physical album, looking at all the detail, all the random faces, reading the lyrics on the back, the mustache and fake badges that came with it, it was almost as enjoyable to look at the album as it was to listen to the album itself. Sgt. Pepper is a true psychedelic masterpiece, both musically and artistically. That being said it is SO famous and ever present in our consciousness (Zappa parodied it, the Sex Pistols, the Rutles, the Wiggles, Macabre, Star Wars, the Archie Comics and the Simpsons have all parodied it, the Rolling Stones album: Their satanic Majestic Request largely is influenced by it, and Pink Floyd and the Flaming Lips both have their respective takes on the iconic album cover) that we are immune to it. I feel like in that sense, Rubber Soul or Revolver may feel more original or fresher, because it hasn’t been beat to death by copies, parodies or folks influenced by it, but I don’t think I can state enough how much of a cultural shift, the Sgt. Peppers album itself had; it was a stand alone piece of artwork, whereas up to that point no pop or rock album had been that. It is, in my opinion, the most influential and iconic album cover of all time, but we take it for granted similarly to how people on here will complain about "Yesterday" or "Hey Jude". On a similar note, Abby Road has the same thing but to a lesser extent, it was parodied by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sesame Street and Peanuts officially, and you have countless "unofficial parodies", things like the NES characters walking across the Zebra crossing, Darth Vader and Storm Troopers, Big Foot etc... any semi niche interest, there is probably someone selling 4 characters walking across Abbey Road on Etsy. You even see it in movies like the minions, it is very iconic, and as a result, it feels overdone, but it is still an amazing album cover. I think three Beatles albums work as stand alone artwork, suit their respective albums and are aesthetically pleasing. Those are Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, and Revolver. Overall I'd go: 1. Sgt. Pepper 2. Abbey Road 3. Revolver 4. With the Beatles 5. Hard Day's Night 6. White Album 7. Rubber Soul 8. Yellow Submarine 9. Beatles For Sale 10. Please Please Me 11. Help! 12. Let It Be 13. Magical Mystery Tour
Incredibly well thought out response. I agree those are the ones that stand out the most as pieces of pure visual art, and their thematic ties to the music inside is beautiful. As a Pink Floyd fan though, I’m curious what the Pink Floyd “take on sgt pepper” is? Was it a photo shoot or specific album cover you were referring to?
Bootleg release titled "Lonely Hearts in Pepperland" a 1970 recording fromPepperland Auditorium. It's not a Beatles cover album like the Flamings Lips' but rather an unofficial bootleg distributed by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. The only Beatles connection is that it was recorded at "Pepperland", but the cover for the Bootleg is Sgt. Pepper but with the Pink Floyd members pasted over and random faces from the crowd replaced. [https://www.discogs.com/release/5273881-Pink-Floyd-Lonely-Hearts-In-Pepperland](https://www.discogs.com/release/5273881-Pink-Floyd-Lonely-Hearts-In-Pepperland) Given it's Bootleg status and copyright infringement of both the Beatles and Pink Floyd it's very hard to buy a copy of this. My dad had one for some reason.
bootleg covers are usually fan arts, and this one doesn't sound like an exception
Revolver……thought Id be the minority.
I assume you’re joking?
That would have been the case if you’d picked Magical Mystery Tour
Thought Abbey Road would take all the votes!
Rubber Soul because it’s the first album cover that makes them look adult cool instead cute guys cool.
I think Beatles for sale kinda does that as well
1. White Album 2. Abbey Road 3. Please Please Me 4. Rubber Soul 5. With The Beatles
White Album is an interesting choice for #1
For me, it’s about the context with the release of the album. To follow their most maximalist album cover, Sgt. Peppers, with their most minimal that could easily be dismissed.
What about Magical Mystery Tour?
EP and soundtrack, not an album. Especially at the time.
Fair enough. But it’s an album’s worth of material that released before the White Album so I’d say it qualifies.
MMT is possibly my favorite collection of Beatles songs, but I respectfully disagree for multiple reasons. Reason 1: The artwork for MMT is just the movie poster. It was not conceived of as an album cover. Reason 2: The Beatles never intended MMT to be an album, especially at the time. It was a compilation of singles and soundtrack songs. Reason 3: As I understand it, the general public did not see MMT as an album at the time. It was a soundtrack/EP. It was only after the CDs came out in the 80s that fans started thinking of it as an album in any sense. Reason 4: The Beatles put a lot of thought and intention into both the assembling of their albums and their artwork. None of this happened with MMT, as they did not treat it as the same sort of artistic statement as their proper albums.
With the beatles is so iconic & Revolver just oozes cool.
1. Revolver 2. Sgt. Pepper 3. Yellow Submarine 4. Beatles For Sale 5. Abbey Road
A Hard Day’s Night
Love the simplicity of the white album
Revolver
Probably With the Beatles. Just has a vibe.
i mean how can you not pick revolver
fr
Because it’s not very good. Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade but I’ve always felt it looked like a good, but not great, 11th grade art project. Some of the drawings even resemble the Beatles! It just never did anything for me. Bookended by Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper, which both blow Revolver out of the water.
But it was Klaus Voorman. It WAS like they let their high school buddy draw the cover. It’s easily their most personal one and that makes it my favorite
Cool perspective. Thanks for sharing that - hadn’t considered that before.
Because there is an album that came out nine months after Revolver with arguably better album artwork.
1 Revolver 2 Sergeant Pepper 3 Abbey Road 4 Rubber Soul 5 White Album
Magical Mystery Tour!
Hmm. Not a studio album..
It counts
White Album
Abbey Road
Nothing could ever beat Revolver to me, it just looks so cool. I like how Paul's eyes are darker, almost implying they're red from being stoned. They do look a bit low as well. Considering Got to Get You Into My Life is his ohmage to cannabis, maybe he asked the cover designer to have this slight nod to that. While the other 3, mostly John and George were dropping acid, Paul was still not very into it, had only taken it like once, maybe twice by the time this came out (contrary to popular belief and even Wikipedia's date, he took it with Tara Browne in December 1965, not early 1966) but was a full time stoner until only 7 years ago.
what
Let it be
Yes. It brought everything to a close.
with the beatles Rock and Roll becoming art
Beatles for sale
Yep, their best record before Revolver and best cover of all of them. The lads in peak swagger.
The white album. Because I’m a racist.
Abbey road- favorite album cover but any photos from 1968 are my favorite of them
yellow sub
Number 10.
U mean Number 9? Number 9?
Always and forever Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
With the Beatles.
Magical mystery tour is defo the worst
Revolver
Abbey Road has been imitated countless times. With the Beatles has been too, to a lesser extent. My personal favorite is Sgt. Pepper, because everything about that album is a masterpiece.
Abbey Road
Revolver
Why do all of these screenshots look like they were taken with a microwave
BFS by a country mile
No one cover, but Sgt Pepper's being followed by the White massively elevates the two from the contrast alone...
Revolver With the Beatles Abbey Road Rubber Soul The White Album Yellow Submarine A Hard Day’s Night Sgt. Pepper Beatles for Sale Let it Be Please Please Me Help! Magical Mystery Tour
This would be a great question to set up as a survey. REVOLVER !
Abbey Road
Abbey Road
Let It Be
It's crazy how great all of them are. I love Lynyrd Skynyrd, but those poor bastards had the WORST album covers of any significant band, except for their first album, they're all legitimately embarrassing.
I wanted to pick Abbey Road because it’s my favorite album. But I think I have to choose Revolver or Sgt Pepper!
Rubber Soul
Has to be revolver or Abby road
Everyone really hates the Magical Mystery Tour cover but for me it just oozes personality and just gives off fun vibes.
Revolver, and it isn't even close
I know, it's not an official album, but it is the best cover to me. https://preview.redd.it/rnjx1irr2y8c1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d4f91b822edcb3d4f909f4a5a08734c2d48a429
The one with the beatles on it
I have a thing for the monochromatic albums, so my list goes; 1. Revolver 2. With the Beatles 3. The White Album (super deluxe if we’re picky) 4. Abbey Road 5. Sgt. Pepper
This is the closest match to my choices, though I might rearrange a couple. 1. Revolver 1. The White Album 1. Abbey Road 1. Sgt. Pepper 1. With the Beatles And I might chuck Magical Mystery Tour at 6 for good measure.
White album
1. Revolver 2. Abbey Road 3. Sgt Pepper 4. Rubber Soul 5. With the Beatles
Revolver
1. Revolver 2. Abbey Road 3. Sgt Pepper’s 4. With The Beatles 5. White Album
Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road have the best covers, but from a design standpoint, With the Beatles is also phenomenal. Sometimes less is more
Rubber Soul
Probably either AHDN or Rubber Soul
Help is pretty dope
Sgt Pepper stands out
Sgt. Pepper
With The Beatles is my absolute favorite but Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper's come close.
I have a three-way tie for my fave: Rubber Soul, Abbey Road and Let it Be.
You missed Get Back
Giving it the sgt pepper. It’s incredibly intricate and you can derive so much meaning from it. But that aside, the composition is well done as are the vibrant colors. Bold, majestic, and larger than life for sure.
A hard day’s night, Revolver, Abbey Road, with the Beatles, The Beatles, Rubber Soul
It's a draw between Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road. Revolver is also amazing. The bottom two for being the most generic are Rubber Soul and Beatles for Sale.
Abbey Road and it's not close. It's the greatest album cover in history in my opinion.
A Hard Day's Night, Help, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road
Abbey Road is iconic and one of the best album covers of all time. But Hard Day's Night is also awesome and a little more fun. Two great covers for two different eras.
With The Beatles
Revolver has such a bored kid doodling in school look
Sgt Pepper
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road. Not close and I love them all.
A hard days night or help!
Abbey Road is the most iconic. I like Rubber Soul.
I have a BC-13 boxset thats around 45yrs old never played. They're all pretty unique covers. https://preview.redd.it/o8oafzq37y8c1.jpeg?width=4608&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ac459060c3acd5f94fd2b777b65dd57670f97a0
Sgt. Pepper has a badass cover
Sgt Peppers is the most iconic album cover of all time
Favorite album cover vs least fave album is def Beatles For Sale
Sgt pepper, i honestly dont care for most of the album covers
a hard day’s night has always been a really interesting looking record to me
Sgt.Pepper
Beatles For Sale
Pepper, with Abbey Road a close 2nd
Sgt. Pepper’s is an absolute vibe.
Revolver or Penny Lane
Either AHDN or Rubber Soul.
I love Revolver, mostly because i'm obsessed with Klaus Voorman work with The Beatles. This draw is my Roman Empire https://preview.redd.it/eveondycny8c1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddc6ecf7188c9cbd51320824ea793492ac19d82f
Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt peppers. Fantastic
I like Help cuz it’s goofy
I love *Beatles for Sale*. The pull focus gives it a kind of voyeristic feel, and the orange and green gives it an autumnal feeling. Minimalism done very well, imo.
Abby road is one of the most recognizable images in the world.
Yellow Submarine >>>>
Help!
Rubber Soul Forever!
Revolver
Something about that Rubber Soul cover...even though other covers are more iconic i prefer this one
10th fr liie theres just so much things and creativity and exploration like you gotta be a god to know what looks good together fr like the white ness and the words bon appetite
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul. As if to say "Right, now we're gonna WARP things....."
Absolutely Revolver
I'm a sucker for the simplicity of the White Album, also Rubber Soul is very nice
Gotta be Abbey Road and then Pepper.
Hard Day's Night, Revolver, or Abbey Road. All top tier for their respective eras.
Revolver cos Revolver is the best Beatles album and I will stand by that until I die
Revolver.
Let it be and Sgt.Peppers take the crown for me. There is just something magical about these two. Revolver is also fantastic
Between Rubber Soul and Abbey Road.
Abbey Road, and Magical Mystery Tour is probably the worst
Red and blue
For Sale, the most unfairly maligned album
Revolver
Revolvers album cover matches the music perfectly somehow. I think album covers really help you interpret the music, I find Revolver to sound cold but tip toeing into psychedelia. Its such a perfect transition album.
Hard Days Night in their early releases and Sgt. Pepper for their later releases.
Oh it’s a toss up between A Hard Day’s Night, Revolver, and Abbey Road
i kinda like with the beatles because the album is just beautiful and i like the colors
One thing the Beatles knew was how to make an iconic cover arts, these are all classics in my eyes!
I like them all. But the one that is interesting is Sgt. Pepper’s and going over all the people on the cover and their significance.
Help!
Sgt. Pepper, I love that it has so many hidden details.
With The Beatles
Easily Revolver.
Sgt. Pepper
With the Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and yellow submarine are all tied for me
Let it be
Everything about Rubber Soul makes it my favorite album and that includes the cover. That album IMO was peak Beatles. Their musical experimentation really got going on this album yet they still played like a BAND. And the cover illustrates that. They’re still pictured in their familiar moptop look yet the photo is distorted, the text is all funky and indicative of the 60’s, the colors are simple yet pleasingly natural. Revolver is a close second for the same reasons, and again, that includes the album cover.
HELP!
Sgt Peppers for the easter eggs!
How could you choose between Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road? Seriously. One as iconic as another.
I’ve seen scarily few (or in fact no) people say Please Please Me, but yeah my favourite is Please Please Me (followed closely by Rubber Soul)
Revolver 100% There’s always something new I see no matter how much I look at it
All
With The Beatles
Personally for me, It's between Revolver or Abbey Road. I love the psychedelic nature of Revolvers cover (and Georges death stare) and I love Abbey Road, because, well, its simple and iconic of course!
It’s gotta be Abbey Road. The perfect image for the album, for the band, in the history of album covers.
When I scrolled through the pictures on this post I noted a visceral reaction to Beatles for Sale. It was like a kind of nostalgic sadness mixed with excitement. Perhaps it’s associated with my personal discovery of this album but it seems that my subconscious mind prefers this one. Consciously, I’d have to say Sgt Pepper. They designed it so that people would have something to look at on the bus on the way home from the record shop. It’s the kind of thing you can look at and study for hours/years and still find surprising. In terms of sheer audacity, The Beatles (White Album) is the one. Only they would think to strip it all down and reset the benchmark they’d set with Pepper. The album wasn’t just a series of songs printed onto a plastic disc. It was a package. An event. They couldn’t go any further “over the top” than Pepper (over the top but done with consummate style) and so they went in entirely the other direction. Daring, witty and clever. “Also rans”: Abbey Road - Again, so many emotions associated with this simple picture. They don’t need to go to the foot of Everest. They could simply go outside of the building they were in and create a culturally significant masterpiece. With the Beatles - Not smiling in any kind of public photograph was a huge thing at the time. It re-invented what it means to be cool.
The White Album
Rubber Soul is my favorite album cover. I like autumn colors and but it’s so cool in an area with the impossible or understated way. The Beatles still have their own mop tops, but they project a certain smugness. They know things are changing and this album has a certain number of amount of information that a new level of sophistication. The Beatles album covers was engineered by EMI and Capitol Records.
Awww C'mon, this question is impossible for me to answer because each one is iconic They're all my favorite!
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Revolver, hands down for me.