Vintage seventies (or sixties and eighties) magazine ads for albums

all that text gets me all swoony tbh

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!

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?"

we've come a long way. the xx album simply had one letter (X) on it's adverts. no text, no WORDS at all!

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.

That comes from the VW Beetle ads; a picture of the item and loads of text about the technical merits of said item.

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

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...

also love the description of the ramones as occupying space, "in the dark netherworld between Herman's Hermits and ZZ Top..."

Yes that made me lol as well.

Almost as funny if you're the Ramones' accountant: "Punk with commercial potential."

http://images.jambase.com/merch/Doors%20-%20DVD.jpg

http://thimk.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pete-rock-and-cl-ad.jpg?w=500&h=646

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didn't look closely at that one - solly

I started smoking at 23, and am glad Columbia's "Masterpiece?" ad for Imperial Bedroom was no influence.

not an LP ad but in the "ballpark"

http://buzzardbook.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wmms-archives-print-ads-articles-1975-125.jpg

I like the parallel between the Lee Hazelwood and Nick Lowe copy.

Both have a weirdly butthurt quality for an ad.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIGritDJQI/AAAAAAAAA3g/JJw15WHZ1Qg/s640/derringer-scruffsad_1.jpg

Also Nyro ad is very Marissa Marchant

http://shadwell.tripod.com/dreamnow.jpg

This is most certainly not vintage, but I stumbled across this looking for such, and went o_0

http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/c/corgan_billy/billy_corgan_pumpkins_reunite/corgan_chi_times_ad.jpg

http://www.beatlebay.com/images/DDD/DisplayAD%20HelpLP%20Color1.jpg

http://www.beatlebay.com/images/AD%20-%20WeddingAlbum%20-%20John%20and%20Yoko.jpg

http://www.beatlebay.com/images/DDD/DisplayAD%20HELP%20LP1.jpg

http://treebeard31.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/lp4.jpg

I love 70s ads with that "Intelligent people are discussing this highbrow topic at controversial parties" style

http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/image/1982-03_hex-advert.jpg

thank you so much for posting/finding that!

That little girl in the mighty tiny ad looks like she's about to go I WANNNTT YOOUUURR SOOULLLL and devour everyone in the room.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1425/1503708143_56a6a87baf.jpg?v=0

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmHA-eM4uckvDEi7lAOvq72pp1HMp67eJ-P-IvmT8zRnRpNrs&t=1&usg=__8SNRI8DvasQmYHQ0TMMWPD99aHs=

Poor old Zager & Evans.

wow these are all amazing. some of these fonts, man

lol at that 2nd zager & evans

My connection has come through:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SdLYMzjMBfI/AAAAAAAAAXU/UKCJlebtShc/s1600-h/cohen.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUA2Zf_KRpI/AAAAAAAAAOg/9t0x-1TpICc/s1600-h/uriahAD.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUAzhVaczNI/AAAAAAAAANw/m6UugXPvouQ/s1600-h/meatloafad.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUAzYabZXeI/AAAAAAAAANA/xuqdaUlLAs8/s1600-h/b-o-c.jpg

And here's the Ramones ad in two parts--it was for [i]Leave Home[i], not the first one:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUA9m0JwXsI/AAAAAAAAAQI/qTStlOXRwJo/s1600-h/ramones-leave-home4.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cabw6ufZ7YA/SUA9mZkqDdI/AAAAAAAAAQA/LORVyHlCKIg/s1600-h/ramones-leave-home3.jpg

Or maybe not.

mentalingus

Not sure why, but the images don't take. If you go here, there are ads for Leonard Cohen, Meatloaf, Uriah Heep, and a great Nixon ad for Moby Grape.

I love 70s ads with that "Intelligent people are discussing this highbrow topic at controversial parties" style

Yes!

http://www.southendpunk.com/images/miscella/miscadde/damadv1l.jpg

Can't find the "Come and see Lee Brilleaux's jacket" ad

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs425.snc3/24550_379007354315_841199315_3477759_3250445_n.jpg

The man can't switch off our Bach.

i've always heard that slogan, but lolz at 'our Music' being Varese and Stockhausen instead of Jimi and Janis. prob the only cultural moment that avant-garde (even classical) composers could be pitched at the Youth market. Grab Hold!

I love 70s ads with that "Intelligent people are discussing this highbrow topic at controversial parties" style

After having "read" about it in Playboy.

jesus christ that corgan ad is the worst

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9v4f3DET71qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287500751&Signature=uO99jbnyXoFgX%2FVdHNqb8mfLrPA%3D

bilboardingparty.tumblr.com is a goldmine for this kinda thing.

oops that should be billboardingparty.tumblr.com

i've always heard that slogan, but lolz at 'our Music' being Varese and Stockhausen instead of Jimi and Janis. prob the only cultural moment that avant-garde (even classical) composers could be pitched at the Youth market. Grab Hold!

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Monday, October 18, 2010 10:14 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

After years of only reading about this ad campaign, my mind was blown when I finally saw this ad (Rolling Stone, November 1968).

man tyler GOOD spot there.

reading ads like the one for Stage Fright makes me wish, as I sometimes do, for a more ambitious mood in rock -- it's like, mainstream rock, its main ambition is & generally has been to reach a lot of people & sell a lot of records, which is fine, but the rhetoric of that Stage Fright ad - "This album is another further step* in The Band's development." (paragraph break) "In the development of our music." (paragraph break) "The music of our age." -- I mean, if that were the norm, the need to deflate it would be & was great, but I feel like there's also value of some kind in Taking It Too Seriously. That framing the presentation in those sorts of terms affects the actual text (i.e. the album)/experience in some way, and maybe also does so before it even gets made - there's this sense that whether the guys making the record are in fact too high to even think right, they're surrounded by this idea that what they're doing is somehow important, which, whether it's true or not (it's not), maybe compels them to aim high.

*lol editor plz

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7zbsv68aX1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287501953&Signature=N3sSWJqPCCLn86XbUe3v2ZmdtxE%3D
yeah, like this. S&G "SAY THINGS." lol.

From that great Billboarding Tumblr

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8q5hwlbgt1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1287502065&Signature=jC62PGQUL%2B%2FrmcTun6pkXCw0sy8%3D

omg, that looks like heaven.

And when they're not recording albums, the light would have been just right to stage some photos for a fondue cookbook or something.

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

Hmmm, I'm not an acoustics person but I guess I'd depend on how porous a stone you specify...

Hell, I've known studio guys who'd freak out over that pane of glass (called a mirror) suspended over the board like that.

man that's just how they get the rock on record

See? Even this studio had one.

http://i.imgur.com/1gCv9sG.jpg

that CAN ad!

http://i.imgur.com/yhKzDSx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UlPp2SH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3UCkNYC.jpg

Motown??

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

woah!

https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26814480_10155921900083614_1522997336551181662_n.jpg?oh=aaeab9178a6b6490ad1b8bc688832a00&oe=5AFC720F