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Post by sepiatone on Apr 8, 2023 17:40:24 GMT
Yeah. A lot of people were doing the "concept album" thing in the '70's. I didn't know anyone who DIDN'T have a copy of..... :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9696794-1484934911-2562.jpeg.jpg) Sepiatone |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 9, 2023 13:36:11 GMT
Brian Eno did a series of concept albums featuring ambient music for different environments, such as Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978). :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-125776-1414074622-5053.jpeg.jpg) My favorite was one he did with David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1987), in which they captured random "phantom" radio broadcasts from unknown sources and incorporated them into a musical framework. Artsy, yes, but a really interesting result. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1874210-1446556142-1321.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 9, 2023 14:02:42 GMT
Even after he calmed down a little after the Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane period David Bowie still cared a lot about the images representing him. This cover from Tonight (1984) is one of my favorites. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6046646-1409687691-8664.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by NoShear on Apr 13, 2023 17:09:51 GMT
Even after he calmed down a little after the Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane period David Bowie still cared a lot about the images representing him. Pete Townshend, David Bowie... Your rock personality sense is impressive, I Love Melvin. |
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Post by NoShear on Apr 16, 2023 16:20:28 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? Raymond Pettibon's satiric MILTOWN HIGH catfight first showed up publicly on a flyer to promote a concert thrown by the(n) notorious BLACK FLAG at the(n) notorious FLEETWOOD club and shortly thereafter got color realized for the extended play entitled JEALOUS AGAIN (1980):  In a coming full circle with its stark flyer, no less than three more shows saw the use of the image by the beach band. |
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Post by sepiatone on Apr 16, 2023 16:43:33 GMT
That T-shirt come packaged with the album?  Sepiatone |
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Post by NoShear on Apr 16, 2023 16:49:40 GMT
That T-shirt come packaged with the album? Sepiatone I wish, Sepiatone!! I would've worn it proudly - though not comfortably, cotton or otherwise: You risked a confrontation by announcing punk affiliation back in that time. |
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Post by sepiatone on Apr 17, 2023 15:09:26 GMT
Earlier, while bringing up this artist in another forum, I recalled this classic cover. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3058545-1514905523-4533.jpeg.jpg) Sepiatone |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 18, 2023 23:09:16 GMT
Good one. Classic. Sometimes an up close and personal portrait works best.
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Post by NoShear on Jun 25, 2023 0:59:35 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.  : All Four One: |
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Post by Guest on Jun 25, 2023 1:12:30 GMT
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Post by NoShear on Jun 27, 2023 15:58:31 GMT
1973 seems an acme for Hipgnosis, but then that thought is probably as much or more about the music as the design team's accompanying work: |
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Post by sepiatone on Jul 15, 2023 16:44:04 GMT
Not sure many would think of this as "art".  Sepiatone |
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Post by NoShear on Jul 20, 2023 23:13:01 GMT
LOS ANGELES: All Four One: I want to give the aforementioned two a second chance here: LOS ANGELES - All Four One - |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jul 21, 2023 14:19:39 GMT
It's so odd looking at this cover now. It's like seeing Brain's enigmatic smile from beyond the grave.  |
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