every record cover where a 60s or 70s artist goes 80s in a big way.

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)

Hope Jeff Lynne produced that Dave Edmunds record.

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)

And when it comes to pop music, the tastes and opinions of children are paramount.

The Golden Age of Pop Music is Twelve.

― 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)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51LpNU5qAWL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

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)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/JohnnyCashRainbow.jpg

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:31 (two years ago)

xpost

FIGHT (like a brave)

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:33 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/kYngQpSJafppghbIN5GdkLKYot-sYd0nnkilC3YLIwQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5ODQ2/NjItMTM1Mzg1Nzgx/Mi03OTM3LmpwZWc.jpeg

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:33 (two years ago)

Popol Vuh also seemed to stick to their style outside of City Raga.

I dunno, this cover screams "80s New Age" at me quite loudly. I guess that's a different strand of 80s-ness though!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gKAvCZ0hL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:44 (two years ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_No_Angel_(album)#/media/File%3AGregg_Allman_Band_I_Am_No_Angel.jpg

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:03 (two years ago)

Peter Gabriel avoided this aesthetic imo

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:04 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/2HDJjt_60GmNuHszFL2M--J3Bk_ng3pyaVoHuoLQoqM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyOTUz/Ni0xNTQxODU5MzU1/LTM1MDAuanBlZw.jpeg

― llurk, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:08 (two years ago)

Roger Dean? Sorry, I don't know her.

https://merchbar.imgix.net/albums/releases/18554857.jpeg

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:22 (two years ago)

The cover for David Gilmour's About Face doesn't announce itself as "I'm in the 80s" but the video for "Blue Light" is pure uncut 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS61CyzFlxQ

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:25 (two years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/FqwFB9Q.jpeg

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 05:05 (two years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/3CcKzgd.jpeg

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 05:07 (two years ago)

at this point I'm kind of wondering what 60s/70s bands *didn't* do this

Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter & Leonard Cohen's Various Positions or I'm Your Man don't really scream "It's the '80s!" to me.

― Valentijn, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 09:42 (two years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/yLsizzVA9vtrps48Yc-91dVvmvOOk8mp-0g0sP1s-tM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcwMTA1/NS0xMjYwNjQ1Mzc0/LmpwZWc.jpeg

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:10 (two years ago)

also one for the yawnsomely literal cover art thread #onethread

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:33 (two years ago)

lol indeed

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:40 (two years ago)

Omg the jack bruce one is so good

― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:46 (two years ago)

The Byrds as Yuppie Stockbrokers is killing me

― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:14 (two years ago)

This whole thread is great but I think my favourite is the Barclay James Harvest one, I'd struggle to name a less futuristic band.

― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:18 (two years ago)

"Blue Light" is one of the worst things recorded by a boomer.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:21 (two years ago)

Tell you what, there weren't many soul and R&B acts/artists who didn't dive headfirst into the 80s.

https://i.discogs.com/JdHq_mqWkpvaqiPGwYLuKPyYqyvFxPDP7rckKJpWQa0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:589/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NTU4/MzctMTQzMTI0MDk5/OC0yOTQ5LmpwZWc.jpeg

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:42 (two years ago)

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