No Felix has to be Rivers. Will is Patrick. Matt is Brian. Amber is the rotating bass player.
Velvet Underground and Nico, Straight Outta Compton, Rage Against the Machine, Never Mind The Bollocks, Led Zep, Please Please Me, Unknown Pleasures
Yeah boomer rock is full of them. Boston absolutely takes the cake.
And someone already mentioned Velvet Underground and Nico, which I think may be the single most iconic album cover of all time. Perhaps tied with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I don't think the post digital world can duplicate the shared experience of engaging with music through a physical medium where the artwork is a prominent feature. Hence why no modern album covers will feel iconic.
Albums being less relevant obviously means that album covers will be less relevant but I think that visual artwork is still a prominent feature of music just in different forms. The main barrier to being iconic is just the general degree of diversity and stratification of music taste in modern times which is the real reason that most examples in this thread are from the payola era of the music industry.
Is that the one with the Hitler Youth on the cover? Iconic debut album cover indeed.
Oh Christ lmfao no it's this one. Not a favorite album of mine but the album art is/was memetic. I guess it's also technically not their debut but it's their first full length
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures
"Can't shake the Devil's hand then say you're only kidding"
-- They Might Be Giants
woah, i can see why they're considered one of the greatest indie rock bands of all time
The qualifier "debut" is carrying a decent amount of weight here. Otherwise the prism and rainbow takes it, hands down.
We make jokes about Standing School, but compared to the usual lineup of Standing School graduates, these guys can really stand.
This one?
https://musicnerd.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Black-Sabbath-1.jpg
If a guy came at me at blurring speed out of the woods with a sword, shield, and motorcycle helmet I’d dookie a shooter
why wouldn't you just pick the ramones? It's the same thing except one is as iconic as the ramones.
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