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

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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)

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)

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)

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

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)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs425.snc3/24550_379007354315_841199315_3477759_3250445_n.jpg

Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)

The man can't switch off our Bach.

Katy Lied, Lady Died (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:46 (fifteen years ago)

i've always heard that slogan, but lolz at 'our Music' being Varese and Stockhausen instead of Jimi and Janis. prob the only cultural moment that avant-garde (even classical) composers could be pitched at the Youth market. Grab Hold!

very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Monday, 18 October 2010 14:14 (fifteen years ago)

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

After having "read" about it in Playboy.

http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 October 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

jesus christ that corgan ad is the worst

guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:06 (fifteen years ago)

bilboardingparty.tumblr.com is a goldmine for this kinda thing.

tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)

oops that should be billboardingparty.tumblr.com

tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

i've always heard that slogan, but lolz at 'our Music' being Varese and Stockhausen instead of Jimi and Janis. prob the only cultural moment that avant-garde (even classical) composers could be pitched at the Youth market. Grab Hold!

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Monday, October 18, 2010 10:14 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

After years of only reading about this ad campaign, my mind was blown when I finally saw this ad (Rolling Stone, November 1968).

Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

man tyler GOOD spot there.

reading ads like the one for Stage Fright makes me wish, as I sometimes do, for a more ambitious mood in rock -- it's like, mainstream rock, its main ambition is & generally has been to reach a lot of people & sell a lot of records, which is fine, but the rhetoric of that Stage Fright ad - "This album is another further step* in The Band's development." (paragraph break) "In the development of our music." (paragraph break) "The music of our age." -- I mean, if that were the norm, the need to deflate it would be & was great, but I feel like there's also value of some kind in Taking It Too Seriously. That framing the presentation in those sorts of terms affects the actual text (i.e. the album)/experience in some way, and maybe also does so before it even gets made - there's this sense that whether the guys making the record are in fact too high to even think right, they're surrounded by this idea that what they're doing is somehow important, which, whether it's true or not (it's not), maybe compels them to aim high.

*lol editor plz

guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

From that great Billboarding Tumblr

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8q5hwlbgt1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287502065&Signature=jC62PGQUL%2B%2FrmcTun6pkXCw0sy8%3D

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8is7lSfeL1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287502151&Signature=1qgRYdPFEoa5VmSXBRGZS69jQhI%3D

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

Not sure what's going on here:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8gystQfcQ1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287502221&Signature=e%2BC1cSJVFrV5ed7Fed2uZzll0qM%3D

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:30 (fifteen years ago)

haha amazing.

there are a few quite well known ones that i've never seen like the Randy Newman 'his voice is really something once you get used to it' one and the blondie 'wouldn't you like to Rip Her To Shreds?' one. also unconfirmed but apparantly exist; eccho and the bunnymen's one for Ocean Rain with their own(?) quote on it saying 'the best album of all time'.

piscesx, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.thewho.info/images/67SOad-Who.jpg

Not American, nor were they teenagers.

Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:34 (fifteen years ago)

wow, weird.

tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:36 (fifteen years ago)

Still, a new idea though. Give them points for that one.

Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:37 (fifteen years ago)

Who could forget 1975, the year of Fogelberg?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7gqlm8xhK1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287502688&Signature=Ay%2BswElGCeHUNmnT3Rc3HDK0q0k%3D

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:38 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.thewho.info/images/71WNad-Who.jpg

Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

http://zttaat.s3.amazonaws.com/images_gallery/large_22pc/300_fgth_relax4.jpg

Stevie T, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

I love that America look like The Wurzels in this, terrible ad though it is.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l936hdjnQp1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287503220&Signature=k1z0iwnFop%2BKQSSYV8lTyN6glHU%3D

ithappens, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)

Going for a select audience there: People with the same name as the artist...

Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:50 (fifteen years 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)

... meaning it smoked both Abbey Road and Tommy (Let It Bleed not yet released--dropped in December).


Kind of agree tbh (Let It Bleed might’ve been better tho)

Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Saturday, 12 October 2024 08:09 (one year ago)


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