― I LUV FAETTY (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:19 (8 years ago) Permalink
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:23 (8 years ago) Permalink
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:27 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:07 (8 years ago) Permalink
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:11 (8 years ago) Permalink
(the interior art for this one is better)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:17 (8 years ago) Permalink
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:52 (8 years ago) Permalink
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
Punks and Skeletons Taking Over the City.....YEAH!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:32 (8 years ago) Permalink
One of my all time favorites!
― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:25 (8 years ago) Permalink
Here, let's try that again...
― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:26 (8 years ago) Permalink
― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:27 (8 years ago) Permalink
I must be on drugs or something - last attempt!
― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:27 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:33 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:37 (8 years ago) Permalink
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:41 (8 years ago) Permalink
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:42 (8 years ago) Permalink
― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:49 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
If only the music contained within was as good.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:55 (8 years ago) Permalink
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:56 (8 years ago) Permalink
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:59 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:27 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:26 (8 years ago) Permalink
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:45 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:55 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:17 (8 years ago) Permalink
http://www.southern.com/southern/band/REGWA/pics/D1195L.jpg
PS - This is also a record I bought because of the cover (& the Dischord association, yeah).
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:22 (8 years ago) Permalink
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:34 (8 years ago) Permalink
The Feederz - "Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?"
It had sandpaper on the cover so that it would scratch the covers of any albums stored next to it! Yay!
― woly boly (woly boly), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:17 (8 years ago) Permalink
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:22 (8 years ago) Permalink
My all time fucking favourite.
― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:07 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:08 (8 years ago) Permalink
I found this cassette tape in my bosses office today. Somewhere this guy is a star and rightfully so:
― ENBB, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
bosses? whoops.
― ENBB, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
what about mind-numbingly awesome album titles:
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Millsner, Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Again:
― Millsner, Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
...AND...
― bmus, Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like how passively bummed dude is about the eyeball spooning. Like, "Fuck, he's gonna spoon my eye. Again. Sigh."
― contenderizer, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
OTM! When I found that cover, I thought that "The Sad" would have been a much better fit than "The Mad"
― bmus, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
I found this cassette tape in my bosses office today. Somewhere this guy is a star and rightfully so
Why were you snooping around your bosses office? Does he know you were in there?
Just wondering.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 22 August 2008 01:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
Just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's not true.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 22 August 2008 01:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
First saw this one on an ILM thread and it still startles me - I've never seen such a mix of colours on any other album, ever. It reminds me of something a gifted 11-year old might create with water paints in 6th grade art class. (That's a compliment.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 22 August 2008 05:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
I've been thinking a "best Fall cover art" poll is in order. Or "worst Fall cover art." Its so hard to decide which is which.
― bendy, Friday, 22 August 2008 05:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
esp. the first 5
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Sunday, 20 February 2011 21:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
that said, i bought ride's nowhere purely b/c of the album art (ok, and it was $4) when i was about 13... in total realization joy division's unknown pleasures is the clear inspiration, and a little more iconic, but there's something about this that rly suggests that buying this album will transport you somewhere
and furthering shoegaze scene, mbv's were always particularly good:
uno mas:again, i can easily see why anybody would go "so what" about this one, but there's always been something striking about this cover... maybe the particular nostalgia factor, or how utterly simple it is. i dunno. it's just yet another band i've checked out for the artwork alone.
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Sunday, 20 February 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Mmm... here's a few of the favorite ones in my collection. Not sure if they could be considered mind numbingly awesome but I love staring at them.
― Moka, Sunday, 20 February 2011 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Siegbran, Monday, 21 February 2011 02:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol at horace silver
― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 02:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is that sieg?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 February 2011 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
That Horace Silver was my entrypoint into jazz. I went to my local recordstore looking for jazz, not knowing anything about the genre, and singled it out based solely on the cover.
― ♫, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg u racist perv
― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
It was a simpler time... :wistful gaze:
No, but how can one not love that cover.
― ♫, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
angry face one is ildjarn, strength and anger.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's mind-numbingly awesome about this one? Looks like a standard 80s band photo to me...
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
all of the following: http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html
― jumpskins, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^ otm
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 21 February 2011 07:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Eh? Most of those are just badly framed, blurry photos, not mind-numbing at all:
I guess I just have a very different definition of "awesome album cover" than some others...
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not sure how a thread like this gets to 121 posts without
― egregious fannydangling (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 21 February 2011 07:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, it's not that I'm against that sort of aesthetic, but in order for it to impress me, the photo has to be evocative in some way, not just a random pic of some guy or an apartment. The album covers of 310, for example, do this pretty well:
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― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 February 2011 07:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
This album came out the same year as Tron, so I assume they borrowed the aesthetic from there. It's still awesome though.
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
i love the jandek covers but they are pretty much a case of "sum greater than its parts"
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's mind-numbingly awesome about this one? Looks like a standard 80s band photo to me...― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 8:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 8:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
Yeah I guess it's maybe not objectively too extraordinary. While it is a common approach to coverart - "a standard 80s band photo" - it comes off as iconically so to me. I don't really know. Maybe I just like the record and conflate the cover with the music...
― ♫, Monday, 21 February 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
the painting on the Surf's Up cover is the kind of awful, unfun kitsch that I would rightfully sneer at if I saw it at a flea market (its natural habitat) or on the living room wall of some crusty, humorless old coot who thinks dogs playing poker are crass and undignified & therefore decorates his home with images of depressed minorities and solemn owls.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow, you do know that painting is based on a really famous statue, right?
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't have a problem with the statue. I just don't think it retains a lot of its dignity when it's reproduced ad nauseum as a (almost celebratory?) cultural icon.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
I always mistake that cover for this one (time to dig up the cover connections thread again...)
― Hodge Podge Bodge, Peo-PLE! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also love Baroness covers:
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Deluxe edition of blue had some great presentation and packaging as well:
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ossman and flamin groovies remind me of inside sleeve of James Blood 'Tales of Captain Black':
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also entire Skull Disco catalogue to thread:
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/50-coolest-album-covers
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
One I have been loving lately:
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
Actually never much liked the strip of photos on the bottom right, but the main cover photo is fucking brilliant.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
^^^Winner.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
i know the gal c is above, but let's look at all 4 sides of the relevant releases...
and a jpeg, but click to view: http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1222672-1339083900-6249.jpeg
― 69, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
Loses something in reduction from LP size, but still
― dow, Friday, 22 June 2012 20:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Saturday, 23 June 2012 00:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
hard to lose with Louis Wain but it's still striking
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
i just got this record the other day from my next door neighbor. epic 1973 sci-fi synth musique concrete audio play about the end of the world and mutant children. kinda can't stop staring at the cover.
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Is the music as amazing as the cover?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's pretty crazy! lots of proto-vocoder recitations and people screaming and arp synth mayhem.
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2012 02:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
Lots of gooduns on the Takoma One-Offs thread, this is still my fave
― dow, Saturday, 23 June 2012 05:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
Close to his heart
― dow, Saturday, 23 June 2012 05:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
an all-time favorite:
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, that one is fantastic and one of those that is significantly diminshed seeing it CD-sized or smaller.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
great cover and sort of a cover connection to another classic cover:
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
underground has great liner notes too - it's like a Fahey sleeve
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 August 2012 18:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Never realized Basement Tapes reminds me of this:
Must be time to play cover connections again.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:23 (9 months ago) Permalink