http://www.vinylparadise.com/goodlp/1/8be5klh1.jpg
http://www.vinylparadise.com/goodlp/1/8si4kah1.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000042GU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
There's a Mahler cover from the 60s that is fantastic, but I can't find it. Anyone? It's very, er, mathematic..
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link
http://homepage.mac.com/bernardp/Stockhausen/dg2707045b.jpg
(I like this one so much I got a t-shirt made of it)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/Aug01/varese.jpg(Kandinsky - I think)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000005IZS.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg(Roy Liechtenstein)
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's the most mathematic Mahler there is...from 78 though.
http://marathonpacks.com/Files/Mahler.jpg
― Eric Harvey (eric marathonpacks), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/4/3029E.jpg
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
presents
SCRIABIN: KING OF DA KEYS vol. 2
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link
my pick (sorry for crap picture)
http://i6.ebayimg.com/03/i/08/02/b7/22_1.JPG
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never heard that Lewenthal but it's got the best name (and cover) in just about ever
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― monocle (Sean Miguel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000004263.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― monocle (Sean Miguel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim R-J, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/jpegs/66607.jpg
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VTYNC2Y4L._SS500_.jpg
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
this is a great thread.
this is another DG cover i like:
http://www.andante.com/images/Articles/PolliniSchoenbergCD-204.jpg
― sam500, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GG4ATM5HL._AA240_.jpg
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.timelessmusic.com/TimeLife/Images/CDs/Greatest%20Collection/classicalthunder.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.uh.edu/engines/switchedonbach.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.tommcmahon.net/images/SOBNew2.jpg
sorry.
― mehlt, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Blast! Beat me by 39 seconds! Had I only been less picky. . .
― mehlt, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PSTQ5PNDL._SS400_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/516W2D4ZGML._SS500_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A6RRJDEHL._SS400_.jpg
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VBECAEM0L._SS500_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R4T0QAVZL._SS500_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/319M5NMRAKL._SS500_.jpg
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
ECM new series always has awesome design/packaing :)
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uxxuJrtDL._SS500_.jpg
(better straight-on and without "4 CD" etc)
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jiH94kG2L._SS400_.jpg
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/_images/pochettes/913_2279.jpg
― sam500, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that Elektra cover (xpost) almost gives me the horn!
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
yea, that designer is awesome. judging from the font, i think he's also the guy that did the illustrations for the most recent issue of Krauss' Ring Cycle.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Cover for "The Seasons" is fantastic!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
you should check out the record, too, if you don't know the music. It's the best Cage collection I've heard / seen available.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Will do! There are, however, many pretty great collections of his music, I reckon. The 3-CD "25 year retrospective", the "Etude Australes" whose record cover I posted at the top...
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/1/579E.jpg
― me.lack.space, Thursday, 9 August 2007 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Alex Steinweiss not considered awesome for some reason? Apparently, he's the guy who came up with the idea of "album cover art" and his style seems like the template for every battered 40s/50s classical cover I've ever seen in a thrift store. Those covers never made much of an impression in that context, but the crisp images on this site have definitely got me attention (sorry, don't know how to embed flickr images):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/sets/72157604531858301/
― dad a, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y3GFJHARL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― kony indie fuxx (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Dolby Surround so you KNOW it's good...
Is Poortheatre still on ILX under some name? I regret any loss of ppl willing to talk classical on here...
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 9 March 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I think I have really very different taste in classical album sleeves than most of the ppl posting on this thread
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 March 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
Me too. A favourite of mine:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/R6tgrqN21uI/AAAAAAAADlc/K9Cg2TrXqVs/s400/reflexe.jpg
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 10 March 2012 09:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2725754-1298228294.jpeg
― Träumerei, Saturday, 10 March 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
Best of All Time:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cgB8qmjAL._SS500_.jpg
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
Love Brian Sewell at bottom left
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/995/MI0000995980.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/lk/f/l/4b194494f74461c3cbc9fa6205643867/3334298.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
http://www.1000recordings.com/images/artist-w/weill-kurt-958-l.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
http://p.playme.com/cspv/93-17-06-30-00-MetaPreview-Cover-JPEG256x256/paul-zukofsky/jo-kondo-mulberry.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/69120062/Halina+Lukomska+87f.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/010/699/0001069977_350.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.deccarecords.com/files/2013/07/CM-For-Dogs-300x300.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2190/2413073206_1cbeacd31b.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
that paganini one is ridic
― R'LIAH (goole), Sunday, 18 August 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
There was a great piece on classical album art in the psychedelic era on the All Music blog quite a while back.
Of course, the terrible new redesign of the site makes finding old blog posts impossible, so sorry.
― Austin, Sunday, 18 August 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
I bought this one because of its cover.
http://i.imgur.com/Fju4axE.jpg
― Ex Slacker, Sunday, 18 August 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
Can't decide if this is awesome or awful
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/138/MI0001138360.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 March 2014 04:57 (ten years ago) link
http://fj.pt80.net/data/attachment/forum/201208/06/0841542q10dr0w4r2zq44p.jpg
― millmeister, Monday, 17 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
i am shocked at how hideous most of these are.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Duf-aEloL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bruceduffie.com/starker3.jpg
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, having trouble finding one with better res http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106948373/weill-aufstieg-und-fall-der-stadt-mahagonny-lenya-bruckner-ruggeberg-cd-cover-art.jpg
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 03:31 (ten years ago) link
Always dug this one:http://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/14/13115/full-1024x1024/526dc2b6/rca_lsc-1934.jpeg
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
big fan of the "Living Stereo" logo too
Another nice Starker:
http://www.lotusrecords.at/fileadmin/lotus/pics/SR90392LP.jpg
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Starker was pretty photogenic in an Intense Artist kind of way.
The Reiner Bartok is all-time. I also love the cover for his Das Lied Von der Erde.
That era of DG Karajan covers (70s to early 80s) were unremittingly awful but inescapably lol.
― Myth or it didn't happen (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
Two favorites:
http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20100221/170449354036.jpg
http://www.ambergreen-classical.co.uk/ekmps/shops/padmagupta/images/stockhausen.-sternklang-.dg-2707-123-2470-p.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7064/6815640468_0c2cb69bbf.jpg
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 22 March 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Nonesuch covers from the 60s/70s had a great style, all groovy watercolors and gaudy cartoon drawings.
http://classicvinyl.com/files/IMG_0771.jpghttp://www.schoenberg.at/diskographie/images-n/nones192.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ro4LYVLHo8w/Tv8dPuexKnI/AAAAAAAAAug/vR2tfZ-OGGU/s1600/LP17796.jpghttp://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/a/n/angelicum453564.jpg
― Ari (whenuweremine), Sunday, 23 March 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D_M3EBDZmPI/UUiOaCi8tfI/AAAAAAAABUE/jBkEYUzUnZ0/s1600/untitled.bmp
― Ari (whenuweremine), Sunday, 23 March 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/XXXX__80164__01272012111603-674.jpg
― no lime tangier, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
this is extra extra nerdy but that font looks more like a Decca font than one EMI would use
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 March 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PB8QyPWJL.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 06:07 (three years ago) link
Wow!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link
I have a soft spot for the very 1960s designs of the World Record Club. UK/Aus mailorder operation with regional in-house designs for licenced recordings. They're some of the most common sights in charity store bins here and are sometimes more striking than expected.
eg. some of the first few I found online just now
https://images2.imgbox.com/d7/4b/9Y5zlLKz_o.jpg
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:42 (three years ago) link
Haha. Meant to embed it but that will do.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:44 (three years ago) link
the v. williams symph. 9 art reminds me of:
https://img.discogs.com/Ba1Ok9uYQM07aOreWfsmfopUT3Q=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-322191-1487004156-9867.jpeg.jpg
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
I bought this box of Shostakovich symphonies purely based on the cover art (and the price at the time). Good thing it rules.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617556aGV7L.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
It's not the most idiomatic set by any means but it's my favourite Western take on Shosty's symphonies, by far. Even the 14th, with its (imo) ill-advised move away from Russian, is incredible thanks to Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's contributions. And if you like the 14th, it's also worth hearing the Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarotti, which is sometimes called Shostakovich's 16th symphony.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
Not entirely sure of the chronology but I guess it's possible that World Record Club and Sonic Youth were BOTH ripping off this series:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/144a4414d773b2673ee9c0f3855d2246/tumblr_p4b9etckY21qk5u0to9_500.jpg
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link
I still quite like Kairos's CD covers. Variations on a very limited number of themes, I guess, but my eyes often linger...
https://www.kairos-music.com/sites/default/files/cds/0015025KAI_andreyev_webcover.jpghttps://www.kairos-music.com/sites/default/files/cds/0015086KAI_nono_frontcover.jpghttps://images2.imgbox.com/b5/e2/wn6G1quz_o.png
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link