When I was growing up, one of the perks of buying an album wasn't only the great music inside, but also the fantastic cover art that wrapped up the big 12-inch long playing vinyl records inside.

Some of the album art of the '60s, '70s, '80s and even '90s is now considered iconic not only by the fans of the music, but by collectors world wide.

The folks at Mensa have turned it into a contest, and starting this week, you can vote on the best album art of all time. 

 

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Constructed like the annual college basketball March Madness bracket, the Mensa Album Art Challenge pits 64 of the best album covers of all time against each other in a vote that will continue until a champion is crowned in January 2015. The winner will be announced in that issue of Mensa Bulletin magazine.

 

 

 

Instead of four regions, the Album Art bracket is divided into four categories:

  • Minimalized (covers that embrace the “less is more” approach such as Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic”)
  • Lens Flair (deft camera work that celebrates images, such as “Strange Days” by The Doors)
  • Artist Rendering (painted, drawn, assembled or cobbled by an artist’s hand such as “Kiln House” by Fleetwood Mac)
  • Textual (when words are worth a thousand pictures, such as “Hail to the Thief” by Radiohead)

Voting is open to the public and began on October 13. New match ups will be launched weekly through November 17.

American Mensa is an organization open to anyone who scores in the top two percent on an accepted, standardized intelligence test. Mensa has more than 56,000 members in the United States and more than 110,000 members globally. For more information about Mensa, visit us.mensa.org/join or call (800) 66-MENSA.

 

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