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| Dance Gavin Dance Album Art...RANKED
Bored as hell so decided to rank the various album art from DGD's discography. Almost all of the album art is created by Mattias Adolfsson, who does amazing work. I am only including full-length albums and some single album arts at my choosing. No instrumental albums included because they are just recolors of the regular album art. | | 14 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean
While I can appreciate that this is original artwork done by Jon Mess, it stands out as an outlier amongst the DGD discography. The balance of browns and orange are nice, but nothing that is striking visually. | | 13 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Downtown Battle Mountain II
I used to like this album art a lot, but after looking at it again, it is extremely busy and, when viewing a smaller image of the album art, is almost indecipherable. Too messy, too much white/black balance. Not my favorite. | | 12 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Dance Gavin Dance
DEATHSTAR. but that's it... for DGD standards, pretty basic. | | 11 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Artificial Selection
I like the inclusion of the animals and creatures known within the DGD universe, but besides the main tree in the middle, there isn't a whole lot going on. Also fuck gradients. | | 10 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Afterburner
The first album to include "Gavin" on the cover (the bull). It's cool, but I may have a negativity bias towards this album as a whole because it is weeeeak. | | 9 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Tree City Sessions 2
I love the balance of blues and purples amongst the crowd, and as they did on TCS1, they included the band as universe characters. Besides that, it's a little one-dimensional according to DGD standards that I just made up. | | 8 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Instant Gratification
The battle between flesh and steel! | | 7 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Acceptance Speech 2.0
I put 2.0 in place of the original art work because I feel that it is far superior. GIANT ROBOT ON STAGE GIVING HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. Representative of the massive improvement from the original album to 2.0, both visually and sonically. | | 6 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Head Hunter/Blood Wolf
There is so much to look at on this album art, and it is currently my PC wallpaper. Really colorful and filled with a lot of whimsy. | | 5 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
People You Knew/Perfect
This might be a controversial one because it's a not-often-used album art for the band, and is art from a Hot Topic exclusive single release. However, crocodile characters in the DGD universe are GOAT and this cover has THREE. Simple, but effective. | | 4 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Tree City Sessions
Chaos incarnate. Really representative of how going to a DGD show feels. The balance of reds, browns and oranges really pop and give this a really pleasing effect. | | 3 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Mothership
Probably the most recognizable and most beloved album amongst the discography. I'm not so keen on the big infinity symbol however the striking difference between the sky and ground/mountain landscape is appealing and makes for a pleasant viewing experience. Among all the DGD albums, this art builds a more macro perspective of the view of the universe these characters live in. | | 2 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Downtown Battle Mountain
This one might be controversial. It is basic, sepia tone, and doesn't have a lot going on. HOWEVER, I feel that this album set the stage for all the albums that came after it, and marks the beginning of DGD's rise to fame. This is the album older fans look back to as the one that got them into the band, and probably has a special place in people's hearts (like mine). | | 1 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Happiness
The quintessential DGD album art. Insanely colorful, containing a lot of character, joy and dare I say happiness? Also, person in boat is GOAT, and strangely enough the best album art belongs to the best album they've ever released. FIGHT ME ON THAT. | |
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05.14.21 | DANCE GAVIN DANCE BABY, DOWNTOWN BATTLE MOUNTAIN TWOOOOOOOOOO | TheSpirit
05.14.21 | my brain blanks out when i think about ranking their album artwork, but i think i agree happiness is 1... | vult
05.15.21 | i wonder how that boat got there | GreyShadow
05.15.21 | ArSe might be my fave. Afterburner is also def in top 5. i'm incredibly nostalgic for the original 2 art. love the colors there but objectively 2.0 probs wins. can't argue against giant fucking robot | JohnnyoftheWell
05.15.21 | 1 is 1 and death star is too low | Lasssie
05.15.21 | how tf is afterburner and artificial ranked higher than dbmii??? INSANITY | vult
05.15.21 | There isn’t a huge gap between 13-10, and it’s not like I don’t like the art. I just think if you were to put the album arts in front of me at any time, the DBM2 album art would be the most chaotic to take in at first glance. If I redid the list, I’d probably put it above Deathstar and Afterburner.
Also title text on DBM2 is really out of place. |
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