Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers

Smells Like Teen Spirit is a song that launched several generations of lifelong fans of a band too shortlived. But the cover launched Nirvana into and then out of orbit. It is one of the best known covers of all time. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

Nevermind this album spawned some nice Supertramp tunes, the real news is the cover predicted 911 21 years before it happened. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

Joy Division's debut album used radio signals that could have been from little green men in a galaxy far far away for the cover art. Instead the image got a female physics student and a new PhD screwed and not in a good way. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

The Stones second greatest hits compilation includes the final shots of the five original Stones together for the last time. It was dedicated to Brian Jones who died soon after the cover shoot. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

School's out for summer, school's out forever, school's been blown to pieces. No one taps, touches and teases teen angst like Alice Cooper. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

Once again we bleed on the cutting edge of album art relevance, this time with Queen B and her fabulously successful reclamation project that begins right here on the cover. By the way, Blair Caldwell took the photo. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

Looking back, Smith said she had not intended making a big statement with the cover. Her fusion of poetry and rock and roll, along with this iconic photograph has frozen her in the minds of millions. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

This is a punk classic cover for the one record band that spawned the careers of Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious among others. It is the ransom note cover, colored one way for the UK and another for the US. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

Nica was Monk's patron. She sacrificed her life for him. This, we believe, is his tribute cover to this French Resistance Freedom Fighter millionairess. Grab a copy and listen along with us. Questions, comments, recommendations? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]

What do you do to follow Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band's album cover? The opposite. This is the story of the Beatles eponymous white cover album. Grab a copy and listen along with us to a special guest, Beatles expert, Ken Orth. We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]