Help me identify the cover artwork on this wall I found in a photo of a bedroom on a property website.

AYO

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/796371310641348608/Bh9vTB_6.jpg

omg

well worth the wait

that's a great find. respect! :)

metal sharks, not clouds!

well found! impressed that it looks absolutely nothing like what my eyes resolved the small version to

(blue sky, clouds, thought the tentacle tips might be something like a top-down view of a soaring eagle wing-tip, folksy faux-retro poster-style font something like Desdemona, twee as hell... guess I have an overactive imagination)

another one that seems not to fit at all with the others, too. pop-punk from 2007?

maybe it's not taste-performative decoration at all, maybe it's a message telling us where treasure is hidden IF ONLY WE CRACK THE CODE

Dayummm! Crystal Ball indeed! I figured it had to be a comp of some kind, but where to even start!

Wow, kudos! I really thought it was going to be another 50s/60s cover a la the doo wop one; the font looks completely different in miniature.

"Metal Sharks, Not Clouds" is gonna be the name of my new pop punk emo band.

Wow!

awesome. how'd you find it, nashawn?

nashwan, next-level!

it's his room

I didn't think a reverse img search would work but inspired by MatthewK I did an incredibly crude mock-up of the cover in Photoshop - literally splodges of dark blue with some yellow loosely resembling the visible letters. GIS interpreted it as a poster but once I changed the term to album I spotted the Four Year Strong record and immediately thought 'wow so close, it actually has the right colours letters at the end of the words but too different a font - maybe they have an alternative similar cover for it' - after a few more minutes realised the roboshark in the top right was a perfect shape match.

Then I got cocky and tried to do the same for the one under Badly Drawn Boy but the only thing coming up anywhere close is this Pentangle record.

this thread is heartwarming

Excellent work nashwan!

imagine if we used our powers for good

Wow! We live in exciting times.

This is such a weird collection. And if they picked the albums based on how the covers looked you can do much better (yet not as good as metal sharks)

CODE! TREASURE!

The completely hidden records are all ILX comps.

So that's not the White Album, it's Comp Together!

ILX has a bucket on the floor

Nice work, everyone! Now, moving on. Let's name all those books and ... DVD box sets?

the harry potters i recognise

what was sleeve #2 ?

#2 is the 12" single for Make A Change by Buckwheat Zydeco.

ha, yes, thanks. was hiding in the pesky folded comments.

I spotted that one, vaguely familiar from my time trolling cajun/zydeco bins.

http://imgur.com/7oz5UfQ

*sigh*

http://i.imgur.com/7oz5UfQ.jpg

I feel like this musical aesthetic is much more cohesive.

curtains vmnic

http://imgur.com/a/cFp4G

That Basquiat Record Box! WANT

60" centers or gtfo

Aural Sculpture!

http://i65.tinypic.com/23wryix.png

What's the poster on the wall to the left of The Smiths?

http://i.imgur.com/rbxZ8Oe.jpg

I'm guessing it's Robert Smith, helped partially by that being the next logical member of the sequence JAMC, U2, Smiths...

isn't that a face in a space helmet on the left? 2001?

yeah, looks like some sci fi movie to me

I'm pretty sure StanM is right.

If the top 21 longboxes can be identified here, it might be possible to date the video down to a few week span!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vfA4nk7V4

It looks like Bruce Springsteen's Lucky Town at 7 and (educated guess here) Human Touch at 6. Number 5 looks like Garth Brooks' Ropin' the Wind. The Springsteen albums came out in March 1992 and that Brooks album in September 1991. Def Leppard's Adrenalize is probably in here somewhere.

Is that k.d. lang Ingénue at #10?

Think 19 is Shepherd Moons by Enya (nov 91):

https://goo.gl/images/DxdZhM

http://www.batini.com/enyaother/enyausareprise9267752frontsmall.jpg

3 is the Wynonna Judd s/t and 4 is, I think, the Wayne's World soundtrack.

#16 Pearl Jam Ten
#17 Amy Grant Heart In Motion

(both '91)?

Is #12 Slaughter - "The Wild Life"?
https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/152365080503_/1992-Slaughter-The-Wild-Life-Factory-Sealed-Cd.jpg

That would push us into the end of April '92. But I also thought 12 might match the middle display on the wall at the back (similar black-on-red lettering) and I think that might be something else so maybe 12 is too.

Mercury Rev at the Barbican:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/images/events/medium/21092mercurye1.jpg