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Currents- Tame Impala, 2015

Art by: Robert Beatty

The cover art for Currents and its accompanying singles were created by Kentucky-based artist and musician Robert Beatty. Kevin Parker has said Currents' designs are based on a diagram of vortex shedding he remembered while trying to visualise the album's themes. Beatty described how Parker's ideas for the album artwork "were all based on turbulent flow, the way liquid or air flows around objects."

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Dookie- Green Day, 1994

Art by: Richie Bucher

This album cover features a replica of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, CA. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said about the cover: “ I wanted the art work to look really different. I wanted it to represent the East Bay and where we come from, because there's a lot of artists in the East Bay scene that are just as important as the music. So we talked to Richie Bucher. He did a 7-inch cover for this band called Raooul that I really liked. He's also been playing in bands in the East Bay for years. There's pieces of us buried on the album cover. There's one guy with his camera up in the air taking a picture with a beard. He took pictures of bands every weekend at Gilman’s. The robed character that looks like the Mona Lisa is the woman on the cover of the first Black Sabbath Album. AC/DC guitarist Angus Young is in there somewhere too. The graffiti reading "Twisted Dog Sisters" refers to these two girls from Berkeley. I think the guy saying "The fritter, fat boy" was a reference to a local cop.”

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Californication- Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999)

Design: Lawrence Azerrad

Designer Lawrence Azerrad based the image on a dream that the Chili Peppers’ guitarist, John Frusciante, had. To support the album, the Chili Peppers played numerous gigs in schools, where students could write essays on “how they could make their schools better, safer, happier, more rocking places, so that they didn't have to go to school afraid” to win free tickets.

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Animals- Pink Floyd (1977)

Designer: Roger Waters 

The album cover features a photograph of Battersea Power Station, England, with a large balloon in the shape of a pig floating between the chimneys. Whilst positioning the balloon for the perfect shot, it broke free of its moorings and escaped. The pig flew over Heathrow Airport, causing much confusion and even resulted in the cancellation of flights.