The all time best album covers are a complex discussion, yet we've wrangled down a list of what we know to be the best. It wasn't easy, but we did it. RELATED: The 25 Greatest Songwriters of All ...

For Da Corte’s cover of the seventh St. Vincent album, All Born Screaming, he painted the entire set black, capturing the void that lies at the heart of Goya’s series.

This album artwork features a bullet hole (which really stood out on the CD covers at the time of its release) and 50 rocking Gucci accessories and a blinged-out diamond crucifix. 6.

The album is the best invention of the past century, hands down — but the music isn’t the whole story. The album cover has been a cultural obsession as long as albums have. Ever since 12-inch ...

11 Bodacious 80s Album Covers That Are Burned Into Our Brains Despite MTV putting music videos on the map, 80s album covers never suffered. They continued a long tradition of the expressive art ...

The list of album cover archetypes goes on endlessly. There are good covers for bad albums, bad covers for good ones, ones that seem entirely separated from the music and some that can’t be separated ...

2. (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd) (1973) After recording their debut album in Doraville, Georgia, the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd drove to the nearby town of Jonesboro for an all-day ...

The winged figure on the cover – canvasing much of the album’s pale, cracked background and acting as the centerpiece of In Utero – is one of the most striking sights in rock album history.

So for the cover of their 1975 album, the band sought a literal depiction of that with a stuntman who — in an era before digital effects — actually had to be set on fire for multiple takes.

Two albums placed back-to-back on this list of the 50 greatest country covers epitomize how important album art was and is. At No. 20, find ' iconic Storms of Life cover, the one where he's ...