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."
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/overad.jpg
― margana (anagram), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
love just how much that is basically a vw ad refashioned for van dyke parks.
― balls, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/ekkostar/R063r7%20P41m3r/everykinda-ad.jpg
Shouldn't "Vinyl Erotica" apply to the whole Double Fun album, though?
― I've played polar pool for far too long (MintIce), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)
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
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 17 October 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
Van Dyke Parks ad is total classic. There's something about the tone that's so of its time.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-OStDJKI/AAAAAAAAA2w/Xw-OPFDTtf4/s800/nicklowead.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-NStDJII/AAAAAAAAA2g/cDU-CdLU_Bo/s800/devoad.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIKLStDJVI/AAAAAAAAA4I/z6t2ZO5tUts/s800/costellomodelad.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)
http://bp2.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIIfytDJRI/AAAAAAAAA3o/dLrkV7hGX6s/s400/cheaptrickad_1.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIGrStDJPI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/ZXquYHSLd2o/s640/johansenad_1.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)
all that text gets me all swoony tbh
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:22 (fifteen years ago)
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!
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)
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?"
― clemenza, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:28 (fifteen years ago)
we've come a long way. the xx album simply had one letter (X) on it's adverts. no text, no WORDS at all!
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)
That comes from the VW Beetle ads; a picture of the item and loads of text about the technical merits of said item.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:32 (fifteen years ago)
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
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Sunday, 17 October 2010 23:05 (fifteen years ago)
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...
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)
also love the description of the ramones as occupying space, "in the dark netherworld between Herman's Hermits and ZZ Top..."
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)
Yes that made me lol as well.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)
Almost as funny if you're the Ramones' accountant: "Punk with commercial potential."
― clemenza, Monday, 18 October 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://images.jambase.com/merch/Doors%20-%20DVD.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://thimk.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pete-rock-and-cl-ad.jpg?w=500&h=646
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)
x-post
didn't look closely at that one - solly
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:59 (fifteen years ago)
I started smoking at 23, and am glad Columbia's "Masterpiece?" ad for Imperial Bedroom was no influence.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:03 (fifteen years ago)
not an LP ad but in the "ballpark"
http://buzzardbook.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wmms-archives-print-ads-articles-1975-125.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)
I like the parallel between the Lee Hazelwood and Nick Lowe copy.
Both have a weirdly butthurt quality for an ad.
― Katy Lied, Lady Died (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://bp1.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIGritDJQI/AAAAAAAAA3g/JJw15WHZ1Qg/s640/derringer-scruffsad_1.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)
Also Nyro ad is very Marissa Marchant
― Katy Lied, Lady Died (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://shadwell.tripod.com/dreamnow.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:10 (fifteen years ago)
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
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.beatlebay.com/images/DDD/DisplayAD%20HelpLP%20Color1.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.beatlebay.com/images/AD%20-%20WeddingAlbum%20-%20John%20and%20Yoko.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:20 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.beatlebay.com/images/DDD/DisplayAD%20HELP%20LP1.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)
http://treebeard31.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/lp4.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:23 (fifteen years ago)
I love 70s ads with that "Intelligent people are discussing this highbrow topic at controversial parties" style
― Katy Lied, Lady Died (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:32 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/image/1982-03_hex-advert.jpg
― city worker, Monday, 18 October 2010 02:16 (fifteen years ago)
thank you so much for posting/finding that!
― sleeve, Monday, 18 October 2010 02:30 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)
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=
― dude (del), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)
Poor old Zager & Evans.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:38 (fifteen years ago)
wow these are all amazing. some of these fonts, man
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 18 October 2010 02:45 (fifteen years ago)
lol at that 2nd zager & evans
― balls, Monday, 18 October 2010 02:49 (fifteen years ago)
My connection has come through:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SdLYMzjMBfI/AAAAAAAAAXU/UKCJlebtShc/s1600-h/cohen.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUA2Zf_KRpI/AAAAAAAAAOg/9t0x-1TpICc/s1600-h/uriahAD.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUAzhVaczNI/AAAAAAAAANw/m6UugXPvouQ/s1600-h/meatloafad.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUAzYabZXeI/AAAAAAAAANA/xuqdaUlLAs8/s1600-h/b-o-c.jpg
And here's the Ramones ad in two parts--it was for [i]Leave Home[i], not the first one:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUA9m0JwXsI/AAAAAAAAAQI/qTStlOXRwJo/s1600-h/ramones-leave-home4.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUA9mZkqDdI/AAAAAAAAAQA/LORVyHlCKIg/s1600-h/ramones-leave-home3.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 18 October 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)
Or maybe not.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 October 2010 03:21 (fifteen years ago)
mentalingus
― hot chip emergency (electricsound), Monday, 18 October 2010 03:26 (fifteen years ago)
Not sure why, but the images don't take. If you go here, there are ads for Leonard Cohen, Meatloaf, Uriah Heep, and a great Nixon ad for Moby Grape.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 October 2010 03:46 (fifteen years ago)
Yes!
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 10:30 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.southendpunk.com/images/miscella/miscadde/damadv1l.jpg
Can't find the "Come and see Lee Brilleaux's jacket" ad
― ithappens, Monday, 18 October 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:25 (ten years ago)
Also, didn't know Roxymusic had four guitarists (or five, depending what instrument the guy in the lower right corner has) but no drummer?
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 March 2016 11:33 (ten years ago)
You were doing so well too, Tuomas.
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:57 (ten years ago)
Not an ad for an album but
http://i.imgur.com/vs6N87E.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 03:03 (nine years ago)
Awesome!
― Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 05:18 (nine years ago)
yes that is too cool
― niels, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 07:20 (nine years ago)
love that wood panneling
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 12:18 (nine years ago)
omg, that looks like heaven.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:49 (nine years ago)
And when they're not recording albums, the light would have been just right to stage some photos for a fondue cookbook or something.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:52 (nine years ago)
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
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:13 (nine years ago)
Hmmm, I'm not an acoustics person but I guess I'd depend on how porous a stone you specify...
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:16 (nine years ago)
Hell, I've known studio guys who'd freak out over that pane of glass (called a mirror) suspended over the board like that.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:17 (nine years ago)
man that's just how they get the rock on record
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:52 (nine years ago)
See? Even this studio had one.
http://i.imgur.com/1gCv9sG.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:05 (nine years ago)
that CAN ad!
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:11 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/yhKzDSx.jpg
― new noise, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:59 (nine years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/UlPp2SH.jpg
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:10 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/3UCkNYC.jpg
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:31 (eight years ago)
Motown??
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:55 (eight years ago)
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
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:06 (eight years ago)
woah!
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 23:15 (eight years ago)
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26814480_10155921900083614_1522997336551181662_n.jpg?oh=aaeab9178a6b6490ad1b8bc688832a00&oe=5AFC720F
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:46 (eight years ago)
On this day in 1969 10/10/69 pic.twitter.com/LhDcnDILgJ— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) October 11, 2024
― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Friday, 11 October 2024 23:13 (one year ago)
🤔
― Litso Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 October 2024 00:17 (one year ago)
... meaning it smoked both Abbey Road and Tommy (Let It Bleed not yet released--dropped in December).
― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 October 2024 01:00 (one year ago)
Think about the fact that Rolling Stone was right about something
― Josefa, Saturday, 12 October 2024 03:48 (one year ago)
― Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Saturday, 12 October 2024 08:09 (one year ago)