Album Cover Quiz

1. A close-up portrait features red-and-blue lightning painted across the musician’s face. The album includes “The Jean Genie.” Which solo artist is pictured?

2. Looking up from the ground, a camera captures several rappers standing in a circle and staring down. Which group used this perspective for Straight Outta Compton?

3. Which band used a deliberately brash yellow-and-pink ransom-note-style design for Never Mind the Bollocks?

4. For a playlist featuring “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way,” you want the matching album artwork showing Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks in a posed black-and-white photograph. Which group should you select?

5. A pale blue-and-white digital collage shows a motorway interchange, fragmented text, and corporate-style graphics. “Paranoid Android” and “Karma Police” confirm which band?

6. Which band fits both clues: four members walking across a London zebra crossing and an album containing “Come Together” and “Here Comes the Sun”?

7. You see a musician smashing a bass onstage, framed by pink-and-green lettering that echoes Elvis Presley’s debut cover. Which band’s album is this?

8. A hard-rock sleeve displays a cross topped by five skulls representing the group’s members. Its track list includes “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child o’ Mine.” Which band is it?

9. Which artist appears from behind in jeans, a white shirt, and a red cap against an American flag on the cover of Born in the U.S.A.?

10. While sorting a grunge display, you find the cover showing a baby swimming toward a dollar bill on a fishhook. Which band should the album be filed under?

11. A white hand grips a red, heart-shaped grenade on the cover of a rock opera that includes “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” Which band released the album?

12. The cover of Unknown Pleasures uses stacked white lines derived from a pulsar signal against a black background. Which band made the album?

13. Two clues point to the same album: businessmen shake hands while one is on fire, and the track list includes “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” Who released it?

14. A singer sits on a motorcycle amid purple lighting and flowers. The album’s songs include its title track and “When Doves Cry.” Who is the artist?

15. A record-store card describes a peelable banana designed by Andy Warhol and lists “Sunday Morning” among the tracks. Which act belongs on the card?

16. A sleeve transforms a beam of white light into a rainbow through a prism. The album includes tracks centered on time and money. Which band released it?