27 feels like it could be something Grateful Dead/Jefferson Airplane-related. I've looked through tons of Hot Tuna/New Riders/Relix records and nothing so far.
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
9 makes me think rockabilly
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Tempted to say 27 is "Ear" by Ng.― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:07 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:07 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
GOLDEN EARRING
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Grizzly Bear - Nnnnnnng
― nashwan, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Panda bearSongs about fucking
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
Do you have another angle for the image Maresnestt?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:56 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sorry Moka no, there was only one image.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
#27 drives me crazy. skipped through multiple pages of sky/cloud themed covers yesterday but no :/
Ha yeah I did this too, no luck.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
i don't know if those two comments up a bit are sarcastic, but i for one am enjoying this thread and rooting for you all.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm starting to think EAR NG could be EAH NG?
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
I made this atrocity with Gimp and submitted it to Google Image Search with relevant keywords (like record, album, jazz etc.) and I got nothing. I did find some great-looking jazz posters doing that though.
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link
i hope its just the room owners shitty self titled own album that they and their four mates party too and us guys are spending time trying to find
― nxd, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Are they 8 cyclists with big Chinese hats viewed from above, or balloons?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
Here was my unsuccessful rabbit hole for #9.
I decided that the white blobs in the upper left said Al Hirt, and that the main graphic was 45 labels made to look like hot air balloons. Then I found that Al Hirt had released a medley of "We Can Fly" and "Up Up and Away" as a single, so I went through every Al Hirt album compilation and then album cover on Discogs. No such luck.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
My friends ...http://imgur.com/a/DewZI
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
DAMMIThttps://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2769/32530004530_e1c50536c6_b.jpg
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:32 (seven years ago) link
How did you find it?
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:41 (seven years ago) link
I am embarrassed to say that I used Photoshop to cut it out, undistort it to square, then darkened the upper section to look black. That was enough for Google Image Search to get a fingernail hold and find some matches.What else could I have used those 20 minutes for, though?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
Fantastic. Kind of like that sleeve too.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:55 (seven years ago) link
knew it had to be 45 labels but I thought they were lollypops
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 06:02 (seven years ago) link
Well done. I don't feel s bad now about recognizing it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 07:45 (seven years ago) link
Kudos, Matthew!
― willem, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 08:49 (seven years ago) link
Erica Jong's FearOf Flying
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 10:24 (seven years ago) link
Damnnnn
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 10:52 (seven years ago) link
We need to find the person who's bedroom this is and interrogate interview them.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:07 (seven years ago) link
Well done. I don't feel so bad now about not recognizing it.
fixed.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:10 (seven years ago) link
I can find no evidence to support my hope that EAR / NG was a weird alternate cover for "Social Living" by Burning Spear. Shame
― Tim, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
It's the seven we can't see at all that I'm really interested in.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
AYO
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/796371310641348608/Bh9vTB_6.jpg
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
omg
― a Radiohead album stamping on a human face, forever (sleeve), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
well worth the wait
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
that's a great find. respect! :)
― willem, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
metal sharks, not clouds!
― willem, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
well found! impressed that it looks absolutely nothing like what my eyes resolved the small version to
(blue sky, clouds, thought the tentacle tips might be something like a top-down view of a soaring eagle wing-tip, folksy faux-retro poster-style font something like Desdemona, twee as hell... guess I have an overactive imagination)
another one that seems not to fit at all with the others, too. pop-punk from 2007?
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
maybe it's not taste-performative decoration at all, maybe it's a message telling us where treasure is hidden IF ONLY WE CRACK THE CODE
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Dayummm! Crystal Ball indeed! I figured it had to be a comp of some kind, but where to even start!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Wow, kudos! I really thought it was going to be another 50s/60s cover a la the doo wop one; the font looks completely different in miniature.
"Metal Sharks, Not Clouds" is gonna be the name of my new pop punk emo band.
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Wow!
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
awesome. how'd you find it, nashawn?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
nashwan, next-level!
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
it's his room
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
I didn't think a reverse img search would work but inspired by MatthewK I did an incredibly crude mock-up of the cover in Photoshop - literally splodges of dark blue with some yellow loosely resembling the visible letters. GIS interpreted it as a poster but once I changed the term to album I spotted the Four Year Strong record and immediately thought 'wow so close, it actually has the right colours letters at the end of the words but too different a font - maybe they have an alternative similar cover for it' - after a few more minutes realised the roboshark in the top right was a perfect shape match.
Then I got cocky and tried to do the same for the one under Badly Drawn Boy but the only thing coming up anywhere close is this Pentangle record.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
this thread is heartwarming
― alpine static, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
Excellent work nashwan!
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
imagine if we used our powers for good
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Wow! We live in exciting times.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 21:14 (seven years ago) link
This is such a weird collection. And if they picked the albums based on how the covers looked you can do much better (yet not as good as metal sharks)
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
CODE! TREASURE!
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
The completely hidden records are all ILX comps.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
So that's not the White Album, it's Comp Together!
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 16 February 2017 03:42 (seven years ago) link
ILX has a bucket on the floor
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 February 2017 08:01 (seven years ago) link