(a) I think these are all hand painted facsimiles, and(b) the sleeve above Barclay James Harvest is Dire Straits' "So Far Away" single, and why do I care?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 12 February 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Oh, good spot (a and b). It actually was puzzling me that the ratios didn't look quite right on the Oldfield but I thought it was either a different issue with tweaked artwork or something to do with estate agents' magical camera lenses distorting to make horizontal space look much bigger than it really is
I might have been thinking about this too much and should go to bed
though apparently I wasn't thinking about it enough to notice that both Crises and the one in the top-left were listed in MaresNest's opening post: 1. is "the single artwork for Happy Birthday by Altered Images"
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 12 February 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
If they are painted facsimiles, that would explain why the Paul Simon album looks so weird... In all the versions of the cover I've seen, the image of the horseback rider is much smaller and in the middle of a large white area, but there's no white here.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 February 2017 07:04 (seven years ago) link
Is 18 Urban Hymns?
Is 5 Soon over Babaluma?
― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2017 07:35 (seven years ago) link
No 5 is Boys Don't Cry.https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71HaTSu4GQL._SX355_.jpg
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 13 February 2017 07:38 (seven years ago) link
We should know 4 and 9 right?
― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2017 07:45 (seven years ago) link
#2 (between the White Album and The Cure) is ELO Balance Of Power
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 13 February 2017 07:51 (seven years ago) link
oops - HL got it already.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 13 February 2017 07:52 (seven years ago) link
So01. ALTERED IMAGES - HAPPY BIRTHDAY02. ?03. BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM04. ELO - BALANCE OF POWER05. THE CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY06. THE TORNADOS - TELSTAR07. DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - TIME OUT08. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - AMMONIA AVENUE09. ?10. ?11. 10CC - THE VERY BEST OF12. BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - CHOKE13. BADLY DRAWN BOY - ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK14. ?15. DIRE STRAITS - SO FAR AWAY16. BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - ONCE AGAIN17. JEFF WAYNE - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS18. ?19. NINA SIMONE - THE VERY BEST20. LOS LOBOS - HOW WILL THE WOLF SURVIVE21. GENESIS - WE CANT DANCE22. ?23. CAT STEVENS - THE VERY BEST24. ?25. ELO - OUT OF THE BLUE26. PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND27. ?28. ?29. MARK KNOPFLER - SHANGRI LA30. FLEETWOOD MAC - OH DIANE31. KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE32. GONZALEZ - SOLO PIANO II33. JEAN MICHELLE JARRE - EQUINOXE
Can you tell I am a week over a blown writing deadline?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 13 February 2017 08:05 (seven years ago) link
22 is Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock album from 1955:
http://images.45cat.com/bill-haley-and-his-comets-were-gonna-rock-around-the-clock-brunswick-2.jpg
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 February 2017 08:28 (seven years ago) link
I think these covers were chosen because they all have colourful painted/drawn visuals, and no photos, not because they represent someone's musical taste. Makes sense to pick covers like these if they are indeed handmade facsimiles.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 February 2017 08:46 (seven years ago) link
28 is the single "Mathematics" by Cherry Ghost.
https://artwork-cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/693/0000069341_200.jpg
― heaven parker (anagram), Monday, 13 February 2017 09:29 (seven years ago) link
a passing spacecadet got 24 as well
Exciting!
01. ALTERED IMAGES - HAPPY BIRTHDAY02. ?03. BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM04. ELO - BALANCE OF POWER05. THE CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY06. THE TORNADOS - TELSTAR07. DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - TIME OUT08. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - AMMONIA AVENUE09. ?10. ?11. 10CC - THE VERY BEST OF12. BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - CHOKE13. BADLY DRAWN BOY - ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK14. ?15. DIRE STRAITS - SO FAR AWAY16. BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - ONCE AGAIN17. JEFF WAYNE - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS18. ?19. NINA SIMONE - THE VERY BEST20. LOS LOBOS - HOW WILL THE WOLF SURVIVE21. GENESIS - WE CANT DANCE22. BILL HALEY - ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK23. CAT STEVENS - THE VERY BEST24. MIKE OLDFIELD - CRISES25. ELO - OUT OF THE BLUE26. PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND27. ?28. CHERRY GHOST - MATHEMATICS29. MARK KNOPFLER - SHANGRI LA30. FLEETWOOD MAC - OH DIANE31. KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE32. GONZALEZ - SOLO PIANO II33. JEAN MICHELLE JARRE - EQUINOXE
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 13 February 2017 09:57 (seven years ago) link
So, we're saying 18 isn't Urban Hymns The Verve, then?
― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2017 13:20 (seven years ago) link
The trees don't work
― willem, Monday, 13 February 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Man I've been trying reverse image search on these but it doesn't work at all.
― Frobisher, Monday, 13 February 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah, they're just different enough
― a Radiohead album stamping on a human face, forever (sleeve), Monday, 13 February 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
I've Got My Own Interior Decorating To Do
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 February 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure that is Urban Hymns, Mark.
― MaresNest, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
02. is the 12" single for Make A Change by Buckwheat Zydeco!
http://images.eil.com/large_image/XXX-503005.jpg
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Monday, 13 February 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Did whoever painted these run out of patience and just say "Fuck it... White Album"?
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 05:46 (seven years ago) link
god I love that Rock Around The Clock cover
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 06:13 (seven years ago) link
It would be weird for 18 to be Urban Hymns because it would be the only one that's a photo of people.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 09:19 (seven years ago) link
Amazing thread
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 12:17 (seven years ago) link
I hope someone does a podcast about this in 10 years.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 12:51 (seven years ago) link
Kate Bush's is a photo of a person..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 13:10 (seven years ago) link
Only a little bit.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 13:11 (seven years ago) link
14 could be Etiquette by Casiotone for the painfully alone but there's not enough image in there to make a right guess.18 does fit Urban Hymns.27 I still think it's a Fear and Loathing soundtrack... it doesn't fit any cover I know but I still see bats in the sky in the corner.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
Almost there!
01. ALTERED IMAGES - HAPPY BIRTHDAY02. BUCKWHEAT - ZYDECO 12"03. BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM04. ELO - BALANCE OF POWER05. THE CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY06. THE TORNADOS - TELSTAR07. DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - TIME OUT08. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - AMMONIA AVENUE09. ?10. ?11. 10CC - THE VERY BEST OF12. BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - CHOKE13. BADLY DRAWN BOY - ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK14. ?15. DIRE STRAITS - SO FAR AWAY16. BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - ONCE AGAIN17. JEFF WAYNE - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS18. THE VERVE - URBAN HYMNS (not 100% sure)19. NINA SIMONE - THE VERY BEST20. LOS LOBOS - HOW WILL THE WOLF SURVIVE21. GENESIS - WE CANT DANCE22. BILL HALEY - ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK23. CAT STEVENS - THE VERY BEST24. MIKE OLDFIELD - CRISES25. ELO - OUT OF THE BLUE26. PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND27. ?28. CHERRY GHOST - MATHEMATICS29. MARK KNOPFLER - SHANGRI LA30. FLEETWOOD MAC - OH DIANE31. KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE32. GONZALEZ - SOLO PIANO II33. JEAN MICHELLE JARRE - EQUINOXE
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
If it were Urban Hymans I'd have thought some of the text on the cover would be visible just above the bed.
Dying to know what #9 is.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Do you have another angle for the image Maresnestt?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
18 is definitely not Urban Hymns, the tops of the trees are completely different.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
Tempted to say 27 is "Ear" by Ng.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
xpost yeah #9 seems like it should an obvious one! i'm thinking it's a jazz album that i've seen before somewhere but i'm drawing a blank..#27 drives me crazy. skipped through multiple pages of sky/cloud themed covers yesterday but no :/
― willem, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
18 is definitely not Urban Hymns, the tops of the trees are completely different.― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:03 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:03 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not completely. Being "painted" versions, they are a little different. Have to say, "Urban Hymns" would not really belong in this collection, so I'm entirely sanguine about it being something else. Then again, Badly Drawn Boy also sticks out as being unlikely, but there it is.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
Tempted to say 27 is "Ear" by Ng.― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:07 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:07 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nuclear Engineering, maybe?
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
ok I just did my time in the rym list trenches (● • Dots • ●,Art with Blob, Blot, Blotch, Spot, Point, Stain and........(this is real Art!), Abstract-Minimalist Cover Art) but I didn't come across #9. I'm thinking it's a '50s/'60s jazz or lounge album but beyond that I have no idea. I'm thinking the white text on the black background is the label name/logo but I'm not sure what label it would be.
― schrute dwyte (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
#9 sure looks like one of those "Persuasive Percussion" type album covers from Enoch Light on the Command label, but I just looked through 750 Discogs thumbnails and didn't see it:
https://img.discogs.com/CLx7EF43VlBBEkupxY_Pe6eoeUc=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-758606-1210621701.jpeg.jpg
― a Radiohead album stamping on a human face, forever (sleeve), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
I thought it might be on Arista based on the white vaguely A-shaped blob top left.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
27 feels like it could be something Grateful Dead/Jefferson Airplane-related. I've looked through tons of Hot Tuna/New Riders/Relix records and nothing so far.
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
9 makes me think rockabilly
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Tempted to say 27 is "Ear" by Ng.― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:07 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:07 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
GOLDEN EARRING
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Grizzly Bear - Nnnnnnng
― nashwan, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Panda bearSongs about fucking
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:56 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sorry Moka no, there was only one image.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
#27 drives me crazy. skipped through multiple pages of sky/cloud themed covers yesterday but no :/
Ha yeah I did this too, no luck.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
i don't know if those two comments up a bit are sarcastic, but i for one am enjoying this thread and rooting for you all.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm starting to think EAR NG could be EAH NG?
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
I made this atrocity with Gimp and submitted it to Google Image Search with relevant keywords (like record, album, jazz etc.) and I got nothing. I did find some great-looking jazz posters doing that though.
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link
Brasilian Skies by Masayoshi Takanaka
― visiting, Monday, 4 April 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
I spot this random 2015 baldelli single next to the gearhttps://www.discogs.com/release/7515490-Daniele-Baldelli-Cosmic-Temple-Chapter-2
― brimstead, Monday, 4 April 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
pretty sure that baldelli must've played there, so kind of makes sense. good spot tho!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 4 April 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
Original version of first YMO album
― visiting, Monday, 4 April 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
Pacific by Haruomi Hosono et al.
― visiting, Monday, 4 April 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
Make Me A Star by The Square
― visiting, Monday, 4 April 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link
Sakamoto's 'Left-Handed Dream', uppermost on the left there.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 April 2022 22:02 (two years ago) link
And the cat looking in the circular mirror is a 12" by Velvet Season & The Hearts of Gold
https://www.discogs.com/release/7537515-Velvet-Season-The-Hearts-Of-Gold-Fishpowder-Dance-Witchdoctor-Love
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 April 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
Twitter's dying, it's time for some real content. So I came in to to living room to find Dad watching Only Fools and Horses with the sound off and pausing it at random frames."I was trying to work out what records he's selling in his stall."So we worked them out together pic.twitter.com/H7TI7UYQqE— get ahead - Kathy Griffin (@fireh9lly) November 18, 2022
― kinder, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
I didn't cheat and look at any of the replies. Very top is Flash Fearless vs. the Zorg Women. I actually own this record.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discogs.com%2Frelease%2F2051413-Various-Flash-Fearless-Versus-The-Zorg-Women-Parts-5-6&psig=AOvVaw12SAm9u7WrDpPki8Nv0506&ust=1668886543262000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCIjR6_68uPsCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAH
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516wuuTf4WL._SY580_.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
already posted on the "record store in Clockwork Orange" thread, fyi
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
In the walkthrough for this house for sale, in Glastonbury no less, there are silver and gold records on the wall, you can see them at 1'41". There is also a caricature of a guitarist on a shelf space and the records on the wall seem to have been released on Chrysalis, but the covers and small and kinda blurry. Let's figure this one out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRhsg4yJ0Bg
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 August 2023 10:42 (seven months ago) link
Oh bum sorry, ignore that, here is the proper clip -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDtoiF5-OPo
Through the Ikeahole
― faust sofa (Matt #2), Sunday, 27 August 2023 11:25 (seven months ago) link
So it's B3n3dict House, which is a B&B (or at least has been) - https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g186373-d4327335-Reviews-Benedict_House_B_B-Glastonbury_Somerset_England.html
Reviews mention "Chrissy and David", but the most recent one is from 2016 so maybe they sold it to the Chrysalis Records veteran?
― faust sofa (Matt #2), Sunday, 27 August 2023 11:43 (seven months ago) link
Last sold in October 2015 if I’m reading the land registry right, so change of owners round then is plausible. The Golden Apple gallery is attached but there’s little info online about it.
― woof, Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:06 (seven months ago) link
That said there are little square boxes of tissues on bedside tables in both the tripadvisor and estate agent pics so maybe there is continuity there, despite the absence of ornamental dragons in the TA pics.
― woof, Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:17 (seven months ago) link
Browsing through Chrysalis' discography and I'm wondering if it could be Ian Anderson?
― emil.y, Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:23 (seven months ago) link
Way too small, he has a stone cottage somewhere in its own grounds I think
― faust sofa (Matt #2), Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:33 (seven months ago) link
I reckon it is a member of Steeleye Span, two of the covers next to each other look like Parcel of Rogues and All Around my Hat
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:56 (seven months ago) link
There doesn't seem to be any sort of music practice space in the house - no instruments around. Is it more likely to be a producer, manager, executive?
― woof, Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:59 (seven months ago) link
Could easily be yes, or a studio engineer
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 August 2023 13:00 (seven months ago) link