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What are your three favorite album covers of all-time? Any honorable mentions?

Wow... tough question.  Really tough question.  One of those questions that I'll have a different answer for tomorrow.  But let's deal with today.  Be in the moment.

There are some I'd like to include for the sheer balls it took to create them and others for their unintentional humor.

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  Elton John: Captain Fantastic...
  First, let's go with Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.  This one is not only a phenomenal album, but especially eye-catching in its original full-sized LP version.  Lots of great intricacy in the illustration and wonderfully busy.

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  DJ Krush: Zen
  Next, DJ Krush's Zen.  A lot of his cover designs are great, but this one is the one I'd most like to have blown up to poster size.  It's just beautiful.

The Unemployed

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• And just to mix things up a bit, an obscure new band whose cover really caught my eye: The Unemployed.

(Lord, I can't stand Vox's WYSIWYG editor.  This post was impossible to put together.)