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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 22, 2023 8:20:04 GMT
And who's to say good LP covers are only found on ROCK music albums?  Not I   |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 22, 2023 8:28:09 GMT
I am so easily amused and tricked apparently.  I have some Hipgnosis books somewhere....  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 22, 2023 14:24:23 GMT
I am so easily amused and tricked apparently. I have some Hipgnosis books somewhere.... I've got to admit that's quite an accomplishment getting people to read all that. I feel like such a FOOLISH VICTIM. Somebody's having fun with The Velvets one because the banana wasn't pink, though it probably should have been because we all know what it was about. I never peeled mine off because even then I knew Warhol = collectible. The other famous Warhol cover was a blessing and a curse because that damn zipper inevitably ended up scratching the album cover next to it.  I loved that the Warhol logo was on the underwear on the inner level. (Never mind that the guy on the cover wasn't wearing underwear.) Talk about interactive. Warhol missed an opportunity because just a few years later every designer in the world was putting their names on underwear and making a fortune. You coulda aced out Calvin Klein, Andy.  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 22, 2023 15:02:36 GMT
Alberto Vargas, pin-up artist extraordinaire, did the cover for The Cars Candy-O (1979).
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 22, 2023 17:08:23 GMT
Couldn't find any info on the artist, but this was considered "modern art" when this Sandy Nelson LP was released in '61. And looks in the style other Nelson LP covers were done in. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4961022-1499866736-7492.jpeg.jpg) Sepiatone |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 22, 2023 17:59:37 GMT
Couldn't find any info on the artist, but this was considered "modern art" when this Sandy Nelson LP was released in '61. And looks in the style other Nelson LP covers were done in. Sepiatone Looks a little like LeRoy Neiman, who did tons of illustrating for Playboy. Just a guess. |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 22, 2023 18:04:51 GMT
I still have that old vinyl somewhere in the basement. I'll be doing a dig to try and find it and see if the info is in the liner notes. Wish me luck
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 23, 2023 1:46:25 GMT
>I never peeled mine off because even then I knew Warhol = collectible. I wonder if we indexed LP investment vs. stock market, what would we see? Or seen...not sure post Gen-Z that everything won't just be going in the garbage. Kids don't want stuff anymore. Probably already some R'n'R RRSP fund with LP holdings like... The indecent toilet. Discogs Marketplace - 3 for sale from CA$405  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 23, 2023 2:00:17 GMT
Uh oh! Off checking my portfolio on Discogs... I had hoped to retire on this one....I have a sealed original that was up to $400. Now with re-issues, down to $200, >>>CDN<<<, just enough for a coffee. More dashed dreams. The artwork is great too : D (Hipgnosis)  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 23, 2023 2:23:46 GMT
And who's to say good LP covers are only found on ROCK music albums? Wonderwall Music To Gill's chagrin, Harrison requested that a brick be removed from the wall, because he deemed it important to "give the fellow on the other side a chance, just as the Jack MacGowran character had a chance in the film.The LP's sleeve insert included a black-and-white photograph of Harrison taken by Astrid Kirchherr.  verso Uh oh! Didn't know this...probably in the hedge fund collection In America, some copies of the LP had the Berlin Wall image mistakenly printed on the front  Musicals / Concept albums
Chess LP - 1984 Gatefold sleeve. Includes 20 page 12" booklet with synopsis in English, French and German as well as full English lyrics.  |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 23, 2023 17:04:42 GMT
And earlier there was a reference to a Who cover(Tommy I think). But a good one from them is....  Sepiatone |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 23, 2023 21:54:07 GMT
And earlier there was a reference to a Who cover(Tommy I think). But a good one from them is.... Sepiatone Good one. I always wondered whether the beans swamping Ann-Margret in the Tommy movie was a reference back to this cover.  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 23, 2023 22:10:29 GMT
Talking Heads were art school kids and their covers often looked like art projects, like More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) a collage taken from individual Polaroids to create a group portrait.  Little Creatures (1985) used "naive" artist Howard Finster for the cover. They also used his art on the covers for 12" remixes of several singles. Rolling Stone voted this Album Cover of the Year in 1985.  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 24, 2023 6:05:24 GMT
Once again a missed opportunity like the Warhol underpants: The band returned the towels to the department store after the shoot. Now they would be auctioned, a Go-Go's line issued...   |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 24, 2023 6:47:55 GMT
A couple of iconic LPs with gorgeous and startling Pennie Smith photos. Smith currently lives and works in a disused railway station in west London
Pennie hardly ever exhibits her work, as she is still a full time working photographer.
The documentary on Ridge Farm Studio is a good one if you haven't watched it yet. Of course I won't post the full cover.  The photo was hailed as one of punk's most iconic images, but the fact it was captured in the first place had a lot to do with luck.The Palladium in New York City on 20 September 1979.  |
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