Pick 10 album covers. Any 10 album covers.
You can’t argue with any of the five on the lower row. (I always had a fondness for Presence, but admittedly that’s contrarian.) Top rung: I can think of four better, more iconic Floyd covers than the one they chose, although it is a well-designed image. Blur is fine. P, C, & L always struck me as already being a stamp—everybody in the world loves that cover, and I do too. The Stones is boring—Sticky Fingers (possibly too risque) or Get Your Yo-Yos Out are better picks.
Coldplay don’t belong in the Top Ten. It’s ugly and stupid. Should have been replaced with: Never Mind The Bollocks/Sex Pistols; A Night At The Opera/Queen; The 1st Stone Roses; Quadrophenia/The Who; In The Court Of The Crimson King/King Crimson; or this beauty.
Of course, since these are British stamps, Fly Like An Eagle/Steve Miller Band is not eligible.
I like Quadrophenia too. The trouble wiht your Stranglers cover is that it just wouldn’t support a postmark. Like Dark Side of the Moon it would have been rejected (if ever in the frame) because of impracticability. And you couldn’t really see the Sex Pistols being licked by your grannie (oh, no matter, it’s self-adhesive!)
But thanks for the link to our site. We’ve now added an order and payment page on our website so that people around the world can buy the stamps and associated products, and people in the UK can buy the products which they can’t find at their local PO.
http://www.norphil.co.uk/2010/01a-album_covers_stamps_order_form.html
So far Pink Floyd are most popular.