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