What Is Your Favorite Album Cover

[TinaS]

This is a hard choice but I would have to say mine would be Nursery Cryme because of its great detail and mind blowing characterization.

[GEN77BCR]

I would say from the whole catalogue it would be And then there were three....second choice Trick of the tail

others worth mentioning

Abacab
Wind and Wuthering

[Watcher Of The Skies]

I'll choose three:
And Then There Were Three (Hipgnosis did a LOT of great Rock Album covers back then)
Duke (evokative and mournful)
Nursery Cryme

and for the record, I kinda like Puzzle pieces cover of "Genesis"
I don't even know WHY.....

[nikolaos skandalis]

A TRICK OF A TAIL

NIKOLAOS SKANDALIS

[Ed Kuszajewski]

Trick of the Tail, hands down!!! Although Nursery Cryme is a very close second.

[Leon Alvarado]

I'll just repeat my comments from my album cover thread.

Before I tried to make my own music, I was a designer/illustrator. I've done several album jackets for Atlantic Records and several tour posters for Live Nation (formerly Pace Concerts) and Jethro Tull & Calliandra Productions. I've done work for King Crimson, Yes, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and Dweezyl Zappa among many others. Having said all that, I thought that it would be interesting to sort of feel the pulse of Genesis fans regarding the artwork. For example, sometimes it is hard for me to pick but if I had to choose one particular album cover, it would have to be "...and then there were three.." I particularly like the feeling that the photograph emanates. I don't know what it is but it just resonates well with me. So here is how the covers stack in my opinion:

1. ATTWT
2. The lamb
3. DUKE
4. ABACAB
5. Selling England by the Pound
6. Trick of the tail
7. Seconds Out
8. Three Sides Live (love the picture during Afterglow on the inside spread)
9. Wind & Wuthering
10. Nursery Cryme
11. Foxtrot
12. Genesis Live
13. Calling All Stations (except for the typeface and type repeat)
14. Trespass
15. We can't dance
16. Invisible Touch (don't like this much)
17. Genesis (this got to be one of the worst album covers by a famous band, seriously, it looks like a first year art student who is flunking did it).

[RedRainRaven]

I've always loved Nursery Cryme with its Victorian influences, but I also like Foxtrot with its song symbolism and the distant image of the Nursery Cryme lawn on its cover.

[HENRY]

Trick

[Old Father Thames]

Too tough a question so I can only name my top five (in no order of course):

1.Selling England By The Pound
2. Nursery Cryme
3. A Trick Of The Tail
4.Foxtrot
5. Wind And Wuthering

[Steven Kaltbaum]

Trespass & Nursery Cyrme are the best.

[Allan Trapnell]

Selling England by the Pound
Wind and Wuthering

[ian hornby]

have to be trick of the tail, without a doubt.
mystical, not knowing what to expect from the cover.
then you sit back and listen to the magical album from start to finish;;;
in one word brilliant.
i actually found a old broken casette tape, lying in the road in liverpool england.
i took it home fixed the tape together with some fine glue, popped it into my player
and it was a truly brilliant album.
the album in question was Trick Of A Tail. that was 1979 and im still listening to them now.
talk about pathways and coincidences.