Vintage seventies (or sixties and eighties) magazine ads for albums

That Pretzel Logic ad with the giant cartoon guy is so great!

http://www.superseventies.com/oaaa/oaaa_ramones.jpg

There's a two-page version of this where they mixed horrified reviews in with all the raves.

That Pretzel Logic ad with the giant cartoon guy is so great!

I think that guy is supposed to be popular Britishes comicbook character "Desperate Dan". Which is a groovy joke.

giant cartoon guy is Desperate Dan!

The Jobriath ad is the same photo that's used for the album's gatefold sleeve. Apparently he wasn't happy about the statue arse as he thought his own looked better.

http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/vandyke1.jpg

I heard those ads made Van Dyke Parks really sad and upset.

dammit :-(

I don't remember if that's true or something I made up.

Well I guess that the counter argument is "You lost $35 thousand on an album that got rave reviews? Maybe you should have promoted it a bit more."

http://vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/overad.jpg

love just how much that is basically a vw ad refashioned for van dyke parks.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/ekkostar/R063r7%20P41m3r/everykinda-ad.jpg

Shouldn't "Vinyl Erotica" apply to the whole Double Fun album, though?

my all time fave image of laura paired w the most idiotic tag line ever (pl excuse the watermark):

http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/lauranewind1.jpg

Van Dyke Parks ad is total classic. There's something about the tone that's so of its time.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-OStDJKI/AAAAAAAAA2w/Xw-OPFDTtf4/s800/nicklowead.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-NStDJII/AAAAAAAAA2g/cDU-CdLU_Bo/s800/devoad.jpg

http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIKLStDJVI/AAAAAAAAA4I/z6t2ZO5tUts/s800/costellomodelad.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIIfytDJRI/AAAAAAAAA3o/dLrkV7hGX6s/s400/cheaptrickad_1.jpg

http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIGrStDJPI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/ZXquYHSLd2o/s640/johansenad_1.jpg

The thing that blows my mind about these, and a lot of magazine ads from the '70s, is how *text heavy* they are. I think magazine ads have been all about "tldr" my whole life. Just pics of sexy people and two or three words now.

all that text gets me all swoony tbh

Dude, dude, dude, me too. Ok, I started smoking when I was 23, when any doc will tell you smoking almost never starts after teen years. Do you want to know why? I got all these '70s Playboys at an estate sale, and every other ad is for cigarettes, of course, full of loving, seductive paragraphs about how cigarettes are the most delicious, essential, amazing things ever. It was all that text that got me!

For an alternate approach, maybe somebody can post the ad for Costello's Imperial Bedroom (not having any luck finding it). I think it had a single word: "Masterpiece?"

we've come a long way. the xx album simply had one letter (X) on it's adverts. no text, no WORDS at all!

The thing that blows my mind about these, and a lot of magazine ads from the '70s, is how *text heavy* they are. I think magazine ads have been all about "tldr" my whole life. Just pics of sexy people and two or three words now.

That comes from the VW Beetle ads; a picture of the item and loads of text about the technical merits of said item.

Ok, I started smoking when I was 23, when any doc will tell you smoking almost never starts after teen years. Do you want to know why? I got all these '70s Playboys at an estate sale, and every other ad is for cigarettes, of course, full of loving, seductive paragraphs about how cigarettes are the most delicious, essential, amazing things ever. It was all that text that got me!

Abb if you weren't already married I wd propose to you for this <3

For what it's worth, we believe that 'OVER' represents something of a milestone. On it Peter Hammill has managed to write down and interpret musically a description of love from a man's viewpoint...

also love the description of the ramones as occupying space, "in the dark netherworld between Herman's Hermits and ZZ Top..."

Yes that made me lol as well.

Almost as funny if you're the Ramones' accountant: "Punk with commercial potential."

http://images.jambase.com/merch/Doors%20-%20DVD.jpg

http://thimk.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pete-rock-and-cl-ad.jpg?w=500&h=646

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didn't look closely at that one - solly

I started smoking at 23, and am glad Columbia's "Masterpiece?" ad for Imperial Bedroom was no influence.

not an LP ad but in the "ballpark"

http://buzzardbook.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wmms-archives-print-ads-articles-1975-125.jpg

I like the parallel between the Lee Hazelwood and Nick Lowe copy.

Both have a weirdly butthurt quality for an ad.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIGritDJQI/AAAAAAAAA3g/JJw15WHZ1Qg/s640/derringer-scruffsad_1.jpg

Also Nyro ad is very Marissa Marchant

http://shadwell.tripod.com/dreamnow.jpg

This is most certainly not vintage, but I stumbled across this looking for such, and went o_0

http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/c/corgan_billy/billy_corgan_pumpkins_reunite/corgan_chi_times_ad.jpg

http://www.beatlebay.com/images/DDD/DisplayAD%20HelpLP%20Color1.jpg

http://www.beatlebay.com/images/AD%20-%20WeddingAlbum%20-%20John%20and%20Yoko.jpg

http://www.beatlebay.com/images/DDD/DisplayAD%20HELP%20LP1.jpg

http://treebeard31.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/lp4.jpg

I love 70s ads with that "Intelligent people are discussing this highbrow topic at controversial parties" style

http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/image/1982-03_hex-advert.jpg

thank you so much for posting/finding that!

That little girl in the mighty tiny ad looks like she's about to go I WANNNTT YOOUUURR SOOULLLL and devour everyone in the room.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1425/1503708143_56a6a87baf.jpg?v=0

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmHA-eM4uckvDEi7lAOvq72pp1HMp67eJ-P-IvmT8zRnRpNrs&t=1&usg=__8SNRI8DvasQmYHQ0TMMWPD99aHs=

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91PX6OdmZ3L.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BNP90JOg4yU/Sn72eecy1CI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/9QoT8oFgvic/s1600/Magma+Kohntarkosz+Ad.jpg

http://41.media.tumblr.com/709c33f57925bca8bba3feec95d747f0/tumblr_nyut3xbI9p1st208eo1_1280.png

Sadistic Mika Band

Love this thread so much.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/22/fc/ea/22fceab3b8e6cf02798e18cac97740ab.jpg

Deaf School

http://i.imgur.com/y02oTFB.jpg

not and advert for an album, but this feels like it belongs here

http://deafschoolmusic.com/communities/6/004/006/950/146/images/4614357589.swf

http://i.imgur.com/8AFsOtj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nur9bw3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/JmpjqNO.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PrXcB-fKmJ8/T4ieocynAoI/AAAAAAAABco/RXTvlQ-M5VY/s1600/fugs3+-+Copy.jpg

https://sonicmoremusic.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/queen-is-dead-ad.jpg

omg wow

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlt1/v/t1.0-9/12814030_10207389959846134_7926838602669524930_n.jpg?oh=5b4c57a99d7416323640c0716155efef&oe=575E7D2A

It Isn't Punk. It's Punxy.
It Isn't Folk. It's Folxy.
It Isn't Funk. It's Funxy.
It Isn't Baroque. It's Baroxy.
It Isn't Goth. It's Gotshy.
It Isn't Avant-Garde. It's Avantsy-Gardsy.

Also, didn't know Roxymusic had four guitarists (or five, depending what instrument the guy in the lower right corner has) but no drummer?

You were doing so well too, Tuomas.

Not an ad for an album but

http://i.imgur.com/vs6N87E.jpg

Awesome!

yes that is too cool

love that wood panneling

omg, that looks like heaven.

And when they're not recording albums, the light would have been just right to stage some photos for a fondue cookbook or something.

I browsed through a few of those old photos and kept seeing rock walls in the studios. Wouldn't rock be the most bouncy surface for echoes?

http://i.imgur.com/AlTdmV7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PaVtlDv.jpg

Hmmm, I'm not an acoustics person but I guess I'd depend on how porous a stone you specify...

Hell, I've known studio guys who'd freak out over that pane of glass (called a mirror) suspended over the board like that.

man that's just how they get the rock on record

See? Even this studio had one.

http://i.imgur.com/1gCv9sG.jpg

that CAN ad!

http://i.imgur.com/yhKzDSx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UlPp2SH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3UCkNYC.jpg

Motown??

1974 was a strange year!

but also this:

Gull was a British record label founded in 1974. Owned by Gull Entertainments Ltd., it was associated with Morgan Sound Studio, and was distributed by both Pye Records and Decca Records.[1] It was also distributed by Motown in the USA. Major bands on its books included Judas Priest, IF, Steve Ashley, Seventh Wave and Isotope

woah!

https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26814480_10155921900083614_1522997336551181662_n.jpg?oh=aaeab9178a6b6490ad1b8bc688832a00&oe=5AFC720F