Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers Podcast
1) The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful--Lovin' Spoonful
Send us a text Three rock stars walk into a Baltimore pharmacy looking for a soda fountain goddess. No, it's not a setup for a joke—it’s how The Best of the Lovin’ Spoonful got burned into my teenage...Show More
2) Killers--Iron Maiden
Send us a text Meet Eddie: punk-born, axe-wielding, and metal to the bone. On Iron Maiden’s Killers, the band’s infamous mascot came into his own—bloody, maniacal, and unforgettable. But Eddie didn’t ...Show More
3) Aoxomoxoa--Grateful Dead
Send us a text A poster too psychedelic for Hawaii, a cover that might say "We Ate the Acid," and a bunny with a secret. Aoxomoxoa is the Grateful Dead at their weirdest—and possibly their most biolog...Show More
4) True Blue--Madonna
Send us a text In 1986, Madonna wasn’t just making music—she was making statements, shaping image, and turning pop into high art. True Blue was the soundtrack of a passionate, tumultuous marriage, a ...Show More
5) Playing Possum--Carly Simon
Send us a text Carly Simon did not come to play, she came to play possum. In a moment that was part Shaft soundtrack, part Vogue cover shoot, and entirely unplanned (depending on which version of the ...Show More
6) Rum, Sodomy and the Lash--Pogues
Send us a text It’s one thing to borrow a painting for your album cover. It’s another to borrow one that includes severed limbs, drowned sailors, and maybe the best metaphor for life in a punk-folk ba...Show More
7) No Code--Pearl Jam
Send us a text Pearl Jam didn’t just dodge the sophomore slump—they blew up the blueprint. But by No Code, they weren’t chasing hits—they were chasing meaning. The cover? A cryptic collage of Polaroid...Show More
8) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway--Genesis
Send us a text This was a cover we wanted to like, but let’s just say it didn’t exactly knock us off our Broadway seats. Black-and-white, enigmatic, and full of art school ambition — it’s either a con...Show More
9) Dangerous--Michael Jackson
Send us a text Michael Jackson wanted Dangerous to last forever—and with Mark Ryden’s mind-bending cover, he may have done just that. Painted by hand over six months, the artwork is a surreal circus o...Show More
10) Blind Faith--Blind Faith
Send us a text What do you get when you mix Eric Clapton, a photographer haunted by his last shoot, and a spaceship that might be a metaphor—or something far weirder? You get Blind Faith—a band, an a...Show More