― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
I must be on drugs or something - last attempt!
― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc700/c738/c73863t4e4w.jpg
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/pcp.jpg
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
If only the music contained within was as good.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/ilx/pmagic2.jpg
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f142/f14275q69vp.jpg
http://www.southern.com/southern/band/REGWA/pics/D1195L.jpg
PS - This is also a record I bought because of the cover (& the Dischord association, yeah).
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
The Feederz - "Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?"
It had sandpaper on the cover so that it would scratch the covers of any albums stored next to it! Yay!
― woly boly (woly boly), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
My all time fucking favourite.
― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I found this cassette tape in my bosses office today. Somewhere this guy is a star and rightfully so:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/awesome1.jpg
― ENBB, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
bosses? whoops.
― ENBB, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
what about mind-numbingly awesome album titles:
http://www.gregsgrooves.com/images/adams_edie_music.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bp2.blogger.com/_BR-l63C-2iA/R3quK0-bS8I/AAAAAAAABJA/bZ0k_mAAlTA/s1600-h/fall+grotesque+80.jpg
― Millsner, Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Again:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/fallgrotesque80.jpg
― Millsner, Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mrpibbs.com/kuro/kbd-sux/teenage_depression.jpg
...AND...
http://www.mrpibbs.com/kuro/kbd-sux/the_mad.jpg
― bmus, Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I like how passively bummed dude is about the eyeball spooning. Like, "Fuck, he's gonna spoon my eye. Again. Sigh."
― contenderizer, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://991.com/newgallery/Black-Sabbath-Never-Say-Die-320006.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM! When I found that cover, I thought that "The Sad" would have been a much better fit than "The Mad"
― bmus, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I found this cassette tape in my bosses office today. Somewhere this guy is a star and rightfully so
Why were you snooping around your bosses office? Does he know you were in there?
Just wondering.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 22 August 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mymusiki.com/wiki/images/d/d6/The_Beatles_White_Album.gif
Just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's not true.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 22 August 2008 01:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bp2.blogger.com/_8nY7OEKRfew/RhkOwvfh9LI/AAAAAAAAAAc/Q_B1iJe_1So/s320/LP44-45.jpg
First saw this one on an ILM thread and it still startles me - I've never seen such a mix of colours on any other album, ever. It reminds me of something a gifted 11-year old might create with water paints in 6th grade art class. (That's a compliment.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 22 August 2008 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been thinking a "best Fall cover art" poll is in order. Or "worst Fall cover art." Its so hard to decide which is which.
― bendy, Friday, 22 August 2008 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyways, I've posted this before, but it bears repeating.
http://blackstrap.org/tmp/time_like.jpg
― bendy, Friday, 22 August 2008 05:35 (fifteen years ago) link
It's so easy to be sarcastic. Do people ever post great album covers in "Worse Album Covers Ever" threads?
― dreamsonvhs, Friday, 22 August 2008 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/acidbearboy/R-438313-1139609714.jpg
You can tell what it sounds like by looking at it
― skygreenleopard, Friday, 22 August 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
shit, that looks great
― I know, right?, Friday, 22 August 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't know The Beatles had an album called "084994"... Was it their industrial record?
― Tuomas, Friday, 22 August 2008 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Or is "084994" nerd writing for "Obama"?
― Tuomas, Friday, 22 August 2008 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― I know, right?, Friday, 22 August 2008 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.christiewalsh.com/fun/beatles/images/butcher.jpg
Such nice boys.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 22 August 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
George looks like he's actually eaten a baby.
That album was to be subtitled "how to end your career in America before it's really started"
― snoball, Friday, 22 August 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://homepages.bw.edu/~jcurtis/Iron_Maiden_4.jpg
― our work is never over, Friday, 22 August 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ otm
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 21 February 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Eh? Most of those are just badly framed, blurry photos, not mind-numbing at all:
http://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/0744.jpg
I guess I just have a very different definition of "awesome album cover" than some others...
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure how a thread like this gets to 121 posts without
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/K/king_crim_courtf.jpg
― egregious fannydangling (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 21 February 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, it's not that I'm against that sort of aesthetic, but in order for it to impress me, the photo has to be evocative in some way, not just a random pic of some guy or an apartment. The album covers of 310, for example, do this pretty well:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cAK47Uf-L.jpg http://www.vinylsearcher.com/largeImages/1130688.jpg
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.mp3crank.com/cover-album/Foetus-Hole-300x300.jpg
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 February 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://d21uwzfkfy2yiv.cloudfront.net/inner_life_inner_life_ii-RAMSH5043-1179594854.jpeg
This album came out the same year as Tron, so I assume they borrowed the aesthetic from there. It's still awesome though.
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the jandek covers but they are pretty much a case of "sum greater than its parts"
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
What's mind-numbingly awesome about this one? Looks like a standard 80s band photo to me...― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 8:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 8:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
Yeah I guess it's maybe not objectively too extraordinary. While it is a common approach to coverart - "a standard 80s band photo" - it comes off as iconically so to me. I don't really know. Maybe I just like the record and conflate the cover with the music...
― ♫, Monday, 21 February 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
the painting on the Surf's Up cover is the kind of awful, unfun kitsch that I would rightfully sneer at if I saw it at a flea market (its natural habitat) or on the living room wall of some crusty, humorless old coot who thinks dogs playing poker are crass and undignified & therefore decorates his home with images of depressed minorities and solemn owls.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, you do know that painting is based on a really famous statue, right?
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have a problem with the statue. I just don't think it retains a lot of its dignity when it's reproduced ad nauseum as a (almost celebratory?) cultural icon.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 21 February 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/V/Various/VA_guitarsf.jpg
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I always mistake that cover for this one (time to dig up the cover connections thread again...)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2903192999_9ed920465e.jpg
― Hodge Podge Bodge, Peo-PLE! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Also love Baroness covers:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Rlvad54FRTw/TF46SNOgpGI/AAAAAAAAANA/W-cr_aEB04c/s1600/baroness-the-red-album-cover.jpghttp://prollyisnotprobably.com/baroness_blue_record-thumb.jpg
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Deluxe edition of blue had some great presentation and packaging as well:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4952634660_fa55f01a4c.jpg
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Ossman and flamin groovies remind me of inside sleeve of James Blood 'Tales of Captain Black':
http://www.hardformat.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/inner.jpg
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Also entire Skull Disco catalogue to thread:
http://www.hardformat.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/skull-disco.jpg
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.boomkat.com/images/176536/333.jpghttp://static.boomkat.com/images/62212/333.jpghttp://static.boomkat.com/images/158689/333.jpghttp://funkyimg.com/u2/415/037/skull008.jpg
― Moka, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/50-coolest-album-covers
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
One I have been loving lately:
http://storage.canalblog.com/46/73/500408/29436286.jpg
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fKrhOTmmm0I/TqjO5gYZUpI/AAAAAAAAD2g/zab1KxKNjMw/s1600/NationOfUlyssesPlaysPretty.jpg
Actually never much liked the strip of photos on the bottom right, but the main cover photo is fucking brilliant.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dvdedice.cz/data/29/ma-ji-motorovou1288806229_big.jpg
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
^^^Winner.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
i know the gal c is above, but let's look at all 4 sides of the relevant releases...
http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/1_9616.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1pcRilYUjE/TSiufaAp0GI/AAAAAAAAAn8/wViOCGfTbSo/s1600/j.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HDkP1biDsg4/SZhOAVAxuJI/AAAAAAAAExk/M_rnToAdJyE/s1600/Gal%2BCosta%2B-%2BIndia%2B%281973%29-image009.jpgand a jpeg, but click to view: http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1222672-1339083900-6249.jpeg
― 69, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Loses something in reduction from LP size, but still
http://img12.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/7/6/9/0/4/7690433d7154b2847859d91438461dfc.jpg
― dow, Friday, 22 June 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FrYnE0kAuho/SKCXDwE4j5I/AAAAAAAAAZc/URgD7mL7Zxk/s320/THUNDER_PERFECT_MIND.jpg
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Saturday, 23 June 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
hard to lose with Louis Wain but it's still striking
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/554612_10151629663827137_1088074742_n.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
i just got this record the other day from my next door neighbor. epic 1973 sci-fi synth musique concrete audio play about the end of the world and mutant children. kinda can't stop staring at the cover.
http://www.vinylrevival.com/likewow/vol2/thetower.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
Is the music as amazing as the cover?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty crazy! lots of proto-vocoder recitations and people screaming and arp synth mayhem.
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of gooduns on the Takoma One-Offs thread, this is still my fave
http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb391/ElliotGKnapp/Album%20Art/thethingatthenurseryroomwindow.jpg
― dow, Saturday, 23 June 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
Close to his heart
― dow, Saturday, 23 June 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
an all-time favorite:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u57/FlacMonkey/My%20Scans/TheloniousM%20Underground/Front700.png
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that one is fantastic and one of those that is significantly diminshed seeing it CD-sized or smaller.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
great cover and sort of a cover connection to another classic cover:
http://www.jmeshel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/basementTapes.jpg
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
underground has great liner notes too - it's like a Fahey sleeve
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 August 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Never realized Basement Tapes reminds me of this:
http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/40066.jpg
Must be time to play cover connections again.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
really like this
http://radiobombast.podbean.com/mf/web/vy4bx2/mutabarukacheckit.jpeg
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 7 June 2018 05:07 (five years ago) link