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.

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 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 ...

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.

Much like her other albums, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) sticks closely to the album she first created in 2010. However, some key differences set the 2023 release apart from the original.

In the 1990s, album covers were integral to learning about an artist. The advent of Google wasn’t until 1998, so music fans had to get creative, and a big part of that was reading the liner notes.