Selv i den digitale tidsalder, hvor filer og apps gør det lettere at få adgang til musik, er vinylen tilbage. Coveret, som måske bare er en beskyttelse af indholdet, giver plads til billedkunstneres udtryk og bliver ofte lige så vigtigt som selve albummet.
Nogle gange kan de endda koste mere end albummet - rygtet siger, at coveret til Blue Monday, af 80'er-rockgruppen New Order, var så dyrt, at pladeselskabet tabte penge på hvert eksemplar.
Hjemmesiden Short List har udvalgt de 50 fedeste forsider nogensinde. Listen inkluderer Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) e Abbey Road (1969) af Beatles , Nevermind (1991) af Nirvana , Skib ankommer for sent til at redde en druknende heks (1982) af Frank Zappa Homogen, fra Björk og et par stykker fra Pink Floyd .
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
Album: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) Designer: Andy Warhol
Led Zeppelin
Album: Houses of the Holy (1973) Designer: Aubrey Powell/Storm Thorgerson
The Beatles
Album: Abbey Road Designer: Kosh/Iain MacMillan
Van Halen
Album: 1984 Designer: Pete Angelus, Richard Seireeni, David Jellison, Margo Zafer Nahas
Sigur Rós
Album: Ágætis Byrjun Designer: Gotti Bernhöft
Johnny Cash
Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around Fotograf: Martyn Atkins
Björk
Album: Homogenic Designer: Alexander McQueen
Pet Shop Boys
Album: Introspective (1988) Designer: Mark Farrow/Pet Shop Boys
Pink Floyd
Album: Wish You Were Here (1975) Designer: Storm Thorgerson
Elvis Presley
Album: Elvis Presley (1956) Fotograf: William V. 'Rd' Robertson
Grace Jones
Album: Island Life (1985) Designer: Jean-Paul Goude
Joy Division
Album: Unknown Pleasures (1979) Designer: Joy Division, Peter Saville & Chris Mathan
Nirvana
Album: Nevermind (1991) Designer: Robert Fisher
Pink Floyd
Album: Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Designer: Storm Thorgerson
Rage Against The Machine
Album: Rage Against The Machine (1992) Fotograf: : Malcolm Browne
The Beatles
Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) Designer: Sir Peter Blake
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Album: It's Blitz! (2009) Designer: Ukendt
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Album: Who's Next (1971) Fotograf: Ethan A. Russell
Fugees
Album: The Score (1996) Designer: Brain/Richard O. White/Marc Baptiste
Beck
Album: The Information (2006) Designer: Various/The Listener
N.W.A.
Album: Straight Outta Compton (1988) Designer: Helane Freeman
Åndeliggjort
Album: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997) Designer: Mark Farrow
Soulwax
Album: Nite Versions (2005) Designer: Trevor Jackson
Ramones
Album: Ramones (1976) Fotograf: Roberta Bayley
Dronning
Album: Queen II (1974) Fotograf: Mick Rock
Vidunderbarn
Album: Music for the Jilted Generation (1994) Designer: Stuart Haygarth
Glade mandage
Album: Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (1990) Designer: Central Station Design
Miles Davis
Album: Tutu (1986) Designer: Eiko Ishioka/Irving Penn
Farsbrød
Album: Bat Out of Hell (1977) Designer: Jim Steinman/Richard Corben
Citrongelé
Album: Lost Horizons (2002) Designer: Fred Deakin/Airside
Retfærdighed
Album: † (2007) Designer: Surface2Air
John Coltrane
Album: Blue Train (1957) Designer: Reid Miles
Iron Maiden
Album: Number of the Beast (1982) Illustrator: Derek Riggs
Frank Zappa
Album: Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982) Designer: Roger Price
Ny orden
Album: Power, Corruption and Lies (1983) Designer: Peter Saville
Autechre
Album: Draft 7.30 (2003) Designer: Alex Rutterford
DJ Sadow
Album: Endtroducing (1996) Designer: Ukendt
The Stone Roses
Album: The Stone Roses (1989) Designer: John Squire
Bruce Springsteen
Album: Born in the USA (1984) Fotograf: Annie Leibovitz
Blondie
Album: Parallel Lines (1978) Designer: Ramey Communications/Edo Bertoglio/Peter Leeds
The Clash
Album: London Calling (1979) Designer: Pennie Smith/Ray Lowry
Biffy Clyro
Album: The Vertigo of Bliss (2003) Designer: Milo Manara
Oase
Album: Definitely Maybe (1994) Designer: Brian Cannon/Microdot
AC/DC
Album: Back in Black (1980) Designer: Bob Defrin
The Strokes
Album: Is This It (2001) Designer: Colin Lane
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Album: The Man-Machine (1978) Designer: Karl Klefisch/Günther Fröhling
Bob Dylan
Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) Fotograf: Don Hunstein
Rammstein
Album: Mutter (2001) Designer: Dirk Rudolph/Daniel & Geo Fuchs
The Sex Pistols
Album: Never Mind The Bollocks (1977) Designer: Jamie Reed