Imagine the 80s Elvis album covers that never were
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:30 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/HaruomiHosonoSFX.jpg
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:31 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/ETZ-Z-xo_NPD_-rc7fYFU8W8-k9GNlTHsiHREt195sg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3NjM5/NzEtMTI5OTk2Njk3/NC5qcGVn.jpeg
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:35 (two years ago)
... Schmitt, that is (though even his mother wouldn't recognize him)
https://www.classicpopmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ksh8pfwyxav0kfowy1un.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:36 (two years ago)
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2735753a5a5feb434432ad55265
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:38 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/1_0Ik37Mcj9A7FrekuG1jauRI6AXvsQZhzbXGOmnO0g/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:404/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUxNTMz/NzItMTM4NTkzNDQx/Ni03NTA5LmpwZWc.jpeg
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:41 (two years ago)
I've seen some outtakes from a rejected Born In The USA cover photo shoot featuring the whole band. They're...bad.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:42 (two years ago)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ALadZaKZL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:44 (two years ago)
LOL
So many of these make the artists look like kids who raided the back of their mothers' closets and just pulled stuff out at random.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:45 (two years ago)
wonder what Roy Wood's mother thought of that sleeve
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:45 (two years ago)
https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/443/cover_634102272009.jpg
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:45 (two years ago)
I KNEW there was a CSN cover like this, tyvm
― dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:49 (two years ago)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7125fAMngFL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:49 (two years ago)
XP Covers
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273baaf9ca39a546781597b0d03
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:51 (two years ago)
^^Went Platinum in '88!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:52 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/qz7VPzCo_RWmWDPQFXmbuZTe6guePYqsJpWZdhIpHFk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NjY5/OTMtMTY0OTc5OTM3/OC00MTE3LmpwZWc.jpeg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:56 (two years ago)
This is fun, but surely the greater challenge would be to find artists who didn't adapt their personal style or packaging at all in the 80s? Only one who leaps to mind is the fiddler from Kansas.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:58 (two years ago)
Roy Wood looks like he's auditioning for Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:59 (two years ago)
Eric Clapton, 'August'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71f4qyIYBvL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:01 (two years ago)
I think these photos from Santana's 1980 album The Swing of Delight are worse:
https://i.discogs.com/m5FmoVe6kRhDYL22iudGnV6UDoI4xGbt8AIOAn6TIX8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MzE0/NzItMTU3Njk1NDAz/MC0yMTQyLmpwZWc.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/qu-Bo8NU2frWCvJKof6l_-UFIqEQHnTZsduPvoaADuM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MzE0/NzItMTU3Njk1NDAz/MC04NDY4LmpwZWc.jpeg
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:03 (two years ago)
lol excellent
― dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:03 (two years ago)
I love the economy with which 'New Sensations' screams 80s - Lou Reed is wearing the same clothes he wore throughout the 70s and the only thing that says it's not a 70s album is that he's holding a joystick and maybe the TV also.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:08 (two years ago)
Halfway OTM… not to be wet blanket, but dome of these are just, y’know, standard ‘80s album covers, featuring artists who changed their hair a bit since the ‘60s.
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:27 (two years ago)
not to be wet blanket, but some of these are just, y’know, standard ‘80s album covers, featuring artists who changed their hair a bit since the ‘60s
With the best (worst) of them, though, there's something in the eyes (Dan Fogelberg, Robin Gibb, the Who) that makes them look like job applicants who really, really need the job and can tell the hiring manager isn't convinced.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:50 (two years ago)
Yeah there’s a certain je ne sais quoi in the best, for sure
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:56 (two years ago)
Of all the people who jumped on the '80s bandwagon, I'm surprised and disappointed to find out that Cher was one of them.
https://i.postimg.cc/tgFr2nz2/cher.jpg
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:04 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Starship-No-Protection.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:16 (two years ago)
it's the typefaces and design choices as well xps
― dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:18 (two years ago)
https://de.rarevinyl.com/cdn/shop/products/the-manhattan-transfer-extensions-uk-vinyl-lp-album-record-k50674-290203_1280x1353.jpg
― MaresNest, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:20 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/jQgU3Cl4wEJLcmYWOC4VexdCp9OKYMmOM-XVZQQxbS8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxNDc3/MDUtMTUxOTcyNzEx/OS01ODE2LmpwZWc.jpeg
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:21 (two years ago)
there's something in the eyes
speaking of which, what is going on with diana ross's eyes up above
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:24 (two years ago)
xpost Wow.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:24 (two years ago)
wow I didn't even know that album existed (the byrds one)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:25 (two years ago)
what is going on with diana ross's eyes up above
The photographer dared to address her directly.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:25 (two years ago)
the portable phone (xpost)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:26 (two years ago)
I want to talk to the person who invented the "put the band photos as individual photos within the collage" approach, like on these Byrds and Moody Blues ones
― dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:28 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/lUkQJEXBbj1wRNEdSJNc0p_t08dPMLAgujImLViSkK8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0ODE5/NzQtMTQ5NDU4MzMx/OC0yODYwLmpwZWc.jpeg
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:42 (two years ago)
I adore every one of these images
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:58 (two years ago)
There's an uncanny disjunct between the slapdash party-in-1984 design and the Mansonesque photo on the Fahey cover.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:06 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/fJVafIhjDzNTozBI7lD0ZkFsXwq0-vsH2DWZ0DXX6ek/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMTYw/NTAtMTQ4MDk4NTkx/OS04MjA5LmpwZWc.jpeg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:13 (two years ago)
If Ian Anderson walked any further into the light you'd be able to see he's still wearing his codpiece.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:27 (two years ago)
jethro tull started the decade with style.
https://i.discogs.com/SQ-EcLXPQau8vqu2UtD-cpM3AiXbk15EuWsns_u18Lw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2NjIz/OTItMTUwNzk3OTU0/OC05MzE5LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 January 2024 02:46 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/JVA8tfx9slzYpmAkjRZ65-UBhTs3fyrZunzEstIl3wM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0MDkw/MzQtMTQ4MDg3OTAw/Ny0yNDEwLmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 January 2024 02:47 (two years ago)
the touring folk group dad look
https://www.rirocks.net/images/1987%20Jethro%20Tull%20pic%202.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:02 (two years ago)
awesome thread idea!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:13 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/4uk8VX8zl3KnhYy3PKCavBu1Gt0wbXe_sgYB5b8N5AM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMzk1/MDctMTQwNDUwMjk4/NS01NTE2LmpwZWc.jpeg
and here's one from a decade prior:
https://i.discogs.com/8EXfaHHr-HTkxBRUS799n-J0Nky2szHh293VBxlQ29E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMzU1/MTM3LTE1MzM1NzEx/NzItMzMxMy5qcGVn.jpeg
― frogbs, Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:45 (two years ago)
Genesis had 4 different (very 1981) color schemes for Abacab. Don't worry kids, they ALL include "No Reply at All."
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/10/f8/0e/10f80ef41141ef2604effd522d87662f.jpg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:54 (two years ago)
Bruce has nothing on his sideman when it comes to '80s chic.
https://i.discogs.com/T3E4NiQdUkhZRbqIjJq6pXIeatGJLUERQDgaSNUrWOM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NjIw/NjYtMTY1MDY1NTgz/My02NDYzLmpwZWc.jpeg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:58 (two years ago)
Skinny tie alert.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Hearts_and_Bones.jpg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:03 (two years ago)