LIVE! Contrarians Chat: Stripes, Dots & Checkerboards - Our Favorite Patterned Album Covers

[@inmyhouse11]

Panorama- The Cars New York London Paris Munich- M A Different Kind of Tension - Buzzcocks In Another World- Cheap Trick My Aim Is True- Elvis Costello More of Other Worlds, Other Sounds- Esquivel Introspective- Pet Shop Boys Turn Blue- Black Keys 4- Foreigner 9- Public Image Ltd MDNA- Madonna Down To Earth- Rainbow

[@brianzawistowski5743]

Blondie - Parallel Lines (mentioned but not presented) Frampton's Camel Touch S/T Def Leppard - High N Dry Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye Bad Company - Rough Diamonds Speedway Blvd S/T Marillion - An Hour Before It’s Dark Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 Rush - Roll The Bones Uriah Heep - Equator

[@IraSiegel]

Fastway - S/T 🏁 Billy Cobham - Spectrum

[@abdulbasheer2207]

Great show. Heres some of my picks. Nazareth - Loud and Proud (with the peacock feathers pattern) Ian Gillan Band - Clear Air Turbulence (yellow and black striped rocket ship plus the band named in black and yellow squares) Uriah Heep - Sonic Origami (curved lines depicting a face) Kiss - Animalize - (stripes, dots all in animal fur motif) Bad Company - Straight Shooter (the dots on the dice plus the background gambling table)

[@simond1574]

My Favorites: Yes - Time and a Word The Who - Tommy Todd Rundgren - Utopia Tindersticks - The Something Rain Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen we are Floating in Space Rush - Roll The Bones Rammstein - Reise, Reise REM - Up Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34 Peter Gabriel - 2 Pearl Jam - No Code The Ocean - Holocene Nile - What should not be unearthed Nick Cave - Live Seeds Marillion - An Hour before it's dark Kraftwerk - The Man Machine Kinks - Lola vs Powerman Joy Division - Unknown Pleasure Haken - Affinity Genesis - Nursery Cryme Garbage - 2.0 David Bowie - Space Oddity Bright Eyes - Letting off the Happiness Amorphis - Queen of Time

[@timholden3436]

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION - First self-titled album 1972 . Fish-eye Chekered squares. THE HEAD SHOP - self titled 1969. Multiple symmetrical small squares , whole front cover HI-FI - Demonstration Record 1981. Stripes across upper half front cover BEN ANTELL BAND Waters 1982-Sriped hood of car ROBERT PALMER - Pressure Drop - 1976. Vertical stripes from the railings outside the window

[@georgemathie8123]

A really cool checkerboard cover is LRB's playing to win from 1985

[@renniearundell4163]

Lines and dots make me think of jazz albums

[@darcyska]

Sad I wasn't able to contribute to this one live! As a massive ska and punk fan, so many of them use the checkerboard look, especially those from the 2Tone scene and 3rdwave - The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, so many more

[@aldebaran4154]

Curved Air - Air Cut (Air Conditioned & Second Album also has nice designs) Traffic - Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys Camel - Breathless Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye Paul McCartney - Tug of War

[@brendankilroy9203]

Oddly, the Stones were really big on patterns.... Exile on Main Street Some Girls Steel Wheels Also: Stone Roses s/t, Santana - Abraxas, U2 - Achtung Baby, Metallica - Death Magnetic

[@corleth84]

Did I miss it or did 'Abbey Road' really fail to be mentioned?

[@paulbrookes413]

Yet they mentioned ZEBRA 😄

[@daanthing6002]

First three albums of The Black Angels

[@moodlefyful]

Elliott Smith - Figure 8

[@FeloniusMonkInGSharp]

King Crimson- Discipline

[@scotterrebo995]

The Vapors “Get Together”, (2021).

[@bw_selfish]

Anthrax - State of euphoria

[@antonnee]

Similar to The Who's Tommy, Eldritch - Headquake

[@antonnee]

Queen- Hot Space

[@terrywachter]

Pink Floyd...The Wall?

[@greghansell5115]

Clouds Futura

[@strangeways75]

Kiss Animalize

[@williamgainford9332]

electric mud muddy waters / fools game mordred

[@jimmycampbell78]

Someone said Fools game- Peter Hammill in one of the comments that came up in the video. I assume they meant Fools Mate by Peter Hammill but were also conflating it with Fools Game by Mordred. Both album covers qualify for sure.

[@williamgainford9332]

peter hammill some prog guy is he!!!@@jimmycampbell78

[@anthonybomberry9935]

😊

[@antonnee]

Bit of a cheat but most Zebra album covers.