{"id":2966,"date":"2011-05-16T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:30:39","slug":"contest-pick-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/05\/contest-pick-your-favorite-pink-floyd-album-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest: Pick your favorite Pink Floyd album cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musicradar.com<\/strong> announced the results of its “Best Album Cover” poll, naming Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” as #1.<\/p>\n

“Bold, iconic and symbolic, the cover to Pink Floyd\u2019s eighth studio album fulfilled every aspect of Richard Wright<\/strong>\u2019s brief to be: ‘smarter, neater \u2013 more classy’ than previous Pink Floyd covers,” the music site writes.<\/p>\n

Floyd’s other entry in the Top 50 was “Animals,” at #10.<\/p>\n

You can browse all 50 at the Musicradar Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tell us your favorite; win a prize<\/h4>\n

It got us thinking what true Floyd fans such as yourself would vote as the best Floyd cover ever.<\/p>\n

Place your vote by leaving a comment here<\/strong> with your choice. If you need a refresher, take a look at all the albums here<\/a>. (And, yes, if you’d like to vote for “A Nice Pair” or “A Collection of Great Dance Songs,” feel free \u2014 even though those compilations aren’t listed in our discography.)<\/p>\n

Let’s skip solo albums for now. And don’t bother voting more than once, because we’ll only count your first.<\/p>\n

After voting’s slowed to a trickle, we’ll pick a few of you to receive free one-year subscriptions to Sound+Vision<\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musicradar.com announced the results of its “Best Album Cover” poll, naming Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” as #1. “Bold, iconic and symbolic, the cover to Pink Floyd\u2019s eighth studio album fulfilled every aspect of Richard Wright\u2019s brief to be: ‘smarter, neater \u2013 more classy’ than previous Pink Floyd covers,” the music site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}