― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.darkanddeadly.as.ro/Swans/Albums/whitelight.jpg
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.southern.com/southern/band/KILLD/pics/07943L.jpg
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
http://swans.pair.com/IMG_PRODUCTS/loveoflife.jpg
. ..which is kinda more of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get sorta thing.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1643837-02A-BIG.jpg
If you knew nothing about Drexciya or Tresor Records, you'd probably imagine this to be a metal album.
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
It looks rather gauzy and ethereal to me.
Re: ACDC from upthread: ALL of their alternate album covers are fucking weird.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Acdchighvoltageeur.JPG
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
When I bought this record in 1994 my techno-obsessed buddies were salivating. What would it sound like? Black Dog? Plastikman? Robert Armani?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxFRR73luyo/TZffj5roicI/AAAAAAAAFLw/TB_DhmXApzQ/s1600/Stereolab%2B-%2BTransient%2BRandom-Noise%2BBursts%2BWith%2BAnnouncements%2B-.jpg
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 August 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, 2xpost was going to say I'd imagine a slightly harder Cocteau Twins there,.
Whereas that one says "I sound like Neu boogie" to me.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Really? That totally looks like a DJ mix.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I suppose..
Then again, if it was it'd be from above the record, not below.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't have thought that Stereolab album to be a techno record or a DJ mix back in 1994. Few techno and mix albums looked that artsy and minimal in 1994, they looked more like this:
http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/d/dave-angel/17757-dave-angel-trance-lunar-paradise.jpghttp://img12.nnm.ru/8/4/4/9/8/84498df9886249384978846a6efbdd35_full.jpg
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I didn't get into techno until 97 or so, so I missed all that crap.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Soundgarden_Telephantasm_cover.jpghttp://bsides.myx.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/311-Universal-Pulse.jpg
― MarkoP, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Nick-Drake-Pink-Moon.jpg
This album of strange orchestral swellings, daliesque exclamations and surreal dialogue and lyrics oh hang on....
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
What's the album with the goat?
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
If you are referring to the Bighorn Sheep, that's the new 311 album.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, I've never heard of 311, what do they sound like?
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
mmm, Maroon 5 / nickelback style soft rock.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
Except with more reggae and rap/funk metal influences. They've usually been linked in my mind with being closer to Sublime than the bands mentioned, but I might wrong with that.
― MarkoP, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm basing it on the one track I heard, "Amber".
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
They have always been down, down
― Trip Maker, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.kindamuzik.net/gfx/gomez-cvr-0711.jpg
i wouldn't expect rootsy rock/britpop from this one. (more like the new SCOOTER or some other nineties dance compilation)
― Ludo, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, if it was Scooter it would need some colours, the black & white is too stark.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 14 August 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.musictastershop.com/files/images/287.jpg
I used to see this album in bargain bin of the local record store, and I thought it was heavy metal... I haven't actually listened to it, but apparently it's rap?
Then again, metal style imagery isn't that uncommon in rap music, like Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, DMX, etc.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 14 August 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/41-1.jpg
Obviously an '80s new-wave band, kinda like AC/DC
― Lee626, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=throbbing+gristle+20+jazz+funk+greats&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=GShsMWruFocIcM:&imgrefurl=http://amputeearms.blogspot.com/2009/02/throbbing-gristle-20-jazz-funk-great.html&docid=f16MKkEA3WduEM&w=300&h=300&ei=SctHTu-IBcHB8QOrg9SUBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=901&vpy=76&dur=23&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=109&ty=102&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=135&start=0&ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0&biw=1440&bih=732
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
html failure, sorry, but i think you know the one i mean
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ngk_5UhX4HA/ThLyMcgQY2I/AAAAAAAADFU/KRYM33RlTQE/s1600/bongo+date.JPG
― psioni, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_osaKxjJ33dE/S9iaLjzA1aI/AAAAAAAAAhg/jNshYDQFH_s/s400/579787%5B1%5D.jpg
^ Only has 49 of the first 50 singles.
― everything, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/f/fahey_john~_letgo~~~~_101b.jpg
imo this is the saddest record cover in the world
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
This cover is one of my all-time faves! Give yourself three guesses as to the genre before reading the small print....
http://musicology.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/10/wgso81763c.jpg
― Lee626, Monday, 15 August 2011 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
I suspect that it's impossible to read this album title without seeing the whole coverhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/word.jpg
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Looks like "storms" - what's the album?
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Correct!. I was wrong. It is Nanci Griffith's 'Storms'.
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/51Q3OLTVuTL.jpg
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71op39EbQQL._SL1268_.jpg
― remove butt (abanana), Friday, 22 July 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1752648874_10.jpg
― The ED, Friday, 22 July 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-WwmD0_perbo%2FU-gsMc4BeQI%2FAAAAAAAAORI%2FrJ1LOJtQCv0%2Fs1600%2FFront%2BCover%2BOBI%2Bcopy.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
Blue Cheer - Oh! Pleasant Hope (1971). Saw a NM copy of this in new arrivals at a store and until my eyes picked out the band name, figured it was some also-ran indie psychedelic band of the 2000s, somewhere in the space between AnCo and Of Montreal. It's tough to find a JPG that really conveys this, since if it yellows at all, suddenly the quiltiness registers and it belongs in the 70s again.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link
Initially read that as "Pleasant Mode," which is probably what it would be called if it were a 2000s release as you describe
― Josefa, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
Allan Clarke - Legendary Heroes. Solo album by the guy from The Hollies, rather than the epic power metal the artwork suggests.
https://img.discogs.com/oLsFQAGFNDNZT8yZ3hbDIOuFJRM=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1793447-1268165417.jpeg.jpg
― it's popol vu all over again (Matt #2), Monday, 12 April 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link