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― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 January 2024 04:28 (two years ago)
Ray Davies is here to sing you New Wave songs, you betcha.
https://i.discogs.com/ucSNzWOoUVX0qZp7u-7rUISE7a7zKzWeOk03iE5JDrc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ1Njg4/NDItMTM2ODY2MTU5/NC0xMjM5LmpwZWc.jpeg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 29 January 2024 04:30 (two years ago)
https://themusicshopandmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Book-J.-Geils-Band-Youre-Gettin-Even-While-Im-Gettin-Odd-1984-CD.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 05:06 (two years ago)
The JA s/t is more, like, coming out the other side of the ‘80s… catching that stripped-down, “back to basics” early-‘90s vibe.
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Monday, 29 January 2024 05:59 (two years ago)
(it’s also just a great band photo)
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Monday, 29 January 2024 06:02 (two years ago)
Ray Davies is here to sing you New Wave songs, you betcha.🖼
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 06:12 (two years ago)
That Kinks cover looks like it's taken from the intro of a Saved By The Bell-style TV series.
― Valentijn, Monday, 29 January 2024 09:50 (two years ago)
Ray was so short of ideas in the 80s that it's basically a copy of the cover of the album that came before - except with the whole band and not just Ray himself.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 10:07 (two years ago)
Like the Ferry records this anticipated the Eighties, it's from 1978
https://i.discogs.com/vPmy-e-YWl7h6QFjX6ykMY-F8fsHeQi82CroFzhxrk8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY0MjY4/OS0xNTIwNzc3NzE4/LTE1ODcuanBlZw.jpeg
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 29 January 2024 11:16 (two years ago)
Boz Scaggs:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Boz_Scaggs_Hits.jpg
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Monday, 29 January 2024 11:18 (two years ago)
And that's new sleeve.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 January 2024 11:21 (two years ago)
that's the
https://i.discogs.com/syCNBpy4otpZVfJd1FjLOB5tv1I7n0jUbtM2CkEEPjM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcxMjc0/MjMtMTQ1Nzg1MjQy/MS03NDU3LmpwZWc.jpeg
1986, but it's more of 1990s screensaver look
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 January 2024 11:47 (two years ago)
The last two have actually been posted upthread, but it's hard to keep track.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 12:23 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/eF42S4_1L52kBM1rOfyH8bNu0e986Mm-g2OKqPNFKTY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkzNTM5/MS0xMTc0NjY1OTUz/LmpwZWc.jpeg
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 12:56 (two years ago)
Scrolling this thread really feels like flipping through a record store bargain bin.
― jaymc, Monday, 29 January 2024 13:50 (two years ago)
Art-rock bands are tricky, because their '70s album covers, Hipgnosis or otherwise, are weird to begin with. But this one feels very new-wavey.
https://i.postimg.cc/8kfVfbvx/giant.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 14:04 (two years ago)
The gatefold of Flag by James Taylor (1979):
https://fsgprints.com/cdn/shop/products/18185326-2118165561941ea77604d61941ea77604e163709712761941ea776051.jpg?v=1637097375
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 January 2024 14:33 (two years ago)
James Taylor getting ready to design a personal computer
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 29 January 2024 14:37 (two years ago)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GTIqG74sL._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 14:45 (two years ago)
... what an abomination!
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 14:46 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Ricochet_%28Bay_City_Rollers_album%29.jpg
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 29 January 2024 14:58 (two years ago)
Hope Jeff Lynne produced that Dave Edmunds record.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 15:09 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/fNJe_EAt12F6QTxoxo29zuubCEGdJJsARF8Y5UFuYJ8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYxODM0/MS0xMTU5Mjc4MTIy/LmpwZWc.jpeg
― Siegbran, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:36 (two years ago)
― Siegbran, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:37 (two years ago)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OxrzTIS+L._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg
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― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Monday, 29 January 2024 15:45 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/C0NiWHfBGjr5-sk7SEiMjFBQuteNl9tDVUpyhL10o7A/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NTc0/MjctMTI5MDM2NDA5/MC5qcGVn.jpeg
― llurk, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:00 (two years ago)
I think this move was absolutely necessary in that era. As a kid in the 80s every now and then I would check out the bargain albums at K-Mart and find 70s albums by acts like Hall & Oates or Rod Stewart etc. and the covers seemed grotesquely dated.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:03 (two years ago)
And when it comes to pop music, the tastes and opinions of children are paramount.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:07 (two years ago)
Of course he did.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:41 (two years ago)
i bought Information when it came out. i kinda liked it. it was very 80s. the cover i used to stare at - speaking of the kinks - was that dave davies common people one. i don't know how 80s it was but it was weird. should have been an 80s donovan album cover.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:52 (two years ago)
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:55 (two years ago)
i was just listening to bob welch's 1980 album which also has a pretty 80s cover as does his album from 1981 but this is probably his best 80s record cover.
for the record, i like pretty much everything bob welch ever did. i like his fleetwood mac stuff, the paris albums, and all his solo albums. he was in soul bands before all that and i would probably like them too. i've never had a copy of the Head West album he did in 1970. i have to go to canada and see if i can find one. it never came out here.
https://i.discogs.com/Pw9O-ESLA3IASCwG7z5xsRoAAZyWuoMz4cZh22iZnII/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:558/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMzk3/ODAtMTI3MTg3ODk2/NS5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 17:59 (two years ago)
at this point I'm kind of wondering what 60s/70s bands *didn't* do this - XTC comes to mind as a band that never actually embraced 80's aesthetics (though their debut was 1978 so not really a "70s band"). Popol Vuh also seemed to stick to their style outside of City Raga.
― frogbs, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:04 (two years ago)
metal bands? Priest, Maiden, Sabbath, etc seem to have stuck to their original aesthetics mostly
― dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:07 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/1NTBABNMPgmTRUapQG-BrXPHg8rjWOhkwXOXJt6pmX8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNjcy/MjUtMTM3MzEzNTc5/MC00MjkwLmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:10 (two years ago)
yea true and I'd imagine a lot of country artists as well, I guess I'm thinking more of those who tried to keep with the times musically but visually stayed on their own track
― frogbs, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:11 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/uhP_vfRxlnbOsR8-2PdDKCTs4JXrrr3c5giAYlyKKzI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:587/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzMzM5/MjEtMTM2MjA0MzI2/NC02MTA4LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:11 (two years ago)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_Up_Your_Video#/media/File%3ABlowupyourvideo.jpg
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:13 (two years ago)
ok Turbo is pretty 80s
― dead precedents (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:20 (two years ago)
> Bryan Ferry inventing the Eighties
one of my kids thought Ferry's In Your Mind was from the IndieSleeze era! He invented the mid 2000s too!
― bendy, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:20 (two years ago)
Yeah it looks like it could have been a DFA release or something
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:22 (two years ago)
Judas Priest definitely embraced the late 80s. Iron Maiden stuck to their path, though.
https://mikeladano.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/scan_20170326-5.jpg
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:23 (two years ago)
with hair like that you don't need to 'go 80s'
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:27 (two years ago)
rob halford's grunge years were not as pretty...
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:27 (two years ago)
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Foghat - Tight Shoes
― peace, man, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:28 (two years ago)
just in case you missed the 90s...
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/34wAAOSwto5cxOSn/s-l1200.webp
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:28 (two years ago)
but that's for a different thread...
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:29 (two years ago)
UFO put out a 1990s cover in the 1980s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Misdemeanor_albumcover.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:30 (two years ago)
they're about to kick off a mean hacky sack sesh
xxp
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:31 (two years ago)