!. Satanic Majesties (with original 3D cover) 2. Get Your Ya - Ya's Out 3. Tattoo You 4. Sticky Fingers 5. Exile on Main St. BONUS: Love You Live / Let it Bleed / Some Girls (pre censored vesion)
WORST (in no specific order)
1. Steel Wheels 2. Voodoo Lounge 3. Bridges to Babylon 4. Emotional Rescue 5. Flashpoint BONUS: No Security / It's Only R 'n R / Goat's Head Soup
It may seem like sacrilege, but I always preferred the white RSVP cover to Beggars Banquet (perfect, especially w/ the great layout inside as contrast) to the rather dated toilet cover...Anyway: Exile England's Newest Hitmakers Let It Bleed Ya-Ya's Through The Past Darkly (the orig. LP, naturally) bonus: Some Girls, Sticky, Bridges 2 Babylon, Out Of Our Heads (US)
worst: Flashpoint No Security IORR Live Licks Sucking In The Seventies
I really like the Still Life cover. It should have been some good pictures on this inside, instead of something that looks like a teen-pop-poster. But the front and back is really good. I've always liked that stage-artwork. It remainds me of summer, and of Denmark. I've been to Denmark when I was 2 and when In was 6. I kind of remember it as on the Still Life cover.
Sticky Fingers - great concept, nasty title, and 10 nasty tracks to match December's Children - best early Stones cover, Keef front and center Through the Past Darkly - Original octagon, very, very cool. Some Girls - Original cut-out cover with celebrity photos Satanic Majesties - original 3-D cover. just beautiful.
Honorable mention (jackets that should have been): the "soup" photo from GHS, and the S&M ad for Black and Blue.
Worst -
Dirty Work - Stones meet the 80's and the 80's win. then, the horrible 4 live album covers: Still Life Flashpoint No Security Live Licks
john r Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It may seem like sacrilege, but I always preferred > the white RSVP cover to Beggars Banquet (perfect, > especially w/ the great layout inside as contrast) > to the rather dated toilet cover...
I agree. It would have become dated right away, too. Look at the reference to LBJ--Johnson left office in Jan '69 not long after BB came out.
Now it's ancient history.
One of the great covers/images of the Stones is Between the Buttons. I love the expressions. (even Brian, his poor wasted face says it all) A great moment frozen in time. >