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I think we used to have a thread like this, but maybe it's time for a new one. Anyway I know many of you are creative people, and i've definitely seen some amazing designs on here before *cough earcandy cough*

Let's share our fake album covers!

I just made this one for my Beach Boys collection on itunes, and although its not very good I like it enough! :lol

(http://s14.postimg.org/p4mlabsgx/Beach_Boys_1961.jpg)

I don't have my own but I recently was at a bookshop and saw "The Greatest Albums You'll Never Hear" and was stoked to see a Smile album cover I'd never seen before  in the book. Very 60's-ish flower-power-esque design with "Smile" in it's usual font. Though it was pretty cool as I don't see too many alternate Smile covers that differ too much from the original. Sadly, I haven't been able to locate it online since then, seems as though the creators of the book made up an original design. If any of you are mad enough to search for it, I'd be grateful to see the image posted. They had a badass one for The Who's Lifehouse album as well that seems to be an original too.

Found it!
(http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.1965959.1413795949!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg)

Ooh perfect, I've wasted more than enough time making crudely photoshopped Beach Boys covers. They're so much fun to do! Haven't made any in a while though. :(

(http://i.imgur.com/8w433QO.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ZXDbOkn.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/3fad0sk.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/icNnIen.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/0cBXwzR.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/CqlwyuE.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/t80nffs.jpg)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52684612/Smellwith%20scentLG.jpg)

Classic!  That just made me roar!

We could probably take this thread in a totally different (and wrong!) direction speculating song titles!

That's a beautiful SMiLE album cover you posted Dudd, I absolutely love it! Here are some I've made:

Group Therapy
(http://i1351.photobucket.com/albums/p783/guitarking3434/Group%20Therapy_zpswguecawv.jpg) (http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/guitarking3434/media/Group%20Therapy_zpswguecawv.jpg.html)

Break Away
(http://i1351.photobucket.com/albums/p783/guitarking3434/Break%20Away_zpsgibxf5pp.jpg) (http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/guitarking3434/media/Break%20Away_zpsgibxf5pp.jpg.html)

Add Some Music
(http://i1351.photobucket.com/albums/p783/guitarking3434/Add%20Some%20Music_zpsxbkgbrch.jpg) (http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/guitarking3434/media/Add%20Some%20Music_zpsxbkgbrch.jpg.html)

Pet Sounds (Nothing changed besides track listing!)
(http://i1351.photobucket.com/albums/p783/guitarking3434/Pet%20Sounds_zpsntruomen.jpg) (http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/guitarking3434/media/Pet%20Sounds_zpsntruomen.jpg.html)

Summer's Gone (The original name for the album)
(http://i1351.photobucket.com/albums/p783/guitarking3434/Summers%20Gone_zpsgchdgxmj.jpg) (http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/guitarking3434/media/Summers%20Gone_zpsgchdgxmj.jpg.html)

Fun Fun Fun (I couldn't find a high quality scan of the 1980's reissue, so I made my own. It's just a much better album title than Shut Down Volume 2!)
(http://i1351.photobucket.com/albums/p783/guitarking3434/Fun%20Fun%20Fun_zpsej7wjfdx.jpg) (http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/guitarking3434/media/Fun%20Fun%20Fun_zpsej7wjfdx.jpg.html)

Funny that you should mention the Shut Down Vol.II 80's reissue being named Fun,Fun,Fun, because that was the original name for the album before Shut Down Vol. II according to the Master Tape Boxes for the sessions.

Great work from everybody! ;D

i'll go ahead and post these as well

(http://www.earcandymag.com/altcovers6-0212.jpg)

(http://www.earcandymag.com/altcovers5-0212.jpg)
Smile '72

(http://www.earcandymag.com/altcovers8-0212.jpg)

http://www.earcandymag.com/altuniversecovers-0212.htm

Hah nice. Maybe I didn't try hard enough. Thanks mate - methinks I'll paste this into my Smile cover art. I dig the foresty-looking design as well. Very original.

(https://sites.google.com/site/corkintheoceanproduction/_/rsrc/1323950918816/-the-album-that-never-was-series/remember-the-zoo/CITOP015%20Front.jpg)

I thought that Le'id in Hawaii cover was perfect... incredibly well made... looks like its right out of the Capitol design department circa 1967.  I actually have a screen grab of that cover on my phone.

Did you ever do a back cover?

Not exactly an album cover.
But couldn't resist anyway.
(http://s28.postimg.org/w91547crx/Untitled_1.jpg)

Reverberation, Landlocked and L.A. are not mine, just wanted a continuous "alternate discography" gallery! I still need to work on that 1977 Christmas album and 15 Big Rock N' Roll Ones. :hat

(http://oi63.tinypic.com/9vgymt.jpg)

(http://i63.tinypic.com/14axye1.jpg)

(http://i65.tinypic.com/2zpmh39.jpg)

(http://i65.tinypic.com/2vb0s2u.jpg)

(http://i63.tinypic.com/x0qszb.jpg)

(http://i65.tinypic.com/2uxw7s3.jpg)

(http://i63.tinypic.com/i39ma1.jpg[img][img]http://i64.tinypic.com/2utnjbs.jpg)

(http://i64.tinypic.com/2utnjbs.jpg)

not my designs, but I agree on the Lei'd In Hawaii cover. it's great... although the black & white photo doesn't quite fit, in my opinion

here's my alternate:
(http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/jpg/8de2dc89febe4c4b8e39fe142ed05943.jpg)

Some of these are absolutely brilliant! I'm definitely using them for some of my "homemade albums" on iTunes.  ;)

(http://s18.postimg.org/4qq13g18p/Adult_child_pochette.jpg)

I wonder if there is a color photo of the Boys actually getting Lei'd in Hawaii?

I really like the idea of a final Beach Boys or Brian Wilson album going full circle with a cover that references the 'Surfin' Safari' cover. Like a "this is where the journey that started with 'Surfin' Safari' ends" thing.

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/BiscuitPower/BW2_zpsf635ff26.jpg)

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/BiscuitPower/SS6213_zps02259e53.jpg)

Dennis, anyway. big surprise
(http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/jpg/c466583789cc4ad394dd1f26852cdcb4.jpg)

Refresh my memory folks ! How do you post an image here ??

(http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/Malc2311/media/Live%20at%20The%20Royal%20Albert%20Hall%202012_zpsovwgrv4a.gif.html)

Edit: Curses, failed again...

How did you come up with the DT 2707 selection number for Lei'd in Hawaii?

they're not my designs. I provided a link to their whereabouts on earcandy, which was also referenced in the original post

here tis again:
http://www.earcandymag.com/altuniversecovers-0212.htm

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1622/24927629676_fe3e3e9326.jpg)

Some the images (good and bad) i've come up with over the years - some of which, scarily, circulate quite freely these days...

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1507/24586450519_b716c72ca9.jpg)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1459/24327066633_6be5faf8b3.jpg)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1489/24954061675_cf330d9b42.jpg)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1710/24860747331_b70ebdd09e.jpg)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1613/24658576930_821e78ea44.jpg)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1529/24586914599_a041385bf5.jpg)

I've been meaning to do this for a while now, so now that I have an account, I might as well do it now!  ;D

These were created as a part of a Visual Communications class in High School. We were tasked with making album covers of our own design. The other kids were re-creating modern albums, but here I am working with The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, Chicago and Pink Floyd!

(http://i.imgur.com/m9U1WWo.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1499/26087626430_913de00562_z.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1705/26360500705_eb88687423_z.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1682/25755655624_454b4dd379_z.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1672/26294260521_28a343d45d_z.jpg)

Out of the 42 different variations (from 10 albums) I produced, this once was selected to be in our School Corporation's Art Show. (It didn't place.)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1625/25755657144_ea1a84a435_c.jpg)

Here is one my son made for me:

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j312/abbalite/Homestudio1_zpsk3d6rltk.jpg)

The next time Capitol wants to put out a BBs comp, they should ask you guys to do the cover art. Seriously. Why did the 50th anniversary cd have to show them from the back? C'mon, we know they're old, we don't mind seeing a few wrinkles on those faces.

This one isn't mine, and is in fact not even the BBs, but it's partially inspired by the BBs. But this is an interesting one mocked up for one of Bruce Spizer's Beatles books, showing an idea of what the Beatles' "Hollywood Bowl" live album might have looked like had it been released in 1964. It looks like they used both the Beatles' "Something New" album and the "Beach Boys' Concert" album as a template/inspiration:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dCDdYW09uMw/ULUVsy4D9rI/AAAAAAAAB_o/W3ggUEyDnfY/s1600/Bowl.jpg)

The "Lei'd In Hawaii" and "Reverberation" covers I think are the most impressive in terms of looking like something that really would have been released in the 60s.

LOve the dysfunctional Landlocked cover

(http://i68.tinypic.com/17q2di.jpg)
A few changes to the tracklist

(http://i67.tinypic.com/t0hk6a.jpg)

(http://i65.tinypic.com/29qhyx4.jpg)

(http://i63.tinypic.com/qrzzi0.jpg)
Again: changes to the tracklisting

(http://i64.tinypic.com/21kmt7r.jpg)

(http://i64.tinypic.com/kbpxt3.jpg)

(http://i64.tinypic.com/1zxbjnn.jpg)

(http://i65.tinypic.com/k1zz4.jpg)

(http://i63.tinypic.com/2zrdfrt.jpg)

(http://i65.tinypic.com/9qz4uv.jpg)
Almost Summer ought to have been on this one. There was a companion CD: 15 Big Rock'n'Roll Ones with the covers from 15BO and the various outtakes. One day I'll put together another version with a slightly broader time scheme.

(http://i64.tinypic.com/ak8mpx.jpg)

(http://i65.tinypic.com/f3udxd.jpg)

I love this! If Capitol/Apple ever gets around to doing a Hollywood Bowl cd, this is the cover they should use.

Welcome, pdas1996! And these are gorgeous. I'm sorry I didn't see them sooner.
Congratulations on the selection for the art show.

Really like this tracklisting!

I absolutely love that Going Home cover! 

Wonderful job, pdas1996!  The ring wear on the bottom three covers is a nice touch.  If I were your teacher, I'd have given you an A on each one.

Lots of other great ones in this thread.

Wow, I get very emotional when I look at that Going Home cover. That would've been great for NPP for TWGMTR.

Thanks. At that time, I had produced 42 variations of 10 albums:
- 3 versions of Sunflower (the one posted, 2 of another and 8 of a third)
- 2 versions of Surf's Up (the sunset and another of the other)
- 7 of Surfin' USA (all leading up to the one posted)
- 6 of California Feeling (variations of what's posted)
- 1 Wild Honey
- 3 Pacific Ocean Blue (two are spelled Blues)
- 2 of 20/20 (Never went past the idea stage.)
- 1 for Johnny Cash's Out Among the Stars
- 2 for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
- 2 for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
- 2 for a new imaginary Chicago album "XXXVII/Skylines and Sunsets"

After I graduated, I got creative and made (for personal use):
single covers for:
-- Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" b/w "Milk Cow"
-- "God Only Knows" b/w "Wouldn't It Be Nice", based on the Italian single release (my favorite)
and replacement labels for:
-- "Elenore" b/w "Surfer Dan" (The Turtles)
-- "Hitchin' a Ride" b/w "Man Child" (Vanity Fare)
-- "Green-Eyed Lady" b/w "West of Tomorrow" (Sugarloaf)
-- The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" LP (with song titles)

Have a look at 'em: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pdas1996/albums/72157664802215413

Wonderful design. These are the feathers from the Church of the American Indian-Indian Wisdom. Slightly divergent, I love the explanation (direct from VDP or outside interpretation-can't remember) of the Bicycle Rider lyric being indicative of the card decks of poker-playing cowboys and sharpies expanding Westward and displacing the Native Americans in their wake.

EXCELLENT.  :lol

All great, really love the Smile in this group too. Thanks, Dudd, and thanks everyone for sharing.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZLne_WxAgq8/WC6sbdSHLdI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/0ztsKu7QP5IohZ54-WwpF_1zVepmwUtRgCJoC/s512-p-rw/IMG_1551.JPG)

(http://i66.tinypic.com/2pydbi0.jpg)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!  :lol