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Music isn't just about the music. Sure, the sounds are certainly the most essential element, but you can't ignore the role of cover art in making a brilliant album From the fold-out gatefolds of the vinyl era to pull-out liner notes in CD jewel cases to the small icon on a digital player, cover art has changed over the years, but it still defines how we look at a particular album. Photographic portraits, paintings, collages -- all these and more are on Billboard's list of the 50 greatest album covers of all time, reaching back to Elvis Presley's self-titled debut to and going up to present day. Zeek Afridi New Song Orbal Video Download here. Eschewing a friendly, fun image more conducive to '80s pop chart success, Janet Jackson adopted a militaristic tone for her instantly iconic black-and-white Rhythm Nation 1814 cover art.

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With Janet's face only partially emerging from the shadows and her body clad in a nondescript soldier's uniform, the artwork made label execs uneasy, but in the end, she was right. This cover photo perfectly complements the increased social consciousness of the album, and it would go on to become her most recognizable album art. While M.I.A.' S Kala album cover received more than its fair share of criticisms at the time, less knee-jerk reactive eyes can now see the artwork as a classic summation of her sound. The loud, jarring colors mix with pixelated lettering (the kind you'd find on a junky Internet site), African patterns and a repeated call to 'Fight On.'

As she later told, the art was inspired by and cribbed from everything from 'dictator fashion to old stickers on the back of cars when people look at it in 10 years I want them to remember a certain time, and hopefully they get a 3-D sense -- the shapes, the prints, the sound, film, technology, politics, economics, everything.' Aretha Franklin's best album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You, shows her dressed in an exceedingly elegant gown with a gauzy old Hollywood haze bordering the photo. But it's her expression -- and the canted angle of the photo -- that make this so important.

In 1967, representation of black women in pop culture was political whether intentionally or not, and Aretha's quiet, un-posed album cover speaks volumes. Unlike many female pop stars of the era, she doesn't smile invitingly at the viewer, attempting to please or impress or even seduce -- she simply exists, exuding confidence and a quiet sense of majesty. In 1969, artist Andy Warhol was approached by the Rolling Stones to create the cover art for their upcoming greatest hits album, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. Whatever Warhol created for the set was seemingly never used, but his concept of employing a working zipper on an album cover came to fruition on the cover of Sticky Fingers. With photographs by Warhol (focused on the bulging jeans of a still-unidentified male model) and graphic design by Craig Braun, the set would earn a Grammy Award nomination for best album cover.

Cyndi Lauper informed the world that 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' on her classic 1983 debut, and one look at the cover of She's So Unusual would convert any non-believer. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz in front of a derelict wax museum in Coney Island, Lauper strikes a willfully weird pose wearing a second-hand prom dress, fishnets and a mish-mash of clashing jewelry. Tellingly, her heels are kicked off to the side. More so than any album cover from a female pop queen, this remains the ultimate rallying cry to stay strange and love yourself for it.

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