The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1984 debut album featured cover art by underground cartoonist Gary Panter, blending punk-era, raw, and comic-style aesthetics that set them stick out like a sore thumb from mainstream 80s music. The design, which evolved from an uncolored, hand-drawn sketch to a vibrant, gold-and-red, color-saturated, and sometimes a "Bournville chocolate-like" color scheme established a now classic, visual identity that was meant to evoke a reaction