My favourite James Horner LP cover was this. It's not the greatest art or design but I adore the USS Enterprise and for years this was about the best big picture I had of her.
Stephen W keeps posting some of my own favorite album covers. Especially fun to see that great Herrmann fantasy film album. And others have posted other favorites. Here are a few I remember best growing up with my first albums, including I think a genuine curiosity.
The Borrowers - Rod McKuen
Three Musketeers - Michel Legrand
Murder on the Orient Express - Richard Rodney Bennett
I agree with all of your choices, Stephen, except perhaps "The Omen," primarily because of the ludicrously anachronistic Arabic numeral inclusion of "666." The late first century Book of Revelation, from which the 666 originates, precedes the invention of Arabic numerals some eight or nine centuries later, and even the Indian-Hindu system which came into being in the 2nd-4th centuries.
That Dark of the Sun one got my vote before I even clicked on this thread. Since it's not the actual poster art, I've long been tempted to track down the LP (I traded it in when the FSM CD came out) just to frame and hang it.
Along with the sideways-Connery-in-volcano poster from You Only Live Twice, it's practically my favorite piece of non-Amsel movie key art.
That Dark of the Sun one got my vote before I even clicked on this thread. Since it's not the actual poster art, I've long been tempted to track down the LP (I traded it in when the FSM CD came out) just to frame and hang it.
That art was not used on the U.S. one-sheet (the "chainsaw" art was used there), but it was used on the U.S. "inserts," the small narrow (14" x 36") posters that used to be displayed on either side of a theater's entrance.
I can't post cover art to this forum, so the URLs will have to do. There are three original soundtrack covers from my youth that always impressed me as so beautiful that I would like to "frame" the covers and hang them on the wall:
The appreciation of music and art are so very personal. One person's treasure might be another man's trash. Those were mine. I think I'm kind of dating myself, though.
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