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

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i feel like i see another one that i hadn't seen before every other day! so many! they didn't want anyone to think that they had ever owned a copy of Tapestry or had learned macrame in the past. i understand. i don't know where the line is between "going for it in a big way" and "desperation". but most people will do anything for money.

https://i.discogs.com/7t3VGQUkD99MmnZtBLR4KQw7eNfYT0Sx-QMeInOx5kc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNzc1/MDktMTY0OTg2ODE2/OC04MDI4LmpwZWc.jpeg

scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:27 (ten months ago) link

i love that software cover so much. i like the record too.

scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:38 (ten months ago) link

At least Charlie has the grace to look a little embarrassed.

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 27 January 2024 17:03 (ten months ago) link

hahaha nice one

dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 17:06 (ten months ago) link

love this album

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2735461ac946da7e79705e79d1f

soref, Saturday, 27 January 2024 17:13 (ten months ago) link

TMI

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 17:32 (ten months ago) link

Peter Noone:

https://i.postimg.cc/cJw20kcX/tremblers.jpg

(I remember this when it came out...may try to track it down.)

clemenza, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:23 (ten months ago) link

yessss

dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:35 (ten months ago) link

^^Also deserved a Miami Vice tie-in.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:44 (ten months ago) link

those are both great! lol loving these

dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:45 (ten months ago) link

https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/105/cover_131163182019_r.jpg

A cover matching the content.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:47 (ten months ago) link

nice

the King Crimson ones don't really work imo, they coulda been 70s covers too

dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:48 (ten months ago) link

they kicked Throwing Muses out of the studio while the Muses were making their debut, for THIS

https://i.discogs.com/p0CD8AYUZ1Wo4FeL8Xngxv2e8rHVfuGdLzE06IvauUE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2NDE1/MDgtMTUwNzU1MTIx/OC02NDc2LmpwZWc.jpeg

dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:51 (ten months ago) link

Great pick

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:52 (ten months ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/IggyPopParty.jpg

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 27 January 2024 20:52 (ten months ago) link

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273dd621caf7254f8f32579c98b

mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:15 (ten months ago) link

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.

bendy, Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:45 (ten months ago) link

Very Jazz cup

bendy, Thursday, 1 February 2024 22:06 (ten months ago) link

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

intheblanks, Thursday, 1 February 2024 22:40 (ten months ago) link

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

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 1 February 2024 23:25 (ten months ago) link

The closest thing I could find to James Last going full 80s:
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Almost forgot about this supergroup.

Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 00:45 (ten months ago) link

He Is The Vice

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

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2024 01:34 (ten months ago) link

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

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 2 February 2024 15:35 (ten months ago) link

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

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 2 February 2024 15:36 (ten months ago) link

I could have sworn we had a thread back in the day about prog rockers going New Wave but I canā€™t find it now

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 2 February 2024 15:52 (ten months ago) link

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.

Tim, Friday, 2 February 2024 16:04 (ten months ago) link

xp late 70s new wave classic rock

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dead precedents (sleeve), Friday, 2 February 2024 16:06 (ten months ago) link

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

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 2 February 2024 16:15 (ten months ago) link

LL, please enjoy the terrible music video as well.

peace, man, Friday, 2 February 2024 16:17 (ten months ago) link

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

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 2 February 2024 16:20 (ten months ago) link

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

scott seward, Friday, 2 February 2024 16:25 (ten months ago) link

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.

scott seward, Friday, 2 February 2024 16:27 (ten months ago) link

xpost to Tim F, yes, thatā€™s the one I was thinking of.

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 2 February 2024 16:38 (ten months ago) link

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

bendy, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:44 (ten months ago) link

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

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

peace, man, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:49 (ten months ago) link

LL, please enjoy the terrible music videošŸ•ø as well.


This legit scared me when I was a kid

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:11 (ten months ago) link

"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.

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:18 (ten months ago) link

LL, please enjoy the terrible music video as well.

ā€• peace, man, Friday, February 2, 2024 11:17 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sounds like Dirty Projectors

The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:43 (ten months ago) link

Real "Fish Heads" vibe from that video

The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:46 (ten months ago) link

noooo

Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Saturday, 10 February 2024 06:43 (ten months ago) link

Imagine the 80s Elvis album covers that never were


I miss the mullet Elvis that never was

brimstead, Saturday, 10 February 2024 06:48 (ten months ago) link

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

peace, man, Saturday, 10 February 2024 12:06 (ten months ago) link

one month passes...

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

scott seward, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:09 (eight months ago) link

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

scott seward, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:11 (eight months ago) link

Pretty cool one:

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

paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:19 (eight months ago) link

two months pass...
four months pass...

Mentioned above:

Iā€™m excited to announce that I finally own the masters to my 1989 album ā€œBowling in Paris.ā€ I know many of you have been asking why it was taken down, but Iā€™m happy to share that itā€™s now back on all streaming platforms. The album features incredible guest artists like Philā€¦ pic.twitter.com/l84r45dJYl

— Stephen Bishop (@BishSongs) October 12, 2024

bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Saturday, 12 October 2024 13:40 (one month ago) link

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

PaulTMA, Saturday, 12 October 2024 14:27 (one month ago) link

excellent

calstars, Saturday, 12 October 2024 14:52 (one month ago) link

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

This guy is a hero
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/monkees-michael-nesmith-vaporwave-714253/

calstars, Saturday, 12 October 2024 14:54 (one month ago) link

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

you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 12 October 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

That ā€œHell in a Bucketā€ video is yawsomely literal, a line by line visualization.

Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Sunday, 24 November 2024 15:12 (two weeks ago) link

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

Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Sunday, 24 November 2024 15:13 (two weeks ago) link

Steeleye Span - Back In Line, 1986

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

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 13:54 (one week ago) link

Richard Thompson - Across a Crowded Room

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

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 13:55 (one week ago) link

It's crowded alright

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 13:55 (one week ago) link

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".

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 4 December 2024 22:20 (six days ago) link

Steeleye Span - Back In Line, 1986

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I like this one, kind of Windham Hill

The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 22:36 (six days ago) link

yeah I like it too, but it's certainly different from their 70s covers

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 5 December 2024 09:45 (five days ago) link

ā€˜You Can Never Look Backā€™: How ā€™70s Rockers Rebooted for the ā€™80s

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/arts/music/1970s-rock-1980s-pop-synths-mtv.html

scott seward, Thursday, 5 December 2024 20:23 (five days ago) link

https://archive.ph/BziVE

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 5 December 2024 20:42 (five days ago) link


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