"Global Village Coffeehouse" aesthetics: C/D?

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https://theblacksheeponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/einsteinbrosweirdwallartjpeg.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/23/2c/e0/232ce01d321617e8ed80486d10c5378b--bagel-music-to.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/cjAHW381umqRh0tiRoJTMpqaVOM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-189069-1336110266.jpeg.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71KZA7EJEBL._SX360_BO1,204,203,200_.gif

It feels SO familiar... yet I can't find the cover it reminds me of !

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, March 11, 2019 9:37 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just about to say "oh of course it looks like..." but all the LPs I'm looking at aren't it. It's a big LP from the early 90s, and I've seen it many times before.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, March 11, 2019 10:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ILX's collective intelligence will find the answer to this frustrating quest !

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, March 11, 2019 10:19 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, you guys are definitely right. If it's what I'm thinking of, the design was a big departure from other album covers the artist had released. The Soho Goddess album that Willl linked to is close but not quite it.

Its really bugging me so I've been on a deep dive through early 90's album covers. Candidate #2 = 'Let Them Eat Bingo' by Beats International: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/LetThemEatBingo.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/LetThemEatBingo.jpg
apologies, img embed fail

! That's a good one. I had been thinking that whatever it is, it might be on the dance/electronic spectrum too.

yeah definitely ! for me there's got a be a geometric and electronic element in the visual mix.
Not juste the global village coffeehouse aspect.

https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/220x220/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.genius.com%2F2b6008c0dccf6288ce4e4bb4a6d56d79.600x600x1.jpg

perhaps it's something to do with early 90s web design rather than a particular album cover?

(sorry for the typos...)

https://www.variaworld.nl/fotogroot/0006645000_voorzijde.jpg

I had considered Beats International too, but that's not what I'm thinking of. We'll get this!

I linked to it on the VW thread, but for the sake of this thread, here is where the Global Village Coffeehouse aesthetic is laid out:
https://www.are.na/blog/the-global-village-coffeehouse-aesthetic

Also, from the same site, a glorious gallery of examples:
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/global-village-coffeehouse

― jaymc, Monday, March 11, 2019 7:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems to me that global village coffeehouse aesthetic is very much not what this vampire weekend cover is going for

as in no hand drawing, too minimal, not very natural or earthy looking, no wavy lines, etc.

Yeah, there's something different going on there for sure.

The thing about the cover I'm thinking of re Vampire Weekend, is that I don't actually know the group very well. However, I'm familiar with the cover because someone on ilx mentioned it, like "remember when _______ came out with that weird album cover? What a mistake!" or something.

Font is wrong, but...

http://img.clipartlook.com/http-www-teacherfiles-com-clipart-earth-day-earth-day-25-jpg-earth-day-clip-art-250_250.jpg

maybe the VW cover looks familiar bc... it is a blue and white earth on a white background and this image has been everywhere for a long time. sorry i am being kind of a dick

also deep forest these guys were on this trip for sure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Forest_(Deep_Forest_album)#/media/File:DeepForestDeepForest.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/DeepForestDeepForest.jpg

the little logo seems congruent, not sure about the rest of it

this was their whole vibe!

Deep Forest is the first studio album by the musical group Deep Forest, consisting of French duo Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. The album mixes New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti, and the Sahel. Deep Forest was nominated for the Grammy Award as Best World Music Album in 1994. For Sanchez and Mouquet, the most important purpose of the album was to express their own fascination with the Efe people, and open the world's ears to the exquisite sound of a quickly vanishing culture. As Mouquet noted, "It's not very often you can hear a Pygmy singing on the radio."

Yeah I think some of these are getting pretty far afield from what's essentially a clipart globe w/words wrapping around it (tho I agree it's prob. gesturing toward the era in question)

The white album cover thing is definitely of the time though

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Seal-Seal%281994%29.jpg

http://jamiroquai.com/upload/jam_new/albums/album-cover-1.jpg

xp. ok yah very on brand.

strikes me that the java logo is a bit this

The white album cover thing is definitely of the time though

It's a shame The Beatles never thought of it.

seems to me that global village coffeehouse aesthetic is very much not what this vampire weekend cover is going for

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 11:22 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree. Someone mentioned Global Village Coffeehouse in a Hipinion thread about the Vampire Weekend album, but I don't think it was in reference to the cover, more just the general ~vibe~ that the band seems to be currently interested in.

The discussion of GVC in the Vampire Weekend FOTB thread was prompted by this Jordan S. post:

idk the visual aesthetic they're referencing in this stuff is pretty obvious to me... i guess ezra & i are roughly the same age and prob grew up around a lot of the same ppl (upper middle class suburban jews) but ironic riffing on the iconography of boomer hippies-turned-settled down adults and their kids (life is good brand clothes, tevas, fonts on the first wave of organic products, environmentalism, jam bands etc) is pretty in the sweet spot of the kind of social milieu this band has always occupied itself with

I was hoping this thread would be more about GVC and less about the VW cover!

Yeah. This whole aesthetics captured a certain middle aged contentment, still clinging to a vaguely progressive mindset. So boomers in their 50s basically.

From the gallery:

https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/2365279/large_139ea3eea71eb5497d36ec66fb814677.jpg?1530161891

lol

I'm very into that gallery

i don’t know, who cares? design looks this way because this is what design looks like in 2019, we don’t always need to ascribe moral qualities to aesthetics

― marcos, Monday, March 11, 2019 11:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so motherfucking otm i can't even

I think it’s just the 20 year nostalgia cycle we’ve been experiencing since, like, 1973

i was just thinking about how it was weird at woodstock they had sha na na play dress up 50s rock when many of the original rock n rollers were still doing great work at that time and killing it live

That's an interesting point, there aren't even any on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock#Declined_invitations_or_missed_connections

Looks like Chuck Berry (for example) was actively playing festivals that year: He also played at large events in North America, such as the Schaefer Music Festival, in New York City's Central Park in July 1969, and the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in October. (per Wikipedia)

I tried Googling the question, and the best I could find was a web page containing this info:

Elvis himself had no interest in hippies. He was a part of a previous generation and viewed hippies as a threat to society.

i think design trends are interesting, idk

xp

You should follow this blog (serious, not snarky, suggestion): https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

i didn't realize 'global village coffeehouse' was actually a term used outside of this thread

https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/global-village-coffeehouse

anyway this was the first thing that came to mind

http://https%3A//www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000005811/f/styles/album_detail__545___545_/public/201709/Le%20Mystere%20Des%20Voix%20Bulgares_1%20black.jpg

meh

http://https%3A//www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000005811/f/styles/album_detail__545___545_/public/201709/Le%20Mystere%20Des%20Voix%20Bulgares_1%20black.jpg%3Fitok%3D1aR49Iru

mother fucker just look here: https://www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000005811/f/styles/album_detail__545___545_/public/201709/Le%20Mystere%20Des%20Voix%20Bulgares_1%20black.jpg?itok=1aR49Iru

i think design trends are interesting, idk

― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, March 12, 2019 5:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree! but finding design trends interesting doesn't require us to imbue them with moral value. brands widely shifting to sans-serif typefaces in their logos in 2019 does not warrant moral outrage imo

I think outrage overstates my position. I love minimalism but don’t like how it’s becoming de rigeur.

xpost ah, I thought about that "les voix bulgares" cover too !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Division_Bell#/media/File:Pink_Floyd_-_Division_Bell.jpg

urgh
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5182VSyGE6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

pink floyd design rules!

Really like this thread! The first thing that came to mind was the second Soul II Soul album:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ISrAr0oUL.jpg