I think I can see an Elvis Costello album, and The Firm, and maybe I'm just imaginging things, but I think I see a Foetus LP in there (white with red letters). Plus a Clapton and a Shaun Cassidy LP. And there are some up close that I could look up by their titles, but I was just trying to ID things I knew offhand.
Here's the best image I could find online...
http://www.turntablelab.com/images/content/2/2/22494.jpg
― chr1sb0y, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
You may need to dig out your CD or LP to see anything useful. Or you may just need to mock me for such a lame question.
― chr1sb0y, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's Dance something by Benny Carter (going by the name) BeeGees? The Byrds? Tracy Chapman (yellow with hair) Walk Like an Egyptian 12"
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Hongroe - The Pimpslap LP
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a cat! Never seen that before.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
b&W on far left 3rd down from top = The Cake LP (girl group 60's kinda stuff)
Foetus 12" is "Wash"/"Slog" I think.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Sgt. Pepper, John Coltrane's Ballads, Miles Davis' Quiet Nights.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die on the far left in back?
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh - i think i see Enya (the one with Orinoco Flow) to the right of that yellow heart.
where's sgt pepper?
― chr1sb0y, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
yellow with hair looks more like Tim Buckley's Goodbye and Hello than the Tracy Chapman.
― s. morris, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, could be. Still looks like soft focus Chapman hair to me.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I see Sgt. Pepper's now! Far left in the middle.
And I think that's Phil Collins' No Jacket Required above The Byrds.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Tracy Chapman above/behind Phil, I think.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe I see, Flaming Pie. Hard to tell.
― our work is never over, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Right in front of that guys hand.
― our work is never over, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Lipps, Inc. "Funkytown" EP on the far right, in front.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
which store was this photo taken in?
― sleep, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Invisible Touch by Genesis is almost directly underneath the Mario Bros mobile/thing.
― chr1sb0y, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
why does that guy on the right have downy MASK face?
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The album's cover depicts Solesides members Chief Xcel (left) and Lyrics Born (right) in Records, a record store at 710 K St, Sacramento, California.[1]. The K Street location of Records closed in December of 2006.
wiki
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
AHA! - i just realized that this is the original photo (embedded in the question above) - the actual CD and LP covers have a cropped version that cuts off a good bit of the left end of the photo.
― chr1sb0y, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't really see it in the posted pic, but I seem to recall that Tuff Enuff by The Fabulous Thunderbirds is visible on the CD/LP. However, I can see Dr. Hook's Greatest Hits (Yellow Heart on the cover) in that shot.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Something involving Stevie Nicks just to the left of the cat's back?
Eric Clapton's August above the cat's back.
Yeah, it's Elvis Costello's This Year's Model in front of the cat - but what is that right under it, Girlschool or something?
And at first I couldn't find the Foetus EP, but it's over there above the Firm record.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
What's an English record shop doing in Cali?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably says more about the sleuthors than the sleuthed.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
sara got the only ones I recognize
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I seem to recall that in the larger version of the photo you can see a Death In June album (with the "whip hand" graphic) really clearly. Am I remembering wrong?
― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, here's a bigger pic of a detail - helps w/ the stuff I just mentioned:http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Endtroducing1.jpg
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
And the "whip hand" thing is there, right in the middle. I had no idea what it might be.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Directly in back of the cat is the first album by Cold Blood
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
(and I caught that before the enlarged pic was posted) (which kinda seems like cheating!)
Never noticed it before, but next to the whip hand:
Deep Purple-Come Taste The Band
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
also: Marianne Faithfull-Broken English
Is that a Residents 45 on the back wall, to the left of dude's hat? No idea, but it looks as though it might involve eyeballs.
And who is Jorge Dalto (lower right)?
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
the whip hand thing is probably death in june, right?
i see blue cheer's s/t right over "lawrenc welk" in the first pic.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
ah, death in june born again ep.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
is that orange one with the big face on it, behind Quiet Nights, another Miles Davis record? It looks familiar.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
JOrge Dalto is a percussionist .. played in Tito Puente's groups I believe
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Chambers Bros.-Time Has Come Today (behind the Collins)
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm .. actually I think I got that wrong ... just googled and Dalto was a pianist not a percussionist. Guess I should leave the latin jazz questions to Rockist Scientist! altho i was right in that he played with Puente.
Oh, and that's the second, al kooper-less Blood, Sweat & Tears album in the back row (two rows up and one to the right of Sgt. Pepper)
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Bloodrock-2 (Below the BS&T lp)
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that a Bangles 12-inch in front of Sgt. Pepper? It isn't an album.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah. Walk like an Egyptian. I mentioned it way back.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
There's an Erasure record in there - 12" of 'Oh L'Amour' maybe?
― Gavin in Leeds, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
ahahah Mario Bros. mobile.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I spy:
Inside Out - John Martyn
(two rows to the cat's left)
― henry s, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners to the left of the Death in June ep?
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
what's the one with the stoplight?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
'Let's Dance' is there twice, so to speak: the album is three to the right of the Bangles 12", the 12" single of the title song is to the immediate left of Buckley/Chapman
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Been wondering about the stoplight rec myself. Seems like something I used to see quite a bit.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Some kind of fusion thing maybe?
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the one with the big yellow heart shape? Looks v. familiar - I think it's a greatest hits?
(P.S. this is fun!)
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Yellow Heart=Dr. Hook's Greatest Hits
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
two rows up from the whip-hand thing is 'Layla', no ?
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's Layla.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the thing to the left of Clapton's August? The font looks like 70s Kansas, but I don't recognize the cover.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I checked and Songs for Beginners is the record to the left of the Death in June ep.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh, I think I can see Frankie Goes To Hollywood's first album in the bigger pic. It's a row or two to the right of Dr Hook and up a bit.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
think that may be the Purp's "Who Do We Think We Are" directly above the "Come Taste the Band"
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Got my cd out and would like to mention that Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg's Twins Sons of Different Mothers is to the right of Broken English, and Foghat's Night Shift is above the Fogelberg.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
About six down from the Fogelberg is some Hendrix album that has a B&W picture of his face. And ELO's Out of The Blue is on the top row five down from the cat head (and to the left of the Fab T-birds)
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
that would be one of the 'Essential Jimi Hendrix" records. Looks like the blue one, but I forget if that's Vol. 1 or 2.
also Cabaret Voltaire (Micro-Phonies, I think) below Shaun Cassidy to the left.
I am doing this from my LP copy, I wonder if the CD is different.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm guessing that the one leaning forward a couple shelves to the right of Broken English is Peter Gabriel's third.
― eatandoph, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Flash Fearless and the something-something: '70s concept album, maybe multi-artist.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
sure looks like it -- mis-filed amongst the B's and the C's!
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
"Directly in back of the cat is the first album by Cold Blood
-- Stormy Davis"
yeah, when i saw that record in a shop years ago i recognized it from the endtroducing cover. i listened to it, there's actually a pretty nice but short break at the beginning of one of the cuts that sounds like something shadow would have jacked.
― pipecock, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Directly behind the cat's head: We've Got A Live One Here by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a China Crisis album on the top row in the same rack as Phil Collins. It's 'Flaunt The Imperfection', the blue and silver one that Walter Becker produced. It's terrible too BTW.
― NickB, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link