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Alternative Album Cover Quiz

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Alternative covers in the pool

Alternative covers were built to look like the opposite of a marketing department: found photographs, art-world collaborations, deliberate ugliness, and sleeves that refused to name the band. That makes them wonderful to look at and genuinely hard to identify from a fragment — which is the point of this quiz.

Ten rounds, four choices, no timer — and every choice is also a Alternative cover, so there is no giveaway option to eliminate. The pool holds 104 covers, which is enough that two games rarely look alike. Get one wrong and the full sleeve zooms back out with a link to the story behind it: who designed it, who shot it, and why it looks the way it does.

The Detail

10 rounds · 4 choices · one zoomed-in detail per cover

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