Paintings on Pop Albums

Napoleon Plural

Aside from Coldplay's latest release and Fleet Foxes:



... can anyone suggest any fairly famous pop albums that depict great works of art ie paintings?

I've googled it but don't come up with much!

Mister White

The Velvet Underground and Nico.



Or isn't this considered fairly famous anymore?;)

Napoleon Plural

It's famous, mind you Warhol did a few didn't he? I was thinking less pop art...

Hardyboy

Crash Test Dummies (remember them?--Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm!) used classical works on two of their CD covers. First, The Ghosts That Haunt Me:

God Shuffled His Feet:

Bacchus and Ariadne, with the band members' heads painted in.

Alex

The first LP, (that's vinyl kids), I ever bought was Black Sabbath Greatest Hits. This was NOT an official album and was released without band-management involvement. (they even mispell Ozzy's last name on the back) I picked it up in a COOL AS HELL Record store in down-town Wiesbaden. Good times.



Which is a mirrored version of "The Triumph of Death" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. (apology for size)

Sir Hillary Bray

Van Halen's Fair Warning cover...


...is taken from "The Maze" by William Kurelek...


All in all, pretty sick stuff!

Hardyboy

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit I forgot this one. Here's the cover of Kansas's self-titled album from 1974:

Tragic Prelude:

Mister White

Napoleon Plural wrote:

It's famous, mind you Warhol did a few didn't he? I was thinking less pop art...

Everyone's a critic...