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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 17, 2023 0:06:08 GMT
A big part of any new album release was getting to hold it in your hands and check out the cover art and liner notes. It was never the same with CD's. Any favorites? This is probably my all-time favorite, Supersnazz (1969), with cover art by Bob Zoell.  I thought Pretty Things came up with an elegant metaphor for something raunchy with Silk Torpedo and the cover by Hipgnosis did it justice.   I think Bryan Ferry had a type and I think this is it. For Your Pleasure (1973). .jpg&ehk=%2fkXuyv6%2fYHGsjo%2bi6ReGDErWJTvhy0cWOXPLGmO0ZPg%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) Patti Smith was heralded as "punk", but she heralded herself as something else entirely with this Robert Mapplethorpe portrait from her debur album Horses (1975).  Wilson Pickett talked the talk and walked the walk and here he is doing it.  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 17, 2023 3:42:40 GMT
Oh geez. Those were all bell ringers. Not a dud in the lot. Favorites!? Errrr, I love them all would be the wrong answer I guess. All-time favorite? Oh - ouch, my head is spinning. Am I to limit this to 5 selections - per day? per hour? per genre? Whilst I am off dealing with this impossible assignment, please allow me to start with a post-valentine amuse-bouche, but I reserve the right to revoke it if I need to make room in my 5. The blurred photo by Scottish director Angus Cameron dovetails so beautifully with the fuzz inside. Of working with the band, Cameron said: "I had my best and most creative working relationship with My Bloody Valentine."Loveless (1991) - My Bloody Valentine  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 17, 2023 3:54:07 GMT
OK I need to cleanse my palate after that starter. I know nothing about this album art other than it is gorgeous and hilarious and the music is divine. Marla Smith – Take Off In Sound (1959, Vinyl)  |
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 17, 2023 12:15:48 GMT
Al Stewart's Year of the Cat LP from 1976 was the first example I recall seeing of collectomania, with it's depiction of a lady obsessed with all things feline.
Illustration art by Colin Elgie (more of his work here) for Hipgnosis.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 17, 2023 13:04:27 GMT
OK I need to cleanse my palate after that starter. I know nothing about this album art other than it is gorgeous and hilarious and the music is divine. Marla Smith – Take Off In Sound (1959, Vinyl) I'd say anything which comes to mind and in any number. Doesn't need to be genre-defining art. OMG, yes! There's a whole history of babes on album covers, especially in the 1950's. Jackie Gleason specialized in lounging beauties to sell his albums. You reminded me of this one which I still have in my collection of Jayne reading poetry to classical accompaniment. "Shall we begin with Elizabeth Barrett Browning?...."  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 17, 2023 13:19:43 GMT
Al Stewart's Year of the Cat LP from 1976 was the first example I recall seeing of collectomania, with it's depiction of a lady obsessed with all things feline.
Illustration art by Colin Elgie (more of his work here) for Hipgnosis.Hipgnosis did some of the most memorable, though I didn't really know about attribution at the time. I love the flying (suspended?) pig on the Pink Floyd cover. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3613199-1337377072-1840.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 17, 2023 13:22:55 GMT
Sparks had some pretty nutty ones, perfect for their sense of the absurd.  |
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 17, 2023 13:49:18 GMT
Al Stewart's Year of the Cat LP from 1976 was the first example I recall seeing of collectomania, with it's depiction of a lady obsessed with all things feline.
Illustration art by Colin Elgie (more of his work here) for Hipgnosis.
Hipgnosis did some of the most memorable, though I didn't really know about attribution at the time. I love the flying (suspended?) pig on the Pink Floyd cover.
There were only two in Dallas but still. Here they are as seen in 1935. You can imagine how they and the surroundings looked by the 70s.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 17, 2023 15:19:07 GMT
I have now distracted myself with full LP experiences - holograms, stickers, glasses, spinning wheels, moving faces, games, colored vinyl, laser etching, bags, folding boxes, posters, photos, multiple album covers...how am I ever to get any movie reviews typed up!?? ILM you are a terrible influence. Banned covers, coin shaped jackets.. Who started all of this delicious insanity? When I think now on how these must have impacted somebody's bottom-line I'm astounded they were ever permitted. The Beatles will require an entire entry! Faces - Ooh La La (Moveable!)  Led Zeppelin - III  Jefferson Airplane - Bark (Bag etc!)  Jefferson Airplane - Long John Silver (Box! )  Split Enz True Colors (Laser etched vinyl! Multiple covers!)  Shame 3D doesn't display online at all! The Stranglers - The Raven  Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request  Guess Who - Artificial Paradise (Game in a bag!)  Chicago - Chicago VIII (poster & decal!)   Grand Funk - Shinin' On (3D glasses) ![]()  Grand Funk - We're An American Band (Decals & gold vinyl!)  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 17, 2023 15:28:19 GMT
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 17, 2023 15:41:28 GMT
Sacré bleu! How could I forget these gems... Geez, and I thought CDs were problematic. Can't get a giant billion dollar bill with an online streamer. Our poor helicopter kids. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies  Alice Cooper - School's Out (A desk! Underpantaloons)   |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 17, 2023 16:26:38 GMT
I miss those days. I remember the joy of coming home with a new LP and putting it on the "phonograph" and listening to it while lying on my bed reading the liner notes. But before being able to routinely buy albums a favorite album cover of most the adolescent boys I knew(as well as yours truly) was THIS eye catcher!   Of course, as we got older we got more "artistic" in our tastes...... :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6322066-1416427084-8325.jpeg.jpg)   Sepiatone |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 17, 2023 21:47:55 GMT
Some great memories here, especially seeing some of those inclusions. Lots of albums had lyric sheets inside, but some of those one-off inclusions were a lot of fun. I remember the Yesterday and Today Beatles album. The butcher cover was withdrawn but some of the pressing plants just pasted the new cover on top of the old butcher cover, so that it could be peeled off. Everybody was hoping their copy was one of those. (Mine wasn't.) And that original pressing of Their Satanic Majesties Request had a 3-D image glued to the cover, a pretty new technology at the time. I used to look forward to a new Little Feat album because they always had something cool on the cover.  :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4602230-1452446019-3782.jpeg.jpg) :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3399086-1342732653-6227.jpeg.jpg)   |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 18, 2023 0:28:16 GMT
The Mothers of Invention were a hoot. They didn't give a crap about their image so they were willing to do really stupid stuff on the album covers. They also did a lot of gatefold covers, with twice the space for their nonsense. We're Only in it for the Money:   Weasels Ripped My Flesh:
 Burnt Weenie Sandwich:  And one of my favorites, Cruising with Ruben and the Jets:  |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 18, 2023 16:43:50 GMT
And we can't forget Jimi's import cover for ELECTRIC LADYLAND.  Or Blind Faith's too.  Too bad you can't resize images on this site. Jimi's is too small, and Blind faith's is way too large. Sepiatone |
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