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Small Faces: Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake

 This 1968 effort from British standout Small Faces topped the British charts with heavy rock and soul tracks anchored in a conceptual quest for a missing half of the moon. The release’s novel early packaging — which replicated a tobacco tin and was rounded out by an enclosed poster created by assembling five paper circles — thoroughly hooked the public. Like other work from the ’60s, Small Faces’ Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake combined modern art and music in ways that revolutionized not just LP graphics and packaging, but also the industry. By the time the ’70s arrived, mind-wiping cover art had become practically mandatory. (via Best Album Art of All Time | Underwire | Wired.com)