Guess the Album Cover

You know these covers. You have stared at them on shelves, on streaming tiles, on T-shirts. But how well do you know them up close? Each round shows you one tightly cropped detail from an album cover in our archive: a sliver of a prism, the corner of a banana, two pixels of a burning handshake. Pick the right album from four options. Ten rounds, no timer, bragging rights at the end.

Every answer links to the full story behind that cover: who designed it, who shot it, and why it looks the way it does. The pool draws from 283 covers spanning the 1950s to the 2020s, from jazz sleeves to hip-hop landmarks, so no two games are the same. Miss one? That is just an album cover story you have not read yet.