https://i.imgur.com/V8kHoEW.pngDr. John City Lights
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 8 April 2022 16:02 (four years ago)
lol, that rules
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 8 April 2022 16:11 (four years ago)
hey, it's a howlin wolf moaning in the moonlight
https://i.imgur.com/2XJ9QIX.jpg
― bendy, Friday, 8 April 2022 16:35 (four years ago)
are these all the versions of you, Anitta, or do you have more?https://www.frontview-magazine.be/sites/default/files/news/174007-anitta-brengt-nieuw-album-versions-of-me-uit-1355737.jpg
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 15 April 2022 21:18 (four years ago)
I realize this one is a mock up, but I LOLed
https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2012/10/AlbumKateBush011012-2.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 15 April 2022 21:42 (four years ago)
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/754/MI0001754911.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
Jonah Jones: I Dig Chicks!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 April 2022 20:57 (four years ago)
Wow.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 April 2022 03:07 (four years ago)
Haha! Everyone’s having fun with that one, it looks like.
― Josefa, Sunday, 17 April 2022 03:30 (four years ago)
Anitta cover is a bit creepy
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 17 April 2022 03:32 (four years ago)
https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/e15e472e0f4f187ea10db82f00d531f6/1759628
Ambrosia: Road Island
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 23:04 (four years ago)
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273c548d3b2a5ba7d24d3ae3d82Bisa Kdei • Break Through
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 25 June 2022 17:28 (three years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/rJB-CoUkQ06R8jVbYrqEI4wzVwFoxHcytdNIhRcKhSY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwOTQw/OTQtMTI2MzY1NTE5/NC5qcGVn.jpeg
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 12:19 (three years ago)
https://img.discogs.com/6IUjRtIJd6AxeWJaWSP9YYwK2UA=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1672902-1235988304.jpeg.jpg
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:12 (three years ago)
ha, thought it said “The Book” at first. could have ..almost.. worked
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:17 (three years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/h0YSS0Y1q96HH8SSCqAGe44uSEjbSYDP8DmoqYIb5-0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0Nzk5/OTY5LTE1ODE4NDM0/NDktNDY1OS5qcGVn.jpeg
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:19 (three years ago)
One of the other threads prompted me to look through Hipgnosis' portfolio, which was about 1% greatness and 99% terrible puns. I was slightly surprised that Herman Rarebell's Nip in the Bud wasn't a cutting-edge 1970s photo collage of e.g. a Japanese woman curled up inside a flower. Or a cartoon of a Japanese man emerging from the mouth of Bud Flanagan. I don't know.
But for every record that subverted my expectations there were e.g.:https://i.discogs.com/jmwFe8CMWGMTebwwg6Zyl025k8_rmMQcSs1TMUzDgnk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4MTk4/ODMtMTM1MzcwMjU0/Ni01ODI4LmpwZWc.jpeghttps://i.discogs.com/HYyu7Aq6s54H_wEbN0HIO0C0kHZztznhl10nYBba12M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:484/w:493/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NzMz/NTYtMTI5MTEzNjI3/OC5qcGVn.jpeghttps://i.discogs.com/TA1FtI02uBHilzt6hJyWtMGtzyiNbLu9VFKR1WR9iQw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2Mjc3/MDktMTQxODMxNTQ3/Ni0zNTk2LmpwZWc.jpeg
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 20:57 (three years ago)
And also Big Jim's Back by Big Jim Sullivan - it's a photo of his back. But that seemed too obvious. It must have been posted already.
Scrolling through all those records I am again struck by how utterly, totally, inconceivably alien the likes of Third World War, Toe Fat, Ancient Grease, the Edgar Broughton Band etc are to my Depeche Mode-trained ears. It's as if the British music industry decided in 1970 that Humble Pie and Spooky Tooth were the future, so they signed up loads of scuzzy British blues-rock bands that sounded like Slade - but slower and without the catchy melodies - and then realised a year later that it was a bad idea and dropped them all.
Meanwhile the public rejected them, they were erased from the collective public memory by pub rock, and they never ever had a revival anywhere on Earth ever.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:05 (three years ago)
would that Winkies album possibly be a Christopherson photo
also moving in between my laptop camera and my Third World War, Toe Fat, and Edgar Broughton albums just in case
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:25 (three years ago)
not sure if “yawnsomely” is the most appropriate adjective here:
https://queermusicheritage.com/OCT2012/mckuenLP1.jpgRod McKuen - Slide… Easy In…
(his 1978 criscodisco album)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:26 (three years ago)
Well some guy slides easy in, lookin' a bit like Rod McKuenHe moves just like Crisco Disco, breath a hundred-percent listerine
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:39 (three years ago)
I've always felt the first two Wire albums had brazenly literal covers. The first is simply a flagpole with a Pink Flag, and the second a table with Chairs Missing.
I find both covers charmingly artful and humourous rather than yawnsome, however. I actually laughed out loud the last time I pulled out Chairs Missing.
― The Ghost Club, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:53 (three years ago)
https://images.roughtrade.com/product/images/files/000/247/141/hero/ValerieJune_UnderCover_FINAL-1656368048.jpg?1656486636
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 17 September 2022 16:52 (three years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Switch-album.jpg
INXS - Switch
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 19 September 2022 04:35 (three years ago)
I fell asleep just imagining what that cover would look like before I clicked to show image. When I woke up, yep.
― an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 19 September 2022 13:05 (three years ago)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81+HX3iHzjL.jpg
― giraffe, Monday, 19 September 2022 13:37 (three years ago)
(Forgive me if this^ one has already been done)
i'd argue this cover is AWESOMELY literal: https://i.imgur.com/OGDR6AR.jpg
the album name is "ただいま" (tadaima) which is what one might say when they've arrived home and walked in the door
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:00 (three years ago)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81B0jSP3pGL._SY355_.jpg
Jim Glaser: The Man In The Mirror
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 September 2022 19:06 (three years ago)
Pallas - The Wedge
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KqhFhLrzOCM/hqdefault.jpg
― I've seen things you people wouldn't belieeeeeeve!!! (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 September 2022 21:38 (three years ago)
Wesley Gonzalez, Wax Limousine
https://www.normanrecords.com/artwork/large/201/189201-wesley-gonzalez-wax-limousine.jpg
― ledge, Monday, 26 September 2022 14:40 (three years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/MH2KEWl-OWOpJjBHxw59EJ1OOPSGj9Yh1LDZMpFdVus/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0NTIw/OTQtMTI4NDgyOTMx/MS5qcGVn.jpeg
― henry s, Monday, 26 September 2022 15:57 (three years ago)
Davy Graham - Hat. Although it's a great hat so awesomely literal I guess.
https://www.folkradio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Davy-Graham-Hat.jpg
― pick the mouse that can reach all the cheese in the maze (Matt #2), Saturday, 8 October 2022 20:27 (three years ago)
Bobby Beausoleil – Running With The White Wolf
https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/48a767129d91bd460a0ca9ed14797197/5975586
― pick the mouse that can reach all the cheese in the maze (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 22:26 (three years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/-ACoUUpNl-hZbNmw66jlHMM9JCngwYBeMZ_fqROMSHY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:576/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMjA5/MzI0LTE1MTE5MDI4/NjItOTU2My5qcGVn.jpeg
― BrianB, Thursday, 13 October 2022 18:17 (three years ago)
that one’s fun
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:17 (three years ago)
Willis Jackson - Nothing Butt
Not exactly yawnsome, but(t)...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Nothing_Butt.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:07 (three years ago)
Mike Harding - The Red Specs Album
https://i.discogs.com/ipAnkejFRnXEPT1RZPB5AtJKbzOph02hcVplpHVQB74/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzMTE5/NDgtMTQwNjY2NTk5/Ny0xMzQxLmpwZWc.jpeg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 4 December 2022 07:47 (three years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Cedar%21_%28Cedar_Walton_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:39 (three years ago)
I don't know what this show is, but I saw this promo image and it made me think of this thread:
https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/fetch/w_2000,h_2000,c_fit/https%3A%2F%2Famazonadviser.com%2Ffiles%2Fimage-exchange%2F2017%2F07%2Fie_94698.jpeg
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:52 (three years ago)
A few nice additions from Exclaim!'s 25 Worst Album Covers of 2022:
Vettor - Obstaclehttps://exclaim.ca/images/vettor-obstacle.jpg
Jerry Paper - Free Timehttps://exclaim.ca/images/jerry-paper-free-time-art.jpg
― enochroot, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:19 (three years ago)
Those are both amazing
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:19 (three years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/EeRsGIbxhoQEMg1-r0eh6WJhH7YkAyk4qIWLR5pIsw4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExODcw/NTMwLTE1MjM4MjM2/OTMtNzAxNS5qcGVn.jpeg
― no lime tangier, Monday, 2 January 2023 11:56 (three years ago)
Paul Chambers - Go
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Go_%28Paul_Chambers_album%29.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:59 (three years ago)
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/63b8bf62198393ca23dbcca4/1:1/w_600/Belle-And-Sebastian-Late-Developers.jpg
Belle & Sebastian: Late Developers
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:44 (three years ago)
https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/aa837f88b264f07c335e9caad9283380/6565772/don-henley-the-boys-of-summer-Cover-Art.jpg
The Boys of Summer 1998 reissue
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 19 January 2023 04:00 (three years ago)
I can never quite get use to this embedding lark
Robert Fleischman, "World In Your Eyes"
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27305088ea6f587d62c54c940b2
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 21:41 (three years ago)
Yolk - Solar (Yolk is the band name not the album title, but I like the image)
https://metalrock.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Yolk-Solar-2017.jpg
― nickn, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:10 (three years ago)
https://shirleygnome.bandcamp.com/album/ho-down
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:06 (three years ago)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Over_The_Top.jpg
― ringworm, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 10:53 (three years ago)