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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 19, 2023 13:52:40 GMT
I had that Blind Faith cover but it was withdrawn almost instantly, like the Beatles' butcher cover. Another censored cover was John and Yoko's Two Virgins, which was released with a peek-a-boo brown wrapper which could be removed.  John had a good cover on Walls and Bridges (1974), with flip-book panels of his childhood art which you could mix and match.  Yoko made a wry comment on her enigmatic "she-broke-up-the-Beatles" public image with this cover for Feeling the Space (1973).   And, God bless her, she created the most potent tribute to John ever with the cover for Season of Glass (1981), using John's blood-stained glasses against the window of their Dakota apartment. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11004163-1508058598-4230.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 19, 2023 16:13:21 GMT
Mentioning Zappa and the Mothers, WAAAYYYY back in the "day" me and a couple of buddies were perusing the fare in a small record shop just a bit off the main drag in downtown Detroit and my buddy bought this LP based on the cover. Never heard of or seen this guy or band before.  EEp! WHY won't this site let me resize? And not long after that I bought this LP also based on the cover, and it became and still is one of my favorite all time albums  Sepiatone |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 20, 2023 14:38:50 GMT
And then too, there's the cover of the other Mothers Of Invention LP that was bought that aforementioned day....  Sepiatone |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 20, 2023 23:26:50 GMT
Kansas had some great album covers. I listened to them at The Fireside in Hutchinson, Kansas when they were still unknowns and performing as White Clover, and in their hayday as Kansas.
My favorite cover is on their 1974 eponymous debut album. It's the center portion of a mural by John Steuart Curry called Tragic Prelude which hangs in the Kansas State Capitol Building in Topeka. The mural depicts the fanatic John Brown in the Bleeding Kansas period (1854-1860). Brown is in the center with Confederate and Union soldiers flanking, both alive and dead. He wields a Bible in his outstretched left hand and a "Beecher's Bible" (a breech-loading Sharps rifle) in his right. Curry painted the mural between 1937 and 1942. The thing is massive, measuring 31' x 12', and it's breathtaking to stand before.
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Their third album, Masque (1975), is covered by the painting titled Water by Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593). It hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 20, 2023 23:59:45 GMT
I was just thinking of Kansas...nothing quite so erudite I'm afraid. Same album title as Trooper. A good idea is worth repeating. Both great fun. Kansas - Two For the Show  Trooper - Two for the Show  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 21, 2023 0:18:24 GMT
That Kansas cover looks like it has to be Norman Rockwell but I've never seen that particular picture before. Amazing work and a great homage, whoever did it.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 21, 2023 0:39:48 GMT
And that is why I say there probably isn't one LP cover I don't admire on some level, even if I don't like it. I didn't know until recently the Blind Faith cover was a no no, such is the depth of my programming. File under: Optical Illusions Remember all the hub-bub when we were being secretly programmed by ad agencies and their hidden messages...in ice cubes... Sing It Again Rod Album Design: Shakey Pete Corriston Photography: Cosimo Sciana, Emerson, Loew and Steve Azzara  verso   ![]() |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 21, 2023 0:43:49 GMT
Doctor my eyes!!!! The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 21, 2023 14:39:22 GMT
And that is why I say there probably isn't one LP cover I don't admire on some level, even if I don't like it. I didn't know until recently the Blind Faith cover was a no no, such is the depth of my programming. ![]() The Blind Faith cover turned out to be a real no-no because the girl was thirteen or thereabouts. It's hard to even find the original image any more.  It was almost immediately replaced by this. I had the original, which somehow made its way to my local record store.  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 21, 2023 15:22:13 GMT
Doctor my eyes!!!! The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic Fun. Mott the Hoople used some M. C. Escher optical illusion art on their first album. Notice the rolling papers.   |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 21, 2023 15:52:08 GMT
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 21, 2023 16:16:04 GMT
David Juniper was commissioned by Led Zeppelin to come up with something interesting for the follow up to their debut LP. He decided to keep the Hindenburg theme used on their first album (though that was done by another artist) and feature a photograph of Baron Von Richtofen's German air force unit, Jasta 11, known as The Flying Circus, perhaps because of their colorful planes. (This photo could not haven been taken before 1917.)
He then superimposed the faces of the band members, who are obvious enough, and added some others, though he himself is uncertain who exactly he added. He intended to place Neil Armstrong above Robert Plant, but learned later he used astronaut Frank Borman by mistake. He also wasn't sure if he used Miles Davis or blues man Blind Willie Johnson. The woman is said by some to be Glynis Johns, as a pun on the name of engineer Glyn Johns, but Juniper said he used a photo of one of Andy Warhol's Factory girls, maybe Mary Woronov. I remember thinking back in the mid 70s it looked like Joan Rivers. ("Oh please.")
Band manager Peter Grant and road manager Richard Cole are also said to be pictured but I don't know what they looked like in 1969.
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 21, 2023 17:22:33 GMT
My guess they'd be the one in the sunglasses and the bushy headed guy above Jimmy Page(Who's to Plant's right). And who's to say good LP covers are only found on ROCK music albums?   Sepiatone  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 21, 2023 22:30:51 GMT
And who's to say good LP covers are only found on ROCK music albums? Good examples. I still can't bear to part with my Firesign Theater albums. I still have this non-rock superstar too.  |
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 22, 2023 7:07:32 GMT
I still can't bear to part with my Firesign Theater albums. |
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