Love 'em! Post some!
http://www.somevelvetmorning.net/Bronnen/Poetpromosheet.jpghttp://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l727fznXKY1qz8g2po1_500.jpghttp://http://www.jahsonic.com/BlackBlue.jpg
― chromecassettes, Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
use img tags instead of i tags
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops sorry about that.http://www.somevelvetmorning.net/Bronnen/Poetpromosheet.jpghttp://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l727fznXKY1qz8g2po1_500.jpghttp://http://www.jahsonic.com/BlackBlue.jpg
― chromecassettes, Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/aparsonseye.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
They are at the summit of international rock:
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20100320-Daredevil38-Zappa.jpg
Ran in Marvel Comics titles in 1968.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice!http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vqP7xeDQvl0/Sphiyc2v9uI/AAAAAAAAAHM/-RI5rbCw9kk/s1600-h/Virgin+Ad.JPG
shit, there are a bunch herehttp://endofanearrecords.blogspot.com/2009/08/zig-zag-magazine-album-ads.html
― chromecassettes, Sunday, 17 October 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Wish I could find a large enough scan of the disingenuous Columbia Records classic "The Man Can't Bust Our Music"
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Sunday, 17 October 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
You cut off the best part of the Alan Parsons ad:
They are at the summit of international rock: NOT!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a nifty Jobriath ad:
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/42/l_ea0ddec4a1fa4ec3bbb81e4c2bc936a0.jpg
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember seeing this:http://www.indevelopment.org/2002/classicads/zappa250.jpg
...in one of my cousin's old Marvel comics when I was quite young and being totally mystified as to what it was advertising. Little did I know one day it would be one of my favourite albums.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I posted that one upthread.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, doesn't show up for me.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.steelydan.com/Images/citizen/citstuff4.sm.jpeghttp://www.steelydan.com/Images/citizen/citstuff7.sm.jpeghttp://www.steelydan.com/Images/citizen/citstuff10.sm.jpeg
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
That Pretzel Logic ad with the giant cartoon guy is so great!
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.superseventies.com/oaaa/oaaa_ramones.jpg
There's a two-page version of this where they mixed horrified reviews in with all the raves.
― clemenza, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that guy is supposed to be popular Britishes comicbook character "Desperate Dan". Which is a groovy joke.
― 3 saucers of synthesizer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
giant cartoon guy is Desperate Dan!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The Jobriath ad is the same photo that's used for the album's gatefold sleeve. Apparently he wasn't happy about the statue arse as he thought his own looked better.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/vandyke1.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard those ads made Van Dyke Parks really sad and upset.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit :-(
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't remember if that's true or something I made up.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Well I guess that the counter argument is "You lost $35 thousand on an album that got rave reviews? Maybe you should have promoted it a bit more."
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/overad.jpg
― margana (anagram), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
love just how much that is basically a vw ad refashioned for van dyke parks.
― balls, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/ekkostar/R063r7%20P41m3r/everykinda-ad.jpg
Shouldn't "Vinyl Erotica" apply to the whole Double Fun album, though?
― I've played polar pool for far too long (MintIce), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
my all time fave image of laura paired w the most idiotic tag line ever (pl excuse the watermark):
http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/lauranewind1.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 17 October 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Van Dyke Parks ad is total classic. There's something about the tone that's so of its time.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-OStDJKI/AAAAAAAAA2w/Xw-OPFDTtf4/s800/nicklowead.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-NStDJII/AAAAAAAAA2g/cDU-CdLU_Bo/s800/devoad.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIKLStDJVI/AAAAAAAAA4I/z6t2ZO5tUts/s800/costellomodelad.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bp2.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIIfytDJRI/AAAAAAAAA3o/dLrkV7hGX6s/s400/cheaptrickad_1.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIGrStDJPI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/ZXquYHSLd2o/s640/johansenad_1.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
The thing that blows my mind about these, and a lot of magazine ads from the '70s, is how *text heavy* they are. I think magazine ads have been all about "tldr" my whole life. Just pics of sexy people and two or three words now.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
all that text gets me all swoony tbh
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude, dude, dude, me too. Ok, I started smoking when I was 23, when any doc will tell you smoking almost never starts after teen years. Do you want to know why? I got all these '70s Playboys at an estate sale, and every other ad is for cigarettes, of course, full of loving, seductive paragraphs about how cigarettes are the most delicious, essential, amazing things ever. It was all that text that got me!
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
For an alternate approach, maybe somebody can post the ad for Costello's Imperial Bedroom (not having any luck finding it). I think it had a single word: "Masterpiece?"
― clemenza, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
we've come a long way. the xx album simply had one letter (X) on it's adverts. no text, no WORDS at all!
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
That comes from the VW Beetle ads; a picture of the item and loads of text about the technical merits of said item.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, I started smoking when I was 23, when any doc will tell you smoking almost never starts after teen years. Do you want to know why? I got all these '70s Playboys at an estate sale, and every other ad is for cigarettes, of course, full of loving, seductive paragraphs about how cigarettes are the most delicious, essential, amazing things ever. It was all that text that got me!
Abb if you weren't already married I wd propose to you for this <3
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Sunday, 17 October 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
For what it's worth, we believe that 'OVER' represents something of a milestone. On it Peter Hammill has managed to write down and interpret musically a description of love from a man's viewpoint...
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
also love the description of the ramones as occupying space, "in the dark netherworld between Herman's Hermits and ZZ Top..."
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes that made me lol as well.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Almost as funny if you're the Ramones' accountant: "Punk with commercial potential."
― clemenza, Monday, 18 October 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.jambase.com/merch/Doors%20-%20DVD.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thimk.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pete-rock-and-cl-ad.jpg?w=500&h=646
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post
didn't look closely at that one - solly
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I started smoking at 23, and am glad Columbia's "Masterpiece?" ad for Imperial Bedroom was no influence.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
not an LP ad but in the "ballpark"
http://buzzardbook.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wmms-archives-print-ads-articles-1975-125.jpg
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10929554_783404701714516_3898722067945821212_n.jpg?oh=bb0136035aec58fe50900cbc6c0a96a3&oe=556EE613
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 January 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
https://rockcritics.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/steely-ad.jpg?w=590&h=740
― how's life, Sunday, 15 February 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
http://images-resrc.staticlp.com/S=W748/O=75/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travel-blog/tip-article/wordpress_uploads/2013/02/cheaptrick.jpg
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 February 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.superseventies.com/oaaa/oaaa_zevon.jpg
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 February 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
that cartoon katydid in the Steely Dan advert is so cute!
― soref, Sunday, 15 February 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Ha, they never have shows at Page Hall anymore.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Thread of missing Andrew Garlack.
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 February 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
https://lh3.ggpht.com/-Nm4a3rMzclQ/Ub70zUqk-pI/AAAAAAAAHSA/wxDlX0pyqJY/s1600/Spooky+Tooth+Ad.jpgfound
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 February 2015 02:57 (nine years ago) link
Better by you, Birds Eye for me
― rabatment of the rectangle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10488040_832296470176126_5371143214346202692_n.jpg?oh=9ec63aeb5d615992210d38852e528e07&oe=5594E767&__gda__=1435716283_7e08205086c9c90ae27f40bc77f78d88
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_day_the_music_died_vintage_ads_of_pop_stars_selling_shit
Man, that Sam Cooke cigarette ad!
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FOInDbe.jpg
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/old_school_ads_for_albums_from_the_clash_buzzcocks_blondie_trex_the_jam_an
including...
http://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/blondieplasticrecords1978printposteradasldkjalsd.jpg
http://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/toomuchtoosoonnydollscreemmagazine1973alskdjfj.jpg
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ks7xKgld8CU/U43-nxQGguI/AAAAAAAACr0/pQgs4qA2IH0/s1600/Psychedelic+Sounds+UK+1967+Advertise.jpg
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91PX6OdmZ3L.jpg
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BNP90JOg4yU/Sn72eecy1CI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/9QoT8oFgvic/s1600/Magma+Kohntarkosz+Ad.jpg
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
http://41.media.tumblr.com/709c33f57925bca8bba3feec95d747f0/tumblr_nyut3xbI9p1st208eo1_1280.png
Sadistic Mika Band
― soref, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Love this thread so much.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/22/fc/ea/22fceab3b8e6cf02798e18cac97740ab.jpg
Deaf School
― soref, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/y02oTFB.jpg
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
not and advert for an album, but this feels like it belongs here
http://deafschoolmusic.com/communities/6/004/006/950/146/images/4614357589.swf
― soref, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8AFsOtj.jpg
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nur9bw3.jpg
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JmpjqNO.jpg
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PrXcB-fKmJ8/T4ieocynAoI/AAAAAAAABco/RXTvlQ-M5VY/s1600/fugs3+-+Copy.jpg
― no lime tangier, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
https://sonicmoremusic.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/queen-is-dead-ad.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
omg wow
― shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 3 March 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlt1/v/t1.0-9/12814030_10207389959846134_7926838602669524930_n.jpg?oh=5b4c57a99d7416323640c0716155efef&oe=575E7D2A
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 March 2016 07:09 (eight years ago) link
It Isn't Punk. It's Punxy.It Isn't Folk. It's Folxy.It Isn't Funk. It's Funxy.It Isn't Baroque. It's Baroxy.It Isn't Goth. It's Gotshy.It Isn't Avant-Garde. It's Avantsy-Gardsy.
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:25 (eight years ago) link
Also, didn't know Roxymusic had four guitarists (or five, depending what instrument the guy in the lower right corner has) but no drummer?
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 March 2016 11:33 (eight years ago) link
You were doing so well too, Tuomas.
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link
Not an ad for an album but
http://i.imgur.com/vs6N87E.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Awesome!
― Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 05:18 (seven years ago) link
yes that is too cool
― niels, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 07:20 (seven years ago) link
love that wood panneling
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 12:18 (seven years ago) link
omg, that looks like heaven.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:49 (seven years ago) link
And when they're not recording albums, the light would have been just right to stage some photos for a fondue cookbook or something.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
I browsed through a few of those old photos and kept seeing rock walls in the studios. Wouldn't rock be the most bouncy surface for echoes?
http://i.imgur.com/AlTdmV7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PaVtlDv.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
Hmmm, I'm not an acoustics person but I guess I'd depend on how porous a stone you specify...
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Hell, I've known studio guys who'd freak out over that pane of glass (called a mirror) suspended over the board like that.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
man that's just how they get the rock on record
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link
See? Even this studio had one.
http://i.imgur.com/1gCv9sG.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
that CAN ad!
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yhKzDSx.jpg
― new noise, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UlPp2SH.jpg
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3UCkNYC.jpg
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
Motown??
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
1974 was a strange year!
but also this:
Gull was a British record label founded in 1974. Owned by Gull Entertainments Ltd., it was associated with Morgan Sound Studio, and was distributed by both Pye Records and Decca Records.[1] It was also distributed by Motown in the USA. Major bands on its books included Judas Priest, IF, Steve Ashley, Seventh Wave and Isotope
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
woah!
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26814480_10155921900083614_1522997336551181662_n.jpg?oh=aaeab9178a6b6490ad1b8bc688832a00&oe=5AFC720F
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link