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Pink Floyd 'Dark Side Of Moon' tops artwork poll
Published Monday, May 16 2011, 10:27 BST | By Lewis Corner | 1 comment
Pink Floyd have topped a poll looking for the greatest album cover of all time.
The Wish You Were Here rockers managed to beat off competition from The Beatles and Nirvana to top the list with the artwork of their 1973 album Dark Side Of The Moon.
The cover - consisting of a plain black background with a 2D drawing of a beam of white light being split by a prism - has been produced over 30 million times, with the album topping the charts in the US and reaching number two in the UK.
"The Floyd cover is a reminder of a time when sleeve art meant more than a jpeg a couple of hundred pixels wide in your iTunes library," explained Will Groves, editor of Music Radar, who conducted the poll.
The band had another top ten entry, with their artwork for 1977's Animals voted in at number 10.
It was recently announced that Pink Floyd's entire back catalogue will be remastered and reissued in new formats later this year.
> Pink Floyd reunite on stage at London's O2
Top ten voted album covers are as follows:
1. Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Nirvana: Nevermind
3. The Beatles: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. The Clash: London Calling
5. Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine
6. Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast
7. The Beatles: The White Album
8. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
9. King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King
10. Pink Floyd: Animals
The Wish You Were Here rockers managed to beat off competition from The Beatles and Nirvana to top the list with the artwork of their 1973 album Dark Side Of The Moon.
The cover - consisting of a plain black background with a 2D drawing of a beam of white light being split by a prism - has been produced over 30 million times, with the album topping the charts in the US and reaching number two in the UK.
"The Floyd cover is a reminder of a time when sleeve art meant more than a jpeg a couple of hundred pixels wide in your iTunes library," explained Will Groves, editor of Music Radar, who conducted the poll.
The band had another top ten entry, with their artwork for 1977's Animals voted in at number 10.
It was recently announced that Pink Floyd's entire back catalogue will be remastered and reissued in new formats later this year.
> Pink Floyd reunite on stage at London's O2
Top ten voted album covers are as follows:
1. Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Nirvana: Nevermind
3. The Beatles: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. The Clash: London Calling
5. Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine
6. Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast
7. The Beatles: The White Album
8. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
9. King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King
10. Pink Floyd: Animals
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