Kids today can never understand the delight of a gatefold cover (let alone a double album!).

For example, the album 'Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes' by ELOY, is musical heaven. Produced in 1979 the sound can stand up to anything recorded today.

But the icing on the cake is the cover. Gloriously disturbing, you had to take it out of the rack and look at it. THEN you discovered it was a gatefold and opening it up you had a front and back that looked like this:

and an interior that looked like this:

Everything about this album SCREAMED quality. And the vinyl itself was heavy, solid, truly physical.

I was sold on this album before I had even played it.

And when I did, my 14 year old ears gave my brain enchanting visions of a humanity reaching beyond the confines of its Earthly origins and becoming something both wonderful and terrifying.

What gatefold album did you buy that blew you away- not just musically, but everything, the entire package!?