@@MrFuzzymonkeys the slow rush's album art is the best part about the slow rush imo. weirdly enough, despite its iconic status, I think lonerism's artwork is the weakest, and it's still great. just goes to show that tame has brilliant album art across the board
0:43 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising 1:48 Lorde - Melodrama 2:24 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory 3:04 Everything Everything - Get To Heaven 4:10 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 5:12 Sleep - Dopesmoker 6:14 Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 7:06 The Mars Volta - Francis the Mute 8:17 Bjork - Homogenic 9:31 Blur - 13 10:03 Muse - Absolution 11:29 - Rage Against the Machine - Self-Titled 12:46 Kids See Ghosts - Self-Titled 13:39 Deafheaven - Sunbather 15:15 Arcade Fire - Funeral 15:55 The Strokes - The New Abnormal 16:25 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 17:25 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma 18:15 Madvillain - Madvillainy 19:02 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 20:06 System of a Down - Self-Titled 21:44 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 22:51 Red Vox - Realign 24:01 Death's Dynamic Shroud - I'll Try Living Like This 25:08 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rat's Nest 26:11 Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley 26:49 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral 27:53 Metallica - Master of Puppets 28:55 Porter Robinson - Nurture 30:00 Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica 30:52 Hole - Live Through This 31:55 Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 32:35 Radiohead - Kid A 33:18 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 34:57 The Associates - Sulk 35:33 Orbital - In Sides 36:07 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 36:28 Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix 38:18 Miracle Musical - Hawaii: Part II (???) 39:31 The Beatles - Revolver 40:25 King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King 41:20 The Caretaker - Everywhere At the End of Time (Stage 6) 43:04 Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 44:15 Sunn O))) - Black One 45:31 Stereolab - Dots and Loops 46:58 Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe 47:38 Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy 47:58 Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort 👍 48:44 Animal Collective!!!! - Sung Tongs 50:00 The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 51:08 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 52:08 Justice - ✝️ 52:58 Death Grips - Exmilitary 53:32 The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (more reasons why you should listen to animal collective brad)
I have never seen the Absolution cover with writing on it. Normally it is just the shadows and the guys. Even the alternate covers don’t have text. I’m pretty sure that the logo was just slapped on for marketing it online.
plastic beach is my favorite album of all time, seeing on this list and being praised so much made me smile. Also nice to see Vinny Vinesauce's album on here if not just for the art
Tyler, the Creator's Flower Boy cover is amazing. It literally got me into hip-hop, and just into albums in general. It's the main appeal that got me to listen to the album (besides knowing some of Tyler's music beforehand) despite not listening to many albums before it. I first listened to it on a school trip when I was 15 and it blew my mind away. I never even considered that music can be packaged in that way, have themes, a storyline and transitions, and it all changed thanks to one bastard with a hat, standing in an open field, surrounded by flowers and bees with a McLaren.
My favorite album of all time and the cover art is a huge part of it. I visualize it every time I'm listening to it. It's also it's 5th birthday today!!
@@michaelmondillo5149 Oh shit! I didn't know that. Happy birthday to one of my favorite albums of all time!!! (although considering my timezone and me writing this at 3AM it's a bit too late for that). Seriously, it was my favorite album for a long ass time. The first thing that made me realize the full potential of music. It's still currently in my top 3 and one of the only albums I'll give an above 9 score to
haha both bands are amazing and although i prefer radiohead, muse had some of the most interesting rock/alternative music in the 2000s and i still think muse gives better live performances than radiohead
@@TM__1566 Skill-wise, definitely. Mixing isn't that great in some parts of the songs and there's a alot of repitition (especially in Telephone), still an iconic album though.
I love how Bright Green Field by Squid's album cover is basically the inverse of Porter Robinson's Nurture, where instead of sinking into the grass, the figure appears to be protruding from it.
I believe American Football's self titled album art is another great example of the art matching the music. The lonely and austere house and the bleak and dark sky really emphasizes the melancholy of the music.
In my opinion, Gorillaz Plastic Beach is the greatest one. It sounds like the music so well, and the day and night cycles reflect the changing moods of the album.
10:30 to be fair. That cover you have of Absolution is the horrid Amazon version and completely wrong. All the main issues I’ve seen are just the picture and no text. Kinda unfair, I think it’s good album art
Oil Of Every Pearls Un-Insides is easily one of my favorite albums of all time and the cover is no different. The dreamy landscape as well as Sophie's pose, expression, and her seemingly mismatched outfit perfectly shows off the dreamy and industrial sounds the album has to offer.
Bowery Electric- Beat is another great one. The cover itself is a pretty early example of the whole ‘liminal space’ thing, and the music fits it perfectly. The dark droniness matches the faded photo so well, it’s one of those album covers that looks exactly like the album sounds. It’s rusty triphop, you’ll get what I mean when you hear “Empty Words”.
Sophie's Oil of Every Pearl's Un-insides perfectly matches the synthetic, absurd and candy coated music within. Also her waterslide EPs were excellent.
ok your reaction to the Stereolab one was hilarious lmao. Dots & Loops is my favorite of their albums though I think "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" and "Chemical Chords" have more interesting-looking album covers imo
Brad needs to listen to Geogaddi in full, that album cover fits the demonicesque (so much so that it god BoC frequently accused of peddling Satanism in their music) aesthetic of that album PERFECTLY. My favorite little detail is that the way it's layered makes the trees between the bodies look like they have demonic one eyed toothy faces in them. It's so good. MHTRTC is great, but I'll always stan Geogaddi.
I made the mistake of starting with Geogaddi Freaked me the fuck out but now I love it! Unpopular opinion, but Campfire Headphase is honestly my favorite of theirs (with Tomorrow's Harvest in second). The inclusion of acoustic guitar enhances the overall aesthetic of the album, and Dayvan Cowboy will always give me goosebumps.
For me, my favorite album cover of all time is the Fleet Foxes’ first album… Fleet Foxes. It’s incorporation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Netherlandish Proverbs” is superb. The color scheme and the scene of a living small town in the renaissance perfectly captures the rustic and folksy sound of the Fleet Foxes. I can’t think of a better pairing.
@@tadict I know :/ I love red vox but I can see how it might not be for everyone (especially since their sound changes so much) and I don't know how brad would have reacted. Still glad they got recognition tho!
Muse is a car commercial garbage? Like bruh, for real? I agree their recent stuff sucks generally, but their first 3 albums were fantastic. One of the best works of 2000’s
My wife and I love Boards of Canada so much, we got a Geogaddi cake for our wedding. There's pics of it on Reddit. Also shout out to Red Vox, Binyot is great performer.
i always think of the black parade’s alt cover when i think of my favorite album covers. the original and official cover is amazing just in its simplistic and incredibly iconic form, but there’s something about the detailed rendering and dark, almost confusing imagery that really makes it feel like the album you’re listening to. the fact that on the vinyl, it spreads across onto the back, each character and symbol representing the songs in order. the art style is so hauntingly beautiful, and the color palette makes me feel that dingy, almost irradiated atmosphere that the album often reminds me of. if you haven’t seen the cover, i highly recommend you check it out, it’s definitely worth the bit of eye strain it induces.
Honestly MCR album covers are just always great, except for maybe Danger Days. But Bullets, Three Cheers, and Black Parade all have amazing covers. i could be biased because they are my favourite band but i think they’ve made some amazing covers.
@@quackquackx i think danger days is definitely their weakest entry, but definitely not bad. i wish i played more into the campy 80s aesthetic, maybe if they even had becky cloonan do the cover or used her artwork that she made for the comic as the cover
@@officialmaxrebo oh yeah that would’ve been cool. danger days is my least favourite album even just with the songs inside and i’m not sure if that’s a hot take but i always found every aspect of it to be weaker than any other album they’ve ever made, so maybe i just have a negative bias about it’s cover. for me the best album cover has to be Three Cheers and as for a favourite album in general i’ve always been torn between Bullets and Three Cheers because they’re just both so amazing …
13 is my favourite album cover (and my favourite album in general), it’s just so eerie and understated and perfectly captures the albums sound. Great to see some love for it.
Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock by Talk Talk are both perfect album covers and fit the music absolutely perfectly, i love how claustrophic SOE looks and by contrast how empty and spacious Laughing Stock is which kind of reflects the different music on the albums, but if i had to pick a favourite of the two it would probably by Laughing Stock
one of my favourite album covers has to he “Swimming” by Mac Miller. the simplistic design of Mac in a all white room, wearing a pink suit by an open door and a window looking out the ocean he was once drowning in. it’s beautiful to me and by far one of the best album covers i’ve seen
I've always loved the album cover to Issues by Korn. I remember seeing the image a lot long before I heard the album or even knew who Korn were, so when I think of Korn, the tattered ragdoll is one of the first images that pops in my head. I know the girl on the swings from the s/t debut or the kids on the cliff from Follow The Leader are probably more iconic and while I love those album covers too, the Issues one is also a good visual representation of the themes of despair, hurt, and abuse common throughout both the album and the rest of Korn's discography. Plus the color scheme, which is mostly orange and yellow, has always given me a fall/Halloween vibe, which I think fits the album well. Also it's just pretty cool to look at.
The cover for unknown pleasures by joy division was actually inspired by pulsar cp 1919- the first radio pulsar detected which was at one point thought to have been created by extraterrestrial beings.
I think Deftones's White Pony deserves a mention, its just simple and iconic for 2000s heavy metal and whenever I listen to the heavier songs off of it like Elite or Korea I just imagine the pony sprinting to the song.
The Frances album cover photo is genuinely a masterpiece of photography, the composition is amazing. The subjects with red hoods are striking and catch your eye immediately, but the more you look into it the more sensory the photo becomes - the velvet of the hoods, the suits the main subject is wearing, the soft grasping of the leather steering wheel, the steely old-car interior and its console, I just love how it looks man, okay…
An extra little piece of info on the Geogaddi album artwork - It is the inverse visual to the song "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" off of MHtRtC. Geogaddi is to me atmospherically the complete flipside of it MHtRtC since it has themes of the satanism and the occult, and that little connection helps seal it. Also; I have the actual PSD for the death's dynamic shroud album cover lol
I'd personally say that either The Prodigy's Music for the Jilted Generation or The Fat of The Land (both the standard and alternate) are both great covers that fit the music. Also Leftfield's Rhythm and Stealth is just a great image on it's own, even without the banger of an album to go with it.
I remember watching MTV so many years ago doing a countdown of their top album covers of the year and Zonoscope by Cut Copy was #1. I found the CD at a second hand record store at some point later and really liked it so I bought it even though I had never heard any songs. Ended up really enjoying the album and drove to it all the time
46:58 idk what it is about this specific vaporwave album but i just love (almost) everything about it. "That big ol smile of yours" just forces me to ascend and stay elevated throughout most of the tracklist.
Really loving these topic videos honestly. They are quite long, yet the entertaining content within the video makes it go by so fast. As for this video specifically, though, I can't really understand your total intolerance towards Hawaii: Part II. I understand you disliking, even hating, the album, but questioning anyone seeing any value in the album whatsoever is a bit much if I'm being honest. It's whatever, though, still a solid video, keep up the good work!
Oof I didn’t realize it came off like that. I’m sorry. I love being harsh towards the project but I never meant to have that bleed into people who enjoy it.
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial It's fine, Brad. Sure, it was a bit excessive, but I'm sure everyone can realize you didn't mean any harm by it. I appreciate you recognizing it and apologizing though, it really shows your transparency as a content creator, which everyone should strive to have I believe.
The Seer by Swans. It doesn't matter how many times you watch the cover, it's always as striking and forbidding as the first time you see it. And of course, it perfectly matches the dark, violent and chaotic nature of Swans music.
Hey What by Low is so simplistic, but the texture fits the music so well. The music drones and makes you look for more, just as the album cover is so simple that you find differences in light/dark and the more you look, plus the curving lines add some interest. Great album, with a great cover.
19:45 "how does he get up there exactly" Literally just a few days after this video, Imagine Dragons announce a 10th anniversary edition of Night Visions and it shows the other side of the pillars, and there turns out to be stairs there.
I'm betting no one has heard of him, but really do check out the French Lebanese pianist/ambient composer Bachar Mar Khalifé and his album Ya Balad. Arresting album cover photo, arresting songs within. A top album cover choice for me.
I'm in complete awe of Homogenic's cover. Its so icy cold yet comforting. That weird stare she has makes it feel like she's consuming you somehow. Alexander McQueen did a phenomenal job on that cover.
I'm so mad at myself for missing this- Ask The Dust by Lorn is such a fitting selection for this topic, and absolutely nails the haunting feeling of the album. Lorn is just... something else. It's insane to me how long he's been doing such amazing work with such consistency, and makes some of the best atmospheric spine-chilling music on the face of the earth.
i have to share sum of my fav album covers as of late cuz i never stfu so here we go ! 1. none so vile by cryptopsy - i just love how bleak and raw the cover feels, it looks pretty different from a lot of other death metal covers while still feeling gruesome and provocative(?). i also feel like it really reflects the heaviness and rawness of the album itself too :3 2. miss machine by the dillinger escape plan - i love a lot of tdep album covers but this one has been a fav of mine for a long time. i love how abstract and offputting it is; i think it really works well with the sound of the music. also i feel like people dont really make this kind of trippy, uncanny art anymore without the use of ai which makes me appreciate it that much more 3. impenetrable cerebral fortress by gulch - i absolutely adore the painted style of this cover and the abstract concept it portrays. the way its executed is honestly perfect imo (much like the music on the album. i love gulch
the monk that set himself on fire for ratm is a picture from the vietnam war, it’s honestly an insane picture, he just sat there meditating while burning
When I think a great album cover, I think Screamadelica made by Primal Scream. The trippy and bold colours fits so fantastic except for one song (Damaged) and the album is a huge genre-bending pot of gold, plus, it helped EDM music to hit mainstream heights as it is now these days.
I think it would be great if you reviewed Red Vox. I would say they are very underrated and have some amazing songs that are very personal and speak to you.(although that part may be bias on my part) I always thought they sounded like Nirvana and Pink Floyd mixed together with a little bit of David Bowie sprinkled on top. They're albums are pretty distinct from one another but they all sound amazing to me. Even if your review is negative of them just talking about them would be amazing to watch. To see what people that may not be fans of them think and what you have to say about Red Vox.
I think the Hu's 'Wolf Totem' might blow your mind. Especially if you ever do a best foreign band video. Cos, like they're from Mongolia, so throat singing , but rock. Badass.
I kind of agree with the commenters take on I'll Try Living Like This but it's nowhere near as "disturbing" as some people make it out to be to me. It's off-putting, almost grossly shiny, but I'd say the album and cover is more like distorted nostalgia than anything all that weird
By the Way - RHCP for me. Some people may completely disagree and think it looks apaulingly ugly, however I think it's absolutely beautiful and perfect for the album, Julian Schnabel did an incredible job with the art direction throughout this album. It is such a strange image itself, just everything about it, like why the woman on the cover is blue? (Yes, I know it's in inverted colors, but even then, why decide to invert the colors of the original painting?) Why she has been painted on a seemingly boring background photograph? Why is she even standing there? Etc. But the bizzare abstract quality of it is just so pleasing to look at, the very melancholic color pallette fits unbelievably perfectly with most of the album, I can't help but not see this album cover whenever I hear Venice Queen or Midnight for example, and how such an intricate and abstract image fits so well with a very "simple" and minimalist (in terms of production), and cold and melancholic sounding album is fantastic too.
Absolution is my favourite Muse album but it’s probably my least favourite album cover of theirs except maybe Showbiz Edit: okay that final quote could be translated as “I’m a Radiohead fanboy”
Muse covers artist (Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, Butterflies and Hurricanes Single cover ...) is the same artist for Pink Floyd: Storm Thorgerson. I'm not saying that all the works of the same artist should be liked, but the bias against the Muse is evident.
While not an album i listen to often, Atrocity Exhibition takes the cake for my favorite album cover. Firstly, it fits the title perfectly. I see it as a digitally distorted picture of a dead person. Secondly, the album battles such intense and severe topics, and that absolute dread is so well reflected on the cover
One I wanted to throw out there is Lucius' Good Grief - the emptiness of the cover so perfectly works with many of the tracks, especially the opening and closing which feel so isolated. Also, great use of color with the blue jumpsuit and subtle pink text.
I'll always love the looks of the album arts for Katatonia's "The Great Cold Distance", and "The Fall of Hearts". The colours combined with the images give some feeling of regret and sorrow which I find is commonplace in their music.
As much as I’d like to say Tool - Lateralus, I feel like I’d rather give my vote to Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon. This literally looks like a masterfully crafted medieval painting.
Literally don't care what anyone says, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum has the coolest album cover ever. It's so fuckin detailed and beautifully drawn, and all the things in the background can actually be found at the real MMMM in Michigan. Also Yoshimi Battles the Pink Aliens by Flaming Lips, and I Get Wet by Andrew WK are both incredible covers.
That’s what I thought and then I got into Radiohead and learned kid a is peak album art and then brad released his tally hall videos and now I can’t listen to tally hall anymore because I subconsciously bully myself out of it Tldr kid a best album art
One of my top album covers is mezzanine by massive attack :D It’s one of those album covers that make the songs on the album sound better simply because of the cover
I'm surprised that no one brought up LYSFLATH by Godspeed! You Black Emperor on this one. Fantastic and iconic album art for one of my favorite albums of all time.
Next topic video is "most awkward profanity in music"
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What happened to the Caliope video?
i love the lonely island -motherlover
Yes, weyes blood titanic rising is soooo gorgeous. Glad it made it onto the video
top 3 fav albums of all time for me 💖
@@undyingdefect same here it's just so good
I went into this comment like "pffft it's probably not THAT good" and came out wrong and a Weyes Blood fan.
@@brandonbabcock5245 fuck yeah! I remember hearing Movies by her for the first time and i think i literally met God. Insane experience!
@@undyingdefect SAME!!!
Surprised none of the Tame Impala covers made it here, every single one is so beautiful and they all match the music perfectly
Idk, I really don’t like The Slow Rush’s cover (or the album, really), but 100% agree on Currents and Innerspeaker
@@MrFuzzymonkeys the slow rush's album art is the best part about the slow rush imo. weirdly enough, despite its iconic status, I think lonerism's artwork is the weakest, and it's still great. just goes to show that tame has brilliant album art across the board
completely agree
i swear brad and most of his community just forget tame impala exists half of the time
isnt lonerism kinda boring though?
I've always loved Bjork's Post album cover. it's just so colorful and the outfit she's wearing is iconic! homogenic is good too👍
the logo art bjork was using for her Post era was beautiful
I mean vespertine looks prisitine too
Im sorry but what is this new TH-cam UI for commenting on the app?!?
Honestly all of bjorks covers are phenomenal, she clearly puts so much thought into each of them
ngl homogenic is my favorite album cover of all time
0:43 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
1:48 Lorde - Melodrama
2:24 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
3:04 Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
4:10 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
5:12 Sleep - Dopesmoker
6:14 Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
7:06 The Mars Volta - Francis the Mute
8:17 Bjork - Homogenic
9:31 Blur - 13
10:03 Muse - Absolution
11:29 - Rage Against the Machine - Self-Titled
12:46 Kids See Ghosts - Self-Titled
13:39 Deafheaven - Sunbather
15:15 Arcade Fire - Funeral
15:55 The Strokes - The New Abnormal
16:25 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
17:25 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
18:15 Madvillain - Madvillainy
19:02 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
20:06 System of a Down - Self-Titled
21:44 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
22:51 Red Vox - Realign
24:01 Death's Dynamic Shroud - I'll Try Living Like This
25:08 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rat's Nest
26:11 Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
26:49 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
27:53 Metallica - Master of Puppets
28:55 Porter Robinson - Nurture
30:00 Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
30:52 Hole - Live Through This
31:55 Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
32:35 Radiohead - Kid A
33:18 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
34:57 The Associates - Sulk
35:33 Orbital - In Sides
36:07 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
36:28 Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
38:18 Miracle Musical - Hawaii: Part II (???)
39:31 The Beatles - Revolver
40:25 King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
41:20 The Caretaker - Everywhere At the End of Time (Stage 6)
43:04 Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
44:15 Sunn O))) - Black One
45:31 Stereolab - Dots and Loops
46:58 Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe
47:38 Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy
47:58 Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort 👍
48:44 Animal Collective!!!! - Sung Tongs
50:00 The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
51:08 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
52:08 Justice - ✝️
52:58 Death Grips - Exmilitary
53:32 The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
(more reasons why you should listen to animal collective brad)
Thank you, you're a blessed soul
thank you so much, you're a blessing
2 of the 3 I mentioned before watching this was on here
You should check out the Mirror Reaper album cover
no problem guys, happy to help!
White album by The Beatles. So original and unique 😍😍
Damn I wonder what it looks like
@@fallenangel2060 top tier
It actually was a very original, unique and different cover at the time. That was the whole point of it.
I have never seen the Absolution cover with writing on it. Normally it is just the shadows and the guys. Even the alternate covers don’t have text. I’m pretty sure that the logo was just slapped on for marketing it online.
Yeah, I’ve never seen it with the writing either but eh, I got my soul taken and had a good laugh haha.
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You should totally do topic videos for best and worst features. That would be a very interesting list to go down
YES YES PLEASE I SECOND THIS
I third this. This would be sick
I fourth this
plastic beach is my favorite album of all time, seeing on this list and being praised so much made me smile. Also nice to see Vinny Vinesauce's album on here if not just for the art
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I’m not through the video yet… ARE YOU TROLLING?
Is Jerma’s proto-prog-byeah-core album on here too?
Tyler, the Creator's Flower Boy cover is amazing. It literally got me into hip-hop, and just into albums in general. It's the main appeal that got me to listen to the album (besides knowing some of Tyler's music beforehand) despite not listening to many albums before it. I first listened to it on a school trip when I was 15 and it blew my mind away. I never even considered that music can be packaged in that way, have themes, a storyline and transitions, and it all changed thanks to one bastard with a hat, standing in an open field, surrounded by flowers and bees with a McLaren.
My favorite album of all time and the cover art is a huge part of it. I visualize it every time I'm listening to it. It's also it's 5th birthday today!!
@@michaelmondillo5149 Oh shit! I didn't know that. Happy birthday to one of my favorite albums of all time!!! (although considering my timezone and me writing this at 3AM it's a bit too late for that).
Seriously, it was my favorite album for a long ass time. The first thing that made me realize the full potential of music. It's still currently in my top 3 and one of the only albums I'll give an above 9 score to
Who else had “Brad shitting on muse” on their bingo card for this video?
Me, and as soon as ID came up, them too. And of course the opposite for Radiohead
@@iliketrains3495 yeah cuz RaDIoheAd iS ArT AnD MuSE suCk
there’s no way u called early muse “car commercial garbage” maybe their new stuff but definitely not their early work man
Finally a Radiohead fan around here who actually defends Muse
@@iliketrains3495 Radiohead fans when they hear any singer doing falsetto( they are ripping off Thom Yorke)
haha both bands are amazing and although i prefer radiohead, muse had some of the most interesting rock/alternative music in the 2000s and i still think muse gives better live performances than radiohead
@@Salad531 Thom Yorke INVENTED falsetto after stepping on a lego what r u talking ab sheesh
Honestly if you like Muse you're better off not clicking on any TH-cam reviewer video lmao, they're like a hive mind in that regard.
Red Vox definitely deserves a spin, they have really amazing tracks specially in Another Light and Visions.
Ya they got a better rating on sputnikmusic.
Realign is definitely the weakest in their discography imo 😭 it's still an amazing album regardless but yeah
@@filedeletefelix To me, their weakest is What Could Go Wrong, good album but I think it falls compared to the rest
@@TM__1566 Skill-wise, definitely. Mixing isn't that great in some parts of the songs and there's a alot of repitition (especially in Telephone), still an iconic album though.
I'm still not over how haha funny pizza binyot man is part of a band thats such a hidden treasure
That personal rating when the transitions pop up is amazing! Now I can actually form my own opinion!
Thanks Bradley :)
I love how Bright Green Field by Squid's album cover is basically the inverse of Porter Robinson's Nurture, where instead of sinking into the grass, the figure appears to be protruding from it.
I believe American Football's self titled album art is another great example of the art matching the music. The lonely and austere house and the bleak and dark sky really emphasizes the melancholy of the music.
I agree, it's super iconic, and the people that own the house currently get a lot of pictures taken of their house xD
In my opinion, Gorillaz Plastic Beach is the greatest one. It sounds like the music so well, and the day and night cycles reflect the changing moods of the album.
ngl gorillaz has some of the most recognizable album covers, but plastic beach is just pure eye candy
It's fantastic but my pcik would probably be either the get to heaven cover or the death consciousness one.
GTH cover is great as well
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This, Kid A, and Titanic Rising are the best out of all of these, tbh.
Edit: The Glow, Pt. 2 as well.
10:30 to be fair. That cover you have of Absolution is the horrid Amazon version and completely wrong. All the main issues I’ve seen are just the picture and no text. Kinda unfair, I think it’s good album art
I love when Brad takes souls idk why but I just find it so funny
Oil Of Every Pearls Un-Insides is easily one of my favorite albums of all time and the cover is no different. The dreamy landscape as well as Sophie's pose, expression, and her seemingly mismatched outfit perfectly shows off the dreamy and industrial sounds the album has to offer.
Bowery Electric- Beat is another great one. The cover itself is a pretty early example of the whole ‘liminal space’ thing, and the music fits it perfectly. The dark droniness matches the faded photo so well, it’s one of those album covers that looks exactly like the album sounds. It’s rusty triphop, you’ll get what I mean when you hear “Empty Words”.
such a brilliant album!
Sophie's Oil of Every Pearl's Un-insides perfectly matches the synthetic, absurd and candy coated music within. Also her waterslide EPs were excellent.
I absolutely adore all of SOPHIE's covers, I love that synthetic 3D render feel so much
@@exist4046 that cover is absolutely FLAWELSS, it's just perfect
Damn, Im surprised no one mentioned Leviathan- Mastodon. The art is really cool and of course tells you exactly the album is about; the WHITE WHALE
SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE
honourable mention to Hozier's album Wasteland, Baby - the cover is a painting by his mother and it's so stunning
ok your reaction to the Stereolab one was hilarious lmao. Dots & Loops is my favorite of their albums though I think "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" and "Chemical Chords" have more interesting-looking album covers imo
Brad needs to listen to Geogaddi in full, that album cover fits the demonicesque (so much so that it god BoC frequently accused of peddling Satanism in their music) aesthetic of that album PERFECTLY. My favorite little detail is that the way it's layered makes the trees between the bodies look like they have demonic one eyed toothy faces in them. It's so good. MHTRTC is great, but I'll always stan Geogaddi.
Great album
I'm with Brad. I like the cover for Music Has The Right To Children a little better.
I made the mistake of starting with Geogaddi
Freaked me the fuck out but now I love it!
Unpopular opinion, but Campfire Headphase is honestly my favorite of theirs (with Tomorrow's Harvest in second). The inclusion of acoustic guitar enhances the overall aesthetic of the album, and Dayvan Cowboy will always give me goosebumps.
For me, my favorite album cover of all time is the Fleet Foxes’ first album… Fleet Foxes. It’s incorporation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Netherlandish Proverbs” is superb. The color scheme and the scene of a living small town in the renaissance perfectly captures the rustic and folksy sound of the Fleet Foxes. I can’t think of a better pairing.
I think the music on the album is better than the album cover and that’s saying something
To me, Goldfrapp's "Felt Mountain" album cover is just gorgeous and it encapsulates the music perfectly.
Great shout. It looks kind of dated but it works
WE NEED A REALIGN REVIEW WE DON’T CARE IF ITS NEGATIVE WE JUST NEED THE REVIEW!
i agree please brad
22:51 I'm so happy someone chose Realign cause I would have chose the exact same album for the same reason!
too bad he instantly assumed it was bad because of the score lol
@@tadict I know :/ I love red vox but I can see how it might not be for everyone (especially since their sound changes so much) and I don't know how brad would have reacted. Still glad they got recognition tho!
No problem!
Muse is a car commercial garbage?
Like bruh, for real?
I agree their recent stuff sucks generally, but their first 3 albums were fantastic.
One of the best works of 2000’s
Not fantastic but decent
My wife and I love Boards of Canada so much, we got a Geogaddi cake for our wedding. There's pics of it on Reddit. Also shout out to Red Vox, Binyot is great performer.
i always think of the black parade’s alt cover when i think of my favorite album covers.
the original and official cover is amazing just in its simplistic and incredibly iconic form, but there’s something about the detailed rendering and dark, almost confusing imagery that really makes it feel like the album you’re listening to. the fact that on the vinyl, it spreads across onto the back, each character and symbol representing the songs in order. the art style is so hauntingly beautiful, and the color palette makes me feel that dingy, almost irradiated atmosphere that the album often reminds me of.
if you haven’t seen the cover, i highly recommend you check it out, it’s definitely worth the bit of eye strain it induces.
Honestly MCR album covers are just always great, except for maybe Danger Days. But Bullets, Three Cheers, and Black Parade all have amazing covers. i could be biased because they are my favourite band but i think they’ve made some amazing covers.
@@quackquackx i think danger days is definitely their weakest entry, but definitely not bad. i wish i played more into the campy 80s aesthetic, maybe if they even had becky cloonan do the cover or used her artwork that she made for the comic as the cover
@@officialmaxrebo oh yeah that would’ve been cool. danger days is my least favourite album even just with the songs inside and i’m not sure if that’s a hot take but i always found every aspect of it to be weaker than any other album they’ve ever made, so maybe i just have a negative bias about it’s cover. for me the best album cover has to be Three Cheers and as for a favourite album in general i’ve always been torn between Bullets and Three Cheers because they’re just both so amazing …
13 is my favourite album cover (and my favourite album in general), it’s just so eerie and understated and perfectly captures the albums sound. Great to see some love for it.
Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock by Talk Talk are both perfect album covers and fit the music absolutely perfectly, i love how claustrophic SOE looks and by contrast how empty and spacious Laughing Stock is which kind of reflects the different music on the albums, but if i had to pick a favourite of the two it would probably by Laughing Stock
Trying to process how kick iii/ii by Arca wasn’t here… by far the most impressive art album cover I’ve ever seen
Shit looks like NFTs
one of my favourite album covers has to he “Swimming” by Mac Miller. the simplistic design of Mac in a all white room, wearing a pink suit by an open door and a window looking out the ocean he was once drowning in. it’s beautiful to me and by far one of the best album covers i’ve seen
I've always loved the album cover to Issues by Korn. I remember seeing the image a lot long before I heard the album or even knew who Korn were, so when I think of Korn, the tattered ragdoll is one of the first images that pops in my head. I know the girl on the swings from the s/t debut or the kids on the cliff from Follow The Leader are probably more iconic and while I love those album covers too, the Issues one is also a good visual representation of the themes of despair, hurt, and abuse common throughout both the album and the rest of Korn's discography. Plus the color scheme, which is mostly orange and yellow, has always given me a fall/Halloween vibe, which I think fits the album well. Also it's just pretty cool to look at.
The cover for unknown pleasures by joy division was actually inspired by pulsar cp 1919- the first radio pulsar detected which was at one point thought to have been created by extraterrestrial beings.
GRADUATION BETTER BE HERE!
Edit: I was actually watching one of your videos when I got the notification, lol
I think Deftones's White Pony deserves a mention, its just simple and iconic for 2000s heavy metal and whenever I listen to the heavier songs off of it like Elite or Korea I just imagine the pony sprinting to the song.
The Frances album cover photo is genuinely a masterpiece of photography, the composition is amazing. The subjects with red hoods are striking and catch your eye immediately, but the more you look into it the more sensory the photo becomes - the velvet of the hoods, the suits the main subject is wearing, the soft grasping of the leather steering wheel, the steely old-car interior and its console, I just love how it looks man, okay…
An extra little piece of info on the Geogaddi album artwork - It is the inverse visual to the song "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" off of MHtRtC.
Geogaddi is to me atmospherically the complete flipside of it MHtRtC since it has themes of the satanism and the occult, and that little connection helps seal it.
Also; I have the actual PSD for the death's dynamic shroud album cover lol
Thank you for the Geogaddi and Music Has The Right To Children mentions, two of my all-time favourite albums ever
I'd personally say that either The Prodigy's Music for the Jilted Generation or The Fat of The Land (both the standard and alternate) are both great covers that fit the music. Also Leftfield's Rhythm and Stealth is just a great image on it's own, even without the banger of an album to go with it.
I remember watching MTV so many years ago doing a countdown of their top album covers of the year and Zonoscope by Cut Copy was #1. I found the CD at a second hand record store at some point later and really liked it so I bought it even though I had never heard any songs. Ended up really enjoying the album and drove to it all the time
46:58 idk what it is about this specific vaporwave album but i just love (almost) everything about it. "That big ol smile of yours" just forces me to ascend and stay elevated throughout most of the tracklist.
Never have I seen content as bipolar this this mans videos.
Titanic Rising in the thumbnail will always make me click
Also love that you're taking about King Gizzard, Sweet Trip & Animal Collective 💖
Really loving these topic videos honestly. They are quite long, yet the entertaining content within the video makes it go by so fast. As for this video specifically, though, I can't really understand your total intolerance towards Hawaii: Part II. I understand you disliking, even hating, the album, but questioning anyone seeing any value in the album whatsoever is a bit much if I'm being honest. It's whatever, though, still a solid video, keep up the good work!
Oof I didn’t realize it came off like that. I’m sorry. I love being harsh towards the project but I never meant to have that bleed into people who enjoy it.
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial It's fine, Brad. Sure, it was a bit excessive, but I'm sure everyone can realize you didn't mean any harm by it. I appreciate you recognizing it and apologizing though, it really shows your transparency as a content creator, which everyone should strive to have I believe.
The Seer by Swans. It doesn't matter how many times you watch the cover, it's always as striking and forbidding as the first time you see it. And of course, it perfectly matches the dark, violent and chaotic nature of Swans music.
tbf ratm self titled cover goes hard because its probably one of the greatest protest pictures ever.
Hey What by Low is so simplistic, but the texture fits the music so well. The music drones and makes you look for more, just as the album cover is so simple that you find differences in light/dark and the more you look, plus the curving lines add some interest. Great album, with a great cover.
19:45 "how does he get up there exactly" Literally just a few days after this video, Imagine Dragons announce a 10th anniversary edition of Night Visions and it shows the other side of the pillars, and there turns out to be stairs there.
my favourite album cover is surfing the void by klaxons, the musics surreal and out of this world feel is perfectly matched by its cover imho
Omg astronaut kitty :)
i think myths of the near future has a better album cover, but that's also a good one
pharcydes labcabincalifornia has so much colour and class to it and i love it so much.
I WAS NOT EXPECTING RED VOX HERE
I'm betting no one has heard of him, but really do check out the French Lebanese pianist/ambient composer Bachar Mar Khalifé and his album Ya Balad. Arresting album cover photo, arresting songs within. A top album cover choice for me.
So so glad to see Orbital In Sides here what an amaazzzing album
Brad really takes on the cadence of fantano when he talks positively about music
I'm so surprised Loveless didn't make this vid
I'm in complete awe of Homogenic's cover. Its so icy cold yet comforting. That weird stare she has makes it feel like she's consuming you somehow. Alexander McQueen did a phenomenal job on that cover.
weyes blood’s titanic rising is just beautiful - the cover art as well as the album itself
I'm so mad at myself for missing this- Ask The Dust by Lorn is such a fitting selection for this topic, and absolutely nails the haunting feeling of the album. Lorn is just... something else. It's insane to me how long he's been doing such amazing work with such consistency, and makes some of the best atmospheric spine-chilling music on the face of the earth.
i have to share sum of my fav album covers as of late cuz i never stfu so here we go !
1. none so vile by cryptopsy - i just love how bleak and raw the cover feels, it looks pretty different from a lot of other death metal covers while still feeling gruesome and provocative(?). i also feel like it really reflects the heaviness and rawness of the album itself too :3
2. miss machine by the dillinger escape plan - i love a lot of tdep album covers but this one has been a fav of mine for a long time. i love how abstract and offputting it is; i think it really works well with the sound of the music. also i feel like people dont really make this kind of trippy, uncanny art anymore without the use of ai which makes me appreciate it that much more
3. impenetrable cerebral fortress by gulch - i absolutely adore the painted style of this cover and the abstract concept it portrays. the way its executed is honestly perfect imo (much like the music on the album. i love gulch
new order started vaporwave covers with the album Technique
the monk that set himself on fire for ratm is a picture from the vietnam war, it’s honestly an insane picture, he just sat there meditating while burning
Dark side of the moon is the most iconic cover of all time.
How is it not here?
To Pimp A Butterfly. The cover art to the content itself its one of my favorite albums of all time.
When I think a great album cover, I think Screamadelica made by Primal Scream. The trippy and bold colours fits so fantastic except for one song (Damaged) and the album is a huge genre-bending pot of gold, plus, it helped EDM music to hit mainstream heights as it is now these days.
hey brad, was really cool to see my reply in this video even though you completely disagreed lmfao, still great video nonetheless
I think it would be great if you reviewed Red Vox.
I would say they are very underrated and have some amazing songs that are very personal and speak to you.(although that part may be bias on my part) I always thought they sounded like Nirvana and Pink Floyd mixed together with a little bit of David Bowie sprinkled on top. They're albums are pretty distinct from one another but they all sound amazing to me.
Even if your review is negative of them just talking about them would be amazing to watch. To see what people that may not be fans of them think and what you have to say about Red Vox.
My favorite cover is probably animals by Pink Floyd. The dark sky and menacing building with the little pig flying overhead. Awesome.
I love super busy covers with a lot of tiny details, especially dookie/ insomniac by green day
I think the Hu's 'Wolf Totem' might blow your mind. Especially if you ever do a best foreign band video. Cos, like they're from Mongolia, so throat singing , but rock. Badass.
Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory album is iconic, I love the album cover art
I kind of agree with the commenters take on I'll Try Living Like This but it's nowhere near as "disturbing" as some people make it out to be to me. It's off-putting, almost grossly shiny, but I'd say the album and cover is more like distorted nostalgia than anything all that weird
By the Way - RHCP for me. Some people may completely disagree and think it looks apaulingly ugly, however I think it's absolutely beautiful and perfect for the album, Julian Schnabel did an incredible job with the art direction throughout this album. It is such a strange image itself, just everything about it, like why the woman on the cover is blue? (Yes, I know it's in inverted colors, but even then, why decide to invert the colors of the original painting?) Why she has been painted on a seemingly boring background photograph? Why is she even standing there? Etc. But the bizzare abstract quality of it is just so pleasing to look at, the very melancholic color pallette fits unbelievably perfectly with most of the album, I can't help but not see this album cover whenever I hear Venice Queen or Midnight for example, and how such an intricate and abstract image fits so well with a very "simple" and minimalist (in terms of production), and cold and melancholic sounding album is fantastic too.
Bowies best cover is The Man Who Sold the World in my opinion. The one with the dress.
some of my favorites are:
kate bush - never for ever
arca - kick ii and iii
fleetwood mac - rumours
tame impala - currents and the slow rush
Absolution is my favourite Muse album but it’s probably my least favourite album cover of theirs except maybe Showbiz
Edit: okay that final quote could be translated as “I’m a Radiohead fanboy”
Okay, after skimming through the video it’s pretty obvious he’s biased out of how much he likes the artist.
Classic bradley lmao it's his thing
Muse covers artist (Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, Butterflies and Hurricanes Single cover ...) is the same artist for Pink Floyd: Storm Thorgerson.
I'm not saying that all the works of the same artist should be liked, but the bias against the Muse is evident.
While not an album i listen to often, Atrocity Exhibition takes the cake for my favorite album cover. Firstly, it fits the title perfectly. I see it as a digitally distorted picture of a dead person. Secondly, the album battles such intense and severe topics, and that absolute dread is so well reflected on the cover
One I wanted to throw out there is Lucius' Good Grief - the emptiness of the cover so perfectly works with many of the tracks, especially the opening and closing which feel so isolated. Also, great use of color with the blue jumpsuit and subtle pink text.
I'll always love the looks of the album arts for Katatonia's "The Great Cold Distance", and "The Fall of Hearts". The colours combined with the images give some feeling of regret and sorrow which I find is commonplace in their music.
FLUME??? Why not here??? Skin, HTIF and Palaces covers --> 10/10
As much as I’d like to say Tool - Lateralus, I feel like I’d rather give my vote to Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon. This literally looks like a masterfully crafted medieval painting.
mad that not one single sparks cover didnt make this list
lol love the vid anyways :)
The future sound of london - lifeforms
Listen to it.
I love album cover from spirit phone by lemon demon. The eyes man... they follow you
Brand New's The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me is my favorite cover of all time. Science Fiction cover is amazing as well.
You should definitely listen to Sung Tongs. Winters Love on it is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Literally don't care what anyone says, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum has the coolest album cover ever. It's so fuckin detailed and beautifully drawn, and all the things in the background can actually be found at the real MMMM in Michigan.
Also Yoshimi Battles the Pink Aliens by Flaming Lips, and I Get Wet by Andrew WK are both incredible covers.
That’s what I thought and then I got into Radiohead and learned kid a is peak album art and then brad released his tally hall videos and now I can’t listen to tally hall anymore because I subconsciously bully myself out of it
Tldr kid a best album art
Listen man, I like that album well enough, but the cover is pretty tacky and doesn’t hold up.
I always imagined raidohead sitting on the top of those mountains in Kid A cover, watching the world end and playing the songs as events happen.
The art to Bell Witch’s Mirror Reaper is just a thing of beauty.
Indeed.
"Crocodiles" and "Ocean Rain" by Echo and The Bunnymen are awesome albums with awesome covers 🖤
>no loveless
im sad now. gonna pop my loveless cd in.
Hey Brad I found your channel several days ago and I love you and your content! Always funny, thoughtful and perceptive. Hope you’re doing well.
One of my top album covers is mezzanine by massive attack :D
It’s one of those album covers that make the songs on the album sound better simply because of the cover
The recent Injury Reserve album’s cover is so cool. I am an absolute fan.
I'm surprised that no one brought up LYSFLATH by Godspeed! You Black Emperor on this one. Fantastic and iconic album art for one of my favorite albums of all time.
honestly one of the worse Godspeed covers lol