The Most Iconic Album Covers of All-Time 

I've seen a bunch of comments asking about it, so here's an answer: I had never seen ARTV's videos before today. Just checked him out and he seems like a good guy. Fiverr must've contacted both of us at the same time about the redesigns and we both ended up making videos revolving around them. No big controversy. Watch his video, watch mine, watch both, doesn't matter lol. Have a happy Thanksgiving folks 💘

I’m pretty sure Abbey Road is the Beatles most iconic album cover, and one of the most imitated photos in music history.

Led Zeppelin 1's image of the Hindenburg crashing is legendary. Really set the tone for their discography

"It's pretty much American Idiot for boomers." This is completely correct and I still hate it

Every other artist: *_A R T_* Tyler the Creator: *-B U B B L E F O N T-*

The Madvillainy cover, iconic

The pet sounds cover is adorable. They're feeding goats and that's just wholesome.

Michael Jackson’s thriller is pretty iconic. I’d say the BAD album is too

I feel like currents and ok computer definitely deserve a mention

“I could sit and find meaning in this image of a banana, but I’ll let it S L I D E for now”

Yo wheres In the Court of the Crimson King? That one of the most iconic album covers of all time

HOLY F I HAD NEVER NOTICED THAT LONDON CALLING WAS A PARODY OF "ELVIS PRESLEY" ! My life is a lie.

tame impala’s covers are so gorgeous/amazing and perfectly represent the album titles

Playboi cartis die lit album cover is the elvis presley album cover of the 2010s

All of MJs album covers from Off the wall until blood on the dance floor are godlike, you cant go wrong with the king of pop

I think Weezer’s Blue Album really fits this criteria. Those four boys on a solid color background is one of the most iconic album covers of all time. Wow!

The cover for king crimson's debut album is one of my favourites. It captures the tone of the album and the band perfectly.

The Magdalene cover makes me extremely uncomfortable

Not even two minutes in and we get Pet Sounds cover slander I expected better here 😔

Dude forgot “Demon Days” from Gorillaz.

I’d add the London Calling album cover, specifically in how it calls back to the Elvis Presley debut cover and flips it on its head with punk energy.

The Stone Roses self-titled album is pretty iconic I feel.

The igor cover art is simplistic but yet so memorable and it suits the vibe of the album. Barely brought up in conversations about the album, yes I find it one of the (if not the) most iconic thing about the album.

Kid cudi's man on the moon is soooo good especially the expanded one

Gosh, why don't we have more animated album covers considering most of us stream these days?

Because The Internet cover was iconic the second it dropped, color palette is gasss

Demon Days, Wolf, Abbey Road, communist daughter, Random Access Memories, The Money Store, MBTF, Man on the moon, No Love Deep Web, Rolling Stone, Odd future tape v1 and 2, Cherry bomb, Plastic beach, The Magic Whip, Blur, To Pimp a Butterfly, Blonde, Death of a Bachelor, Pretty Odd, The Black Parade, American Idiot, Nevermind, Bizarre Ride II, Tribe Called Quest, Gorillaz, Discovery, Flowerboy, Graduation, College Dropout, DAMN., Yeezus, list can go on

Demon Days by Gorillaz has a pretty iconic album cover imo. I mean pretty much all of Gorillaz' album covers are awesome and I love them but I can't deny that Demon Days is way more widely known than for example Plastic Beach.

Hang on, I'm 10 minutes in an Alfo video about albums and there's nothing about MBDTF. What's just happened?!?

I could honestly have watched an hour long video of this.

The reputation album cover is also one of my favs. There's a whole story behind it, every single detail is important.

loveless' cover is both "original" and "thematic", its probably the best album cover of all time

In the aeroplane over the sea

That to pimp a butterfly!!!

Even when I had no concept of Neutral Milk Hotel, the In the Aeroplane Over the Sea album cover really stuck itself in my head

Kid A is my personal favourite

Fiverr literally sponsored the same video from ARTV. They didn’t even change the 12 chosen albums wtf

Muse - Absolution album cover physically gives me chills

Bjork's "Post" is my favorite. It's so colorful and full of life

OutKast: “Stankonia” album is iconic

One of my favorite things about music honestly is the album covers...love the Video 🙌🏻

another one of the most incredible album covers is King Crimson's debut album, "In the court of the crimson king". It definitely fits the music thematically, but it is incredibly abstract, especially for its time.

13:10 the figures who appear on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover redesign are as follows: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: John = Kanye West Ringo = Drake Paul = Taylor Swift George = Lil Nas X From Left to Right: 1. The Beatles (Headless) 2. Barack Obama 3. Beyonce 4. Bojack Horseman 5. Elon Musk 6. Margaret Atwood 7. Ai Weiwei 8. Bell Hooks 9. M.I.A. 10. Millie Bobbie Brown 11. Bernie Sanders 12. Martha Nussbaum 13. Judith Butler 14. Rupaul 15. Lil Peep 16. Xxxtentacion 17. Kendrick Lamar 18. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 19. Donna Haraway 20. Miley Cyrus 21. Avicii 22. Bjork 23. No-Face (Spirited Away) 24. Billie Eilish 25. Greta Thunberg 26. Marina Abramovic 27. Yanis Varoufakis 28. Slavoj Zizek 29. Jamie Oliver 30. Kylie Jenner the redesign was created by TrippieSteff

Really great video!! To me, album art is so important. If I’m searching for new music to listen to it it be online or at my local record shops, I always go for the ones with the album art that intrigues me the most and go from there. There’s so much cool story telling in album art. One of the main reasons I love buying albums is having the jacket of the album up close and seeing the story in your face.

The pet sounds cover is not that bad, my guy

The OOZ has gotta be one of my favorites.

Just a heads up even though someone has probably already mentioned it. Blondie's singer is Debbie Harry, not Harris. Great video though.

The re-imagined NWA album cover looks really good.

I refuse to accept the fact that a punk band hasn’t used the falling man from 9/11 as an album cover

Gorillaz - Demon Days Who hasn't seen it?

The Number of the Beast is the perfect example of a perfect album cover. Meaningful, beautiful, badass, and iconic. Holy Diver’s cover art is great too

I'm so happy you finally got sponsored 💕 but this was a really great video dude! Also that's really cool Fiver reached out to their artists on their platform like that.

10 years from now we will get a video about the most iconic YT thumbnails

Alfo: You have to come up with an image for your album, and it has to be super thoughtful The Beatles, Weezer, and Metallica: No

Unknown Pleasures is such a masterpiece in every single way it’s unbelievable to think it was both Joy Division’s debut and Peter Saville’s first album artwork

Weezer’s “Pinkerton” album art compliments the music so well.

Master of puppets cover has a lot of depth to it, and is one of the most recognized metal albums in all time

Ween’s “The Mollusk” has pretty great album art, it perfectly captures what the album is

You make a great point here. Thank you for sharing this because not only is it interesting but it's also useful.

This is the dopest video I've seen in a while. GREAT JOB ALFO MEDIA!!!

I think Iron Maiden's early 80's album covers should be mentioned since thousands of kids bought their music based on nothing but the art. Also if you've ever had a vinyl copy of Jethro Tulls' "Thick as a Brick" I'ts unforgettable.

I feel like iridescence album cover isn't as iconic, but as it compliments the music in the album perfectly

i loved the nirvana and purple rain design! but honestly all of them were so creative! I love the arts

loveless by mbv. the album cover really visualizes the sounds in the album itself

I think the covers of Michael Jackson's "Bad", "HIStory", "Blood on the Dance Floor" and especially "Dangerous" are amazing covers that really stand out and are always overlooked.

The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me. Amazing album with incredible art. The band actually persisted on getting that photograph for their album after being rejected multiple times by the photographer. He eventually gave in and said that if they wanted it that bad, then they must be really passionate about it. I think the photographer gave the album a listen before finally agreeing to let it be the album art. The only requirement was that there could be no text covering the image.

I feel like black sabbath’s self titled could easily have been in here- matches the sound of album perfectly

I just watched a few clips from your channel. And this isn't at all about if I agree or not, but I really like your style. Interesting topics; well laid out; subjective. Great stuff.

Some of my favorite album covers: Currents - Tame Impala Rodeo - Travis Scott Birds in the trap sing mcknight - Travis Scott Dark side of the moon . Pink Floyd In utero - Nirvana My dark beautiful twisted fantasy - Kanye West Kids see ghosts - Kanye West & Kid Cudi

London Calling ?

Blondie - Parallel Lines 6:59 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 7:22

so we’re just gonna forget the demon days cover?

The blue album by Weezer is pretty fire

I love the pet sounds cover actually lol

the re-designs were amazing to see!

Great video overall, just ooone thing missing... Where was Out of the Blue’s album cover from ELO, that spaceship is the definition of Mr. Blue Sky

“American Idiot for Boomers.” Is the best thing I have ever heard.

Illmatic is pretty iconic too. The way kid Nas is transparent and looking at you frowning, while the background is the streets of New York. It kinda shows how Nas' life is a reflection of his environment.

I love the Meliora cover. It's so gorgeous and there are many different covers within than one cover. It's so gosh darn cool.

Pac‘s all eyez on me cover is legendary

You know the Elvis artwork is iconic when another album parodies it and ends up being just as, if not more, famous.

i feel like nobody who was behind those album covers did actually thought as much about them as this analysis, I bet they were more like “yeah this looks cool for the cover” xD

For me, the best album redesigns were the Nirvana, NWA and of course Sgt. Peppers. Awesome list! You should do a list of your favourite album covers from this year and maybe sort them into Thematic, Identity or Originality as well.

London Calling by The Clash is also amazing.

well if we're talking about iconic covers that might make you uncomfortable death grips' no love deep web cover is up there

Dark side of the moon and st. Pappers album covers are irreplaceable.. They are just perfect ❤❤

Weyes blood's TITANIC RISING has an AMAZING artcover

thank you for making this

Roger Dean is probably the greatest album cover artist of all time.

Justices Cross is Crazy, the best way to describe the feeling it gives me is if I died that is all that I will see for the rest of eternity.

To pimp a butterfly has a pretty lit album cover because it conveys what the albums theme is. Being black in America

the pet sounds cover is amazing. it accompanies the sound of the music so perfectly, i don't know what other album cover i've seen that could perfectly match the sound of pet sounds the way its cover already does

Honestly i think three cheers for sweet revenge by my chemical romance is a pretty iconic deep album cover

I think taboo could fit perfectly in the identity category especially considering the themes of the album

Amazing video, Alfo!

Pet Sounds was unfortunately released just before album covers started being treated as a form of art. I believe if it had been released a year or two later, it would have had a truly iconic cover.

This video is very inspirational :D. I remember as a kid, with the last report card of the year we didnt get money, no, we went to the record store as a family as tradition every year and picked out one record each. My brother and I usually picked something based on the album artwork, listened to it in store, and if we liked it we got to buy it. It was such a wonderful experience, and later in life I got into creating art myself. I graduated in Game art and am now studying Illustration & animation, to try and become an illustrator & animator for the sake of music (album covers, music videos, posters etc). Nothing has brought me more joy then the diversity there is to find, and lately I've been going back into the habbit of trying new music just based on the art, giving it a shot and if I like it, it's a stayer. I do this via r/albumartporn on reddit, save what I visually like, and look it up on spotify. It has brought me a few gems already. Last but not least I really like the modern look the born in the usa album redesign has ^^, Would love to see more videos about album covers in general and their relation to the music of the given project. Thanks for all the good stuff!!

My favorite album covers ever are Dookie by Green Day, Insomniac by Green Day and Famous Monsters by the Misfits

If you want to listen to my favorite album of all time, try "The Trials of Van Occupanther" by Midlake. It has an amazing album cover and it's a great lo-fi rock/folk blend. Judging by the non-rap albums you seem to enjoy I would assume and even hope it makes the same impact on you as it did me. Love your stuff man, keep it up.

Hey, these redesigns are pretty good!