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Musicradar.com announced the results of its “Best Album Cover” poll, naming Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” as #1.

“Bold, iconic and symbolic, the cover to Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album fulfilled every aspect of Richard Wright’s brief to be: ‘smarter, neater – more classy’ than previous Pink Floyd covers,” the music site writes.

Floyd’s other entry in the Top 50 was “Animals,” at #10.

You can browse all 50 at the Musicradar Web site.

Tell us your favorite; win a prize

It got us thinking what true Floyd fans such as yourself would vote as the best Floyd cover ever.

Place your vote by leaving a comment here with your choice. If you need a refresher, take a look at all the albums here. (And, yes, if you’d like to vote for “A Nice Pair” or “A Collection of Great Dance Songs,” feel free — even though those compilations aren’t listed in our discography.)

Let’s skip solo albums for now. And don’t bother voting more than once, because we’ll only count your first.

After voting’s slowed to a trickle, we’ll pick a few of you to receive free one-year subscriptions to Sound+Vision magazine.

Last fall, before Roger Waters kicked off the North American leg of his “Wall” tour in Toronto, we held a contest encouraging you to guess which date of the tour David Gilmour would join Roger on stage to perform “Comfortably Numb.”

We received about 90 entries, with most people favoring May 11:

Well, as it turns out, that prediction was close, but off by one day: The reunion happened at last night’s show at London’s 02, with the added bonus of Nick Mason joining Waters and Gilmour on stage for the show’s coda, “Outside the Wall.”

Two people guessed May 12, so we flipped a coin to determine our winner: Daniel Kippes of Cercado, Cochabamba in Bolivia.

Daniel gets a copy of Waters’ 1990 CD “The Wall Live in Berlin.” And, for guessing the exact date, we’re also throwing in a sealed copy of Classic Rock’s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”

Honorable mention to the other person who managed to see the future: Ron Leicht of Calwell, Australian Capital Territory in Australia.

Nicely done, both of you!

Congratulations to:

Theron Hager
Glade Hill, VA

… who won a copy of “Dark Side of the Moon A Capella.”

Learn more about the album.

Announcing Floydian Slip’s “Surrogate Bands: The Pink Floyd Cover Contest!”

Submit your own recording of a Floyd song for a chance to win some great prizes and have your song aired on the “Floydian Slip” radio show.

One first prize winner will get $250 in merchandise from Boston Acoustics. And … we’ll air their recording during a special all-covers edition of the “Floydian Slip” radio show: Our “Surrogate Bands” special will run for a week starting June 30 on all 30 “Floydian Slip” affiliate stations.

Second prize is $75 in Floyd merchandise from The Official Web Store of Pink Floyd.

Plus … Every entrant receives a free one-year subscription to Sound+Vision magazine.

Complete rules and regulations online. Entries must be received by 12 midnight (EDT) June 22.

Enter to win by uploading your recording now.

Congratulations to Steven Genuardi of Malvern, PA — our winner of a scale replica of Nick Mason’s 512 S Ferrari, courtesy of Hot Wheels Elite.

Watch for our next contest, coming soon.

Congratulations to our winners of copies of Celtic Pink Floyd:

Todd Bookman
Ephrata PA

Jimmy McCrillis
APO AE

Tenzin Chophel
Bridport VT