You couldn't walk 5 feet on a college campus in the late '90's and early-00's without seeing this on someone's Fourunner and now it's an album cover. The fact that this gross-looking, Burning Man-reject "logo" still exists is enough to make me never want to give this band a chance. That they used this as a album cover perfectly encapsulates the complete lack of ideas on the album. So I guess in a way this is the best album cover?
7. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
It's not that it makes no sense. It's that it wants soooooooo fucking bad to NOT make sense while having some aesthetic relevance or import. Unfortunately it's just fucking hideous and that makes it fucking idiotic.
6. Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
The amount of work it took make something this lazy would probably shock us all. If you're going to do a "peel back the layers" analogy you've got to do better than throwing a guy in front of a wall with a bunch of shitty band photography run through a bunch of shitty Photoshop filters.
5. Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World
Hollywood Squares in the '70's was reallllllly trippy.
4. Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey And The Groo Grux King
For such a terrible title, and terrible album, this cover is actually pretty fun. It looks like a Caldecott runner-up for the Cirque de Soleil set.
3. Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
The band-photo cover is almost always the safest way to go, even more so when you make it greyscale. I'm not sure why these guys are out on someone's dad's lake dock, dressed like they're going to Seal's birthday party but somehow it works. And by works I mean it doesn't totally suck ass.
2. Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
I like how '90's "modern urban" this picture is with the slow exposure of the lights. What I don't understand is the fucking coffee cup stains. Goddamn it! Get a fucking coaster you asshole!
1. Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Though this is their best cover it's too incongruent with the album itself. The world music influence on their debut makes this sort of idyllic, rural, almost-fall type of sunset appear out of context. I think this would better make for an Explosions In The Sky album cover, though from a more "artistic" angle of course.
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