I’d have opened with Nobody Told Me

Wondering if the host considered advising his son not to follow in his footsteps with record collecting.

My top: 10: Travelled 9: Rudy 8: Another Mans Woman 7: Oh Darling 6: Listen to me please 5: School 4: Not the moment 3: The Logical Song 2: Give me a chance 1: Thent Avenue Breakdown

Probably not your thing but T.rex Electric warrior album and cover has always been iconic to me. Maybe as it was the first album I bought with my own money in 1971...

Beatles had great tunes, but I am moving onto new artists and new great tunes, usually ones that sound a lot like the Beatles .

My personal favourite is Black Sabbath…Never Say Die.

Great Collection

David With keeps asking John if The Beatles are breaking up and John replies "no". This is right after John told the other Beatles in September 1969 that he wanted to leave The Beatles

Just got that 12” and love it. Cool mix with lots Keith slashing. Almost a jam feel? I also was luke warm but putting it on a few weeks ago, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hard to beat that 70’s run. Don’t forget Black and Blue…one of my favorites. Sound quality is stellar.

Hi John. Good choices. The one with the writing all over the back is Go2 by XTC.

If you view Breakfast in America in a mirror the letters UP looks like 911 on top of the World Trade center buildings ...

An acquaintance of mine - not yet a LZ fan - was on a camping trip when his party got rained out. Bored, he found the Outdoors album among the collection of LP's at the cottage they were renting......and that was it! He developed a fanatical love for this album so much so that I'd say it was definitely one of his favorite albums of all time. He was always praising it.

Ringos Good night Vienna was always a favorite of mine .

I grew up in Sweden, so I obviously bought the original Swedish pressing of "ABBA The Album". The cover is slightly different from the British issue, since the background of the drawing is completely white, with no blue sky. It isn't a gatefold either, so the lyrics are printed on the inner sleeve and there is no photo on the backside of the cover that also has a completely white background.

I bought the album back then too. But I just found it dreadfully boring. With one exception: "You". After that, I didn't buy any more Harrison albums. Until 1987, when Jeff Lynne entered the scene and produced with Harrison the wonderful album "Cloud Nine". He succeeded in implanting a certain lightness and looseness into Harrison's music, which was immediately transferred to the listener.

Who’s Next is a great album cover.

Thanks for the tip on the hipgnosis doc on Netflix. Looking forward to it.

Fun video, that Led Zep (6 covers) was brilliant. I have taken decades to find all 6 covers A thru F. I even have an F with the original paper bag cover. Only one had someone brush water on the inner sleeve to reveal the water colours. I could use a better copy of my B, it’s a bit worn. 😊

Nice list John. My picks would be more for their humor. The Temptations "Wish It Would Rain" ; The Who's "The Who By Numbers" ; MAMA and the PAPA'S "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears"; Pretty Things' "Silk Torpedo"; and Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "The Roaring Silence".

The cover of Manfred Mann's Earth Band's album "Watch". 🙂👍

A favourite of mine would be the cover for Nightclubbing by Grace Jones. That pose is sheer genius. And I like quite a few of the album tracks as well.

I did not find the Hipgnosis documentary in the Hungarian Netflix catalogue.

Pink Floyd's burning man looks like Trump

I love album covers and miss those times I felt at one with the artist, they where fun and I loved looking at my vinyl whilst playing the music, the covers you have shown are iconic enjoyed this thanks John .

John, have you ever done a video that evaluates which solo Beatle songs would actually have made the cut on a Beatles album? I suspect that many solo songs would not have been accepted by John, Paul and George.

The Hipgnosis documentary is called Squaring The Circle. Going back to the 70s I loved illustrated covers such as Capt Fantastic or Procol Harum live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra - things you could study and still find something new each time you looked at it. Or photographic ones which made you wonder how they had done it eg. Peter Gabriel 2 or 3 (known as ‘Scratch’ and ‘Melt’). Pre-Photoshop or desktop publishing days, of course.

Some nice covers that resonates with the music. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine J-M Jarre - Oxygene Tom Waits - Closing Time Chris Rea - King of the Beach

Second hand trash. Your 'library' is nothing to brag about. You talk too much.

I got Wild Life, Beaucoups of Blues, and Cloud Nine on essentially the same weekend and I fully expected not to like Wild Life. Wild Life ended up getting played the most of the 3. Strange how that works. And speaking of strange, I didn't know Love is Strange was a cover, but I totally recognized it when I played it.

Not a good album..3/10 Silly Love Songs is a masterpiece.. Even let em in annoys me..it’s like hello goodbye in lyrics.. don’t want wings band democracy…this band is about ONE man..anyone who says otherwise…are they buying Denny’s solo? Jimmys solo? Absolutely not! I love the fact silly love songs Paul is stating true to himself..perhaps a reference to John calling him Englebert..oh how John wishes he could write a song that good at this time!! Cheers John

The cover on the back of the book is XTC’s Go 2 album.

Always loved London Calling!

Of the eleven, I've got Breakfast in America framed up and on the wall. A favorite is Lennon's Rock and Roll cover with the smaller title above the door.

Good, clear points!

Mob Rules by Black Sabbath.

Love the video! I just watched your old least favorite album covers, and it was a hilarious video! I hope you do a similar one again!

Great collection John. Some real gems!

I thought the guy at the bar was Jimmy Page

On the back of "Breakfast in America" album, members of Supertramp are reading their hometown newspapers. This and "Crisis? What Crisis" are absolute classic covers. Thanks, John!

Good review John But, one thing when you hold up a picture of a album sleeve. You've no need to sway it left to right. We can see it clearly if you hold it still. Makes us have dizzy feeling Great review though. Regards

"This guy is literally on fire. He's wearing a wig" 😅😅

Here's some of mine once again: Deep Purple In Rock Iron Maiden's Powerslave and Number Of The Beast The Beatles' Rubber Soul and Abbey Road Bowie's Scary Monsters and Super Creeps Pink Floyd's Animals Led Zeppelin I-IV and In Through The Outdoor Genesis' Selling England By The Pound System Of A Down's Toxicity Metallica's Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets Black Sabbath's Debut Album and Mob Rules Cream's Disraeli Gears AC/DC's Highway To Hell Neil Young's After The Gold Rush Wings' Band On The Run Alice In Chains' Dirt ABBA's Arrival Lennon's Plastic Ono Band Joni Mitchell's Hejira Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill Soundgarden's Superunknown And many more

Melanie's "Candles In The Rain" from 1970 is one that deserves attention. Breathtaking photo.

Middle aged prat.

I feel an overblown, pricey box set coming on.....

boxer paul simon said the worst version he heard

Thanks for turning me on to the Walls and Bridges Outtakes. I always know I will be hearing a rare gem if I follow the road you point out to us.

Lucky you :) My late husband worked alongside Yoko for years and was very fond of her. I have been a fan of her work all along and am so happy to see such positive comments here <3

Thank you for the Walls And Bridges review, John! I caught your very, very brief remark about The Wombles! 🙂 Even though, as a USA person, I never saw that TV show, I learned about (and heard) a few Wombles records via WNEW-FM (NYC) DJ Scott Muni's (every) Friday afternoon 2-hour segment, "Things From England", where he highlighted the (then-) current hit singles and albums. It was amazing how different the USA and British charts were! From Scott, I learned about The Wombles and Showaddywaddy -- at this time 50 years ago, their respective singles "Banana Rock" and "Hey Rock And Roll", were big hits -- plus the band Sparks, of which I am still a big fan of.

In a nutshell my joint favorite solo Beatles album alongside Paul's Ram..... Musical perfection & hopefully will be given the Ultimate Mix treatment next year?