Best Black and White Album Covers

As an incidental result of listening to a lot of Brother Ali's Us, R.E.M.'s Accelerate, and the Beatles' Revolver this week, my coffee table happened to be strewn with these three great black-and-white albums covers.

There must thousands more out there, but what are the best?

I've already got a graphic artist interested in putting together a collage of these, which is where you come in. Leave comments with your suggestions for great black-and-white album covers. I'll collect them and--eventually--post the artist's finished collage.

     --Jason Kirk

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[Dave S. on April 01, 2010 at 01:50 AM]

Faith No More - Introduce Yourself

[Swami Moe on February 28, 2010 at 01:31 AM]

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate & Live Songs
Garland Jeffreys - One-Eyed Jack
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Two Virgins & Some Time in New York City
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Scratch)
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death & Lace and Whiskey
Lon & Derrek Van Eaton - Brother
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Wendy Waldman - Strange Company
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
The Stranglers - Black and White
The Dils - Class War
Harry Nilsson - Duit on Mon Dei & Knnillssonn
The Modern Lovers - The Original Modern Lovers
Rick Derringer - Sweet Evil
Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult
John Prine - Bruised Orange
Lou Reed - New York
Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia, Dream of Life, Gone Again, Peace and Noise, & Trampin'
Chris Smither - Don't it Drag On

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[Marc on October 06, 2009 at 02:53 PM]

Operation Ivy - self-titled
Geto Boys - self-titled
Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson
The Roots - many of their albums, but especially Rising Down
Ice Cube - The Predator
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Phish - Junta
MC5 - Back in the USA
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
AC/DC - Back in Black
Intelligent Hoodlum - self-titled
Donny Hathaway - Extension of a Man

B&W images with color text:

Phil Spector - Back to Mono box set
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Allen Toussaint - Life, Love and Faith

[wechseljahre on October 02, 2009 at 10:33 PM]

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Your Majesty by The Anniversary
Changing Horses by Ben Kweller
Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers
Everything Sucks by The Descendents
Glasvegas by Glasvegas

[Matt Smith on October 02, 2009 at 11:22 AM]

Underworld: Dubnobasswithmyheadman
New Order: Substance 1987

[cheese169 on October 01, 2009 at 11:13 PM]

A few more:

Your Majesty by The Anniversary
Changing Horses by Ben Kweller
Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers
Everything Sucks by The Descendents
Glasvegas by Glasvegas
EP by Ivory Drive
Hopes & Fears by Keane
S/T by Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards
Rockity Roll by Mike Doughty
S/T by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

[Arthur Turnbull on October 01, 2009 at 02:42 PM]

Oh, and Prince's "Dirty Mind".

[Arthur Turnbull on October 01, 2009 at 02:40 PM]

Prince and the Revolution's "Parade".

[Mike Morris on October 01, 2009 at 09:23 AM]

Santana's first album.

[Steven on October 01, 2009 at 08:06 AM]

Joy Division - Closer
Randy Newman - 12 Songs
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me

[Steven on October 01, 2009 at 07:58 AM]

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
The Roots - Things Fall Apart (a little red font here)
The Roots - Phrenology (more like black & tan, I guess)
The Who - Quadrophenia
David Bowie - Heroes
all of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club records, I think...

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[Steven on October 01, 2009 at 07:50 AM]

XTC - Go 2

[Steven on October 01, 2009 at 07:47 AM]

Neil Young - Zuma

[David M. aka kirby_is_kyaan on September 30, 2009 at 07:33 PM]

Not necessarily the best (haven't heard much of it), but you can't forget The Hive's "The Black and White Album". And speaking of Beatles, there's the White Album.

[Alan on September 30, 2009 at 11:57 AM]

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

[Dean on September 30, 2009 at 09:52 AM]

Not even close: Led Zeppelin I

[Hugo Munday on September 30, 2009 at 08:44 AM]

Cool post. I was thinking King Crimson "Starless and Bible Black," but then googled black and white album art and came up with this, almost in the same vein

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[Jeremy on September 30, 2009 at 08:03 AM]

The Donnas - The Donnas
The Distillers - The Distillers
Blink 182 - Greatest Hits
Tim Armstrong - A Poet's List
Transplants - Haunted Cities
YACHT - See Mystery Lights

[Courtney on September 30, 2009 at 08:02 AM]

The Horrorpops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The White Stripes - Icky Thump (tiny bit of red at the top, though!)
John Lennon - Lennon Legend
Hole - Celebrity Skin

[The Evil Twin on September 30, 2009 at 05:35 AM]

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Aerosmith - Draw The Line
Patti Smith - Horses
Ramones - 1st LP
The Meatmen - We're The Meatmen And You Suck
Gentle Giant - In a Glass house
Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch