The 2024 Martin Popoff short eBook about bands who eventually delivered a live album or two, but it arrived later in the career than was optimal.

Welcome back to another Martin Popoff Top 20. The idea for this regular feature began strictly as a look at songs, and you can see that there are a bunch of those here at Zunior. But it’s expanded since that into a number of areas both more scholarly and more goofy. It’s been pretty satisfying constructing these because of the pleasant surprise that some of my most on-the-edge views and writing have been showing up regularly, not to mention picks and rankings that some of you might find completely out-to-lunch.

So yes, please enjoy our tour of 20 great albums with predominantly un-inked covers. There were a lot to choose from, to the point where I felt the need to offer five, tidy honorable mentions, namely Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult, Frank Zappa – Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, Cheap Trick – Dream Police, Buzzcocks – Love Bites and Kiss – Lick It Up. Actually there are two additional platters that deserve special notice, I feel. Those are Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Common sense would have these on the list and quite high up there, but my heart wasn’t in it.—Martin Popoff

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