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

Really surprised that Fogelberg cover is from 1984. He was really prescient — that looks like something that would have been sold exclusively at Starbucks in the late 90s.

speaking of 1984

cant believe i forgot about this release

https://www.discogs.com/master/58058-Rick-Wakeman-1984/image/SW1hZ2U6NDYzOTEwOQ==

arse.

https://i.discogs.com/nnLSJdsKpbE97T52pv1Aj9cKoQUrH_fsGn8iZHLuzRk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:368/w:350/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2Mzg2/MjItMTI5NTQ3MzMw/Mi5qcGVn.jpeg

Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall always freaks me out for it's 4AD/hauntology vibe. How many 1962 albums, jazz or otherwise, had *no* text on the cover. Even Vaughn Oliver woulda stuck some Bodoni on there in 1985.

The closest thing I could find to James Last going full 80s:
https://i.discogs.com/bb8WOI7iJXCM_UjT0JrNPAMK97jAMAhhUOUxTxkRvzQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2Njk0/NTAtMTI5OTYyMTYz/NC5qcGVn.jpeg

Very Jazz cup

they did stick text on there on the 80s reissue, not too far off from bodoni lol

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Bill_Evans_and_Jim_Hall-Undercurrent_%28album_cover%29.jpg

With that typography, I imagine there's a dollar bill on a fish hook dangling just above the water.

The closest thing I could find to James Last going full 80s:
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He Is The Vice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVLrI3bXHsc

coincidentally enough when i listened to the beach boys song "spirit of america", youtube recommended me this video when i was done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkaZSzmCWF4

that picture of robert fripp in the thumbnail, is he trying to ape the cover of "court of the crimson king"?

I could have sworn we had a thread back in the day about prog rockers going New Wave but I can’t find it now

There was this one: 1981 = year of 70s dino rockers w modren/wavo comeback LPs but that was all I could find that was relevant on the first three pages of a search of "Gaskin", a name I reckon would surely come up in this context and not many others.

xp late 70s new wave classic rock

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omg that Kenny Loggins cover -- thank you for the genuine lol
what a terrible painting

LL, please enjoy the terrible music video as well.

omfg i am dead -- that's too much
kenny loggins' 80s feels like having the flu

we did think it was the end of the world back then too. kenny was one of the signs.

man that 1981 thread is nostalgia just for how old it is let alone the subject matter. me and chuck and geir and bimble and the gang. papa wheelie. 14 years feels like a pretty long time.

xpost to Tim F, yes, that’s the one I was thinking of.

All I could think of when watching Loggins in the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3cNTl40VI

Whoa, I didn't even know the Monchichi's had more than one theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq2_BKd2RYI

LL, please enjoy the terrible music video🕸 as well.

"Vox Humana" and Lindsey's "Go Insane" and Roger Hodgson's "Had A Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)" all take up the same spot in my memory.

LL, please enjoy the terrible music video as well.

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Sounds like Dirty Projectors

Real "Fish Heads" vibe from that video

https://i.discogs.com/ViMBJbsXnd3goBVKXYWBeU5ds24F_XsKZ1GIhBmRSro/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3MDQy/NDktMTM5MDU4MTg4/Mi00MjYwLmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GxcAAOSwDx9hT3AY/s-l1200.webp

noooo

Imagine the 80s Elvis album covers that never were

Say what you want about their 1980s jackets and haircuts and physiques, the Monkees were surprisingly progressive for their time.

i had TOTALLY forgotten about this. i don't know how i forgot. i must have blocked out the sight of Miami Bobby. man oh man talk about a time capsule. who needs the 60s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Bs4xhDyxw

also pulled this out of a box of records the other day. thought of you all...

https://i.discogs.com/lUkQJEXBbj1wRNEdSJNc0p_t08dPMLAgujImLViSkK8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0ODE5/NzQtMTQ5NDU4MzMx/OC0yODYwLmpwZWc.jpeg

Pretty cool one:

https://i.ibb.co/020qyV0/R-1754868-1392874781-4848.jpg

https://i.discogs.com/uZonmyJgPgIhvDw63vNbBrHFr9KPBILp9dOCR16_lwo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwNDE2/NDAyLTE2MzI5NTYy/NjUtOTgyOC5qcGVn.jpeg

1977!

Mentioned above:

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Have to repost this as the original image went dead
https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/25/55/3b/25553b78-2105-d817-e965-ccfaaf744444/00602577298110.rgb.jpg/1200x1200bf-60.jpg

excellent

Say what you want about their 1980s jackets and haircuts and physiques, the Monkees were surprisingly progressive for their time.

I need to listen to all the records here that I haven't yet. I've a major weakness for this as a concept.

https://i.discogs.com/ulYP1Qnw9bhztw2IH3esCKwq3Omz7CLmahzpfJ-KSXI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4OTg1/MDItMTQ3MjA1NzQx/NC0zODE4LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/Krp-zhhPjHnIHMK_Uw1tt4dUOkGrokCgv5pi5ui7vRg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4OTg1/MDItMTQ3MjA1NzQx/Ny01OTUyLmpwZWc.jpeg

That “Hell in a Bucket” video is yawsomely literal, a line by line visualization.

And what the hell is McLaughlin up to there, that some luthier shit?

#onethread

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Ry_Cooder%2C_Bop_till_You_Drop_%281979%29.png

1979

Steeleye Span - Back In Line, 1986

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Steeleye_Span_-_Back_in_Line.jpg

Richard Thompson - Across a Crowded Room

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/RT_Aacr.jpg

It's crowded alright

I give you Roy Wood's Starting Up from 1986, which has a vague Gary Numan vibe:
https://kane.fi/68443-large_default/wood-roy-starting-up-kansi-ex-levy-ex-kaytetty-cd.jpg

Apparently designed by the same man who did the cover art for Boys Don't Cry's "I Wanna Be a Cowboy".

Steeleye Span - Back In Line, 1986

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