10 Great Album Covers, Chosen by Singer-Songwriter Annie Moscow

I miss vinyl records with their massive, sq. jackets. Sure, I do know they’re nonetheless round, however these days I get most of my music on-line and covers haven’t got the identical impression for me as they did again after I would maintain them in my fingers. Even CDs have been shut sufficient. Smaller, however nonetheless one thing to hold round. I bear in mind the joy of going to Tower Records in keen anticipation of buying a brand new album, then I’d take it house and curl up in an enormous chair, skim by the liner notes and browse each lyric together with each music, and generally cry. Yeah, these have been the times!

When I acquired invited to jot down this column on my 10 favourite covers, I felt a bit like Whoopi Goldberg when she performs a medium within the film Ghost, and hordes of lifeless persons are at all times crowding round, vying for her consideration. In this case, it was hordes of album covers, the ghosts of music previous, that got here clamoring to the forefront. And there have been much more than 10 covers. But I sat with all of them, and ultimately a smaller group of unforgettables got here rising to the highest, a lot of them paired with equally unforgettable songs.